bible-app/Translations/TS2009.json

[{"pk": 2699148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth."}, {"pk": 2699149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters.", "comment": "Or <em>the earth became.</em>"}, {"pk": 2699150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet light come to be,\u201d and light came to be."}, {"pk": 2699151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And Elohim saw the light, that it was good. And Elohim separated the light from the darkness."}, {"pk": 2699152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And Elohim called the light \u2018day\u2019 and the darkness He called \u2018night.\u2019 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, one day."}, {"pk": 2699153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet an expanse come to be in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And Elohim made the expanse, and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And Elohim called the expanse \u2018heavens.\u2019 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the second day."}, {"pk": 2699156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And Elohim called the dry land \u2018earth,\u2019 and the collection of the waters He called \u2018seas.\u2019 And Elohim saw that it was good."}, {"pk": 2699158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth grass, the plant that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And the earth brought forth grass, the plant that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good."}, {"pk": 2699160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the third day."}, {"pk": 2699161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years,"}, {"pk": 2699162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Elohim made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars."}, {"pk": 2699164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,"}, {"pk": 2699165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good."}, {"pk": 2699166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fourth day."}, {"pk": 2699167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet the waters teem with shoals of living being<i>s</i>, and let birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And Elohim created great sea creatures and every living being that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good."}, {"pk": 2699169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And Elohim blessed them, saying, \u201cBe fruitful and increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fifth day."}, {"pk": 2699171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth the living being according to its kind: livestock and creeping <i>creatures</i> and beasts of the earth, according to its kind.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And Elohim made the beast of the earth according to its kind, livestock according to its kind, and all that creep on the earth according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good."}, {"pk": 2699173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cLet Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping <i>creatures</i> that creep on the ground.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him \u2014 male and female He created them."}, {"pk": 2699175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creeping <i>creatures</i> on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cSee, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food."}, {"pk": 2699177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping <i>creature</i> on the earth, in which there is a living being, every green plant is for food.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2699178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "And Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the sixth day."}, {"pk": 2699179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their array."}, {"pk": 2699180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And in the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.", "comment": "In (not \u2018by\u2019 or \u2018on\u2019) the seventh day - Hebrew: Bayyom haShb\u0331i\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2699181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made."}, {"pk": 2699182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim made earth and heavens."}, {"pk": 2699183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground,"}, {"pk": 2699184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "but a mist went up from the earth and watered the entire surface of the ground."}, {"pk": 2699185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of lives. And the man became a living being."}, {"pk": 2699186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim planted a garden in \u011ad\u0331en, to the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed."}, {"pk": 2699187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And out of the ground \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."}, {"pk": 2699188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And a river went out of \u011ad\u0331en to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads."}, {"pk": 2699189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "The name of the first is Pishon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of H\u0323awilah, where there is gold."}, {"pk": 2699190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone."}, {"pk": 2699191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And the name of the second river is Gih\u0323on, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush."}, {"pk": 2699192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And the name of the third river is H\u0323iddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2699193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of \u011ad\u0331en to work it and to guard it."}, {"pk": 2699194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim commanded the man, saying, \u201cEat of every tree of the garden,"}, {"pk": 2699195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall certainly die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone, I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And from the ground \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each living being, that was its name."}, {"pk": 2699198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "So the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field. But for the man there was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart."}, {"pk": 2699199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place."}, {"pk": 2699200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And the rib which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim had taken from the man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man."}, {"pk": 2699201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And the man said, \u201cThis is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called \u2018woman,\u2019 because she was taken out of man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."}, {"pk": 2699203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not ashamed."}, {"pk": 2699204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And the nah\u0323ash was more crafty than all the lives of the field which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim had made, and he said to the woman, \u201cIs it true that Elohim has said, \u2018Do not eat of every tree of the garden\u2019?\u201d", "comment": "Or Nah\u0323ash. Traditionally rendered the \u201cserpent\u201d. See Explanatory Notes \"Nah\u0323ash\" and \"Serpent\"."}, {"pk": 2699205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And the woman said to the nah\u0323ash, \u201cWe are to eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,"}, {"pk": 2699206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim has said, \u2018Do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2699207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And the nah\u0323ash said to the woman, \u201cYou shall certainly not die."}, {"pk": 2699208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor Elohim knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like Elohim, knowing good and evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate."}, {"pk": 2699210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves."}, {"pk": 2699211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And they heard the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim walking about in the garden in the cool of the day, and Ad\u0331am and his wife hid themselves from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim among the trees of the garden."}, {"pk": 2699212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim called unto Ad\u0331am and said to him, \u201cWhere are you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said, \u201cI heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said, \u201cWho made you know that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And the man said, \u201cThe woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim said to the woman, \u201cWhat is this you have done?\u201d And the woman said, \u201cThe nah\u0323ash deceived me, and I ate.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim said to the nah\u0323ash, \u201cBecause you have done this, you are cursed more than all livestock and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you are to go, and eat dust all the days of your life."}, {"pk": 2699218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel.\u201d", "comment": "First promise of the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2699219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "To the woman He said, \u201cI greatly increase your sorrow and your conception \u2014 bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And to the man He said, \u201cBecause you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, \u2018Do not eat of it\u2019: \u201cCursed is the ground because of you, in toil you are to eat of it all the days of your life,"}, {"pk": 2699221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "and <i>the ground</i> shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field."}, {"pk": 2699222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return."}, {"pk": 2699223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And the man called his wife\u2019s name H\u0323awwah, because she became the mother of all living."}, {"pk": 2699224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim made coats of skin for the man and his wife and dressed them."}, {"pk": 2699225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim said, \u201cSee, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim sent him out of the garden of \u011ad\u0331en to till the ground from which he was taken,"}, {"pk": 2699227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "and He drove the man out. And He placed kerub\u0331im at the east of the garden of \u011ad\u0331en, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life."}, {"pk": 2699228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ad\u0331am knew H\u0323awwah his wife, and she conceived and bore Qayin, and said, \u201cI have gained a man, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And again, she gave birth to his brother Heb\u0331el. And Heb\u0331el became a keeper of sheep, but Qayin became a tiller of the ground."}, {"pk": 2699230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, in the course of time, that Qayin brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And Heb\u0331el also brought of the first-born of his flock and of their fat. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 looked to Heb\u0331el and his offering,"}, {"pk": 2699232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "but He did not look to Qayin and his offering. And Qayin was very wroth, and his face fell."}, {"pk": 2699233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Qayin, \u201cWhy is he wroth towards you? And why is your face fallen?", "comment": "Lit. faces."}, {"pk": 2699234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>Is it</i> not if you do good, you are to be accepted? And if you do not do good, towards the door is a sin. He is lying and towards you is his desire, and you must rule over him.\u201d", "comment": "Or, sin-offering (feminine).<br>Lit. in.<br>Or, reposing or crouching (masculine)."}, {"pk": 2699235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And Qayin told Heb\u0331el his brother. And it came to be when they were in the field, that Qayin rose up against Heb\u0331el his brother and killed him."}, {"pk": 2699236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Qayin, \u201cWhere is Heb\u0331el your brother?\u201d And he said, \u201cI do not know. Am I my brother\u2019s guard?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said, \u201cWhat have you done? The voice of your brother\u2019s blood cries out to Me from the ground."}, {"pk": 2699238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother\u2019s blood from your hand."}, {"pk": 2699239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIf you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And Qayin said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cMy punishment is too great to bear!"}, {"pk": 2699241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "See, You have driven me from the face of the ground today, and I am hidden from Your face. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me kills me."}, {"pk": 2699242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cWell, if anyone kills Qayin, vengeance is taken on him sevenfold.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set up a sign for Qayin, lest anyone finding him strikes him."}, {"pk": 2699243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "So Qayin went out from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and dwelt in the land of Nod\u0331 on the east of \u011ad\u0331en."}, {"pk": 2699244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And Qayin knew his wife, and she conceived and bore H\u0323anok\u0331. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, H\u0323anok\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And to H\u0323anok\u0331 was born Irad\u0331. And Irad\u0331 brought forth Meh\u0323uya\u2019\u0115l, and Meh\u0323uya\u2019\u0115l brought forth Methusa\u2019\u0115l, and Methusa\u2019\u0115l brought forth Lemek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And Lemek\u0331 took for himself two wives, the name of one was Ad\u0331ah, and the name of the second was Tsillah."}, {"pk": 2699247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ad\u0331ah bore Yab\u0331al. He was the father of those who dwell in tents, with livestock."}, {"pk": 2699248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And his brother\u2019s name was Yub\u0331al. He was the father of all those who play the lyre and flute."}, {"pk": 2699249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "As for Tsillah, she also bore Tub\u0331al-Qayin, a smith of all kinds of tools in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tub\u0331al-Qayin was Na\u201bamah."}, {"pk": 2699250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And Lemek\u0331 said to his wives, \u201cAd\u0331ah and Tsillah, hear my voice! Wives of Lemek\u0331, listen to my words! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me."}, {"pk": 2699251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "For Qayin is avenged sevenfold, and Lemek\u0331 seventy-sevenfold."}, {"pk": 2699252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And Ad\u0331am knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Sh\u0115th, \u201cFor Elohim has appointed me another seed instead of Heb\u0331el, because Qayin had killed him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "And to Sh\u0115th, to him also a son was born. And he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "The first record of \u201ccalling on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "This is the book of the genealogy of Ad\u0331am. In the day that Elohim created man, He made him in the likeness of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2699255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Male and female He created them, and He blessed them, and called their name \u2018Ad\u0331am\u2019 in the day they were created."}, {"pk": 2699256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ad\u0331am lived one hundred and thirty years, and brought forth a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Sh\u0115th."}, {"pk": 2699257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And after he brought forth Sh\u0115th, the days of Ad\u0331am were eight hundred years. And he brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "So all the days that Ad\u0331am lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sh\u0115th lived one hundred and five years, and brought forth Enosh."}, {"pk": 2699260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And after he brought forth Enosh, Sh\u0115th lived eight hundred and seven years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "So all the days of Sh\u0115th were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And Enosh lived ninety years, and brought forth Q\u0115ynan."}, {"pk": 2699263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And after he brought forth Q\u0115ynan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And Q\u0115ynan lived seventy years, and brought forth Mahalal\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2699266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "After he brought forth Mahalal\u2019\u0115l, Q\u0115ynan lived eight hundred and forty years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "So all the days of Q\u0115ynan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mahalal\u2019\u0115l lived sixty-five years, and brought forth Yered\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And after he brought forth Yered\u0331, Mahalal\u2019\u0115l lived eight hundred and thirty years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "So all the days of Mahalal\u2019\u0115l were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yered\u0331 lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and brought forth H\u0323anok\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And after he brought forth H\u0323anok\u0331, Yered\u0331 lived eight hundred years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "So all the days of Yered\u0331 were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And H\u0323anok\u0331 lived sixty-five years, and brought forth Methushelah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2699275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And after he brought forth Methushelah\u0323, H\u0323anok\u0331 walked with Elohim three hundred years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "So all the days of H\u0323anok\u0331 were three hundred and sixty-five years."}, {"pk": 2699277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And H\u0323anok\u0331 walked with Elohim. Then he was no more, for Elohim took him."}, {"pk": 2699278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And Methushelah\u0323 lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and brought forth Lemek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "And after he brought forth Lemek\u0331, Methushelah\u0323 lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "So all the days of Methushelah\u0323 were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "And Lemek\u0331 lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and brought forth a son,"}, {"pk": 2699282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "and called his name Noah\u0323, saying, \u201cThis one does comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has cursed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "And after he brought forth Noah\u0323, Lemek\u0331 lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "So all the days of Lemek\u0331 were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "And Noah\u0323 was five hundred years old, and Noah\u0323 brought forth Sh\u0115m, H\u0323am, and Yapheth."}, {"pk": 2699286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when men began to increase on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,"}, {"pk": 2699287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "that the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose."}, {"pk": 2699288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cMy Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, the men of name."}, {"pk": 2699290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."}, {"pk": 2699291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart."}, {"pk": 2699292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cI am going to wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the ground, both man and beast, creeping <i>creature</i> and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "But Noah\u0323 found favour in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "This is the genealogy of Noah\u0323. Noah\u0323 was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah\u0323 walked with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2699295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And Noah\u0323 brought forth three sons: Sh\u0115m, H\u0323am, and Yapheth."}, {"pk": 2699296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And the earth was corrupt before Elohim, and the earth was filled with violence."}, {"pk": 2699297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And Elohim looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt \u2014 for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2699298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "and Elohim said to Noah\u0323, \u201cThe end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth."}, {"pk": 2699299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cMake yourself an ark of gopherwood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with a covering.", "comment": "Pitch, tar or other."}, {"pk": 2699300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd this is how you are to make it: The length of the ark is three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits."}, {"pk": 2699301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cMake a window for the ark, and complete it to a cubit from above. And set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks."}, {"pk": 2699302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens \u2014 all that is on the earth is to die."}, {"pk": 2699303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall establish My covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons\u2019 wives with you."}, {"pk": 2699304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd of all the living of all flesh, two of each, you are to bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you \u2014 a male and a female."}, {"pk": 2699305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cOf the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, and of all creeping <i>creatures</i> of the ground after their kind, two of each are to come to you, to keep them alive."}, {"pk": 2699306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAs for you, take of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourself. And it shall be food for you and for them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And Noah\u0323 did according to all that Elohim commanded him, so he did."}, {"pk": 2699308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Noah\u0323, \u201cCome into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation."}, {"pk": 2699309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOf all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;"}, {"pk": 2699310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2699311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And Noah\u0323 did according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him."}, {"pk": 2699313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "Now Noah\u0323 was six hundred years old when the flood-waters were on the earth."}, {"pk": 2699314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And Noah\u0323 and his sons and his wife and his sons\u2019 wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood."}, {"pk": 2699315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "Of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are unclean, and of birds, and of all that creep on the earth,"}, {"pk": 2699316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "two by two they went into the ark to Noah\u0323, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2699317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth."}, {"pk": 2699318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "In the six hundredth year of Noah\u0323\u2019s life, in the second new <i>moon</i>, the seventeenth day of the <i>moon</i>, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.", "comment": "Month<br>Month"}, {"pk": 2699319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights."}, {"pk": 2699320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "On that same day Noah\u0323 and Sh\u0115m and H\u0323am and Yapheth, the sons of Noah\u0323, and Noah\u0323\u2019s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,"}, {"pk": 2699321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "they and every <i>life</i> form after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping <i>creature</i> that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort."}, {"pk": 2699322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And they went into the ark to Noah\u0323, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life."}, {"pk": 2699323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "And those going in, male and female of all flesh, went in as Elohim had commanded him, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shut him in."}, {"pk": 2699324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And the flood was on the earth forty days, and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth."}, {"pk": 2699325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And the waters were mighty and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters."}, {"pk": 2699326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And the waters were exceedingly mighty on the earth, and all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered."}, {"pk": 2699327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "The waters became mighty, fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered."}, {"pk": 2699328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And all flesh died \u2014 the creeping <i>creature</i> on the earth \u2014 birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming <i>creature</i> that swarms on the earth, and all mankind."}, {"pk": 2699329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died."}, {"pk": 2699330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "So He wiped off all that stand, which were on the face of the ground \u2014 both man and beast, creeping <i>creature</i> and bird of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth. And only Noah\u0323 was left, and those with him in the ark."}, {"pk": 2699331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And the waters were mighty on the earth, one hundred and fifty days."}, {"pk": 2699332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elohim remembered Noah\u0323, and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Elohim made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided."}, {"pk": 2699333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was withheld."}, {"pk": 2699334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And the waters receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters diminished."}, {"pk": 2699335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And in the seventh new <i>moon</i>, the seventeenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat."}, {"pk": 2699336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And the waters decreased steadily until the tenth new <i>moon</i>. In the tenth <i>new moon</i>, on the first day of the new <i>moon</i>, the tops of the mountains became visible."}, {"pk": 2699337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, at the end of forty days, that Noah\u0323 opened the window of the ark which he had made,"}, {"pk": 2699338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "and he sent out a raven, which kept going out and turning back until the waters had dried up from the earth."}, {"pk": 2699339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground."}, {"pk": 2699340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "But the dove found no resting place for its feet and returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. So he put out his hand and took it, and pulled it into the ark to himself."}, {"pk": 2699341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark."}, {"pk": 2699342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And the dove came to him in the evening, and see, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in its mouth. And Noah\u0323 knew that the waters had receded from the earth."}, {"pk": 2699343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return to him again."}, {"pk": 2699344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be in the six hundred and first year, in the first <i>month</i>, the first day of the new <i>moon</i>, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah\u0323 removed the covering of the ark and looked, and saw the surface of the ground was dry."}, {"pk": 2699345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And in the second new <i>moon</i>, on the twenty-seventh day of the new <i>moon</i>, the earth was dry."}, {"pk": 2699346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elohim spoke to Noah\u0323, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cGo out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons\u2019 wives with you."}, {"pk": 2699348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBring out with you every life <i>form</i> of all flesh that is with you: of birds, of cattle and all creeping <i>creatures</i> \u2014 the creeping <i>creatures</i> on the earth. And let them teem on the earth, and bear and increase on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "So Noah\u0323 went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons\u2019 wives with him,"}, {"pk": 2699350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "every beast, every creeping <i>creature</i>, and every bird, whatever creeps on the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark."}, {"pk": 2699351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And Noah\u0323 built a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered ascending offerings on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2699352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smelled a soothing fragrance, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said in His heart, \u201cNever again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man\u2019s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living <i>creatures</i>, as I have done,"}, {"pk": 2699353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elohim blessed Noah\u0323 and his sons, and said to them, \u201cBe fruitful and increase, and fill the earth."}, {"pk": 2699355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd the fear of you and the dread of you is on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea \u2014 into your hand they have been given."}, {"pk": 2699356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cEvery creeping <i>creature</i> that lives is food for you. I have given you all, as <i>I gave</i> the green plants."}, {"pk": 2699357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut do not eat flesh with its life, its blood."}, {"pk": 2699358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut only your blood for your lives I require, from the hand of every beast I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man\u2019s brother I require the life of man."}, {"pk": 2699359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhoever sheds man\u2019s blood, by man his blood is shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man."}, {"pk": 2699360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAs for you, be fruitful and increase, bring forth teemingly in the earth and increase in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And Elohim spoke to Noah\u0323 and to his sons with him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I, see, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you,"}, {"pk": 2699363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "and with every living being that is with you: of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth."}, {"pk": 2699364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall establish My covenant with you, and never again is all flesh cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to destroy the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And Elohim said, \u201cThis is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living being that is with you, for all generations to come:"}, {"pk": 2699366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI shall set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth."}, {"pk": 2699367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud,"}, {"pk": 2699368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "and I shall remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living being of all flesh, and never again let the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh."}, {"pk": 2699369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I shall see it, to remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living being of all flesh that is on the earth."}, {"pk": 2699370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And Elohim said to Noah\u0323, \u201cThis is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sons of Noah\u0323 who went out of the ark were Sh\u0115m and H\u0323am and Yapheth. And H\u0323am was the father of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "These three were the sons of Noah\u0323, and all the earth was overspread from them."}, {"pk": 2699373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And Noah\u0323, a man of the soil, began and planted a vineyard."}, {"pk": 2699374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered in his tent."}, {"pk": 2699375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And H\u0323am, the father of Kena\u201ban, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside."}, {"pk": 2699376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "So Sh\u0115m and Yapheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father, but their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father\u2019s nakedness."}, {"pk": 2699377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And Noah\u0323 awoke from his wine, and he knew what his younger son had done to him,"}, {"pk": 2699378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "and he said, \u201cCursed is Kena\u201ban, let him become a servant of servants to his brothers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Sh\u0115m, and let Kena\u201ban become his servant."}, {"pk": 2699380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cLet Elohim enlarge Yapheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Sh\u0115m. And let Kena\u201ban become his servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And Noah\u0323 lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years."}, {"pk": 2699382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "So all the days of Noah\u0323 were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died."}, {"pk": 2699383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah\u0323: Sh\u0115m, H\u0323am, and Yapheth. And sons were born to them after the flood."}, {"pk": 2699384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "The sons of Yapheth: Gomer, and Ma\u1e21o\u1e21, and Mad\u0331ai, and Yawan, and Tub\u0331al, and Meshek\u0331, and Tiras."}, {"pk": 2699385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and To\u1e21armah."}, {"pk": 2699386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dod\u0331anim."}, {"pk": 2699387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "From these the coastland peoples of the nations were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their clans, into their nations."}, {"pk": 2699388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323am: Kush, and Mitsrayim, and Put, and Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sons of Kush: Seb\u0331a, and H\u0323awilah, and Sab\u0331tah, and Ra\u201bmah, and Sab\u0331tek\u0331a. And the sons of Ra\u201bmah: Sheb\u0331a and Ded\u0331an."}, {"pk": 2699390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And Kush brought forth Nimrod\u0331, he began to be a mighty one on the earth."}, {"pk": 2699391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "He was a mighty hunter before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, therefore it is said, \u201cLike Nimrod\u0331 the mighty hunter before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And the beginning of his reign was Bab\u0331el, and Erek\u0331, and Akkad\u0331, and Kaln\u0115h, in the land of Shin\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2699393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "From that land he went to Ashshur and built Ninew\u0115h, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331oth Ir, and Kelah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2699394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "and Resen between Ninew\u0115h and Kelah\u0323, the great city."}, {"pk": 2699395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mitsrayim brought forth Lud\u0331im, and Anamim, and Lehab\u0331im, and Naphtuh\u0323im,"}, {"pk": 2699396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "and Pathrusim, and Kasluh\u0323im, from whom came the Philistines and Kaphtorim."}, {"pk": 2699397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And Kena\u201ban brought forth Tsid\u0331on his first-born, and H\u0323\u0115th,"}, {"pk": 2699398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "and the Yeb\u0331usite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,"}, {"pk": 2699399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "and the H\u0323iwwite, and the Arqite, and the Sinite,"}, {"pk": 2699400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "and the Arwad\u0331ite, and the Tsemarite, and the H\u0323amathite. And afterward the clans of the Kena\u201banites were spread abroad."}, {"pk": 2699401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And the border of the Kena\u201banites was from Tsid\u0331on as you go toward Gerar, as far as Azzah, as you go toward Sed\u0331om, and Amorah, and Ad\u0331mah, and Tseb\u0331oyim, as far as Lasha."}, {"pk": 2699402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "These were the sons of H\u0323am, according to their clans, according to their languages, in their lands, in their nations."}, {"pk": 2699403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And also to Sh\u0115m, the father of all the children of \u011ab\u0331er, the brother of Yapheth the elder, <i>children</i> were born."}, {"pk": 2699404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "The sons of Sh\u0115m: \u011aylam, and Asshur, and Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, and Lud\u0331, and Aram."}, {"pk": 2699405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And the sons of Aram: Uts, and H\u0323ul, and Gether, and Mash."}, {"pk": 2699406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And Arpak\u0331shad\u0331 brought forth Shelah\u0323, and Shelah\u0323 brought forth \u011ab\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2699407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And to \u011ab\u0331er were born two sons, the name of one was Pele\u1e21, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother\u2019s name was Yoqtan."}, {"pk": 2699408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yoqtan brought forth Almod\u0331ad\u0331, and Sheleph, and H\u0323atsarmaweth, and Yerah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2699409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "and Had\u0331oram, and Uzal, and Diqlah,"}, {"pk": 2699410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "and Ob\u0331al, and Ab\u0331ima\u2019\u0115l, and Sheb\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2699411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "and Ophir, and H\u0323awilah, and Yob\u0331ab\u0331. All these were sons of Yoqtan."}, {"pk": 2699412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And their dwelling place was from M\u0115ysha as you go toward Sephar, a mountain of the east."}, {"pk": 2699413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "These were the sons of Sh\u0115m, according to their clans, according to their languages, in their lands, according to their nations."}, {"pk": 2699414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "These were the clans of the sons of Noah\u0323, according to their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood."}, {"pk": 2699415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the earth had one language and one speech.", "comment": "Hebrew <em>lip.</em>"}, {"pk": 2699416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, as they set out from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin\u201bar, and they dwelt there.", "comment": "Earlier name for Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2699417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cCome, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.\u201d And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar."}, {"pk": 2699418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said, \u201cCome, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over all the face of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built."}, {"pk": 2699420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cLook, they are one people and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do! And now, they are not going to be withheld from doing whatever they plan to do."}, {"pk": 2699421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cCome, let Us go there and confuse their language, so that they do not understand one another\u2019s speech.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 scattered them from there, over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city."}, {"pk": 2699423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "That is why its name was called Bab\u0331el, because there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 confused the language of all the earth, and from there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 scattered them over the face of all the earth.", "comment": "Bab\u0331el is derived from a verb which means \u201cto confuse.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "This is the genealogy of Sh\u0115m: Sh\u0115m was a hundred years old and brought forth Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, two years after the flood."}, {"pk": 2699425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And after he brought forth Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, Sh\u0115m lived five hundred years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And Arpak\u0331shad\u0331 lived thirty-five years, and brought forth Shelah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2699427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And after he brought forth Shelah\u0323, Arpak\u0331shad\u0331 lived four hundred and three years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And Shelah\u0323 lived thirty years, and brought forth \u011ab\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2699429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And after he brought forth \u011ab\u0331er, Shelah\u0323 lived four hundred and three years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u011ab\u0331er lived thirty-four years, and brought forth Pele\u1e21."}, {"pk": 2699431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And after he brought forth Pele\u1e21, \u011ab\u0331er lived four hundred and thirty years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And Pele\u1e21 lived thirty years, and brought forth Re\u201bu."}, {"pk": 2699433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And after he brought forth Re\u201bu, Pele\u1e21 lived two hundred and nine years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And Re\u201bu lived thirty-two years, and brought forth Seru\u1e21."}, {"pk": 2699435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And after he brought forth Seru\u1e21, Re\u201bu lived two hundred and seven years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And Seru\u1e21 lived thirty years, and brought forth Nah\u0323or."}, {"pk": 2699437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And after he brought forth Nah\u0323or, Seru\u1e21 lived two hundred years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "And Nah\u0323or lived twenty-nine years, and brought forth Terah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2699439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And after he brought forth Terah\u0323, Nah\u0323or lived one hundred and nineteen years, and brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2699440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And Terah\u0323 lived seventy years, and brought forth Ab\u0331ram, Nah\u0323or, and Haran."}, {"pk": 2699441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And this is the genealogy of Terah\u0323: Terah\u0323 brought forth Ab\u0331ram, Nah\u0323or, and Haran. And Haran brought forth Lot."}, {"pk": 2699442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "And Haran died before his father Terah\u0323 in the land of his birth, in Ur-kasdim."}, {"pk": 2699443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram and Nah\u0323or took wives: the name of Ab\u0331ram\u2019s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nah\u0323or\u2019s wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milkah and the father of Yiskah."}, {"pk": 2699444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "And Sarai was barren, she had no child."}, {"pk": 2699445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "And Terah\u0323 took his son Ab\u0331ram and his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Ab\u0331ram\u2019s wife, and they went out with them from Ur-kasdim to go to the land of Kena\u201ban. And they came to H\u0323aran and dwelt there."}, {"pk": 2699446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "And the days of Terah\u0323 came to be two hundred and five years, and Terah\u0323 died in H\u0323aran."}, {"pk": 2699447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cGo yourself out of your land, from your relatives and from your father\u2019s house, to a land which I show you."}, {"pk": 2699448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing!"}, {"pk": 2699449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you. And in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "So Ab\u0331ram left, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him, and Lot went with him. And Ab\u0331ram was seventy-five years old when he set out from H\u0323aran."}, {"pk": 2699451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother\u2019s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in H\u0323aran, and they set out for the land of Kena\u201ban. And they came to the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram passed through the land to the place of Shek\u0331em, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the Kena\u201banites were in the land."}, {"pk": 2699453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Ab\u0331ram and said, \u201cTo your seed I give this land.\u201d And he built there a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who had appeared to him."}, {"pk": 2699454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And from there he moved to the mountain east of B\u0115yth \u011al, and he pitched his tent, with B\u0115yth \u011al on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and called on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram set out, continuing toward the South."}, {"pk": 2699456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And a scarcity of food came to be in the land, and Ab\u0331ram went down to Mitsrayim to dwell there, for the scarcity of food was severe in the land."}, {"pk": 2699457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when he was close to entering Mitsrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife, \u201cSee, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at."}, {"pk": 2699458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when the Mitsrites see you, that they shall say, \u2018This is his wife.\u2019 And they shall kill me, but let you live."}, {"pk": 2699459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cPlease say you are my sister, so that it shall be well with me for your sake, and my life be spared because of you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be, when Ab\u0331ram came into Mitsrayim, that the Mitsrites saw the woman, that she was very beautiful."}, {"pk": 2699461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s officials saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken to Pharaoh\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2699462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And he treated Ab\u0331ram well for her sake, and he had sheep, and cattle, and male donkeys, and male and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels."}, {"pk": 2699463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Ab\u0331ram\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2699464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And Pharaoh called Ab\u0331ram and said, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Why did you not inform me that she was your wife?"}, {"pk": 2699465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhy did you say, \u2018She is my sister\u2019? And so I was going to take her for my wife. Look, here is your wife, take her and go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had."}, {"pk": 2699467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram went up from Mitsrayim into the South, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him."}, {"pk": 2699468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold."}, {"pk": 2699469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And he went on his journey from the South as far as B\u0115yth \u011al, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between B\u0115yth \u011al and Ai,"}, {"pk": 2699470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "to the place of the slaughter-place which he had made there at first. And there Ab\u0331ram called on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "Now Lot, who went with Ab\u0331ram, also had flocks and herds and tents."}, {"pk": 2699472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together."}, {"pk": 2699473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And there was strife between the herdsmen of Ab\u0331ram\u2019s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot\u2019s livestock. And at that time the Kena\u201banites and the Perizzites dwelt in the land."}, {"pk": 2699474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "Then Ab\u0331ram said to Lot, \u201cLet there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers."}, {"pk": 2699475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIs not all the land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I go to the left.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of the Yard\u0115n, that it was well watered everywhere \u2014 before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 destroyed Sed\u0331om and Amorah \u2014 like the garden of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, like the land of Mitsrayim as you go toward Tso\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2699477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Yard\u0115n, and Lot moved east. Thus they separated from each other,"}, {"pk": 2699478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "Ab\u0331ram dwelling in the land of Kena\u201ban, and Lot dwelling in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent as far as Sed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2699479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "But the men of Sed\u0331om were evil and sinned before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, exceedingly so."}, {"pk": 2699480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And after Lot had separated from him, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cNow lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,"}, {"pk": 2699481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed forever."}, {"pk": 2699482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted."}, {"pk": 2699483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cArise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "So Ab\u0331ram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamr\u0115, which are in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and built a slaughter-place there to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the days of Amraphel sovereign of Shin\u201bar, Aryok\u0331 sovereign of Ellasar, Ked\u0331orla\u201bomer sovereign of \u011aylam, and Tid\u0331\u201bal sovereign of Goyim,"}, {"pk": 2699486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "that they fought against Bera sovereign of Sed\u0331om, Birsha sovereign of Amorah, Shinab\u0331 sovereign of Ad\u0331mah, Shem\u2019\u0115b\u0331er sovereign of Tseb\u0331oyim, and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tso\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2699487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea."}, {"pk": 2699488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "Twelve years they served Ked\u0331orla\u201bomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled."}, {"pk": 2699489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And in the fourteenth year Ked\u0331orla\u201bomer and the sovereigns that were with him came and struck the Repha\u2019im in Ashteroth Qarnayim, and the Zuzim in H\u0323am, and the \u011amites in Shaw\u0115h Qiryathayim,"}, {"pk": 2699490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "and the H\u0323orites in their mountain of S\u0115\u201bir, as far as \u011al Paran, which is by the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2699491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And they turned back and came to \u011an Mishpat, that is Qad\u0331\u0115sh, and struck all the country of the Amal\u0115qites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in H\u0323atsetson Tamar."}, {"pk": 2699492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign of Sed\u0331om, and the sovereign of Amorah, and the sovereign of Ad\u0331mah, and the sovereign of Tseb\u0331oyim, and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tso\u201bar, went out and joined together in battle in the Valley of Siddim,"}, {"pk": 2699493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "against Ked\u0331orla\u201bomer sovereign of \u011aylam, and Tid\u0331\u201bal sovereign of Goyim, and Amraphel sovereign of Shin\u201bar, and Aryok\u0331 sovereign of Ellasar \u2014 four sovereigns against five."}, {"pk": 2699494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And the Valley of Siddim had many tar pits. And the sovereigns of Sed\u0331om and Amorah fled and fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains."}, {"pk": 2699495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And they took all the goods of Sed\u0331om and Amorah, and all their food, and went away."}, {"pk": 2699496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And they took Lot, Ab\u0331ram\u2019s brother\u2019s son who dwelt in Sed\u0331om, and his goods, and left."}, {"pk": 2699497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And one who had escaped came and informed Ab\u0331ram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamr\u0115 the Amorite, brother of Eshkol and brother of An\u0115r, and they had a covenant with Ab\u0331ram."}, {"pk": 2699498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And when Ab\u0331ram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan."}, {"pk": 2699499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And he and his servants divided against them by night, and struck them and pursued them as far as H\u0323ob\u0331ah, which is on the left of Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2699500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "So he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people."}, {"pk": 2699501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And after his return from the striking of Ked\u0331orla\u201bomer and the sovereigns who were with him, the sovereign of Sed\u0331om came out to meet him at the Valley of Shaw\u0115h, that is, the Sovereign\u2019s Valley."}, {"pk": 2699502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And Malkitsed\u0331eq sovereign of Shal\u0115m brought out bread and wine. Now he was the priest of the Most High \u011al."}, {"pk": 2699503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And he blessed him and said, \u201cBlessed be Ab\u0331ram of the Most High \u011al, Possessor of the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2699504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd blessed be the Most High \u011al who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him a tenth of all."}, {"pk": 2699505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sovereign of Sed\u0331om said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cGive me the people, and take the goods for yourself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "But Ab\u0331ram said to the sovereign of Sed\u0331om, \u201cI have lifted my hand to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Most High \u011al, the Possessor of the heavens and earth,"}, {"pk": 2699507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "not to take a thread or a sandal strap or whatever is yours, lest you should say, \u2018I have made Ab\u0331ram rich,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: An\u0115r, Eshkol, and Mamr\u0115. Let them take their portion.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "After these events the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Ab\u0331ram in a vision, saying, \u201cDo not be afraid, Ab\u0331ram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly great.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram said, \u201cMaster \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eli\u201bezer of Dammeseq?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram said, \u201cSee, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my heir!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And see, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him, saying, \u201cThis one is not your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your heir.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And He brought him outside and said, \u201cLook now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.\u201d And He said to him, \u201cSo are your seed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And he believed in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness."}, {"pk": 2699515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who brought you out of Ur-kasdim, to give you this land to inherit it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And he said, \u201cMaster \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, whereby do I know that I possess it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cBring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And he took all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds."}, {"pk": 2699519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Ab\u0331ram drove them away."}, {"pk": 2699520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Ab\u0331ram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him."}, {"pk": 2699521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And He said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cKnow for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years."}, {"pk": 2699522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions."}, {"pk": 2699523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNow as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good old age."}, {"pk": 2699524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThen, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces."}, {"pk": 2699526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "On the same day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made a covenant with Ab\u0331ram, saying, \u201cI have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,"}, {"pk": 2699527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "with the Q\u0115ynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qad\u0331monite,"}, {"pk": 2699528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "and the H\u0323ittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha\u2019im,"}, {"pk": 2699529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "and the Amorite, and the Kena\u201banite, and the Girgashite, and the Yeb\u0331usite.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sarai, Ab\u0331ram\u2019s wife, had borne him no child. And she had a Mitsrian female servant whose name was Ha\u1e21ar."}, {"pk": 2699531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sarai said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cSee, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has kept me from bearing children. Please, go in to my female servant. It might be that I am built up by her.\u201d And Ab\u0331ram listened to the voice of Sarai."}, {"pk": 2699532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And Sarai, Ab\u0331ram\u2019s wife, took Ha\u1e21ar her female servant, the Mitsrian, and gave her to her husband Ab\u0331ram to be his wife, after Ab\u0331ram had dwelt ten years in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And he went in to Ha\u1e21ar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes."}, {"pk": 2699534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And Sarai said to Ab\u0331ram, \u201cMy wrong be upon you! I gave my female servant into your bosom. And when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 judge between you and me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram said to Sarai, \u201cSee, your female servant is in your hand, do to her what is good in your eyes.\u201d And Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence."}, {"pk": 2699536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur,"}, {"pk": 2699537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "and He said, \u201cHa\u1e21ar, Sarai\u2019s female servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?\u201d And she said, \u201cI am fleeing from the presence of Sarai, my mistress.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to her, \u201cReturn to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to her, \u201cI am going to increase your seed greatly, too numerous to be counted.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to her, \u201cSee, you are conceiving and bearing a son, and shall call his name Yishma\u201b\u0115l, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has heard your affliction."}, {"pk": 2699541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd he is to be a wild man, his hand against every one and every one\u2019s hand against him, and dwell over against all his brothers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And she called the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who spoke to her, \u201cYou are the \u011al who sees,\u201d for she said, \u201cEven here have I seen after Him who sees me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "That is why the well was called Be\u2019\u0115r Lah\u0323ai Ro\u2019i, see, it is between Qad\u0331\u0115sh and Bered\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ha\u1e21ar bore Ab\u0331ram a son, and Ab\u0331ram called the name of his son, whom Ha\u1e21ar bore, Yishma\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2699545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram was eighty-six years old when Ha\u1e21ar bore Yishma\u201b\u0115l to Ab\u0331ram."}, {"pk": 2699546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be when Ab\u0331ram was ninety-nine years old, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Ab\u0331ram and said to him, \u201cI am \u011al Shaddai \u2014 walk before Me and be perfect."}, {"pk": 2699547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd I give My covenant between Me and you, and shall greatly increase you."}, {"pk": 2699548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ab\u0331ram fell on his face, and Elohim spoke with him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "As for Me, look, My covenant is with you, and you shall become a father of many nations."}, {"pk": 2699550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd no longer is your name called Ab\u0331ram, but your name shall be Ab\u0331raham, because I shall make you a father of many nations."}, {"pk": 2699551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make you exceedingly fruitful, and make nations of you, and sovereigns shall come from you."}, {"pk": 2699552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be Elohim to you and your seed after you."}, {"pk": 2699553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kena\u201ban, as an everlasting possession. And I shall be their Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cAs for you, guard My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations."}, {"pk": 2699555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThis is My covenant which you guard between Me and you, and your seed after you: Every male child among you is to be circumcised."}, {"pk": 2699556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall become a sign of the covenant between Me and you."}, {"pk": 2699557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd a son of eight days is circumcised by you, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your seed."}, {"pk": 2699558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHe who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your silver, has to be circumcised. So shall My covenant be in your flesh, for an everlasting covenant."}, {"pk": 2699559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd an uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, his life shall be cut off from his people \u2014 he has broken My covenant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elohim said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cAs for Sarai your wife, do not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name."}, {"pk": 2699561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bless her and also give you a son by her. And I shall bless her, and she shall become nations \u2014 sovereigns of peoples are to be from her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, \u201cIs a <i>child</i> born to a man who is a hundred years old? Or is Sarah, who is ninety years old, to bear a child?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said to Elohim, \u201cOh, let Yishma\u201b\u0115l live before You!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd Elohim said, \u201cNo, Sarah your wife is truly bearing a son to you, and you shall call his name Yitsh\u0323aq. And I shall establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him."}, {"pk": 2699565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd as for Yishma\u201b\u0115l, I have heard you. See, I shall bless him, and shall make him fruitful, and greatly increase him. He is to bring forth twelve princes, and I shall make him a great nation."}, {"pk": 2699566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut My covenant I establish with Yitsh\u0323aq, whom Sarah is to bear to you at this appointed time next year.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And when He had ended speaking with him, Elohim went up from Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2699568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham took Yishma\u201b\u0115l his son, and all those born in his house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of Ab\u0331raham\u2019s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that same day, as Elohim told him."}, {"pk": 2699569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."}, {"pk": 2699570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yishma\u201b\u0115l his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."}, {"pk": 2699571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "Ab\u0331raham and his son Yishma\u201b\u0115l were circumcised that same day."}, {"pk": 2699572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "And all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with silver from a foreigner, were circumcised with him."}, {"pk": 2699573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamr\u0115, while he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day."}, {"pk": 2699574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "So he lifted his eyes and looked, and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,"}, {"pk": 2699575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by."}, {"pk": 2699576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cPlease let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree."}, {"pk": 2699577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd let me bring a piece of bread and refresh your hearts, and then go on, for this is why you have come to your servant.\u201d And they said, \u201cDo as you have said.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "So Ab\u0331raham ran into the tent to Sarah and said, \u201cHurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and make cakes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it."}, {"pk": 2699580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate."}, {"pk": 2699581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhere is Sarah your wife?\u201d And he said, \u201cSee, in the tent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said, \u201cI shall certainly return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to have a son!\u201d And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him."}, {"pk": 2699583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Now Ab\u0331raham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women."}, {"pk": 2699584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, \u201cAfter I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old too?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cWhy did Sarah laugh, saying, \u2018Shall I truly have a child, since I am old?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "Is any matter too hard for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? At the appointed time I am going to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a son."}, {"pk": 2699587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "But Sarah denied it, saying, \u201cI did not laugh,\u201d for she was afraid. And He said, \u201cNo, but you did laugh!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And the men rose up from there and looked toward Sed\u0331om, and Ab\u0331raham went with them to send them away."}, {"pk": 2699589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cShall I hide from Ab\u0331raham what I am doing,"}, {"pk": 2699590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "since Ab\u0331raham is certainly going to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?"}, {"pk": 2699591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings to Ab\u0331raham what He has spoken to him."}, {"pk": 2699592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cBecause the outcry against Sed\u0331om and Amorah is great, and because their sin is very heavy,"}, {"pk": 2699593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI am going down now to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me, and if not, I know."}, {"pk": 2699594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "So the men turned away from there and went toward Sed\u0331om, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 still stood before Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2699595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham drew near and said, \u201cWould You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?"}, {"pk": 2699596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSuppose there are fifty righteous within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?"}, {"pk": 2699597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFar be it from You to act in this way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cIf I find in Sed\u0331om fifty righteous within the city, then I shall spare all the place for their sakes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham answered and said, \u201cLook, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2699600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "Suppose there are five less than the fifty righteous, would You destroy all of the city for lack of five? And He said, \u201cIf I find there forty-five, I do not destroy it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And he spoke to Him yet again and said, \u201cSuppose there are found forty?\u201d And He said, \u201cI would not do it for the sake of forty.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "And he said, \u201cLet not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be displeased, and let me speak: Suppose there are found thirty?\u201d And He said, \u201cI would not do it if I find thirty there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cLook, please, I have taken it upon myself to speak to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: Suppose there are found twenty?\u201d And He said, \u201cI would not destroy it for the sake of twenty.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "And he said, \u201cLet not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be displeased, and let me speak only this time: Suppose there are found ten?\u201d And He said, \u201cI would not destroy it for the sake of ten.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went away as soon as He had ended speaking to Ab\u0331raham. And Ab\u0331raham returned to his place."}, {"pk": 2699606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And the two messengers came to Sed\u0331om in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sed\u0331om. And when Lot saw them, he rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground,"}, {"pk": 2699607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "and he said, \u201cLook, please my masters, please turn in to your servant\u2019s house and spend the night, and wash your feet, and rise early and go your way.\u201d And they said, \u201cNo, but let us spend the night in the open square.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "But he urged them strongly, and they turned in to him and came into his house. And he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate."}, {"pk": 2699609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sed\u0331om, both old and young, all the people from every part, surrounded the house."}, {"pk": 2699610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And they called to Lot and said to him, \u201cWhere are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, and let us \u2018know\u2019 them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "So Lot went out to them through the doorway, and shut the door behind him,"}, {"pk": 2699612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "and said, \u201cPlease, my brothers, do not do evil!"}, {"pk": 2699613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "Look, please, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you wish, only do no deed to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."}, {"pk": 2699614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "But they said, \u201cStand back!\u201d And they said, \u201cThis one came in to sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you worse than them.\u201d So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door."}, {"pk": 2699615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door."}, {"pk": 2699616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they wearied themselves to find the door."}, {"pk": 2699617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "And the men said to Lot, \u201cHave you anyone else here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city \u2014 bring them out of this place!"}, {"pk": 2699618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry against them has grown great before the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent us to destroy it."}, {"pk": 2699619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, \u201cGet up, get out of this place, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going to destroy this city!\u201d But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking."}, {"pk": 2699620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And when morning dawned, the messengers urged Lot to hurry, saying, \u201cGet up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And while he loitered, the men took hold of his hand, and his wife\u2019s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 having compassion on him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city."}, {"pk": 2699622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, \u201cEscape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And Lot said to them, \u201cOh no, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2699624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cLook, please, your servant has found favour in your eyes, and you have increased your loving-commitment which you have shown me by saving my life, but I am unable to escape to the mountains, lest calamity overtake me and I die."}, {"pk": 2699625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cLook, please, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is small. Please let me escape there \u2014 is it not a small matter \u2014 and let my life be saved?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cLook, I have favoured you concerning this matter also, without overthrowing this city for which you have spoken."}, {"pk": 2699627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "Hurry, escape there. For I am not able to do any deed until you arrive there. So the name of the city was called Tso\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2699628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Tso\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2699629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rained sulphur and fire on Sed\u0331om and Amorah, from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 out of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2699630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "So He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground."}, {"pk": 2699631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post of salt."}, {"pk": 2699632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham arose early in the morning <i>and went</i> to the place where he had stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2699633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "and he looked toward Sed\u0331om and Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain. And he looked and saw the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace."}, {"pk": 2699634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "Thus it came to be, when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, that Elohim remembered Ab\u0331raham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt."}, {"pk": 2699635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And Lot went up out of Tso\u201bar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Tso\u201bar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave."}, {"pk": 2699636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "And the first-born said to the younger, \u201cOur father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us, as is the way of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2699637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "Come, let us make our father drink wine and lie with him, so that we preserve the seed of our father."}, {"pk": 2699638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "So they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in and lay with her father, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose."}, {"pk": 2699639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "And it came to be on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, \u201cSee, I lay with my father last night. Let us make him drink wine tonight as well, and you go in and lie with him, so that we keep the seed of our father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "So they made their father drink wine that night as well. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she arose."}, {"pk": 2699641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father."}, {"pk": 2699642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "And the first-born bore a son and called his name Mo\u2019ab\u0331, he is the father of the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites to this day."}, {"pk": 2699643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi, he is the father of the children of Ammon to this day."}, {"pk": 2699644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham set out from there to the land of the South, and dwelt between Qad\u0331\u0115sh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar."}, {"pk": 2699645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said concerning Sarah his wife, \u201cShe is my sister.\u201d And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 sovereign of Gerar sent and took Sarah."}, {"pk": 2699646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "But Elohim came to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 in a dream by night, and said to him, \u201cSee, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man\u2019s wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "However, Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 had not come near her, and he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, would You kill a righteous nation also?"}, {"pk": 2699648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "Did he not say to me, \u2018She is my sister\u2019? And she, even she herself said, \u2018He is my brother.\u2019 In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this."}, {"pk": 2699649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And Elohim said to him in a dream, \u201cYes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her."}, {"pk": 2699650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And now, return the man\u2019s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours."}, {"pk": 2699651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "So Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and spoke all these words in their hearing. And the men were greatly frightened."}, {"pk": 2699652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 called Ab\u0331raham and said to him, \u201cWhat have you done to us? In what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my reign a great sin? You have done matters to me that should not be done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cWhat did you have in view, that you have done this matter?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said, \u201cOnly because I said <i>to myself</i>, the fear of Elohim is not in this place, and they shall kill me for the sake of my wife."}, {"pk": 2699655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd yet, she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife."}, {"pk": 2699656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father\u2019s house, that I said to her, \u2018This is your loving-commitment that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, \u201cHe is my brother.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2699657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "Then Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 took sheep, and cattle, and male and female servants, and gave them to Ab\u0331raham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him."}, {"pk": 2699658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 said, \u201cSee, my land is before you, dwell wherever it is good in your eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And to Sarah he said, \u201cSee, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. See, it is to you a covering of eyes before all who are with you and before all others, and you are cleared before everyone.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and his wife, and his female servants, so they bore children,"}, {"pk": 2699661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had closed up all the wombs of the house of Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 because of Sarah, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2699662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 visited Sarah as He had said, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did for Sarah as He had spoken."}, {"pk": 2699663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "So Sarah conceived and bore Ab\u0331raham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him."}, {"pk": 2699664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2699665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham circumcised his son Yitsh\u0323aq when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him."}, {"pk": 2699666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham was one hundred years old when his son Yitsh\u0323aq was born to him."}, {"pk": 2699667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sarah said, \u201cElohim has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of it laughs with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And she said, \u201cWho would have said to Ab\u0331raham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And the child grew and was weaned, and Ab\u0331raham made a great feast on the day that Yitsh\u0323aq was weaned."}, {"pk": 2699670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And Sarah saw the son of Ha\u1e21ar the Mitsrian, whom she had borne to Ab\u0331raham, mocking."}, {"pk": 2699671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "So she said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cDrive out this female servant and her son, for the son of this female servant shall not inherit with my son, with Yitsh\u0323aq.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And the matter was very evil in the eyes of Ab\u0331raham because of his son."}, {"pk": 2699673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "But Elohim said to Ab\u0331raham, \u201cLet it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy and because of your female servant. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice, for in Yitsh\u0323aq your seed is called."}, {"pk": 2699674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And of the son of the female servant I also make a nation, because he is your seed."}, {"pk": 2699675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Ha\u1e21ar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2699676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs."}, {"pk": 2699677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, \u201cLet me not see the death of the boy.\u201d And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept."}, {"pk": 2699678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And Elohim heard the voice of the boy, and the messenger of Elohim called to Ha\u1e21ar from the heavens, and said to her, \u201cWhat is the matter with you, Ha\u1e21ar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy where he is."}, {"pk": 2699679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "Arise, lift up the boy and hold him with your hand, for I make a great nation of him."}, {"pk": 2699680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink."}, {"pk": 2699681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And Elohim was with the boy, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer."}, {"pk": 2699682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And he dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2699683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be at that time that Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and Pik\u0331ol, the commander of his army, spoke to Ab\u0331raham, saying, \u201cElohim is with you in all that you do."}, {"pk": 2699684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And now, swear to me by Elohim, not to be untrue to me, to my offspring, or to my descendants. Do to me according to the loving-commitment that I have done to you and to the land in which you have dwelt."}, {"pk": 2699685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said, \u201cI swear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham reproved Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 because of a well of water which Ab\u0331imelek\u0331\u2019s servants had seized."}, {"pk": 2699687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 said, \u201cI do not know who has done this deed. Neither did you inform me, nor did I hear until today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "So Ab\u0331raham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and the two of them made a covenant."}, {"pk": 2699689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves."}, {"pk": 2699690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 asked Ab\u0331raham, \u201cWhat are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "And he said, \u201cTake these seven ewe lambs from my hand, to be my witness that I have dug this well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "So he called that place Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, because the two of them swore an oath there."}, {"pk": 2699693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "Thus they made a covenant at Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a. And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 rose with Pik\u0331ol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2699694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and there called on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Everlasting \u011al."}, {"pk": 2699695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days."}, {"pk": 2699696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be after these events that Elohim tried Ab\u0331raham, and said to him, \u201cAb\u0331raham!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And He said, \u201cTake your son, now, your only son Yitsh\u0323aq, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriyah, and offer him there as an ascending offering on one of the mountains which I command you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Yitsh\u0323aq his son. And he split the wood for the ascending offering, and arose and went to the place which Elohim had commanded him."}, {"pk": 2699699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And on the third day Ab\u0331raham lifted his eyes and saw the place from a distance."}, {"pk": 2699700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "So Ab\u0331raham said to his young men, \u201cStay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there and worship, and come back to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham took the wood of the ascending offering and laid it on Yitsh\u0323aq his son. And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together."}, {"pk": 2699702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq spoke to Ab\u0331raham his father and said, \u201cMy father!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am, my son.\u201d And he said, \u201cSee, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for an ascending offering?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said, \u201cMy son, Elohim does provide for Himself the lamb for an ascending offering.\u201d And the two of them went together."}, {"pk": 2699704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And they came to the place which Elohim had commanded him, and Ab\u0331raham built a slaughter-place there and placed the wood in order. And he bound Yitsh\u0323aq his son and laid him on the slaughter-place, upon the wood."}, {"pk": 2699705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son,"}, {"pk": 2699706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "but the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called to him from the heavens and said, \u201cAb\u0331raham, Ab\u0331raham!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And He said, \u201cDo not lay your hand on the boy, nor touch him. For now I know that you fear Elohim, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham lifted his eyes and looked and saw behind him a ram caught in a bush by its horns, and Ab\u0331raham went and took the ram and offered it up for an ascending offering instead of his son."}, {"pk": 2699709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham called the name of the place, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Yireh,\u2019 as it is said to this day, \u201cOn the mountain \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 provides.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called to Ab\u0331raham a second time from the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2699711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "and said, \u201cBy Myself I have sworn, declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,"}, {"pk": 2699712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies."}, {"pk": 2699713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."}, {"pk": 2699714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Ab\u0331raham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a. And Ab\u0331raham dwelt at Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2699715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be after these events that it was reported to Ab\u0331raham, saying, \u201cSee, Milkah too has borne children to your brother Nah\u0323or:"}, {"pk": 2699716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cUts his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Qemu\u2019\u0115l the father of Aram,"}, {"pk": 2699717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cand Kesed\u0331, and H\u0323azo, and Pildash, and Yid\u0331laph, and Bethu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2699718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "And Bethu\u2019\u0115l brought forth Rib\u0331qah. These eight Milkah bore to Nah\u0323or, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s brother."}, {"pk": 2699719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "And his concubine, whose name was Re\u2019uwmah, also bore Teb\u0331ah\u0323, and Gah\u0323am, and Tah\u0323ash, and Ma\u201bak\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2699720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years, the years of the life of Sarah."}, {"pk": 2699721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sarah died in Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron, in the land of Kena\u201ban, and Ab\u0331raham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her."}, {"pk": 2699722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "Then Ab\u0331raham rose up from beside his dead, and spoke to the sons of H\u0323\u0115th, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence."}, {"pk": 2699724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323\u0115th answered Ab\u0331raham, saying to him,"}, {"pk": 2699725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Hear us, my master: You are a prince of Elohim among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial-sites. None of us withholds from you his burial-site, from burying your dead."}, {"pk": 2699726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "So Ab\u0331raham rose and bowed himself to the people of the land, the sons of H\u0323\u0115th."}, {"pk": 2699727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "And he spoke with them, saying, \u201cIf it is your desire that I bury my dead from my presence, hear me, and approach Ephron son of Tsoh\u0323ar for me,"}, {"pk": 2699728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "and let me have the cave of Mak\u0331p\u0115lah which he has, which is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the complete amount of silver, as property for a burial-site among you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ephron dwelt among the sons of H\u0323\u0115th. And Ephron the H\u0323ittite answered Ab\u0331raham in the hearing of the sons of H\u0323\u0115th, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "No, my master, listen to me! I shall give you the field and the cave that is in it. I shall give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I shall give it to you. Bury your dead!"}, {"pk": 2699731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham bowed himself down before the people of the land,"}, {"pk": 2699732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, \u201cIf only you would hear me. I shall give the amount of silver for the field, take it from me, and let me bury my dead there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ephron answered Ab\u0331raham, saying to him,"}, {"pk": 2699734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "My master, listen to me! The land is worth four hundred sheqels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead."}, {"pk": 2699735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham listened to Ephron, and Ab\u0331raham weighed out the silver for Ephron which he had named in the hearing of the sons of H\u0323\u0115th, four hundred sheqels of silver, currency of the merchants."}, {"pk": 2699736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "Thus the field of Ephron which was in Mak\u0331p\u0115lah, which was before Mamr\u0115, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, which were within all the surrounding borders, were deeded"}, {"pk": 2699737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "to Ab\u0331raham as a possession in the presence of the sons of H\u0323\u0115th, before all who went in at the gate of his city."}, {"pk": 2699738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "And after this Ab\u0331raham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Mak\u0331p\u0115lah, before Mamr\u0115, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron, in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "Thus the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Ab\u0331raham by the sons of H\u0323\u0115th as property for a burial-site."}, {"pk": 2699740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham was old, advanced in years. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had blessed Ab\u0331raham in every way."}, {"pk": 2699741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, \u201cPlease, put your hand under my thigh,"}, {"pk": 2699742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "so that I make you swear by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kena\u201banites, among whom I dwell,"}, {"pk": 2699743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "but to go to my land and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitsh\u0323aq.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And the servant said to him, \u201cWhat if the woman refuses to follow me to this land? Do I then take your son back to the land from which you came?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham said to him, \u201cBeware lest you take my son back there!"}, {"pk": 2699746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of the heavens, who took me from my father\u2019s house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, \u2018To your seed I give this land,\u2019 He sends His messenger before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there."}, {"pk": 2699747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd if the woman refuses to follow you, then you shall be released from this oath; only, do not take my son back there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Ab\u0331raham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter."}, {"pk": 2699749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And the servant took ten of his master\u2019s camels and left, for all his master\u2019s good <i>gifts</i> were in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram Naharayim, to the city of Nah\u0323or."}, {"pk": 2699750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a fountain of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water."}, {"pk": 2699751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of my master Ab\u0331raham, please cause <i>her</i> to meet before me this day, and show loving-commitment to my master Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2699752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, I am standing here by the fountain of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water."}, {"pk": 2699753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cNow let it be that the young woman to whom I say, \u2018Please let down your jar to let me drink,\u2019 and she says, \u2018Drink, and let me water your camels too,\u2019 let her be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Yitsh\u0323aq. And let me know by this that You have shown loving-commitment to my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, before he had ended speaking, that see, Rib\u0331qah, who was born to Bethu\u2019\u0115l, son of Milkah, the wife of Nah\u0323or, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s brother, came out with her jar on her shoulder."}, {"pk": 2699755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And the young woman was very good-looking, a maiden, no man having known her. And she went down to the fountain, filled her jar, and came up."}, {"pk": 2699756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And the servant ran to meet her and said, \u201cPlease let me drink a little water from your jar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And she said, \u201cDrink, my master.\u201d And she hurried and let her jar down to her hand, and gave him a drink."}, {"pk": 2699758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, \u201cLet me draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "And she hurried and emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the fountain to draw water, and drew for all his camels."}, {"pk": 2699760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "And watching her, the man remained silent in order to know whether \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had prospered his way or not."}, {"pk": 2699761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a sheqel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten sheqels of gold,"}, {"pk": 2699762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "and said, \u201cWhose daughter are you? Please inform me, is there room in your father\u2019s house for us to spend the night?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cI am the daughter of Bethu\u2019\u0115l, Milkah\u2019s son, whom she bore to Nah\u0323or.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cWe have both straw and fodder enough, and room to spend the night.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "And the man bowed down his head and worshipped \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of my master Ab\u0331raham, who has not forsaken His loving-commitment and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 led me to the house of my master\u2019s brothers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "Then the young woman ran and informed those of her mother\u2019s house these matters."}, {"pk": 2699768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah had a brother whose name was Lab\u0331an, and Lab\u0331an ran out to the man, to the fountain."}, {"pk": 2699769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be, when he saw the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister\u2019s wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rib\u0331qah, saying, \u201cThus the man spoke to me,\u201d that he went to the man and saw him standing by the camels at the fountain."}, {"pk": 2699770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cCome in, O blessed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Why do you stand outside? I myself have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "text": "So the man came into the house, while he unloaded the camels and provided straw and fodder for the camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him,"}, {"pk": 2699772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "text": "and set food before him to eat. But he said, \u201cLet me not eat until I have spoken my word.\u201d And he said, \u201cSpeak on.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "text": "And he said, \u201cI am Ab\u0331raham\u2019s servant."}, {"pk": 2699774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. And He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and male and female servants, and camels and donkeys."}, {"pk": 2699775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd Sarah my master\u2019s wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And he has given to him all that he has."}, {"pk": 2699776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd my master made me swear, saying, \u2018Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kena\u201banites, in whose land I dwell,"}, {"pk": 2699777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 38, "text": "but go to my father\u2019s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 39, "text": "And I said to my master, \u2018What if the woman does not follow me?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2699779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cBut he said to me, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, before whom I walk, sends His messenger with you and shall prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2699780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 41, "text": "Then, when you go to my relatives, you are to be released from this oath. And if they do not give her to you, then you are released from my oath.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 42, "text": "And this day I came to the fountain and said, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of my master Ab\u0331raham, please, if You are prospering the way in which I am going,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 43, "text": "see, I am standing by the fountain of water, and when the young woman comes out to draw water, and I say to her, \u201cPlease give me a little water from your jar to drink,\u201d", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Maiden\"."}, {"pk": 2699783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 44, "text": "and she says to me, \u201cDrink, and let me draw for your camels too,\u201d let her be the woman whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has appointed for my master\u2019s son.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cI had not yet ended speaking in my heart, then see, Rib\u0331qah was coming out with her jar on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain and drew water. And I said to her, \u2018Please let me drink.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd she hurried and let her jar down from her shoulder, and said, \u2018Drink, and let me water your camels too.\u2019 So I drank, and she watered the camels too."}, {"pk": 2699786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd I asked her, and said, \u2018Whose daughter are you?\u2019 And she said, \u2018The daughter of Bethu\u2019\u0115l, Nah\u0323or\u2019s son, whom Milkah bore to him.\u2019 Then I put the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists."}, {"pk": 2699787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 48, "text": "And I bowed my head and worshipped \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of my master Ab\u0331raham, who had led me in the true way to take the daughter of my master\u2019s brother for his son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 49, "text": "And now, if you are going to show loving-commitment and truth to my master, let me know, and if not, let me know, so that I turn to the right or to the left."}, {"pk": 2699789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 50, "text": "And Lab\u0331an answered \u2014 Bethu\u2019\u0115l too \u2014 and said, \u201cThe matter comes from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we are not able to speak to you either evil or good."}, {"pk": 2699790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 51, "text": "See, Rib\u0331qah is before you. Take her and go, and let her be your master\u2019s son\u2019s wife, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2699791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 52, "text": "And it came to be, when Ab\u0331raham\u2019s servant heard their words, that he bowed himself towards the earth before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 53, "text": "And the servant brought out ornaments of silver, and ornaments of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rib\u0331qah. He also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother."}, {"pk": 2699793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 54, "text": "And he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning he said, \u201cLet me go to my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 55, "text": "But her brother and her mother said, \u201cLet the young woman stay with us a few days, at least ten, then you go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 56, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo not delay me, since \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has prospered my way. Let me go so that I go to my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 57, "text": "And they said, \u201cLet us call the young woman and ask her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 58, "text": "So they called Rib\u0331qah and said to her, \u201cAre you going with this man?\u201d And she said, \u201cI shall go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 59, "text": "So they let go Rib\u0331qah their sister and her nurse, and Ab\u0331raham\u2019s servant and his men."}, {"pk": 2699799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 60, "text": "And they blessed Rib\u0331qah and said to her, \u201cLet our sister become the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gates of those who hate them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 61, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah and her young women arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rib\u0331qah and left."}, {"pk": 2699801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 62, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq came from the way of Be\u2019\u0115r Lah\u0323ai Ro\u2019i, for he dwelt in the South."}, {"pk": 2699802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 63, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq went out to meditate in the field in the evening. And he lifted his eyes and looked and saw the camels coming."}, {"pk": 2699803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 64, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Yitsh\u0323aq she dismounted from her camel,"}, {"pk": 2699804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 65, "text": "and she had said to the servant, \u201cWho is this man walking in the field to meet us?\u201d And the servant said, \u201cIt is my master.\u201d So she took a veil and covered herself."}, {"pk": 2699805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 66, "text": "And the servant told Yitsh\u0323aq all the matters he had done."}, {"pk": 2699806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 24, "verse": 67, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq brought her into his mother Sarah\u2019s tent. And he took Rib\u0331qah and she became his wife, and he loved her. Thus Yitsh\u0323aq was comforted after his mother\u2019s death."}, {"pk": 2699807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham took another wife, whose name was Qeturah."}, {"pk": 2699808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "And she bore him Zimran, and Yoqshan, and Med\u0331an, and Mid\u0331yan, and Yishbaq, and Shuwah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2699809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yoqshan brought forth Sheb\u0331a and Ded\u0331an. And the sons of Ded\u0331an were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Le\u2019ummim."}, {"pk": 2699810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sons of Mid\u0331yan were \u011aphah, and \u011apher, and H\u0323anok\u0331, and Ab\u0331id\u0331a, and Elda\u201bah. All these were the children of Qeturah."}, {"pk": 2699811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "Now Ab\u0331raham gave all that he had to Yitsh\u0323aq,"}, {"pk": 2699812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "but to the sons of the concubines whom Ab\u0331raham had, Ab\u0331raham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Yitsh\u0323aq, eastward, to the land of the east."}, {"pk": 2699813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And these are all the years of Ab\u0331raham\u2019s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years."}, {"pk": 2699814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham breathed his last and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people."}, {"pk": 2699815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And his sons Yitsh\u0323aq and Yishma\u201b\u0115l buried him in the cave of Mak\u0331p\u0115lah, which is before Mamr\u0115, in the field of Ephron son of Tsoh\u0323ar the H\u0323ittite,"}, {"pk": 2699816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "the field which Ab\u0331raham purchased from the sons of H\u0323\u0115th. There Ab\u0331raham was buried with Sarah his wife."}, {"pk": 2699817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, after the death of Ab\u0331raham, that Elohim blessed his son Yitsh\u0323aq. And Yitsh\u0323aq dwelt at Be\u2019\u0115r Lah\u0323ai Ro\u2019i."}, {"pk": 2699818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "And this is the genealogy of Yishma\u201b\u0115l, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s son, whom Ha\u1e21ar the Mitsrian, Sarah\u2019s female servant, bore to Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2699819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And these were the names of the sons of Yishma\u201b\u0115l, by their names, according to their generations: The first-born of Yishma\u201b\u0115l, Neb\u0331ayoth; then Q\u0115d\u0331ar, and Ad\u0331be\u2019\u0115l, and Mib\u0331sam,"}, {"pk": 2699820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,"}, {"pk": 2699821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "H\u0323ad\u0331ar, and T\u0115ma, Yetur, Naphish, and Q\u0115d\u0331emah."}, {"pk": 2699822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "These were the sons of Yishma\u201b\u0115l and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve chiefs according to their tribes."}, {"pk": 2699823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "And these were the years of the life of Yishma\u201b\u0115l: one hundred and thirty-seven years. And he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people."}, {"pk": 2699824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "And they dwelt from H\u0323awilah as far as Shur, which is east of Mitsrayim as you go toward Ashshur. He settled before all his brothers."}, {"pk": 2699825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "And this is the genealogy of Yitsh\u0323aq, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s son. Ab\u0331raham brought forth Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2699826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq was forty years old when he took Rib\u0331qah as wife, the daughter of Bethu\u2019\u0115l the Aramean of Paddan Aram, the sister of Lab\u0331an the Aramean."}, {"pk": 2699827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for his wife, because she was barren. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered his prayer, and Rib\u0331qah his wife conceived."}, {"pk": 2699828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "And within her the children struggled together, and she said, \u201cIf all is right, why am I this way?\u201d So she went to ask \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2699829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to her, \u201cTwo nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older serve the younger.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "And when the days were filled for her to give birth, and see, twins were in her womb!"}, {"pk": 2699831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "And the first came out red all over, like a hairy garment, so they called his name \u011asaw."}, {"pk": 2699832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "And afterward his brother came out, with his hand holding on to \u011asaw\u2019s heel, so his name was called Ya\u201baqob\u0331. And Yitsh\u0323aq was sixty years old when she bore them."}, {"pk": 2699833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "And the boys grew up. And \u011asaw became a man knowing how to hunt, a man of the field, while Ya\u201baqob\u0331 was a complete man, dwelling in tents."}, {"pk": 2699834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq loved \u011asaw because he ate of his wild game, but Rib\u0331qah loved Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 cooked a stew, and \u011asaw came in from the field, and he was weary."}, {"pk": 2699836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u011asaw said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cPlease feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.\u201d That is why his name was called Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2699837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "But Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said, \u201cSell me your birthright today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "And \u011asaw said, \u201cLook, I am going to die, so why should I have birthright?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "Then Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said, \u201cSwear to me today.\u201d And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "Ya\u201baqob\u0331 then gave \u011asaw bread and stew of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. Thus \u011asaw despised his birthright."}, {"pk": 2699841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Ab\u0331raham. And Yitsh\u0323aq went to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar."}, {"pk": 2699842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him and said, \u201cDo not go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which I command you."}, {"pk": 2699843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I give all these lands to you and your seed. And I shall establish the oath which I swore to Ab\u0331raham your father."}, {"pk": 2699844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "because Ab\u0331raham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My commands, My laws, and My Torot.\u201d", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah, teaching."}, {"pk": 2699846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq dwelt in Gerar."}, {"pk": 2699847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, \u201cShe is my sister.\u201d For he was afraid to say, \u201cShe is my wife,\u201d <i>thinking</i>, \u201clest the men of the place should kill me for Rib\u0331qah, because she is good-looking.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 sovereign of the Philistines looked through a window, and he watched and saw Yitsh\u0323aq playing with Rib\u0331qah his wife."}, {"pk": 2699849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "So Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 called Yitsh\u0323aq and said, \u201cSee, truly she is your wife! So how could you say, \u2018She is my sister\u2019?\u201d And Yitsh\u0323aq said to him, \u201cBecause I said, \u2018Lest I die on account of her.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2699850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 said, \u201cWhat is this you have done to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 commanded all his people, saying, \u201cHe who touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed him."}, {"pk": 2699853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great."}, {"pk": 2699854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him."}, {"pk": 2699855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father\u2019s servants had dug in the days of Ab\u0331raham his father, and filled them with dirt."}, {"pk": 2699856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 said to Yitsh\u0323aq, \u201cGo away from us, for you are much mightier than we.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "So Yitsh\u0323aq went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there."}, {"pk": 2699858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Ab\u0331raham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Ab\u0331raham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them."}, {"pk": 2699859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "But when Yitsh\u0323aq\u2019s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of running water there,"}, {"pk": 2699860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsh\u0323aq\u2019s herdsmen, saying, \u201cThe water is ours.\u201d And he called the name of the well \u011aseq, because they strove with him."}, {"pk": 2699861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah."}, {"pk": 2699862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name Reh\u0323ob\u0331oth, and said, \u201cFor now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "And from there he went up to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2699864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him the same night and said, \u201cI am the Elohim of your father Ab\u0331raham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for My servant Ab\u0331raham\u2019s sake.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "And he built a slaughter-place there, and called on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsh\u0323aq dug a well there."}, {"pk": 2699866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 came to him from Gerar, with Ah\u0323uzzath, one of his friends, and Pik\u0331ol the commander of his army."}, {"pk": 2699867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq said to them, \u201cWhy have you come to me, seeing you have hated me and have sent me away from you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "But they said, \u201cWe have clearly seen that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you. And we said, \u2018Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you,"}, {"pk": 2699869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "that you do no evil to us, as we have not touched you, and as we have done only good toward you, and have sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2699870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank."}, {"pk": 2699871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsh\u0323aq let them go, and they departed from him in peace."}, {"pk": 2699872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsh\u0323aq came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, \u201cWe have found water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "text": "So he called it Shib\u0331ah. Therefore the name of the city is Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a to this day."}, {"pk": 2699874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "text": "And when \u011asaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehud\u0331ith the daughter of Be\u2019\u0115ri the H\u0323ittite, and Basemath the daughter of \u011alon the H\u0323ittite."}, {"pk": 2699875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "text": "And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsh\u0323aq and Rib\u0331qah."}, {"pk": 2699876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Yitsh\u0323aq was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called \u011asaw his elder son and said to him, \u201cMy son.\u201d And he answered him, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201cSee now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death."}, {"pk": 2699878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cNow then, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt wild game for me."}, {"pk": 2699879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd make me a tasty dish, such as I love, and bring it to me to eat, in order that my being does bless you before I die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah heard when Yitsh\u0323aq spoke to \u011asaw his son. And \u011asaw went to the field to hunt wild game and to bring it."}, {"pk": 2699881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah spoke to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 her son, saying, \u201cSee, I heard your father speak to \u011asaw your brother, saying,"}, {"pk": 2699882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "Bring me wild game and make me a tasty dish to eat, and bless you in the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before my death.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2699883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now my son, listen to my voice according to what I command you."}, {"pk": 2699884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Please go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I make a tasty dish from them for your father, such as he loves."}, {"pk": 2699885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "And you shall take it to your father, and he shall eat it, so that he might bless you before his death."}, {"pk": 2699886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Rib\u0331qah his mother, \u201cSee, \u011asaw my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man."}, {"pk": 2699887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "What if my father touches me? Then I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing."}, {"pk": 2699888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "But his mother said to him, \u201cLet your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "And he went and fetched them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made a tasty dish, such as his father loved."}, {"pk": 2699890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah took the best garments of her elder son \u011asaw, which were with her in the house, and put them on Ya\u201baqob\u0331 her younger son."}, {"pk": 2699891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck."}, {"pk": 2699892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "Then she gave the tasty dish and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2699893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "And he went to his father and said, \u201cMy father.\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am. Who are you, my son?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to his father, \u201cI am \u011asaw your first-born, I have done as you said to me. Please rise, sit and eat of my wild game, so that your being might bless me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "But Yitsh\u0323aq said to his son, \u201cHow is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?\u201d And he said, \u201cBecause \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brought it to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Yitsh\u0323aq said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cPlease come near, so that I feel you, my son, whether you truly are my son \u011asaw or not.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went near to Yitsh\u0323aq his father, and he felt him and said, \u201cThe voice is the voice of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, but the hands are the hands of \u011asaw.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "And he did not recognise him, for his hands were hairy like his brother \u011asaw\u2019s hands, and he blessed him."}, {"pk": 2699899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "And he said, \u201cAre you truly my son \u011asaw?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "And he said, \u201cBring it near to me, and let me eat of my son\u2019s wild game, so that my being might bless you.\u201d So he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine, and he drank."}, {"pk": 2699901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "And his father Yitsh\u0323aq said to him, \u201cPlease come near and kiss me, my son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him and said, \u201cSee, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed."}, {"pk": 2699903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "And Elohim give you of the dew of the heavens, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine."}, {"pk": 2699904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and let your mother\u2019s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be, as soon as Yitsh\u0323aq had finished blessing Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had hardly left the presence of Yitsh\u0323aq his father, that \u011asaw his brother came in from his hunting."}, {"pk": 2699906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "And he too had made a tasty dish and brought it to his father, and said to his father, \u201cLet my father rise and eat of his son\u2019s wild game, so that your being might bless me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "And his father Yitsh\u0323aq said to him, \u201cWho are you?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am your son, your first-born, \u011asaw.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "Then Yitsh\u0323aq trembled exceedingly, and said, \u201cWho was it then who hunted wild game and brought it to me? And I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him. Yes, he is blessed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "When \u011asaw heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, \u201cBless me, me too, O my father!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 35, "text": "And he said, \u201cYour brother came with deceit and took your blessing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 36, "text": "And \u011asaw said, \u201cWas his name, then, called Ya\u201baqob\u0331? For he has caught me by the heel these two times. He took my birthright, and see, now he has taken my blessing!\u201d And he said, \u201cHave you not reserved a blessing for me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 37, "text": "Then Yitsh\u0323aq answered and said to \u011asaw, \u201cSee, I have made him your master, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants. And I have sustained him with grain and wine. And what, then, shall I do for you, my son?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 38, "text": "And \u011asaw said to his father, \u201cHave you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, me too, O my father!\u201d And \u011asaw lifted up his voice and wept."}, {"pk": 2699914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 39, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq his father answered and said to him, \u201cSee, your dwelling is of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the heavens from above."}, {"pk": 2699915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 40, "text": "And by your sword you are to live, and serve your brother. And it shall be, when you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 41, "text": "And \u011asaw hated Ya\u201baqob\u0331 because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and \u011asaw said in his heart, \u201cThe days of mourning for my father draw near, then I am going to kill my brother Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 42, "text": "And the words of \u011asaw her older son were reported to Rib\u0331qah, and she sent and called Ya\u201baqob\u0331 her younger son, and said to him, \u201cSee, your brother \u011asaw comforts himself concerning you, to kill you."}, {"pk": 2699918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee to my brother Lab\u0331an in H\u0323aran."}, {"pk": 2699919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 44, "text": "And stay with him a few days, until your brother\u2019s wrath turns away,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 45, "text": "until your brother\u2019s displeasure turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. And I shall send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 27, "verse": 46, "text": "And Rib\u0331qah said to Yitsh\u0323aq, \u201cI am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of H\u0323\u0115th. If Ya\u201baqob\u0331 takes a wife from the daughters of H\u0323\u0115th, like these who are the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yitsh\u0323aq called Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, \u201cDo not take a wife from the daughters of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2699923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cArise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethu\u2019\u0115l your mother\u2019s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from the daughters of Lab\u0331an your mother\u2019s brother."}, {"pk": 2699924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u011al Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "and give you the blessing of Ab\u0331raham, to you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings, which Elohim gave to Ab\u0331raham.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "So Yitsh\u0323aq sent Ya\u201baqob\u0331 away, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Lab\u0331an son of Bethu\u2019\u0115l the Aramean, the brother of Rib\u0331qah, the mother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and \u011asaw."}, {"pk": 2699927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u011asaw saw that Yitsh\u0323aq had blessed Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, \u201cDo not take a wife from the daughters of Kena\u201ban,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "and that Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram."}, {"pk": 2699929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "So \u011asaw saw that the daughters of Kena\u201ban did not please his father Yitsh\u0323aq,"}, {"pk": 2699930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "and \u011asaw went to Yishma\u201b\u0115l and took Mah\u0323alath the daughter of Yishma\u201b\u0115l, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s son, the sister of Neb\u0331ayoth, to be his wife, besides the wives he had."}, {"pk": 2699931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went out from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a and went toward H\u0323aran."}, {"pk": 2699932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And he came upon a place and stopped over for the night, for the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep."}, {"pk": 2699933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And he dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to the heavens, and saw messengers of Elohim going up and coming down on it."}, {"pk": 2699934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "And see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood above it and said, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Ab\u0331raham your father and the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq. The land on which you are lying, I give it to you and your seed."}, {"pk": 2699935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed."}, {"pk": 2699936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I am with you and shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land. For I am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 awoke from his sleep and said, \u201cTruly, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in this place, and I did not know it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And he was afraid and said, \u201cHow awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing column, and poured oil on top of it."}, {"pk": 2699940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "And he called the name of that place B\u0115yth \u011al, however, the name of that city had been Luz previously."}, {"pk": 2699941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 made a vow, saying, \u201cSeeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat and a garment to put on \u2014"}, {"pk": 2699942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "when I have returned to my father\u2019s house in peace, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has been my Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2699943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim\u2019s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 moved on and came to the land of the people of the East."}, {"pk": 2699945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "And he looked and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying by it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a large stone was on the well\u2019s mouth."}, {"pk": 2699946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the flocks would be gathered there, then they would roll the stone from the well\u2019s mouth and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the well\u2019s mouth."}, {"pk": 2699947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "So Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to them, \u201cMy brothers, where are you from?\u201d And they said, \u201cWe are from H\u0323aran.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo you know Lab\u0331an son of Nah\u0323or?\u201d And they said, \u201cWe know him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "So he said to them, \u201cIs he well?\u201d And they said, \u201cWell. And see, his daughter Rah\u0323\u0115l is coming with the sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "And he said, \u201cSee, it is still high day, not the time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "But they said, \u201cWe are not allowed until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well\u2019s mouth, then we shall water the sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "While he was still speaking with them, Rah\u0323\u0115l came with her father\u2019s sheep, for she was a shepherdess."}, {"pk": 2699953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 saw Rah\u0323\u0115l the daughter of Lab\u0331an his mother\u2019s brother, and the sheep of Lab\u0331an his mother\u2019s brother, that Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went near and rolled the stone from the well\u2019s mouth, and watered the flock of Lab\u0331an his mother\u2019s brother."}, {"pk": 2699954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 kissed Rah\u0323\u0115l, and lifted up his voice and wept."}, {"pk": 2699955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 told Rah\u0323\u0115l that he was her father\u2019s relative and that he was Rib\u0331qah\u2019s son, she ran and told her father."}, {"pk": 2699956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when Lab\u0331an heard the report about Ya\u201baqob\u0331 his sister\u2019s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Then he told Lab\u0331an all these matters."}, {"pk": 2699957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said to him, \u201cYou are indeed my bone and my flesh.\u201d And he stayed with him for a new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2699958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "Then Lab\u0331an said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cBecause you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for naught? Let me know, what should your wages be?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "And Lab\u0331an had two daughters, the name of the elder was L\u0115\u2019ah, and the name of the younger was Rah\u0323\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2699960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s eyes were weak, but Rah\u0323\u0115l was beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance."}, {"pk": 2699961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 loved Rah\u0323\u0115l, so he said, \u201cLet me serve you seven years for Rah\u0323\u0115l your younger daughter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said, \u201cIt is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "So Ya\u201baqob\u0331 served seven years for Rah\u0323\u0115l, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her."}, {"pk": 2699964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Lab\u0331an, \u201cGive me my wife, for my days are completed, and let me go in to her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "And Lab\u0331an gathered all the men of the place and made a feast."}, {"pk": 2699966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be in the evening, that he took L\u0115\u2019ah his daughter and brought her to Ya\u201baqob\u0331. And he went in to her."}, {"pk": 2699967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "And Lab\u0331an gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter L\u0115\u2019ah as a female servant."}, {"pk": 2699968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "And in the morning it came to be, that see, it was L\u0115\u2019ah. So he said to Lab\u0331an, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rah\u0323\u0115l that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said, \u201cIt is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first-born."}, {"pk": 2699970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "Complete the week of this one, then we give you this one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years."}, {"pk": 2699971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 did so and completed her week. Then he gave him his daughter Rah\u0323\u0115l too, as wife."}, {"pk": 2699972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "And Lab\u0331an gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rah\u0323\u0115l as a female servant."}, {"pk": 2699973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "And he also went in to Rah\u0323\u0115l, and he also loved Rah\u0323\u0115l more than L\u0115\u2019ah. And he served with Lab\u0331an still another seven years."}, {"pk": 2699974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw that L\u0115\u2019ah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rah\u0323\u0115l was barren."}, {"pk": 2699975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, for she said, \u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has looked on my affliction, because now my husband is going to love me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "text": "And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, \u201cBecause \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has heard that I am unloved, He gave me this son too.\u201d And she called his name Shim\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2699977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "text": "And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, \u201cNow this time my husband is joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.\u201d So his name was called L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2699978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "text": "And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, \u201cNow I praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d So she called his name Yehud\u0331ah. And she ceased bearing."}, {"pk": 2699979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Rah\u0323\u0115l saw that she bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 no children, Rah\u0323\u0115l envied her sister, and said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cGive me children, or else I am going to die!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s displeasure burned against Rah\u0323\u0115l, and he said, \u201cAm I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "And she said, \u201cSee, my female servant Bilhah; go in to her, and let her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "So she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went in to her."}, {"pk": 2699983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "And Bilhah conceived and bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a son."}, {"pk": 2699984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "And Rah\u0323\u0115l said, \u201cElohim has rightly ruled my case, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.\u201d So she called his name Dan."}, {"pk": 2699985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "And Rah\u0323\u0115l\u2019s female servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a second son."}, {"pk": 2699986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "And Rah\u0323\u0115l said, \u201cWith great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have overcome.\u201d So she called his name Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2699987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 as wife."}, {"pk": 2699988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s female servant Zilpah bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a son."}, {"pk": 2699989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah said, \u201cFortune comes!\u201d So she called his name Gad\u0331.", "comment": "Heb. Gad\u0331, meaning fortune."}, {"pk": 2699990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s female servant Zilpah bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a second son."}, {"pk": 2699991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah said, \u201cI am happy, for the daughters shall call me happy.\u201d So she called his name Ash\u0115r.", "comment": "Heb. - Ash\u0115r, meaning happy."}, {"pk": 2699992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "And Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n went in the days of wheat harvest and found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother L\u0115\u2019ah. And Rah\u0323\u0115l said to L\u0115\u2019ah, \u201cPlease give me some of your son\u2019s love-apples.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "But she said to her, \u201cIs it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son\u2019s love-apples too?\u201d And Rah\u0323\u0115l said, \u201cTherefore let him lie with you tonight for your son\u2019s love-apples.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2699994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came out of the field in the evening, L\u0115\u2019ah went out to meet him and said, \u201cDo come in to me, for indeed, I have hired you with my son\u2019s love-apples.\u201d And he lay with her that night."}, {"pk": 2699995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "And Elohim listened to L\u0115\u2019ah, and she conceived and bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a fifth son."}, {"pk": 2699996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah said, \u201cElohim has given me my hire, because I have given my female servant to my husband.\u201d So she called his name Yissask\u0331ar."}, {"pk": 2699997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah conceived again and bore Ya\u201baqob\u0331 a sixth son."}, {"pk": 2699998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah said, \u201cElohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.\u201d So she called his name Zeb\u0331ulun."}, {"pk": 2699999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah."}, {"pk": 2700000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And Elohim remembered Rah\u0323\u0115l, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb."}, {"pk": 2700001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, \u201cElohim has taken away my reproach.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "So she called his name Yos\u0115ph, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has added to me another son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, when Rah\u0323\u0115l had borne Yos\u0115ph, that Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Lab\u0331an, \u201cSend me on my way, to go to my own place and to my land."}, {"pk": 2700004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "Give my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service which I have done for you."}, {"pk": 2700005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said to him, \u201cIf please I have found favour in your eyes, stay, for I have divined that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed me for your sake.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "And he said, \u201cName me your wages, and I give it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "So he said to him, \u201cYou know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me."}, {"pk": 2700008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "For the little you had before I came has increased greatly, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide for my own house too?"}, {"pk": 2700009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat do I give you?\u201d And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said, \u201cGive me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again feed and guard your flocks:"}, {"pk": 2700010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cLet me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages."}, {"pk": 2700011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 34, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said, \u201cSee, let it be according to your word!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 35, "text": "And on that day he set aside the male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons."}, {"pk": 2700014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 36, "text": "And he put three days\u2019 journey between himself and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 fed the rest of Lab\u0331an\u2019s flocks."}, {"pk": 2700015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 37, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods."}, {"pk": 2700016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 38, "text": "And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink."}, {"pk": 2700017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 39, "text": "So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted."}, {"pk": 2700018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 40, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Lab\u0331an, but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Lab\u0331an\u2019s flock."}, {"pk": 2700019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 41, "text": "And it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived, that Ya\u201baqob\u0331 placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so they would conceive among the rods."}, {"pk": 2700020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 42, "text": "But when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were Lab\u0331an\u2019s and the strong ones Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2700021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 30, "verse": 43, "text": "Thus the man increased very much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys."}, {"pk": 2700022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And he heard the words of Lab\u0331an\u2019s sons, saying, \u201cYa\u201baqob\u0331 has taken away all that was our father\u2019s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 would look at the face of Lab\u0331an and see that it was not toward him as before."}, {"pk": 2700024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cReturn to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. And I am with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 sent and called Rah\u0323\u0115l and L\u0115\u2019ah to the field, to his flock,"}, {"pk": 2700026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "and said to them, \u201cI see your father\u2019s face, that it is not toward me as before, but the Elohim of my father has been with me."}, {"pk": 2700027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you know that I have served your father with all my strength."}, {"pk": 2700028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but Elohim did not allow him to do evil to me."}, {"pk": 2700029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen he said this, \u2018The speckled are your wages,\u2019 then all the flocks bore speckled. And when he said this, \u2018The streaked are your wages,\u2019 then all the flocks bore streaked."}, {"pk": 2700030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSo Elohim has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me."}, {"pk": 2700031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and looked in a dream and saw the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and mottled."}, {"pk": 2700032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Messenger of Elohim spoke to me in a dream, saying, \u2018Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Here I am.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd He said, \u2018Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and mottled, for I have seen all that Lab\u0331an is doing to you."}, {"pk": 2700034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "I am the \u011al of B\u0115yth \u011al, where you anointed the standing column and where you made a vow to Me. Now rise up, get out of this land, and return to the land of your relatives.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "And Rah\u0323\u0115l and L\u0115\u2019ah answered and said to him, \u201cDo we still have any portion or inheritance in our father\u2019s house?"}, {"pk": 2700036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAre we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver."}, {"pk": 2700037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father is ours and our children\u2019s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "So Ya\u201baqob\u0331 rose and put his sons and his wives on camels,"}, {"pk": 2700039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "and he drove off all his livestock and all his possessions which he had acquired, his property of the livestock which he had acquired in Paddan Aram, to go to his father Yitsh\u0323aq in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2700040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "And when Lab\u0331an had gone to shear his sheep, Rah\u0323\u0115l stole the house idols that were her father\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2700041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 deceived Lab\u0331an the Aramean, because he did not inform him that he was about to flee."}, {"pk": 2700042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "And he fled with all that he had. And he rose up and passed over the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "And on the third day Lab\u0331an was told that Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had fled."}, {"pk": 2700044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "Then he took his brothers with him and pursued him for seven days\u2019 journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "But in a dream by night Elohim came to Lab\u0331an the Aramean, and said to him, \u201cGuard yourself, that you do not speak to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 either good or evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "Then Lab\u0331an overtook Ya\u201baqob\u0331. Now Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Lab\u0331an with his brothers pitched in the mountains of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cWhat have you done, that you have deceived me, and driven my daughters off like captives taken with the sword?"}, {"pk": 2700048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWhy did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?"}, {"pk": 2700049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "And you did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this."}, {"pk": 2700050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cIt is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, \u2018Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 either good or evil.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd now you have gone because you greatly long for your father\u2019s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 answered and said to Lab\u0331an, \u201cBecause I was afraid, for I said, \u2018Lest you tear your daughters away from me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "text": "With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it with you. For Ya\u201baqob\u0331 did not know that Rah\u0323\u0115l had stolen them."}, {"pk": 2700054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "text": "And Lab\u0331an went into Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s tent, and into L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s tent, and into the tents of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he came out of L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s tent and entered Rah\u0323\u0115l\u2019s tent."}, {"pk": 2700055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "text": "Now Rah\u0323\u0115l had taken the house idols and put them in the camel\u2019s saddle, and sat on them. And Lab\u0331an searched all about the tent but did not find them."}, {"pk": 2700056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "text": "And she said to her father, \u201cLet it not displease my master that I am unable to rise before you, for the way of women is with me.\u201d And he searched but did not find the house idols."}, {"pk": 2700057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 was wroth and contended with Lab\u0331an, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 answered and said to Lab\u0331an, \u201cWhat is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?"}, {"pk": 2700058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cNow that you have searched all my goods what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us!"}, {"pk": 2700059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cThese twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your sheep."}, {"pk": 2700060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cThat which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you, I myself bore the loss of it. You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night."}, {"pk": 2700061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "text": "\"<i>Thus</i> I was! By day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes."}, {"pk": 2700062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cThese twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times."}, {"pk": 2700063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cUnless the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham and the Fear of Yitsh\u0323aq, had been with me, you would now have sent me away empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rendered judgment last night.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 43, "text": "And Lab\u0331an answered and said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cThese daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock, and all that you see is mine. But what shall I do today to these, my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?"}, {"pk": 2700065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 44, "text": "And now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and it shall be a witness between you and me."}, {"pk": 2700066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 45, "text": "So Ya\u201baqob\u0331 took a stone and set it up as a standing column."}, {"pk": 2700067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 46, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to his brothers, \u201cGather stones.\u201d And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap."}, {"pk": 2700068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 47, "text": "And Lab\u0331an called it Ye\u1e21ar Sahad\u0331utha, but Ya\u201baqob\u0331 called it Gal\u201b\u0115d\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 48, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said, \u201cThis heap is a witness between you and me today.\u201d That is why its name was called Gal\u201b\u0115d\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2700070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 49, "text": "also Mitspah, because he said, \u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 watch between you and me when we are out of each other\u2019s sight."}, {"pk": 2700071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 50, "text": "If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; see, Elohim is witness between you and me!"}, {"pk": 2700072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 51, "text": "And Lab\u0331an said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cSee this heap and see this standing column, which I have placed between you and me."}, {"pk": 2700073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cThis heap is a witness, and this standing column is a witness, that I do not pass beyond this heap to you, and you do not pass beyond this heap and this standing column to me, for evil."}, {"pk": 2700074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cThe Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, the Elohim of Nah\u0323or, and the Elohim of their father rightly rule between us!\u201d And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 swore by the Fear of his father Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2700075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 54, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 slaughtered a slaughtering on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain."}, {"pk": 2700076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 31, "verse": 55, "text": "And Lab\u0331an rose up early in the morning, and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. And Lab\u0331an left and returned to his place."}, {"pk": 2700077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went on his way, and the messengers of Elohim met him."}, {"pk": 2700078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 saw them, he said, \u201cThis is the camp of Elohim.\u201d And he called the name of that place Mah\u0323anayim."}, {"pk": 2700079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 sent messengers before him to \u011asaw his brother in the land of S\u0115\u201bir, the field of Ed\u0331om"}, {"pk": 2700080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "and he commanded them, saying, \u201cSay this to my master \u011asaw, \u2018Your servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said this, \u201cI have sojourned with Lab\u0331an and stayed there until now."}, {"pk": 2700081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I have bulls, and donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. And I have sent to inform my master, to find favour in your eyes.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "So the messengers returned to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, saying, \u201cWe came to your brother \u011asaw, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 was greatly afraid and distressed. So he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two groups,"}, {"pk": 2700084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "and he said, \u201cIf \u011asaw comes to the one group and strikes it, then the other group which is left shall escape.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said, \u201cO Elohim of my father Ab\u0331raham and Elohim of my father Yitsh\u0323aq, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who said to me, \u2018Return to your land and to your relatives, and I do good to you,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI do not deserve the least of all the loving-commitment and all the truth which You have shown Your servant, for I passed over this Yard\u0115n with my staff, and now I have become two groups."}, {"pk": 2700087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cDeliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of \u011asaw, for I fear him, lest he come and shall strike me and the mother with the children."}, {"pk": 2700088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "For You said, \u2018I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a present for \u011asaw his brother \u2014"}, {"pk": 2700090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,"}, {"pk": 2700091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "thirty suckling-camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals."}, {"pk": 2700092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "And he gave into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, \u201cPass over before me, and put some distance between drove and drove.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "And he commanded the first one, saying, \u201cWhen \u011asaw my brother meets you and asks you, saying, \u2018To whom do you belong, and where are you going? And whose are these in front of you?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "then you shall say, \u2018They are your servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s. It is a present sent to my master \u011asaw. And see, he also is behind us.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "So he commanded the second, and the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, \u201cSpeak to \u011asaw this same word when you find him,"}, {"pk": 2700096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "and you shall say, \u2018Also look, your servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is behind us.\u2019 \u201d For he said, \u201cLet me appease him with the present that goes before me, and after that see his face. He might accept me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "And the present passed over before him, but he himself spent the night in the camp."}, {"pk": 2700098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "And he rose up that night and took his two wives, and his two female servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Yabboq."}, {"pk": 2700099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "And he took them and sent them over the stream, and sent over what he had."}, {"pk": 2700100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day."}, {"pk": 2700101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "And when He saw that He did not overcome him, He touched the socket of his hip. And the socket of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s hip was dislocated as He wrestled with him."}, {"pk": 2700102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "And He said, \u201cLet Me go, for the day breaks.\u201d But he said, \u201cI am not letting You go until You have blessed me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "So He asked him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cYa\u201baqob\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "And He said, \u201cYour name is no longer called Ya\u201baqob\u0331, but Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because you have striven with Elohim and with men, and have overcome.\u201d", "comment": "Yisra\u2019\u0115l means \u201cto strive with \u011al; to overcome with \u011al; to rule with \u011al\"."}, {"pk": 2700105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 asked Him, saying, \u201cPlease let me know Your Name.\u201d And He said, \u201cWhy do you ask about My Name?\u201d And He blessed him there."}, {"pk": 2700106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 called the name of the place Peni\u2019\u0115l, \u201cFor I have seen Elohim face to face, and my life is preserved.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penu\u2019\u0115l, and he limped on his hip."}, {"pk": 2700108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "That is why the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to this day do not eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the socket of the thigh, because He touched the socket of the thigh of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, in the sinew of the hip."}, {"pk": 2700109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 lifted his eyes and looked and saw \u011asaw coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children among L\u0115\u2019ah, and Rah\u0323\u0115l, and the two female servants."}, {"pk": 2700110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "And he put the female servants and their children in front, and L\u0115\u2019ah and her children behind, and Rah\u0323\u0115l and Yos\u0115ph last."}, {"pk": 2700111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother."}, {"pk": 2700112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u011asaw ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept."}, {"pk": 2700113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, \u201cWho are these with you?\u201d And he said, \u201cThe children with whom Elohim has favoured your servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the female servants came near, they and their children, and bowed themselves."}, {"pk": 2700115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And L\u0115\u2019ah also came near with her children, and they bowed themselves. And Yos\u0115ph and Rah\u0323\u0115l came near, and they bowed themselves."}, {"pk": 2700116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "Then \u011asaw said, \u201cWhat do you mean by all this company which I met?\u201d And he said, \u201cTo find favour in the eyes of my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "But \u011asaw said, \u201cI have enough, my brother, let what you have remain yours.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said, \u201cNo, please, if I have now found favour in your eyes, then receive my present from my hand, because I have seen your face like seeing the face of Elohim, and you were pleased with me."}, {"pk": 2700119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because Elohim has favoured me, and because I have all <i>I need</i>.\u201d And he urged him, and he took it."}, {"pk": 2700120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said, \u201cLet us depart and go, and let me go before you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "But he said to him, \u201cMy master knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flocks shall die."}, {"pk": 2700122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "Please let my master go before his servant, and let me lead on slowly according to the pace of the livestock that go before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my master in S\u0115\u201bir."}, {"pk": 2700123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u011asaw said, \u201cPlease let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.\u201d But he said, \u201cWhy this? Let me find favour in the eyes of my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u011asaw returned that day on his way to S\u0115\u201bir."}, {"pk": 2700125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 set out to Sukkoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. That is why the name of the place is called Sukkoth."}, {"pk": 2700126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came safely to the city of Shek\u0331em, which is in the land of Kena\u201ban, when he came from Paddan Aram. And he pitched his tent before the city."}, {"pk": 2700127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And he bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the children of H\u0323amor, Shek\u0331em\u2019s father, for one hundred qesitah.", "comment": "A monetary unit of uncertain value, perhaps in the form of a lamb."}, {"pk": 2700128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "And he set up a slaughter-place there and called it \u011al Eloh\u0115 Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dinah, the daughter of L\u0115\u2019ah, whom she had borne to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, went out to see the daughters of the land."}, {"pk": 2700130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shek\u0331em, son of H\u0323amor the H\u0323iwwite, prince of the land, saw her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her."}, {"pk": 2700131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "And his being clung to Dinah the daughter of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and he loved the girl and spoke kindly to the girl."}, {"pk": 2700132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "And Shek\u0331em spoke to his father H\u0323amor, saying, \u201cTake this girl for me for a wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Ya\u201baqob\u0331 kept silent until they came."}, {"pk": 2700134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "And H\u0323amor, the father of Shek\u0331em, went out to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 to speak with him."}, {"pk": 2700135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved and very wroth, because he had done a senseless deed in Yisra\u2019\u0115l by lying with Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s daughter, which should not be done."}, {"pk": 2700136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "But H\u0323amor spoke with them, saying, \u201cMy son Shek\u0331em\u2019s being longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife."}, {"pk": 2700137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd intermarry with us, give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves,"}, {"pk": 2700138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "and dwell with us, and let the land be before you. Dwell and move about in it, and have possessions in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "And Shek\u0331em said to her father and her brothers, \u201cLet me find favour in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I give."}, {"pk": 2700140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife."}, {"pk": 2700141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "But the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 answered Shek\u0331em and H\u0323amor his father, and spoke with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister."}, {"pk": 2700142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "And they said to them, \u201cWe are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us."}, {"pk": 2700143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "Only on this <i>condition</i> would we agree to you: If you become as we are, to have every male of you circumcised,"}, {"pk": 2700144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "then we shall give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us. And we shall dwell with you, and shall become one people."}, {"pk": 2700145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "But if you do not listen to us and be circumcised, we shall take our daughter and go."}, {"pk": 2700146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "And their words pleased H\u0323amor and Shek\u0331em, H\u0323amor\u2019s son."}, {"pk": 2700147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "And the young man did not delay to do this because he delighted in Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father."}, {"pk": 2700148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "And H\u0323amor and Shek\u0331em his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThese men are at peace with us, so let them dwell in the land and move about in it. And see, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters for us for wives, and let us give them our daughters."}, {"pk": 2700150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cOnly on this <i>condition</i> would the men agree to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised."}, {"pk": 2700151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "Their herds and their possessions, and all their beasts, should they not be ours? Only let us agree with them, and let them dwell with us."}, {"pk": 2700152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to H\u0323amor and Shek\u0331em his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city."}, {"pk": 2700153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, Shim\u201bon and L\u0115wi, Dinah\u2019s brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males."}, {"pk": 2700154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "And they killed H\u0323amor and Shek\u0331em his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shek\u0331em\u2019s house, and went out."}, {"pk": 2700155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "The sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister."}, {"pk": 2700156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "They took their flocks and their herds, and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field,"}, {"pk": 2700157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "and all their wealth. And all their little ones and their wives they took captive, and they plundered all that was in the houses."}, {"pk": 2700158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Shim\u201bon and L\u0115wi, \u201cYou have troubled me by making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the Kena\u201banites and the Perizzites. And I am few in number, they shall gather themselves against me and shall strike me, and I shall be destroyed, my household and I.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "text": "But they said, \u201cShould he treat our sister like a whore?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elohim said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cArise, go up to B\u0115yth \u011al and dwell there. And make a slaughter-place there to \u011al who appeared to you when you fled from the face of \u011asaw your brother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to his household and to all who were with him, \u201cPut away the foreign mighty ones that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments."}, {"pk": 2700162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "And let us arise and go up to B\u0115yth \u011al, and let me make there a slaughter-place to \u011al, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way which I have gone."}, {"pk": 2700163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "So they gave Ya\u201baqob\u0331 all the foreign mighty ones which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears. And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 hid them under the terebinth tree which was near Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2700164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "And they departed, and the fear of Elohim was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came to Luz, that is B\u0115yth \u011al, which is in the land of Kena\u201ban, he and all the people who were with him."}, {"pk": 2700166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "And he built there a slaughter-place and called the place El B\u0115yth \u011al, because there Elohim appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother."}, {"pk": 2700167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "And Deb\u0331orah, Rib\u0331qah\u2019s nurse, died, and she was buried below B\u0115yth \u011al under the terebinth tree. So the name of it was called Allon Bak\u0331uth."}, {"pk": 2700168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim appeared to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him."}, {"pk": 2700169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "And Elohim said to him, \u201cYour name is Ya\u201baqob\u0331, your name is no longer called Ya\u201baqob\u0331, but Yisra\u2019\u0115l is your name.\u201d So He called his name Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elohim said to him, \u201cI am \u011al Shaddai. Be fruitful and increase, a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and sovereigns come from your body."}, {"pk": 2700171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "And the land which I gave Ab\u0331raham and Yitsh\u0323aq I give to you. And to your seed after you I give this land."}, {"pk": 2700172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "And Elohim went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him."}, {"pk": 2700173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 set up a standing column in the place where He had spoken with him, a monument of stone. And he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it."}, {"pk": 2700174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 called the name of the place where Elohim spoke with him, B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2700175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "Then they set out from B\u0115yth \u011al. And it came to be, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, that Rah\u0323\u0115l began to give birth, and had great difficulty giving birth."}, {"pk": 2700176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, as she was having great difficulty giving birth, that the midwife said to her, \u201cDo not fear, for it is another son for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, as her life was going out \u2014 for she died \u2014 that she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2700178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "So Rah\u0323\u0115l died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, that is B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2700179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 set a standing column on her burial-place, which is the monument of Rah\u0323\u0115l\u2019s burial-place to this day."}, {"pk": 2700180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out and pitched his tent beyond the tower of \u011ad\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2700181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be, when Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in that land, that Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n went and lay with Bilhah his father\u2019s concubine. And Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard about it. Now the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 were twelve:"}, {"pk": 2700182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "text": "the sons of L\u0115\u2019ah were Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s first-born, and Shim\u201bon, and L\u0115wi, and Yehud\u0331ah, and Yissask\u0331ar, and Zeb\u0331ulun;"}, {"pk": 2700183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "text": "the sons of Rah\u0323\u0115l were Yos\u0115ph and Binyamin;"}, {"pk": 2700184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "text": "the sons of Bilhah, Rah\u0323\u0115l\u2019s female servant, were Dan and Naphtali;"}, {"pk": 2700185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "text": "and the sons of Zilpah, L\u0115\u2019ah\u2019s female servant, were Gad\u0331 and Ash\u0115r. These were the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 who were born to him in Paddan Aram."}, {"pk": 2700186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 came to his father Yitsh\u0323aq at Mamr\u0115, or Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron, where Ab\u0331raham and Yitsh\u0323aq had dwelt."}, {"pk": 2700187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "text": "And the days of Yitsh\u0323aq were one hundred and eighty years."}, {"pk": 2700188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "text": "So Yitsh\u0323aq breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, aged and satisfied of days. And his sons \u011asaw and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 buried him."}, {"pk": 2700189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "And this is the genealogy of \u011asaw, who is Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2700190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "\u011asaw took his wives from the daughters of Kena\u201ban: Ad\u0331ah the daughter of \u011alon the H\u0323ittite, and Oholib\u0331amah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Tsib\u0331\u201bon the H\u0323iwwite;"}, {"pk": 2700191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "and Basemath, Yishma\u201b\u0115l\u2019s daughter, sister of Neb\u0331ayoth."}, {"pk": 2700192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ad\u0331ah bore Eliphaz to \u011asaw, and Basemath bore Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "And Oholib\u0331amah bore Ye\u201bush, and Ya\u201blam, and Qorah\u0323. These were the sons of \u011asaw who were born to him in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2700194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u011asaw took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the beings of his household, and his herds and all his beasts, and all his possessions which he had gained in the land of Kena\u201ban, and went to a land away from the presence of his brother Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their herds."}, {"pk": 2700196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "So \u011asaw dwelt in Mount S\u0115\u201bir. \u011asaw is Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2700197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "And this is the genealogy of \u011asaw the father of the Ed\u0331omites in Mount S\u0115\u201bir."}, {"pk": 2700198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "These were the names of \u011asaw\u2019s sons: Eliphaz son of Ad\u0331ah, wife of \u011asaw, and Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l son of Basemath, wife of \u011asaw."}, {"pk": 2700199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sons of Eliphaz were T\u0115man, Omar, Tsepho, and Gatam, and Qenaz."}, {"pk": 2700200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "And Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, \u011asaw\u2019s son, and she bore Amal\u0115q to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Ad\u0331ah, \u011asaw\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2700201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "These were the sons of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l: Nah\u0323ath and Zerah\u0323, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, \u011asaw\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2700202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "These were the sons of Oholib\u0331amah, \u011asaw\u2019s wife, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Tsib\u0331\u201bon. And she bore to \u011asaw: Ye\u201bush, and Ya\u201blam, and Qorah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2700203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "These were the chiefs of the sons of \u011asaw. The sons of Eliphaz, the first-born son of \u011asaw, were Chief T\u0115man, Chief Omar, Chief Tsepho, Chief Qenaz,"}, {"pk": 2700204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "Chief Qorah\u0323, Chief Gatam, Chief Amal\u0115q. These were the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Ed\u0331om. They were the sons of Ad\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2700205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "And these were the sons of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l, \u011asaw\u2019s son: Chief Nah\u0323ath, Chief Zerah\u0323, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l in the land of Ed\u0331om. These were the sons of Basemath, \u011asaw\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2700206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "And these were the sons of Oholib\u0331amah, \u011asaw\u2019s wife: Chief Ye\u201bush, Chief Ya\u201blam, and Chief Qorah\u0323. These were the chiefs <i>descending</i> from Oholib\u0331amah, \u011asaw\u2019s wife, the daughter of Anah."}, {"pk": 2700207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "These were the sons of \u011asaw, who is Ed\u0331om, and these were their chiefs."}, {"pk": 2700208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "These were the sons of S\u0115\u201bir the H\u0323orite who inhabited the land: Lotan, and Shob\u0331al, and Tsib\u0331\u201bon, and Anah,"}, {"pk": 2700209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "and Dishon, and \u011atser, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the H\u0323orites, the sons of S\u0115\u201bir, in the land of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2700210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "And the sons of Lotan were H\u0323ori and H\u0115mam. Lotan\u2019s sister was Timna."}, {"pk": 2700211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "And these were the sons of Shob\u0331al: Alwan, and Manah\u0323ath, and \u011ayb\u0331al, Shepho, and Onam."}, {"pk": 2700212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "text": "And these were the sons of Tsib\u0331\u201bon: both Ayah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he fed the donkeys of his father Tsib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2700213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "text": "And these were the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholib\u0331amah the daughter of Anah."}, {"pk": 2700214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "text": "And these were the sons of Dishon: H\u0323emdan, and Eshban, and Yithran, and Keran."}, {"pk": 2700215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "text": "These were the sons of \u011atser: Bilhan, and Za\u201bawan, and Aqan."}, {"pk": 2700216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "text": "These were the sons of Dishan: Uts and Aran."}, {"pk": 2700217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "text": "These were the chiefs of the H\u0323orites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shob\u0331al, Chief Tsib\u0331\u201bon, Chief Anah,"}, {"pk": 2700218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "text": "Chief Dishon, Chief \u011atser, and Chief Dishan. These were the chiefs of the H\u0323orites, according to their chiefs in the land of S\u0115\u201bir."}, {"pk": 2700219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "text": "And these were the sovereigns who reigned in the land of Ed\u0331om before any sovereign reigned over the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "text": "And Bela the son of Be\u201bor reigned in Ed\u0331om, and the name of his city was Dinhab\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2700221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "text": "And Bela died, and Yob\u0331ab\u0331 son of Zerah\u0323 of Botsrah reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2700222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 34, "text": "And Yob\u0331ab\u0331 died, and H\u0323usham of the land of the T\u0115manites reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2700223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 35, "text": "And H\u0323usham died, and Had\u0331ad\u0331 son of Bed\u0331ad\u0331, who struck Mid\u0331yan in the field of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Awith."}, {"pk": 2700224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 36, "text": "And Had\u0331ad\u0331 died, and Samlah of Masr\u0115qah reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2700225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 37, "text": "And Samlah died, and Sha\u2019ul of Reh\u0323ob\u0331oth by the River reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2700226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 38, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul died, and Ba\u201bal-H\u0323anan son of Ak\u0331bor reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2700227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 39, "text": "And Ba\u201bal-H\u0323anan son of Ak\u0331bor died, and Had\u0331ar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pa\u201bu. And his wife\u2019s name was Meh\u0115tab\u2019\u0115l, the daughter of Matr\u0115d\u0331, the daughter of M\u0115yzahab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 40, "text": "And these were the names of the chiefs of \u011asaw, according to their clans and their places, by their names: Chief Timnah, Chief Alwah, Chief Yeth\u0115th,"}, {"pk": 2700229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 41, "text": "Chief Oholib\u0331amah, Chief \u011alah, Chief Pinon,"}, {"pk": 2700230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 42, "text": "Chief Qenaz, Chief T\u0115man, Chief Mib\u0331tsar,"}, {"pk": 2700231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 36, "verse": 43, "text": "Chief Ma\u1e21di\u2019\u0115l, Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Ed\u0331om, according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. \u011asaw was the father of the Ed\u0331omites."}, {"pk": 2700232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 dwelt in the land of his father\u2019s sojournings, in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2700233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "This is the genealogy of Ya\u201baqob\u0331. Yos\u0115ph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the young man was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father\u2019s wives. And Yos\u0115ph brought an evil report of them to his father."}, {"pk": 2700234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l loved Yos\u0115ph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a long robe."}, {"pk": 2700235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him."}, {"pk": 2700236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers. So they hated him even more."}, {"pk": 2700237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cPlease listen to this dream which I have dreamed:"}, {"pk": 2700238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "See, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and see, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And see, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf."}, {"pk": 2700239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "And his brothers said to him, \u201cShall you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed rule over us?\u201d So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words."}, {"pk": 2700240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers, and said, \u201cSee, I have dreamed another dream, and see, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "And he related it to his father and his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, \u201cWhat is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we, your mother and I and your brothers, indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word."}, {"pk": 2700243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "And his brothers went to feed their father\u2019s flock in Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2700244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cAre not your brothers feeding <i>the flock</i> in Shek\u0331em? Come, I send you to them.\u201d So he said to him, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cPlease go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the sheep, and bring back word to me.\u201d So he sent him out of the Valley of H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and he went to Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2700246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "And a certain man found him, and see, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said, \u201cI am seeking my brothers. Please inform me where they are feeding their sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "And the man said, \u201cThey have left here, for I heard them say, \u2018Let us go towards Dothan.\u2019 \u201d So Yos\u0115ph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan."}, {"pk": 2700249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "And they saw him from a distance, and before he came near them, they plotted against him, to kill him."}, {"pk": 2700250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cSee, this master of dreams is coming!"}, {"pk": 2700251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "Now, then, come and let us now kill him and throw him into some pit, and shall say, \u2018Some wild beast has devoured him.\u2019 Let us then see what comes of his dreams!"}, {"pk": 2700252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "But Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n heard and rescued him from their hands, and said, \u201cLet us not strike his being.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "And Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n said to them, \u201cShed no blood. Throw him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him\u201d \u2014 in order to rescue him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father."}, {"pk": 2700254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "So it came to be, when Yos\u0115ph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Yos\u0115ph of his robe, the long robe which was on him."}, {"pk": 2700255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty, there was no water in it."}, {"pk": 2700256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "text": "And they sat down to eat a meal. And they lifted their eyes and looked and saw a company of Yishma\u201b\u0115lites, coming from Gil\u201bad\u0331 with their camels, bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said to his brothers, \u201cWhat would we gain if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?"}, {"pk": 2700258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "text": "Come and let us sell him to the Yishma\u201b\u0115lites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened."}, {"pk": 2700259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "text": "And men, Mid\u0331yanite traders passed by, so they pulled Yos\u0115ph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Yishma\u201b\u0115lites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Yos\u0115ph to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "text": "And Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n returned to the pit, and see, Yos\u0115ph was not in the pit. And he tore his garments."}, {"pk": 2700261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "text": "And he returned to his brothers and said, \u201cThe boy is gone! And I, where am I to go?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "text": "So they took Yos\u0115ph\u2019s robe, slew a male goat, and dipped the robe in the blood,"}, {"pk": 2700263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "text": "and sent the long robe and brought it to their father and said, \u201cWe have found this. Please look, is it the robe of your son or not?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "text": "And he recognised it and said, \u201cIt is my son\u2019s robe. An evil beast has devoured him. Yos\u0115ph is torn, torn to pieces.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days."}, {"pk": 2700266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "text": "And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, \u201cNow let me go down into She\u2019ol to my son in mourning.\u201d So his father wept for him.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes - \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2700267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "text": "And the Mid\u0331anites had sold him in Mitsrayim to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard."}, {"pk": 2700268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "And at that time it came to be that Yehud\u0331ah left his brothers, and turned aside to a man, an Ad\u0331ullamite whose name was H\u0323irah."}, {"pk": 2700269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah saw there a daughter of a certain Kena\u201banite whose name was Shuwa. And he took her and went in to her."}, {"pk": 2700270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name \u011ar."}, {"pk": 2700271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "And she conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan."}, {"pk": 2700272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and called his name Sh\u0115lah. And he was at Kezib\u0331 when she bore him."}, {"pk": 2700273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah took a wife for \u011ar his first-born, and her name was Tamar."}, {"pk": 2700274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "But \u011ar, Yehud\u0331ah\u2019s first-born, was evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 took his life."}, {"pk": 2700275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said to Onan, \u201cGo in to your brother\u2019s wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother\u2019s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give an offspring to his brother."}, {"pk": 2700277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "But what he did displeased \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so He took his life too."}, {"pk": 2700278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "Then Yehud\u0331ah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, \u201cRemain a widow in your father\u2019s house until my son Sh\u0115lah is grown.\u201d For he said, \u201cLest he also die as his brothers did.\u201d And Tamar went and dwelt in her father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2700279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "And after a long time the daughter of Shuwa, Yehud\u0331ah\u2019s wife, died. And Yehud\u0331ah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers at Timnah, he and his friend H\u0323irah the Ad\u0331ullamite."}, {"pk": 2700280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "And it was reported to Tamar, saying, \u201cSee, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "And she took off her widow\u2019s garments, and covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance to \u011anayim which was on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Sh\u0115lah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife."}, {"pk": 2700282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah saw her, and reckoned her for a whore, for she had covered her face."}, {"pk": 2700283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, \u201cPlease let me come in to you,\u201d for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, \u201cWhat do you give me to come in to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said, \u201cLet me send you a young goat from the flock.\u201d And she said, \u201cDo you give me a pledge until you send it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "So he said, \u201cWhat pledge should I give you?\u201d And she said, \u201cYour seal and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.\u201d And he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him."}, {"pk": 2700286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "And she arose and went away, and removed her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood."}, {"pk": 2700287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Ad\u0331ullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman\u2019s hand, but he did not find her."}, {"pk": 2700288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "And he asked the men of that place, saying, \u201cWhere is the cult prostitute who was beside the way to \u011anayim?\u201d And they said, \u201cThere was no cult prostitute in this place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "And he returned to Yehud\u0331ah and said, \u201cI have not found her. And the men of the place also said there was no cult prostitute in this place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said, \u201cLet her take them for herself, lest we become despised, for I sent this young goat and you have not found her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be, about three new <i>moons</i> after, that Yehud\u0331ah was informed, saying, \u201cTamar your daughter-in-law has whored, and see, she has conceived by whoring.\u201d And Yehud\u0331ah said, \u201cBring her out and let her be burned!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "text": "When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, \u201cBy the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.\u201d And she said, \u201cPlease examine whose these are: the seal and the cord and the staff.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah examined and said, \u201cShe has been more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Sh\u0115lah my son.\u201d And he never knew her again."}, {"pk": 2700294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, at the time for giving birth, that see, twins were in her womb."}, {"pk": 2700295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, when she was giving birth, that the one put out his hand. And the midwife took a scarlet thread and bound it on his hand, saying, \u201cThis one came out first.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, that see, his brother came out! And she said, \u201cHow did you break through? This breach be upon you!\u201d So his name was called Perets."}, {"pk": 2700297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "text": "And afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand. So his name was called Zerah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2700298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph had been taken down to Mitsrayim. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, a Mitsrian, bought him from the Yishma\u201b\u0115lites who had taken him down there."}, {"pk": 2700299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Yos\u0115ph, and he became a prosperous man, and was in the house of his master the Mitsrian."}, {"pk": 2700300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "And his master saw that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him and that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made all he did to prosper in his hand."}, {"pk": 2700301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "So Yos\u0115ph found favour in his eyes, and served him, and he appointed him over his house, and gave into his hand all that he had."}, {"pk": 2700302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, from the time that he appointed him over his house and all that he had, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed the Mitsrian\u2019s house for Yos\u0115ph\u2019s sake. And the blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was on all that he had in the house and in the field."}, {"pk": 2700303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "And he left in Yos\u0115ph\u2019s hand all that he had, and he did not know what he had except for the bread which he ate. And Yos\u0115ph was handsome in form and handsome in appearance."}, {"pk": 2700304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "And after these events it came to be that his master\u2019s wife lifted up her eyes to Yos\u0115ph and said, \u201cLie with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "But he refused and said to his master\u2019s wife, \u201cLook, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has given into my hand all that he has."}, {"pk": 2700306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2700307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, as she spoke to Yos\u0115ph day by day, that he did not listen to her, to lie with her, to be with her."}, {"pk": 2700308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be on a certain day, when Yos\u0115ph went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the house was inside,"}, {"pk": 2700309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "that she caught him by his garment, saying, \u201cLie with me.\u201d But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside."}, {"pk": 2700310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and fled outside,"}, {"pk": 2700311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "text": "that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying, \u201cSee, he has brought in to us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice."}, {"pk": 2700312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when he heard that I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me, and fled and went outside."}, {"pk": 2700313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "text": "And she kept his garment with her until his master came home."}, {"pk": 2700314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "text": "And she spoke to him these same words, saying, \u201cThe Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came in to me, to mock me,"}, {"pk": 2700315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "text": "so it came to be, as I lifted my voice and cried out, that he left his garment with me and fled outside.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, \u201cYour servant did to me according to these words,\u201d that his displeasure burned."}, {"pk": 2700317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "text": "Then Yos\u0115ph\u2019s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the sovereign\u2019s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison."}, {"pk": 2700318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Yos\u0115ph and extended loving-commitment to him, and He gave him favour in the eyes of the prison warden."}, {"pk": 2700319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "text": "And the prison warden gave into the hand of Yos\u0115ph all the prisoners who were in the prison, and whatever was done there was his doing."}, {"pk": 2700320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "text": "The prison warden did not look into any point that was under Yos\u0115ph\u2019s hand, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him. And whatever he did, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made it prosper."}, {"pk": 2700321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "And after these events it came to be that the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim sinned against their master, the sovereign of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "And Pharaoh was wroth with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker."}, {"pk": 2700323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Yos\u0115ph was a prisoner."}, {"pk": 2700324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "And the captain of the guard put Yos\u0115ph in charge of them, and he served them. So they were in confinement for some time."}, {"pk": 2700325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the cupbearer and the baker of the sovereign of Mitsrayim, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, both of them, each man\u2019s dream in one night and each man\u2019s dream with its own interpretation."}, {"pk": 2700326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph came in to them in the morning and looked at them and saw that they were sad."}, {"pk": 2700327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "And he asked Pharaoh\u2019s officers who were with him in confinement of his master\u2019s house, saying, \u201cWhy do you look so sad today?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe each have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it.\u201d And Yos\u0115ph said to them, \u201cDo not interpretations belong to Elohim? Relate them to me, please.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "So the chief cupbearer related his dream to Yos\u0115ph, and said to him, \u201cSee, in my dream a vine was before me,"}, {"pk": 2700330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "and in the vine were three branches, and it was as though it budded \u2014 its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes."}, {"pk": 2700331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s cup was in my hand. So I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh\u2019s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh\u2019s hand."}, {"pk": 2700332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to him, \u201cThis is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days."}, {"pk": 2700333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you shall put Pharaoh\u2019s cup in his hand according to the former ruling, when you were his cupbearer."}, {"pk": 2700334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut remember me when it is well with you, and please show loving-commitment to me. And mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house."}, {"pk": 2700335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "For truly I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews. And also I have done naught that they should put me into the dungeon."}, {"pk": 2700336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "And the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, and he said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cI also was in my dream and saw three white baskets were on my head,"}, {"pk": 2700337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "and in the uppermost basket all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph answered and said, \u201cThis is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days."}, {"pk": 2700339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "text": "Yet, within three days Pharaoh is going to lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from you."}, {"pk": 2700340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "text": "And on the third day, Pharaoh\u2019s birthday, it came to be that he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and of the chief baker among his servants,"}, {"pk": 2700341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "text": "and he restored the chief cupbearer to his post of cupbearer again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh\u2019s hand,"}, {"pk": 2700342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "text": "but he hanged the chief baker, as Yos\u0115ph had interpreted to them."}, {"pk": 2700343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "text": "And the chief cupbearer did not remember Yos\u0115ph, but forgot him."}, {"pk": 2700344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, at the end of two years\u2019 time, that Pharaoh had a dream, and saw him standing by the river,"}, {"pk": 2700345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, beautiful looking and fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,"}, {"pk": 2700346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "then saw seven other cows coming up after them out of the river, ugly and lean of flesh, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river."}, {"pk": 2700347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "And the ugly and lean of flesh cows ate up the seven beautiful looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke."}, {"pk": 2700348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "And he slept and dreamed a second time and saw seven heads of grain coming up on one stalk, plump and good,"}, {"pk": 2700349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them."}, {"pk": 2700350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "And the seven lean heads swallowed the seven plump and complete heads. Then Pharaoh awoke and saw it was a dream."}, {"pk": 2700351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be in the morning that his spirit was moved, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Mitsrayim and all its wise men. And Pharaoh related to them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, \u201cI remember my crimes this day."}, {"pk": 2700353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,"}, {"pk": 2700354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "each one of us dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream."}, {"pk": 2700355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd there was with us a Hebrew youth, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we related to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each man he interpreted according to his own dream."}, {"pk": 2700356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, as he interpreted for us, so it came to be. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him."}, {"pk": 2700357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called Yos\u0115ph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his garments, and came to Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cI have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it. Now I myself have heard it said of you that you understand a dream, to interpret it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph answered Pharaoh, saying, \u201cIt is not in me, let Elohim answer Pharaoh with peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSee, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river"}, {"pk": 2700361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "text": "and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, beautiful looking and fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,"}, {"pk": 2700362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "text": "then saw seven other cows coming up after them, poor and very ugly and lean of flesh, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the lean of flesh and ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows."}, {"pk": 2700364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYet when they had eaten them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke."}, {"pk": 2700365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAlso, I looked in my dream and saw seven heads coming up on one stalk, complete and good,"}, {"pk": 2700366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "text": "then saw seven heads, withered, lean, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them."}, {"pk": 2700367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd the lean heads swallowed the seven good heads. And I spoke to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to Pharaoh, \u201cThe dream of Pharaoh is one. Elohim has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:"}, {"pk": 2700369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThe seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years \u2014 it is one dream."}, {"pk": 2700370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the seven lean and ugly cows which came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty heads scorched by the east wind are seven years of scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2700371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThis is the word which I spoke to Pharaoh: Elohim has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do."}, {"pk": 2700372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 29, "text": "See, seven years of great plenty are coming in all the land of Mitsrayim,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 30, "text": "but after them seven years of scarcity of food shall arise and all the plenty be forgotten in the land of Mitsrayim. And the scarcity of food shall destroy the land,"}, {"pk": 2700374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 31, "text": "and the plenty shall not be remembered in the land, because of the scarcity of food following, for it is very severe."}, {"pk": 2700375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the word is established by Elohim, and Elohim is hastening to do it."}, {"pk": 2700376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cLet Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, to take up one-fifth of the land of Mitsrayim in the seven years of plenty."}, {"pk": 2700378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities."}, {"pk": 2700379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 36, "text": "And the food shall be for a store for the land for the seven years of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of Mitsrayim, and do not let the land be cut off by the scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2700380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 37, "text": "And the word was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants."}, {"pk": 2700381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 38, "text": "And Pharaoh said to his servants, \u201cCould we find another like him, a man in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 39, "text": "Then Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSince Elohim has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you."}, {"pk": 2700383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 40, "text": "Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss \u2014 only in the throne I am greater than you."}, {"pk": 2700384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 41, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSee, I have set you over all the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 42, "text": "And Pharaoh took his seal-ring off his hand and put it on Yos\u0115ph\u2019s hand. And he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck."}, {"pk": 2700386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 43, "text": "And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had. And they cried out before him, \u201cBow the knee!\u201d And he set him over all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 44, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cI am Pharaoh, and without <i>a word</i> from you let no man lift his hand or foot in all the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 45, "text": "And Pharaoh called Yos\u0115ph\u2019s name Zaphnath-Pa\u201bn\u0115ah\u0323. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yos\u0115ph went out over all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 46, "text": "Now Yos\u0115ph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yos\u0115ph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 47, "text": "And in the seven years of plenty the ground brought forth generously."}, {"pk": 2700391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 48, "text": "And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them."}, {"pk": 2700392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 49, "text": "Thus Yos\u0115ph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, for it was without number."}, {"pk": 2700393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 50, "text": "And to Yos\u0115ph were born two sons before the years of scarcity of food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him."}, {"pk": 2700394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 51, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph called the name of the first-born Menashsheh, \u201cFor Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my father\u2019s house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 52, "text": "And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, \u201cFor Elohim has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 53, "text": "And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end,"}, {"pk": 2700397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 54, "text": "and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yos\u0115ph had said. And the scarcity of food was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread."}, {"pk": 2700398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 55, "text": "But when all the land of Mitsrayim hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to all the Mitsrites, \u201cGo to Yos\u0115ph, do whatever he says to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 56, "text": "And the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and Yos\u0115ph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food was severe in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 41, "verse": 57, "text": "And all the earth came to Yos\u0115ph in Mitsrayim to buy grain, because the scarcity of food was severe in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2700401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 saw that there was grain in Mitsrayim, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to his sons, \u201cWhy do you look at each other?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201cSee, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and buy for us there, and let us live and not die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph\u2019s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "But Ya\u201baqob\u0331 did not send Yos\u0115ph\u2019s brother Binyamin with his brothers, for he said, \u201cLest some harm come to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the scarcity of food was in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2700406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph was the governor over the land, he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Yos\u0115ph\u2019s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth."}, {"pk": 2700407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph saw his brothers and recognised them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly, and said to them, \u201cWhere do you come from?\u201d And they said, \u201cFrom the land of Kena\u201ban to buy food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "So Yos\u0115ph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him."}, {"pk": 2700409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, \u201cYou are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cNo, my master, but your servants have come to buy food."}, {"pk": 2700411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "We are all one man\u2019s sons, we are trustworthy, your servants are not spies."}, {"pk": 2700412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "text": "But he said to them, \u201cNo, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "text": "And they said, \u201cYour servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kena\u201ban. And see, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to them, \u201cIt is as I spoke to you, saying, \u2018You are spies!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBy this you shall be proven: By the life of Pharaoh, you do not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here."}, {"pk": 2700416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSend one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "text": "And he put them all together in prison for three days."}, {"pk": 2700418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 18, "text": "Now Yos\u0115ph said to them the third day, \u201cDo this and live, for I fear Elohim:"}, {"pk": 2700419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cIf you are trustworthy, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, and you, go, bring grain for the scarcity of food of your houses."}, {"pk": 2700420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, and you do not die.\u201d And so they did."}, {"pk": 2700421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 21, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cTruly, we are guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the distress of his life when he pleaded with us, yet we did not listen, that is why this distress has come upon us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 22, "text": "And Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n answered them, saying, \u201cDid I not speak to you, saying, \u2018Do not sin against the boy,\u2019 and you would not listen? And see, his blood is now required of us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 23, "text": "And they did not know that Yos\u0115ph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter."}, {"pk": 2700424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 24, "text": "And he turned himself away from them and wept, but came back to them and spoke to them. And he took Shim\u201bon from them and bound him before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2700425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph commanded and they filled their sacks with grain, also to put back every man\u2019s silver to his sack, and to give them food for the journey. And thus it was done for them."}, {"pk": 2700426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 26, "text": "So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and went from there."}, {"pk": 2700427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 27, "text": "And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his silver, for there it was in the mouth of his sack!"}, {"pk": 2700428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 28, "text": "And he said to his brothers, \u201cMy silver has been returned, and there it is, in my sack!\u201d And their hearts sank and they were afraid, saying to each other, \u201cWhat is this that Elohim has done to us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 29, "text": "So they came to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 their father in the land of Kena\u201ban and reported to him all that befell them, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThe man, the master of the land, spoke to us harshly, and took us for spies of the land."}, {"pk": 2700431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 31, "text": "But we said to him, \u2018We are trustworthy, we are not spies."}, {"pk": 2700432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 32, "text": "We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Kena\u201ban.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd the man, the master of the land, said to us, \u2018By this I know that you are trustworthy: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the scarcity of food of your households, and go."}, {"pk": 2700434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 34, "text": "And bring your youngest brother to me, then I know that you are not spies, but that you are trustworthy \u2014 I give your brother to you, and you move about in the land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be as they emptied their sacks, that look, the bundle of each man\u2019s silver was in his sack! And when they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were afraid."}, {"pk": 2700436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 36, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 their father said to them, \u201cYou have bereaved me \u2014 Yos\u0115ph is no more, and Shim\u201bon is no more, and you would take Binyamin! All this is against me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 37, "text": "So Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n spoke to his father, saying, \u201cTake the lives of my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I myself bring him back to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 42, "verse": 38, "text": "But he said, \u201cMy son is not going down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any harm should come to him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my grey hair with sorrow to She\u2019ol.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "text": "But the scarcity of food was severe in the land."}, {"pk": 2700440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Mitsrayim, that their father said to them, \u201cGo back, buy us a little food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "text": "But Yehud\u0331ah spoke to him, saying, \u201cThe man vehemently warned us, saying, \u2018You do not see my face unless your brother is with you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIf you let our brother go with us, we go down and buy you food."}, {"pk": 2700443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not let him go, we do not go down, because the man said to us, \u2018You do not see my face unless your brother is with you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhy did you do evil to me to inform the man that you still had <i>another</i> brother?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 7, "text": "And they said, \u201cThe man kept asking about us and our relatives, saying, \u2018Is your father still alive? Have you <i>another</i> brother?\u2019 And we informed him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, \u2018Bring your brother down\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 8, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said to Yisra\u2019\u0115l his father, \u201cSend the boy with me, and let us arise and go, and live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones."}, {"pk": 2700447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI myself shall stand guaranty for him \u2014 from my hand you are to require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever."}, {"pk": 2700448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor if we had not delayed, truly by now we could have returned this second time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 11, "text": "And their father Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to them, \u201cIf so, then do this: Take some of the best fruit of the land in your vessels and bring a present down for the man, a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds."}, {"pk": 2700450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd take double silver in your hand, and take back in your hand the silver that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. It could have been a mistake."}, {"pk": 2700451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd take your brother, and arise, go back to the man."}, {"pk": 2700452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u011al Shaddai give to you compassion before the man, so that he shall release your other brother and Binyamin. And I, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved!"}, {"pk": 2700453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 15, "text": "And the men took that present and Binyamin, and they took double the amount of silver in their hand, and arose and went down to Mitsrayim, and stood before Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2700454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph saw Binyamin with them, and said to the one over his house, \u201cBring the men home, and make a great slaughter, and prepare, for these men are to eat with me at noon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 17, "text": "And the man did as Yos\u0115ph said, and the man brought the men into Yos\u0115ph\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2700456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 18, "text": "And the men were afraid because they were brought into Yos\u0115ph\u2019s house. And they said, \u201cIt is because of the silver, which was put back into our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, to throw himself upon us and fall upon us, to take us as slaves, our donkeys too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 19, "text": "So they came near to the man over the house of Yos\u0115ph, and spoke to him at the door of the house,"}, {"pk": 2700458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 20, "text": "and said, \u201cO my master, we indeed came down the first time to buy food,"}, {"pk": 2700459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 21, "text": "but it came to be, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks and saw each man\u2019s silver in the mouth of his sack, our silver in its weight. And we have brought it back in our hand."}, {"pk": 2700460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 22, "text": "And we have brought down other silver in our hands to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks."}, {"pk": 2700461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 23, "text": "But he said, \u201cPeace be with you, do not be afraid. Your Elohim and the Elohim of your father has given you treasure in your sacks \u2014 your silver had come to me!\u201d And he brought Shim\u201bon out to them."}, {"pk": 2700462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 24, "text": "And the man brought the men into Yos\u0115ph\u2019s house and gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he gave their donkeys fodder."}, {"pk": 2700463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 25, "text": "And they made the present ready for Yos\u0115ph\u2019s coming at noon, for they heard that they were to eat there."}, {"pk": 2700464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 26, "text": "And when Yos\u0115ph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand, into the house, and bowed down before him to the earth."}, {"pk": 2700465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 27, "text": "And he asked them about their welfare, and said, \u201cIs your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 28, "text": "And they said, \u201cYour servant our father is in good health, he is still alive.\u201d And they bowed their heads down and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2700467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 29, "text": "And he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Binyamin, his mother\u2019s son, and said, \u201cIs this your younger brother of whom you spoke to me?\u201d And he said, \u201cElohim show favour to you, my son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 30, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph hurried, for his emotions were deeply moved towards his brother, and he looked for <i>a place</i> to weep, and went into his room and wept there."}, {"pk": 2700469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 31, "text": "Then he washed his face and came out, and controlled himself, and said, \u201cServe the food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 32, "text": "And they set him a place by himself, and them by themselves, and the Mitsrites who ate with him by themselves, for the Mitsrites could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2700471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 33, "text": "And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth, and the men looked at each other in astonishment."}, {"pk": 2700472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 43, "verse": 34, "text": "And he took portions to them from before him, but Binyamin\u2019s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they feasted and they drank with him."}, {"pk": 2700473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "text": "And he commanded the one over his house, saying, \u201cFill the men\u2019s sacks with food, as they are able to bear, and put each man\u2019s silver in the mouth of his sack."}, {"pk": 2700474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "text": "And put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the silver for his grain. And he did according to the word of Yos\u0115ph which he spoke."}, {"pk": 2700475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "text": "As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys."}, {"pk": 2700476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "text": "And when they had gone out of the city, not having gone far, Yos\u0115ph said to the one over his house, \u201cRise up, follow the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, \u2018Why have you repaid evil for good?"}, {"pk": 2700477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "text": "Is this not the one from which my master drinks, and with which he indeed divines? You have done evil in what you have done.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "text": "So he overtook them and spoke these words to them."}, {"pk": 2700479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhy does my master say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do according to this word."}, {"pk": 2700480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, we brought back to you from the land of Kena\u201ban the silver which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then should we steal silver or gold from your master\u2019s house?"}, {"pk": 2700481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWith whomever of your servants it is found \u2014 he shall die and we shall become my master\u2019s slaves as well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said, \u201cNow also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found becomes my slave, and you are innocent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "text": "And they hurried, each man let down his sack to the ground, and each opened his sack."}, {"pk": 2700484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "text": "And he searched, with the oldest first and with the youngest last, and the cup was found in Binyamin\u2019s sack."}, {"pk": 2700485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "text": "And they tore their garments, and each man loaded his donkey and went back to the city."}, {"pk": 2700486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah and his brothers came to Yos\u0115ph\u2019s house, and he was still there. And they fell before him on the ground."}, {"pk": 2700487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to them, \u201cWhat deed is this you have done? Did you not know that a man like me indeed divines?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said, \u201cWhat do we say to my master? What do we speak? Or how do we clear ourselves? Elohim has found out the crookedness of your servants. See, we are my master\u2019s slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "text": "But he said, \u201cFar be it from me to do this. The man in whose hand the cup was found, he becomes my slave. And you, go up in peace to your father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah came near to him and said, \u201cO my master, please let your servant speak a word in my master\u2019s hearing, and do not let your displeasure burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cMy master asked his servants, saying, \u2018Have you a father or a brother?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "text": "And we said to my master, \u2018We have a father, an old man, and a young child of <i>his</i> old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother\u2019s children, and his father loves him.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd you said to your servants, \u2018Bring him down to me, and let me set my eyes on him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "text": "And we said to my master, \u2018The boy is not able to leave his father, for if he leaves his father, his father shall die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut you said to your servants, \u2018Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you do not see my face again.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my master."}, {"pk": 2700497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd our father said, \u2018Go back and buy us a little food.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "text": "But we said, \u2018We are not able to go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down, for we are not able to see the man\u2019s face unless our youngest brother is with us.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cThen your servant my father said to us, \u2018You know that my wife bore me two sons,"}, {"pk": 2700500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 28, "text": "and the one went out from me, and I said, \u201cTruly, he is torn, torn to pieces!\u201d And I have not seen him since."}, {"pk": 2700501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 29, "text": "And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall bring down my grey hair with evil to She\u2019ol.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us \u2014 since his own life is bound up in his life \u2014"}, {"pk": 2700503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 31, "text": "then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father with evil to She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2700504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 32, "text": "For your servant went guaranty for the boy to my father, saying, \u2018If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a sinner before my father forever.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers."}, {"pk": 2700506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 44, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFor how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph was unable to restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he called out, \u201cHave everyone go out from me!\u201d So no one stood with him while Yos\u0115ph made himself known to his brothers."}, {"pk": 2700508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "text": "And he wept aloud, and the Mitsrites and the house of Pharaoh heard it."}, {"pk": 2700509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to his brothers, \u201cI am Yos\u0115ph, is my father still alive?\u201d But his brothers were unable to answer him, for they trembled before him."}, {"pk": 2700510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Yos\u0115ph said to his brothers, \u201cPlease come near to me.\u201d And when they came near, he said, \u201cI am Yos\u0115ph your brother, whom you sold into Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now, do not be grieved nor displeased with yourselves because you sold me here, for Elohim sent me before you to preserve life."}, {"pk": 2700512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor two years now the scarcity of food has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there is neither ploughing nor harvesting."}, {"pk": 2700513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to give life to you by a great escape."}, {"pk": 2700514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "text": "So then, you did not send me here, but Elohim. And He has set me for a father to Pharaoh, and master of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "text": "Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, \u2018Thus says your son Yos\u0115ph, Elohim has made me master of all Mitsrayim. Come down to me, do not delay."}, {"pk": 2700516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and be near to me, you and your children, your children\u2019s children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have."}, {"pk": 2700517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall provide for you there, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty, because five years of scarcity of food are still to come.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2700518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd look, your eyes and the eyes of my brother Binyamin see that it is my mouth that speaks to you."}, {"pk": 2700519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall inform my father of all my esteem in Mitsrayim, and of all that you have seen. And you shall hurry and bring my father down here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "text": "And he fell on his brother Binyamin\u2019s neck and wept, and Binyamin wept on his neck."}, {"pk": 2700521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "text": "And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers spoke with him."}, {"pk": 2700522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "text": "And the report of it was heard by the house of Pharaoh, saying, \u201cThe brothers of Yos\u0115ph have come.\u201d And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants."}, {"pk": 2700523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSay to your brothers, \u2018Do this: Load your beasts and go, enter the land of Kena\u201ban,"}, {"pk": 2700524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 18, "text": "and take your father and your households and come to me, and I give you the best of the land of Mitsrayim, and you eat the fat of the land."}, {"pk": 2700525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 19, "text": "And you, you have been commanded, do this: Take wagons out of the land of Mitsrayim for your little ones and your wives. And you shall bring your father, and come."}, {"pk": 2700526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 20, "text": "And do not be concerned about your goods, for the best of all the land of Mitsrayim is yours.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did so. And Yos\u0115ph gave them wagons, according to the mouth of Pharaoh, and he gave them food for the journey."}, {"pk": 2700528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 22, "text": "He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments, but to Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments."}, {"pk": 2700529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 23, "text": "And he sent to his father this: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Mitsrayim, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, and bread, and food for his father for the journey."}, {"pk": 2700530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 24, "text": "So he sent his brothers away, and they left. And he said to them, \u201cDo not quarrel along the way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 25, "text": "And they went up out of Mitsrayim, and came to the land of Kena\u201ban to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 their father."}, {"pk": 2700532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 26, "text": "And they told him, saying, \u201cYos\u0115ph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d And Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s heart ceased, for he did not believe them."}, {"pk": 2700533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 27, "text": "But when they spoke to him all the words which Yos\u0115ph had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons which Yos\u0115ph had sent to transport him, the spirit of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 their father revived."}, {"pk": 2700534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 45, "verse": 28, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cEnough! My son Yos\u0115ph is still alive. Let me go and see him before I die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out with all that he had, and came to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and slaughtered slaughterings to the Elohim of his father Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2700536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "text": "And Elohim spoke to Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the visions of the night, and said, \u201cYa\u201baqob\u0331, Ya\u201baqob\u0331!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said, \u201cI am the \u011al, Elohim of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Mitsrayim, for I shall make you there into a great nation."}, {"pk": 2700538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "text": "I Myself am going down with you to Mitsrayim and I Myself shall certainly bring you up again. And let Yos\u0115ph put his hand on your eyes."}, {"pk": 2700539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 rose up from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a. And the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l brought their father Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to transport him."}, {"pk": 2700540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "text": "And they took their livestock and their property which they had acquired in the land of Kena\u201ban, and came into Mitsrayim, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and all his seed with him."}, {"pk": 2700541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "text": "His sons and his sons\u2019 sons, his daughters and his sons\u2019 daughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "text": "And these were the names of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and his sons, who came into Mitsrayim: Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n was Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s first-born."}, {"pk": 2700543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: H\u0323anok\u0331, and Pallu, and H\u0323etsron, and Karmi."}, {"pk": 2700544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sons of Shim\u201bon: Yemu\u2019\u0115l, and Yamin, and Ohad\u0331, and Yak\u0331in, and Tsoh\u0323ar, and Sha\u2019ul, son of a Kena\u201banite woman."}, {"pk": 2700545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sons of L\u0115wi: G\u0115rshon, Qehath, and Merari."}, {"pk": 2700546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sons of Yehud\u0331ah: \u011ar, and Onan, and Sh\u0115lah, and Perets, and Zerah\u0323 \u2014 but \u011ar and Onan died in the land of Kena\u201ban. And the sons of Perets were H\u0323etsron and H\u0323amul."}, {"pk": 2700547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sons of Yissask\u0331ar: Tola, and Puw\u201bah, and Yob\u0331, and Shimron."}, {"pk": 2700548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 14, "text": "And the sons of Zeb\u0331ulun: Sered\u0331, and \u011alon, and Yah\u0323le\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 15, "text": "These were the sons of L\u0115\u2019ah, whom she bore to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the beings, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three."}, {"pk": 2700550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sons of Gad\u0331: Tsiphyon and H\u0323aggi, Shuni and Etsbon, \u011ari and Arod\u0331i, and Ar\u0115li."}, {"pk": 2700551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sons of Ash\u0115r: Yimnah, and Yishwah, and Yishwi, and Beri\u201bah, and Serah\u0323, their sister. And the sons of Beri\u201bah: H\u0323eb\u0331er and Malki\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 18, "text": "These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Lab\u0331an gave to L\u0115\u2019ah his daughter. And these she bore to Ya\u201baqob\u0331: sixteen beings."}, {"pk": 2700553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 19, "text": "The sons of Rah\u0323\u0115l, Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s wife: Yos\u0115ph and Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2700554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 20, "text": "And to Yos\u0115ph in the land of Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him."}, {"pk": 2700555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sons of Binyamin: Belah, and Bek\u0331er, and Ashb\u0115l, G\u0115ra and Na\u201baman, \u011ah\u0323i and Rosh, Muppim and H\u0323uppim, and Ard."}, {"pk": 2700556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 22, "text": "These were the sons of Rah\u0323\u0115l who were born to Ya\u201baqob\u0331: fourteen beings in all."}, {"pk": 2700557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 23, "text": "And the son of Dan: H\u0323ushim."}, {"pk": 2700558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sons of Naphtali: Yah\u0323tse\u2019\u0115l, and Guni, and Y\u0115tser, and Shill\u0115m."}, {"pk": 2700559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 25, "text": "These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Lab\u0331an gave to Rah\u0323\u0115l his daughter, and she bore these to Ya\u201baqob\u0331: seven beings in all."}, {"pk": 2700560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 26, "text": "All the beings who went with Ya\u201baqob\u0331 to Mitsrayim, who came from his body, besides Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s sons\u2019 wives, were sixty-six beings in all."}, {"pk": 2700561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sons of Yos\u0115ph who were born to him in Mitsrayim were two beings. All the beings of the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 who went to Mitsrayim were seventy."}, {"pk": 2700562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 28, "text": "And he sent Yehud\u0331ah before him to Yos\u0115ph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen."}, {"pk": 2700563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 29, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And he appeared to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time."}, {"pk": 2700564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 30, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cNow let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 31, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to his brothers and to his father\u2019s household, \u201cI am going up to inform Pharaoh, and say to him, \u2018My brothers and those of my father\u2019s house, who were in the land of Kena\u201ban, have come to me."}, {"pk": 2700566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 32, "text": "And the men are shepherds, that they have been men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they have.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, \u2018What is your occupation?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 46, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cthat you shall say, \u2018Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,\u2019 so that you dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2700569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Yos\u0115ph went and spoke to Pharaoh, and said, \u201cMy father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Kena\u201ban. And see, they are in the land of Goshen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "text": "And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "text": "And Pharaoh said to his brothers, \u201cWhat is your occupation?\u201d And they said to Pharaoh, \u201cYour servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said to Pharaoh, \u201cWe have come to dwell in the land, because there is no pasture for your servants\u2019 flocks, for the scarcity of food is severe in the land of Kena\u201ban. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "text": "And Pharaoh spoke to Yos\u0115ph, saying, \u201cYour father and your brothers have come to you."}, {"pk": 2700574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "text": "The land of Mitsrayim is before you. Settle your father and brothers in the best of the land, let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of capable men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock."}, {"pk": 2700575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph brought in his father Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and set him before Pharaoh. And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 blessed Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "text": "And Pharaoh said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cHow old are you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Pharaoh, \u201cThe days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 11, "text": "So Yos\u0115ph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Mitsrayim, in the best of the land, in the land of Ra\u201bmeses, as Pharaoh had commanded."}, {"pk": 2700580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph provided his father, and his brothers, and all his father\u2019s household with bread for the mouth of the little ones."}, {"pk": 2700581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 13, "text": "Now there was no bread in all the land, because the scarcity of food was very severe, and the land of Mitsrayim and all the land of Kena\u201ban became exhausted from the scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2700582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph gathered up all the silver that was found in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kena\u201ban, for the grain which they bought. And Yos\u0115ph brought the silver into Pharaoh\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2700583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the silver was all spent in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kena\u201ban, all the Mitsrites came to Yos\u0115ph and said, \u201cGive us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the silver is gone!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said, \u201cGive your livestock, and I give you bread for your livestock, if the silver is gone.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 17, "text": "So they brought their livestock to Yos\u0115ph, and Yos\u0115ph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks they owned, and for the herds they owned, and for the donkeys. Thus he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year."}, {"pk": 2700586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 18, "text": "And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, \u201cWe do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not been left any before my master but our bodies and our lands."}, {"pk": 2700587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 19, "text": "Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and let us and our land be servants of Pharaoh. And give us seed, and let us live and not die, and let the land not lie waste."}, {"pk": 2700588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph bought the entire land of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh, because every man of the Mitsrites sold his field, because the scarcity of food was severe upon them. And the land came to be Pharaoh\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2700589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 21, "text": "And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Mitsrayim to the other end."}, {"pk": 2700590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 22, "text": "Only the ground of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had from what Pharaoh gave them <i>by</i> law, and they ate <i>that which</i> Pharaoh gave them by law. Therefore they did not sell their ground."}, {"pk": 2700591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to the people, \u201cLook, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land."}, {"pk": 2700592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 24, "text": "And it shall be that in the harvest you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh. And four-fifths is your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for those of your households and as food for your little ones."}, {"pk": 2700593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 25, "text": "And they said, \u201cYou have saved our lives. Let us find favour in the eyes of my master, and we shall become Pharaoh\u2019s servants.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph made it a law over the land of Mitsrayim to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the ground of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2700595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in the land of Goshen. And they had possessions there and were fruitful and increased exceedingly."}, {"pk": 2700596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 lived in the land of Mitsrayim seventeen years. So the length of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s life was one hundred and forty-seven years."}, {"pk": 2700597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 29, "text": "And the time for Yisra\u2019\u0115l to die drew near, and he called his son Yos\u0115ph and said to him, \u201cNow if I have found favour in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and show loving-commitment and truth to me. Please do not bury me in Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2700598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 30, "text": "but I shall lie with my fathers, and you shall take me up out of Mitsrayim and bury me in their burial-place.\u201d And he said, \u201cI do as you have said.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 47, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cSwear to me.\u201d And he swore to him, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l bowed himself on the head of the bed."}, {"pk": 2700600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "text": "And after these events it came to be that it was said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSee, your father is sick.\u201d And he took with him his two sons, Menashsheh and Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2700601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 was told, \u201cSee, your son Yos\u0115ph is coming to you.\u201d And Yisra\u2019\u0115l strengthened himself and sat up on the bed."}, {"pk": 2700602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201c\u011al Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kena\u201ban and blessed me,"}, {"pk": 2700603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "text": "and said to me, \u2018See, I am making you fruitful and shall increase you and make of you an assembly of peoples, and give this land to your seed after you as an everlasting possession.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now, your two sons, Ephrayim and Menashsheh, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you in Mitsrayim, are mine \u2014 as Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and Shim\u201bon, they are mine."}, {"pk": 2700605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYour offspring whom you shall bring forth after them are yours, and let them be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance."}, {"pk": 2700606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "text": "And I, when I came from Paddan, Rah\u0323\u0115l died beside me in the land of Kena\u201ban on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2700607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw Yos\u0115ph\u2019s sons, and said, \u201cWho are these?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to his father, \u201cThey are my sons, whom Elohim has given me in this place.\u201d And he said, \u201cPlease bring them to me, and let me bless them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "text": "And the eyes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were dim with age, and he was unable to see. And he drew them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them."}, {"pk": 2700610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cI had not thought to see your face. But see, Elohim has also shown me your seed!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "text": "So Yos\u0115ph brought them from between his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the earth."}, {"pk": 2700612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph took them both, Ephrayim with his right hand toward Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s left hand, and Menashsheh with his left hand toward Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s right hand, and brought them near him."}, {"pk": 2700613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephrayim\u2019s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh\u2019s head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh was the first-born."}, {"pk": 2700614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 15, "text": "And he blessed Yos\u0115ph, and said, \u201cThe Elohim before whom my fathers Ab\u0331raham and Yitsh\u0323aq walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day,"}, {"pk": 2700615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 16, "text": "the Messenger who has redeemed me from all evil \u2014 bless the youths! And let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Ab\u0331raham and Yitsh\u0323aq. And let them increase to a multitude in the midst of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 17, "text": "And when Yos\u0115ph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father\u2019s hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2700617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to his father, \u201cNot so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 19, "text": "But his father refused and said, \u201cI know, my son, I know. He also becomes a people, and he also is great. And yet, his younger brother is greater than he, and his seed is to become the completeness of the nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 20, "text": "And he blessed them on that day, saying, \u201cIn you Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall bless, saying, \u2018Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!\u2019 \u201d Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2700620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cSee, I am dying, but Elohim shall be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers."}, {"pk": 2700621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 48, "verse": 22, "text": "And I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."}, {"pk": 2700622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 called his sons and said, \u201cGather together, so that I declare to you what is to befall you in the last days:"}, {"pk": 2700623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cGather together and hear, you sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and listen to Yisra\u2019\u0115l your father."}, {"pk": 2700624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cRe\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power."}, {"pk": 2700625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBoiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father\u2019s bed, then you defiled it \u2014 he went up to my couch."}, {"pk": 2700626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cShim\u201bon and L\u0115wi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence."}, {"pk": 2700627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLet my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they killed a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure."}, {"pk": 2700628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cCursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and scatter them in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYou, Yehud\u0331ah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your father\u2019s children bow down before you."}, {"pk": 2700630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah is a lion\u2019s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThe sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehud\u0331ah, nor an Inscriber from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples."}, {"pk": 2700632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBinding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey\u2019s colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes."}, {"pk": 2700633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cHis eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk."}, {"pk": 2700634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cZeb\u0331ulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsid\u0331on."}, {"pk": 2700635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYissask\u0331ar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens,"}, {"pk": 2700636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "text": "and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labour."}, {"pk": 2700637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cDan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse\u2019s heels so that its rider falls backward."}, {"pk": 2700639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "text": "I have waited for your deliverance, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cGad\u0331, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel."}, {"pk": 2700641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBread from Ash\u0115r is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign."}, {"pk": 2700642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cNaphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance."}, {"pk": 2700643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cYos\u0115ph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall."}, {"pk": 2700644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him."}, {"pk": 2700645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 24, "text": "But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 \u2014 from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra\u2019\u0115l - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 25, "text": "from the \u011al of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens from above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."}, {"pk": 2700647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThe blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Yos\u0115ph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers."}, {"pk": 2700648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBinyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 28, "text": "All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, he blessed each one according to his own blessing."}, {"pk": 2700650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 29, "text": "And he commanded them, and said to them, \u201cI am to be gathered to my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the H\u0323ittite,"}, {"pk": 2700651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 30, "text": "in the cave that is in the field of Mak\u0331p\u0115lah, which is before Mamr\u0115 in the land of Kena\u201ban, which Ab\u0331raham bought with the field of Ephron the H\u0323ittite as a possession for a burial-site."}, {"pk": 2700652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 31, "text": "There they buried Ab\u0331raham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Yitsh\u0323aq and Rib\u0331qah his wife, and there I buried L\u0115\u2019ah \u2014"}, {"pk": 2700653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 32, "text": "the field purchased, and the cave which is in it, from the sons of H\u0323\u0115th.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 49, "verse": 33, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 ended commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people."}, {"pk": 2700655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph fell on his father\u2019s face, and wept over him, and kissed him."}, {"pk": 2700656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "text": "And forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming. And the Mitsrites wept for him seventy days."}, {"pk": 2700658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the days of weeping for him were past, Yos\u0115ph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, \u201cIf, now, I have found favour in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "text": "My father made me swear, saying, \u201cSee, I am dying, bury me in my burial-site which I dug for myself in the land of Kena\u201ban.\u201d And now, please let me go up and bury my father, and return.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cGo up and bury your father, as he made you swear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph went up to bury his father. And with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2700662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "text": "and all the house of Yos\u0115ph, and his brothers, and his father\u2019s house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen."}, {"pk": 2700663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "text": "And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company."}, {"pk": 2700664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "text": "And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad\u0331, which is beyond the Yard\u0115n, and they lamented there with a great and very heavy lamentation. And he performed seven days of mourning for his father."}, {"pk": 2700665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "text": "And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kena\u201banites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad\u0331, they said, \u201cThis is a grievous mourning for the Mitsrites.\u201d That is why its name was called Ab\u0331\u0115l Mitsrayim, which is beyond the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2700666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 12, "text": "And his sons did to him as he had commanded them,"}, {"pk": 2700667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 13, "text": "for his sons brought him to the land of Kena\u201ban, and buried him in the cave of the field of Mak\u0331p\u0115lah, before Mamr\u0115, which Ab\u0331raham bought with the field from Ephron the H\u0323ittite as property for a burial-site."}, {"pk": 2700668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 14, "text": "And after he had buried his father, Yos\u0115ph returned to Mitsrayim, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father."}, {"pk": 2700669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 15, "text": "And when Yos\u0115ph\u2019s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, \u201cWhat if Yos\u0115ph hates us, and pays us back all the evil which we did to him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 16, "text": "And they sent word to Yos\u0115ph, saying, \u201cBefore your father died he commanded, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 17, "text": "This is what you are to say to Yos\u0115ph, \u201cI beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.\u201d \u2019 And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of your father.\u201d And Yos\u0115ph wept when they spoke to him."}, {"pk": 2700672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 18, "text": "And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, \u201cSee, we are your servants.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to them, \u201cDo not fear, for am I in the place of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2700674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive."}, {"pk": 2700675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd now, do not fear, I provide for you and your little ones.\u201d So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them."}, {"pk": 2700676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he and his father\u2019s household. And Yos\u0115ph lived one hundred and ten years."}, {"pk": 2700677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph saw Ephrayim\u2019s children to the third <i>generation</i>. The children of Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh, were also born on Yos\u0115ph\u2019s knees."}, {"pk": 2700678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph said to his brothers, \u201cI am dying, but Elohim shall certainly visit you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph made the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l swear, saying, \u201cElohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 1, "chapter": 50, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the names of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who came to Mitsrayim with Ya\u201baqob\u0331, each one with his household:"}, {"pk": 2700682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Shim\u201bon, L\u0115wi, and Yehud\u0331ah;"}, {"pk": 2700683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Yissask\u0331ar, Zeb\u0331ulun, and Binyamin;"}, {"pk": 2700684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Dan and Naphtali, Gad\u0331 and Ash\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2700685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And all those who were descendants of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 were seventy beings, as Yos\u0115ph was already in Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation."}, {"pk": 2700687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were fruitful and increased very much, multiplied and became very strong, and the land was filled with them."}, {"pk": 2700688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Then a new sovereign arose over Mitsrayim, who did not know Yos\u0115ph,"}, {"pk": 2700689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "and he said to his people, \u201cSee, the people of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are more and stronger than we,"}, {"pk": 2700690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "come, let us act wisely towards them, lest they increase, and it shall be when fighting befalls us, that they shall join our enemies and fight against us, and shall go up out of the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Ra\u201bamses."}, {"pk": 2700692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "But the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and grew, and they were in dread of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And the Mitsrites made the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l serve with harshness,"}, {"pk": 2700694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all kinds of work in the field, all their work which they made them do was with harshness."}, {"pk": 2700695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Then the sovereign of Mitsrayim spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Pu\u201bah,"}, {"pk": 2700696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "and he said, \u201cWhen you deliver the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death, but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "But the midwives feared Elohim, and did not do as the sovereign of Mitsrayim commanded them, and kept the male children alive."}, {"pk": 2700698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "So the sovereign of Mitsrayim called for the midwives and said to them, \u201cWhy have you done this, and kept the male children alive?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And the midwives said to Pharaoh, \u201cBecause the Hebrew women are not like the Mitsrian women. For they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "So Elohim was good to the midwives, and the people increased and became very numerous."}, {"pk": 2700701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be, because the midwives feared Elohim, that He provided households for them."}, {"pk": 2700702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, \u201cThrow every son who is born into the river, and keep alive every daughter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And a man of the house of L\u0115wi went and married a daughter of L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2700704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And the woman conceived and bore a son. And she saw that he was a lovely child, and she hid him three months."}, {"pk": 2700705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And when she could hide him no longer, she took an ark of wicker for him, and coated it with tar and pitch, and put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the edge of the river."}, {"pk": 2700706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him."}, {"pk": 2700707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her young women were walking by the riverside. And when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her female servant to get it,"}, {"pk": 2700708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "and opened it and saw the child, and see, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, \u201cThis is one of the children of the Hebrews.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And his sister said to Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, \u201cShall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s daughter said to her, \u201cGo.\u201d And the young woman went and called the child\u2019s mother.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes: \"Maiden\"."}, {"pk": 2700711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s daughter said to her, \u201cTake this child away and nurse him for me, then I shall pay your wages.\u201d So the woman took the child and nursed him."}, {"pk": 2700712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Mosheh, saying, \u201cBecause I have drawn him out of the water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And in those days it came to be, when Mosheh was grown, that he went out to his brothers and looked at their burdens. And he saw a Mitsrian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers."}, {"pk": 2700714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "So he turned this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he struck the Mitsrian and hid him in the sand."}, {"pk": 2700715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And he went out the second day and saw two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, \u201cWhy do you strike your neighbour?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cWho made you a head and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Mitsrian?\u201d And Mosheh feared and said, \u201cTruly, the matter is known!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and he sought to kill Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Mid\u0331yan. And he sat down by a well."}, {"pk": 2700718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And the priest of Mid\u0331yan had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father\u2019s flock,"}, {"pk": 2700719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "but the shepherds came and drove them away. Then Mosheh stood up and came to their rescue, and watered their flock."}, {"pk": 2700720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And they came to Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l their father, and he said, \u201cHow is it that you have come so soon today?\u201d", "comment": "His title was Yithro (Excellency)."}, {"pk": 2700721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And they said, \u201cA Mitsrian rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said to his daughters, \u201cAnd where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him and let him eat bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And Mosheh agreed to dwell with the man, and he gave Tsipporah his daughter to Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2700724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And she bore him a son, and he called his name G\u0115reshom, for he said, \u201cI have become a sojourner in a foreign land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be after these many days that the sovereign of Mitsrayim died. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l groaned because of the slavery, and they cried out. And their cry came up to Elohim because of the slavery."}, {"pk": 2700726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And Elohim heard their groaning, and Elohim remembered His covenant with Ab\u0331raham, with Yitsh\u0323aq, and with Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2700727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And Elohim looked on the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Elohim knew!"}, {"pk": 2700728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh was shepherding the flock of Yithro his father-in-law, the priest of Mid\u0331yan. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, the mountain of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2700729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he looked and saw the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed."}, {"pk": 2700730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cLet me turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, \u201cMosheh! Mosheh!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And He said, \u201cDo not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is set-apart ground.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And He said, \u201cI am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u201d And Mosheh hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim."}, {"pk": 2700734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cI have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows."}, {"pk": 2700735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Kena\u201banites and the H\u0323ittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the H\u0323iwwites and the Yeb\u0331usites."}, {"pk": 2700736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, the cry of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Mitsrites oppress them."}, {"pk": 2700737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And now, come, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And Mosheh said to Elohim, \u201cWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of Mitsrayim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And He said, \u201cBecause I am with you. And this is to you the sign that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Mitsrayim, you are to serve Elohim on this mountain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh said to Elohim, \u201cSee, when I come to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and say to them, \u2018The Elohim of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they say to me, \u2018What is His Name?\u2019 what shall I say to them?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And Elohim said to Mosheh, \u201cI am that which I am.\u201d And He said, \u201cThus you shall say to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I am has sent me to you.\u2019 \u201d", "comment": "The Heb\u0331rew text reads: <em>\u2018eheyeh \u2018asher \u2018eheyeh</em>, the word <em>\u2018eheyeh</em> being derived from <em>hayah</em> which means <em>to be, to exist</em>, but the Aramaic text here in v. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/14'>14</a> reads: <em>ayah ashar ayah.</em>"}, {"pk": 2700742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elohim said further to Mosheh, \u201cThus you are to say to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My remembrance to all generations.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Go, and you shall gather the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l together, and say to them, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, of Yitsh\u0323aq, and of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, appeared to me, saying, I have indeed visited you and seen what is done to you in Mitsrayim;"}, {"pk": 2700744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "and I say: I am bringing you up out of the affliction of Mitsrayim to the land of the Kena\u201banite and the H\u0323ittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the H\u0323iwwite and the Yeb\u0331usite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2700745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall listen to your voice. And you shall come, you and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to the sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. And now, please, let us go three days\u2019 journey into the wilderness to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut I know that the sovereign of Mitsrayim is not going to let you go, not even by a strong hand."}, {"pk": 2700747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall stretch out My hand and strike Mitsrayim with all My wonders which I shall do in its midst. And after that he shall let you go."}, {"pk": 2700748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And I shall give this people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And it shall be, that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "But every woman shall ask from her neighbour and from the stranger in her house, objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments. And you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters, and shall plunder the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2700750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh answered and said, \u201cAnd if they do not believe me, nor listen to my voice, and say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not appeared to you?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cWhat is that in your hand?\u201d And he said, \u201cA rod.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said, \u201cThrow it on the ground.\u201d So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent. And Mosheh fled from it."}, {"pk": 2700753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cReach out your hand and seize it by the tail\u201d \u2014 so he reached out his hand and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand \u2014"}, {"pk": 2700754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "so that they believe that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, has appeared to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him again, \u201cNow put your hand in your bosom.\u201d And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, and see, his hand was leprous, like snow."}, {"pk": 2700756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said, \u201cPut your hand in your bosom again.\u201d So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and see, it was restored like his other flesh."}, {"pk": 2700757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if they do not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the first sign, they shall believe the voice of the latter sign."}, {"pk": 2700758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. And the water which you take from the river shall become blood on the dry land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I am not a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cWho has made man\u2019s mouth? Or who makes dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2700761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And now, go, and I shall be with your mouth and teach you what to say."}, {"pk": 2700762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "But he said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please send by the hand of him whom You would send.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Mosheh, and He said, \u201cIs not Aharon the L\u0115wite your brother? I know that he speaks well. And see, he is also coming out to meet you. And when he sees you, he shall be glad in his heart."}, {"pk": 2700764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I am with your mouth and with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do."}, {"pk": 2700765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And he shall speak for you to the people. And it shall be that he shall be a mouth for you, and you shall be an elohim for him.", "comment": "Or <em>mighty one.</em>"}, {"pk": 2700766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."}, {"pk": 2700767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "Then Mosheh went and returned to Yether his father-in-law, and said to him, \u201cPlease let me go and return to my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.\u201d And Yithro said to Mosheh, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d", "comment": "A title meaning \u201cExcellency.\u201d<br>A title meaning \u201chis Excellency.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh in Mid\u0331yan, \u201cGo, return to Mitsrayim, for all the men are dead who sought your life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim in his hand."}, {"pk": 2700770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cAs you go back to Mitsrayim, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I am going to strengthen his heart, so that he does not let the people go."}, {"pk": 2700771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And you shall say to Pharaoh, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l is My son, My first-born,"}, {"pk": 2700772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "so I say to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, see, I am killing your son, your first-born.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 met him and sought to kill him."}, {"pk": 2700774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at his feet, and said, \u201cYou are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "So He let him go. Then she said, \u201cYou are a bridegroom of blood,\u201d because of the circumcision."}, {"pk": 2700776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Aharon, \u201cGo to meet Mosheh in the wilderness.\u201d And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim, and kissed him."}, {"pk": 2700777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "Mosheh then told Aharon all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him."}, {"pk": 2700778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the elders of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And Aharon spoke all the words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to Mosheh. Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people."}, {"pk": 2700780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "And the people believed. And they heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had visited the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and that He had looked on their affliction, and they bowed their heads and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2700781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And afterwards Mosheh and Aharon went in and said to Pharaoh, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Let My people go, so that they celebrate a festival to Me in the wilderness.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cWho is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra\u2019\u0115l go? I do not know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor am I going to let Yisra\u2019\u0115l go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said, \u201cThe Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days\u2019 journey into the wilderness and slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "But the sovereign of Mitsrayim said to them, \u201cMosheh and Aharon, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cSee, the people of the land are many now, and you make them cease from their burdens!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYou are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves."}, {"pk": 2700788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, \u2018Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to words of falsehood."}, {"pk": 2700790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, \u201cThus said Pharaoh, \u2018I do not give you straw."}, {"pk": 2700791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018Go, take straw for yourselves, where ever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim \u2014 to gather stubble for straw."}, {"pk": 2700793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, \u201cFulfill your actions, your daily matters, as when there was straw.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Also the foremen of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom Pharaoh\u2019s slave-drivers had set over them, were struck and were asked, \u201cWhy have you not fulfilled your law in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And the foremen of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, \u201cWhy do you treat your servants this way?"}, {"pk": 2700796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, \u2018Make bricks!\u2019 And see, your servants are struck, but your own people are at fault."}, {"pk": 2700797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "But he said, \u201cYou are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, \u2018Let us go and slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks."}, {"pk": 2700799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And the foremen of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that they were in trouble after it was said, \u201cYou are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet them."}, {"pk": 2700801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And they said to them, \u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 look on you and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And Mosheh returned to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why have You done evil to this people? Why did You send me?"}, {"pk": 2700803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all."}, {"pk": 2700804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cNow see what I do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he is going to let them go, and with a strong hand he is going to drive them out of his land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and said to him, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2700806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I appeared to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, as \u011al Shaddai. And by My Name, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, was I not known to them?"}, {"pk": 2700807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kena\u201ban, the land of their sojournings, in which they have sojourned."}, {"pk": 2700808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I have also heard the groaning of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l whom the Mitsrites are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant."}, {"pk": 2700809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their enslaving, and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2700811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And I shall bring you into the land which I swore to give to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to give it to you as an inheritance. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh spoke thus to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but they did not listen to Mosheh, because of shortness of spirit, and from hard slavery."}, {"pk": 2700813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Go in, speak to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, to let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go out of his land."}, {"pk": 2700815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mosheh spoke before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cThe children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have not listened to me, and why would Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, and gave them a command for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and for Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, to bring the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "These are the heads of their fathers\u2019 houses: The sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, the first-born of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: H\u0323anok\u0331 and Pallu, H\u0323etsron and Karmi. These are the clans of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2700818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sons of Shim\u201bon: Yemu\u2019\u0115l, and Yamin, and Ohad\u0331, and Yak\u0331in, and Tsoh\u0323ar, and Sha\u2019ul the son of a Kena\u201banite woman. These are the clans of Shim\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2700819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "These are the names of the sons of L\u0115wi according to their generations: G\u0115rshon, and Qehath, and Merari. And the years of the life of L\u0115wi were one hundred and thirty-seven."}, {"pk": 2700820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "The sons of G\u0115rshon: Lib\u0331ni and Shim\u201bi according to their clans."}, {"pk": 2700821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sons of Qehath: Amram, and Yitshar, and H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l. And the years of the life of Qehath were one hundred and thirty-three."}, {"pk": 2700822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of Merari: Mah\u0323li and Mushi. These are the clans of L\u0115wi according to their generations."}, {"pk": 2700823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And Amram took for himself Yok\u0331eb\u0331ed\u0331, his father\u2019s sister, as wife. And she bore him Aharon and Mosheh. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven."}, {"pk": 2700824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sons of Yitshar: Qorah\u0323, and Nephe\u1e21, and Zik\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2700825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And the sons of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l: Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Eltsaphan, and Sithri."}, {"pk": 2700826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "Aharon took to himself Elisheb\u0331a, daughter of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331, sister of Nah\u0323shon, as wife. And she bore him Nad\u0331ab\u0331, and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar, and Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2700827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sons of Qorah\u0323: Assir, Elqanah, and Ab\u0331iyasaph. These are the clans of the Qorh\u0323ites."}, {"pk": 2700828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And El\u201bazar, Aharon\u2019s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Puti\u2019\u0115l as wife. And she bore him Pineh\u0323as. These are the heads of the fathers of the L\u0115wites according to their clans."}, {"pk": 2700829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "This is Aharon, and Mosheh, to whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cBring out the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the land of Mitsrayim according to their divisions.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, to bring out the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from Mitsrayim. This is Mosheh, and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2700831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, on the day when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the land of Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2700832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Speak to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim all that I say to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mosheh said before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am of uncircumcised lips, and why would Pharaoh listen to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSee, I have made you an elohim to Pharaoh, and Aharon your brother is your prophet.", "comment": "Or <em>mighty one</em> \u2013 see foot<a href=C:@20 4:16>note</a> at Exod. <a href='/TS2009/2/4/16'>4:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2700835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cYou shall speak all that I command you, and Aharon your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, to let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go out of his land."}, {"pk": 2700836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBut I am going to harden the heart of Pharaoh, and shall increase My signs and My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, and I shall lay My hand on Mitsrayim, and bring My divisions and My people, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, out of the land of Mitsrayim by great judgments."}, {"pk": 2700838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the Mitsrites shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I stretch out My hand on Mitsrayim. And I shall bring the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out from among them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded them, so they did."}, {"pk": 2700840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "Now Mosheh was eighty years old and Aharon eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, \u2018Show a miracle for yourselves,\u2019 then you shall say to Aharon, \u2018Take your rod and throw it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "So Mosheh and Aharon went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded. And Aharon threw his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent."}, {"pk": 2700844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the practisers of witchcraft. And they, the magicians of Mitsrayim, also did so with their magic."}, {"pk": 2700845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And they, each one, threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But the rod of Aharon swallowed up their rods."}, {"pk": 2700846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s heart was strengthened, and he did not listen to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said."}, {"pk": 2700847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cThe heart of Pharaoh is hard, he refuses to let the people go."}, {"pk": 2700848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cGo to Pharaoh in the morning, as he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the river\u2019s bank to meet him. And take in your hand the rod which was turned into a serpent."}, {"pk": 2700849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to him, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Elohim of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, \u201cLet My people go, so that they serve Me in the wilderness,\u201d but see, until now you have not listened!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBy this you know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. See, I am striking the waters which are in the river with the rod that is in my hand, and they shall be turned to blood,"}, {"pk": 2700851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "and the fish in the river shall die. And the river shall stink, and the Mitsrites shall find it impossible to drink the water of the river.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, \u201cSay to Aharon, \u2018Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Mitsrayim, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they become blood. And there shall be blood in all the land of Mitsrayim, both in wooden and in stone <i>containers</i>.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon did so, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants. And all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood."}, {"pk": 2700854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And the fish that were in the river died, and the river stank, and the Mitsrites were unable to drink the water of the river. And the blood was in all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And the magicians of Mitsrayim did the same with their magic. And the heart of Pharaoh was strengthened, and he did not listen to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said."}, {"pk": 2700856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and his heart was not moved by this either."}, {"pk": 2700857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And all the Mitsrites dug all around the river for water to drink, for they were unable to drink the water of the river."}, {"pk": 2700858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And seven days were completed after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had struck the river."}, {"pk": 2700859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, \u201cGo to Pharaoh and say to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cLet My people go, so that they serve Me."}, {"pk": 2700860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut if you refuse to let them go, see, I am smiting all your border with frogs."}, {"pk": 2700861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and shall come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "and the frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSay to Aharon, \u2018Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Mitsrayim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "So Aharon stretched out his hand over the waters of Mitsrayim, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And the magicians did so with their magic, and brought up frogs on the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, \u201cPray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I shall let the people go to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh said to Pharaoh, \u201cExplain yourself to me: When am I to pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, and remain only in the river?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "So he said, \u201cTomorrow.\u201d And he said, \u201cLet it be according to your word, so that you know that there is no one like \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2700869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And the frogs shall turn aside from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people \u2014 they shall remain in the river only."}, {"pk": 2700870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon went out from Pharaoh. And Mosheh cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the frogs which He had brought against Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did according to the word of Mosheh. And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courtyards, and out of the fields."}, {"pk": 2700872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank."}, {"pk": 2700873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said."}, {"pk": 2700874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSay to Aharon, \u2018Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it becomes gnats in all the land of Mitsrayim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And they did so, and Aharon stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and it became gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And the magicians did similarly with their magic to bring forth gnats, but they were unable. And there were gnats on man and beast."}, {"pk": 2700877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "The magicians then said to Pharaoh, \u201cThis is the finger of Elohim!\u201d But the heart of Pharaoh was strengthened, and he did not listen to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said."}, {"pk": 2700878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cRise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water, and say to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cLet My people go, so that they serve Me."}, {"pk": 2700879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cOr else, if you do not let My people go, see, I am sending swarms of flies on you and your servants, and on your people and into your houses. And the houses of the Mitsrites shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand."}, {"pk": 2700880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day I shall separate the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, so that you know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the midst of the land."}, {"pk": 2700881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall put a ransom between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did so, and thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants\u2019 houses, and into all the land of Mitsrayim, and the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies."}, {"pk": 2700883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, \u201cGo, slaughter to your Elohim in the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cIt is not right to do so, for we would be slaughtering the abomination of the Mitsrites to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim. See, if we slaughter the abomination of the Mitsrites before their eyes, would they not stone us?"}, {"pk": 2700885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "Let us go three days\u2019 journey into the wilderness, then we shall slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, as He commands us."}, {"pk": 2700886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And Pharaoh said, \u201cI am letting you go, then you shall slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in the wilderness. Only, do not go very far away! Pray for me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cSee, when I leave you I shall pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and tomorrow the swarms of flies shall depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But do not let Pharaoh again deceive, not to let the people go to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mosheh went out from Pharaoh and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2700889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did according to the word of Mosheh and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained."}, {"pk": 2700890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "But Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time too, and did not let the people go."}, {"pk": 2700891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo in to Pharaoh and speak to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the Hebrews, \u201cLet My people go, so that they serve Me."}, {"pk": 2700892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFor if you refuse to let them go, and are still holding them,"}, {"pk": 2700893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "see, the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep \u2014 a very grievous pestilence."}, {"pk": 2700894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall separate between the livestock of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the livestock of Mitsrayim, and let no matter die of all that belongs to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set an appointed time, saying, \u201cTomorrow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going to do this word in the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did this word on the next day, and all the livestock of Mitsrayim died, but of the livestock of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, not one died."}, {"pk": 2700897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Then Pharaoh sent, and see, not even one of the livestock of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go."}, {"pk": 2700898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh and Aharon, \u201cFill your hands with ashes from a furnace and let Mosheh scatter it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And it shall become fine dust in all the land of Mitsrayim, and it shall cause boils that break out in sores on man and beast in all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "So they took ashes from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh, and Mosheh scattered them toward the heavens. And they caused boils, breaking out in sores on man and beast."}, {"pk": 2700901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And the magicians were unable to stand before Mosheh because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2700902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2700903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cRise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the Hebrews, \u201cLet My people go, so that they serve Me,"}, {"pk": 2700904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "for at this time I am sending all My plagues unto your heart, and on your servants and on your people, so that you know that there is no one like Me in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2700905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNow if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth."}, {"pk": 2700906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare My Name in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2700907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYou still exalt yourself against My people in that you do not let them go!"}, {"pk": 2700908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSee, tomorrow about this time I am causing very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Mitsrayim, from the day of its founding until now."}, {"pk": 2700909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And now send, bring your livestock to safety, and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every beast which is found in the field and is not brought home, and they shall die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "Those among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made their servants and livestock flee to the houses."}, {"pk": 2700911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "But those who did not set their heart on the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 left their servants and livestock in the field."}, {"pk": 2700912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cStretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Mitsrayim \u2014 on man, and on beast, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "Then Mosheh stretched out his rod toward the heavens. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rained hail on the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "Thus there came to be hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy, such as had not been in all the land of Mitsrayim since it became a nation."}, {"pk": 2700915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And the hail struck in all the land of Mitsrayim all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field."}, {"pk": 2700916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were, there was no hail."}, {"pk": 2700917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "Pharaoh then sent and called for Mosheh and for Aharon, and said to them, \u201cI have sinned this time. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous, and my people and I are wrong."}, {"pk": 2700918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "Pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for there has been enough of the thunder and hail of Elohim. And I am letting you go, so that you stay no longer."}, {"pk": 2700919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said to him, \u201cAs soon as I go out of the city, let me spread out my hands to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, let the thunder cease and the hail be no more, so that you know that the earth belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2700920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim."}, {"pk": 2700921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "And the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud."}, {"pk": 2700922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they were late crops."}, {"pk": 2700923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And Mosheh went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth."}, {"pk": 2700924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And Pharaoh saw that the rain, and the hail, and the thunder had ceased, yet he sinned again and he hardened his heart, he and his servants."}, {"pk": 2700925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And the heart of Pharaoh was strengthened, and he did not let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said through Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2700926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these signs of Mine before him,"}, {"pk": 2700927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "and that you relate in the hearing of your son and your son\u2019s son what I have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs which I have done among them. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the Hebrews, \u2018Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me."}, {"pk": 2700929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, see, tomorrow I am bringing locusts within your borders."}, {"pk": 2700930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the rest of what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field."}, {"pk": 2700931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither your fathers nor your fathers\u2019 fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.\u2019 \u201d Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And Pharaoh\u2019s servants said to him, \u201cTill when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, \u201cGo, serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Who are the ones that are going?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cWe are going with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we are going, for we have a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be with you as I let you and your little ones go! Watch, for evil is before your face!"}, {"pk": 2700936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Not so! You men go now, and serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for that is what you desired. And they were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2700937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cStretch out your hand over the land of Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon the land of Mitsrayim, and eat every plant of the land \u2014 all that the hail has left.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts."}, {"pk": 2700939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them."}, {"pk": 2700940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And they covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenness was left on the trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon in haste, and said, \u201cI have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and against you."}, {"pk": 2700942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And now, please forgive my sin only this once, and pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me."}, {"pk": 2700943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2700944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go."}, {"pk": 2700946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cStretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even a darkness which is felt.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And Mosheh stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim for three days."}, {"pk": 2700948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, while all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had light in their dwellings."}, {"pk": 2700949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And Pharaoh called to Mosheh and said, \u201cGo, serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Let your little ones go with you too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "But Mosheh said, \u201cYou yourself are to provide us with slaughterings and ascending offerings, to prepare for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2700951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And our livestock are to go with us too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for we have to take some of them to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, and we ourselves do not know with what we are to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 until we come there."}, {"pk": 2700952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not let them go."}, {"pk": 2700953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And Pharaoh said to him, \u201cGet away from me! Watch yourself and see my face no more, for in the day you see my face you die!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cYou have spoken rightly \u2014 never again do I see your face!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cI am bringing yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive you out from here altogether."}, {"pk": 2700956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbour and every woman from her neighbour, objects of silver and objects of gold."}, {"pk": 2700957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mitsrayim, in the eyes of Pharaoh\u2019s servants and in the eyes of the people."}, {"pk": 2700958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018About midnight I am going out into the midst of Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2700959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "and all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the first-born of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the first-born of cattle."}, {"pk": 2700960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Mitsrayim, such as has never been or ever shall be again."}, {"pk": 2700961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018But against any of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l no dog shall move its tongue, against man or against beast, so that you know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes distinction between Mitsrayim and Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, \u2018Get out, you and all the people at your feet!\u2019 And after that I shall go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in great displeasure."}, {"pk": 2700963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cPharaoh is not going to listen to you, in order to multiply My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, however, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go out of his land."}, {"pk": 2700965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2700966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "This new <i>moon</i> is the beginning of new <i>moons</i> for you, it is the first new <i>moon</i> of the year for you."}, {"pk": 2700967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "Speak to all the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018On the tenth day of this new <i>moon</i> each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household."}, {"pk": 2700968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man\u2019s need you make your count for the lamb."}, {"pk": 2700969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats."}, {"pk": 2700970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same new <i>moon</i>. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall slay it between the evenings."}, {"pk": 2700971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it."}, {"pk": 2700972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire \u2014 with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it."}, {"pk": 2700973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts."}, {"pk": 2700974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to burn with fire."}, {"pk": 2700975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the P\u0115sah\u0323 of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "P\u0115sah\u0323 - See Explanatory Notes - \"Passover\"."}, {"pk": 2700976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And I shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night, and shall strike all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And on all the mighty ones of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2700977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not come on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2700978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 throughout your generations \u2014 celebrate it as a festival, an everlasting law."}, {"pk": 2700979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2700980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh day you have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that which is eaten by every being, that alone is prepared by you."}, {"pk": 2700981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard the <i>Festival of</i> Matzot, for on this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2700982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018In the first <i>month</i>, on the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the new <i>moon</i> in the evening."}, {"pk": 2700983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whether sojourner or native of the land."}, {"pk": 2700984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018Do not eat that which is leavened \u2014 in all your dwellings you are to eat unleavened bread.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2700985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and said to them, \u201cGo out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and slay the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2700986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning."}, {"pk": 2700987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites, and shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you."}, {"pk": 2700988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever."}, {"pk": 2700989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you come to the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service."}, {"pk": 2700990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when your children say to you, \u2018What does this service mean to you?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2700991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cthen you shall say, \u2018It is the P\u0115sah\u0323 slaughtering of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.\u2019 And the people bowed their heads and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2700992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went away and did so \u2014 as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did."}, {"pk": 2700993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be at midnight that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of livestock."}, {"pk": 2700994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Mitsrites. And there was a great cry in Mitsrayim, for there was not a house where there was not a dead one."}, {"pk": 2700995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "Then he called for Mosheh and Aharon by night, and said, \u201cArise, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And go, serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as you have said."}, {"pk": 2700996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go. Then you shall bless me too."}, {"pk": 2700997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "And the Mitsrites were strong on the people, to hasten to send them away out of the land. For they said, \u201cWe are all dying!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2700998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders."}, {"pk": 2700999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had done according to the word of Mosheh, and they had asked from the Mitsrites objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments."}, {"pk": 2701000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites, so that they gave them what they asked, and they plundered the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2701001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out from Ra\u201bmeses to Sukkoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones."}, {"pk": 2701002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "And a mixed multitude went up with them too, also flocks and herds, very much livestock."}, {"pk": 2701003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Mitsrayim, for it was not leavened, since they were driven out of Mitsrayim, and had not been able to delay, nor had they prepared food for themselves."}, {"pk": 2701004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "And the sojourn of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who lived in Mitsrayim was four hundred and thirty years."}, {"pk": 2701005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "And it came to be at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that same day it came to be that all the divisions of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went out from the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "It is a night of watches unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for bringing them out of the land of Mitsrayim. This is that night of watches unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l throughout their generations."}, {"pk": 2701007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh and Aharon, \u201cThis is the law of the P\u0115sah\u0323: No son of a stranger is to eat of it,"}, {"pk": 2701008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "but any servant a man has bought for silver, when you have circumcised him, then let him eat of it."}, {"pk": 2701009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cA sojourner and a hired servant does not eat of it."}, {"pk": 2701010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cIt is eaten in one house, you are not to take any of the flesh outside the house, nor are you to break any bone of it."}, {"pk": 2701011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAll the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are to perform it."}, {"pk": 2701012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cAnd when a stranger sojourns with you and shall perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and perform it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But let no uncircumcised eat of it."}, {"pk": 2701013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 49, "text": "There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among you."}, {"pk": 2701014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 50, "text": "And all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did."}, {"pk": 2701015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 12, "verse": 51, "text": "And it came to be on that same day that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the land of Mitsrayim according to their divisions."}, {"pk": 2701016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "Set apart to Me all the first-born, the one opening the womb among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, among man and among beast, it is Mine."}, {"pk": 2701018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh said to the people, \u201cRemember this day in which you went out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery. For by strength of hand \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought you out of this place, and whatever is leavened shall not be eaten."}, {"pk": 2701019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Today you are going out, in the new <i>moon</i> Ab\u0331ib\u0331."}, {"pk": 2701020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings you into the land of the Kena\u201banites, and the H\u0323ittites, and the Amorites, and the H\u0323iwwites, and the Yeb\u0331usites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2701021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSeven days you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cUnleavened bread is to be eaten the seven days, and whatever is leavened is not to be seen with you, and leaven is not to be seen with you within all your border."}, {"pk": 2701023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall inform your son in that day, saying, \u2018It is because of what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did for me when I came up from Mitsrayim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, that the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to be in your mouth, for with a strong hand \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought you out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard this law at its appointed time from year to year."}, {"pk": 2701026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings you into the land of the Kena\u201banites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "that you shall give over to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 every one opening the womb, and every first-born that comes from your livestock, the males belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut every first-born of a donkey you are to ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom it, then you shall break its neck. And every first-born of man among your sons you are to ransom."}, {"pk": 2701029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, \u2018What is this?\u2019 then you shall say to him, \u2018By strength of hand \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought us out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage."}, {"pk": 2701030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And it came to be, when Pharaoh was too hardened to let us go, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 killed every first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast. Therefore I am slaughtering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 every male that opens the womb, but every first-born of my sons I ransom.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And it shall be as a sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought us out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that Elohim did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, though that was nearer, for Elohim said, \u201cLest the people regret when they see fighting, and return to Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "So Elohim led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Sea of Reeds. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up in fives from the land of Mitsrayim.", "comment": "Marching formation."}, {"pk": 2701034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And Mosheh took the bones of Yos\u0115ph with him, for he certainly made the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l swear, saying, \u201cElohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring my bones from here with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And they departed from Sukkoth and camped in \u011atham at the edge of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2701036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went before them by day in a column of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a column of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night."}, {"pk": 2701037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "The column of cloud did not cease by day, nor the column of fire by night, before the people."}, {"pk": 2701038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they turn and camp before Pi Hah\u0323iroth, between Mi\u1e21dol and the sea, opposite Ba\u201bal Tsephon \u2014 camp before it by the sea."}, {"pk": 2701040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "For Pharaoh shall say of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has closed them in.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And I shall strengthen the heart of Pharaoh, and he shall pursue them. But I am to be esteemed through Pharaoh and over all his army, and the Mitsrites shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they did so."}, {"pk": 2701042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And it was reported to the sovereign of Mitsrayim that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people. And they said, \u201cWhy have we done this, that we have let Yisra\u2019\u0115l go from serving us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him."}, {"pk": 2701044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Mitsrayim with officers over all of them."}, {"pk": 2701045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strengthened the heart of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and he pursued the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out defiantly."}, {"pk": 2701046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And the Mitsrites pursued them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hah\u0323iroth, before Ba\u201bal Tsephon."}, {"pk": 2701047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l lifted their eyes and saw the Mitsrites coming up after them. And they were greatly afraid, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And they said to Mosheh, \u201cDid you take us away to die in the wilderness because there are no burial-sites in Mitsrayim? What is this you have done to us, to bring us up out of Mitsrayim?"}, {"pk": 2701049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Mitsrayim, saying, \u2018Leave us alone and let us serve the Mitsrites?\u2019 For it would have been better for us to serve the Mitsrites than to die in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2701050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh said to the people, \u201cDo not be afraid. Stand still, and see the deliverance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He does for you today. For the Mitsrites whom you see today, you are never, never to see again."}, {"pk": 2701051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does fight for you, and you keep silent."}, {"pk": 2701052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cWhy do you cry to Me? Speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and let them go forward."}, {"pk": 2701053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you, lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."}, {"pk": 2701054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I, see I am strengthening the hearts of the Mitsrites, and they shall follow them. And I am to be esteemed through Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen."}, {"pk": 2701055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Mitsrites shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I am esteemed through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."}, {"pk": 2701056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And the Messenger of Elohim, who went before the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, moved and went behind them. And the column of cloud went from before them and stood behind them,"}, {"pk": 2701057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "and came between the camp of the Mitsrites and the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And it was the cloud and the darkness, and it gave light by night, and the one did not come near the other all the night."}, {"pk": 2701058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided."}, {"pk": 2701059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left."}, {"pk": 2701060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "And the Mitsrites pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."}, {"pk": 2701061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be, in the morning watch, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 looked down upon the army of the Mitsrites through the column of fire and cloud, and He brought the army of the Mitsrites into confusion."}, {"pk": 2701062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty. And the Mitsrites said, \u201cLet us flee from the face of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fights for them against the Mitsrites.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cStretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters come back upon the Mitsrites, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its usual flow, at the break of day, with the Mitsrites fleeing into it. Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 overthrew the Mitsrites in the midst of the sea,"}, {"pk": 2701065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "and the waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, and not even one was left of them."}, {"pk": 2701066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right and on their left."}, {"pk": 2701067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Yisra\u2019\u0115l that day out of the hand of the Mitsrites, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw the Mitsrites dead on the seashore."}, {"pk": 2701068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw the great work which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had done in Mitsrayim, and the people feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and believed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His servant Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Mosheh and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sang this song to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and spoke, saying, \u201cI sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!"}, {"pk": 2701070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "Yah is my strength and song, and He has become my deliverance. He is my \u011al, and I praise Him \u2014 Elohim of my father, and I exalt Him.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/14'>118:14</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/12/2'>12:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2701071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a man of battle, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His Name."}, {"pk": 2701072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHe has cast Pharaoh\u2019s chariots and his army into the sea, and his chosen officers are drowned in the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2701073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThe depths covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone."}, {"pk": 2701074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYour right hand, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, has become great in power. Your right hand, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, has crushed the enemy."}, {"pk": 2701075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd in the greatness of Your excellence You pulled down those who rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, it consumed them like stubble."}, {"pk": 2701076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd with the wind of Your nostrils the waters were heaped up, the floods stood like a wall, the depths became stiff in the heart of the sea."}, {"pk": 2701077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe enemy said, \u2018I pursue, I overtake, I divide the spoil, my being is satisfied on them. I draw out my sword, my hand destroys them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou did blow with Your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters."}, {"pk": 2701079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWho is like You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, among the mighty ones? Who is like You, great in set-apartness, awesome in praises, working wonders?"}, {"pk": 2701080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cYou stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them."}, {"pk": 2701081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIn Your loving-commitment You led the people whom You have redeemed, in Your strength You guided them to Your set-apart dwelling."}, {"pk": 2701082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cPeoples heard, they trembled, anguish gripped the inhabitants of Philistia."}, {"pk": 2701083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThen the chiefs of Ed\u0331om were troubled, the mighty men of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, trembling grips them, all the inhabitants of Kena\u201ban melted."}, {"pk": 2701084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFear and dread fell on them, by the greatness of Your arm they are as silent as a stone, until Your people pass over, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, until the people, whom You have bought, pass over."}, {"pk": 2701085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYou bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the set-apart place, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which Your hands have prepared."}, {"pk": 2701086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 reigns forever and ever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought back the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went on dry ground in the midst of the sea."}, {"pk": 2701088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And Miryam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand. And all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances."}, {"pk": 2701089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And Miryam answered them, \u201cSing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "And Mosheh brought Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water."}, {"pk": 2701091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And they came to Marah, and they were unable to drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. So the name of it was called Marah."}, {"pk": 2701092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And the people grumbled against Mosheh, saying, \u201cWhat are we to drink?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "Then he cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed him a tree. And when he threw it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a law and a right-ruling for them, and there He tried them."}, {"pk": 2701094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And He said, \u201cIf you diligently obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and do what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to His commands and shall guard all His laws, I shall bring on you none of the diseases I brought on the Mitsrites, for I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who heals you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And they came to \u011alim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters."}, {"pk": 2701096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And they set out from \u011alim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between \u011alim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second new <i>moon</i> after their going out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l grumbled against Mosheh and Aharon in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2701098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to them, \u201cIf only we had died by the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the land of Mitsrayim, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to satisfaction! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSee, I am raining bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a day\u2019s portion every day, in order to try them, whether they walk in My Torah or not."}, {"pk": 2701100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."}, {"pk": 2701101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon said to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cAt evening you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And in the morning you shall see the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He hears your grumblings against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And what are we, that you grumble against us?"}, {"pk": 2701103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cIn that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfaction, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 hears your grumblings which you make against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cSay to all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Come near before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He has heard your grumblings.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, as Aharon spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they looked toward the wilderness and see, the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared in the cloud."}, {"pk": 2701106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "I have heard the grumblings of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Speak to them, saying, \u2018Between the evenings you are to eat meat, and in the morning you are to be satisfied with bread. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp."}, {"pk": 2701109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the layer of dew went up, and see, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground."}, {"pk": 2701110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw, and they said to each other, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d For they did not know what it was. And Mosheh said to them, \u201cIt is the bread which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given you to eat."}, {"pk": 2701111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "This is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded: \u2018Let every man gather it according to each one\u2019s need, an omer for each being, according to the number of beings. Let every man take for those who are in his tent.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did so and gathered, some more, some less."}, {"pk": 2701113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And they measured it by omers, and he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered according to his need."}, {"pk": 2701114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cLet no one leave any of it until morning.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And they did not listen to Mosheh, so some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Mosheh was wroth with them."}, {"pk": 2701116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "And they gathered it every morning, each one according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted."}, {"pk": 2701117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cThis is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said, \u2018Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "And they laid it up till morning, as Mosheh commanded. And it did not stink, and no worm was in it."}, {"pk": 2701120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cEat it today, for today is a Sabbath to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, today you do not find it in the field."}, {"pk": 2701121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "Gather it six days, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there is none."}, {"pk": 2701122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none."}, {"pk": 2701123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cHow long shall you refuse to guard My commands and My Torot?", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah, teaching."}, {"pk": 2701124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "See, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given you the Sabbath, therefore He is giving you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each one stay in his place, do not let anyone go out of his place on the seventh day."}, {"pk": 2701125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "So the people rested on the seventh day.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/2'>2:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/2/3'>3</a>"}, {"pk": 2701126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "And the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like thin cakes made with honey."}, {"pk": 2701127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cThis is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded: \u2018Fill an omer with it, to keep for your generations, so that they see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cTake a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and set it down before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to keep for your generations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, so did Aharon set it down before the Witness, to keep."}, {"pk": 2701130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2701131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "text": "And an omer is one-tenth of an \u0115phah."}, {"pk": 2701132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and camped in Rephid\u0331im. And there was no water for the people to drink."}, {"pk": 2701133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore the people strove with Mosheh, and said, \u201cGive us water to drink.\u201d And Mosheh said to them, \u201cWhy do you strive with me? Why do you try \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Mosheh, and said, \u201cWhy did you bring us out of Mitsrayim, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Mosheh cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWhat am I to do with this people? Yet a little and they shall stone me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cPass over before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go."}, {"pk": 2701137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "See, I am standing before you there on the rock in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331. And you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people shall drink. And Mosheh did so before the eyes of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And he called the name of the place Massah and Merib\u0331ah, because of the \u2018strife\u2019 of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and because they \u2018tried\u2019 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cIs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in our midst or not?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And Amal\u0115q came and fought with Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Rephid\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2701140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh said to Yehoshua, \u201cChoose for us men and go out, fight with Amal\u0115q. Tomorrow I am stationing myself on the top of the hill with the rod of Elohim in my hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua did as Mosheh said to him, to fight with Amal\u0115q. And Mosheh, Aharon, and H\u0323ur went up to the top of the hill."}, {"pk": 2701142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisra\u2019\u0115l prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amal\u0115q prevailed."}, {"pk": 2701143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "But Mosheh\u2019s hands were heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aharon and H\u0323ur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."}, {"pk": 2701144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yehoshua defeated Amal\u0115q and his people with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2701145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cWrite this for a remembrance in the book and recite it in the hearing of Yehoshua, that I shall completely blot out the remembrance of Amal\u0115q from under the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh built a slaughter-place and called its name, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Nissi,"}, {"pk": 2701147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "for he said, \u201cBecause a hand is on the throne of Yah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to fight against Amal\u0115q, from generation to generation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yithro, the priest of Mid\u0331yan, Mosheh\u2019s father-in-law, heard of all that Elohim had done for Mosheh and for Yisra\u2019\u0115l His people, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had brought Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yithro, Mosheh\u2019s father-in-law, took Tsipporah, the wife of Mosheh \u2014 after he had sent her back,"}, {"pk": 2701150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "and her two sons, of whom the name of one was G\u0115reshom, for he said, \u201cI have been a sojourner in a foreign land,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "and the name of the other was Eli\u201bezer, for he said, \u201cThe Elohim of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "Yithro, Mosheh\u2019s father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Mosheh in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "And he had said to Mosheh, \u201cI, your father-in-law Yithro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down, and kissed him. And they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent."}, {"pk": 2701155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh told his father-in-law all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had done to Pharaoh and to the Mitsrites for Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had delivered them."}, {"pk": 2701156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yithro rejoiced for all the good which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had done for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2701157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yithro said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Mitsrites and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Mitsrites."}, {"pk": 2701158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Now I know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is greater than all the mighty ones, indeed in the matter in which they acted proudly, above them."}, {"pk": 2701159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Yithro, the father-in-law of Mosheh, brought an ascending offering and other slaughterings unto Elohim. And Aharon came with all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to eat bread with the father-in-law of Mosheh before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, on the next day, that Mosheh sat to rightly rule the people. And the people stood before Mosheh from morning until evening."}, {"pk": 2701161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And when the father-in-law of Mosheh saw all that he did for the people, he said, \u201cWhat is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit by yourself, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh said to his father-in-law, \u201cBecause the people come to me to seek Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "When they have a matter, they come to me, and I rightly rule between one and another, and make known the laws of Elohim and His Torot.\u201d", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah, teaching. Torot - plural of Torah, teaching."}, {"pk": 2701164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And the father-in-law of Mosheh said to him, \u201cWhat you are doing is not good."}, {"pk": 2701165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBoth you and these people with you shall certainly wear yourselves out. For the matter is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it by yourself."}, {"pk": 2701166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cNow listen to my voice. Let me counsel you and Elohim be with you: Stand before Elohim for the people, and you shall bring the matters to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And you shall enlighten them <i>concerning</i> the laws and the Torot, and show them the way in which they should walk and the work which they do."}, {"pk": 2701168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "But you yourself, seek out from all the people able men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, hating unfair gain. And place <i>these</i> over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens."}, {"pk": 2701169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall rightly rule the people at all times. And it shall be that they bring every great matter to you, but they themselves rightly rule every small matter. So, make it lighter for yourself, for they shall bear with you."}, {"pk": 2701170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cIf you do this word, and Elohim shall command you, then you shall be able to stand and all this people also go to their place in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And Mosheh listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said."}, {"pk": 2701172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And Mosheh chose able men out of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens."}, {"pk": 2701173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And they rightly ruled the people at all times \u2014 the hard matters they brought to Mosheh, but they rightly ruled every small matter themselves."}, {"pk": 2701174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And Mosheh sent off his father-in-law, and he went away to his own land."}, {"pk": 2701175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "In the third new <i>moon</i> after the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, on this day they came to the Wilderness of Sinai."}, {"pk": 2701176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "For they set out from Rephid\u0331im, and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Yisra\u2019\u0115l camped there before the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh went up to Elohim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called to him from the mountain, saying, \u201cThis is what you are to say to the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and declare to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2701178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018You have seen what I did to the Mitsrites, and how I bore you on eagles\u2019 wings and brought you to Myself."}, {"pk": 2701179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And now, if you diligently obey My voice, and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples \u2014 for all the earth is Mine \u2014"}, {"pk": 2701180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018and you shall be to Me a reign of priests and a set-apart nation.\u2019 Those are the words which you are to speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him."}, {"pk": 2701182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And all the people answered together and said, \u201cAll that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken we shall do.\u201d So Mosheh brought back the words of the people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSee, I am coming to you in the thick cloud, so that the people hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.\u201d And Mosheh reported the words of the people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo to the people and set them apart today and tomorrow. And they shall wash their garments,"}, {"pk": 2701185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "and shall be prepared by the third day. For on the third day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall come down upon Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people."}, {"pk": 2701186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a border for the people all around, saying, \u2018Take heed to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018Not a hand is to touch it, but he shall certainly be stoned or shot with an arrow, whether man or beast, he shall not live.\u2019 When the Yob\u0331el sounds long, let them come near the mountain.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes: \"Yob\u0331el\"."}, {"pk": 2701188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And Mosheh came down from the mountain to the people and set the people apart, and they washed their garments."}, {"pk": 2701189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to the people, \u201cBe prepared by the third day. Do not come near a wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain. And a voice of a shophar was very strong, and all the people who were in the camp trembled.", "comment": "Animal horn - traditionally a ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2701191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And Mosheh brought the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim, and they stood at the foot of the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And Mount Sinai was in smoke, all of it, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 descended upon it in fire. And its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled exceedingly."}, {"pk": 2701193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And when a voice of the shophar sounded long and became very strong, Mosheh spoke, and Elohim answered him by voice.", "comment": "Animal horn - traditionally a ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2701194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called Mosheh to the top of the mountain, and Mosheh went up."}, {"pk": 2701195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo down, <i>and</i> warn the people, lest they break through unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to see, and many of them fall."}, {"pk": 2701196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And let the priests who come near \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set themselves apart too, lest \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 break out against them."}, {"pk": 2701197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "And Mosheh said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, for You warned us, saying, \u2018Make a border around the mountain and set it apart.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cCome, go down and then come up, you and Aharon with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, lest He break out against them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "And Mosheh went down to the people and spoke to them."}, {"pk": 2701200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elohim spoke all these Words, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery."}, {"pk": 2701202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYou have no other mighty ones against My face."}, {"pk": 2701203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYou do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,"}, {"pk": 2701204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim am a jealous \u011al, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth <i>generations</i> of those who hate Me,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "but showing loving-commitment to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands."}, {"pk": 2701206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYou do not bring the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim to naught, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught.", "comment": "Or <em>lift up,</em> or <em>take.</em>"}, {"pk": 2701207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cRemember the Sabbath day, to set it apart."}, {"pk": 2701208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSix days you labour, and shall do all your work,"}, {"pk": 2701209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "but the seventh day is a Sabbath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. You do not do any work \u2014 you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.", "comment": "There are other Sabbaths, but this is the weekly Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2701210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor in six days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart."}, {"pk": 2701211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cRespect your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged upon the soil which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2701212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou do not murder."}, {"pk": 2701213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou do not commit adultery."}, {"pk": 2701214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou do not steal."}, {"pk": 2701215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cYou do not bear false witness against your neighbour."}, {"pk": 2701216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYou do not covet your neighbour\u2019s house, you do not covet your neighbour\u2019s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour."}, {"pk": 2701217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "And all the people saw the thunders, the lightning flashes, the voice of the shophar, and the mountain smoking. And the people saw it, and they trembled and stood at a distance,"}, {"pk": 2701218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "and said to Mosheh, \u201cYou speak with us and we hear, but let not Elohim speak with us, lest we die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And Mosheh said to the people, \u201cDo not fear, for Elohim has come to prove you, and in order that His fear be before you, so that you do not sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "So the people stood at a distance, but Mosheh drew near the thick darkness where Elohim was."}, {"pk": 2701221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSay this to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: \u2018You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from the heavens."}, {"pk": 2701222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018You do not make besides Me mighty ones of silver, and you do not make mighty ones of gold for yourselves."}, {"pk": 2701223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018Make a slaughter-place of earth for Me, and you shall slaughter on it your ascending offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My Name to be remembered I shall come to you and bless you."}, {"pk": 2701224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And if you make Me a slaughter-place of stone, do not build it of cut stone, for if you use your chisel on it, you have profaned it."}, {"pk": 2701225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018Nor do you go up by steps to My slaughter-place, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThese are the right-rulings which you are to set before them:"}, {"pk": 2701227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught."}, {"pk": 2701228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cIf he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him."}, {"pk": 2701229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIf his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children are her master\u2019s, and he goes out by himself."}, {"pk": 2701230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd if the servant truly says, \u2018I love my master, my wife, and my children, let me not go out free,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever."}, {"pk": 2701232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she does not go out as the male servants do."}, {"pk": 2701233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIf she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her."}, {"pk": 2701234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the right of daughters."}, {"pk": 2701235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cIf he takes another <i>wife</i>, her food, her covering, and her marriage rights are not to be diminished."}, {"pk": 2701236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out for naught, without silver."}, {"pk": 2701237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cHe who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee."}, {"pk": 2701239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him <i>even</i> from My slaughter-place to die."}, {"pk": 2701240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd he who strikes his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd when men strive together, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed,"}, {"pk": 2701244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who struck him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he is completely healed."}, {"pk": 2701245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall certainly be punished."}, {"pk": 2701246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut if he remains alive a day or two, he is not punished; for he is his property."}, {"pk": 2701247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd when men strive and they shall smite a pregnant woman, and her children come out, yet there is no injury, he shall certainly be punished accordingly as the woman\u2019s husband lays upon him. And he shall give through the judges."}, {"pk": 2701248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut if there is injury, then you shall give life for life,"}, {"pk": 2701249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,"}, {"pk": 2701250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "burn for burn, wound for wound, lash for lash."}, {"pk": 2701251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he is to let him go free for the sake of his eye."}, {"pk": 2701252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to let him go free for the sake of his tooth."}, {"pk": 2701253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd when an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox is innocent."}, {"pk": 2701254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cHowever, if the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox is stoned and its owner also is put to death."}, {"pk": 2701255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "If a <i>sin</i>-covering is laid upon him, then he shall give the ransom of his life, whatever is laid on him."}, {"pk": 2701256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cWhether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, according to this right-ruling it is done to him."}, {"pk": 2701257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cIf the ox gores a male or female servant, he is to give to their master thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is stoned."}, {"pk": 2701258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,"}, {"pk": 2701259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cthe owner of the pit is to repay, he is to give silver to their owner, and the dead <i>beast</i> is his."}, {"pk": 2701260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd when the ox of a man smites the ox of his neighbour and it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the silver from it, and also divide the dead ox."}, {"pk": 2701261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cOr if it was known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he shall certainly repay ox for ox, while the dead <i>beast</i> is his."}, {"pk": 2701262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen a man steals an ox or a sheep, and shall slaughter it or sell it, he repays five cattle for an ox and four sheep for a sheep."}, {"pk": 2701263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIf the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there is no guilt for his bloodshed."}, {"pk": 2701264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cIf the sun has risen on him, there is guilt for his bloodshed, he shall certainly repay. If he has not the means, then he shall be sold for his theft."}, {"pk": 2701265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIf the theft is indeed found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he repays double."}, {"pk": 2701266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhen a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed <i>bare</i>, and lets loose his livestock, and it feeds in another man\u2019s field, he repays from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard."}, {"pk": 2701267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhen fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain, or standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall certainly repay."}, {"pk": 2701268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhen a man gives silver or goods to his neighbour to guard, and it is stolen out of the man\u2019s house, if the thief is found, he repays double."}, {"pk": 2701269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIf the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought before Elohim to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbour\u2019s goods."}, {"pk": 2701270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor every matter of transgression, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garment, or for whatever is lost which another claims to be his, let the matter of them both come before Elohim. And whomever Elohim declares wrong repays double to his neighbour."}, {"pk": 2701271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen a man gives to his neighbour a donkey, or ox, or sheep, or any beast to watch over, and it dies, or is injured, or is driven away while no one is looking,"}, {"pk": 2701272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "let an oath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbour\u2019s goods. And the owner of it shall accept that, and he does not repay."}, {"pk": 2701273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut if it is indeed stolen from him, he repays to its owner."}, {"pk": 2701274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIf it is torn to pieces, then let him bring it for evidence, he does not repay what was torn."}, {"pk": 2701275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man borrows from his neighbour, and it is injured or dies while the owner of it is not present, he shall certainly repay."}, {"pk": 2701276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut if its owner was with it, he does not repay. If it was hired, he is entitled to the hire."}, {"pk": 2701277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man entices a maiden who is not engaged, and lies with her, he shall certainly pay the bride-price for her to be his wife."}, {"pk": 2701278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cIf her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he pays according to the bride-price of maidens."}, {"pk": 2701279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDo not allow a practiser of witchcraft to live."}, {"pk": 2701280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnyone lying with a beast shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cHe who slaughters to an elohim, except to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 only, is put under the ban."}, {"pk": 2701282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDo not tread down a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cDo not afflict any widow or fatherless child."}, {"pk": 2701284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cIf you do afflict them at all \u2014 if they cry out to Me at all, I shall certainly hear their cry,"}, {"pk": 2701285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "and My wrath shall burn and I shall kill you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless."}, {"pk": 2701286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIf you do lend silver to any of My people, the poor among you, you are not to be like one that lends on interest to him. Do not lay interest on him."}, {"pk": 2701287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cIf you take your neighbour\u2019s garment as a pledge at all, you are to return it to him before the sun goes down."}, {"pk": 2701288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What does he sleep in? And it shall be that when he cries to Me, I shall hear, for I show favour."}, {"pk": 2701289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cDo not revile an elohim, nor curse a ruler of your people."}, {"pk": 2701290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cDo not delay <i>giving</i> your harvest and your vintage. Give Me the first-born of your sons."}, {"pk": 2701291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cLikewise you are to do with your oxen, with your sheep. It is to be with its mother seven days. On the eighth day you give it to Me."}, {"pk": 2701292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you are set-apart men to Me, and you do not eat any meat which is torn to pieces in the field, you throw it to the dogs."}, {"pk": 2701293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDo not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong to be a malicious witness."}, {"pk": 2701294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in a strife so as to turn aside after many, to turn aside <i>what is right</i>."}, {"pk": 2701295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd do not favour a poor man in his strife."}, {"pk": 2701296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhen you meet your enemy\u2019s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall certainly return it to him."}, {"pk": 2701297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhen you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him."}, {"pk": 2701298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife."}, {"pk": 2701299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cKeep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right."}, {"pk": 2701300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and twists the words of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2701301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2701302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase,"}, {"pk": 2701303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard."}, {"pk": 2701304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSix days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed."}, {"pk": 2701305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth."}, {"pk": 2701306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThree times in the year you are to celebrate a festival to Me:", "comment": "The Festivals of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are grouped in three, for three different times of the year."}, {"pk": 2701307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "Guard the Festival of Matzot. Seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the new <i>moon</i> of Ab\u0331ib\u0331 \u2014 for in it you came out of Mitsrayim \u2014 and do not appear before Me empty-handed;", "comment": "Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2701308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "and the Festival of the Harvest, the first-fruits of your labours which you have sown in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering at the outgoing of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labours from the field.", "comment": "Sukkot (Festival of Booths)<br>Shab\u0331u\u2019ot (Festival of Weeks)."}, {"pk": 2701309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThree times in the year all your males are to appear before the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDo not slaughter the blood of My slaughtering with leavened bread, and the fat of My festival shall not remain until morning."}, {"pk": 2701311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother\u2019s milk."}, {"pk": 2701312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSee, I am sending a Messenger before you to guard you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared."}, {"pk": 2701313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBe on guard before Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him."}, {"pk": 2701314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I speak, then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who distress you."}, {"pk": 2701315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in to the Amorites and the H\u0323ittites and the Perizzites and the Kena\u201banites and the H\u0323iwwites and the Yeb\u0331usites, and I shall cut them off."}, {"pk": 2701316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cDo not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars."}, {"pk": 2701317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst."}, {"pk": 2701318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cNone shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I shall fill the number of your days."}, {"pk": 2701319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cI shall send My fear before you, and cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you."}, {"pk": 2701320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the H\u0323iwwite, the Kena\u201banite, and the H\u0323ittite from before you."}, {"pk": 2701321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cI shall not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste and the beast of the field become too numerous for you."}, {"pk": 2701322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cLittle by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land."}, {"pk": 2701323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you."}, {"pk": 2701324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cDo not make a covenant with them nor with their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2701325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "Let them not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me when you serve their mighty ones, when it becomes a snare to you."}, {"pk": 2701326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And to Mosheh He said, \u201cCome up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you and Aharon, Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall bow yourselves from a distance."}, {"pk": 2701327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "But Mosheh shall draw near to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by himself, and let them not draw near, nor let the people go up with him."}, {"pk": 2701328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh came and related to the people all the Words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and all the right-rulings. And all the people answered with one voice and said, \u201cAll the Words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken we shall do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh wrote down all the Words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and rose up early in the morning, and built a slaughter-place at the foot of the mountain, and twelve standing columns for the twelve tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And he sent young men of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they offered ascending offerings and slaughtered slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of bulls."}, {"pk": 2701331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, \u201cAll that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken we shall do, and obey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, \u201cSee, the blood of the covenant which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made with you concerning all these Words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh went up, also Aharon, Nad\u0331ab\u0331, and Ab\u0331ihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2701335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "and they saw the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and under His feet like a paved work of sapphire stone, and like the heavens for brightness."}, {"pk": 2701336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the chiefs of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! And they saw Elohim, and they ate and drank."}, {"pk": 2701337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cCome up to Me on the mountain and be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Torah and the command which I have written, to teach them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh arose with his assistant Yehoshua, and Mosheh went up to the mountain of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said to the elders, \u201cWait here for us until we come back to you. And see, Aharon and H\u0323ur are with you. Whoever has matters, let him go to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. And on the seventh day He called to Mosheh out of the midst of the cloud."}, {"pk": 2701342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And the appearance of the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And Mosheh went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And it came to be that Mosheh was on the mountain forty days and forty nights."}, {"pk": 2701344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they take up a contribution for Me. From everyone whose heart moves him you shall take up My contribution."}, {"pk": 2701346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "And this is the contribution which you take up from them: gold, and silver, and bronze,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "and blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine linen, and goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>,"}, {"pk": 2701348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "and rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and fine leather, and acacia wood,"}, {"pk": 2701349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,"}, {"pk": 2701350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "shoham stones, and stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in the breastplate."}, {"pk": 2701351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall make Me a Set-apart Place, and I shall dwell in their midst."}, {"pk": 2701352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAccording to all that I show you \u2014 the pattern of the Dwelling Place and the pattern of all its furnishings \u2014 make it exactly so."}, {"pk": 2701353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high."}, {"pk": 2701354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall overlay it with clean gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it. And you shall make on it a moulding of gold all around."}, {"pk": 2701355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners, two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side."}, {"pk": 2701356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "and shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to lift up the ark by them."}, {"pk": 2701358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe poles are in the rings of the ark, they are not taken from it."}, {"pk": 2701359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd into the ark you shall put the Witness which I give you."}, {"pk": 2701360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a lid of atonement of clean gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide."}, {"pk": 2701361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make two kerub\u0331im of gold, make them of beaten work, at the two ends of the lid of atonement."}, {"pk": 2701362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd make one kerub\u0331 at one end, and the other kerub\u0331 at the other end. Make the kerub\u0331im from the lid of atonement, at its two ends."}, {"pk": 2701363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the kerub\u0331im shall be spreading out their wings above, covering the lid of atonement with their wings, with their faces toward each other, the faces of the kerub\u0331im <i>turned</i> toward the lid of atonement."}, {"pk": 2701364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put the lid of atonement on top of the ark, and put into the ark the Witness which I give you."}, {"pk": 2701365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall meet with you there, and from above the lid of atonement, from between the two kerub\u0331im which are on the ark of the Witness, I shall speak to you all that which I command you concerning the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high."}, {"pk": 2701367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "And you shall overlay it with clean gold, and shall make a moulding of gold all around,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "and shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and shall make a gold moulding for the rim all around."}, {"pk": 2701369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs."}, {"pk": 2701370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cThe rings are close to the rim, as holders for the poles to lift the table."}, {"pk": 2701371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be lifted with them."}, {"pk": 2701372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make its dishes, and its ladles, and its jars, and its bowls for pouring. Make them of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put the showbread on the table before Me, continually."}, {"pk": 2701374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "And you shall make a lampstand of clean gold \u2014 the lampstand is made of beaten work. Its base and its shaft, its cups, its ornamental knobs and blossoms are from it,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "and six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side;"}, {"pk": 2701376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "three cups made like almond flowers on one branch, with ornamental knob and blossom, and three cups made like almond flowers on the other branch, with ornamental knob and blossom \u2014 so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand."}, {"pk": 2701377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd on the lampstand itself are four cups made like almond flowers, with ornamental knob and blossom,"}, {"pk": 2701378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "text": "and a knob under the first two branches of the same, and a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches coming out of the lampstand."}, {"pk": 2701379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cTheir knobs and their branches are of the same \u2014 all of it one beaten work of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall mount its lamps so that they give light in front of it."}, {"pk": 2701381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd its snuffers and their trays are of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cIt is made of a talent of clean gold, with all these utensils."}, {"pk": 2701383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cSo see, and do according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd make the Dwelling Place with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>. Make them, with kerub\u0331im, the work of a skilled workman."}, {"pk": 2701385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThe length of each curtain is twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, all the curtains having one measure."}, {"pk": 2701386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFive curtains are joined to each other, and five curtains are joined to each other."}, {"pk": 2701387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain on one set, and do the same on the edge of the end curtain of the second set."}, {"pk": 2701388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cMake fifty loops in the one curtain and make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the second set, the loops being opposite to each other."}, {"pk": 2701389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make fifty hooks of gold, and shall join the curtains together with the hooks, and the Dwelling Place shall be one."}, {"pk": 2701390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make curtains of goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>, for a tent over the Dwelling Place, make eleven curtains."}, {"pk": 2701391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe length of each curtain is thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, one measure to the eleven curtains."}, {"pk": 2701392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall join the five curtains by themselves, and the six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the six curtains at the front of the Tent."}, {"pk": 2701393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set."}, {"pk": 2701394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make fifty bronze hooks, and put the hooks into the loops, and join the tent together, and it shall be one."}, {"pk": 2701395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the overlapping part of the rest of the curtains of the Tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the Tent, is to hang over the sides of the Dwelling Place, on this side and on that side, to cover it."}, {"pk": 2701397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a covering of ram skins dyed red for the Tent, and a covering of fine leather above that."}, {"pk": 2701398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd for the Dwelling Place you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing up."}, {"pk": 2701399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTen cubits is the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board,"}, {"pk": 2701400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "two tenons in each board for binding one to another. Do the same for all the boards of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "And you shall make the boards for the Dwelling Place, twenty boards for the south side,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "and make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons."}, {"pk": 2701403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd for the second side of the Dwelling Place, on the north side, twenty boards,"}, {"pk": 2701404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under each of the boards."}, {"pk": 2701405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "And for the extreme parts of the Dwelling Place, westward, make six boards,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "and make two boards for the two back corners of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd they are double beneath and similarly they are complete to the top, to the one ring. So it is for both of them, they are for the two corners."}, {"pk": 2701408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets \u2014 two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board."}, {"pk": 2701409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the Dwelling Place,"}, {"pk": 2701410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "and five bars for the boards on the other side of the Dwelling Place, and five bars for the boards of the side of the Dwelling Place, for the extreme parts westward,"}, {"pk": 2701411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "with the middle bar in the midst of the boards, going through from end to end."}, {"pk": 2701412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold."}, {"pk": 2701413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall raise up the Dwelling Place according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen, the work of a skilled workman, made with kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2701415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put it on the four columns of acacia wood overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold, upon four sockets of silver."}, {"pk": 2701416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall hang the veil from the hooks, and shall bring the ark of the Witness there, behind the veil. And the veil shall make a separation for you between the Set-apart and the Most Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2701417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put the lid of atonement upon the ark of the Witness in the Most Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2701418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the Dwelling Place toward the south, and put the table on the north side."}, {"pk": 2701419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "text": "And you shall make a covering for the door of the Tent, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver."}, {"pk": 2701420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make for the covering five columns of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, their hooks of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them."}, {"pk": 2701421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a slaughter-place of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide \u2014 the slaughter-place is square \u2014 and its height three cubits."}, {"pk": 2701422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make its horns on its four corners, its horns are of the same. And you shall overlay it with bronze."}, {"pk": 2701423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make its pots to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its fire holders. Make all its utensils of bronze."}, {"pk": 2701424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a grating for it, a bronze network, and shall make on the network four bronze rings at its four corners,"}, {"pk": 2701425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "and shall put it under the rim of the slaughter-place beneath, so that the network is halfway up the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make poles for the slaughter-place, poles of acacia wood, and shall overlay them with bronze."}, {"pk": 2701427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the poles shall be put in the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the slaughter-place for lifting it."}, {"pk": 2701428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cMake it hollow with boards. As it was shown to you on the mountain, so they are to make it."}, {"pk": 2701429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make the courtyard of the Dwelling Place: for the south side screens for the courtyard made of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long for one side,"}, {"pk": 2701430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "and its twenty columns and their twenty sockets of bronze, the hooks of the columns and their bands of silver,"}, {"pk": 2701431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cand so for the north side in length, screens one hundred <i>cubits</i> long, with its twenty columns and their twenty sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the columns and their bands of silver."}, {"pk": 2701432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the width of the courtyard on the west side screens of fifty cubits, with their ten columns and their ten sockets."}, {"pk": 2701433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the width of the courtyard on the east side fifty cubits."}, {"pk": 2701434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the screens on one side of the gate fifteen cubits, with their three columns and their three sockets."}, {"pk": 2701435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd on the other side screens of fifteen <i>cubits</i>, with their three columns and their three sockets."}, {"pk": 2701436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "And for the gate of the courtyard a covering twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver \u2014 four columns and four sockets."}, {"pk": 2701437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAll the columns around the courtyard have bands of silver, their hooks silver and their sockets bronze."}, {"pk": 2701438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThe length of the courtyard is one hundred cubits, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, woven of fine linen thread, and its sockets of bronze."}, {"pk": 2701439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAll the utensils of the Dwelling Place for all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, are bronze."}, {"pk": 2701440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you, you are to command the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually."}, {"pk": 2701441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cIn the Tent of Appointment, outside the veil which is before the Witness, Aharon and his sons are to tend it from evening until morning before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 a law forever to their generations, from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you, bring near Aharon your brother and his sons with him, from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for serving as priest to Me: Aharon, Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aharon."}, {"pk": 2701443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make set-apart garments for Aharon your brother, for esteem and for comeliness."}, {"pk": 2701444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you, speak to all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they shall make the garments of Aharon, to set him apart, for him to serve as priest to Me."}, {"pk": 2701445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the garments which they make: a breastplate, a shoulder garment, a robe, an embroidered long shirt, a turban, and a girdle. And they shall make set-apart garments for Aharon your brother and his sons, for him to serve as priest to Me."}, {"pk": 2701446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "And they shall take the gold, and the blue and the purple and the scarlet <i>material</i>, and the fine linen,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "and shall make the shoulder garment of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen, the work of a skilled workman."}, {"pk": 2701448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIt is to have two shoulder pieces joined at its two edges, and so it is joined together."}, {"pk": 2701449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, which is on it, is of the same workmanship, made of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen."}, {"pk": 2701450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take two shoham stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2701451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "six of their names on one stone, and the remaining six names on the other stone, according to their birth."}, {"pk": 2701452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWith the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Set them in settings of gold."}, {"pk": 2701453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the shoulder garment as stones of remembrance for the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Aharon shall bear their names before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on his two shoulders, for a remembrance."}, {"pk": 2701454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "And you shall make settings of gold,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "and two chains of clean gold like braided cords, and fasten the braided chains to the settings."}, {"pk": 2701456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And you shall make a breastplate of right-ruling, a work of a skilled workman, like the work of the shoulder garment. Make it of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine woven linen."}, {"pk": 2701457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cIt is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its width."}, {"pk": 2701458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The first row is a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald; \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "and the second row is a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;"}, {"pk": 2701460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "and the third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;"}, {"pk": 2701461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "and the fourth row is a beryl, and a shoham, and a jasper. They are set in gold settings."}, {"pk": 2701462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd the stones are according to the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, each one with its own name, for the twelve tribes."}, {"pk": 2701463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make braided chains of corded work for the breastplate at the end, of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make two rings of gold for the breastplate, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate."}, {"pk": 2701465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "and the other two ends of the two cords you fasten to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the shoulder garment in the front."}, {"pk": 2701467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which is on the inner side of the shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2701468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "And you shall make two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder pieces, underneath the shoulder garment, on the front of it, close to the seam above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "and they bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the shoulder garment, using a blue cord, so that it is above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, so that the breastplate does not come loose from the shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2701470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall bear the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on the breastplate of right-ruling over his heart, when he goes into the set-apart place, for a remembrance before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, continually."}, {"pk": 2701471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd into the breastplate of right-ruling you shall put the Urim and the Tummim, and they shall be on the heart of Aharon when he goes in before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Aharon shall bear the right-ruling of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on his heart before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, continually."}, {"pk": 2701472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make the robe of the shoulder garment all of blue."}, {"pk": 2701473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd the opening for his head shall be in the middle of it, a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a scaled armour, so that it does not tear."}, {"pk": 2701474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 33, "text": "And on its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, all around its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:"}, {"pk": 2701475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 34, "text": "a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around."}, {"pk": 2701476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be upon Aharon to attend in, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the set-apart place before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and when he comes out, so that he does not die."}, {"pk": 2701477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a plate of clean gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put it on a blue cord, and it shall be on the turban \u2014 it is to be on the front of the turban."}, {"pk": 2701479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be on the forehead of Aharon, and Aharon shall bear the guilt of the set-apart gifts which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set apart in all their set-apart gifts. And it shall always be on his forehead, for acceptance for them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall weave the long shirt of fine linen, and shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make the girdle of woven work."}, {"pk": 2701481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd make long shirts for Aharon\u2019s sons. And you shall make girdles for them, and you shall make turbans for them, for esteem and comeliness."}, {"pk": 2701482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put them on Aharon your brother and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and shall ordain them, and shall set them apart, and they shall serve as priests to Me."}, {"pk": 2701483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd make linen trousers for them, to cover their nakedness, reaching from the waist to the thighs."}, {"pk": 2701484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 28, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be on Aharon and on his sons when they come into the Tent of Appointment, or when they come near the slaughter-place to attend in the Set-apart Place, so that they do not bear crookedness and die \u2014 a law forever to him, and to his seed after him."}, {"pk": 2701485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And this is the task you shall do to them to set them apart to serve Me as priests: Take one young bull and two rams, perfect ones,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil \u2014 make these of wheat flour."}, {"pk": 2701487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams."}, {"pk": 2701488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThen you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent of Appointment, and wash them with water."}, {"pk": 2701489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take the garments, and shall put on Aharon the long shirt, and the robe of the shoulder garment, and the shoulder garment, and the breastplate, and shall gird him with the embroidered band of the shoulder garment,"}, {"pk": 2701490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "and shall put the turban on his head, and shall put the set-apart sign of dedication on the turban,"}, {"pk": 2701491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "and shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him."}, {"pk": 2701492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "Then you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "and shall gird them with girdles \u2014 Aharon and his sons \u2014 and put the turbans on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law. So you shall ordain Aharon and his sons."}, {"pk": 2701494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring near the bull before the Tent of Appointment, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull."}, {"pk": 2701495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "And you shall slay the bull before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by the door of the Tent of Appointment,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the slaughter-place with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut the flesh of the bull, and its skin and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp. It is a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2701499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd take one ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,"}, {"pk": 2701500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "and you shall slay the ram, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it all around on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd cut the ram in pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and place them upon its pieces and on its head."}, {"pk": 2701502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall burn the entire ram on the slaughter-place. It is an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, it is a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "And you shall take the second ram, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "and you shall slay the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aharon and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood all around on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take some of the blood that is on the slaughter-place, and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aharon and on his garments, on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him. And he and his garments shall be set-apart, and his sons and the garments of his sons with him."}, {"pk": 2701506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "And you shall take the fat of the ram, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh \u2014 it is for a ram of ordination - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "and one loaf of bread, and one cake made with oil, and one thin cake from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put all these in the hands of Aharon and in the hands of his sons, and you shall wave them \u2014 a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThen you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the slaughter-place as an ascending offering, as a sweet fragrance before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take the breast of the ram of Aharon\u2019s ordination and wave it \u2014 a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it shall be your portion."}, {"pk": 2701511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd from the ram of ordination you shall set apart the breast of the wave offering which is waved, and the thigh of the contribution which is raised, of that which is for Aharon and of that which is for his sons."}, {"pk": 2701512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for Aharon and his sons by a law forever, for it is a contribution. And it is a contribution from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the slaughters of their peace offerings \u2014 their contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd the set-apart garments of Aharon are for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and to be ordained in them."}, {"pk": 2701514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThe priest from his sons in his place, puts them on for seven days, when he enters the Tent of Appointment to attend in the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2701515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd take the ram of ordination and cook its flesh in a set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2701516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cand they shall eat those <i>offerings</i> with which the atonement was made, to ordain them, to set them apart. But let a stranger not eat them, because they are set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd if any of the flesh of the ordination offerings, or of the bread, be left over until the morning, then you shall burn up what is left over. It is not eaten, because it is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "text": "And so you shall do to Aharon and his sons, according to all I have commanded you. Seven days you shall ordain them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "text": "and prepare a bull each day as a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the slaughter-place when you make atonement for it, and you shall anoint it to set it apart."}, {"pk": 2701521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor seven days you shall make atonement for the slaughter-place, and set it apart. And the slaughter-place shall be most set-apart \u2014 whatever touches the slaughter-place is to be set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd this is what you prepare on the slaughter-place: two lambs, a year old, daily, continually."}, {"pk": 2701523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cPrepare the one lamb in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,"}, {"pk": 2701524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 40, "text": "and one-tenth of an \u0115phah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering, with the one lamb."}, {"pk": 2701525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 41, "text": "And prepare the other lamb between the evenings. And with it prepare the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning, for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 42, "text": "a continual ascending offering for your generations at the door of the Tent of Appointment before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, where I shall meet with you to speak with you."}, {"pk": 2701527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd there I shall meet with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and it shall be set apart by My esteem."}, {"pk": 2701528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set apart the Tent of Appointment and the slaughter-place. And Aharon and his sons I set apart to serve as priests to Me."}, {"pk": 2701529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and shall be their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 29, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, who brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, to dwell in their midst. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a slaughter-place to burn incense on, make it of acacia wood,"}, {"pk": 2701532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "a cubit long and a cubit wide \u2014 it is a square \u2014 and two cubits high, its horns of the same."}, {"pk": 2701533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall overlay its top, and its sides all around, and its horns with clean gold. And you shall make for it a moulding of gold all around."}, {"pk": 2701534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd make two gold rings for it, under the moulding on both its sides. Make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for the poles to lift it with."}, {"pk": 2701535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold."}, {"pk": 2701536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the Witness, before the lid of atonement that is over the Witness, where I am to meet with you."}, {"pk": 2701537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall burn on it sweet incense, morning by morning. As he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it."}, {"pk": 2701538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd when Aharon lights the lamps between the evenings, he shall burn incense on it \u2014 a continual incense before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2701539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cDo not offer strange incense on it, or an ascending offering, or a grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it."}, {"pk": 2701540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement \u2014 once a year he makes atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen you take the census of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to register them, then each one shall give an atonement for his life to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when you register them, so that there is no plague among them when you register them."}, {"pk": 2701543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cEveryone among those who are registered is to give this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, twenty g\u0115rahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cEveryone passing over to be registered, from twenty years old and above, gives a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "The rich does not give more and the poor does not give less than half a sheqel, when you give a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to make atonement for yourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "And you shall take the silver for the atonement from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and give it for the service of the Tent of Appointment. And it shall be to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for a remembrance before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to make atonement for yourselves."}, {"pk": 2701547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make a basin of bronze, with its stand also of bronze, for washing. And you shall put it between the Tent of Appointment and the slaughter-place, and shall put water in it."}, {"pk": 2701549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon and his sons shall wash from it their hands and their feet."}, {"pk": 2701550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cWhen they go into the Tent of Appointment, or when they come near the slaughter-place to attend, to burn an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they wash with water, lest they die."}, {"pk": 2701551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a law forever to them, to him and his seed throughout their generations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "And take for yourself choice spices, five hundred <i>sheqels</i> of liquid myrrh, and half as much \u2014 two hundred and fifty \u2014 of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty of sweet-smelling cane,"}, {"pk": 2701554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "and five hundred of cassia, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, and a hin of olive oil."}, {"pk": 2701555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make from these a set-apart anointing oil, a compound, blended, the work of a perfumer. It is a set-apart anointing oil."}, {"pk": 2701556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "And with it you shall anoint the Tent of Appointment and the ark of the Witness,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the slaughter-place of incense,"}, {"pk": 2701558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "and the slaughter-place of ascending offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand."}, {"pk": 2701559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall set them apart, and they shall be most set-apart. Whatever touches them is to be set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall anoint Aharon and his sons, and set them apart, to serve as priests to Me."}, {"pk": 2701561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018This is a set-apart anointing oil to Me throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2701562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018It shall not be poured on the flesh of a man, and make no other like it, according to its composition. It is set-apart, it is set-apart to you."}, {"pk": 2701563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018Whoever compounds <i>any</i> like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 34, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cTake sweet spices, fragrant gum and cinnamon and galbanam, and clear frankincense with these sweet spices, all in equal amounts."}, {"pk": 2701565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThen you shall make of these an incense, a compound, work of a perfumer, salted, clean, set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall beat some of it very fine, and put some of it before the Witness in the Tent of Appointment where I meet with you, it is most set-apart to you."}, {"pk": 2701567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd the incense which you make, do not make any for yourselves, according to its composition, it is set-apart to you for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 30, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cWhoever makes <i>any</i> like it, to smell it, he shall be cut off from his people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSee, I have called by name Betsal\u2019\u0115l son of Uri, son of H\u0323ur, of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2701571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "and I have filled him with the Spirit of Elohim in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,"}, {"pk": 2701572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "to make designs for work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,"}, {"pk": 2701573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "and in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, and to work in all work."}, {"pk": 2701574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "And I, look I have appointed with him Oholiab\u0331 son of Ah\u0323isamak\u0331, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the hearts of everyone who is wise-hearted, and they shall make all that I have commanded you:"}, {"pk": 2701575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "the Tent of Appointment, and the ark of the Witness and the lid of atonement that is on it, and all the utensils of the Tent,"}, {"pk": 2701576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "and the table and its utensils, and the clean gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the slaughter-place of incense,"}, {"pk": 2701577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "and the slaughter-place of ascending offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand,"}, {"pk": 2701578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "and the woven garments, and the set-apart garments for Aharon the priest and the garments of his sons, for serving as priests,"}, {"pk": 2701579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "and the anointing oil and sweet incense for the Set-apart Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they are to do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "And you, speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, am setting you apart.", "comment": "See also Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/20/12'>20:12</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/20/20'>20:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2701582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among his people."}, {"pk": 2701583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Everyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2701584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall guard the Sabbath, to perform the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant."}, {"pk": 2701585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018Between Me and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l it is a sign forever. For in six days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "And when He had ended speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Mosheh two tablets of the Witness, tablets of stone, written with the finger of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2701587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "And when the people saw that Mosheh was so long in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aharon, and said to him, \u201cArise, make us mighty ones who go before us. For this Mosheh, the man who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has become of him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "And Aharon said to them, \u201cTake off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd all the people took off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon."}, {"pk": 2701590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd he took <i>this</i> from their hand, and he formed it with an engraving tool, and made a moulded calf. And they said, \u201cThis is your mighty one, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "And Aharon saw and built a slaughter-place before it. And Aharon called out and said, \u201cTomorrow is a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "And they rose early on the next day, and offered ascending offerings, and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."}, {"pk": 2701593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Mitsrayim have corrupted themselves."}, {"pk": 2701594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a moulded calf, and have bowed themselves to it and slaughtered to it, and said, \u2018This is your mighty one, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cI have seen this people, and see, it is a stiff-necked people!"}, {"pk": 2701596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "And now, let Me alone, that My wrath might burn against them and I consume them and I make of you a great nation."}, {"pk": 2701597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "But Mosheh pleaded with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with a strong hand?"}, {"pk": 2701598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhy should the Mitsrites speak, and say, \u2018For evil He brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth\u2019? Turn from the heat of Your wrath, and relent from this evil to Your people."}, {"pk": 2701599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cRemember Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, \u2018I increase your seed like the stars of the heavens. And all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 relented from the evil which He said He would do to His people."}, {"pk": 2701601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh turned and went down from the mountain, and in his hand were the two tablets of the Witness, tablets written on both their sides, written on the one and on the other."}, {"pk": 2701602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "And the tablets were the work of Elohim, and the writing was the writing of Elohim engraved on the tablets."}, {"pk": 2701603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehoshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted and he said to Mosheh, \u201cA noise of battle in the camp!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "But he said, \u201cIt is not the sound of those who shout of might, nor is it the sound of those who cry out in weakness, but the sound of singing that I hear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. And Mosheh\u2019s displeasure burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it into powder, and scattered it on the face of the water and made the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l drink it."}, {"pk": 2701607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cWhat did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "And Aharon said, \u201cDo not let the displeasure of my master burn. You know the people, that it is in evil."}, {"pk": 2701609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd they said to me, \u2018Make us mighty ones who go before us. For this Mosheh, the man who brought us out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has become of him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd I said to them, \u2018Whoever has gold, let them take it off.\u2019 And they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "And Mosheh saw that the people were let loose, for Aharon had let them loose, to their shame among their enemies."}, {"pk": 2701612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "And Mosheh stood in the entrance of the camp, and said, \u201cWho is for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? <i>Come</i> to me.\u201d And all the sons of L\u0115wi gathered themselves to him."}, {"pk": 2701613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: \u2018Each one put his sword on his side, pass over to and fro from gate to gate in the camp, and each one kill his brother, and each one his friend, and each one his relative.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "And the sons of L\u0115wi did according to the word of Mosheh. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day."}, {"pk": 2701615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cYou are ordained for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 today \u2014 since each one has been against his son and his brother \u2014 so as to bring upon you a blessing today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be on the next day that Mosheh said to the people, \u201cYou, you have sinned a great sin. And now I am going up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 if I might atone for your sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "And Mosheh returned to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cOh, these people have sinned a great sin, and have made for themselves a mighty one of gold!"}, {"pk": 2701618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written."}, {"pk": 2701619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cWhoever has sinned against Me, I blot him out of My book."}, {"pk": 2701620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "text": "And now, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. See, My Messenger goes before you. And in the day of My visitation I shall visit their sin upon them."}, {"pk": 2701621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 plagued the people because they made the calf, which Aharon made."}, {"pk": 2701622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cCome, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, to the land of which I swore to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, saying, \u2018To your seed I give it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall send My Messenger before you, and I shall drive out the Kena\u201banite and the Amorite and the H\u0323ittite and the Perizzite and the H\u0323iwwite and the Yeb\u0331usite,"}, {"pk": 2701624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cto a land flowing with milk and honey. For I do not go up in your midst because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way."}, {"pk": 2701625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments."}, {"pk": 2701626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSay to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018You are a stiff-necked people. Should I go up in your midst for one moment I shall consume you. And now, take off your ornaments, and I shall know what to do to you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "So the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l took off their ornaments at Mount H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331."}, {"pk": 2701628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tent of Appointment. And it came to be that everyone who sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went out to the Tent of Appointment which was outside the camp."}, {"pk": 2701629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, whenever Mosheh went out to the Tent, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Mosheh until he entered the Tent."}, {"pk": 2701630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, when Mosheh entered the Tent, that the column of cloud descended and stood at the door of the Tent, and He spoke with Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "And all the people saw the column of cloud standing at the Tent door, and all the people rose and bowed themselves, each one at the door of his tent."}, {"pk": 2701632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Yehoshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the Tent."}, {"pk": 2701633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mosheh said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, You are saying to me, \u2018Bring up this people.\u2019 But You have not made known to me whom You would send with me, though You have said, \u2018I know you by name, and you have also found favour in My eyes.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2701634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "And now, please, if I have found favour in Your eyes, please show me Your way, and let me know You, so that I find favour in Your eyes. And consider that this nation is Your people."}, {"pk": 2701635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "And He said, \u201cMy Presence does go, and I shall give you rest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to Him, \u201cIf Your Presence is not going, do not lead us up from here."}, {"pk": 2701637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "For how then shall it be known that I have found favour in Your eyes, I and Your people, except You go with us? Then we shall be distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2701638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cEven this word you have spoken I shall do, for you have found favour in My eyes, and I know you by name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "Then he said, \u201cPlease, show me Your esteem.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And He said, \u201cI shall cause all My goodness to pass before you, and I shall proclaim the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before you. And I shall favour him whom I favour, and shall have compassion on him whom I have compassion.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "But He said, \u201cYou are unable to see My face, for no man does see Me and live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cSee, there is a place with Me! And you shall stand on the rock."}, {"pk": 2701643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, while My esteem passes by, that I shall put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand while I pass by."}, {"pk": 2701644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThen I shall take away My hand and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cCut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I shall write on these tablets the Words that were on the first tablets which you broke."}, {"pk": 2701646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd be ready in the morning. Then you shall come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on the top of the mountain."}, {"pk": 2701647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd let no man come up with you, and let no man be seen in all the mountain, and let not even the flock or the herd feed in front of that mountain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "And he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Mosheh rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him, and he took two tablets of stone in his hand."}, {"pk": 2701649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 passed before him and proclaimed, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 ,\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, an \u011al compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in loving-commitment and truth,"}, {"pk": 2701651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "watching over loving-commitment for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children\u2019s children to the third and the fourth <i>generation</i>.\u201d", "comment": "See Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/14/18'>14:18</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2701652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh hurried and bowed himself toward the earth, and did obeisance,"}, {"pk": 2701653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "and said, \u201cIf, now, I have found favour in Your eyes, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I pray, let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said, \u201cSee, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I am going to do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For what I am doing with you is awesome."}, {"pk": 2701655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cGuard what I command you today. See, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Kena\u201banite and the H\u0323ittite and the Perizzite and the H\u0323iwwite and the Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2701656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cGuard yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst."}, {"pk": 2701657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ash\u0115rim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2701658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "for you do not bow yourselves to another mighty one, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, whose Name is jealous, is a jealous \u011al \u2014"}, {"pk": 2701659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they whore after their mighty ones, and slaughter to their mighty ones, and one of them invites you and you eat of his slaughterings,"}, {"pk": 2701660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters whore after their mighty ones, and make your sons whore after their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2701661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDo not make a moulded mighty one for yourselves."}, {"pk": 2701662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "Guard the Festival of Matzot. For seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the new <i>moon</i> of Ab\u0331ib\u0331, because in the new <i>moon</i> of Ab\u0331ib\u0331 you came out from Mitsrayim.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread"}, {"pk": 2701663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cEveryone opening the womb is Mine, and every male first-born among your livestock, whether bull or sheep."}, {"pk": 2701664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut the first-born of a donkey you ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom, then you shall break his neck. Every first-born of your sons you shall ransom. And they shall not appear before Me empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2701665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSix days you work, but on the seventh day you rest \u2014 in ploughing time and in harvest you rest."}, {"pk": 2701666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "And perform the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot for yourself, of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.", "comment": "Festival of Sukkot (Booths).<br>Weeks"}, {"pk": 2701667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThree times in the year all your men are to appear before the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2701668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "for I dispossess nations before you, and shall enlarge your borders, and let no one covet your land when you go up to appear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim three times in the year."}, {"pk": 2701669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "Do not slay the blood of My slaughtering with leaven, and do not let the slaughtering of the Festival of the P\u0115sah\u0323 remain until morning.", "comment": "Passover"}, {"pk": 2701670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother\u2019s milk."}, {"pk": 2701671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cWrite these Words, for according to the mouth of these Words I have made a covenant with you and with Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "And he was there with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread and he did not drink water. And He wrote on the tablets the Words of the covenant, the Ten Words."}, {"pk": 2701673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, when Mosheh came down from Mount Sinai, while the two tablets of the Witness were in Mosheh\u2019s hand when he came down from the mountain, that Mosheh did not know that the skin of his face shone since he had spoken with Him."}, {"pk": 2701674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "text": "And Aharon and all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l looked at Mosheh and saw the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him."}, {"pk": 2701675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "text": "But Mosheh called out to them, and Aharon and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Mosheh spoke to them."}, {"pk": 2701676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "text": "And afterward all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came near, and he commanded them all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken with him on Mount Sinai."}, {"pk": 2701677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "text": "And when Mosheh ended speaking with them, he put a veil on his face."}, {"pk": 2701678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 34, "text": "But whenever Mosheh went in before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out he spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l what he had been commanded,"}, {"pk": 2701679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 34, "verse": 35, "text": "and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l would see the face of Mosheh, that the skin of Mosheh\u2019s face shone, and Mosheh would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him."}, {"pk": 2701680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh assembled all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said to them, \u201cThese are the Words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded you to do:"}, {"pk": 2701681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWork is done for six days, but on the seventh day it shall be set-apart to you, a Sabbath of rest to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Anyone doing work on it is put to death."}, {"pk": 2701682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cDo not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThis is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018Take from among you a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Everyone whose heart so moves him, let him bring it as a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: gold, and silver, and bronze,"}, {"pk": 2701685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "and blue, and purple, and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine linen, and goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>,"}, {"pk": 2701686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "and ram skins dyed red, and fine leather, and acacia wood,"}, {"pk": 2701687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,"}, {"pk": 2701688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "and shoham stones, and stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in the breastplate."}, {"pk": 2701689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And let all the wise-hearted among you come and make all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded:"}, {"pk": 2701690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "the Dwelling Place, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its columns, and its sockets,"}, {"pk": 2701691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "the ark and its poles, the lid of atonement and the veil of the covering,"}, {"pk": 2701692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "the table and its poles, and all its utensils, and the showbread,"}, {"pk": 2701693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "and the lampstand for the light, and its utensils, and its lamps, and the oil for the light,"}, {"pk": 2701694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "and the incense slaughter-place, and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the covering for the door at the entrance of the Dwelling Place,"}, {"pk": 2701695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "the slaughter-place of ascending offering with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand,"}, {"pk": 2701696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "the screens of the courtyard, its columns, and their sockets, and the covering for the gate of the courtyard,"}, {"pk": 2701697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "the pegs of the Dwelling Place, and the pegs of the courtyard, and their cords,"}, {"pk": 2701698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "the woven garments to do service in the set-apart place, the set-apart garments for Aharon the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l withdrew from the presence of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "text": "And everyone whose heart lifted him up and everyone whose spirit moved him came, and they brought the contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the work of the Tent of Appointment, and for all its service, and for the set-apart garments."}, {"pk": 2701701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "text": "And they came, both men and women, all whose hearts moved them, and brought earrings and nose rings, and rings and necklaces, all golden goods, even every one who made a wave offering of gold to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "text": "And every man, with whom was found blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine linen, and goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>, and rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and fine leather, brought them."}, {"pk": 2701703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "text": "Everyone who would make a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of silver or bronze, brought it. And everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it."}, {"pk": 2701704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "text": "And all the wise-hearted women spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun, the blue and the purple, the scarlet <i>material</i>, and the fine linen."}, {"pk": 2701705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "text": "And all the women whose hearts lifted them up in wisdom spun the goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>."}, {"pk": 2701706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "text": "And the rulers brought shoham stones, and the stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in the breastplate,"}, {"pk": 2701707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "text": "and the spices and the oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense."}, {"pk": 2701708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "text": "The children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l brought a voluntary offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all the men and women whose hearts moved them to bring all kinds of work which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by the hand of Mosheh, had commanded to be done."}, {"pk": 2701709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mosheh said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has called by name Betsal\u2019\u0115l son of Uri, son of H\u0323ur, of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2701710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 31, "text": "and He has filled him with the Spirit of Elohim, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work,"}, {"pk": 2701711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 32, "text": "to make designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze,"}, {"pk": 2701712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 33, "text": "and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving wood, and to work in all workmanship of design."}, {"pk": 2701713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd He has put in his heart the ability to teach, in him and Oholiab\u0331 son of Ah\u0323isamak\u0331, of the tribe of Dan."}, {"pk": 2701714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 35, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cHe has filled them with skill to do all work of the engraver and the designer and embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet <i>material</i>, and in fine linen, and a weaver, doing any work, and makers of designs."}, {"pk": 2701715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd Betsal\u2019\u0115l and Oholiab\u0331, and every wise-hearted man in whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all work for the service of the set-apart place, shall do according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "And Mosheh called Betsal\u2019\u0115l and Oholiab\u0331, and every wise-hearted man in whose heart \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given wisdom, everyone whose heart lifted him up, to come and do the work."}, {"pk": 2701717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "And they received from Mosheh all the contribution which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had brought for the work of the service of making the set-apart place. But they still brought to him voluntary offerings every morning,"}, {"pk": 2701718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "so all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the set-apart place came, each from the work he was doing,"}, {"pk": 2701719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "and they spoke to Mosheh, saying, \u201cThe people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded us to do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Mosheh commanded and they sent this word throughout the camp, saying, \u201cLet neither man nor woman do any more work for the contribution of the set-apart place.\u201d And the people were withheld from bringing,"}, {"pk": 2701721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "for what they had was enough for all the work to be done, more than enough."}, {"pk": 2701722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "Then all the wise-hearted ones among them who worked on the Dwelling Place made ten curtains woven of fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>. They made them with kerub\u0331im, the work of a skilled workman."}, {"pk": 2701723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, all the curtains having one measure."}, {"pk": 2701724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "And he joined five curtains, one to another; and the other five curtains he joined, one to another."}, {"pk": 2701725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "And he made loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain of one set, the same he did on the edge of the end curtain of the other set."}, {"pk": 2701726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "Fifty loops he made on one curtain, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the end curtain of the second set; the loops held one curtain to another."}, {"pk": 2701727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "And he made fifty hooks of gold, and joined the curtains to each other with the hooks, and the Dwelling Place became one."}, {"pk": 2701728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "And he made curtains of goats\u2019 <i>hair</i> for the tent over the Dwelling Place, he made eleven curtains."}, {"pk": 2701729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, the eleven curtains having one measure."}, {"pk": 2701730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "And he joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves."}, {"pk": 2701731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "And he made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in one set, and fifty loops he made on the edge of the curtain of the second set."}, {"pk": 2701732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "And he made fifty bronze hooks to join the tent, to be one."}, {"pk": 2701733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "And he made a covering for the tent of rams\u2019 skins, dyed red, and a covering of fine leather above that."}, {"pk": 2701734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "And for the Dwelling Place he made boards of acacia wood, standing up."}, {"pk": 2701735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "The length of each board was ten cubits, and the width of each board a cubit and a half."}, {"pk": 2701736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "Each board had two tenons for binding one to another. So he did to all the boards of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "And he made boards for the Dwelling Place, twenty boards for the south side."}, {"pk": 2701738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "text": "And he made forty sockets of silver to go under the twenty boards, and two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons."}, {"pk": 2701739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "text": "And for the other side of the Dwelling Place, for the north side, he made twenty boards,"}, {"pk": 2701740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "text": "and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board."}, {"pk": 2701741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "text": "And he made six boards for the west side of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "text": "And he made two boards for the two back corners of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "text": "And they were double beneath, and similarly they were complete to the top by one ring. So he did to both of them for the two corners."}, {"pk": 2701744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "text": "And there were eight boards, and their silver sockets, sixteen sockets, two sockets under each of the boards."}, {"pk": 2701745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "text": "And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the Dwelling Place,"}, {"pk": 2701746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "text": "and five bars for the boards on the other side of the Dwelling Place, and five bars for the boards of the Dwelling Place at the rear, westward."}, {"pk": 2701747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "text": "And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other."}, {"pk": 2701748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 34, "text": "And he overlaid the boards with gold, and their rings he made of gold to be holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold."}, {"pk": 2701749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 35, "text": "And he made a veil of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and fine worked linen. It was made with kerub\u0331im, the work of a skilled workman."}, {"pk": 2701750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 36, "text": "And he made four columns of acacia wood for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold. And he cast four sockets of silver for them."}, {"pk": 2701751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 37, "text": "And he made a covering for the Tent door of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i> and fine woven linen, made by a weaver,"}, {"pk": 2701752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 36, "verse": 38, "text": "and its five columns with their hooks. And he overlaid their tops and their rings with gold, but their five sockets were of bronze."}, {"pk": 2701753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "And Betsal\u2019\u0115l made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high."}, {"pk": 2701754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "And he overlaid it with clean gold inside and outside, and made a moulding of gold all around it."}, {"pk": 2701755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "And he cast four rings of gold for it, for its four feet, two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side."}, {"pk": 2701756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "And he made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold."}, {"pk": 2701757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "And he put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark, to lift the ark."}, {"pk": 2701758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made a lid of atonement of clean gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide."}, {"pk": 2701759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "And he made two kerub\u0331im of beaten gold. He made them from the two ends of the lid of atonement,"}, {"pk": 2701760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "one kerub\u0331 at one end on this side, and the other kerub\u0331 at the other end on that side. He made the kerub\u0331im from the lid of atonement, from the two ends."}, {"pk": 2701761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "And the kerub\u0331im spread out their wings above, and covered the lid of atonement with their wings, with their faces toward each other, the faces of the kerub\u0331im were <i>turned</i> toward the lid of atonement."}, {"pk": 2701762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "And he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits long, and a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high."}, {"pk": 2701763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "And he overlaid it with clean gold, and made a moulding of gold all around it."}, {"pk": 2701764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "And he made a rim of a handbreadth all around it, and made a moulding of gold for the rim all around it."}, {"pk": 2701765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "And he cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs."}, {"pk": 2701766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "The rings were next to the rim, as holders for the poles to lift the table."}, {"pk": 2701767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood to lift the table, and overlaid them with gold."}, {"pk": 2701768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "And he made the utensils which were on the table, its dishes, and its cups, and its bowls, and its jars for pouring, of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "And he made the lampstand of clean gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work, its base, and its shaft, its cups, its ornamental knobs, and its blossoms were from it."}, {"pk": 2701770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "And six branches came out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side."}, {"pk": 2701771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "There were three cups like almond flowers on one branch, with ornamental knob and blossom, and three cups like almond flowers on the other branch, a knob and a blossom \u2014 so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand."}, {"pk": 2701772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "And on the lampstand were four cups like almond flowers, its knobs and blossoms,"}, {"pk": 2701773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "and a knob under the first two branches of the same, and a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, for the six branches coming out of it."}, {"pk": 2701774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "Their knobs and their branches were of it, all of it was one beaten work of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "And he made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "He made it of a talent of clean gold, and all its utensils."}, {"pk": 2701777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "text": "And he made the incense slaughter-place of acacia wood, a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high. Its horns were of it."}, {"pk": 2701778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "text": "And he overlaid it with clean gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns. And he made a moulding for it of gold all around it."}, {"pk": 2701779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "text": "And he made two rings of gold for it under its moulding, at its two corners on both sides, as holders for the poles with which to lift it."}, {"pk": 2701780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold."}, {"pk": 2701781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "text": "And he made the set-apart anointing oil and the clean incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the perfumer."}, {"pk": 2701782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "And he made the slaughter-place of ascending offering of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide, square, and three cubits high."}, {"pk": 2701783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "And he made its horns on its four corners, the horns were of it. And he overlaid it with bronze."}, {"pk": 2701784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "And he made all the utensils for the slaughter-place: the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and the forks, and the fire holders. He made all its utensils of bronze."}, {"pk": 2701785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "And he made a grating for the slaughter-place, a bronze network, under its rim, midway from the bottom."}, {"pk": 2701786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "And he cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, as holders for the poles."}, {"pk": 2701787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze."}, {"pk": 2701788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the slaughter-place, with which to lift it. He made the slaughter-place hollow with boards."}, {"pk": 2701789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving women who did service at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2701790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "And he made the courtyard: for the south side the screens of the courtyard were of fine woven linen, one hundred cubits long,"}, {"pk": 2701791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "their twenty columns and their twenty sockets, of bronze. The hooks of the columns and their bands were of silver."}, {"pk": 2701792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "And for the north side the screens were one hundred cubits long, their twenty columns and their twenty sockets, of bronze. The hooks of the columns and their bands were of silver."}, {"pk": 2701793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "And for the west side there were screens of fifty cubits, their ten columns and their ten sockets. The hooks of the columns and their bands were of silver."}, {"pk": 2701794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "And for the east side eastward, fifty cubits:"}, {"pk": 2701795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "fifteen cubits of screens on the one side, with their three columns and their three sockets,"}, {"pk": 2701796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "and fifteen cubits of screens the other side of the courtyard gate, on this side and that side, with their three columns and their three sockets."}, {"pk": 2701797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "All the screens of the courtyard all around were of fine woven linen."}, {"pk": 2701798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sockets for the columns were of bronze, the hooks of the columns and their bands were of silver, and the overlay of their tops was of silver. And all the columns of the courtyard had bands of silver."}, {"pk": 2701799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "And the covering for the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and of fine woven linen, and twenty cubits long, and the height along its width was five cubits, corresponding to the screens of the courtyard."}, {"pk": 2701800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "And the columns were four, and their sockets of bronze four, their hooks were of silver, and the overlay of their tops and their bands was of silver."}, {"pk": 2701801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "And all the pegs of the Dwelling Place, and of the courtyard all around, were of bronze."}, {"pk": 2701802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "These were the appointments of the Dwelling Place, the Dwelling Place of the Witness, which was appointed by the mouth of Mosheh, for the service of the L\u0115wites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest."}, {"pk": 2701803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "And Betsal\u2019\u0115l son of Uri, son of H\u0323ur, of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, made all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "text": "And with him: Oholiab\u0331 son of Ah\u0323isamak\u0331, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer, an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and in fine linen."}, {"pk": 2701805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "text": "All the gold prepared for the work, in all the work of the set-apart place \u2014 and it was the gold of the wave offering \u2014 came to be twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2701806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "text": "And the silver from the ones counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place:"}, {"pk": 2701807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "text": "a beqa, half a sheqel for a head, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, for everyone passing over to those counted, from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty <i>men</i>."}, {"pk": 2701808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "text": "And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the set-apart place and the bases of the veil: one hundred sockets from the hundred talents, a talent for each socket."}, {"pk": 2701809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "text": "And of the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five <i>sheqels</i> he made hooks for the columns, and overlaid their tops, and made bands for them."}, {"pk": 2701810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "text": "And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred sheqels."}, {"pk": 2701811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "text": "And with it he made the sockets for the door of the Tent of Appointment, and the bronze slaughter-place, and the bronze grating for it, and all the utensils for the slaughter-place,"}, {"pk": 2701812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 38, "verse": 31, "text": "and the sockets for the courtyard all around, and the bases for the courtyard gate, and all the pegs for the Dwelling Place, and all the pegs for the courtyard all around."}, {"pk": 2701813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "And of the blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i> they made woven garments, to do service in the set-apart place. And they made the set-apart garments which were for Aharon, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "And he made the shoulder garment of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and of fine woven linen."}, {"pk": 2701815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "And they beat out sheets of gold and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and the fine linen, the work of a skilled workman."}, {"pk": 2701816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "They made shoulder pieces for it to join it, it was joined at its two edges."}, {"pk": 2701817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "And the embroidered band of his shoulder garment that was on it was of the same work of gold, and blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and of fine woven linen, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "And they made the shoham stones, set in plated work of gold, engraved as signets are engraved, according to the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2701819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "And he put them on the shoulders of the shoulder garment, stones of remembrance for the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "And he made the breastplate, a work of a skilled workman, like the work of the shoulder garment, of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, and of fine woven linen."}, {"pk": 2701821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "It was square, they made the breastplate double, its length a span, its width a span, doubled."}, {"pk": 2701822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "And they filled it with four rows of stones: a row of ruby, a topaz, and an emerald was the first row;"}, {"pk": 2701823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;"}, {"pk": 2701824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;"}, {"pk": 2701825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "and the fourth row a beryl, a shoham, and a jasper \u2014 set in plated work of gold in their settings."}, {"pk": 2701826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "text": "And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, twelve according to their names, engraved like a signet, each one with its own name according to the twelve tribes."}, {"pk": 2701827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "text": "And they made braided chains of corded work for the breastplate at the ends, of clean gold."}, {"pk": 2701828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "text": "And they made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate."}, {"pk": 2701829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "text": "And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate."}, {"pk": 2701830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "text": "And the two ends of the two cords they fastened in the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the shoulder garment in the front."}, {"pk": 2701831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "text": "And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was on the inward side of the shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2701832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "text": "And they made two gold rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces, underneath the shoulder garment, on the front of it, close to its seam above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2701833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "text": "And they bound the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the shoulder garment with a blue cord, so that it would be above the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, and that the breastplate would not come loose from the shoulder garment, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "text": "And he made the robe of the shoulder garment of woven work, all of blue."}, {"pk": 2701835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "text": "And the opening of the robe was in the middle, like the opening in a scaled armour, with a woven binding all around the opening, so that it would not tear."}, {"pk": 2701836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 24, "text": "And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, twined."}, {"pk": 2701837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 25, "text": "And they made bells of clean gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates:"}, {"pk": 2701838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 26, "text": "a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, for the service, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 27, "text": "And they made the long shirt of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aharon and his sons,"}, {"pk": 2701840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 28, "text": "and a turban of fine linen, and the turban ornaments of fine linen, and short trousers of fine woven linen,"}, {"pk": 2701841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 29, "text": "and a girdle of fine woven linen with blue and purple and scarlet <i>material</i>, the work of an embroiderer, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 30, "text": "And they made the plate of the set-apart sign of dedication of clean gold, and wrote on it an inscription like the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 31, "text": "And they put on it a blue cord, to fasten it above on the turban, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 32, "text": "And all the work of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointment was completed. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh, so they did."}, {"pk": 2701845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 33, "text": "And they brought the Dwelling Place to Mosheh, the tent and all its furnishings, its hooks, its boards, its bars, and its columns, and its sockets,"}, {"pk": 2701846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 34, "text": "and the covering of rams\u2019 skins dyed red, and the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering,"}, {"pk": 2701847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 35, "text": "the ark of the Witness with its poles, and the lid of atonement,"}, {"pk": 2701848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 36, "text": "the table, and all its utensils, and the showbread,"}, {"pk": 2701849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 37, "text": "the clean lampstand with its lamps, the lamps to be put in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for light,"}, {"pk": 2701850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 38, "text": "and the slaughter-place of gold, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the covering for the Tent door,"}, {"pk": 2701851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 39, "text": "the bronze slaughter-place and its bronze grating, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin with its stand,"}, {"pk": 2701852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 40, "text": "the screens of the courtyard, its columns and its sockets, the covering for the courtyard gate, its cords, and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the Dwelling Place, for the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 41, "text": "the woven garments, to do service in the set-apart place: the set-apart garments for Aharon the priest, and his sons\u2019 garments, to serve as priests."}, {"pk": 2701854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 42, "text": "According to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did all the work."}, {"pk": 2701855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 39, "verse": 43, "text": "And Mosheh looked over all the work and saw they did it as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded, so they had done. And Mosheh blessed them."}, {"pk": 2701856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "On the first day of the first new <i>moon</i>, you are to raise up the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall put in it the ark of the Witness, and screen the ark with the veil."}, {"pk": 2701859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it, and bring in the lampstand and light its lamps."}, {"pk": 2701860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall set the slaughter-place of gold for the incense before the ark of the Witness, and put up the covering of the door to the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall set the slaughter-place of the ascending offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "and shall set the basin between the Tent of Appointment and the slaughter-place, and shall put water therein."}, {"pk": 2701863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and shall place the covering of the courtyard gate,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "and shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the Dwelling Place and all that is in it, and shall set it and all its utensils apart, and it shall be set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall anoint the slaughter-place of the ascending offering and all its utensils, and set the slaughter-place apart, and the slaughter-place shall be most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2701866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and set it apart."}, {"pk": 2701867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent of Appointment and wash them with water."}, {"pk": 2701868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put the set-apart garments on Aharon, and anoint him and set him apart to serve as priest to Me."}, {"pk": 2701869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them,"}, {"pk": 2701870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cand shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, and they shall serve as priests to Me. And their anointing shall be for them an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."}, {"pk": 2701871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "And Mosheh did according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him, so he did."}, {"pk": 2701872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be in the first new <i>moon</i> of the second year, on the first day of the new <i>moon</i>, that the Dwelling Place was raised up."}, {"pk": 2701873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "text": "And Mosheh raised up the Dwelling Place and placed its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its columns,"}, {"pk": 2701874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "text": "and spread the tent over the Dwelling Place and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "text": "And he took the Witness and put it into the ark, and he put the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the lid of atonement on top of the ark,"}, {"pk": 2701876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "text": "and brought the ark into the Dwelling Place, and placed the veil of the covering to screen off the ark of the Witness, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "text": "And he put the table in the Tent of Appointment, on the north side of the Dwelling Place, outside the veil,"}, {"pk": 2701878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "text": "and set the bread in order upon it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "text": "And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Appointment, opposite the table, on the south side of the Dwelling Place,"}, {"pk": 2701880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 25, "text": "and lit the lamps before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 26, "text": "And he put the gold slaughter-place in the Tent of Appointment in front of the veil,"}, {"pk": 2701882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 27, "text": "and burned sweet incense on it, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 28, "text": "And he set up the covering to the door of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 29, "text": "And he put the slaughter-place of ascending offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Appointment, and offered upon it the ascending offering and the grain offering, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 30, "text": "And he put the basin between the Tent of Appointment and the slaughter-place, and put water therein for washing."}, {"pk": 2701886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 31, "text": "And Mosheh, and Aharon, and his sons washed their hands and their feet with water from it,"}, {"pk": 2701887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 32, "text": "as they went into the Tent of Appointment, and as they came near the slaughter-place. They would wash, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2701888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 33, "text": "And he raised up the courtyard all around the Dwelling Place and the slaughter-place, and placed the covering of the courtyard gate. And Mosheh completed the work."}, {"pk": 2701889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 34, "text": "And the cloud covered the Tent of Appointment, and the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 35, "text": "And Mosheh was not able to come into the Tent of Appointment, because the cloud dwelt on it, and the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2701891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 36, "text": "And when the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went onward in all their journeys."}, {"pk": 2701892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 37, "text": "But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up."}, {"pk": 2701893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 2, "chapter": 40, "verse": 38, "text": "For the cloud of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was on the Dwelling Place by day, and fire was on it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in all their journeys."}, {"pk": 2701894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called to Mosheh, and spoke to him from the Tent of Appointment, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When anyone of you brings an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you bring your offering of the livestock, of the herd or of the flock."}, {"pk": 2701896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018If his offering is an ascending offering of the herd, let him bring a male, a perfect one. Let him bring it at the door of the Tent of Appointment, for his acceptance before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And he shall lay his hand on the head of the ascending offering, and it shall be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him."}, {"pk": 2701898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And he shall slay the bull before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the sons of Aharon, the priests, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the slaughter-place which is at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2701899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And he shall skin the ascending offering and cut it into its pieces."}, {"pk": 2701900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And the sons of Aharon the priest shall put fire on the slaughter-place, and lay the wood in order on the fire."}, {"pk": 2701901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And the sons of Aharon, the priests, shall arrange the pieces, with the head and the fat on the wood which is on the fire on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018But its entrails and its legs he washes with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the slaughter-place as an ascending offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And if his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats as an ascending offering, let him bring a male, a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2701904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And he shall slay it on the north side of the slaughter-place before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the sons of Aharon, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood on the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2701905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018But the entrails and the legs he washes with water. And the priest shall bring it all and burn it on the slaughter-place. It is an ascending offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And if the ascending offering of his offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons."}, {"pk": 2701908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall bring it to the slaughter-place, and shall wring off its head, and burn it on the slaughter-place, and its blood shall be drained out at the side of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And he shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it beside the slaughter-place on the east side, into the place for ashes."}, {"pk": 2701910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And he shall split it at its wings, but not sever it. And the priest shall burn it on the slaughter-place, on the wood that is on the fire. It is an ascending offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018And when anyone brings a grain offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, his offering is to be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it,"}, {"pk": 2701912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "and he shall bring it to the sons of Aharon, the priests, and he shall take from it his hand filled with fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn it as a remembrance portion on the slaughter-place, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018And the rest of the grain offering is for Aharon and his sons, most set-apart of the offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by fire."}, {"pk": 2701914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And when you bring as an offering a grain offering baked in the oven, <i>it is of</i> unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil."}, {"pk": 2701915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018But if your offering is a grain offering on the griddle, it is of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil."}, {"pk": 2701916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018Divide it into bits and pour oil on it, it is a grain offering."}, {"pk": 2701917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And if your offering is a grain offering, in a stewing-pot, it is made of fine flour with oil."}, {"pk": 2701918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And you shall bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the grain offering that is made of these, and shall present it to the priest, and he shall bring it to the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall take from the grain offering a remembrance portion, and burn it on the slaughter-place, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And the rest of the grain offering is for Aharon and his sons, most set-apart of the offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made by fire."}, {"pk": 2701921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018No grain offering which you bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is made with leaven, for you do not burn any leaven or any honey in an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made by fire."}, {"pk": 2701922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018Bring them to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as an offering of the first-fruits, but they are not burned on the slaughter-place for a sweet fragrance."}, {"pk": 2701923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And season with salt every offering of your grain offering, and do not allow the salt of the covenant of your Elohim to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you bring salt."}, {"pk": 2701924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And if you bring a grain offering of your first-fruits to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bring for the grain offering of your first-fruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, crushed heads of new grain."}, {"pk": 2701925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering."}, {"pk": 2701926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall burn the remembrance portion, from its crushed grain and from its oil, with all the frankincense, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018And if that which he presents is a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>, if he is bringing it of the herd, whether male or female, he brings a perfect one before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u2018And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slay it at the door of the Tent of Appointment. And the sons of Aharon, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood on the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2701929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018And from the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> he shall bring a fire <i>offering</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,"}, {"pk": 2701930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver which he removes with the kidneys."}, {"pk": 2701931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And the sons of Aharon shall burn it on the slaughter-place upon the ascending offering, which is on the wood, which is on the fire, as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And if that which he presents is from the flock, for a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, male or female, he brings a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2701933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018If he is bringing a lamb as his offering, then he shall bring it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2701934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slay it in front of the Tent of Appointment, and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood on the slaughter-place round about."}, {"pk": 2701935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And from the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> he shall bring near \u2014 as a fire <i>offering</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 its fat, all the fat tail which he removes close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,"}, {"pk": 2701936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys."}, {"pk": 2701937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall burn them on the slaughter-place as food, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And if his offering is a goat, then he shall bring it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2701939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "and shall lay his hand on its head and slay it before the Tent of Appointment. And the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood on the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2701940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And from it he shall bring his offering, as an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,"}, {"pk": 2701941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys."}, {"pk": 2701942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall burn them on the slaughter-place as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance. All the fat belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018An everlasting law throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018When a being sins by mistake against any of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which are not to be done, and shall do any of them:"}, {"pk": 2701946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then he shall bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for his sin which he has sinned a young bull, a perfect one, as a sin offering,"}, {"pk": 2701947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "and he shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Appointment before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and shall lay his hand on the bull\u2019s head, and slay the bull before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And the anointed priest shall take some of the bull\u2019s blood and bring it to the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in front of the veil of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2701950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the slaughter-place of sweet incense before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which is in the Tent of Appointment, and pour all the blood of the bull at the base of the slaughter-place of the ascending offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2701951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018Then he takes all the fat of the bull as the sin offering, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat which is on the entrails,"}, {"pk": 2701952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys,"}, {"pk": 2701953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cas it was taken from the bull of the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>. And the priest shall burn them on the slaughter-place of the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2701954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018But the skin of the bull, and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and dung \u2014"}, {"pk": 2701955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "all of the bull \u2014 he shall bring outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it is burned."}, {"pk": 2701956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And if the entire congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l strays by mistake, and the matter has been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done <i>against</i> any of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which are not to be done, and shall be guilty,"}, {"pk": 2701957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "when the sin which they have sinned becomes known, then the assembly shall bring a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2701958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the bull shall be slain before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2701959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And the anointed priest shall bring some of the bull\u2019s blood to the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2701960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in front of the veil,"}, {"pk": 2701961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "and put some of the blood on the horns of the slaughter-place which is before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which is in the Tent of Appointment, and pour all the blood at the base of the slaughter-place of ascending offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2701962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018Then he takes all the fat from it and shall burn it on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And he shall do with the bull as he did with the bull as a sin offering \u2014 so shall he do it. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them."}, {"pk": 2701964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And he shall bring the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering for the assembly."}, {"pk": 2701965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018When a ruler sins, and by mistake has done <i>against</i> any of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim which are not to be done, and shall be guilty,"}, {"pk": 2701966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "or if his sin which he has sinned is made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a buck of the goats, a male, a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2701967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and slay it at the place where they slay the ascending offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2701968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the slaughter-place of ascending offering, and pour its blood at the base of the slaughter-place of ascending offering,"}, {"pk": 2701969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "and burn all its fat on the slaughter-place, like the fat of the slaughtering of the peace <i>offerings</i>. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2701970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And if any being of the people of the land sins by mistake by doing <i>against</i> any of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which are not to be done, and shall be guilty,"}, {"pk": 2701971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "or if his sin which he has sinned shall be made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a female goat, a perfect one, for his sin which he has sinned."}, {"pk": 2701972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering at the place of the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2701973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the slaughter-place of ascending offering, and pour all the blood at the base of the slaughter-place,"}, {"pk": 2701974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "then remove all its fat, as fat is removed from the slaughtering of the peace <i>offerings</i>. And the priest shall burn it on the slaughter-place for a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2701975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018And if he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he brings a female, a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2701976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and slay it as a sin offering at the place where they slay the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2701977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the slaughter-place of ascending offering, and pour all the blood at the base of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2701978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018Then he removes all its fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the slaughtering of the peace <i>offerings</i>. And the priest shall burn it on the slaughter-place, according to the fire <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So the priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2701979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018And when a being sins in that he has heard the voice of swearing, and is a witness, or has seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2701980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u2018Or when a being touches any unclean matter, or the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping creatures, and it has been hidden from him, he is unclean and guilty."}, {"pk": 2701981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Or when he touches uncleanness of man, any of his uncleanness by which he is unclean, and it has been hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he shall be guilty."}, {"pk": 2701982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Or when a being swears, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man swears rashly with an oath, and it has been hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he shall be guilty of one of these."}, {"pk": 2701983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And it shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned,"}, {"pk": 2701984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "and shall bring his guilt offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin."}, {"pk": 2701985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And if he is unable to bring a lamb, then he shall bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, he who has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for an ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2701986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall bring near that which is for the sin offering first, and nib off its head from its neck, but not sever it."}, {"pk": 2701987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the slaughter-place, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the slaughter-place. It is a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2701988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And he shall prepare the second as an ascending offering according to the right-ruling, and the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2701989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018But if he is unable to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an \u0115phah of fine flour as a sin offering. He puts no oil on it, nor does he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2701990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his hand filled with it as a remembrance portion, and burn it on the slaughter-place according to the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2701991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has sinned in any of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And it shall be the priest\u2019s, like a grain offering.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2701992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhen a being commits a trespass, and has sinned by mistake against the set-apart matters of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then he shall bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as his guilt offering a ram, a perfect one, from the flock, with your valuation in sheqels of silver according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, as a guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2701994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall make good for the sin that he has done against that which is set-apart, and shall add one-fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2701995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And when any being sins, and has done what is not to be done, <i>against</i> any of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, though he knew it not, yet he shall be guilty and shall bear his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2701996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThen he shall bring to the priest a ram, a perfect one, from the flock, with your valuation, as a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for his mistake he committed unintentionally, though he did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him \u2014"}, {"pk": 2701997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "it is a guilt offering, he was truly guilty before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2701998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2701999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "When any being sins, and committed a trespass against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and has lied to his neighbour about a deposit, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or shall extort from his neighbour,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "or has found what was lost and has lied concerning it, or did swear falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of all these that a man does,"}, {"pk": 2702001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "then it shall be, when he sins, and shall be guilty, that he shall return what he took by robbery, or what he has extorted, or the deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost item which he found,"}, {"pk": 2702002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "or all that about which he swore falsely. He shall repay its total value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whom it belongs, on the day of his guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThen he brings his guilt offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a ram, a perfect one, from the flock, with your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the priest shall make atonement for him before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he shall be forgiven for whatever he did that made him guilty.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cCommand Aharon and his sons, saying, \u2018This is the Torah of the ascending offering: This is the ascending offering, because it is burned on the slaughter-place all night until morning, and the fire of the slaughter-place is kept burning on it."}, {"pk": 2702007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and put his linen trousers on his body, and shall take up the ashes of the ascending offering which the fire has consumed on the slaughter-place, and shall put them beside the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And he shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and shall bring the ashes outside the camp to a clean place."}, {"pk": 2702009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And the fire on the slaughter-place is kept burning on it, it is not put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and arrange the ascending offering on it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings \u2014"}, {"pk": 2702010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "fire is continually kept burning on the slaughter-place, it is not put out."}, {"pk": 2702011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And this is the Torah of the grain offering: The sons of Aharon shall bring it near before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in front of the slaughter-place,"}, {"pk": 2702012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "and shall take from it with his hand from the fine flour of the grain offering, and from its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the slaughter-place for a sweet fragrance, as its remembrance portion to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018Then Aharon and his sons eat the rest of it. It is eaten with unleavened bread, in the set-apart place. They eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018It is not baked with leaven. I have given it to them as their portion of My offerings made by fire, it is most set-apart, like the sin offering and the guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018All the males among the children of Aharon eat it \u2014 a law forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. All that touches them is to be set-apart.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThis is the offering of Aharon and his sons, which they bring near to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, beginning on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an \u0115phah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening."}, {"pk": 2702018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cIt is made on a griddle with oil. Bring it in mixed, bring the baked portions of the grain offering near, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And the anointed priest from among his sons, who is in his place, prepares it \u2014 a law forever to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. All of it has to be burned,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "and every grain offering for the priest is completely burned, it is not eaten.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, \u2018This is the Torah of the sin offering: In the place where the ascending offering is slain, the sin offering is slain before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, it is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018The priest who is making atonement eats it, in the set-apart place it is eaten, in the courtyard of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018All that touches its flesh is to be set-apart. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2702025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018But the earthen vessel in which it is cooked is to be broken. And if it is cooked in a bronze pot, then it is scoured and rinsed in water."}, {"pk": 2702026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018Every male among the priests eats it, it is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the Tent of Appointment, to make atonement in the set-apart place, is eaten, it is burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2702028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018And this is the Torah of the guilt offering \u2014 it is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u2018The guilt offering is slain in the place where they slay the ascending offering, and its blood is sprinkled on the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2702030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Then he brings from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,"}, {"pk": 2702031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys."}, {"pk": 2702032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall burn them on the slaughter-place as an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is a guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018Every male among the priests eats it. It is eaten in the set-apart place, it is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018The guilt offering is like the sin offering, there is one Torah for them both: the priest who makes atonement with it, it is his."}, {"pk": 2702035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And the priest who brings anyone\u2019s ascending offering, the skin of the ascending offering which he has brought is the priest\u2019s, it is his."}, {"pk": 2702036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in the stewing-pot, or on a griddle, is the priest\u2019s who brings it, it is his."}, {"pk": 2702037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And every grain offering mixed with oil, or dry, is for all the sons of Aharon, for all alike."}, {"pk": 2702038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And this is the Torah of the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> which is brought to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018If he brings it for a thanksgiving, then he shall bring with the slaughtering of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil, or cakes of finely blended flour mixed with oil."}, {"pk": 2702040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018Besides the cakes, he brings as his offering leavened bread together with the slaughtering of thanksgiving of his peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And from it he shall bring one cake from each offering as a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace <i>offerings</i>, it is his."}, {"pk": 2702042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018As for the flesh of the slaughtering of his peace <i>offerings</i> for thanksgiving, it is eaten the same day it is offered, he does not leave any of it until morning."}, {"pk": 2702043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And if the slaughtering he brings is a vow or a voluntary offering, it is eaten the same day that he brings his slaughtering, and what is left of it is eaten the next day,"}, {"pk": 2702044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "but whatever is left of the flesh of the slaughtering on the third day is burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2702045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018However, if any of the flesh of the slaughtering of his peace <i>offerings</i> is eaten at all on the third day, it is not accepted. It is not reckoned to him who brings it, it is unclean to him, and the being who eats of it bears his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2702046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And the flesh that touches that which is unclean is not eaten, it is burned with fire. And as for the clean flesh, all who are clean eat of it."}, {"pk": 2702047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018But the being who eats the flesh of the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> that belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, while he is unclean, that being shall be cut off from his people."}, {"pk": 2702048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And when a being who touches that which is unclean, of the uncleanness of man, or of the uncleanness of beast, or of any unclean abomination, and shall eat the flesh of the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> that belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that being shall be cut off from his people.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Do not eat any fat, of bull or sheep or goat."}, {"pk": 2702051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And the fat of a dead body, and the fat of what is torn, is used for any purpose, but you do not eat it at all."}, {"pk": 2702052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018For whoever eats the fat of the beast of which men bring as an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even the being who eats it shall be cut off from his people."}, {"pk": 2702053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018And do not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, of bird or of beast."}, {"pk": 2702054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018Any being who eats any blood, even that being shall be cut off from his people.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018He who brings his slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings his offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the slaughtering of his peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018With his own hands he brings the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He brings the fat with the breast, to be waved as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall burn the fat on the slaughter-place, but the breast shall be Aharon\u2019s and his sons.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018And the right thigh you give to the priest as a contribution from the slaughtering of your peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018He among the sons of Aharon, who brings the blood of the peace <i>offerings</i>, and the fat, the right thigh is his for a portion."}, {"pk": 2702061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "\u2018For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from the slaughterings of their peace <i>offerings</i>, and I give them to Aharon the priest and to his sons, as a law forever, from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "This is the anointed portion for Aharon and the anointed portion for his sons, from the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, on the day when Mosheh presented them to serve as priests to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2702063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded to be given to them by the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, on the day that He anointed them, a law forever throughout their generations."}, {"pk": 2702064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "This is the Torah of the ascending offering, of the grain offering, and of the sin offering, and of the guilt offering, and of the ordinations, and of the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>,"}, {"pk": 2702065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to bring their offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the Wilderness of Sinai."}, {"pk": 2702066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake Aharon and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,"}, {"pk": 2702068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "and assemble all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Appointment.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mosheh said to the congregation, This is the word \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded to be done.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "So Mosheh brought Aharon and his sons and washed them with water,"}, {"pk": 2702072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "and put the long shirt on him, and girded him with the girdle, and dressed him in the robe, and put the shoulder garment on him, and girded him with the embroidered band of the shoulder garment, and with it tied the shoulder garment on him,"}, {"pk": 2702073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "and put the breastplate on him, and put the Urim and the Tummim in the breastplate,"}, {"pk": 2702074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "and put the turban on his head. And on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the set-apart sign of dedication, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh took the anointing oil and anointed the Dwelling Place and all that was in it, and set them apart."}, {"pk": 2702076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And he sprinkled some of it on the slaughter-place seven times, and anointed the slaughter-place and all its utensils, and the basin and its base, to set them apart."}, {"pk": 2702077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aharon\u2019s head and anointed him, to set him apart."}, {"pk": 2702078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh brought the sons of Aharon and put long shirts on them, and girded them with girdles, and put turbans on them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And he brought the bull for the sin offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering,"}, {"pk": 2702080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "and it was slain. And Mosheh took the blood, and put some on the horns of the slaughter-place all around with his finger, and cleansed the slaughter-place. And he poured the blood at the base of the slaughter-place, and set it apart, to make atonement for it."}, {"pk": 2702081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And he took all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Mosheh burned them on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And the bull, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burned with fire outside the camp, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And he brought the ram of the ascending offering, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,"}, {"pk": 2702084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "and it was slain. And Mosheh sprinkled the blood on the slaughter-place all around,"}, {"pk": 2702085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "and he cut the ram into pieces. And Mosheh burned the head, and the pieces, and the fat,"}, {"pk": 2702086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "and he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Mosheh burned the entire ram on the slaughter-place. It was an ascending offering for a sweet fragrance, and an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And he brought the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aharon and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram,"}, {"pk": 2702088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "and it was slain. And Mosheh took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aharon\u2019s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot."}, {"pk": 2702089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And he brought near the sons of Aharon, and Mosheh put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Mosheh sprinkled the blood on the slaughter-place all around,"}, {"pk": 2702090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "and took the fat and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh,"}, {"pk": 2702091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh,"}, {"pk": 2702092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "and placed all these in the hands of Aharon and in the hands of his sons, and waved them as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "Mosheh then took them from their hands and burned them on the slaughter-place, on the ascending offering. They were ordinations for a sweet fragrance. It was an offering by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh took the breast and waved it, a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It was Mosheh\u2019s portion of the ram of ordination, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mosheh took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the slaughter-place, and sprinkled it on Aharon, on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he set apart Aharon, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him."}, {"pk": 2702096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon and his sons, \u201cCook the flesh at the door of the Tent of Appointment, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of the ordinations, as I have commanded, saying, \u2018Aharon and his sons are to eat it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThen burn the rest of the flesh and the bread with fire."}, {"pk": 2702098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd do not go outside the door of the Tent of Appointment for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed \u2014 for he fills your hands for seven days."}, {"pk": 2702099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded to do, as he has done this day, to make atonement for you."}, {"pk": 2702100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "And stay at the door of the Tent of Appointment day and night for seven days. And you shall guard the duty of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and not die, for so I have been commanded.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "And Aharon and his sons did all the words that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And on the eighth day it came to be that Mosheh called Aharon and his sons and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said to Aharon, \u201cTake for yourself a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as an ascending offering, a perfect one, and bring them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Take a male goat as a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, perfect ones, as an ascending offering,"}, {"pk": 2702105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "and a bull and a ram as peace offerings, to slaughter before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall appear to you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And they took what Mosheh commanded before the Tent of Appointment, and all the congregation drew near and stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh said, This is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded you to do, so that the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appears to you.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cGo to the slaughter-place, and prepare your sin offering and your ascending offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. And make the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "So Aharon came near to the slaughter-place and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself."}, {"pk": 2702110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of Aharon brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it on the horns of the slaughter-place, and poured the blood at the base of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And the fat, and the kidneys, and the appendage on the liver of the sin offering he burned on the slaughter-place, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And the flesh and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp."}, {"pk": 2702113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And he slew the ascending offering, and the sons of Aharon presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2702114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And they presented the ascending offering to him, with its pieces and head, and he burned them on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And he washed the entrails and the legs, and burned them with the ascending offering on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And he brought the people\u2019s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it and made it a sin offering, like the first one."}, {"pk": 2702117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And he brought the ascending offering and made it, according to the right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2702118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "He also brought the grain offering, and filled his hand with it, and burned it on the slaughter-place, besides the ascending offering of the morning."}, {"pk": 2702119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And he slew the bull and the ram as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>, which were for the people. And Aharon\u2019s sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the slaughter-place all around,"}, {"pk": 2702120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "and the fat from the bull and the ram, the fat tail, and the covering, and the kidneys, and the appendage on the liver,"}, {"pk": 2702121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "and they placed the fat on the breasts, and he burned the fat on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "But the breasts and the right thigh Aharon waved as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as Mosheh had commanded."}, {"pk": 2702123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "Aharon then lifted up his hand toward the people and blessed them, and came down from making the sin offering, and the ascending offering, and the peace offerings."}, {"pk": 2702124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon went into the Tent of Appointment, and came out and blessed the people. And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to all the people,"}, {"pk": 2702125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "and fire came out from before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and consumed the ascending offering and the fat on the slaughter-place. And all the people saw and cried aloud and fell on their faces."}, {"pk": 2702126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his fire holder and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and brought strange fire before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He had not commanded them."}, {"pk": 2702127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And fire came out from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and consumed them, and they died before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "Then Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cThis is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke, saying, \u2018By those who come near Me let Me be set-apart! And before all the people let Me be esteemed!\u2019 \u201d And Aharon was silent."}, {"pk": 2702129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh called to Misha\u2019\u0115l and to Eltsaphan, the sons of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, \u201cCome near, take your brothers from before the set-apart place out of the camp.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "So they came near and took them by their long shirts out of the camp, as Mosheh had said."}, {"pk": 2702131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh said to Aharon, and to El\u201bazar and to Ithamar, his sons, \u201cDo not unbind your heads nor tear your garments, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brothers, all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, bewail the burning which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has kindled."}, {"pk": 2702132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd do not go out from the door of the Tent of Appointment, lest you die, for the anointing oil of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon you.\u201d And they did according to the word of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not drink wine or strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Appointment, lest you die \u2014 a law forever throughout your generations,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "so as to make a distinction between the set-apart and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,"}, {"pk": 2702136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "and to teach the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l all the laws which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken to them by the hand of Mosheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to Aharon, and to El\u201bazar and Ithamar, his sons who were left, \u201cTake the grain offering that is left over from the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and eat it without leaven beside the slaughter-place, for it is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall eat it in a set-apart place, because it is yours by law and your sons\u2019 by law, of the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for so I have been commanded."}, {"pk": 2702139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you. For they are yours by law and your sons\u2019 by law, which are given from the slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they bring with the offerings of fat made by fire, to bring as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And it shall be yours and your sons\u2019 with you, by a law forever, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And Mosheh diligently looked for the goat of the sin offering and saw it was burned up. And he was wroth with El\u201bazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aharon who were left, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "Why have you not eaten the sin offering in a set-apart place, since it is most set-apart, and Elohim has given it to you to bear the crookedness of the congregation, to make atonement for them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSee, its blood was not brought inside the set-apart place. You should have eaten it without fail in a set-apart place, as I have commanded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And Aharon said to Mosheh, See, today they have brought their sin offering and their ascending offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and <i>matters</i> like these have come to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And when Mosheh heard that, it was good in his eyes."}, {"pk": 2702146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying to them,"}, {"pk": 2702147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018These are the living creatures which you do eat among all the beasts that are on the earth:"}, {"pk": 2702148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Whatever has a split hoof completely divided, chewing the cud, among the beasts, that you do eat."}, {"pk": 2702149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Only, these you do not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have a split hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you;"}, {"pk": 2702150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "and the rabbit, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you;"}, {"pk": 2702151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "and the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you;"}, {"pk": 2702152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "and the pig, though it has a split hoof, completely divided, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you."}, {"pk": 2702153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018Their flesh you do not eat, and their carcasses you do not touch. They are unclean to you."}, {"pk": 2702154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018These you do eat of all that are in the waters: any one that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas or in the rivers, that you do eat."}, {"pk": 2702155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018But all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, all that move in the waters or any living being which is in the waters, they are an abomination to you."}, {"pk": 2702156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018They are an abomination to you \u2014 of their flesh you do not eat, and their carcasses you abominate."}, {"pk": 2702157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018All that have not fins or scales in the waters are an abomination to you."}, {"pk": 2702158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And these you do abominate among the birds, they are not eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,"}, {"pk": 2702159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "and the hawk, and the falcon after its kind,"}, {"pk": 2702160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "every raven after its kind,"}, {"pk": 2702161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk after its kind,"}, {"pk": 2702162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "and the little owl, and the fisher owl, and the great owl,"}, {"pk": 2702163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "and the white owl, and the pelican, and the carrion vulture,"}, {"pk": 2702164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat."}, {"pk": 2702165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018All flying insects that creep on all fours is an abomination to you."}, {"pk": 2702166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018Only, these you do eat of every flying insect that creeps on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth."}, {"pk": 2702167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018These of them you do eat: the arbeh-<i>locust</i> after its kind, and the solam-<i>locust</i> after its kind, and the h\u0323argol-<i>locust</i> after its kind, and the h\u0323agab\u0331-<i>locust</i> after its kind."}, {"pk": 2702168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018But all other flying insects which have four feet are an abomination to you."}, {"pk": 2702169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And by these you are made unclean, anyone touching the carcass of any of them is unclean until evening,"}, {"pk": 2702170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "and anyone picking up part of the carcass of any of them has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018Every beast that has a split hoof not completely divided, or does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And whatever goes on its paws, among all the creatures that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass is unclean until evening,"}, {"pk": 2702173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "and he who picks up their carcass has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening. They are unclean to you."}, {"pk": 2702174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018And these are unclean to you among the creeping creatures that creep on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,"}, {"pk": 2702175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "and the gecko, and the land crocodile, and the sand reptile, and the sand lizard, and the chameleon."}, {"pk": 2702176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018These are unclean to you among all that creep. Anyone who touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018And whatever any of them in its dead state falls upon, becomes unclean, whether it is any wooden object or garment or skin or sack, any object in which work is done, it is put in water. And it shall be unclean until evening, then it shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018Any earthen vessel into which any of them falls, whatever is in it becomes unclean, and you break it."}, {"pk": 2702179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "\u2018Any of the food which might be eaten, on which water comes, becomes unclean, and any drink which might be drunk from it becomes unclean."}, {"pk": 2702180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018And on whatever <i>any</i> of their carcass falls becomes unclean \u2014 an oven or cooking range \u2014 it is broken down. They are unclean, and are unclean to you."}, {"pk": 2702181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "\u2018But a fountain or a well, a collection of water, is clean, but whatever touches their carcass is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "\u2018And when <i>any</i> of their carcass falls on any planting seed which is to be sown, it is clean."}, {"pk": 2702183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "\u2018But when any water is put on the seed and any part of any such carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you."}, {"pk": 2702184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "\u2018And when any of the beasts which are yours for food dies, he who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "\u2018And he who eats of its carcass has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening. And he who picks up its carcass has to wash his garments, and shall be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "\u2018And every swarming <i>creature</i> \u2014 the one that swarms on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten."}, {"pk": 2702187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "\u2018Whatever crawls on its stomach, and whatever goes on <i>all</i> fours, and whatever has many feet among all swarming <i>creatures</i> \u2014 the ones swarming on the earth, these you do not eat, for they are an abomination."}, {"pk": 2702188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "\u2018Do not make yourselves abominable with any swarming <i>creature</i> \u2014 the one swarming, and do not make yourselves unclean with them, lest you be defiled by them."}, {"pk": 2702189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "text": "\u2018For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and you shall set yourselves apart. And you shall be set-apart, for I am set-apart. And do not defile yourselves with any swarming <i>creature</i> \u2014 the one creeping on the earth."}, {"pk": 2702190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "text": "\u2018For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is bringing you up out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. And you shall be set-apart, for I am set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "text": "\u2018This is the Torah of the beasts and the birds and every living being \u2014 the creeping creature in the waters, and of every being that swarms on the earth,"}, {"pk": 2702192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "text": "to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living <i>creature</i> that is eaten and the living <i>creature</i> that is not eaten.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018When a woman has conceived, and has given birth to a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days, as in the days of her monthly separation she is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised."}, {"pk": 2702196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And she remains in the blood of her cleansing thirty-three days. She does not touch whatever is set-apart, and she does not come into the set-apart place until the days of her cleansing are completed."}, {"pk": 2702197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018But if she gives birth to a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her monthly separation, and she remains in the blood of her cleansing for sixty-six days."}, {"pk": 2702198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And when the days of her cleansing are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she brings to the priest a lamb a year old, as an ascending offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove as a sin offering, to the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And he shall bring it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the flow of her blood. This is the Torah for her who has given birth to a male or a female."}, {"pk": 2702200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And if she is not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one as an ascending offering and the other as a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it shall become on the skin of his body like a leprous infection, then he shall be brought to Aharon the priest or to one of his sons the priests."}, {"pk": 2702203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at the infection on the skin of the body. And if the hair on the infection has turned white, and the infection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous infection. And the priest shall look at him, and pronounce him unclean."}, {"pk": 2702204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall shut up the infected one seven days."}, {"pk": 2702205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at him on the seventh day and see, if the infection appears to be as it was, and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall shut him up another seven days."}, {"pk": 2702206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day and see, if the infection has darkened, and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab, and he shall wash his garments and be clean."}, {"pk": 2702207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut if the scab spreads further over the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again."}, {"pk": 2702208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look and see, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is leprosy."}, {"pk": 2702209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhen the infection of leprosy is on a man, then he shall be brought to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And the priest shall look and see, if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a spot of raw flesh in the swelling,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "it is an old leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He does not shut him up, for he is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd if leprosy breaks out all over the skin, and the leprosy shall cover all the skin of the infected one, from his head to his foot, wherever the priest looks,"}, {"pk": 2702213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "then the priest shall look and see, if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall pronounce the infected one clean. It has all turned white, he is clean."}, {"pk": 2702214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut the day raw flesh appears on him, he is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at the raw flesh and pronounce him to be unclean \u2014 the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy."}, {"pk": 2702216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cOr when the raw flesh changes and turns white again, he shall come to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at him and see, if the infection has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the infected one clean, he is clean."}, {"pk": 2702218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "And when the body has a boil in the skin, and it is healed,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be seen by the priest."}, {"pk": 2702220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look and see, if it appears deeper than the skin, and its hair has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous infection which has broken out of the boil."}, {"pk": 2702221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "But if the priest looks at it and sees no white hairs in it, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days; \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "and if it has spread further over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous infection."}, {"pk": 2702223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut if the bright spot stays in its place, it has not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean."}, {"pk": 2702224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "Or when the body receives a burn on its skin by fire, and the raw flesh of the burn shall become a bright spot, reddish-white or white,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "then the priest shall look at it and see, if the hair of the bright spot has turned white, and it appears deeper than the skin, it is leprosy broken out in the burn. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous infection."}, {"pk": 2702226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut if the priest looks at it and sees there are no white hairs in the bright spot, and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days."}, {"pk": 2702227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads further over the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is a leprous infection."}, {"pk": 2702228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut if the bright spot stays in its place, and has not spread on the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn. And the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar from the burn."}, {"pk": 2702229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "And when a man, or a woman, has an infection on the head or in the beard,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "then the priest shall look at the infection and see, if it appears deeper than the skin, and there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is an eruption, a leprosy of the head or beard."}, {"pk": 2702231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "But when the priest looks at the infection of the eruption and sees that it does not appear deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up <i>the one with</i> the infection of the eruption seven days."}, {"pk": 2702232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd on the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection and see, if the eruption has not spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the eruption does not appear deeper than the skin,"}, {"pk": 2702233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cthen he shall shave himself, but the eruption he does not shave. And the priest shall shut up <i>the one with</i> the eruption another seven days."}, {"pk": 2702234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd on the seventh day the priest shall look at the eruption and see, if the eruption has not spread over the skin, and does not appear deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "But if the eruption spreads further over the skin after his cleansing,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "then the priest shall look at him and see, if the eruption has spread over the skin, the priest need not seek for yellow hair, he is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cBut if the eruption appears to have stayed, and there is black hair grown up in it, the eruption has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean."}, {"pk": 2702238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "text": "And when a man or a woman has bright spots on the skin of the body, white bright spots,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "text": "then the priest shall look and see, if the bright spots on the skin of the body are dull white, it is a white spot that grows on the skin, he is clean."}, {"pk": 2702240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, he is clean."}, {"pk": 2702241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd if the hair has fallen from his forehead, he is bald on the forehead, he is clean."}, {"pk": 2702242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd when there is on the bald head or bald forehead a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead."}, {"pk": 2702243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 43, "text": "And the priest shall look at it and see, if the swelling of the infection is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy on the skin of the body,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 44, "text": "he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean, without fail, his infection is on his head."}, {"pk": 2702245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAs for the leper who has the infection, his garments are torn, and his head is uncovered, and he has to cover his upper lip and cry, \u2018Unclean! Unclean!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cHe is unclean \u2014 all the days he has the infection he is unclean. He is unclean, and he dwells alone, his dwelling place is outside the camp."}, {"pk": 2702247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd when a garment has an infection of leprosy in it, in a woollen garment or in a linen garment,"}, {"pk": 2702248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 48, "text": "or in the warp or in the weft of linen or wool, or in leather or in any leather-work,"}, {"pk": 2702249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 49, "text": "and the infection shall be greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, it is an infection of leprosy and shall be shown to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at the infection and shut up the infected seven days."}, {"pk": 2702251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall look at the infection on the seventh day. And when the infection has spread in the garment, or in the warp or in the weft, or in the leather or any leather-work, the infection is an active leprosy, it is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall burn that garment, or the warp or the weft, in wool or in linen, or any leather object in which the infection is, for it is an active leprosy. It is burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2702253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cBut if the priest looks and sees that the infection has not spread in the garment, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object,"}, {"pk": 2702254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 54, "text": "then the priest shall give command, and they shall wash that in which the infection is. And he shall shut it up another seven days."}, {"pk": 2702255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall look at the infection after it has been washed and see, if the infection has not changed its appearance, though the infection has not spread, it is unclean, and burn it in the fire \u2014 it is eaten away, in its inside or outside."}, {"pk": 2702256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cAnd if the priest shall look and see that the infection has faded after washing it, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the warp, or out of the weft, or out of the leather."}, {"pk": 2702257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 57, "text": "\u201cAnd if it is still seen in the garment, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, it is a spreading infection. Burn it with fire, that in which the infection is."}, {"pk": 2702258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 58, "text": "\u201cAnd if you wash the garment, or the warp or the weft, or any leather object, if the infection has disappeared from it, then it shall be washed a second time, and shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 13, "verse": 59, "text": "This is the Torah of the infection of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp or in the weft, or in any leather object, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThis shall be the Torah of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,"}, {"pk": 2702262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look and see, if the leprosy is healed in the leper,"}, {"pk": 2702263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to be cleansed two live and clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop."}, {"pk": 2702264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall command, and he shall slay one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water."}, {"pk": 2702265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLet him take the live bird and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slain over the running water."}, {"pk": 2702266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird loose in the open field."}, {"pk": 2702267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair and wash himself in water, and shall be clean. Then after that he comes into the camp, but shall stay outside his tent seven days."}, {"pk": 2702268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd on the seventh day it shall be that he shaves all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shaves off. And he shall wash his garments and wash his body in water, and shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And on the eighth day he takes two male lambs, perfect ones, and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, and three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil."}, {"pk": 2702270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And the priest who is cleansing shall present the man who is to be cleansed, with these <i>offerings</i>, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take one male lamb and bring it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall slay the lamb in the place where he slays the sin offering and the ascending offering, in a set-apart place. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest. It is most set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot."}, {"pk": 2702274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand."}, {"pk": 2702275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest puts some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest of the oil that is in the priest\u2019s hand he puts on the head of him who is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make atonement for him before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall make the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterwards he slays the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2702279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall offer the ascending offering and the grain offering on the slaughter-place. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "But if he is poor and is unable to afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one-tenth <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, and one shall be a sin offering and the other an ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2702282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the Tent of Appointment, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall slay the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot."}, {"pk": 2702285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThen the priest pours some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand."}, {"pk": 2702286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest of the oil that is in the priest\u2019s hand he puts on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "And he shall prepare one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he is able to afford,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "that which he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThis is the Torah for one who had an infection of leprosy, who is unable to afford for his cleansing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "When you come into the land of Kena\u201ban, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "then shall the one who owns the house come and inform the priest, saying, \u2018It seems to me that there is some plague in the house.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall command, and they shall empty the house, before the priest goes in to look at the plague, so that all that is in the house is not made unclean. And after that the priest goes in to look at the house."}, {"pk": 2702296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "text": "And he shall look at the plague and see, if the plague is on the walls of the house with sunken places, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "text": "then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days."}, {"pk": 2702298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look and see, if the plague has spread on the walls of the house,"}, {"pk": 2702299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "text": "then the priest shall command, and they shall remove the stones with the plague in them, and they shall throw them outside the city, into an unclean place,"}, {"pk": 2702300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "text": "while he lets the house be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city."}, {"pk": 2702301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and take other mortar and plaster the house."}, {"pk": 2702302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has removed the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,"}, {"pk": 2702303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "text": "then the priest shall come and look and see, if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house, it is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city to an unclean place."}, {"pk": 2702305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd he who goes into the house, all the days while it is shut up, becomes unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd he who lies down in the house has to wash his garments, and he who eats in the house has to wash his garments."}, {"pk": 2702307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cHowever, if the priest indeed comes in and looks at it and sees that the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed."}, {"pk": 2702308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cAnd to cleanse the house, he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop."}, {"pk": 2702309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall slay one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water,"}, {"pk": 2702310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 51, "text": "and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and shall sprinkle the house seven times."}, {"pk": 2702311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 52, "text": "He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the live bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 53, "text": "and he shall let the live bird loose outside the city in the open field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 54, "text": "\u201cThis is the Torah for any infection of leprosy, and eruption,"}, {"pk": 2702314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 55, "text": "and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house,"}, {"pk": 2702315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 56, "text": "and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot,"}, {"pk": 2702316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 14, "verse": 57, "text": "to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the Torah of leprosy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When any man has a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018And this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge; whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2702320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Any bed becomes unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and any object on which he sits becomes unclean."}, {"pk": 2702321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And anyone who touches his bed has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And he who sits on any object on which he who has the discharge sat, has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And he who touches the flesh of him who has the discharge has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And when he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides becomes unclean."}, {"pk": 2702326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And whoever touches any of that which was under him is unclean until evening. And he who is carrying them up has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And anyone whom he who has the discharge touches without rinsing his hands in water, shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge touches has to be broken, and every wooden vessel has to be rinsed in water."}, {"pk": 2702329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in running water, and be clean."}, {"pk": 2702330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And on the eighth day he takes for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall come before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the door of the Tent of Appointment, and shall give them to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall prepare them, the one as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 because of his discharge."}, {"pk": 2702332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And when a man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, shall also be washed with water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And when a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her flesh is blood, she has to be in her separation for seven days. And whoever touches her is unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And whatever she lies on during her separation is unclean. And whatever she sits on is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And anyone who touches her bed has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And whoever touches any object that she sat on has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And if it is on the bed or on any object on which she sits, when he touches it, he is unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And if a man lies with her at all, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And any bed he lies on is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And when a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her monthly separation, or when she discharges beyond her usual time of monthly separation, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her monthly separation. She is unclean."}, {"pk": 2702342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge is to her as the bed of her monthly separation. And whatever she sits on is unclean, as the uncleanness of her monthly separation."}, {"pk": 2702343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And anyone who touches them is unclean, and shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2702344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she is clean."}, {"pk": 2702345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018And on the eighth day she takes for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall prepare the one as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the discharge of her uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2702347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018Thus you shall separate the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My Dwelling Place which is in their midst."}, {"pk": 2702348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018This is the Torah for one who has a discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby,"}, {"pk": 2702349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "and for her who is sick in her monthly separation, and for one who has a discharge, either man or woman, and for him who lies with an unclean woman.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and died."}, {"pk": 2702351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSpeak to Aharon your brother not to come in at all times to the Set-apart Place inside the veil, before the lid of atonement which is on the ark, lest he die, because I appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement."}, {"pk": 2702352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cWith this Aharon should come into the Set-apart Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as an ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2702353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHe should put on the set-apart linen long shirt, with linen trousers on his flesh, and gird himself with a linen girdle, and be dressed with the linen turban \u2014 they are set-apart garments. And he shall bathe his body in water, and shall put them on."}, {"pk": 2702354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd from the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l he takes two male goats as a sin offering, and one ram as an ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2702355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall bring the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house."}, {"pk": 2702356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall take the two goats and let them stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the other lot for Azazel."}, {"pk": 2702358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell, and shall prepare it as a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2702359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Azazel.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd Aharon shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slay the bull as the sin offering which is for himself,"}, {"pk": 2702361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "and shall take a fire holder filled with burning coals of fire from the slaughter-place before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with his hands filled with sweet incense beaten fine, and shall bring it inside the veil."}, {"pk": 2702362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall put the incense on the fire before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the cloud of incense shall cover the lid of atonement which is on the Witness, lest he die."}, {"pk": 2702363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the lid of atonement on the east side, also in front of the lid of atonement he sprinkles some of the blood with his finger seven times."}, {"pk": 2702364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall slay the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and shall bring its blood inside the veil, and shall do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the lid of atonement and in front of the lid of atonement."}, {"pk": 2702365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall make atonement for the Set-apart Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he does for the Tent of Appointment which is dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2702366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd no man should be in the Tent of Appointment when he goes in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, until he comes out. And he shall make atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall go out to the slaughter-place that is before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and make atonement for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the slaughter-place all around."}, {"pk": 2702368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and set it apart from the uncleanness of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd when he has finished atoning for the Set-apart Place, and the Tent of Appointment, and the slaughter-place, he shall bring the live goat."}, {"pk": 2702370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThen Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and shall confess over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man."}, {"pk": 2702371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land cut off. Thus he shall send the goat away into the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2702372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAharon shall then come into the Tent of Appointment, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Set-apart Place, and shall leave them there."}, {"pk": 2702373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall bathe his body in water in the set-apart place, and shall put on his garments, and shall come out and prepare his ascending offering and the ascending offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people,"}, {"pk": 2702374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "and burn the fat of the sin offering on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd he who sent away the goat to Azazel washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he comes into the camp."}, {"pk": 2702376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, is brought outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with fire."}, {"pk": 2702377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd he who burns them washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he comes into the camp."}, {"pk": 2702378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "And this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh new <i>moon</i>, on the tenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or the stranger who sojourns among you."}, {"pk": 2702379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor on that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, to be clean from all your sins before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cIt is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings \u2014 a law forever."}, {"pk": 2702381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest, who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father\u2019s place, shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the set-apart garments,"}, {"pk": 2702382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "and he shall make atonement for the Most Set-apart Place, and make atonement for the Tent of Appointment and for the slaughter-place, and make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2702383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for all their sins, once a year.\u201d And he did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon, to his sons, and to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018This is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "Any man from the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who slays a bull or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slays it outside the camp,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Appointment, to bring an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, blood-guilt is reckoned to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people,"}, {"pk": 2702388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "in order that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l bring their slaughterings which they slaughter in the open field. And they shall bring them to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at the door of the Tent of Appointment, to the priest, and slaughter them as slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at the door of the Tent of Appointment, and shall burn the fat for a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And let them no longer slaughter their slaughterings to demons, after whom they whored. This is a law forever for them throughout their generations.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd say to them, \u2018Any man of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who offers an ascending offering or slaughtering,"}, {"pk": 2702392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Appointment, to do it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that man shall be cut off from among his people."}, {"pk": 2702393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And any man of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any blood, I shall set My face against that being who eats blood, and shall cut him off from among his people."}, {"pk": 2702394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the slaughter-place to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the life.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore I said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018No being among you eats blood, nor does any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd any man from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or from the strangers who sojourn among you, who hunts and catches any beast or bird, which is eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust,"}, {"pk": 2702397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for its life. And I said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Do not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it is cut off.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd any being who eats a carcass or what was torn <i>by a beast</i>, be he a native or a stranger, he shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean."}, {"pk": 2702399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd if he does not wash or bathe his body, then he shall bear his crookedness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Do not do as they do in the land of Mitsrayim, where you dwelt. And do not do as they do in the land of Kena\u201ban, where I am bringing you, and do not walk in their laws."}, {"pk": 2702403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Do My right-rulings and guard My laws, to walk in them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, which a man does and lives by them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018No one is to approach anyone of his own flesh to uncover his nakedness. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you do not uncover. She is your mother, you do not uncover her nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your father\u2019s wife you do not uncover, it is your father\u2019s nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you do not uncover."}, {"pk": 2702409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your son\u2019s daughter or your daughter\u2019s daughter, their nakedness you do not uncover, for theirs is your own nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your father\u2019s wife\u2019s daughter, brought forth by your father, she is your sister, you do not uncover her nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your father\u2019s sister you do not uncover, she is your father\u2019s flesh."}, {"pk": 2702412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister you do not uncover, for she is your mother\u2019s flesh."}, {"pk": 2702413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your father\u2019s brother you do not uncover, you do not approach his wife, she is your aunt."}, {"pk": 2702414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you do not uncover, she is your son\u2019s wife, you do not uncover her nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of your brother\u2019s wife you do not uncover, it is your brother\u2019s nakedness."}, {"pk": 2702416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you do not uncover, nor do you take her son\u2019s daughter or her daughter\u2019s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are her relatives \u2014 it is wickedness."}, {"pk": 2702417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And do not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive."}, {"pk": 2702418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness in her monthly separation of uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2702419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And do not have intercourse with the wife of your neighbour, to defile yourself with her."}, {"pk": 2702420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Molek\u0331. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination."}, {"pk": 2702422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion."}, {"pk": 2702423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you."}, {"pk": 2702424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants."}, {"pk": 2702425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018But you, you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you,"}, {"pk": 2702426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled,"}, {"pk": 2702427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you."}, {"pk": 2702428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people."}, {"pk": 2702429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable laws which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018Be set-apart, for I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim am set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Each one of you should fear his mother and his father, and guard My Sabbaths. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Do not turn to idols, and do not make for yourselves moulded mighty ones. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "\"\u2018And when you slaughter a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, slaughter it for your acceptance."}, {"pk": 2702435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018It is eaten the same day you slaughter it, and on the next day. And that which is left on the third day is burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2702436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable, it is not accepted,"}, {"pk": 2702437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "and he who eats it bears his crookedness, because he has profaned the set-apart <i>offering</i> of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and that being shall be cut off from his people."}, {"pk": 2702438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And when you reap the harvest of your land, do not completely reap the corners of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest."}, {"pk": 2702439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And do not glean your vineyard or gather every grape of your vineyard, leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018Do not steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another."}, {"pk": 2702441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And do not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018Do not oppress your neighbour or <i>rob</i> him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning."}, {"pk": 2702443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind, but fear your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling. Do not be partial to the poor or favour the face of the great, but rightly rule your neighbour in righteousness."}, {"pk": 2702445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbour. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018Do not hate your brother in your heart. Reprove your neighbour, for certain, and bear no sin because of him."}, {"pk": 2702447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018Guard My laws. Do not let your livestock mate with another kind. Do not sow your field with mixed seed. And do not put a garment woven of two sorts of thread upon you."}, {"pk": 2702449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And when a man has intercourse with a woman who is a female servant, engaged to a man, and to be ransomed, <i>but</i> she has not been ransomed nor set free, there should be an inquiry. But they are not put to death, because she was not free."}, {"pk": 2702450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And he shall bring his guilt offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the door of the Tent of Appointment, a ram as a guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2702451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for his sin which he has done. And the sin which he has sinned shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2702452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And when you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall reckon their fruit as uncircumcised. For three years it is as uncircumcised to you, it is not eaten."}, {"pk": 2702453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And in the fourth year all its fruit is set-apart \u2014 praises to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And in the fifth year you eat its fruit, so that it increases its yield to you. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018Do not eat <i>meat</i> with the blood. Do not practise divination or magic."}, {"pk": 2702456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018Do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard."}, {"pk": 2702457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018And do not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor put tattoo marks on you. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018Do not profane your daughter by making her a whore, so that the land does not whore, and the land becomes filled with wickedness."}, {"pk": 2702459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018Guard My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018Do not turn to mediums, and do not seek after spiritists to be defiled by them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018Rise up before the grey-headed. And you shall favour the face of an old man, and shall fear your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018And when a stranger sojourns with you in your land, do not oppress him."}, {"pk": 2702463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "\u2018Let the stranger who dwells among you be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself. For you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling, in measurement of length, in weight, or in measuring liquids."}, {"pk": 2702465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "\u2018Have right scales, right weights, a right \u0115phah, and a right hin. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2702466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard all My laws and all My right-rulings, and do them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSay to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Any man of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who gives any of his offspring to Molek\u0331, shall certainly be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones."}, {"pk": 2702469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given of his offspring to Molek\u0331, so as to defile My set-apart place and to profane My set-apart Name."}, {"pk": 2702470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man, as he gives any of his offspring to Molek\u0331, and they do not kill him,"}, {"pk": 2702471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and shall cut him off \u2014 and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after Molek\u0331 \u2014 from the midst of their people."}, {"pk": 2702472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And the being who turns to mediums, and to spiritists, to go whoring after them, I shall set My face against that being and cut him off from the midst of his people."}, {"pk": 2702473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And you shall set yourselves apart, and shall be set-apart, for I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2702474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "and you shall guard My laws and do them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who sets you apart."}, {"pk": 2702475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death \u2014 he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is on him."}, {"pk": 2702476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man, who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour: the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2702477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And a man who lies with the wife of his father has uncovered the nakedness of his father, both of them shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them."}, {"pk": 2702478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And a man who lies with his daughter-in-law: both of them shall certainly be put to death, they have made confusion, their blood is upon them."}, {"pk": 2702479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And a man who lies with a male as he lies with a woman: both of them have done an abomination, they shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them."}, {"pk": 2702480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And a man who marries a woman and her mother: it is wickedness, they are burned with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness in your midst."}, {"pk": 2702481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And a man who has intercourse with a beast: he shall certainly be put to death, and the beast you kill."}, {"pk": 2702482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And a woman who approaches any beast and mates with it: you shall kill the woman and the beast, they shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them."}, {"pk": 2702483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And a man who takes his sister, his father\u2019s daughter or his mother\u2019s daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness: is it loving-commitment? And they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people. He has uncovered his sister\u2019s nakedness, he bears his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2702484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And a man who lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her nakedness: he has laid bare her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood, both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people."}, {"pk": 2702485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And do not uncover the nakedness of your mother\u2019s sister nor of your father\u2019s sister, for that is laying bare one\u2019s own flesh, they bear their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2702486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And a man who lies with his uncle\u2019s wife: he has uncovered his uncle\u2019s nakedness, they bear their sin, they die childless."}, {"pk": 2702487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And a man who takes his brother\u2019s wife: it is uncleanness, he has uncovered his brother\u2019s nakedness, they are childless."}, {"pk": 2702488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And you shall guard all My laws and all My right-rulings, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell does not vomit you out."}, {"pk": 2702489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And do not walk in the laws of the nation which I am driving out before you, for they do all these, and therefore I loathed them."}, {"pk": 2702490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018But I say to you, You are going to possess their land, and I Myself give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who has separated you from the peoples."}, {"pk": 2702491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And you shall make a distinction between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean birds and clean. And do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or whatever creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean."}, {"pk": 2702492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018And you shall be set-apart to Me, for I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 am set-apart, and have separated you from the peoples to be Mine."}, {"pk": 2702493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And a man or a woman in whom there is a medium, or who are spiritists, shall certainly be put to death, they are to stone them with stones. Their blood is upon them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSpeak to the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: \u2018No one is to be defiled for the dead among his people,"}, {"pk": 2702495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "except for his relatives who are nearest to him: for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;"}, {"pk": 2702496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "and for his maiden sister who is near to him, who has had no husband \u2014 for her he is defiled."}, {"pk": 2702497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018A leader does not defile himself among his people, to profane himself;"}, {"pk": 2702498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "they do not make any bald place on their heads, and they do not shave the corner of their beard, and they do not make a cutting in their flesh."}, {"pk": 2702499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018They are set-apart to their Elohim and do not profane the Name of their Elohim, for they bring the fire <i>offerings</i> of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the bread of their Elohim, and shall be set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018They do not take a woman who is a whore or a defiled woman, and they do not take a woman put away from her husband, for he is set-apart to his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And you shall set him apart, for he brings the bread of your Elohim, he is set-apart to you. For I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, setting you apart, am set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And when the daughter of any priest profanes herself by whoring, she profanes her father. She is burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2702503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And the high priest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is ordained to wear the garments, does not unbind his head nor tear his garments,"}, {"pk": 2702504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "nor come near any dead body, nor defile himself for his father or his mother,"}, {"pk": 2702505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "nor go out of the set-apart place, nor profane the set-apart place of his Elohim, for the sign of dedication of the anointing oil of his Elohim is upon him. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And let him take a wife in her maidenhood."}, {"pk": 2702507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018A widow or one put away or a defiled woman or a whore \u2014 these he does not take. But a maiden of his own people he does take as a wife."}, {"pk": 2702508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And he does not profane his offspring among his people, for I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who sets him apart.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon, saying, \u2018No man of your offspring throughout their generations, who has any defect, is to draw near to bring the bread of his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018For any man who has a defect is not to draw near: a man blind or one lame or disfigured or deformed,"}, {"pk": 2702512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "a man who has a broken foot or broken hand,"}, {"pk": 2702513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "or is a hunchback or a dwarf, or a man who has a defect in his eye, or eczema or scab, or is a eunuch."}, {"pk": 2702514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018No man among the offspring of Aharon the priest, who has a defect, is to come near to bring the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 he has a defect, he does not come near to bring the bread of his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018He does eat the bread of his Elohim, both the most set-apart and the set-apart,"}, {"pk": 2702516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "only, he does not go near the veil or approach the slaughter-place, because he has a defect, lest he profanes My set-apart places. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who sets them apart.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "Thus Mosheh spoke to Aharon and his sons, and to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon and his sons, that they separate themselves from the set-apart <i>offerings</i> of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and that they do not profane My set-apart Name in what they set apart to Me. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "Say to them, \u2018Any man of all your offspring throughout your generations who draws near the set-apart <i>offerings</i> which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, while he has uncleanness upon him, that being shall be cut off from before Me. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018Any man of the offspring of Aharon, who is a leper or has a discharge, does not eat the set-apart <i>offerings</i> until he is clean. And whoever touches what is rendered unclean by a being, or a man who has had an emission of semen,"}, {"pk": 2702522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "or a man who touches any swarming <i>creature</i> by which he would be made unclean, or any being by whom he would become unclean, even any of his uncleanness;"}, {"pk": 2702523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "the being who has touched it shall be unclean until evening, and does not eat the set-apart <i>offerings</i>, but shall bathe his body in water."}, {"pk": 2702524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And when the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward eat the set-apart <i>offerings</i>, because it is his food."}, {"pk": 2702525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018He does not eat that which dies or is torn <i>by beasts</i>, becoming unclean by it. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And they shall guard My Charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby, when they profane it. I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set them apart."}, {"pk": 2702527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And no stranger eats the set-apart offering. A sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, does not eat the set-apart <i>offering</i>."}, {"pk": 2702528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018But when the priest buys a being with his silver, he does eat of it. And one who is born in his house does eat his food."}, {"pk": 2702529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And when a priest\u2019s daughter is married to a stranger, she does not eat of the set-apart <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018But when a priest\u2019s daughter is a widow or put away, and has no child, and has returned to her father\u2019s house as in her youth, she does eat her father\u2019s food, but no stranger eats of it."}, {"pk": 2702531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And when a man eats the set-apart offering by mistake, then he shall give a set-apart offering to the priest, and add one-fifth to it."}, {"pk": 2702532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And let <i>the priests</i> not profane the set-apart offerings of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which they lift up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2702533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "or allow them to bear the crookedness of trespass when they eat their set-apart offerings. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who sets them apart.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon and his sons, and to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018Any man of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or of the strangers in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who brings his offering for any of his vows or for any of his voluntary offerings, which they bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as an ascending offering,"}, {"pk": 2702536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "for your acceptance, is a male, a perfect one from the cattle, from the sheep, or from the goats."}, {"pk": 2702537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018Whatever has a defect, you do not bring, for it is not acceptable for you."}, {"pk": 2702538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And when a man brings a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to complete a vow, or a voluntary offering from the cattle or the sheep, it is to be perfect to be accepted, let there be no defect in it."}, {"pk": 2702539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018<i>Those</i> blind or broken or cut, or having an ulcer or eczema or scabs, you do not bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor make an offering by fire of them on the slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018As for a bull or a lamb that has any limb deformed or dwarfed you do prepare as a voluntary offering, but for a vow it is not accepted."}, {"pk": 2702541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018Do not bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 what is bruised or crushed, or torn or cut, nor do it in your land."}, {"pk": 2702542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And from a son of a stranger\u2019s hand you do not bring any of these as the bread of your Elohim, for their corruption is in them, and defects are in them, they are not acceptable for you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWhen a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother. And from the eighth day and thereafter it is acceptable as an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut do not slay a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day."}, {"pk": 2702546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd when you slaughter a slaughtering of thanksgiving to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, slaughter it for your acceptance."}, {"pk": 2702547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIt is eaten that same day, leave none of it till morning. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard My commands and do them. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "And do not profane My set-apart Name, and I shall be set-apart among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who sets you apart,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018The appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times, are these:"}, {"pk": 2702553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work, it is a Sabbath to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in all your dwellings."}, {"pk": 2702554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018These are the appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, set-apart gatherings which you are to proclaim at their appointed times."}, {"pk": 2702555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018In the first new <i>moon</i>, on the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, between the evenings, is the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Passover"}, {"pk": 2702556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And on the fifteenth day of this new <i>moon</i> is the Festival of Matzot to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 seven days you eat unleavened bread.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread"}, {"pk": 2702557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018On the first day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work."}, {"pk": 2702558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And you shall bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for seven days. On the seventh day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say to them, \u2018When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest."}, {"pk": 2702561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And he shall wave the sheaf before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it."}, {"pk": 2702562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And on that day when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2702563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "and its grain offering: two-tenths of an \u0115phah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering: one-fourth of a hin of wine."}, {"pk": 2702564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim \u2014 a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings."}, {"pk": 2702565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven completed Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2702566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018Bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two <i>loaves of</i> bread, of two-tenths of an \u0115phah of fine flour they are, baked with leaven, first-fruits to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And besides the bread, you shall bring seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old, as a slaughter of peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first-fruits, as a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, besides the two lambs. They are set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the priest."}, {"pk": 2702571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And on this same day you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves, you do no servile work on it \u2014 a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2702572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And when you reap the harvest of your land do not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, and do not gather any gleaning from your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "Speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018In the seventh new <i>moon</i>, on the first day of the new <i>moon</i>, you have a rest, a remembrance of Teru\u201bah,", "comment": "Lit. Soundings, by instrument or human voice."}, {"pk": 2702575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018You do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "On the tenth day of this seventh new <i>moon</i> is Yom haKippurim. It shall be a set-apart gathering for you. And you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Day of Atonement or Day of the Coverings."}, {"pk": 2702578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you do no work on that same day, for it is Yom Kippurim, to make atonement for you before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people."}, {"pk": 2702580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his people."}, {"pk": 2702581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cYou do no work \u2014 a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings."}, {"pk": 2702582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day of the new <i>moon</i> at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "Speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018On the fifteenth day of this seventh new <i>moon</i> is the Festival of Sukkot for seven days to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2702585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018On the first day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work."}, {"pk": 2702586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "\u2018For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. On the eighth day there shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is a closing festival, you do no servile work."}, {"pk": 2702587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "\u2018These are the appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which you proclaim as set-apart gatherings, to bring an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, an ascending offering and a grain offering, a slaughtering and drink offerings, as commanded for every day \u2014"}, {"pk": 2702588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "besides the Sabbaths of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary offerings which you give to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "\u2018On the fifteenth day of the seventh new <i>moon</i>, when you gather in the fruit of the land, celebrate the festival of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for seven days. On the first day is a rest, and on the eighth day a rest."}, {"pk": 2702590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 40, "text": "\u2018And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of good trees, branches of palm trees, twigs of leafy trees, and willows of the stream, and shall rejoice before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim for seven days."}, {"pk": 2702591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 41, "text": "\u2018And you shall celebrate it as a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for seven days in the year \u2014 a law forever in your generations. Celebrate it in the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2702592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 42, "text": "\u2018Dwell in booths for seven days; all who are native born in Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwell in booths,"}, {"pk": 2702593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 43, "text": "so that your generations know that I made the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 23, "verse": 44, "text": "Thus did Mosheh speak of the appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCommand the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that they bring to you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually."}, {"pk": 2702597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cOutside the veil of the Witness, in the Tent of Appointment, Aharon is to arrange it from evening until morning before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 continually \u2014 a law forever throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2702598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHe is to arrange the lamps on the clean gold lampstand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 continually."}, {"pk": 2702599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it, two-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> in each cake."}, {"pk": 2702600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the clean table before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall put clear frankincense on each row, and it shall be on the bread as a remembrance portion, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cOn every Sabbath he is to arrange it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 continually, from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 an everlasting covenant."}, {"pk": 2702603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And it shall be for Aharon and his sons, and they shall eat it in the set-apart place, because it is most set-apart to him from the offerings of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made by fire \u2014 an everlasting law.\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And the son of an Yisra\u2019\u0115li woman, whose father was a Mitsrian man, went out among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the Yisra\u2019\u0115li woman\u2019s son and a man of Yisra\u2019\u0115l strove in the camp."}, {"pk": 2702605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Yisra\u2019\u0115li woman\u2019s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. So they brought him to Mosheh. Now his mother\u2019s name was Shelomith the daughter of Dib\u0331ri, of the tribe of Dan."}, {"pk": 2702606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And they put him under guard, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and all those who heard him shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him."}, {"pk": 2702609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Anyone who curses his Elohim shall bear his sin."}, {"pk": 2702610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And he who blasphemes the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall certainly be put to death, and all the congregation certainly stone him, the stranger as well as the native. When he blasphemes the Name, he is put to death."}, {"pk": 2702611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And a man who strikes the being of any man shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2702612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And he who strikes a beast repays it, body for body."}, {"pk": 2702613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And when a man inflicts a blemish upon his neighbour, as he has done so it is done to him:"}, {"pk": 2702614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he inflicts a blemish upon him, so it is done to him."}, {"pk": 2702615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes a man <i>to death</i> is put to death."}, {"pk": 2702616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018You are to have one right-ruling, for the stranger and for the native, for I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit,"}, {"pk": 2702621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard."}, {"pk": 2702622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land."}, {"pk": 2702623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,"}, {"pk": 2702624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its crops are for food."}, {"pk": 2702625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years."}, {"pk": 2702626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018You shall then sound a shophar-sound on the tenth day of the seventh new <i>moon</i>, on Yom haKippurim cause a shophar to sound through all your land.", "comment": "Animal horn - traditionally a ram\u2019s horn.<br>Day of the Coverings or Day of Atonement."}, {"pk": 2702627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Yob\u0331el for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Yob\u0331el\""}, {"pk": 2702628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018The fiftieth year is a Yob\u0331el to you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine."}, {"pk": 2702629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018It is a Yob\u0331el, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops."}, {"pk": 2702630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018In the Year of this Yob\u0331el let each one of you return to his possession."}, {"pk": 2702631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another."}, {"pk": 2702632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018According to the number of years after the Yob\u0331el you buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you."}, {"pk": 2702633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018According to the greater number of years you increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you diminish its price, because he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops."}, {"pk": 2702634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety,"}, {"pk": 2702636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018and the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and shall dwell there in safety."}, {"pk": 2702637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And since you might say, \u201cWhat do we eat in the seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018Therefore I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth the crop for three years."}, {"pk": 2702639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until the ninth year. Eat of the old until its crop comes in."}, {"pk": 2702640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me."}, {"pk": 2702641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your possession."}, {"pk": 2702642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem what his brother sold."}, {"pk": 2702643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018And when the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,"}, {"pk": 2702644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "then let him count the years since its sale, and return the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he shall return to his possession."}, {"pk": 2702645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Yob\u0331el. And it shall be released in the Yob\u0331el, and he shall return to his possession."}, {"pk": 2702646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018And when a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption shall be at the end of the year after it is sold. His right of redemption lasts a year."}, {"pk": 2702647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018But if it is not redeemed within a complete year, then the house in the walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it, throughout his generations. It is not released in the Yob\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2702648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Yob\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2702649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018As for the cities of the L\u0115wites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the L\u0115wites have a right of redemption forever."}, {"pk": 2702650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018And that which is redeemed from the L\u0115wites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Yob\u0331el, because the houses in the cities of the L\u0115wites are their possession in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "\u2018But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is their everlasting possession."}, {"pk": 2702652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall strengthen him, and he shall live with you, like a stranger or a sojourner."}, {"pk": 2702653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "text": "\u2018Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your Elohim, and your brother shall live with you."}, {"pk": 2702654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "text": "\u2018Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food for profit."}, {"pk": 2702655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "text": "\u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kena\u201ban, to be your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "text": "\u2018And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave."}, {"pk": 2702657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "text": "\u2018But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you until the Year of Yob\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2702658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 41, "text": "\u2018And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers."}, {"pk": 2702659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 42, "text": "\u2018For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves."}, {"pk": 2702660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 43, "text": "\u2018Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 44, "text": "\u2018And your male and female slaves whom you have from the nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves,"}, {"pk": 2702662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 45, "text": "and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property."}, {"pk": 2702663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 46, "text": "\u2018And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, you do not rule with harshness, one over another."}, {"pk": 2702664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 47, "text": "\u2018Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner\u2019s clan,"}, {"pk": 2702665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 48, "text": "after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption to him \u2014 one of his brothers does redeem him,"}, {"pk": 2702666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 49, "text": "or his uncle or his uncle\u2019s son does redeem him, or anyone who is a close relative to him in his clan does redeem him, or if he is able, then he shall redeem himself."}, {"pk": 2702667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 50, "text": "\u2018And he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Yob\u0331el; as the days of a hired servant it is with him."}, {"pk": 2702668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 51, "text": "\u2018If there are yet many years, according to them he repays the price of his redemption, from the silver of his purchase."}, {"pk": 2702669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 52, "text": "\u2018And if few years are left until the Year of Yob\u0331el, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he repays him the price of his redemption."}, {"pk": 2702670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 53, "text": "\u2018He is with him as a yearly hired servant, and he does not rule with harshness over him before your eyes."}, {"pk": 2702671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 54, "text": "\u2018And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Yob\u0331el, he and his children with him."}, {"pk": 2702672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 25, "verse": 55, "text": "\u2018Because the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are servants to Me, they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u2018Guard My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u2018If you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them,"}, {"pk": 2702676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "then I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit."}, {"pk": 2702677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "\u2018And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely."}, {"pk": 2702678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "\u2018And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land."}, {"pk": 2702679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "\u2018And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you."}, {"pk": 2702680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you."}, {"pk": 2702681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And I shall turn to you and make you fruitful, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you."}, {"pk": 2702682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new."}, {"pk": 2702683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you."}, {"pk": 2702684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "\u2018And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people."}, {"pk": 2702685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright."}, {"pk": 2702686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands,"}, {"pk": 2702687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant,"}, {"pk": 2702688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it."}, {"pk": 2702689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you."}, {"pk": 2702690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins."}, {"pk": 2702691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze."}, {"pk": 2702692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit."}, {"pk": 2702693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "\u2018And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins,"}, {"pk": 2702694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted."}, {"pk": 2702695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "\u2018And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me,"}, {"pk": 2702696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall strike you seven times for your sins."}, {"pk": 2702697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy."}, {"pk": 2702698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied."}, {"pk": 2702699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,"}, {"pk": 2702700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins."}, {"pk": 2702701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters."}, {"pk": 2702702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you."}, {"pk": 2702703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances."}, {"pk": 2702704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it."}, {"pk": 2702705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,"}, {"pk": 2702706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "text": "and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies\u2019 land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2702707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "text": "\u2018As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it."}, {"pk": 2702708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "text": "\u2018And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues."}, {"pk": 2702709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "text": "\u2018And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies."}, {"pk": 2702710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 38, "text": "\u2018And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,"}, {"pk": 2702711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 39, "text": "and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies\u2019 lands, and also in their fathers\u2019 crookednesses rot away with them."}, {"pk": 2702712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 40, "text": "\u2018But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,"}, {"pk": 2702713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 41, "text": "and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies \u2014 if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,"}, {"pk": 2702714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 42, "text": "then I shall remember My covenant with Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and also My covenant with Yitsh\u0323aq, and also remember My covenant with Ab\u0331raham, and remember the land."}, {"pk": 2702715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 43, "text": "\u2018For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws."}, {"pk": 2702716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 44, "text": "\u2018And yet for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2702717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 45, "text": "\u2018Then I shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 26, "verse": 46, "text": "These are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torot which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made between Himself and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh.", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah - teaching."}, {"pk": 2702719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2702721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "when your evaluation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2702722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u2018And if it is a female, then your evaluation shall be thirty sheqels;"}, {"pk": 2702723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be twenty sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels;"}, {"pk": 2702724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "and if from a new <i>moon</i> old up to five years old, then your evaluation for a male shall be five sheqels of silver, and for a female your evaluation shall be three sheqels of silver;", "comment": "Or a month."}, {"pk": 2702725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your evaluation shall be fifteen sheqels, and for a female ten sheqels."}, {"pk": 2702726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "\u2018But if he is too poor to pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him. According to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him."}, {"pk": 2702727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "\u2018And if it is a beast of which they bring an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all such given to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "\u2018He is not to replace it or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he at all exchanges beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2702729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "\u2018And if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then he shall present the beast before the priest;"}, {"pk": 2702730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your evaluation, O priest, so it shall be."}, {"pk": 2702731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018But if he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth to your evaluation."}, {"pk": 2702732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u2018And when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values it, so it stands."}, {"pk": 2702733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "\u2018And if he who sets it apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his."}, {"pk": 2702734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "\u2018And if a man sets apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a field he owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it \u2014 a h\u0323omer of barley seed at fifty sheqels of silver."}, {"pk": 2702735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "\u2018If he sets his field apart from the Year of Yob\u0331el, according to your evaluation it stands."}, {"pk": 2702736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "\u2018But if he sets his field apart after the Yob\u0331el, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver due according to the years that remain till the Year of Yob\u0331el, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation."}, {"pk": 2702737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "\u2018And if he who sets the field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his."}, {"pk": 2702738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "\u2018And if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is no longer redeemed,"}, {"pk": 2702739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "but the field, when it is released in the Yob\u0331el, is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as a dedicated field, to be the possession of the priest."}, {"pk": 2702740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "\u2018And if a man sets apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,"}, {"pk": 2702741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "then the priest shall reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of Yob\u0331el, and he shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "\u2018In the Year of Yob\u0331el the field returns to him from whom he bought it, to him whose is the possession of the land."}, {"pk": 2702743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "\u2018And all your evaluations are to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place: twenty g\u0115rahs to the sheqel."}, {"pk": 2702744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "\u2018However, a first-born of the beasts, which is first-born to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, no man sets it apart \u2014 whether bull or sheep, it belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "\u2018And if among the unclean beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation, and shall add one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your evaluation."}, {"pk": 2702746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "\u2018However, whatever a man lays under ban for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of all that he has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed. Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2702748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "\u2018And all the tithe of the land \u2014 of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree \u2014 belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "\u2018If a man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it."}, {"pk": 2702750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "\u2018And the entire tithe of the herd and of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth one is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "\u2018He does not inquire whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart, it is not redeemed.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 3, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "These are the commands which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on Mount Sinai."}, {"pk": 2702753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Appointment, on the first day to the second new <i>moon</i>, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head,"}, {"pk": 2702755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Number them by their divisions, you and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2702756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd a man from every tribe should be with you, each one the head of his father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2702757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the names of the men who stand with you. From Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: Elitsur, son of Shed\u0331\u0115y\u2019ur."}, {"pk": 2702758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "From Shim\u201bon: Shelumi\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsurishaddai.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFrom Yehud\u0331ah: Nah\u0323shon, son of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2702760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFrom Yissask\u0331ar: Nethan\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsu\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2702761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFrom Zeb\u0331ulun: Eliyab\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115lon."}, {"pk": 2702762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFrom the sons of Yos\u0115ph: From Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihud\u0331. From Menashsheh: Gamli\u2019\u0115l, son of Ped\u0331ahtsur."}, {"pk": 2702763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFrom Binyamin: Ab\u0331id\u0331an, son of Gid\u0331\u201boni."}, {"pk": 2702764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFrom Dan: Ah\u0323i\u201bezer, son of Ammishaddai."}, {"pk": 2702765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFrom Ash\u0115r: Pa\u1e21\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, son of Ok\u0331ran."}, {"pk": 2702766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFrom Gad\u0331: Elyasaph, son of De\u201bu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "From Naphtali: Ah\u0323ira, son of \u011anan."}, {"pk": 2702768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "These are the ones called from the congregation, leaders of their fathers\u2019 tribes, heads of the thousands of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who were called by name,"}, {"pk": 2702770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second new <i>moon</i>. And they declared their ancestry by clans, by their fathers\u2019 houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one head by head."}, {"pk": 2702771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, so he registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai."}, {"pk": 2702772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s first-born, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n were forty-six thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "From the children of Shim\u201bon, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, of those who were registered, according to the number of names, every male head by head, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Shim\u201bon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred."}, {"pk": 2702776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "From the children of Gad\u0331, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Gad\u0331 were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2702778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "From the children of Yehud\u0331ah, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah were seventy-four thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2702780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "From the children of Yissask\u0331ar, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar were fifty-four thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "From the children of Zeb\u0331ulun, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "From the sons of Yos\u0115ph, the children of Ephrayim, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Ephrayim were forty thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "From the children of Menashsheh, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Menashsheh were thirty-two thousand two hundred."}, {"pk": 2702788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "From the children of Binyamin, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Binyamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred."}, {"pk": 2702792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "From the children of Ash\u0115r, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Ash\u0115r were forty-one thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army,"}, {"pk": 2702795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "those who were registered of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "These were those registered, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered, with the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, twelve men, each one for his father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2702797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "And all those that were registered of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, by their fathers\u2019 houses, from twenty years old and above, everyone going out to the army in Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2702798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "all those that were registered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2702799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "But the L\u0115wites were not registered among them by their fathers\u2019 tribe,"}, {"pk": 2702800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cOnly the tribe of L\u0115wi you do not register, nor take a census of them among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cInstead, appoint the L\u0115wites over the Dwelling Place of the Witness, over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They bear the Dwelling Place and all its furnishings, and they attend to it, and camp around the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2702803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cAnd when the Dwelling Place is to go forward, the L\u0115wites take it down. And when the Dwelling Place is to be set up, the L\u0115wites set it up. And the stranger who comes near is put to death."}, {"pk": 2702804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own banner, according to their divisions,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "text": "but let the L\u0115wites camp around the Dwelling Place of the Witness, so that there be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the L\u0115wites shall guard the duty of the Dwelling Place of the Witness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 1, "verse": 54, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, so they did."}, {"pk": 2702807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "The children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are to camp, each one by his own banner, beside the sign of his father\u2019s house. Let them camp around the Tent of Appointment at a distance."}, {"pk": 2702809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And on the east side, towards sunrise: those of the banner of the camp of Yehud\u0331ah camp according to their divisions. And the leader of the children of Yehud\u0331ah: Nah\u0323shon, son of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2702810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: seventy-four thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2702811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And those camping next to him is the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar, and the leader of the children of Yissask\u0331ar: Nethan\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsu\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2702812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And his army with its registered ones: fifty-four thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun, and the leader of the children of Zeb\u0331ulun: Eliyab\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115lon."}, {"pk": 2702814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And his army with its registered ones: fifty-seven thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "All the registered ones of the camp of Yehud\u0331ah, according to their divisions: one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. These depart first."}, {"pk": 2702816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "On the south side: the banner of the camp of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: Elitsur, son of Shed\u0331\u0115y\u2019ur."}, {"pk": 2702817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And his army with its registered ones: forty-six thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And those who camp next to him: the tribe of Shim\u201bon, and the leader of the children of Shim\u201bon: Shelumi\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsurishaddai."}, {"pk": 2702819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: fifty-nine thousand three hundred."}, {"pk": 2702820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Then the tribe of Gad\u0331, and the leader of the children of Gad\u0331: Elyasaph, son of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"De\u2019u\u2019el\""}, {"pk": 2702821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2702822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "All the registered ones of the camp of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, according to their divisions: one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. And they are the second to depart."}, {"pk": 2702823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Tent of Appointment, the camp of the L\u0115wites, shall move out in the middle of the camps. As they camp, so they move out, everyone in his place, by their banners."}, {"pk": 2702824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "On the west side: the banner of the camp of Ephrayim according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Ephrayim: Elishama, son of Ammihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2702825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: forty thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And next to him the tribe of Menashsheh, and the leader of the children of Menashsheh: Gamli\u2019\u0115l, son of Ped\u0331ahtsur."}, {"pk": 2702827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: thirty-two thousand two hundred."}, {"pk": 2702828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "Then the tribe of Binyamin, and the leader of the children of Binyamin: Ab\u0331id\u0331an, son of Gid\u0331\u201boni."}, {"pk": 2702829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: thirty-five thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "All the registered ones of the camp of Ephrayim, according to their divisions: one hundred and eight thousand one hundred. And they are the third to depart."}, {"pk": 2702831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "On the north side: the banner of the camp of Dan, according to their divisions, and the leader of the children of Dan: Ah\u0323i\u201bezer, son of Ammishaddai."}, {"pk": 2702832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: sixty-two thousand seven hundred."}, {"pk": 2702833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And those who camp next to him: the tribe of Ash\u0115r, and the leader of the children of Ash\u0115r: Pa\u1e21\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, son of Ok\u0331ran."}, {"pk": 2702834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: forty-one thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2702835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "Then the tribe of Naphtali, and the leader of the children of Naphtali: Ah\u0323ira, son of \u011anan."}, {"pk": 2702836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "And his army with their registered ones: fifty-three thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2702837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "All the registered ones of the camp of Dan: one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They depart last, with their banners."}, {"pk": 2702838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "These were registered ones of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l by their fathers\u2019 houses. All who were registered according to their divisions of the camps: six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2702839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "But the L\u0115wites were not registered among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh. So they camped by their banners and so they departed, each one by his clan, according to their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2702841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the generations of Aharon and Mosheh when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke with Mosheh on Mount Sinai."}, {"pk": 2702842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And these are the names of the sons of Aharon: Nad\u0331ab\u0331, the first-born, and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar, and Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2702843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to act as priests."}, {"pk": 2702844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu had died before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 when they brought strange fire before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the Wilderness of Sinai. And they had no children. So El\u201bazar and Ithamar acted as priests in the presence of Aharon their father."}, {"pk": 2702845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBring the tribe of L\u0115wi near, and set them before Aharon the priest, and they shall serve him,"}, {"pk": 2702847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "and shall guard his duty and the duty of all the congregation before the Tent of Appointment, to do the service of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2702848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall guard all the furnishings of the Tent of Appointment, and the duty of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to do the service of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2702849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall give the L\u0115wites to Aharon and his sons. They are the given ones, given to him from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cNow look, I Myself have taken the L\u0115wites from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l instead of every first-born who opens the womb among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the L\u0115wites shall be Mine,"}, {"pk": 2702853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cbecause all the first-born are Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, both man and beast. They are Mine, I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "Register the children of L\u0115wi by their fathers\u2019 houses, by their clans. Register every male from a new <i>moon</i> old and above.\u201d", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "So Mosheh registered them according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as he had been commanded."}, {"pk": 2702857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And these were the sons of L\u0115wi by their names: G\u0115rshon, and Qehath, and Merari."}, {"pk": 2702858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And these are the names of the sons of G\u0115rshon by their clans: Lib\u0331ni and Shim\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2702859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of Qehath by their clans: Amram and Yitshar, H\u0323eb\u0331ron and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mah\u0323li and Mushi. These are the clans of the L\u0115wites by their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2702861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "From G\u0115rshon came the clan of the Lib\u0331nites and the clan of the Shim\u201bites. These were the clans of the G\u0115rshonites."}, {"pk": 2702862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "Their registered ones, according to the number of all the males from a new <i>moon</i> old and above, their registered ones were seven thousand five hundred.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "The clans of the G\u0115rshonites were to camp westward, behind the Dwelling Place,"}, {"pk": 2702864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "and the leader of the fathers\u2019 house of the G\u0115rshonites: Elyasaph, son of La\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "And the duty of the children of G\u0115rshon in the Tent of Appointment was the Dwelling Place, and the tent with its covering, and the covering of the door of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "and the screens of the courtyard and the covering of the door of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and the slaughter-place, and their cords, according to all its service."}, {"pk": 2702867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "And from Qehath came the clan of the Amramites, and the clan of the Yitsharites, and the clan of the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites, and the clan of the Uzzi\u2019\u0115lites. These were the clans of the Qehathites."}, {"pk": 2702868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "In number, all the males, from a new <i>moon</i> old and above, were eight thousand six hundred, guarding the duty of the set-apart place.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "The clans of the children of Qehath were to camp on the south side of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2702870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "And the leader of the fathers\u2019 house of the clans of the Qehathites was Elitsaphan, son of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "And their duty was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the slaughter-places, and the utensils of the set-apart place used in the service, and the covering, and all its service."}, {"pk": 2702872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "And El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, was to be chief over the leaders of the L\u0115wites, with oversight of those who guard the duty of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2702873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "From Merari came the clan of the Mah\u0323lites and the clan of the Mushites. These were the clans of Merari."}, {"pk": 2702874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "And the number of their registered ones, all the males from a new <i>moon</i> old and above, were six thousand two hundred.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "And the leader of the fathers\u2019 house of the clans of Merari was Tsuri\u2019\u0115l, son of Ab\u0331ih\u0323ayil. These were to camp on the north side of the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2702876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "text": "And the appointed duty of the children of Merari was the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and its sockets, and its utensils, and all its service,"}, {"pk": 2702877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "text": "and the columns of the courtyard all around, with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords."}, {"pk": 2702878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "text": "And those who were to camp before the Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Appointment, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But the stranger who came near was to be put to death."}, {"pk": 2702879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 39, "text": "All the registered ones of the L\u0115wites, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by their clans, all the males from a new <i>moon</i> old and above, were twenty-two thousand.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 40, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cRegister all the first-born males of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from a new <i>moon</i> old and above, and take the number of their names.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 41, "text": "And you shall take the L\u0115wites for Me \u2014 I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the livestock of the L\u0115wites instead of all the first-born among the livestock of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2702882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 42, "text": "And Mosheh registered all the first-born among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him."}, {"pk": 2702883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 43, "text": "And all the first-born males, by the number of names, from one new <i>moon</i> old and above of their registered ones, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2702884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 44, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cTake the L\u0115wites instead of all the first-born among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the livestock of the L\u0115wites instead of their livestock. And the L\u0115wites shall be Mine, I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 46, "text": "And for the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who are more than the number of the L\u0115wites,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 47, "text": "you shall take five sheqels for each one, head by head \u2014 take it by the sheqel of the set-apart place, the sheqel of twenty g\u0115rahs."}, {"pk": 2702888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 48, "text": "And you shall give the silver, the ransom of those who are in excess among them, to Aharon and his sons."}, {"pk": 2702889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 49, "text": "And Mosheh took the ransom silver from those who were over and above those who were ransomed by the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2702890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 50, "text": "From the first-born of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l he took the silver, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five pieces, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2702891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 3, "verse": 51, "text": "And Mosheh gave their ransom silver to Aharon, and to his sons, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake a census of the sons of Qehath from among the children of L\u0115wi, by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house,"}, {"pk": 2702894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "This is the service of the sons of Qehath in the Tent of Appointment, the most set-apart matters.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAt the breaking of camp, Aharon and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Witness with it,"}, {"pk": 2702897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "and shall put on it a covering of fine leather, and spread over that an all-blue wrapper, and shall insert its poles."}, {"pk": 2702898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd on the table of showbread they shall spread a blue wrapper, and shall put on it the dishes, and the ladles, and the bowls, and the jars for pouring, and the showbread on it."}, {"pk": 2702899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall spread over them a scarlet wrapper, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert its poles,"}, {"pk": 2702900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "and shall take a blue wrapper and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it."}, {"pk": 2702901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a bar."}, {"pk": 2702902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd over the golden slaughter-place they shall spread a blue wrapper, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall insert its poles,"}, {"pk": 2702903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "and shall take all the utensils of service with which they serve in the set-apart place, and shall put them in a blue wrapper, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a bar,"}, {"pk": 2702904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "and shall remove the ashes from the slaughter-place, and spread a purple wrapper over it,"}, {"pk": 2702905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "and shall put on it all its utensils by which they serve there: the fire holders, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins, and all the utensils of the slaughter-place, and shall spread on it a covering of fine leather, and insert its poles."}, {"pk": 2702906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd when Aharon and his sons have finished covering the set-apart <i>objects</i> and all the furnishings of the Set-apart Place at the breaking of camp, then the sons of Qehath shall come to lift them, but let them not touch that which is set-apart, lest they die. These <i>matters</i> are the burden of the sons of Qehath in the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And the oversight of El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, is the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the Dwelling Place and all that is in it, with the set-apart place and its furnishings."}, {"pk": 2702908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDo not cut off the tribe of the clans of the Qehathites from among the L\u0115wites,"}, {"pk": 2702910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cbut do this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the most set-apart <i>objects</i>: Aharon and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his burden."}, {"pk": 2702911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "They are not, however, to go in to watch while the set-apart <i>objects</i> are being covered, lest they die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTake a census also of the sons of G\u0115rshon, by their fathers\u2019 house, by their clans."}, {"pk": 2702914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cRegister them, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter to perform the service, to do the service in the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThis is the service of the clans of the G\u0115rshonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:"}, {"pk": 2702916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And they shall bear the curtains of the Dwelling Place and the Tent of Appointment with its covering, the covering of fine leather that is on it, the covering for the door of the Tent of Appointment,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "and the screens of the courtyard and the covering for the door of the gate of the courtyard, which is around the Dwelling Place and slaughter-place, and their cords, all the equipment for their service and all that is made for them \u2014 so shall they serve."}, {"pk": 2702918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAt the mouth of Aharon and his sons is all the service of the sons of the G\u0115rshonites, all their burden and all their service. And you shall appoint to them all the duty of all their burden."}, {"pk": 2702919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThis is the service of the clans of the sons of G\u0115rshon in the Tent of Appointment. And let their duties be under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest."}, {"pk": 2702920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAs for the sons of Merari, register them by their clans and by their fathers\u2019 house."}, {"pk": 2702921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cRegister them, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the duty of their burden, according to all their service for the Tent of Appointment: the boards of the Dwelling Place, and its bars, and its columns, and its sockets,"}, {"pk": 2702923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cand the columns around the courtyard with their sockets, and their pegs, and their cords, with all their equipment and all their service. And assign <i>to each</i> by name the equipment of the duty of their burden."}, {"pk": 2702924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the Tent of Appointment, under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest."}, {"pk": 2702925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "So Mosheh and Aharon and the leaders of the congregation registered the sons of the Qehathites by their clans and by their fathers\u2019 house,"}, {"pk": 2702926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2702927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "And their registered ones, by their clans, were two thousand seven hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2702928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "These were the registered ones of the clans of the Qehathites, all those serving in the Tent of Appointment, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "And those registered ones of the sons of G\u0115rshon, by their clans and by their fathers\u2019 house,"}, {"pk": 2702930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "the registered ones, by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty."}, {"pk": 2702932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "These were the registered ones of the clans of the sons of G\u0115rshon, of all who serve in the Tent of Appointment, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "And those of the clans of the sons of Merari who were registered, by their clans, by their fathers\u2019 house,"}, {"pk": 2702934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who entered the service for work in the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "the registered ones, by their clans were three thousand two hundred."}, {"pk": 2702936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "text": "These were the registered ones of the clans of the sons of Merari, whom Mosheh and Aharon registered according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "text": "All the registered ones of the L\u0115wites, whom Mosheh and Aharon and the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l registered, by their clans and by their fathers\u2019 houses,"}, {"pk": 2702938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "text": "from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "text": "their registered ones were eight thousand five hundred and eighty."}, {"pk": 2702940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "text": "According to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they were registered by the hand of Mosheh, each according to his service and according to his burden, thus were they registered by him, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2702941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCommand the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to send out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled for a being."}, {"pk": 2702943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSend out both male and female, send them outside the camp, so that they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did so, to send them outside the camp. As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to Mosheh, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did."}, {"pk": 2702945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit in trespass against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and that being is guilty,"}, {"pk": 2702947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall restore his guilt in its principal, plus one-fifth of it, and give it to whom he has been guilty."}, {"pk": 2702948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "But if the man has no relative to restore the guilt to, the guilt which is restored goes to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for the priest, in addition to the ram of the atonement with which atonement is made for him."}, {"pk": 2702949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd every contribution of all the set-apart <i>gifts</i> of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which they bring to the priest, becomes his."}, {"pk": 2702950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And every man\u2019s set-apart <i>gifts</i> becomes his, whatever any man gives the priest becomes his.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When any man\u2019s wife turns aside and has committed a trespass against him,"}, {"pk": 2702953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "and a man has intercourse with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and it is concealed that she has defiled herself, and there was no witness against her, nor was she caught,"}, {"pk": 2702954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "and a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or a spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he becomes jealous of his wife although she has not defiled herself,"}, {"pk": 2702955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring the offering for her, one-tenth of an \u0115phah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil on it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering of jealousy, an offering for remembering, for bringing crookedness to remembrance."}, {"pk": 2702956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And the priest shall bring her near, and shall make her stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And the priest shall take set-apart water in an earthen vessel, and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the Dwelling Place and put it into the water."}, {"pk": 2702958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And the priest shall make the woman stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and shall uncover the woman\u2019s head, and put the offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, while the priest holds in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse."}, {"pk": 2702959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall make her swear, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness under your husband\u2019s <i>authority</i>, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse."}, {"pk": 2702960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "But if you have turned aside under your husband\u2019s <i>authority</i>, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has lain with you\u201d \u2014"}, {"pk": 2702961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "then the priest shall make the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and he shall say to the woman \u2014 \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 make you a curse and an oath among your people, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell,"}, {"pk": 2702962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "and this water that causes the curse shall go into your inward parts, and make your belly swell and your thigh waste away.\u201d And the woman shall say, \u201cAm\u0115n, am\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2702963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall wipe them off into the bitter water,"}, {"pk": 2702964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "and shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter her to become bitter."}, {"pk": 2702965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman\u2019s hand, and shall wave the offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and bring it to the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2702966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "And the priest shall take a hand filled with the offering, as its remembrance offering, and burn it on the slaughter-place, and afterward make the woman drink the water."}, {"pk": 2702967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she has defiled herself and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that brings the curse shall enter her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people."}, {"pk": 2702968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be clear and shall conceive children."}, {"pk": 2702969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband\u2019s <i>authority</i> and defiles herself,"}, {"pk": 2702970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "or when a spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he becomes jealous of his wife. Then he shall make the woman stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the priest shall do to her all this Torah."}, {"pk": 2702971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "And the man shall be clear from crookedness, but the woman bear her crookedness.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When a man or woman does separate, by making a vow of a Nazirite, to be separate to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2702974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201che separates <i>himself</i> from wine and strong drink \u2014 he drinks neither vinegar of wine nor vinegar of strong drink, neither does he drink any grape juice, nor eat grapes or raisins."}, {"pk": 2702975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "All the days of his separation he does not eat whatever is made of the grapevine, from seed to skin."}, {"pk": 2702976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "All the days of the vow of his separation a razor does not come upon his head. Until the days are completed for which he does separate himself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, he is set-apart. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long."}, {"pk": 2702977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "All the days of his separation to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he does not go near a dead body."}, {"pk": 2702978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "He does not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother or his sister, when they die, because his separation to Elohim is on his head."}, {"pk": 2702979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "All the days of his separation he is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2702980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And when anyone dies beside him in an instant, suddenly, and he has defiled the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing \u2014 on the seventh day he shaves it."}, {"pk": 2702981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And on the eighth day he brings two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "and the priest shall prepare one as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering, and shall make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall set apart his head on that day,"}, {"pk": 2702983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "and shall separate to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old, as a guilt offering. But the former days are not counted, because his separation was defiled."}, {"pk": 2702984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And this is the Torah of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are completed, he is brought to the door of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2702985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "and he shall bring his offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: one male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as an ascending offering, and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, as a sin offering, and one ram, a perfect one, as a peace offering,"}, {"pk": 2702986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened thin cakes anointed with oil, and their grain offering with their drink offerings."}, {"pk": 2702987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And the priest shall bring them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and prepare his sin offering and his ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2702988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And he shall prepare the ram as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, together with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest shall prepare its grain offering and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2702989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Appointment, and shall take the hair from the head of his separation and shall put it on the fire which is under the slaughtering of the peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2702990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened thin cake, and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his <i>hair of</i> separation."}, {"pk": 2702991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "Then the priest shall wave them, a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is set-apart for the priest, besides the breast of the wave offering and besides the thigh of the contribution. And afterwards the Nazirite shall drink wine.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2702992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "This is the Torah of the Nazirite who vows to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide. According to the vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the Torah of his separation."}, {"pk": 2702993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2702994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Aharon and his sons, saying, \u2018This is how you bless the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Say to them:"}, {"pk": 2702995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bless you and guard you; \u201d"}, {"pk": 2702996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 make His face shine upon you, and show favour to you;"}, {"pk": 2702997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2702998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "Thus they shall put My Name on the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I Myself shall bless them."}, {"pk": 2702999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Mosheh finished setting up the Dwelling Place, that he anointed it and set it apart and all its furnishings, as well as the slaughter-place and all its utensils. Thus he anointed them and set them apart."}, {"pk": 2703000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses who were the leaders of the tribes and over the ones registered, drew near,"}, {"pk": 2703001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "and they brought their offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: six covered wagons and twelve cattle, a wagon for every two of the leaders, and for each one a bull. And they brought them near before the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2703002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Accept <i>these</i> from them, and they shall be used in doing the service of the Tent of Appointment. And you shall give them to the L\u0115wites, each one according to his service.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh took the wagons and the cattle, and gave them to the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2703005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "He gave two wagons and four cattle to the sons of G\u0115rshon, according to their service."}, {"pk": 2703006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And he gave four wagons and eight cattle to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest."}, {"pk": 2703007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "But to the sons of Qehath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the set-apart <i>objects</i>, which they bore on their shoulders."}, {"pk": 2703008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And the leaders brought the dedication <i>offering</i> of the slaughter-place in the day it was anointed. So the leaders brought their offering before the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2703009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cLet them bring their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the slaughter-place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And the one who brought his offering on the first day was Nah\u0323shon, son of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331, from the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2703011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nah\u0323shon, son of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "On the second day Nethan\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsu\u201bar, leader of Yissask\u0331ar, brought near."}, {"pk": 2703017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "He brought his offering, one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethan\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsu\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2703022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "On the third day Eliyab\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115lon, leader of the children of Zeb\u0331ulun:"}, {"pk": 2703023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliyab\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115lon."}, {"pk": 2703028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "On the fourth day Elitsur, son of Shed\u0331\u0115y\u2019ur, leader of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n:"}, {"pk": 2703029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elitsur, son of Shed\u0331\u0115y\u2019ur."}, {"pk": 2703034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "On the fifth day Shelumi\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsurishaddai, leader of the children of Shim\u201bon:"}, {"pk": 2703035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumi\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsurishaddai."}, {"pk": 2703040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "On the sixth day Elyasaph, son of De\u201bu\u2019\u0115l, a leader of the children of Gad\u0331:"}, {"pk": 2703041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elyasaph, son of De\u201bu\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"De\u2019u\u2019el\""}, {"pk": 2703046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "On the seventh day Elishama, son of Ammihud\u0331, leader of the children of Ephrayim:"}, {"pk": 2703047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama, son of Ammihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 54, "text": "On the eighth day Gamli\u2019\u0115l, son of Ped\u0331ahtsur, leader of the children of Menashsheh:"}, {"pk": 2703053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 55, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 56, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 57, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 58, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 59, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamli\u2019\u0115l, son of Ped\u0331ahtsur."}, {"pk": 2703058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 60, "text": "On the ninth day Ab\u0331id\u0331an, son of Gid\u0331\u201boni, leader of the children of Binyamin:"}, {"pk": 2703059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 61, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 62, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 63, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 64, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 65, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ab\u0331id\u0331an, son of Gid\u0331\u201boni."}, {"pk": 2703064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 66, "text": "On the tenth day Ah\u0323i\u201bezer, son of Ammishaddai, leader of the children of Dan:"}, {"pk": 2703065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 67, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 68, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 69, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 70, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 71, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ah\u0323i\u201bezer, son of Ammishaddai."}, {"pk": 2703070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 72, "text": "On the eleventh day Pa\u1e21\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, son of Ok\u0331ran, leader of the children of Ash\u0115r:"}, {"pk": 2703071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 73, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 74, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 75, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 76, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 77, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pa\u1e21\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, son of Ok\u0331ran."}, {"pk": 2703076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 78, "text": "On the twelfth day Ah\u0323ira, son of \u011anan, leader of the children of Naphtali:"}, {"pk": 2703077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 79, "text": "his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i>, one silver bowl of seventy sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;"}, {"pk": 2703078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 80, "text": "one gold ladle of ten <i>sheqels</i>, filled with incense;"}, {"pk": 2703079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 81, "text": "one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, as an ascending offering;"}, {"pk": 2703080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 82, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering;"}, {"pk": 2703081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 83, "text": "and as a slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i>: two cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ah\u0323ira, son of \u011anan."}, {"pk": 2703082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 84, "text": "This was the dedication of the slaughter-place from the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold ladles."}, {"pk": 2703083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 85, "text": "Each silver dish was one hundred and thirty <i>sheqels</i> and each bowl seventy <i>sheqels</i>. All the silver of the vessels was two thousand four hundred <i>sheqels</i>, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2703084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 86, "text": "The twelve gold ladles filled with incense was ten <i>sheqels</i> each, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place. All the gold of the ladles was one hundred and twenty <i>sheqels</i>."}, {"pk": 2703085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 87, "text": "All the cattle for the ascending offering were twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, with their grain offering, and the male goats as a sin offering twelve."}, {"pk": 2703086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 88, "text": "And all the cattle for the slaughtering of peace <i>offerings</i> were twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the slaughter-place after it was anointed."}, {"pk": 2703087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 7, "verse": 89, "text": "And when Mosheh went into the Tent of Appointment to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the lid of atonement that was on the ark of the Witness, from between the two kerub\u0331im. Thus He spoke to him."}, {"pk": 2703088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "Speak to Aharon, and say to him, \u2018When you ascend to trim the lamps, let the seven lamps give light in front of the lampstand.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And Aharon did so. He set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And this is the work of the lampstand: beaten work of gold, from its base to its blossoms it is beaten work. According to the pattern which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had shown Mosheh, so he made the lampstand."}, {"pk": 2703092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTake the L\u0115wites from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall cleanse them,"}, {"pk": 2703094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "and do this to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of sin <i>offering</i> on them, and they shall shave all their body, and shall wash their garments, and cleanse themselves,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, while you take another young bull as a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2703096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring the L\u0115wites before the Tent of Appointment, and you shall assemble all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And you shall bring the L\u0115wites before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall lay their hands on the L\u0115wites,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "and Aharon shall wave the L\u0115wites before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a wave offering from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 so shall they be for doing the service of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the L\u0115wites shall lay their hands on the heads of the young bulls. And one shall be prepared as a sin offering and the other as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to make atonement for the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2703100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall have the L\u0115wites stand before Aharon and his sons, and then wave them, a wave offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThus you shall separate the L\u0115wites from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the L\u0115wites shall be Mine."}, {"pk": 2703102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThen after that the L\u0115wites shall go in to do service in the Tent of Appointment, when you have cleansed them and waved them as a wave offering."}, {"pk": 2703103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor they are given ones, given to Me from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. I have taken them for Myself instead of all who open the womb, the first-born of all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor all the first-born among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are Mine, both man and beast. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim I set them apart unto Myself."}, {"pk": 2703105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I have taken the L\u0115wites instead of all the first-born of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I have given the L\u0115wites as a gift to Aharon and his sons from among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to do the service of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the Tent of Appointment, and to make atonement for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that there be no plague among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l come near the set-apart place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "Thus Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did to the L\u0115wites according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh concerning the L\u0115wites, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did to them."}, {"pk": 2703108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And the L\u0115wites cleansed themselves and washed their garments, and Aharon waved them, a wave offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and Aharon made atonement for them to cleanse them."}, {"pk": 2703109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "Then after that the L\u0115wites went in to do their service in the Tent of Appointment before Aharon and his sons as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh concerning the L\u0115wites, so they did to them."}, {"pk": 2703110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThis applies to the L\u0115wites: From twenty-five years old and above let him come into active service in the service of the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2703112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "and at the age of fifty years they retire from active service of the service, and serve no more,"}, {"pk": 2703113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cbut they shall attend with their brothers in the Tent of Appointment, to guard the duty, but shall do no service. Thus you shall do to the L\u0115wites regarding their duties."}, {"pk": 2703114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first new <i>moon</i> of the second year after they had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, saying,", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cNow, let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 at its appointed time."}, {"pk": 2703116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cOn the fourteenth day of this new <i>moon</i>, between the evenings, perform it at its appointed time. According to all its laws and right-rulings you perform it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2703118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "So they performed the P\u0115sah\u0323 on the fourteenth day of the first new <i>moon</i>, between the evenings, in the Wilderness of Sinai. According to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did."}, {"pk": 2703119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "But there were men who were defiled for a being of a man, so that they were not able to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 on that day. So they came before Mosheh and Aharon that day,"}, {"pk": 2703120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "and those men said to him, \u201cWe are defiled for the being of a man. Why are we withheld from bringing near the offering of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at its appointed time among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh said to them, \u201cWait, let me hear what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commands concerning you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018When any male of you or your generations is unclean for a being, or is far away on a journey, he shall still perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cOn the fourteenth day of the second new <i>moon</i>, between the evenings, they perform it \u2014 with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they eat it."}, {"pk": 2703125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "They do not leave of it until morning, and they do not break a bone of it. According to all the laws of the P\u0115sah\u0323 they perform it."}, {"pk": 2703126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and has failed to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323, that same being shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at its appointed time \u2014 that man bears his sin."}, {"pk": 2703127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And when a stranger sojourns among you, then he shall perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He shall do so according to the law of the P\u0115sah\u0323 and according to its right-ruling. You have one law, both for the stranger and the native of the land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And on the day that the Dwelling Place was raised up, the cloud covered the Dwelling Place, the Tent of the Witness. From evening until morning it was above the Dwelling Place like the appearance of fire."}, {"pk": 2703129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night."}, {"pk": 2703130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And whenever the cloud was taken up from above the Tent, after that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l would depart. And in the place where the cloud dwelt, there the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l would camp."}, {"pk": 2703131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "At the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l departed, and at the command of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they camped. They remained camped as long as the cloud dwelt above the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2703132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "Even when the cloud lingered many days above the Dwelling Place, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l guarded the Charge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not depart."}, {"pk": 2703133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And so it was, when the cloud was above the Dwelling Place a few days: according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they camped, and according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they would depart."}, {"pk": 2703134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And so it was, when the cloud dwelt only from evening until morning: when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they departed. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud was taken up, they departed."}, {"pk": 2703135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "Whether two days, or a new <i>moon</i> or a year that the cloud lingered above the Dwelling Place to dwell upon it, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l camped, and did not depart. But when it was taken up, they departed.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "At the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they camped, and at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they departed. They guarded the Charge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cMake two silver trumpets for yourself, make them of beaten work. And you shall use them for the gathering of the congregation and for breaking camp."}, {"pk": 2703139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd when they blow both of them, all the congregation shall meet before you at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd if they blow one, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, shall gather to you."}, {"pk": 2703141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd when you blow a shout, the camps that lie on the east side shall depart."}, {"pk": 2703142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd when you blow a shout the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall depart \u2014 they blow a shout for them to depart."}, {"pk": 2703143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when the assembly is to be assembled, you blow, but do not shout."}, {"pk": 2703144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the sons of Aharon, the priests, blow with the trumpets. And it shall be to you for a law forever throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2703145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd when you go into battle in your land against the enemy that distresses you, then you shall shout with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and you shall be saved from your enemies."}, {"pk": 2703146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and at the beginning of your new <i>moons</i>, you shall blow the trumpets over your ascending offerings and over your slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i>. And they shall be a remembrance for you before your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be on the twentieth day of the second new <i>moon</i>, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place of the Witness."}, {"pk": 2703148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l departed, setting out from the Wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud dwelt <i>on it</i> in the Wilderness of Paran."}, {"pk": 2703149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus they departed the first time, according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And the banner of the camp of the children of Yehud\u0331ah departed first according to their divisions. And over their army was Nah\u0323shon, son of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Yissask\u0331ar was Nethan\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsu\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2703152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Zeb\u0331ulun was Eliyab\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115lon."}, {"pk": 2703153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Dwelling Place was taken down. And the sons of G\u0115rshon and the sons of Merari departed, bearing the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2703154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And the banner of the camp of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Elitsur, son of Shed\u0331\u0115y\u2019ur."}, {"pk": 2703155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon was Shelumi\u2019\u0115l, son of Tsurishaddai."}, {"pk": 2703156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad\u0331 was Elyasaph, the son of De\u201bu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And the Qehathites departed, bearing the set-apart <i>objects</i>, while the Dwelling Place was set up before they came."}, {"pk": 2703158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And the banner of the camp of the children of Ephrayim departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Elishama, son of Ammihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Menashsheh was Gamli\u2019\u0115l, son of Ped\u0331ahtsur."}, {"pk": 2703160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Binyamin was Ab\u0331id\u0331an, son of Gid\u0331\u201boni."}, {"pk": 2703161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "Then the banner of the camp of the children of Dan, which formed the rear guard of all the camps, departed according to their divisions. And over their army was Ah\u0323i\u201bezer, son of Ammishaddai."}, {"pk": 2703162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Ash\u0115r was Pa\u1e21\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, the son of Ok\u0331ran."}, {"pk": 2703163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ah\u0323ira, the son of \u011anan."}, {"pk": 2703164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "Such was the order of setting out of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to their divisions, when they departed."}, {"pk": 2703165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said to H\u0323ob\u0331ab\u0331, the son of Re\u201buw\u2019\u0115l the Mid\u0331yanite, Mosheh\u2019s father-in-law, \u201cWe are setting out for the place of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018I give it to you.\u2019 Come with us, and we shall do good to you, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken good concerning Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And he replied to him, \u201cI am not going, but I am going to my own land and to my relatives.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "Then he said, \u201cPlease do not leave us, because you know how we are to camp in the wilderness, and you shall be our eyes."}, {"pk": 2703168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "And it shall be, when you go with us, then it shall be that whatever good \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does to us, the same we shall do to you."}, {"pk": 2703169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "So they set out from the mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on a journey of three days. And the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went before them for the three days\u2019 journey, to seek out a resting place for them."}, {"pk": 2703170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "And the cloud of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was above them by day when they went out from the camp."}, {"pk": 2703171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be, whenever the ark set out, that Mosheh said, \u201cRise up, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! And let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "And when it rested, he said, \u201cReturn, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the countless thousands of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when the people were as complainers, it was evil in the ears of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard it, and His displeasure burned. And the fire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned among them, and consumed those in the outskirts of the camp."}, {"pk": 2703174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And the people cried out to Mosheh, and Mosheh prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the fire died down."}, {"pk": 2703175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "Then he called the name of the place Tab\u0331\u201b\u0115rah, because the fire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had burned among them."}, {"pk": 2703176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And the mixed multitude who were in their midst lusted greatly, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l also wept again and said, \u201cWho is giving us meat to eat?"}, {"pk": 2703177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWe remember the fish which we ate without cost in Mitsrayim, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,"}, {"pk": 2703178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "but now our being is dried up. There is naught to look at but this manna!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium."}, {"pk": 2703180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it in a pot, and made cakes of it. And its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil."}, {"pk": 2703181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna fell on it."}, {"pk": 2703182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh heard the people weeping throughout their clans, each man at the door of his tent. And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned exceedingly. And in the eyes of Mosheh it was evil,"}, {"pk": 2703183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "so Mosheh said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhy have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all these people on me?"}, {"pk": 2703184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWas it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, \u2018Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father carries a nursing child,\u2019 to the land which You swore to their fathers?"}, {"pk": 2703185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me, saying, \u2018Give us meat to eat.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me."}, {"pk": 2703187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd if You are doing <i>this</i> to me, kill me \u2014 please kill me, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGather to Me seventy men of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them. And bring them to the Tent of Appointment, and let them stand there with you."}, {"pk": 2703189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall come down and speak with you there, and shall take of the Spirit that is on you, and put on them. And they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it yourself alone."}, {"pk": 2703190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd say to the people, \u2018Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, because you have wept in the hearing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWho is giving us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Mitsrayim.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give you meat, and you shall eat."}, {"pk": 2703191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "You are going to eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,"}, {"pk": 2703192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "but for a new <i>moon</i> of days, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes an abomination to you, because you have rejected \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, \u201cWhy did we come up out of Mitsrayim?\u201d \u2018 \u201d", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cThe people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand men on foot, and You, You have said, \u2018I give them meat to eat for a new <i>moon</i> of days.\u2019", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Could flocks and herds be slain for them, to be sufficient for them? Or could all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"}, {"pk": 2703195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cIs the arm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 too short? Now see whether My word meets you or not!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "And Mosheh went out and spoke to the people the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the Tent."}, {"pk": 2703197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders. And it came to be, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, but did not continue."}, {"pk": 2703198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "However, two men had remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad\u0331, and the name of the other M\u0115yd\u0331ad\u0331. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but did not go out to the Tent. And they prophesied in the camp."}, {"pk": 2703199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And a young man ran and informed Mosheh, and said, \u201cEldad\u0331 and M\u0115yd\u0331ad\u0331 are prophesying in the camp.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun, Mosheh\u2019s assistant from his youth, answered and said, \u201cMosheh my master, forbid them!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "Then Mosheh said to him, \u201cAre you jealous for my sake? Oh, that all the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 were prophets, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would put His Spirit upon them!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mosheh returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "And a wind went forth from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day\u2019s journey on this side and about a day\u2019s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground."}, {"pk": 2703204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "And the people were up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. He who had least gathered ten h\u0323omers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp."}, {"pk": 2703205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "The meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, and the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against the people, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 struck the people with an exceeding great plague."}, {"pk": 2703206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "Then he called the name of that place Qib\u0331roth Hatta\u2019awah, because there they buried the people who had lusted."}, {"pk": 2703207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "From Qib\u0331roth Hatta\u2019awah the people set out for H\u0323ats\u0115roth \u2014 and they were at H\u0323ats\u0115roth."}, {"pk": 2703208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Now Miryam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman."}, {"pk": 2703209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And they said, \u201cHas \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoken only through Mosheh? Has He not also spoken through us?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard it."}, {"pk": 2703210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And the man Mosheh was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2703211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And suddenly \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, and Aharon, and Miryam, \u201cYou three, come out to the Tent of Appointment!\u201d So the three came out."}, {"pk": 2703212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down in the column of cloud and stood in the door of the Tent, and called Aharon and Miryam. And they both went forward."}, {"pk": 2703213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And He said, \u201cHear now My words: If your prophet is of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I make Myself known to him in a vision, and I speak to him in a dream."}, {"pk": 2703214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNot so with My servant Mosheh, he is trustworthy in all My house."}, {"pk": 2703215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Mosheh?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against them, and He left."}, {"pk": 2703217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And the cloud turned away from above the Tent, and look: Miryam was leprous, as white as snow! And Aharon turned toward Miryam, and look: a leper!"}, {"pk": 2703218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And Aharon said to Mosheh, \u201cOh, my master! Please do not hold against us the sin in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned."}, {"pk": 2703219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "Please do not let her be as one dead when coming out of his mother's womb, with his flesh half consumed!"}, {"pk": 2703220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cO \u011al, please heal her, please!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cIf her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and after that let her be readmitted.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miryam was readmitted."}, {"pk": 2703223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And afterward the people departed from H\u0323ats\u0115roth, and they camped in the Wilderness of Paran."}, {"pk": 2703224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "Send men to spy out the land of Kena\u201ban, which I am giving to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Send one man from each tribe of their fathers, every one a leader among them."}, {"pk": 2703226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And by the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Mosheh sent them from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And these were their names. From the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: Shammua, son of Zakkur."}, {"pk": 2703228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "From the tribe of Shim\u201bon: Shaphat, son of H\u0323ori."}, {"pk": 2703229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "From the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah: Kal\u0115b\u0331, son of Yephunneh."}, {"pk": 2703230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "From the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar: Yi\u1e21\u2019al, son of Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2703231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hosh\u0115a, son of Nun."}, {"pk": 2703232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti, son of Raphu."}, {"pk": 2703233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "From the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun: Gaddi\u2019\u0115l, son of Sod\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2703234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "From the tribe of Yos\u0115ph, from the tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi, son of Susi."}, {"pk": 2703235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "From the tribe of Dan: Ammi\u2019\u0115l, son of Gemalli."}, {"pk": 2703236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "From the tribe of Ash\u0115r: Sh\u0115thur, son of Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "From the tribe of Naphtali: Nah\u0323bi, son of Wophsi."}, {"pk": 2703238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "From the tribe of Gad\u0331: Geu\u2019\u0115l, son of Mak\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2703239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "These are the names of the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hosh\u0115a the son of Nun, Yehoshua."}, {"pk": 2703240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And Mosheh sent them to spy out the land of Kena\u201ban, and said to them, \u201cGo up here into the South, and go up to the mountains,"}, {"pk": 2703241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "and see what the land is like, and the people who dwell in it, whether strong or weak, whether few or many,"}, {"pk": 2703242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "and whether the land they dwell in is good or evil, whether the cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds,"}, {"pk": 2703243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and bring some of the fruit of the land.\u201d Now the time was the season of the first-fruits of grapes."}, {"pk": 2703244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Tsin as far as Reh\u0323ob\u0331, near the entrance of H\u0323amath."}, {"pk": 2703245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And they went up through the South and came to H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And Ah\u0323iman, Sh\u0115shai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anaq, were there. Now H\u0323eb\u0331ron had been built seven years before Tso\u201ban in Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2703246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And they came to the wadi Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it between two of them on a pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs."}, {"pk": 2703247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "That place was called the wadi Eshkol, because of the cluster which the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cut down from there."}, {"pk": 2703248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And they returned from spying out the land after forty days."}, {"pk": 2703249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "And they went and came to Mosheh and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the Wilderness of Paran, at Qad\u0331\u0115sh. And they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land."}, {"pk": 2703250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "And they reported to him, and said, \u201cWe went to the land where you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit."}, {"pk": 2703251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And we saw the descendants of Anaq there too."}, {"pk": 2703252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe Amal\u0115qites dwell in the land of the South, while the H\u0323ittites and the Yeb\u0331usites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains. And the Kena\u201banites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Yard\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "And Kal\u0115b\u0331 silenced the people before Mosheh, and said, \u201cLet us go up at once and take possession, for we are certainly able to overcome it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "But the men who had gone up with him said, \u201cWe are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "And they gave the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, \u201cThe land through which we have gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size."}, {"pk": 2703256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "And we saw there the Nephilim, sons of Anaq, of the Nephilim. And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so we were in their eyes."}, {"pk": 2703257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night."}, {"pk": 2703258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, \u201cIf only we had died in the land of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!"}, {"pk": 2703259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And why is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bringing us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become a prey? Would it not be better for us to turn back to Mitsrayim?"}, {"pk": 2703260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cLet us appoint a leader, and let us turn back to Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their garments,"}, {"pk": 2703263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThe land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land."}, {"pk": 2703264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIf \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has delighted in us, then He shall bring us into this land and give it to us, \u2018a land which is flowing with milk and honey.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cOnly, do not rebel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their defence has turned away from them, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with us. Do not fear them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared in the Tent of Appointment before all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cHow long shall I be scorned by these people? And how long shall I not be trusted by them, with all the signs which I have done in their midst?"}, {"pk": 2703268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "Let Me strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."}, {"pk": 2703269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThen the Mitsrites shall hear it, for by Your power You brought these people up from their midst,"}, {"pk": 2703270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "and they shall say to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are in the midst of these people, that You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are seen eye to eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night."}, {"pk": 2703271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNow if You shall kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not able to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He slew them in the wilderness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And now, I pray, let the power of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be great, as You have spoken, saying,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is patient and of great loving-commitment, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth <i>generation</i>.\u2019", "comment": "This is confirmed in Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/34/7'>34:7</a> and in Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2703275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your loving-commitment, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now."}, {"pk": 2703276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cI shall forgive, according to your word,"}, {"pk": 2703277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "but truly, as I live and all the earth is filled with the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2703278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "for none of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My voice,"}, {"pk": 2703279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "shall see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of those who scorned Me see it."}, {"pk": 2703280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut My servant Kal\u0115b\u0331, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the land where he went, and his seed shall inherit it."}, {"pk": 2703281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSince the Amal\u0115qites and the Kena\u201banites are dwelling in the valley, turn back tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cHow long shall this evil congregation have this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are grumbling against Me."}, {"pk": 2703284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "Say to them, \u2018As I live,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018as you have spoken in My hearing, so I do to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "The carcasses of you who have grumbled against Me are going to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above."}, {"pk": 2703286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "None of you except Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun, shall enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in."}, {"pk": 2703287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected."}, {"pk": 2703288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "But as for you, your carcasses are going to fall in this wilderness."}, {"pk": 2703289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "And your sons shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2703290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days \u2014 a day for a year, a day for a year \u2014 you are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off."}, {"pk": 2703291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing an evil report of the land,"}, {"pk": 2703293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "text": "even those men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "text": "Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh remained alive."}, {"pk": 2703295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "text": "And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the people mourned greatly."}, {"pk": 2703296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "text": "And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, \u201cSee, we have indeed sinned, but we shall go up to the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken of!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "text": "But Mosheh said, \u201cWhy do you now transgress the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, since it does not prosper?"}, {"pk": 2703298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cDo not go up, lest you be smitten by your enemies, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not in your midst."}, {"pk": 2703299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBecause the Amal\u0115qites and the Kena\u201banites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 ,\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "text": "But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 nor Mosheh left the camp."}, {"pk": 2703301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "text": "So the Amal\u0115qites and the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, even to H\u0323ormah."}, {"pk": 2703302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you have come into the land of your dwellings, which I am giving you,"}, {"pk": 2703304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "and you make an offering by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, an ascending offering or a slaughtering, to accomplish a vow or as a voluntary offering or in your appointed times, to make a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the herd or the flock,"}, {"pk": 2703305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "then he who brings near his offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall bring near a grain offering of one-tenth <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you prepare with the ascending offering or the slaughtering, for each lamb."}, {"pk": 2703307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "Or for a ram you prepare as a grain offering two-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil,"}, {"pk": 2703308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "and as a drink offering you bring one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And when you prepare a young bull as an ascending offering, or as a slaughtering to accomplish a vow, or as a peace offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2703310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "then shall be brought with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil,"}, {"pk": 2703311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "and bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "This is what is done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat."}, {"pk": 2703313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "According to the number that you prepare, so you do for each one according to their number."}, {"pk": 2703314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "Let all who are native do so with them, in bringing near an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And when a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would make an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as you do, so he does."}, {"pk": 2703316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you \u2014 a law forever throughout your generations. As you are, so is the stranger before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land to which I bring you,"}, {"pk": 2703320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "then it shall be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you present a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "Present a cake of the first of your dough as a contribution \u2014 as a contribution of the threshing-floor you present it."}, {"pk": 2703322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "Of the first of your dough you are to give to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a contribution throughout your generations."}, {"pk": 2703323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "And when you sin by mistake, and do not do all these commands which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken to Mosheh,", "comment": "Verses <a href='/TS2009/4/15/22-31'>22-31</a> show the difference between sinning by mistake (unintentional sin) on the one hand, and sinning defiantly (intentional sin) on the other hand. Sinning by mistake is also dealt with in Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/4/1'>4</a>"}, {"pk": 2703324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded you by the hand of Mosheh, from the day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave command and onward throughout your generations,"}, {"pk": 2703325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "then it shall be, if it is done by mistake, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall prepare one young bull as an ascending offering, as a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the right-ruling, and one male goat as a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2703326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was by mistake. And they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their sin offering before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for their mistake."}, {"pk": 2703327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the stranger who sojourns in their midst, because all the people did it by mistake."}, {"pk": 2703328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2703329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And the priest shall make atonement for the being who strays by mistake, when he sins by mistake before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him."}, {"pk": 2703330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "For him who does <i>whatever</i> by mistake there is one Torah, both for him who is native among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and for the stranger who sojourns in their midst."}, {"pk": 2703331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "But the being who does <i>whatever</i> defiantly, whether he is native or a stranger, he reviles \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and that being shall be cut off from among his people."}, {"pk": 2703332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "Because he has despised the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and has broken His command, that being shall certainly be cut off, his crookedness is upon him.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And while the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day."}, {"pk": 2703334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Mosheh and to Aharon, and to all the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And they put him in under guard, because it had not been declared what should be done to him."}, {"pk": 2703336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cThe man shall certainly be put to death, all the congregation stoning him with stones outside the camp.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, and he died."}, {"pk": 2703338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "Speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say to them to make tzitzit on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue cord in the tzitzit of the corners.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Tzitzit\"<br>See Explanatory Notes \"Tzitzit\""}, {"pk": 2703340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "And it shall be to you for a tzitzit, and you shall see it, and shall remember all the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and shall do them, and not search after your own heart and your own eyes after which you went whoring,", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Tzitzit\""}, {"pk": 2703341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "text": "so that you remember, and shall do all My commands, and be set-apart unto your Elohim.", "comment": "See also Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/6'>20:6</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/7/9'>7:9</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/11/1'>11:1</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/16'>30:16</a>; Neh. <a href='/TS2009/16/1/5'>1:5</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/9/4'>9:4</a>; 1John. <a href='/TS2009/62/5/2'>5:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/62/5/3'>3</a>; 2John v 6"}, {"pk": 2703342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to be your Elohim. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2703343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And Qorah\u0323, son of Yitshar, son of Qehath, son of L\u0115wi, took both Dathan and Ab\u0331iram the sons of Eliyab\u0331, and On, son of Peleth, sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n,"}, {"pk": 2703344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "and they rose up before Mosheh with some of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, called ones of the meeting, men of name."}, {"pk": 2703345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon, and said to them, \u201cEnough of you! For all the congregation is set-apart, all of them, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in their midst. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And when Mosheh heard, he fell on his face,"}, {"pk": 2703347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "and spoke to Qorah\u0323 and all his company, saying, \u201cTomorrow morning \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall make known who is His and who is set-apart, and bring <i>him</i> near to Him. And let Him bring near to Him the one whom He chooses."}, {"pk": 2703348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo this: Take fire holders, Qorah\u0323 and all your company,"}, {"pk": 2703349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "and put fire in them and put incense in them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 tomorrow. And it shall be that the one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses is the set-apart one. Enough of you, sons of L\u0115wi!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And Mosheh said to Qorah\u0323, \u201cHear now, you sons of L\u0115wi:"}, {"pk": 2703351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIs it little to you that the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has separated you from the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to bring you near to Himself, to perform the service of the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and to stand before the congregation to serve them,"}, {"pk": 2703352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brothers, the sons of L\u0115wi, with you? Yet you seek the priesthood as well?"}, {"pk": 2703353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cTherefore you and all your company are set against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Aharon, what is he that you grumble against him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mosheh sent to call Dathan and Ab\u0331iram the sons of Eliyab\u0331, but they said, \u201cWe are not coming up!"}, {"pk": 2703355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIs it little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you would also seize total rule over us?"}, {"pk": 2703356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAlso, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you bore out the eyes of these men? We are not coming up!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh became very displeased, and said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "Then Mosheh said to Qorah\u0323, \u201cTomorrow, you and all your company shall be there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you and they and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2703359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And take each one his fire holder, and you shall put incense in it. And let each one bring his fire holder before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, two hundred and fifty fire holders, and you and Aharon, each one with his fire holder."}, {"pk": 2703360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "So each one took his fire holder, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Appointment with Mosheh and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2703361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And Qorah\u0323 assembled all the congregation against them at the door of the Tent of Appointment. Then the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to all the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and let Me consume them in a moment."}, {"pk": 2703364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "But they fell on their faces, and said, \u201cO \u011al, Elohim of the spirits of all flesh! When one man sins, are You wroth with all the congregation?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "Speak to the congregation, saying, \u2018Move away from around the tents of Qorah\u0323, Dathan, and Ab\u0331iram.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "So Mosheh rose up and went to Dathan and Ab\u0331iram, and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l followed him."}, {"pk": 2703368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "And he spoke to the congregation, saying, \u201cPlease turn away from the tents of these wrong men! Do not touch whatever belongs to them, lest you be consumed in all their sins.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "Then they moved away from around the tents of Qorah\u0323, Dathan, and Ab\u0331iram. And Dathan and Ab\u0331iram came out and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little children."}, {"pk": 2703370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "And Mosheh said, \u201cBy this you know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent me to do all these works, that <i>they are</i> not from my own heart."}, {"pk": 2703371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cIf these die as all men do, or if they are visited as all men are visited, then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not sent me."}, {"pk": 2703372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "But if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 creates what is unheard of, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into She\u2019ol, then you shall know that these men have scorned \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes - \"She\u2019ol\""}, {"pk": 2703373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "And it came to be, as he ended speaking all these words, that the ground under them split apart,"}, {"pk": 2703374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Qorah\u0323, with all their goods."}, {"pk": 2703375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "So they and all those with them went down alive into She\u2019ol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2703376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, \u201cLest the earth swallow us up!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "text": "And a fire came out from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense."}, {"pk": 2703378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cSay to El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, to pick up the fire holders out of the blaze, for they are set-apart, and scatter the fire some distance away."}, {"pk": 2703380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cThe fire holders of these men who sinned against their own lives, let them be made into beaten plates as a covering for the slaughter-place. Because they brought them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, therefore they are set-apart. And let them become a sign to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "text": "And El\u201bazar the priest took the bronze fire holders, which those who were burned up had brought, and they were beaten out as a covering on the slaughter-place \u2014"}, {"pk": 2703382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "text": "a remembrance to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and not be like Qorah\u0323 and his company \u2014 as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to him through Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 41, "text": "But all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l grumbled against Mosheh and against Aharon on the next day, saying, \u201cYou, you have killed the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 42, "text": "And it came to be, when the congregation assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon, that they turned toward the Tent of Appointment. And see, the cloud covered it, and the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared."}, {"pk": 2703385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 43, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon came before the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 44, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 45, "text": "Arise from amidst this congregation, and let Me consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces."}, {"pk": 2703388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 46, "text": "So Mosheh said to Aharon, \u201cTake the fire holder and put fire in it from the slaughter-place, and lay incense on, and go, hurry to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the plague has begun.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 47, "text": "And Aharon took it as Mosheh commanded, and ran into the midst of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. And he laid on the incense and made atonement for the people,"}, {"pk": 2703390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 48, "text": "and stood between the dead and the living. And the plague was stopped."}, {"pk": 2703391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 49, "text": "And those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Qorah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2703392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 16, "verse": 50, "text": "Then Aharon returned to Mosheh at the door of the Tent of Appointment, for the plague had stopped."}, {"pk": 2703393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and take from them a rod from each father\u2019s house, all their leaders according to their fathers\u2019 houses, twelve rods. Write each one\u2019s name on his rod,"}, {"pk": 2703395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "and write Aharon\u2019s name on the rod of L\u0115wi, for there is one rod for the head of each father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2703396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYou shall then place them in the Tent of Appointment before the Witness, where I meet with you."}, {"pk": 2703397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose buds, and I shall rid Myself of the grumblings of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which they grumble against you."}, {"pk": 2703398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and all their leaders gave him a rod each, for each leader according to their fathers\u2019 houses, twelve rods. And the rod of Aharon was among their rods."}, {"pk": 2703399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "So Mosheh placed the rods before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the Tent of the Witness."}, {"pk": 2703400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be on the next day that Mosheh went into the Tent of the Witness and saw that the rod of Aharon, of the house of L\u0115wi, had budded, and brought forth buds, and blossomed and bore ripe almonds."}, {"pk": 2703401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh brought out all the rods from before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they looked, and each man took his rod."}, {"pk": 2703402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cBring Aharon\u2019s rod back before the Witness, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, so that you put an end to their grumblings against Me, lest they die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And Mosheh did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him, so he did."}, {"pk": 2703404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l spoke to Mosheh, saying, \u201cSee, we shall die, we shall perish, we shall all perish!"}, {"pk": 2703405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "Anyone who comes near the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dies. Shall we be consumed \u2014 to die?"}, {"pk": 2703406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Aharon, \u201cYou and your sons and your father\u2019s house with you are to bear the crookedness against the set-apart place, and you and your sons with you are to bear the crookedness against your priesthood."}, {"pk": 2703407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut bring with you your brothers of the tribe of L\u0115wi too, the tribe of your father to join you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the Tent of the Witness."}, {"pk": 2703408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall guard your charge, and the duty of all the Tent, but they do not come near the furnishings of the set-apart place and the slaughter-place, lest they die, both they and you."}, {"pk": 2703409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be joined with you and guard the duty to the Tent of Appointment, for all the service of the Tent, but a stranger does not come near you."}, {"pk": 2703410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard the duty of the set-apart place and the duty of the slaughter-place, so that there be no more wrath on the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I Myself have taken your brothers the L\u0115wites from the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 a gift to you, given by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to do the service of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut you and your sons with you are to guard your priesthood for all matters at the slaughter-place and behind the veil, and you shall serve. I have given you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the stranger who comes near is put to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Aharon, \u201cAnd see, I Myself have also given you the charge of My contributions, all the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. I have given them to you for the anointing, and to your sons, as a law forever."}, {"pk": 2703414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "This is yours of the most set-apart <i>gifts</i>, from the fire: all their offerings, all their grain offerings and all their sin offerings and all their guilt offerings which they render to Me, are most set-apart for you and your sons."}, {"pk": 2703415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cEat it in the most set-apart place \u2014 every male eats it. It is set-apart to you."}, {"pk": 2703416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThis also is yours: the contribution of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as a law forever. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it."}, {"pk": 2703417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine and the grain \u2014 their first-fruits which they give to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 I have given them to you."}, {"pk": 2703418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe first-fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are yours. Everyone who is clean in your house eats it."}, {"pk": 2703419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAll that is dedicated in Yisra\u2019\u0115l is yours."}, {"pk": 2703420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cEveryone opening a womb of all flesh, which they bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, whether man or beast, is yours. But to ransom: you shall ransom the first-born of man, and the first-born of the unclean beast you ransom."}, {"pk": 2703421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And ransom their ransomed ones when one new <i>moon</i> old, according to your valuation, five sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, which is twenty g\u0115rahs.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut the first-born of a cow, or the first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of a goat you do not ransom, they are set-apart. Sprinkle their blood on the slaughter-place, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd their flesh is yours, as the wave breast and as the right thigh, it is yours."}, {"pk": 2703424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "All the contributions of the set-apart <i>gifts</i>, which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l present to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as a law forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with you and your seed with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Aharon, \u201cYou are not to have an inheritance in their land, nor have any portion in their midst. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I have given the children of L\u0115wi all the tithes in Yisra\u2019\u0115l as an inheritance in return for the service which they are serving, the service of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And let the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l no more come near the Tent of Appointment, lest they bear sin and die,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "because the L\u0115wites shall do the service of the Tent of Appointment, so they themselves bear their crookedness. A law forever, throughout your generations: that among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l they are to have no inheritance,"}, {"pk": 2703429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "but the tithes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which they present as a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have given to the L\u0115wites as an inheritance. That is why I have said to them, \u2018Among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l they have no inheritance.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the L\u0115wites and say to them, \u2018When you take from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution of it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a tenth of the tithe."}, {"pk": 2703432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And your contribution shall be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing-floor and as filling from the winepress."}, {"pk": 2703433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "Thus you also present a contribution unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And you shall give from it the contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Aharon the priest."}, {"pk": 2703434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "From all your gifts you present every contribution due to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from all the best of them, the set-apart part of them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018When you have presented the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the L\u0115wites as the yield of the threshing-floor and as the yield of the winepress."}, {"pk": 2703436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And you shall eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your service in the Tent of Appointment,"}, {"pk": 2703437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "and bear no sin because of it, when you have presented the best of it, and do not profane the set-apart gifts of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, lest you die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThis is a law of the Torah which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded, saying, \u2018Speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they bring you a red heifer, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish and on which a yoke has never come."}, {"pk": 2703440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And you shall give it to El\u201bazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and shall slay it before him."}, {"pk": 2703441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And El\u201bazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times toward the front of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And the heifer shall be burned before his eyes \u2014 he burns its hide, and its flesh, and its blood, and its dung."}, {"pk": 2703443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and throw them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer."}, {"pk": 2703444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "The priest shall then wash his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward come into the camp, but the priest is unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2703445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And he who is burning it washes his garments in water, and shall bathe his body in water, and is unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2703446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and shall place them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for the water for uncleanness, it is for cleansing from sin."}, {"pk": 2703447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his garments, and is unclean until evening. And it shall be a law forever to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and to the stranger who sojourns in their midst."}, {"pk": 2703448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "He who touches the dead of any human being is unclean for seven days."}, {"pk": 2703449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "He is to cleanse himself with the water on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean."}, {"pk": 2703450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "Anyone who touches the dead of a human being, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And that being shall be cut off from Yisra\u2019\u0115l. He is unclean, for the water for uncleanness was not sprinkled on him, his uncleanness is still upon him."}, {"pk": 2703451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent are unclean for seven days,"}, {"pk": 2703452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "and every open vessel which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean."}, {"pk": 2703453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a burial-site, is unclean for seven days."}, {"pk": 2703454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And for the unclean being they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for cleansing from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel."}, {"pk": 2703455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And a clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and shall sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the beings who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or the slain, or the dead, or a burial-site."}, {"pk": 2703456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself, and shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be clean in the evening."}, {"pk": 2703457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that being shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the set-apart place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 water for uncleanness has not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean."}, {"pk": 2703458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And it shall be a law for them forever. And the one who sprinkles the water for uncleanness washes his garments. And the one who touches the water for uncleanness is unclean until evening."}, {"pk": 2703459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And whatever the unclean being touches is unclean. And the being who touches it is unclean until evening.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all the congregation, came into the Wilderness of Tsin in the first new <i>moon</i>, and the people stayed in Qad\u0331\u0115sh. And Miryam died there and was buried there."}, {"pk": 2703461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "Now there was no water for the congregation and they assembled against Mosheh and against Aharon."}, {"pk": 2703462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And the people contended with Mosheh and spoke, saying, \u201cIf only we had died when our brothers died before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2703463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhy have you brought up the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?"}, {"pk": 2703464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim, to bring us to this evil place? \u2014 not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Mosheh and Aharon went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Appointment, and they fell on their faces. And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to them."}, {"pk": 2703466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aharon. And you shall speak to the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water. And you shall bring water for them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their livestock."}, {"pk": 2703468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh took the rod from before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as He commanded him."}, {"pk": 2703469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh and Aharon assembled the assembly before the rock. And he said to them, \u201cHear now, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "Then Mosheh lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and their livestock drank."}, {"pk": 2703471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, \u201cBecause you did not believe Me, to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, therefore you do not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "These were the waters of Merib\u0331ah, because the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l contended with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He was set apart among them."}, {"pk": 2703473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And Mosheh sent messengers from Qad\u0331\u0115sh to the sovereign of Ed\u0331om. \u201cThis is what your brother Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u2018You know all the hardship that has befallen us,"}, {"pk": 2703474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "that our fathers went down to Mitsrayim, and we dwelt in Mitsrayim a long time, and the Mitsrites did evil to us and our fathers."}, {"pk": 2703475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And we cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He heard our voice and sent the Messenger and brought us up out of Mitsrayim. And see, we are in Qad\u0331\u0115sh, a city on the edge of your border."}, {"pk": 2703476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "Please let us pass over, through your land. We shall not pass over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells, we shall go along the sovereign\u2019s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or left, until we have passed over your border.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "But Ed\u0331om said to him, \u201cYou do not pass over through me, lest I come out against you with the sword.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201cWe shall go by the highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I shall pay for it. Let me only pass over on foot, without a word.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "But he said, \u201cYou do not pass over.\u201d And Ed\u0331om came out against them with many men and with a strong hand."}, {"pk": 2703480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "So when Ed\u0331om refused to let Yisra\u2019\u0115l pass over through his border, Yisra\u2019\u0115l turned away from him."}, {"pk": 2703481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all the company, departed from Qad\u0331\u0115sh and came to Mount Hor."}, {"pk": 2703482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in Mount Hor near the border of the land of Ed\u0331om, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAharon is to be gathered to his people, for he is not to enter the land which I have given to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because you rebelled against My mouth at the water of Merib\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2703484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "Take Aharon and El\u201bazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "and strip Aharon of his garments and put them on El\u201bazar his son, for Aharon is to be gathered to his people and die there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And Mosheh did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "And Mosheh stripped Aharon of his garments and put them on El\u201bazar his son. And Aharon died there on the top of the mountain. And Mosheh and El\u201bazar came down from the mountain."}, {"pk": 2703488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "And when all the congregation saw that Aharon was dead, all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l wept for Aharon, thirty days."}, {"pk": 2703489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sovereign of Arad\u0331, the Kena\u201banite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Yisra\u2019\u0115l was coming on the way to Atharim, and he fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l and took some of them captive."}, {"pk": 2703490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Yisra\u2019\u0115l made a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cIf You deliver this people into my hand indeed, then I shall put their cities under the ban.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listened to the voice of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and gave up the Kena\u201banites, and they put them and their cities under the ban. So the name of that place was called H\u0323ormah."}, {"pk": 2703492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Ed\u0331om. But the being of the people grew impatient because of the way."}, {"pk": 2703493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, \u201cWhy have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l died."}, {"pk": 2703495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, \u201cWe have sinned, for we have spoken against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and against you. Pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to take away the serpents from us.\u201d So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people."}, {"pk": 2703496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cMake a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived."}, {"pk": 2703498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out and camped in Ob\u0331oth."}, {"pk": 2703499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And they departed from Ob\u0331oth and camped at Iy\u0115 Ha-Ab\u0331arim, in the wilderness which is east of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, toward sunrise."}, {"pk": 2703500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "From there they set out and camped at the wadi Zered\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, between Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and the Amorites."}, {"pk": 2703502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWah\u0115b\u0331 in Suphah, the wadi Arnon,"}, {"pk": 2703503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Mo\u2019ab\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And from there on to Be\u2019\u0115r, which is the well where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGather the people, and let Me give them water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "Yisra\u2019\u0115l then sang this song: \u201cSpring up, O well! Sing to it,"}, {"pk": 2703506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves, by <i>the word of</i> the Inscriber.\u201d Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah,"}, {"pk": 2703507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "from Mattanah to Nah\u0323ali\u2019\u0115l, from Nah\u0323ali\u2019\u0115l to Bamoth,"}, {"pk": 2703508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland."}, {"pk": 2703509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent messengers to Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn off into fields or vineyards, we shall not drink water from wells, but go by the sovereign\u2019s highway until we have passed over your border."}, {"pk": 2703511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "But Sih\u0323on would not allow Yisra\u2019\u0115l to pass through his border. So Sih\u0323on gathered all his people together and went out against Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the wilderness, and he came to Yahats and fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Yabboq, as far as the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong."}, {"pk": 2703513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l took all these cities, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites \u2014 in H\u0323eshbon and in all its villages,"}, {"pk": 2703514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "for H\u0323eshbon was the city of Sih\u0323on the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon."}, {"pk": 2703515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "That is why those who speak in proverbs say, \u201cCome to H\u0323eshbon, let the city of Sih\u0323on be built and established."}, {"pk": 2703516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor fire went out from H\u0323eshbon, a flame from the city of Sih\u0323on. It consumed Ar of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, the masters of the heights of the Arnon."}, {"pk": 2703517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, Mo\u2019ab\u0331! You have perished, O people of Kemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sih\u0323on the sovereign of the Amorites."}, {"pk": 2703518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "Then we shot them \u2014 H\u0323eshbon has perished as far as Dib\u0331on. And we laid waste as far as Nophah\u0323, which reaches to M\u0115yd\u0331eb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2703519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "So Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in the land of the Amorites."}, {"pk": 2703520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "And Mosheh sent to spy out Ya\u201bz\u0115r. And they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there,"}, {"pk": 2703521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "and turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Ed\u0331re\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2703522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cDo not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at H\u0323eshbon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "And they struck him, and his sons, and all his people, until no remnant was left to him. And they took possession of his land."}, {"pk": 2703524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out and camped in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 beyond the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2703525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And Balaq son of Tsippor saw all that Yisra\u2019\u0115l had done to the Amorites."}, {"pk": 2703526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was in dread because of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And Mo\u2019ab\u0331 said to the elders of Mid\u0331yan, \u201cNow this company is licking up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.\u201d Now Balaq son of Tsippor was sovereign of the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites at that time,"}, {"pk": 2703528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "and he sent messengers to Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, \u201cSee, a people has come from Mitsrayim. See, they have covered the surface of the land, and are settling next to me!"}, {"pk": 2703529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And now, please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too strong for me. It might be that I strike them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."}, {"pk": 2703530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And the elders of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and the elders of Mid\u0331yan left with <i>the fees for</i> divination in their hand, and they came to Bil\u201bam and spoke the words of Balaq to him."}, {"pk": 2703531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cSpend the night here, and I shall bring back word to you, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speaks to me.\u201d So the heads of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 stayed with Bil\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2703532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim came to Bil\u201bam and said, \u201cWho are these men with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to Elohim, \u201cBalaq, son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, has sent to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "See, a people has come out of Mitsrayim and cover the surface of the land. Come now, curse them for me. It might be that I am able to fight against them and drive them out.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And Elohim said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cDo not go with them. You do not curse the people, for they are blessed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And Bil\u201bam rose in the morning and said to the heads of Balaq, \u201cGo back to your land, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has refused to allow me to go with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And the heads of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 arose and went to Balaq, and said, \u201cBil\u201bam refuses to come with us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Then Balaq again sent heads, more numerous and more esteemed than they."}, {"pk": 2703539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "And they came to Bil\u201bam and said to him, \u201cThis is what Balaq son of Tsippor said: \u2018Do not be withheld from coming to me, please,"}, {"pk": 2703540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "for I esteem you very greatly, and whatever you say to me, I do. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "And Bil\u201bam answered and said to the servants of Balaq, \u201cThough Balaq were to give me his house filled with silver and gold, I am unable to go beyond the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, to do less or more."}, {"pk": 2703542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "And now, please, you also stay here tonight, and let me find out what more \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 says to me."}, {"pk": 2703543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And Elohim came to Bil\u201bam at night and said to him, \u201cIf the men come to call you, rise and go with them, but only the word which I speak to you that you do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "And Bil\u201bam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey, and went with the heads of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "But the displeasure of Elohim burned because he went, and the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stationed Himself in the way as an adversary against him. And he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him."}, {"pk": 2703546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "And the donkey saw the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way and went into the field. So Bil\u201bam struck the donkey to turn her back onto the way."}, {"pk": 2703547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "Then the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side."}, {"pk": 2703548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "And when the donkey saw the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, she pushed herself against the wall and crushed Bil\u201bam\u2019s foot against the wall, so he struck her again."}, {"pk": 2703549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went further, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn aside, right or left."}, {"pk": 2703550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "And when the donkey saw the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, she lay down under Bil\u201bam. So Bil\u201bam\u2019s displeasure burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff."}, {"pk": 2703551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cWhat have I done to you, that you have stricken me these three times?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to the donkey, \u201cBecause you have mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would have killed you by now!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "And the donkey said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cAm I not your donkey on which you have ridden, ever since I became yours, to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you?\u201d And he said, \u201cNo.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opened Bil\u201bam\u2019s eyes, and he saw the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand. And he bowed his head and fell on his face."}, {"pk": 2703555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cWhy have you struck your donkey these three times? See, I have come out to stand against you, because your way is reckless before Me."}, {"pk": 2703556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "And the donkey saw Me and turned aside from Me these three times. If she had not turned aside from Me, I certainly would have killed you by now, and let her live."}, {"pk": 2703557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI have sinned, for I did not know You stood in the way against me. And now, if evil is in Your eyes, let me turn back.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cGo with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you speak.\u201d Bil\u201bam then went with the heads of Balaq."}, {"pk": 2703559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "text": "And when Balaq heard that Bil\u201bam was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, which is on the border at the Arnon, which was in the extremity of the border."}, {"pk": 2703560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "text": "And Balaq said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cDid I not urgently send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to esteem you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to Balaq, \u201cSee, I have come to you! Now, am I at all able to say somewhat? The word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "text": "And Bil\u201bam went with Balaq, and they came to Qiryath H\u0323utsoth."}, {"pk": 2703563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "text": "And Balaq slaughtered cattle and sheep, and he sent some to Bil\u201bam and to the heads who were with him."}, {"pk": 2703564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "text": "And it came to be in the morning, that Balaq took Bil\u201bam and brought him up to the high places of Ba\u201bal, and from there he saw the extremity of the camp."}, {"pk": 2703565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to Balaq, \u201cBuild seven slaughter-places for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And Balaq did as Bil\u201bam had spoken, and Balaq and Bil\u201bam offered a bull and a ram on each slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2703567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "Bil\u201bam then said to Balaq, \u201cStand by your ascending offering, and let me go on. It might be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I shall declare to you.\u201d And he went to a bare height."}, {"pk": 2703568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "And Elohim came to Bil\u201bam, and he said to Him, \u201cI have prepared the seven slaughter-places, and I have offered on each slaughter-place a bull and a ram.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 put a word in the mouth of Bil\u201bam, and said, \u201cReturn to Balaq, and this is what you say.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "And he returned to him and saw him standing by his ascending offering, he and all the heads of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "And he took up his proverb and said, \u201cBalaq the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. \u2018Come, curse Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for me, and come, rage at Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cHow do I curse whom \u011al has not cursed? And how do I rage at whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not raged?"}, {"pk": 2703573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I observe him. Look, a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations."}, {"pk": 2703574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "Who shall count the dust of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and the number of one-fourth of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"}, {"pk": 2703575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And Balaq said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cWhat have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have kept on blessing!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And he answered and said, \u201cShould I not take heed to speak what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has put in my mouth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "And Balaq said to him, \u201cPlease come with me to another place from where you see them. You only see the extremity but not all of them. Curse them for me from there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And he took him to the field of Tsophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven slaughter-places, and offered a bull and a ram on each slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2703579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to Balaq, \u201cStand here by your ascending offering while I meet over there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Bil\u201bam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, \u201cGo back to Balaq, and say this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "So he went to him and saw him standing by his ascending offering, and the heads of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 with him. And Balaq asked him, \u201cWhat did \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 say?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And he took up his proverb and said, \u201cRise up, Balaq, and hear! Listen to me, son of Tsippor!"}, {"pk": 2703583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "\"\u011al is not a man, to lie; nor a son of man, to repent! Has He said, and would He not do it; or spoken, and would not confirm it?"}, {"pk": 2703584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSee, I have received, to bless. And He has blessed, and I do not reverse it."}, {"pk": 2703585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cHe has not looked upon wickedness in Ya\u201baqob\u0331, nor has He seen trouble in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim is with him, and the shout of a Sovereign is in him."}, {"pk": 2703586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\"\u011al who brought them out of Mitsrayim, is for them like the horns of a wild ox."}, {"pk": 2703587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor there is no sorcery against Ya\u201baqob\u0331, nor is there any divination against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Now it is said to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018What has \u011al done!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cLook, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it lies not down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "And Balaq said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cDo not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "And Bil\u201bam answered and said to Balaq, \u201cHave I not spoken to you, saying, \u2018All that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speaks, that I do\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "And Balaq said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cPlease come, let me take you to another place. It might be right in the eyes of Elohim that you curse them for me from there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "And Balaq took Bil\u201bam to the top of Pe\u201bor, that overlooks the wasteland."}, {"pk": 2703593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to Balaq, \u201cBuild seven slaughter-places for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "And Balaq did as Bil\u201bam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2703595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Bil\u201bam saw that it pleased \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to bless Yisra\u2019\u0115l, he did not go as at other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2703596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And Bil\u201bam lifted up his eyes and saw Yisra\u2019\u0115l encamped according to their tribes. And the Spirit of Elohim came upon him."}, {"pk": 2703597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And he took up his proverb and said, \u201cThe saying of Bil\u201bam, son of Be\u201bor, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened,"}, {"pk": 2703598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "the saying of him who hears the words of \u011al, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes opened wide:"}, {"pk": 2703599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cHow good are your tents, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, your dwellings, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2703600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLike wadis that stretch out, like gardens by a river, like aloes planted by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, like cedars beside waters."}, {"pk": 2703601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHe makes water flow from his buckets, and his seed is in many waters. His sovereign is higher than A\u1e21a\u1e21, and his reign is exalted."}, {"pk": 2703602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\"\u011al who brought him out of Mitsrayim is for them like the horns of a wild ox; he devours nations, his enemies; and he breaks their bones, and with his arrows he smites."}, {"pk": 2703603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "He bowed down, he lay down like a lion. And, like a lion, who would rouse him? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you."}, {"pk": 2703604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "Then the displeasure of Balaq burned against Bil\u201bam, and he struck his hands together. Balaq then said to Bil\u201bam, \u201cI summoned you to curse my enemies, and see, you have kept on blessing, these three times!"}, {"pk": 2703605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And now flee to your place. I said I would greatly esteem you, and see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has kept you back from esteem."}, {"pk": 2703606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And Bil\u201bam said to Balaq, \u201cDid I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "If Balaq should give me his house filled with silver and gold, I am unable to go beyond the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to do either good or evil of my own heart. What \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speaks, that I speak\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2703608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And now, see, I am going to my people. Come, let me advise you what this people is going to do to your people in the latter days."}, {"pk": 2703609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And he took up his proverb and said, \u201cThe saying of Bil\u201bam, son of Be\u201bor, and the saying of the man whose eyes are opened,"}, {"pk": 2703610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "the saying of him who hears the words of \u011al, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down, with eyes opened wide:"}, {"pk": 2703611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall smite the corners of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and shall destroy all the sons of Sh\u0115th.", "comment": "See also Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/25/3'>25:3</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/31/16'>31:16</a> and also 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/15'>2:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2703612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd Ed\u0331om shall be a possession; and S\u0115\u201bir shall be a possession \u2014 enemies \u2014 and Yisra\u2019\u0115l is doing mightily."}, {"pk": 2703613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd out of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 <i>One</i> shall rule and destroy the remnant from Ar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "He then looked on Amal\u0115q, and he took up his proverb and said, \u201cAmal\u0115q was first among the nations, but his latter end is to perish forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "He then looked on the Q\u0115ynites, and he took up his proverb and said, \u201cFirm is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock,"}, {"pk": 2703616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "but Qayin is to be burned. Till when does Asshur keep you captive?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "And he took up his proverb and said, \u201cOh, who does live when \u011al does this?"}, {"pk": 2703618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur and afflict \u011ab\u0331er, and so shall Amal\u0115q, and he also perishes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And Bil\u201bam arose and left, and returned to his place. And Balaq also went his way."}, {"pk": 2703620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Mo\u2019ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2703621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "and they invited the people to the slaughterings of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2703622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "Thus Yisra\u2019\u0115l was joined to Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor, and the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cTake all the leaders of the people and hang them up before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, before the sun, so that the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turns away from Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cEach one of you kill his men who were joined to Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And see, one of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came and brought to his brothers a Mid\u0331yanite woman before the eyes of Mosheh and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who were weeping at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2703626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And when Pineh\u0323as, son of El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand,"}, {"pk": 2703627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "and he went after the man of Yisra\u2019\u0115l into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to a stop."}, {"pk": 2703628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2703629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cPineh\u0323as, son of El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because he was ardent with My ardour in their midst, so that I did not consume the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in My ardour."}, {"pk": 2703631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore say, \u2018See, I am giving him My covenant of peace,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "and it shall be to him and to his seed after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was ardent for his Elohim, and made atonement for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "And the name of the man of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who was struck, who was struck with the Mid\u0331yanite woman, was Zimri, son of Salu, a leader of a father\u2019s house among the Shim\u201bonites."}, {"pk": 2703634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "And the name of the Mid\u0331yanite woman who was struck was Kozbi the daughter of Tsur. He was head of the people of a father\u2019s house in Mid\u0331yan."}, {"pk": 2703635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDistress the Mid\u0331yanites! And you shall strike them,"}, {"pk": 2703637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cfor they distressed you with their tricks with which they deceived you in the matter of Pe\u201bor and in the matter of Kozbi, the daughter of a leader of Mid\u0331yan, their sister, who was struck in the day of the plague because of Pe\u201bor."}, {"pk": 2703638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, after the plague, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh and El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the priest, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from twenty years old and above, by their fathers\u2019 houses, everyone going out to the army in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "So Mosheh and El\u201bazar the priest spoke with them in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>\u201cTake a census of the people</i> from twenty years old and above, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who came out of the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, first-born of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: <i>of</i> H\u0323anok\u0331, the clan of the H\u0323anok\u0331ites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;"}, {"pk": 2703643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "of H\u0323etsron, the clan of the H\u0323etsronites; of Karmi, the clan of the Karmites."}, {"pk": 2703644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "These are the clans of the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and their registered ones were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty."}, {"pk": 2703645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And the son of Pallu: Eliyab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of Eliyab\u0331: Nemu\u2019\u0115l, and Dathan, and Ab\u0331iram. This Dathan and Ab\u0331iram, were the called ones of the congregation, who contended against Mosheh and against Aharon in the company of Qorah\u0323, when they contended against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2703647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Qorah\u0323 when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men. And they became a sign,"}, {"pk": 2703648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "but the sons of Qorah\u0323 did not die."}, {"pk": 2703649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "Sons of Shim\u201bon according to their clans: of Nemu\u2019\u0115l, the clan of the Nemu\u2019\u0115lites; of Yamin, the clan of the Yaminites; of Yak\u0331in, the clan of the Yak\u0331inites;"}, {"pk": 2703650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "of Zerah\u0323, the clan of the Zarh\u0323ites; of Sha\u2019ul, the clan of the Sha\u2019ulites."}, {"pk": 2703651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "These are the clans of the Shim\u201bonites: twenty-two thousand two hundred."}, {"pk": 2703652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "Sons of Gad\u0331 according to their clans: of Tsephon, the clan of the Tsephonites; of H\u0323aggi, the clan of the H\u0323aggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;"}, {"pk": 2703653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of \u011ari, the clan of the \u011arites;"}, {"pk": 2703654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "of Arod\u0331, the clan of the Arod\u0331ites; of Ar\u0115li, the clan of the Ar\u0115lites."}, {"pk": 2703655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "These are the clans of the sons of Gad\u0331 according to their registered ones: forty thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2703656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "Sons of Yehud\u0331ah: \u011ar and Onan. And \u011ar and Onan died in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2703657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "And sons of Yehud\u0331ah according to their clans: of Sh\u0115lah, the clan of the Sh\u0115lanites; of Perets, the clan of the Partsites; of Zerah\u0323, the clan of the Zarh\u0323ites."}, {"pk": 2703658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And sons of Perets: of H\u0323etsron, the clan of the H\u0323etsronites; of H\u0323amul, the clan of the H\u0323amulites."}, {"pk": 2703659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "These are the clans of Yehud\u0331ah according to their registered ones: seventy-six thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2703660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "Sons of Yissask\u0331ar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puwwah, the clan of the Punites;"}, {"pk": 2703661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "of Yashub\u0331, the clan of the Yashub\u0331ites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites."}, {"pk": 2703662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "These are the clans of Yissask\u0331ar according to their registered ones: sixty-four thousand three hundred."}, {"pk": 2703663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "Sons of Zeb\u0331ulun according to their clans: of Sered\u0331, the clan of the Sardites; of \u011alon, the clan of the \u011alonites; of Yah\u0323le\u2019\u0115l, the clan of the Yah\u0323le\u2019\u0115lites."}, {"pk": 2703664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "These are the clans of the Zeb\u0331ulunites according to their registered ones: sixty thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2703665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "Sons of Yos\u0115ph according to their clans, by Menashsheh and Ephrayim:"}, {"pk": 2703666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "Sons of Menashsheh: of Mak\u0331ir, the clan of the Mak\u0331irites. And Mak\u0331ir brought forth Gil\u201bad\u0331; of Gil\u201bad\u0331, the clan of the Gil\u201bad\u0331ites."}, {"pk": 2703667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "These are sons of Gil\u201bad\u0331: of Iyezer, the clan of the Iyezerites; of H\u0323\u0115leq, the clan of the H\u0323\u0115leqites;"}, {"pk": 2703668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "of Asri\u2019\u0115l, the clan of the Asri\u2019\u0115lites; of Shek\u0331em, the clan of the Shek\u0331emites;"}, {"pk": 2703669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "of Shemid\u0331a, the clan of the Shemid\u0331aites; of H\u0323\u0115pher, the clan of the H\u0323\u0115pherites."}, {"pk": 2703670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "text": "And Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331 son of H\u0323\u0115pher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331: Mah\u0323lah, and No\u201bah, H\u0323o\u1e21lah, Milkah, and Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2703671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "text": "These are the clans of Menashsheh, and their registered ones: fifty-two thousand seven hundred."}, {"pk": 2703672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "text": "These are the sons of Ephrayim according to their clans: of Shuthelah\u0323, the clan of the Shuthalh\u0323ites; of Bek\u0331er, the clan of the Bak\u0331rites; of Tah\u0323an, the clan of the Tah\u0323anites."}, {"pk": 2703673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "text": "And these are sons of Shuthelah\u0323: of \u011aran, the clan of the \u011aranites."}, {"pk": 2703674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "text": "These are the clans of the sons of Ephrayim according to their registered ones: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Yos\u0115ph according to their clans."}, {"pk": 2703675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 38, "text": "Sons of Binyamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashb\u0115l, the clan of the Ashb\u0115lites; of Ah\u0323iram, the clan of the Ah\u0323iramites;"}, {"pk": 2703676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 39, "text": "of Shephupham, the clan of the Shephuphamites; of H\u0323upham, the clan of the H\u0323uphamites."}, {"pk": 2703677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 40, "text": "And sons of Bela were Ard and Na\u201baman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Na\u201baman, the clan of the Na\u201bamites."}, {"pk": 2703678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 41, "text": "These are sons of Binyamin according to their clans, and their registered ones: forty-five thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2703679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 42, "text": "These are sons of Dan according to their clans: of Shuh\u0323am, the clan of the Shuh\u0323amites. These are the clans of Dan according to their clans."}, {"pk": 2703680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 43, "text": "All the clans of the Shuh\u0323amites, according to their registered ones: sixty-four thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2703681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 44, "text": "Sons of Ash\u0115r according to their clans: of Yimna, the clan of the Yimnahites; of Yishwi, the clan of the Yishwites; of Beri\u201bah, the clan of the Beri\u201bites."}, {"pk": 2703682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 45, "text": "Of the sons of Beri\u201bah: of H\u0323eb\u0331er, the clan of the H\u0323eb\u0331erites; of Malki\u2019\u0115l, the clan of the Malki\u2019\u0115lites."}, {"pk": 2703683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 46, "text": "And the name of the daughter of Ash\u0115r was Serah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2703684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 47, "text": "These are the clans of the sons of Ash\u0115r according to their registered ones: fifty-three thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2703685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 48, "text": "Sons of Naphtali according to their clans: of Yah\u0323tse\u2019\u0115l, the clan of the Yah\u0323tse\u2019\u0115lites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;"}, {"pk": 2703686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 49, "text": "of Y\u0115tser, the clan of the Y\u0115tserites; of Shill\u0115m, the clan of the Shill\u0115mites."}, {"pk": 2703687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 50, "text": "These are the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, and their registered ones: forty-five thousand four hundred."}, {"pk": 2703688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 51, "text": "These are the registered ones of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty."}, {"pk": 2703689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 52, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cThe land is to be divided to these as an inheritance, according to the number of names."}, {"pk": 2703691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 54, "text": "\u201cTo the large one you give a larger inheritance, and to the small one you give a smaller inheritance. Each shall be given its inheritance according to their registered ones."}, {"pk": 2703692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cBut the land is divided by lot, they inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2703693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cAccording to the lot their inheritance is divided between the larger and the smaller.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 57, "text": "And these are the registered ones of the L\u0115wites according to their clans: of G\u0115rshon, the clan of the G\u0115rshonites; of Qehath, the clan of the Qehathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites."}, {"pk": 2703695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 58, "text": "These are the clans of the L\u0115wites: the clan of the Lib\u0331nites, the clan of the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites, the clan of the Mah\u0323lites, the clan of the Mushites, and the clan of the Qorh\u0323ites. And Qehath brought forth Amram."}, {"pk": 2703696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 59, "text": "And the name of Amram\u2019s wife was Yok\u0331eb\u0331ed\u0331 the daughter of L\u0115wi, who was born to L\u0115wi in Mitsrayim. And to Amram she bore Aharon and Mosheh and their sister Miryam."}, {"pk": 2703697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 60, "text": "And to Aharon were born Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar and Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2703698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 61, "text": "And Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu died when they brought strange fire before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 62, "text": "And their registered ones were twenty-three thousand, every male from a new <i>moon</i> old and above. For they were not registered among the other children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "Or a month"}, {"pk": 2703700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 63, "text": "These are the ones registered by Mosheh and El\u201bazar the priest, who registered the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2703701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 64, "text": "But among these there was not a man of those registered by Mosheh and Aharon the priest when they registered the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the Wilderness of Sinai."}, {"pk": 2703702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 26, "verse": 65, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said of them, \u201cThey shall certainly die in the wilderness.\u201d And not a man was left of them, except Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun."}, {"pk": 2703703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "Then came the daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331, son of H\u0323\u0115pher, son of Gil\u201bad\u0331, son of Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh, from the clans of Menashsheh, son of Yos\u0115ph. And these were the names of his daughters: Mah\u0323lah, No\u201bah, and H\u0323o\u1e21lah, and Milkah, and Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2703704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "And they stood before Mosheh, and before El\u201bazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, by the doorway of the Tent of Appointment, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cOur father died in the wilderness, yet he was not in the company of those who were met together against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in company with Qorah\u0323, but he died in his own sin. And he had no sons."}, {"pk": 2703706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhy should the name of our father be removed from among his clan because he had no son? Give us a possession among the brothers of our father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "Mosheh then brought their case before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThe daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331 speak what is right. You should certainly give them a possession of inheritance among their father\u2019s brothers, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them."}, {"pk": 2703710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018When a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter."}, {"pk": 2703711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers."}, {"pk": 2703712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father\u2019s brothers."}, {"pk": 2703713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, and he shall possess it.\u2019 \u201d And it shall be to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l a law of right-ruling, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cGo up into this Mount Ab\u0331arim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as Aharon your brother was gathered,"}, {"pk": 2703716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cbecause you rebelled against My mouth in the Wilderness of Tsin, in the strife of the congregation, to set Me apart at the waters before their eyes. These were the waters of Merib\u0331ah, at Qad\u0331\u0115sh in the Wilderness of Tsin."}, {"pk": 2703717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,"}, {"pk": 2703719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cwho goes out before them and comes in before them, who leads them out and brings them in, so that the congregation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be not like sheep without a shepherd."}, {"pk": 2703720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cTake Yehoshua son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit. And you shall lay your hand on him,"}, {"pk": 2703721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "and shall set him before El\u201bazar the priest and before all the congregation, and give him command before their eyes,"}, {"pk": 2703722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "and shall put some of your esteem upon him, so that all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l obey <i>him</i>."}, {"pk": 2703723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "And he is to stand before El\u201bazar the priest, who shall inquire before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for him by the right-ruling of the Urim. At his word they go out, and at his word they come in, both he and all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, all the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "And Mosheh did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him, and took Yehoshua and set him before El\u201bazar the priest and before all the congregation,"}, {"pk": 2703725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "and laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCommand the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say to them, \u2018Take heed to bring My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire as a sweet fragrance to Me, at their appointed time.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018This is the offering made by fire which you bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: two male lambs a year old, perfect ones, daily, a continual ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2703729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "The one lamb you prepare in the morning, and the other lamb you prepare between the evenings,"}, {"pk": 2703730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "with one-tenth of an \u0115phah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with one-fourth of a hin of pressed oil,"}, {"pk": 2703731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "a continual ascending offering which was offered at Mount Sinai for a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2703732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "and its drink offering, one-fourth of a hin for each lamb. Pour out the drink to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as an offering in the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2703733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "And the other lamb you prepare between the evenings. As the morning grain offering and its drink offering, you prepare it as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "And on the Sabbath day two lambs a year old, perfect ones, and two-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering,"}, {"pk": 2703735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "the ascending offering for every Sabbath, besides the continual ascending offering with its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And on the beginnings of your new <i>moons</i> you bring near an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: two young bulls and one ram, and seven lambs a year old, perfect ones;"}, {"pk": 2703737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; two-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;"}, {"pk": 2703738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "and one-tenth <i>of an \u0115phah</i> of fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering for each lamb, as an ascending offering of sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "And their drink offering is half a hin of wine for a bull, and one-third of a hin for a ram, and one-fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the ascending offering for each new <i>moon</i> throughout the new <i>moons</i> of the year,"}, {"pk": 2703740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "and one male goat as a sin offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is prepared, besides the continual ascending offering and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "And in the first new <i>moon</i>, on the fourteenth day, is the P\u0115sah\u0323 of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,", "comment": "Passover."}, {"pk": 2703742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "and on the fifteenth day of this new <i>moon</i> is a festival. For seven days unleavened bread is eaten."}, {"pk": 2703743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "On the first day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work."}, {"pk": 2703744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "And you shall bring near an offering made by fire as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: two young bulls and one ram, and seven lambs a year old, perfect ones they are for you,"}, {"pk": 2703745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil. Prepare three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for a bull, and two-tenths for a ram."}, {"pk": 2703746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "Prepare one-tenth <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for each of the seven lambs,"}, {"pk": 2703747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you."}, {"pk": 2703748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "Prepare these besides the ascending offering of the morning, which is for a continual ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2703749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "According to these you are to prepare the food of the offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is prepared besides the continual ascending offering and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "And on the seventh day you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work."}, {"pk": 2703751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "And on the day of the first-fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at your Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot, you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.", "comment": "Weeks."}, {"pk": 2703752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "And you shall bring near an ascending offering as a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs a year old,"}, {"pk": 2703753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,"}, {"pk": 2703754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "text": "one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,"}, {"pk": 2703755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "text": "one male goat to make atonement for you,"}, {"pk": 2703756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "text": "perfect ones they are for you. Prepare them with their drink offerings, besides the continual ascending offering with its grain offering."}, {"pk": 2703757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018And in the seventh new <i>moon</i>, on the first <i>day</i> of the new <i>moon</i>, you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work, it is Yom Teru\u201bah", "comment": "Day of Soundings or Noisings"}, {"pk": 2703758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "And you shall prepare an ascending offering as a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "and their grain offering: fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,"}, {"pk": 2703760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,"}, {"pk": 2703761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "and one male goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you,"}, {"pk": 2703762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "besides the ascending offering with its grain offering for the New <i>Moon</i>, the continual ascending offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their right-ruling, as a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "And on the tenth <i>day</i> of this seventh new <i>moon</i> you have a set-apart gathering, and you shall afflict your beings, you do no work."}, {"pk": 2703764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "And you shall bring near an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a sweet fragrance: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones they are for you,"}, {"pk": 2703765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "and their grain offering: fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram,"}, {"pk": 2703766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,"}, {"pk": 2703767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "one male goat as a sin offering, besides the sin offering for atonement, the continual ascending offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings."}, {"pk": 2703768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "And on the fifteenth day of the seventh new <i>moon</i> you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work. And you shall celebrate a festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 seven days,"}, {"pk": 2703769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "and you shall bring near an ascending offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones they are,"}, {"pk": 2703770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "and their grain offering: fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths <i>of an \u0115phah</i> for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams,"}, {"pk": 2703771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,"}, {"pk": 2703772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "Then on the second day: twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings."}, {"pk": 2703776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "And on the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "text": "Then on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "text": "and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "text": "On the eighth day you have an assembly, you do no servile work,"}, {"pk": 2703792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "text": "and you shall bring near an ascending offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: one bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones,"}, {"pk": 2703793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 37, "text": "their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2703794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 38, "text": "and one goat as a sin offering, besides the continual ascending offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering."}, {"pk": 2703795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 39, "text": "These you prepare to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at your appointed times, besides your vowed offerings and your voluntary offerings, as your ascending offerings and your grain offerings, as your drink offerings and your peace offerings.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 29, "verse": 40, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l according to all \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThis is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded:"}, {"pk": 2703798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen a man vows a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he does not break his word, he does according to all that comes out of his mouth."}, {"pk": 2703799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "Or if a woman vows a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father\u2019s house in her youth,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father has kept silent towards her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself stands."}, {"pk": 2703801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut if her father forbids her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself stand. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pardons her, because her father has forbidden her."}, {"pk": 2703802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "But if she at all belongs to a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "and her husband hears it, and he has kept silent towards her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself do stand."}, {"pk": 2703804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut if her husband forbids her on the day that he hears it, then he has nullified her vow which she vowed, and the rash utterance of her lips by which she bound herself, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pardons her."}, {"pk": 2703805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, stands against her."}, {"pk": 2703806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd if she vowed in her husband\u2019s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath,"}, {"pk": 2703807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "and her husband heard it, and has kept silent towards her and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself stands."}, {"pk": 2703808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut if her husband clearly nullified them on the day he heard them, then whatever came from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it does not stand \u2014 her husband has nullified them, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pardons her."}, {"pk": 2703809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cEvery vow and every binding oath to afflict her being, let her husband confirm it, or let her husband nullify it."}, {"pk": 2703810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut if her husband is altogether silent at her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her \u2014 he confirms them, because he kept silent towards her on the day that he heard."}, {"pk": 2703811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "But if he nullifies them after he has heard, then he shall bear her crookedness."}, {"pk": 2703812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "These are the laws which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2703813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "Take vengeance for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on the Mid\u0331yanites. After that you are to be gathered to your people."}, {"pk": 2703815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "And Mosheh spoke to the people, saying, \u201cArm some of yourselves for the campaign, and let them go against the Mid\u0331yanites to take vengeance for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on Mid\u0331yan."}, {"pk": 2703816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "Send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for the campaign."}, {"pk": 2703817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "So there were supplied from the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed ones for the campaign."}, {"pk": 2703818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh sent them on the campaign, one thousand from each tribe, them and Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar the priest on the campaign, with the set-apart utensils and the trumpets for sounding in his hand."}, {"pk": 2703819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "And they fought against the Mid\u0331yanites, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, and killed all the males."}, {"pk": 2703820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "And they killed the sovereigns of Mid\u0331yan with the rest of those who were pierced: Ewi, and Reqem, and Tsur, and H\u0323ur, and Reb\u0331a, the five sovereigns of Mid\u0331yan. And they killed Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor with the sword."}, {"pk": 2703821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l took all the women of Mid\u0331yan captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their livestock, and all their possessions."}, {"pk": 2703822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "And they burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their settlements."}, {"pk": 2703823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "And they took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and beast."}, {"pk": 2703824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "And they brought the captives, and the booty, and the spoil to Mosheh, and to El\u201bazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to the camp in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2703825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh, and El\u201bazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp."}, {"pk": 2703826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "But Mosheh was wroth with the officers of the army, with the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who had come from the campaign."}, {"pk": 2703827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh said to them, \u201cHave you kept all the women alive?"}, {"pk": 2703828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cLook, they are the ones who caused the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, through the word of Bil\u201bam, to trespass against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the matter of Pe\u201bor, and there was a plague among the congregation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd now, kill every male among the little ones. And every woman who has known a man by lying with a man you shall kill."}, {"pk": 2703830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut keep alive for yourselves all the female children who have not known a man by lying with a man."}, {"pk": 2703831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you, camp outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any being, and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day."}, {"pk": 2703832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "And cleanse every garment, and every object of leather and all the work of goats\u2019 <i>hair</i>, and every object of wood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "And El\u201bazar the priest said to the men of the campaign who went to the battle, \u201cThis is the law of the Torah which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh:"}, {"pk": 2703834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cOnly the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,"}, {"pk": 2703835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "every object that passes through fire, you put through the fire, and it shall be clean; only, let it be cleansed with the water for uncleanness. And whatever does not pass through fire you pass through water."}, {"pk": 2703836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterwards come into the camp.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cCount up the plunder that was taken, of man and of beast, you and El\u201bazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the battle, who went out on the campaign, and all the congregation."}, {"pk": 2703840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd set aside a levy for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the men of battle who went out on the campaign: one out of every five hundred, of man, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the sheep."}, {"pk": 2703841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cTake it from their half, and give it to El\u201bazar the priest as a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "And from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s half you shall take one of every fifty, of man, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, of all the livestock, and give them to the L\u0115wites guarding the duty of the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "text": "And Mosheh and El\u201bazar the priest did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "text": "And the booty remaining from the plunder, which the people of the campaign had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,"}, {"pk": 2703845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "text": "and seventy-two thousand cattle,"}, {"pk": 2703846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "text": "and sixty-one thousand donkeys,"}, {"pk": 2703847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "text": "and thirty-two thousand human beings in all, of women who had not known a man by lying with a man."}, {"pk": 2703848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "text": "And the half, the portion for those who went out on the campaign, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,"}, {"pk": 2703849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "text": "and the levy unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five."}, {"pk": 2703850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "text": "And the cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the levy unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was seventy-two."}, {"pk": 2703851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "text": "And the donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the levy unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was sixty-one."}, {"pk": 2703852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "text": "And the human beings were sixteen thousand, of which the levy unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was thirty-two beings."}, {"pk": 2703853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 41, "text": "So Mosheh gave the levy which was the contribution unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to El\u201bazar the priest, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 42, "text": "And from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s half, which Mosheh divided from the men who campaigned:"}, {"pk": 2703855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 43, "text": "now the half belonging to the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,"}, {"pk": 2703856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 44, "text": "and thirty-six thousand cattle,"}, {"pk": 2703857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 45, "text": "and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,"}, {"pk": 2703858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 46, "text": "and sixteen thousand human beings."}, {"pk": 2703859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 47, "text": "Then Mosheh took from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l\u2019s half: one out of every fifty, drawn from man and beast, and gave them to the L\u0115wites, who guarded the duty of the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2703860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 48, "text": "And the officers who were over thousands of the campaign, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, came near to Mosheh,"}, {"pk": 2703861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 49, "text": "and they said to Mosheh, \u201cYour servants have taken a count of the fighting men under our command, and not a man of us is missing."}, {"pk": 2703862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 50, "text": "So we have brought an offering for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 51, "text": "And Mosheh and El\u201bazar the priest received the gold from them, all the fashioned ornaments."}, {"pk": 2703864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 52, "text": "And all the gold of the offering that they presented to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sheqels."}, {"pk": 2703865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 53, "text": "The men of the campaign had taken spoil, every man for himself."}, {"pk": 2703866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 31, "verse": 54, "text": "And Mosheh and El\u201bazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Appointment as a remembrance for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "And the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and the children of Gad\u0331 had much livestock, a large number. And they saw the land of Ya\u201bz\u0115r and the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 and saw that the place was a place for livestock."}, {"pk": 2703868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "So the children of Gad\u0331 and the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n came and spoke to Mosheh, and to El\u201bazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAtaroth, and Dib\u0331on, and Ya\u201bz\u0115r, and Nimrah, and H\u0323eshbon, and El\u201bal\u0115h, and Seb\u0331am, and Neb\u0331o, and Be\u201bon,"}, {"pk": 2703870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cthe land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had stricken before the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."}, {"pk": 2703871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "And they said, \u201cIf we have found favour in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession, and do not let us pass over the Yard\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mosheh said to the children of Gad\u0331 and to the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, \u201cAre your brothers to go into the battle while you yourselves sit here?"}, {"pk": 2703873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNow why do you discourage the heart of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from passing over into the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given them?"}, {"pk": 2703874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThus your fathers did when I sent them away from Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a to see the land."}, {"pk": 2703875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor when they went up to the wadi Eshkol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that they did not go into the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given them."}, {"pk": 2703876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "Then the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "Not one of the men who came up from Mitsrayim, from twenty years old and above, is to see the land of which I swore to Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, because they did not follow Me completely,"}, {"pk": 2703878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "except Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh, the Qenizzite, and Yehoshua son of Nun, for they have followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 completely.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2703879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSo the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was destroyed."}, {"pk": 2703880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd see, you have risen in your father\u2019s place, an increase of men, sinners, to add still more the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "For if you turn away from following Him, He shall once again leave them in the wilderness, and you shall destroy all these people."}, {"pk": 2703882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "Then they came near to him and said, \u201cLet us build sheep-enclosures here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,"}, {"pk": 2703883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "but let us ourselves be armed, hastening before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall dwell in the walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land."}, {"pk": 2703884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWe shall not return to our homes until every one of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has received his inheritance."}, {"pk": 2703885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor we shall not inherit with them on the other side of the Yard\u0115n and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Yard\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "And Mosheh said to them, \u201cIf you make this promise: if you arm yourselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for battle,"}, {"pk": 2703887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "and all your armed ones pass over the Yard\u0115n before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,"}, {"pk": 2703888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "and the land has been subdued before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and before Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And this land shall be your possession before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2703889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not do so, then see, you shall sin against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and know: your sin is going to find you out."}, {"pk": 2703890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBuild cities for your little ones and enclosures for your sheep, and do what you have promised.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "And the children of Gad\u0331 and the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n spoke to Mosheh, saying, \u201cYour servants are going to do as my master commands."}, {"pk": 2703892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cOur little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock are going to be there in the cities of Gil\u201bad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2703893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cbut your servants are passing over, every armed one of the army, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to battle, as my master says."}, {"pk": 2703894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "And Mosheh gave command concerning them to El\u201bazar the priest, to Yehoshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh said to them, \u201cIf the children of Gad\u0331 and the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n pass over the Yard\u0115n with you, every man armed for battle before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the land has been subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 as a possession."}, {"pk": 2703896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "But if they do not pass over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2703897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "Then the children of Gad\u0331 and the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n answered, saying, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to your servants, so we do."}, {"pk": 2703898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "We ourselves are passing over armed before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 into the land of Kena\u201ban, but the possession of our inheritance remains with us beyond the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2703899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "text": "So Mosheh gave to the children of Gad\u0331, to the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh, son of Yos\u0115ph, the reign of Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites and the reign of O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the land round about."}, {"pk": 2703900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "text": "And the children of Gad\u0331 built Dib\u0331on and Ataroth and Aro\u201b\u0115r,"}, {"pk": 2703901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "text": "and Atroth, Shophan and Ya\u201bz\u0115r and Yo\u1e21behah,"}, {"pk": 2703902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 36, "text": "and B\u0115yth Nimrah and B\u0115yth Haran, walled cities, and enclosures for sheep."}, {"pk": 2703903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 37, "text": "And the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n built H\u0323eshbon and El\u201bal\u0115h and Qiryathayim,"}, {"pk": 2703904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 38, "text": "Neb\u0331o and Ba\u201bal Me\u201bon \u2014 the names being changed \u2014 and Shib\u0331mah. And they gave other names to the cities which they built."}, {"pk": 2703905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 39, "text": "And the sons of Mak\u0331ir son of Menashsheh went to Gil\u201bad\u0331 and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it."}, {"pk": 2703906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 40, "text": "So Mosheh gave Gil\u201bad\u0331 to Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh, and he dwelt in it."}, {"pk": 2703907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 41, "text": "And Ya\u2019ir son of Menashsheh went and took its small towns, and called them H\u0323awoth Ya\u2019ir."}, {"pk": 2703908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 32, "verse": 42, "text": "And Nob\u0331ah\u0323 went and took Qenath and its villages, and he called it Nob\u0331ah\u0323, after his own name."}, {"pk": 2703909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "These are the departures of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who went out of the land of Mitsrayim by their divisions under the hand of Mosheh and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2703910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "And Mosheh wrote down the starting points of their departures at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and these are their departures according to their starting points:"}, {"pk": 2703911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "So they departed from Ra\u201bmeses in the first new <i>moon</i>, on the fifteenth day of the first new <i>moon</i>, on the morrow of the P\u0115sah\u0323 the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out with boldness before the eyes of all the Mitsrites,"}, {"pk": 2703912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "and the Mitsrites were burying all their first-born, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had stricken among them. Also on their mighty ones \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had executed judgments."}, {"pk": 2703913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l departed from Ra\u201bmeses and camped at Sukkoth."}, {"pk": 2703914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "And they departed from Sukkoth and camped at \u011atham, which is on the edge of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2703915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And they departed from \u011atham and turned back to Pi Hah\u0323iroth, which is east of Ba\u201bal Tsephon. And they camped near Mi\u1e21dol."}, {"pk": 2703916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "And they departed from before Hah\u0323iroth and passed over through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days\u2019 journey in the Wilderness of \u011atham, and camped at Marah."}, {"pk": 2703917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "And they departed from Marah and came to \u011alim. And at \u011alim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there."}, {"pk": 2703918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "And they departed from \u011alim and camped by the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2703919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "And they departed from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the Wilderness of Sin."}, {"pk": 2703920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "And they departed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophqah."}, {"pk": 2703921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "And they departed from Dophqah and camped at Alush."}, {"pk": 2703922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "And they departed from Alush and camped at Rephid\u0331im, and there was no water for the people to drink."}, {"pk": 2703923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "And they departed from Rephid\u0331im and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai."}, {"pk": 2703924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "And they departed from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Qib\u0331roth Hatta\u2019awah."}, {"pk": 2703925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "And they departed from Qib\u0331roth Hatta\u2019awah and camped at H\u0323ats\u0115roth."}, {"pk": 2703926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "And they departed from H\u0323ats\u0115roth and camped at Rithmah."}, {"pk": 2703927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And they departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perets."}, {"pk": 2703928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "And they departed from Rimmon Perets and camped at Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2703929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "And they departed from Lib\u0331nah and camped at Rissah."}, {"pk": 2703930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "And they departed from Rissah and camped at Qeh\u0115lathah."}, {"pk": 2703931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "And they departed from Qeh\u0115lathah and camped at Mount Shapher."}, {"pk": 2703932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "And they departed from Mount Shapher and camped at H\u0323arad\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2703933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "And they departed from H\u0323arad\u0331ah and camped at Maqh\u0115loth."}, {"pk": 2703934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "text": "And they departed from Maqh\u0115loth and camped at Tah\u0323ath."}, {"pk": 2703935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "text": "And they departed from Tah\u0323ath and camped at Terah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2703936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "text": "And they departed from Terah\u0323 and camped at Mithqah."}, {"pk": 2703937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "text": "And they departed from Mithqah and camped at H\u0323ashmonah."}, {"pk": 2703938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 30, "text": "And they departed from H\u0323ashmonah and camped at Mos\u0115roth."}, {"pk": 2703939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 31, "text": "And they departed from Mos\u0115roth and camped at Ben\u0115i Ya\u201baqan."}, {"pk": 2703940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 32, "text": "And they departed from Ben\u0115i Ya\u201baqan and camped at H\u0323or Haggid\u0331gad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 33, "text": "And they departed from H\u0323or Haggid\u0331gad\u0331 and camped at Yotb\u0331athah."}, {"pk": 2703942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 34, "text": "And they departed from Yotb\u0331athah and camped at Ab\u0331ronah."}, {"pk": 2703943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 35, "text": "And they departed from Ab\u0331ronah and camped at Etsyon Geb\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2703944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 36, "text": "And they departed from Etsyon Geb\u0331er and camped in the Wilderness of Tsin, which is Qad\u0331\u0115sh."}, {"pk": 2703945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 37, "text": "And they departed from Qad\u0331\u0115sh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2703946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 38, "text": "Then Aharon the priest went up to Mount Hor at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, on the first <i>day</i> of the fifth new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2703947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 39, "text": "Now Aharon was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor."}, {"pk": 2703948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 40, "text": "And the sovereign of Arad\u0331, the Kena\u201banite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Kena\u201ban, heard of the coming of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2703949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 41, "text": "So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Tsalmonah."}, {"pk": 2703950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 42, "text": "And they departed from Tsalmonah and camped at Punon."}, {"pk": 2703951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 43, "text": "And they departed from Punon and camped at Ob\u0331oth."}, {"pk": 2703952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 44, "text": "And they departed from Ob\u0331oth and camped at Iy\u0115 Ha-Ab\u0331arim, at the border of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 45, "text": "And they departed from Iyim and camped at Dib\u0331on Gad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 46, "text": "And they departed from Dib\u0331on Gad\u0331 and camped at Almon Dib\u0331lathayemah."}, {"pk": 2703955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 47, "text": "And they departed from Almon Dib\u0331lathayemah and camped in the mountains of Ab\u0331arim, before Neb\u0331o."}, {"pk": 2703956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 48, "text": "And they departed from the mountains of Ab\u0331arim and camped in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2703957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 49, "text": "And they camped by the Yard\u0115n, from B\u0115yth Yeshimoth as far as the Ab\u0331\u0115l Shittim in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 50, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you have passed over the Yard\u0115n into the land of Kena\u201ban,"}, {"pk": 2703960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 52, "text": "then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and shall destroy all their engraved stones, and shall destroy all their moulded images, and lay waste all their high places,"}, {"pk": 2703961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 53, "text": "and you shall possess the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess."}, {"pk": 2703962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 54, "text": "And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your clans. To the larger you give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that is his. You inherit according to the tribes of your fathers."}, {"pk": 2703963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 55, "text": "And if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell."}, {"pk": 2703964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 33, "verse": 56, "text": "And it shall be that I do to you as I thought to do to them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCommand the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you come into the land of Kena\u201ban, this is the land which falls to you as an inheritance, the land of Kena\u201ban to its boundaries:"}, {"pk": 2703967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "Then your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Tsin along the border of Ed\u0331om, and your southern border shall be eastward from the end of the Salt Sea."}, {"pk": 2703968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "Then your border shall turn from the southern side of the Ascent of Aqrabbim, continue to Tsin, and be on the south of Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a, and it shall go on to H\u0323atsar Addar, and continue to Atsmon."}, {"pk": 2703969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "And the border shall turn from Atsmon to the wadi of Mitsrayim, and it shall end at the Sea."}, {"pk": 2703970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border, this is your western border."}, {"pk": 2703971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "And this is your northern border: From the Great Sea you mark out your borderline to Mount Hor,"}, {"pk": 2703972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "from Mount Hor you mark out your border to the entrance of H\u0323amath, and the edge of the border shall be toward Tsed\u0331ad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2703973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at H\u0323atsar \u011anan. This is your northern border."}, {"pk": 2703974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "And you shall mark out your eastern border from H\u0323atsar \u011anan to Shepham,"}, {"pk": 2703975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "and the border shall go down from Shepham to Rib\u0331lah on the east side of Ayin, and the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth."}, {"pk": 2703976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "And the border shall go down along the Yard\u0115n, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This is your land with its surrounding boundaries.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2703977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mosheh commanded the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThis is the land which you inherit by lot, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe."}, {"pk": 2703978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor the tribe of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad\u0331 according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance. And the half-tribe of Menashsheh has received its inheritance."}, {"pk": 2703979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o eastward, toward the sunrise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThese are the names of the men who divide the land among you as an inheritance: El\u201bazar the priest, and Yehoshua son of Nun."}, {"pk": 2703982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance."}, {"pk": 2703983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the names of the men. From the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah: Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh."}, {"pk": 2703984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd from the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon: Shemu\u2019\u0115l son of Ammihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cFrom the tribe of Binyamin: Elid\u0331ad\u0331 son of Kislon."}, {"pk": 2703986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Dan: Buqqi son of Yo\u1e21li."}, {"pk": 2703987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFrom the sons of Yos\u0115ph: a leader from the tribe of the children of Menashsheh, H\u0323anni\u2019\u0115l son of \u011aphod\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephrayim: Qemu\u2019\u0115l son of Shiphtan."}, {"pk": 2703989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Zeb\u0331ulun: Elitsaphan son of Parnak\u0331."}, {"pk": 2703990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Yissask\u0331ar: Palti\u2019\u0115l son of Azzan."}, {"pk": 2703991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Ash\u0115r: Ah\u0323ihud\u0331 son of Shelomi."}, {"pk": 2703992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd a leader from the tribe of the children of Naphtali: Ped\u0331ah\u2019\u0115l son of Ammihud\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2703993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "These are the ones \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded to divide the inheritance among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2703994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o, saying,"}, {"pk": 2703995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCommand the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that they shall give the L\u0115wites cities to dwell in from the inheritance of their possession. Also give the L\u0115wites open land around the cities."}, {"pk": 2703996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall have the cities to dwell in, and their open land for their cattle, and for their herds, and for all their livestock."}, {"pk": 2703997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd the open land of the cities which you give the L\u0115wites are from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around."}, {"pk": 2703998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall measure outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. And the city is in the middle. This is to them the open land for the cities."}, {"pk": 2703999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the cities which you give to the L\u0115wites are the six cities of refuge, which you give to the man-slayer to flee to, and to these you add forty-two cities."}, {"pk": 2704000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll the cities which you give to the L\u0115wites are forty-eight, these with their open land."}, {"pk": 2704001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "And the cities which you give are from the possession of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. From the larger <i>tribe</i> you give many, from the smaller you give few, each one gives some of its cities to the L\u0115wites, in proportion to the inheritance that each inherits.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018When you pass over the Yard\u0115n into the land of Kena\u201ban,"}, {"pk": 2704004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man-slayer who struck someone mistakenly shall flee there."}, {"pk": 2704005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "And they shall be cities of refuge for you from the revenger, and the man-slayer is not to die until he stands before the congregation for right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2704006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "And of the cities which you give, six are to be cities of refuge."}, {"pk": 2704007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "Give three cities beyond the Yard\u0115n, and give three cities in the land of Kena\u201ban, as cities of refuge."}, {"pk": 2704008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "These six cities are for refuge for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and for the sojourner, and for the settler in their midst, for anyone who mistakenly strikes someone to flee there."}, {"pk": 2704009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "But if he has stricken him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2704010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "And if he has stricken him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2704011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "Or if he has stricken him with a wooden instrument that could kill, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2704012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "The revenger of blood himself puts the murderer to death. When he meets him, he puts him to death."}, {"pk": 2704013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "text": "And if he thrusts him through in hatred, or throws <i>an object</i> at him while lying in wait, so that he dies,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "text": "or in enmity he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him shall certainly be put to death, for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood puts the murderer to death when he meets him."}, {"pk": 2704015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "text": "But if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws <i>an object</i> at him without lying in wait,"}, {"pk": 2704016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "text": "or uses a stone, by which a man could die, throwing it at him without seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm,"}, {"pk": 2704017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "text": "then the congregation shall judge between him who struck someone and the revenger of blood, according to these right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2704018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "text": "And the congregation shall rescue the man-slayer from the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the set-apart oil."}, {"pk": 2704019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "text": "But if the man-slayer at any time goes outside the limits of the city of refuge where he fled,"}, {"pk": 2704020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "text": "and the revenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the revenger of blood executes the man-slayer, he is not guilty of blood,"}, {"pk": 2704021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "text": "because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the man-slayer is to return to the land of his possession."}, {"pk": 2704022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 29, "text": "And these shall be for a law of right-ruling to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings."}, {"pk": 2704023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 30, "text": "Whoever strikes a being, the murderer shall be executed by the mouth of witnesses, but one witness does not bear witness against someone to die."}, {"pk": 2704024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 31, "text": "And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death."}, {"pk": 2704025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 32, "text": "And take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge to return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest."}, {"pk": 2704026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 33, "text": "And do not profane the land where you are, for blood profanes the land, and the land is not pardoned for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it."}, {"pk": 2704027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 35, "verse": 34, "text": "And do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, am dwelling in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "And the heads of the fathers of the clans of the children of Gil\u201bad\u0331, son of Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh, of the clans of the sons of Yos\u0115ph, came near and spoke before Mosheh and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2704029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded my master to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and my master was commanded by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to give the inheritance of our brother Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331 to his daughters."}, {"pk": 2704030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cNow if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, then their inheritance shall be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and taken from the lot of our inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd if the Yob\u0331el of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l takes place, then their inheritance shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.\u201d", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes: \"Yob\u0331el\"."}, {"pk": 2704032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mosheh commanded the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWhat the tribe of the sons of Yos\u0115ph speaks is right."}, {"pk": 2704033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThis is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded, for the daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331, saying, \u2018Let them marry who is good in their eyes, but let them marry only within the clan of their father\u2019s tribe.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the inheritance of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is not to change hands from tribe to tribe, for every one of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is to cling to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers."}, {"pk": 2704035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd every daughter possessing an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is to be the wife of one of the clan of her father\u2019s tribe, so that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l possess each the inheritance of his fathers."}, {"pk": 2704036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus the inheritance is not to change hands from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is to cling to its own inheritance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh, so did the daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "For Mah\u0323lah, Tirtsah, and H\u0323o\u1e21lah, and Milkah, and No\u201bah, the daughters of Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331, were married to the sons of their father\u2019s brothers."}, {"pk": 2704039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "And they were married into the clans of the children of Menashsheh, the son of Yos\u0115ph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father\u2019s clan."}, {"pk": 2704040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 4, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "These are the commands and the right-rulings which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l by the hand of Mosheh in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 by the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2704041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l beyond the Yard\u0115n in the wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Lab\u0331an, and H\u0323ats\u0115roth, and Di Zahab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2704042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "eleven days\u2019 <i>journey</i> from H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331 by way of Mount S\u0115\u201bir to Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a."}, {"pk": 2704043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh new <i>moon</i>, on the first <i>day</i> of the new <i>moon</i>, that Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him concerning them,"}, {"pk": 2704044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "after he had stricken Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in H\u0323eshbon, and O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Ed\u0331re\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2704045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Beyond the Yard\u0115n, in the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, Mosheh undertook to declare this Torah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim spoke to us in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, saying, \u2018You have dwelt long enough at this mountain."}, {"pk": 2704047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighbouring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeb\u0331 and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kena\u201banites and to Leb\u0331anon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2704048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers, to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to give to them and their seed after them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I spoke to you at that time, saying, \u2018I am unable to bear you by myself."}, {"pk": 2704050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2704051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!"}, {"pk": 2704052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?"}, {"pk": 2704053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you answered me and said, \u2018The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes."}, {"pk": 2704056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I commanded your judges at that time, saying, \u2018When hearing between your brothers, judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him."}, {"pk": 2704057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not show partiality in right-ruling, hear the small as well as the great. Do not be afraid of anyone\u2019s face, for the right-ruling belongs to Elohim. And the case which is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I shall hear it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I commanded you at that time all the words which you should do."}, {"pk": 2704059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThen we set out from H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, and went through all that great and awesome wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim had commanded us. And we came to Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a."}, {"pk": 2704060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I said to you, \u2018You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is giving us."}, {"pk": 2704061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has set the land before you. Go up and possess it, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, nor be discouraged.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd all of you came near to me and said, \u2018Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we would come.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd the matter was good in my eyes, so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe."}, {"pk": 2704064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd they turned and went up into the mountains, and came to the wadi Eshkol, and spied it out."}, {"pk": 2704065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. And they brought back word to us, saying, \u2018The land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is giving us is good.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut you would not go up and rebelled against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "and grumbled in your tents, and said, \u2018Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was hating us, He has brought us out of the land of Mitsrayim to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us."}, {"pk": 2704068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "Where are we going to? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we, the cities are great and walled up to the heavens, and we saw the sons of the Anaqim there too.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThen I said to you, \u2018Have no dread or fear of them."}, {"pk": 2704070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who is going before you, He does fight for you, according to all He did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes,"}, {"pk": 2704071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "and in the wilderness, where you saw how \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has borne you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "Yet in this matter you are putting no trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "who is going before you in the way to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in a cloud by day."}, {"pk": 2704074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and took an oath, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,"}, {"pk": 2704076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "except Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and his children I give the land on which he walked, because he followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 completely.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was enraged with me for your sakes, saying, \u2018You do not go in there, either."}, {"pk": 2704078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "Yehoshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Strengthen him, for he shall cause Yisra\u2019\u0115l to inherit."}, {"pk": 2704079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it."}, {"pk": 2704080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "But you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cThen you answered and said to me, \u2018We have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. We ourselves are going up, and we shall fight, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim commanded us.\u2019 And when each one of you had girded on his battle gear, you were ready to go up into the mountain."}, {"pk": 2704082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Say to them, \u201cDo not go up nor fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be smitten before your enemies.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cSo I spoke to you, but you would not listen and rebelled against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and acted proudly, and went up into the mountain."}, {"pk": 2704084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cThen the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from S\u0115\u201bir to H\u0323ormah."}, {"pk": 2704085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd you returned and wept before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you."}, {"pk": 2704086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cSo you dwelt in Qad\u0331\u0115sh many days, according to the days that you dwelt."}, {"pk": 2704087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThen we turned and set out into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to me, and we went round Mount S\u0115\u201bir, many days."}, {"pk": 2704088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "You have gone around this mountain long enough, turn northward."}, {"pk": 2704090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd command the people, saying, You are about to pass over into the border of your brothers, the descendants of \u011asaw, who live in S\u0115\u201bir, and they are afraid of you. So be on your guard."}, {"pk": 2704091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cDo not strive with them, for I do not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount S\u0115\u201bir to \u011asaw as a possession."}, {"pk": 2704092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhat food you buy from them with silver you shall eat. And also, what water you buy from them with silver you shall drink."}, {"pk": 2704093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your wandering through this great wilderness. These forty years \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has been with you, you have not lacked any matter.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd when we passed beyond our brothers, the descendants of \u011asaw who dwell in S\u0115\u201bir, away from the way of the desert plain, away from \u011aylath and Etsyon Geb\u0331er, we turned and passed over by way of the Wilderness of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Do not distress Mo\u2019ab\u0331, nor stir yourself up against them in battle, for I do not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "(The \u011amites had dwelt there formerly, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim."}, {"pk": 2704097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "They were also reckoned as Repha\u2019ites, like the Anaqim, but the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites call them \u011amites."}, {"pk": 2704098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And the H\u0323orites formerly dwelt in S\u0115\u201bir, but the descendants of \u011asaw dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Yisra\u2019\u0115l did to the land of their possession which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them.)"}, {"pk": 2704099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201c \u2018Now rise up, and pass over the wadi Zered\u0331.\u2019 So we passed over the wadi Zered\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the time we took to come from Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a until we passed over the wadi Zered\u0331 was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of battle was consumed from the midst of the camp, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had sworn to them."}, {"pk": 2704101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd also, the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed."}, {"pk": 2704102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when all the men of battle had finally perished from among the people,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "This day you are to pass over at Ar, the boundary of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And when you come near the children of Ammon, do not distress them nor stir yourself up against them, for I do not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "(That was also reckoned as a land of Repha\u2019ites. Repha\u2019ites formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,"}, {"pk": 2704107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,"}, {"pk": 2704108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "as He had done for the descendants of \u011asaw, who dwelt in S\u0115\u201bir, when He destroyed the H\u0323orites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day."}, {"pk": 2704109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And the Awwim who dwelt in villages as far as Azzah, the Kaphtorim who came from Kaphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place)."}, {"pk": 2704110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "Arise, set out and pass over the wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Sih\u0323on the Amorite, sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and stir up yourself against him in battle."}, {"pk": 2704111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, shall tremble and shake because of you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThen I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Qed\u0331\u0115moth to Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, with words of peace, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "Let me pass over through your land on the highway. I shall go on the highway and turn neither to the right nor to the left."}, {"pk": 2704114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "What food you sell me for silver I shall eat, and what water you give me for silver I shall drink. Only let me pass over on foot,"}, {"pk": 2704115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "as the descendants of \u011asaw who dwell in S\u0115\u201bir and the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites who dwell in Ar did for me \u2014 until I pass over the Yard\u0115n to the land \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is giving us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cBut Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon would not let us pass over, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim hardened his spirit and strengthened his heart, to give him into your hand, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2704117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018See, I have begun to give Sih\u0323on and his land over to you. Begin to possess \u2014 in order to possess his land.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "And Sih\u0323on and all his people came out against us to fight at Yahats,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim gave him over to us, so we struck him, and his sons, and all his people."}, {"pk": 2704120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd we took all his cities at that time, and we put the men, women, and little ones of every city under the ban, we left none remaining."}, {"pk": 2704121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cOnly the livestock we took as plunder for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we captured."}, {"pk": 2704122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cFrom Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is on the edge of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is by the wadi, as far as Gil\u201bad\u0331, there was not one city too high for us. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim gave all to us."}, {"pk": 2704123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cOnly you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon \u2014 anywhere along the wadi Yabboq, or to the cities of the mountains, or anywhere as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim commanded us."}, {"pk": 2704124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThen we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Ed\u0331re\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2704125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at H\u0323eshbon.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSo \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim also gave into our hands O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, with all his people, and we struck him until he had no survivors remaining."}, {"pk": 2704127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd we captured all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the district of Argob\u0331, the reign of O\u1e21 in Bashan."}, {"pk": 2704128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAll these cities were fenced with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns."}, {"pk": 2704129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd we put them under the ban, as we did to Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, putting the men, the women, and the children of every city under the ban."}, {"pk": 2704130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves."}, {"pk": 2704131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd at that time we took the land, from the hand of the two sovereigns of the Amorites, that was beyond the Yard\u0115n, from the wadi Arnon to Mount H\u0323ermon"}, {"pk": 2704132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "(Tsid\u0331onians call H\u0323ermon, Siryon \u2014 and the Amorites call it Senir),\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "all the cities of the plain, all Gil\u201bad\u0331, and all Bashan, as far as Salk\u0331ah and Ed\u0331re\u201bi, cities of the reign of O\u1e21 in Bashan."}, {"pk": 2704134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor only O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha\u2019ites. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man."}, {"pk": 2704135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is by the wadi Arnon, and half the mountains of Gil\u201bad\u0331 and its cities, I gave to the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites and the Gad\u0331ites."}, {"pk": 2704136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and all Bashan, the reign of O\u1e21, I gave to half the tribe of Menashsheh \u2014 all the district of Argob\u0331, with all Bashan, called the land of the Repha\u2019ites."}, {"pk": 2704137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYa\u201bir son of Menashsheh had taken all the district of Argob\u0331, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma\u201bak\u0331athites, and called them after his own name: the Bashan of Hawoth Ya\u201bir, to this day."}, {"pk": 2704138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd to Mak\u0331ir I gave Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And to the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites and the Gad\u0331ites I gave from Gil\u201bad\u0331 as far as the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "and the desert plain, with the Yard\u0115n as the border, from Kinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arab\u0331ah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east."}, {"pk": 2704141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I commanded you at that time, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you this land to possess. All you sons of might, pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "But let your wives and your little ones, and your livestock \u2014 I know that you have much livestock \u2014 stay in your cities which I have given you,"}, {"pk": 2704143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "until \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given rest to your brothers as to you, and they also possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving them beyond the Yard\u0115n. Then you shall return, each man to his possession which I have given you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I commanded Yehoshua at that time, saying, \u2018Your eyes have seen all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has done to these two sovereigns. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does the same to all the reigns which you are passing over."}, {"pk": 2704145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not fear them, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim Himself fights for you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I pleaded with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at that time, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a mighty one in the heavens or on earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might?"}, {"pk": 2704148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yard\u0115n, this good hill country, and Leb\u0331anon.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was enraged with me, for your sake, and would not listen to me, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Enough of that! Speak no more to Me about this matter."}, {"pk": 2704150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you do not pass over this Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2704151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "But command Yehoshua, and strengthen him and make him brave, for he shall pass over before this people and cause them to inherit the land which you see.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd we dwelt in the valley opposite B\u0115yth Pe\u201bor."}, {"pk": 2704153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, listen to the laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cDo not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim which I am commanding you.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/32'>12:32</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/30/6'>30:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/18'>22:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/22/19'>19</a>"}, {"pk": 2704155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYour eyes have seen what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did at Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has destroyed from your midst all the men who followed Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor."}, {"pk": 2704156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut you who are clinging to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim are alive today, every one of you."}, {"pk": 2704157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim commanded me, to do thus in the land which you go to possess."}, {"pk": 2704158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say, \u2018Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on Him?"}, {"pk": 2704160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cOnly, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren."}, {"pk": 2704162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "The day when you stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Assemble the people to Me and I make them hear My Words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth and teach <i>them to</i> their children.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the heavens \u2014 darkness, cloud, and thick darkness."}, {"pk": 2704164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard a voice of words, but saw no form, you only heard a voice."}, {"pk": 2704165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd He made known to you His covenant which He commanded you to do, the Ten Words, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone."}, {"pk": 2704166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded me at that time to teach you laws and right-rulings, for you to do them in the land which you pass over to possess."}, {"pk": 2704167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cTherefore, diligently guard yourselves, for you saw no form when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to you at H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331 out of the midst of the fire,"}, {"pk": 2704168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "lest you should do corruptly and shall make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure \u2014 the likeness of male or female,"}, {"pk": 2704169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "the likeness of any beast that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2704170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "the likeness of any <i>creature</i> that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars \u2014 all the host of the heavens \u2014 and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens."}, {"pk": 2704172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as it is today."}, {"pk": 2704173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was enraged with me because of your words, and swore that I would not pass over the Yard\u0115n, and that I would not enter the good land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor I am to die in this land, I am not passing over the Yard\u0115n, but you are passing over, and shall possess that good land."}, {"pk": 2704175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cGuard yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim which He made with you, and shall make for yourselves a carved image in any form, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is a consuming fire, a jealous \u011al."}, {"pk": 2704177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "When you bring forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in the form of whatever, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim to provoke Him,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cI shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yard\u0115n to possess \u2014 you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed."}, {"pk": 2704179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 drives you."}, {"pk": 2704180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd there you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men\u2019s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell."}, {"pk": 2704181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "But from there you shall seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heart and with all your being.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/29/13'>29:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2704182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIn your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and shall obey His voice."}, {"pk": 2704183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is a compassionate \u011al, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them."}, {"pk": 2704184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that Elohim created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there has been a Word as great as this, or has been heard like it."}, {"pk": 2704185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "Has a people heard the voice of Elohim speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cOr has Elohim tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of a nation by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by battle, and by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great fearsome deeds, according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes?"}, {"pk": 2704187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cYou have been shown it, to know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Himself is Elohim; there is no one beside Him."}, {"pk": 2704188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cFrom the heavens He let you hear His voice, to instruct you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire."}, {"pk": 2704189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "to drive out from before you nations greater and stronger than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today."}, {"pk": 2704191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know today, and shall recall to your heart that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Himself is Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; there is none else."}, {"pk": 2704192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard His laws and His commands which I command you today, so that it is well with you and with your children after you, and so that you prolong your days on the soil which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you for all time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "Then Mosheh separated three cities beyond the Yard\u0115n, toward the rising of the sun,"}, {"pk": 2704194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "for a man-slayer to flee there, he who unknowingly murdered his neighbour, without having hated him in time past, and might flee to one of these cities and live:"}, {"pk": 2704195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "Betser in the wilderness in the level land for the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and Ramoth in Gil\u201bad\u0331 for the Gad\u0331ites, and Golan in Bashan for the Menashshites."}, {"pk": 2704196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "And this is the Torah which Mosheh set before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "text": "These are the witnesses, and the laws, and the right-rulings which Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l after they came out of Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2704198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "text": "beyond the Yard\u0115n, in the valley opposite B\u0115yth Pe\u201bor, in the land of Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at H\u0323eshbon, whom Mosheh and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had stricken after they came out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "text": "And they took possession of his land and the land of O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, two sovereigns of the Amorites, who were beyond the Yard\u0115n, toward the rising of the sun,"}, {"pk": 2704200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "text": "from Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, even to Mount Siyon, which is H\u0323ermon,"}, {"pk": 2704201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "text": "and all the desert plain beyond the Yard\u0115n as far as the Sea of the Arab\u0331ah, below the slopes of Pisgah."}, {"pk": 2704202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh called all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said to them, \u201cHear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the laws and right-rulings which I speak in your hearing today. And you shall learn them, and guard to do them."}, {"pk": 2704203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim made a covenant with us in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive."}, {"pk": 2704205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire."}, {"pk": 2704206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "I stood between \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and you at that time, to declare to you the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain \u2014 saying\u201d \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage."}, {"pk": 2704208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "You have no other mighty ones against My face."}, {"pk": 2704209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "You do not make for yourself a carved image, any likeness of which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,"}, {"pk": 2704210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, am a jealous \u011al, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth <i>generations</i> of those who hate Me,"}, {"pk": 2704211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "but showing loving-commitment to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands."}, {"pk": 2704212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "You do not bring the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim to naught, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not leave him unpunished who brings His Name to naught.", "comment": "Or <em>lift up</em>, or <em>take</em>."}, {"pk": 2704213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Guard the Sabbath day, to set it apart, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Six days you labour, and shall do all your work,"}, {"pk": 2704215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "but the seventh day is a Sabbath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. You do not do any work \u2014 you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, so that your male servant and your female servant rest as you do.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@20 20:10>note</a> at Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/10'>20:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2704216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim, and that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brought you out from there by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim commanded you to perform the Sabbath day."}, {"pk": 2704217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Respect your father and your mother, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded you, so that your days are prolonged, and so that it is well with you on the soil which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "You do not murder."}, {"pk": 2704219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "You do not commit adultery."}, {"pk": 2704220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "You do not steal."}, {"pk": 2704221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "You do not bear false witness against your neighbour."}, {"pk": 2704222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "You do not covet your neighbour\u2019s wife, nor do you desire your neighbour\u2019s house, his field, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "These Words \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a loud voice, and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.", "comment": "\u201cWord(s)\u201d is very often used as a synonym for \u201ccommand(s),\u201d in the Messianic Writings too."}, {"pk": 2704224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,"}, {"pk": 2704225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "and said, \u2018See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim has shown us His esteem and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. Today we have seen that Elohim speaks with man \u2014 and he lives!"}, {"pk": 2704226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And now why should we die? For this great fire is consuming us. If we hear the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim any more, then we shall die."}, {"pk": 2704227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living Elohim speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and does live?"}, {"pk": 2704228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "You go near and hear all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim says, and speak to us all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim says to you, and we shall hear and do it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken."}, {"pk": 2704230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "Oh, that they had such a heart in them, to fear Me and to guard all My commands always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever!"}, {"pk": 2704231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "Go, say to them, \u201cReturn to your tents.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "But you, stand here by Me, and let Me speak to you all the commands, and the laws, and the right-rulings which you are to teach them. And they shall do them in the land which I am giving them to possess.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard to do as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded you \u2014 do not turn aside, to the right or to the left."}, {"pk": 2704234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cWalk in all the ways which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded you, so that you live and it be well with you. And you shall prolong your days in the land which you possess."}, {"pk": 2704235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess,"}, {"pk": 2704236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "so that you fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard all His laws and His commands which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days be prolonged."}, {"pk": 2704237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And you shall hear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall guard to do, that it might be well with you, and that you increase greatly as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers has spoken to you, <i>in</i> a land flowing with milk and honey."}, {"pk": 2704238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is one!"}, {"pk": 2704239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might."}, {"pk": 2704240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart,", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@50 5:22>note</a> at Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/22'>5:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2704241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,"}, {"pk": 2704242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes."}, {"pk": 2704243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."}, {"pk": 2704244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "and houses filled with all kinds of goods, which you did not fill, and wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be satisfied \u2014"}, {"pk": 2704246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "be on guard, lest you forget \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage."}, {"pk": 2704247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and serve Him, and swear by His Name."}, {"pk": 2704248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Do not go after other mighty ones, the mighty ones of the peoples who are all around you,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is a jealous \u011al in your midst, lest the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim burn against you, then He shall destroy you from the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2704250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cDo not try \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim as you tried Him in Massah."}, {"pk": 2704251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDiligently guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and His witnesses, and His laws which He has commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that it might be well with you, and you shall go in and possess the good land of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers,"}, {"pk": 2704253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "to drive out all your enemies from before you, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2704254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "When your son asks you in time to come, saying, \u2018What is the meaning of the witnesses, and the laws, and the right-rulings which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim has commanded you?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "then you shall say to your son, \u2018We were slaves of Pharaoh in Mitsrayim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought us out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand,"}, {"pk": 2704256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Mitsrayim, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes."}, {"pk": 2704257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And He brought us out from there, to bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers."}, {"pk": 2704258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded us to do all these laws, to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, for our good always, to keep us alive, as it is today."}, {"pk": 2704259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And it is righteousness for us when we guard to do all this command before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, as He has commanded us.\u2019", "comment": "\u201cCommand,\u201d singular, very often has the meaning of \u201ccommands,\u201d plural. See also Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/172'>119:172</a> and in Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/51/7'>51:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2704260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brings you into the land which you go to possess, He shall also clear away many nations before you: the H\u0323ittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Kena\u201banites and the Perizzites and the H\u0323iwwites and the Yeb\u0331usites, seven nations greater and mightier than you."}, {"pk": 2704261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim gives them over to you, you shall strike them and put them under the ban, completely. Make no covenant with them, and show them no favour."}, {"pk": 2704262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And do not intermarry with them \u2014 you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not take his daughter for your son,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "for he turns your sons away from following Me, to serve other mighty ones. Then the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall burn against you and promptly destroy you."}, {"pk": 2704264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut this is what you do to them: Break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ash\u0115rim, and burn their carved images with fire."}, {"pk": 2704265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor you are a set-apart people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples on the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2704266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more numerous than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples,"}, {"pk": 2704267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "but because of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loving you, and because of Him guarding the oath which He swore to your fathers, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought you out with a strong hand, and ransomed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, He is Elohim, the trustworthy \u011al guarding covenant and loving-commitment for a thousand generations with those who love Him, and those who guard His commands,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "but repaying those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He does not delay <i>to do so</i> with him who hates Him, He repays him to his face."}, {"pk": 2704270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard the command, and the laws, and the right-rulings which I command you today, to do them."}, {"pk": 2704271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And it shall be, because you hear these right-rulings, and shall guard and do them, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall guard with you the covenant and the loving-commitment which He swore to your fathers,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "and shall love you and bless you and increase you, and shall bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you."}, {"pk": 2704273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you above all peoples \u2014 there is not going to be a barren man or a barren woman among you or among your livestock."}, {"pk": 2704274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall turn away from you all sickness and put on you none of the evil diseases of Mitsrayim which you have known, but He shall put them on all those who hate you."}, {"pk": 2704275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall consume all the peoples whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is delivering over to you \u2014 your eye shall not pardon them. And do not serve their mighty ones, for that is a snare to you."}, {"pk": 2704276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "When you say in your heart, \u2018These nations are greater than I, I am unable to drive them out,\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "do not be afraid of them. Remember well what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2704278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders, the strong hand and the outstretched arm, by which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brought you out. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does so to all the peoples of whom you are afraid."}, {"pk": 2704279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim also sends the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2704280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDo not be afraid of them, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, the great and awesome \u011al, is in your midst."}, {"pk": 2704281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall drive out those nations before you, little by little. You are not allowed to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you."}, {"pk": 2704282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall deliver them over to you and destroy them with a great destruction until they are consumed."}, {"pk": 2704283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall give their sovereigns into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens. No one is going to be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them."}, {"pk": 2704284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThe carved images of their mighty ones you are to burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd do not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed like it. Utterly loathe it and utterly hate it, for it is accursed."}, {"pk": 2704286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Guard to do every command which I command you today, that you might live, and shall increase, and go in, and shall possess the land of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not."}, {"pk": 2704288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And He humbled you, and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, to make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every <i>Word</i> that comes from the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/4/4'>4:4</a> and in Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2704289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYour garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years."}, {"pk": 2704290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim disciplines you,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "therefore you shall guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to walk in His ways and to fear Him."}, {"pk": 2704292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills,"}, {"pk": 2704293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,"}, {"pk": 2704294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "a land in which you eat bread without scarcity, in which you do not lack at all, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you dig copper."}, {"pk": 2704295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim for the good land which He has given you."}, {"pk": 2704296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBe on guard, lest you forget \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim by not guarding His commands, and His right-rulings, and His laws which I command you today,"}, {"pk": 2704297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "lest you eat and shall be satisfied, and build lovely houses and shall dwell in them,"}, {"pk": 2704298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "and your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and your gold are increased, and all that you have is increased,"}, {"pk": 2704299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "that your heart then becomes lifted up, and you forget \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage,"}, {"pk": 2704300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "who led you through that great and awesome wilderness \u2014 fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst \u2014 where there was no water, who brought water for you out of the flinty rock,"}, {"pk": 2704301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and to try you, to do you good in the end,"}, {"pk": 2704302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "you then shall say in your heart, \u2018My power and the strength of my hand have made for me this wealth!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut you shall remember \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today."}, {"pk": 2704304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if you by any means forget \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and follow other mighty ones, and serve them and bow yourself to them, I have warned you this day that you shall certainly perish."}, {"pk": 2704305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cLike the nations which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is destroying before you, so you are to perish, because you did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cHear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l: You are passing over the Yard\u0115n today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, cities great and walled up to the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2704307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anaqim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, \u2018Who does stand before the descendants of Anaq?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know today that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is He who is passing over before you as a consuming fire \u2014 He does destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall dispossess them and destroy them quickly, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to you."}, {"pk": 2704309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not think in your heart, after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has driven them out before you, saying, \u2018Because of my righteousness \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought me in to possess this land.\u2019 But it is because of the wrong of these nations that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is driving them out from before you."}, {"pk": 2704310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIt is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wrong of these nations that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to establish the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers, to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people."}, {"pk": 2704312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cRemember, do not forget how you provoked to wrath \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of Mitsrayim until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cEven in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331 you made \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 wroth, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was enraged with you, to destroy you."}, {"pk": 2704314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhen I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread nor did I drink water."}, {"pk": 2704315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2704316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant."}, {"pk": 2704317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Mitsrayim have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them, they have made themselves a moulded image.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to me, saying, \u2018I have seen this people, and look, they are a stiff-necked people."}, {"pk": 2704319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "Leave Me alone, so that I destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens, and make of you a nation stronger and greater than they.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSo I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands."}, {"pk": 2704321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I looked and saw that you had sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and had made for yourselves a moulded calf! You had quickly turned aside from the way which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cand I fell down before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread and I did not drink water, because of all your sins which you committed in doing evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke Him."}, {"pk": 2704324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor I was afraid of the displeasure and rage with which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was wroth with you, to destroy you. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listened to me that time once more."}, {"pk": 2704325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was very enraged with Aharon, to destroy him, so I prayed for Aharon at that time also."}, {"pk": 2704326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain."}, {"pk": 2704327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd at Tab\u0331\u201b\u0115rah and at Massah and at Qib\u0331roth Hatta\u2019awah you made \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 wroth."}, {"pk": 2704328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent you from Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a, saying, \u2018Go up and possess the land which I have given you,\u2019 then you rebelled against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and you neither trusted Him nor listened to His voice."}, {"pk": 2704329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cYou have been rebellious against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the day that I knew you."}, {"pk": 2704330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSo I fell down before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the forty days and forty nights, for I fell down because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said He would destroy you."}, {"pk": 2704331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u2018O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have ransomed in Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand."}, {"pk": 2704332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "Remember Your servants, Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331. Do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wrong or on their sin,"}, {"pk": 2704333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201clest the land from which You brought us should say, Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAt that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain. And you shall make yourself an ark of wood,"}, {"pk": 2704336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "then I write on the tablets the Words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. And you shall put them in the ark.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSo I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand."}, {"pk": 2704338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Words, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them to me,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "and I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And they are there, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Now the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out from the wells of Ben\u0115i Ya\u201baqan to Mos\u0115rah. Aharon died there, and he was buried there. And El\u201bazar his son became priest in his place."}, {"pk": 2704341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "From there they set out to Gud\u0331god\u0331ah, and from Gud\u0331god\u0331ah to Yotb\u0331athah, a land of rivers of water."}, {"pk": 2704342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "At that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 separated the tribe of L\u0115wi to bear the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to serve Him, and to bless in His Name, to this day."}, {"pk": 2704343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore L\u0115wi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is his inheritance, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim promised him."}, {"pk": 2704344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I stayed in the mountain for forty days and forty nights. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard me at that time also, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chose not to destroy you."}, {"pk": 2704345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Arise, go before the people, to set out, and let them go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, what is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim asking of you, but to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being,"}, {"pk": 2704347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "to guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His laws which I command you today for your good?"}, {"pk": 2704348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSee, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, also the earth with all that is in it."}, {"pk": 2704349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 delighted only in your fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all peoples, as it is today.", "comment": "See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/7/6'>7:6</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/14/2'>14:2</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/26/18'>26:18</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/135/4'>135:4</a> and Amos"}, {"pk": 2704350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and harden your neck no more.", "comment": "See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/6-8'>30:6-8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/26-29'>2:26-29</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/7/19'>7:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2704351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is Elohim of mighty ones and Master of masters, the great \u011al, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe."}, {"pk": 2704352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHe executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment."}, {"pk": 2704353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Serve Him, and cling to Him, and swear by His Name."}, {"pk": 2704355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cHe is your praise, and He is your Elohim, who has done for you these great and awesome deeds which your eyes have seen."}, {"pk": 2704356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cYour fathers went down to Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2704357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and guard His charge: even His laws, and His right-rulings, and His commands, always.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/26/5'>26:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2704358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know today \u2014 for it is not your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, His greatness, His strong hand and His outstretched arm,"}, {"pk": 2704359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "and His signs, and His works which He had done in the midst of Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and to all his land;"}, {"pk": 2704360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "and that which He had done to the army of Mitsrayim, to their horses and their chariots, when He made the waters of the Sea of Reeds overflow them as they pursued you, and how \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has destroyed them to this day;"}, {"pk": 2704361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "and what He had done for you in the wilderness till you came to this place;"}, {"pk": 2704362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "and what He had done to Dathan and Ab\u0331iram the sons of Eliyab\u0331, son of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the living creatures that were in their possession, in the midst of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor yours are the eyes that saw all the great work of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He did."}, {"pk": 2704364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall guard every command which I command you today, so that you are strong, and shall go in, and shall possess the land which you are passing over to possess,"}, {"pk": 2704365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "and to prolong your days in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey."}, {"pk": 2704366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "For the land which you are going in to possess is not like the land of Mitsrayim from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "but the land which you are passing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2704368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "a land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim looks after. The eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the latter end of the year."}, {"pk": 2704369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And it shall be that if you diligently obey My commands which I command you today, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being,"}, {"pk": 2704370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "then I shall give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, and you shall gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil."}, {"pk": 2704371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And I shall give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be satisfied."}, {"pk": 2704372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other mighty ones and bow down to them."}, {"pk": 2704373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "Then the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall burn against you, and He shall shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the land not give its increase. And you shall perish quickly from the good land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And you shall lay up these Words of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@50 5:22>note</a> at Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/22'>5:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2704375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,"}, {"pk": 2704376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "and shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,"}, {"pk": 2704377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "so that your days and the days of your children are increased on the soil of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens on the earth."}, {"pk": 2704378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "For if you diligently guard all these commands which I command you, to do it, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,"}, {"pk": 2704379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess greater and stronger nations than you."}, {"pk": 2704380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "Every place on which the sole of your foot treads is yours: from the wilderness, and Leb\u0331anon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea is your border."}, {"pk": 2704381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "No man shall stand against you. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, as He has spoken to you."}, {"pk": 2704382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:"}, {"pk": 2704383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "the blessing, when you obey the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim which I command you today;"}, {"pk": 2704384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other mighty ones which you have not known."}, {"pk": 2704385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount \u011ayb\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2704386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "Are they not beyond the Yard\u0115n, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Kena\u201banites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?"}, {"pk": 2704387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "For you are passing over the Yard\u0115n to go in to possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it,"}, {"pk": 2704388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "and shall guard to do all the laws and right-rulings which I am setting before you today.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThese are the laws and right-rulings which you guard to do in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the soil."}, {"pk": 2704390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCompletely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree."}, {"pk": 2704391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And you shall break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and burn their Ash\u0115rim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place.", "comment": "The names of the gentile deities (mighty ones)."}, {"pk": 2704392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not do so to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "but seek the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter."}, {"pk": 2704394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd there you shall take your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock."}, {"pk": 2704395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd there you shall eat before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has blessed you."}, {"pk": 2704396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not do as we are doing here today \u2014 each one <i>doing</i> whatever is right in his own eyes.", "comment": "See Jdg. <a href='/TS2009/7/17/6'>17:6</a>; Jdg. <a href='/TS2009/7/21/25'>21:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2704397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBecause you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut you shall pass over the Yard\u0115n, and shall dwell in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and He shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety."}, {"pk": 2704399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, that unto the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall rejoice before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male servants and your female servants, and the L\u0115wite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you."}, {"pk": 2704401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cGuard yourself that you do not offer your ascending offerings in every place that you see,"}, {"pk": 2704402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "except in the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses, in one of your tribes, there you are to offer your ascending offerings, and there you are to do all that I command you."}, {"pk": 2704403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cOnly, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter and eat, according to the blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim which He has given you, within all your gates. The unclean and the clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike."}, {"pk": 2704404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cOnly, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water."}, {"pk": 2704405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYou are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the firstlings of your herd or your flock, or of any of your offerings which you vow, or of your voluntary offerings, or of the contribution of your hand."}, {"pk": 2704406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut eat them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, in the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the L\u0115wite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in all that you put your hands to."}, {"pk": 2704407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cGuard yourself that you do not forsake the L\u0115wite as long as you live in your land."}, {"pk": 2704408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cWhen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, \u2018Let me eat meat,\u2019 because you long to eat meat, you eat as much meat as your being desires."}, {"pk": 2704409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWhen the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires."}, {"pk": 2704410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cOnly, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it."}, {"pk": 2704411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cOnly, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat."}, {"pk": 2704412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cDo not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water."}, {"pk": 2704413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cDo not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "Only, the set-apart <i>gifts</i> which you have, and your vowed offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses."}, {"pk": 2704415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make your ascending offerings, the meat and the blood, on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. And the blood of your slaughterings is poured out on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and you eat the meat."}, {"pk": 2704416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cGuard, and obey all these words which I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWhen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,"}, {"pk": 2704418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, \u2018How did these nations serve their mighty ones? And let me do so too.\u2019", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/9'>18:9</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/3'>18:3</a>; Jer.<a href='/TS2009/24/10/2'>10:2</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/11/12'>11:12</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/20/32'>20:32</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/17'>4:17</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/4/3'>4:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2704419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cDo not do so to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for every abomination which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2704420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it \u2014 do not add to it nor take away from it.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/2'>4:2</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/30/6'>30:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/18'>22:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/22/19'>19</a>"}, {"pk": 2704421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder,"}, {"pk": 2704422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, \u2018Let us go after other mighty ones \u2014 which you have not known \u2014 and serve them,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "do not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is trying you to know whether you love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being."}, {"pk": 2704424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWalk after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to Him."}, {"pk": 2704425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim \u2014 who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and ransomed you from the house of bondage \u2014 to make you stray from the way in which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhen your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own being, entices you secretly, saying, \u2018Let us go and serve other mighty ones\u2019\u2014 which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,"}, {"pk": 2704427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "of the mighty ones of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2704428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "do not agree with him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pardon him, nor spare him or conceal him,"}, {"pk": 2704429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "but you shall certainly kill him. Your hand is first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people,"}, {"pk": 2704430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "and you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage."}, {"pk": 2704431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd let all Yisra\u2019\u0115l hear and fear, and not again do any such evil matter as this in your midst."}, {"pk": 2704432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen you hear someone in one of your cities, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim gives you to dwell in, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "Some men, sons of Beliya\u201bal, have gone out of your midst and led the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, Let us go and serve other mighty ones\u201d \u2019 \u2014 mighty ones whom you have not known - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And see if the matter is true and established that this abomination was done in your midst,"}, {"pk": 2704435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "you shall certainly strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, putting it under the ban, and all that is in it and its livestock, with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2704436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. And it shall be a heap forever, never to be built again."}, {"pk": 2704437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And none of that which is put under the ban is to cling to your hand, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turns from the fierceness of His displeasure and shall show you compassion, love you and increase you, as He swore to your fathers,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "when you obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard all His commands which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cYou are the children of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Do not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead,"}, {"pk": 2704440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "for you are a set-apart people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2704441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cDo not eat whatever is abominable."}, {"pk": 2704442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "These are the living creatures which you do eat: ox, sheep, and goat,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and wild goat, and mountain goat, and antelope, and mountain sheep."}, {"pk": 2704444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd every beast that has a split hoof divided in two, chewing the cud, among the beasts, you do eat."}, {"pk": 2704445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut of those chewing the cud or those having a split hoof completely divided, you do not eat, such as these: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit, for they chew the cud but do not have a split hoof, they are unclean for you."}, {"pk": 2704446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the pig is unclean for you, because it has a split hoof, but does not chew the cud. You do not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses."}, {"pk": 2704447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThese you do eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales you do eat."}, {"pk": 2704448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever does not have fins and scales you do not eat, it is unclean for you."}, {"pk": 2704449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "Any clean bird you do eat,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "but these you do not eat: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,"}, {"pk": 2704451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "and the red kite, and the falcon, and the buzzard after their kinds,"}, {"pk": 2704452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "and every raven after its kind,"}, {"pk": 2704453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "and the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the seagull, and the hawk after their kinds,"}, {"pk": 2704454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "the little owl, and the great owl, and the white owl,"}, {"pk": 2704455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "and the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the fisher owl,"}, {"pk": 2704456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat."}, {"pk": 2704457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And every creeping <i>insect</i> that flies is unclean for you, they are not eaten."}, {"pk": 2704458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAny clean bird you do eat."}, {"pk": 2704459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDo not eat whatever dies of itself. Give it to the stranger who is within your gates, to eat it, or sell it to a foreigner. For you are a set-apart people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother\u2019s milk."}, {"pk": 2704460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cYou shall tithe without fail all the yield of your grain that the field brings forth year by year."}, {"pk": 2704461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall eat before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, in the place where He chooses to make His Name dwell, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and of the firstlings of your herds and your sheep, so that you learn to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim always."}, {"pk": 2704462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut when the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to bring the tithe, or when the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is blessing you,"}, {"pk": 2704463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "then you shall give it in silver, and shall take the silver in your hand and go to the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses."}, {"pk": 2704464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall use the silver for whatever your being desires: for cattle or sheep, for wine or strong drink, for whatever your being desires. And you shall eat there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and you shall rejoice, you and your household."}, {"pk": 2704465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd do not forsake the L\u0115wite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you."}, {"pk": 2704466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAt the end of every third year you bring out all the tithe of your increase of that year and store it up within your gates."}, {"pk": 2704467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd the L\u0115wite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, shall come and eat and be satisfied, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does bless you in all the work of your hand which you do."}, {"pk": 2704468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAt the end of every seven years you make a release <i>of debts</i>."}, {"pk": 2704469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the word of the release: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cOf a foreigner you could require it, but your hand is to release whatever is owed by your brother."}, {"pk": 2704471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cOnly, there should be no poor among you. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does greatly bless you in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess as an inheritance,"}, {"pk": 2704472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "only if you diligently obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard to do all these commands which I am commanding you today."}, {"pk": 2704473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall bless you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall rule over many nations, but they do not rule over you."}, {"pk": 2704474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhen there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in your land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,"}, {"pk": 2704475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "for you shall certainly open your hand to him and certainly lend him enough for his need, whatever he needs."}, {"pk": 2704476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBe on guard lest there be a thought of Beliya\u201bal in your heart, saying, \u2018The seventh year, the year of release, is near,\u2019 and your eye is evil against your poor brother and you give him naught. And he shall cry out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against you, and it shall be a sin in you."}, {"pk": 2704477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou shall certainly give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this reason \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand."}, {"pk": 2704478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "Because the poor one does not cease from the land. Therefore I am commanding you, saying, \u2018You shall certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy one, in your land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, and shall serve you six years, then let him go free from you in the seventh year."}, {"pk": 2704480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd when you send him away free from you, let him not go away empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2704481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou shall richly supply him from your flock, and from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. With that which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed you with, give to him."}, {"pk": 2704482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim ransomed you. Therefore I am commanding you this word today."}, {"pk": 2704483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when he says to you, \u2018I do not go away from you,\u2019 because he loves you and your house, because it is good for him with you,"}, {"pk": 2704484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Do the same to your female servant."}, {"pk": 2704485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cLet it not be hard in your eyes when you send him away free from you, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall bless you in all that you do."}, {"pk": 2704486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSet apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim all the first-born males that come from your herd and your flock. Do no work with the first-born of your herd, nor shear the first-born of your flock."}, {"pk": 2704487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou and your household are to eat it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim year by year in the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses."}, {"pk": 2704488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut when there is any defect in it, lame or blind, or has any evil defect, do not slaughter it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cEat it within your gates \u2014 the unclean and the clean alike \u2014 as the gazelle, and as the deer."}, {"pk": 2704490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cOnly, do not eat its blood, pour it on the ground like water."}, {"pk": 2704491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "Guard the new <i>moon</i> of Ab\u0331ib\u0331, and perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for in the new <i>moon</i> of Ab\u0331ib\u0331 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.", "comment": "P\u0115sah\u0323 - See Explanatory Notes - \"Passover\".<br>Or month."}, {"pk": 2704492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall slaughter the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses to put His Name."}, {"pk": 2704493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cEat no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste \u2014 so that you remember the day in which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life."}, {"pk": 2704494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And no leaven should be seen with you in all your border for seven days, neither should <i>any</i> of the meat which you slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until morning."}, {"pk": 2704495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cYou are not allowed to slaughter the P\u0115sah\u0323 within any of your gates which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim gives you,"}, {"pk": 2704496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "but at the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell, there you slaughter the P\u0115sah\u0323 in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time you came out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall roast and eat it in the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents."}, {"pk": 2704498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSix days you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is a closing festival to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim \u2014 you do no work."}, {"pk": 2704499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cCount seven weeks for yourself. Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain."}, {"pk": 2704500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And you shall perform the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim blesses you.", "comment": "Weeks."}, {"pk": 2704501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall rejoice before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the L\u0115wite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell."}, {"pk": 2704502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws."}, {"pk": 2704503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "Perform the Festival of Sukkot for seven days after the ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress,", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2704504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the L\u0115wite, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates."}, {"pk": 2704505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor seven days you shall celebrate to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!"}, {"pk": 2704506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "Three times a year all your males appear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Matzot, and at the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot, and at the Festival of Sukkot. And none should appear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 empty-handed,", "comment": "Booths.<br>Unleavened Bread.<br>Weeks"}, {"pk": 2704507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>but</i> each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim which He has given you."}, {"pk": 2704508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAppoint judges and officers within all your gates, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2704509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cDo not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2704510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "Follow righteousness, righteousness <i>alone</i>, so that you live and inherit the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDo not plant for yourself any tree as an Ash\u0115rah near the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim that you make for yourself."}, {"pk": 2704512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd do not set up a pillar, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim hates."}, {"pk": 2704513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDo not slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim a bull or sheep which has any blemish, any evil matter, for that is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen there is found in your midst, in any of your cities which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, in transgressing His covenant,"}, {"pk": 2704515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,"}, {"pk": 2704516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "and it has been made known to you and you have heard, and have searched diligently. Then see, if true: the matter is confirmed that such an abomination has been done in Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2704517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil matter, and you shall stone to death that man or woman with stones."}, {"pk": 2704518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAt the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is to die be put to death. He is not put to death by the mouth of one witness."}, {"pk": 2704519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThe hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last. So you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "When any matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, or between stroke and stroke \u2014 matters of strife within your gates \u2014 then you shall rise and go up to the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "and shall come to the priests, the L\u0115wites, and to the judge who is in those days, and shall inquire. And they shall declare to you the word of right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2704522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "and you shall do according to the word which they declare to you from that place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses. And you shall guard to do according to all that they instruct you."}, {"pk": 2704523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cDo according to the Torah in which they teach you, according to the right-ruling which they say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the left from the word which they declare to you."}, {"pk": 2704524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd let all the people hear and fear, and no longer do arrogantly."}, {"pk": 2704526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "When you come to the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you shall say, \u2018Let me set a sovereign over me like all the nations that are around me,\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "you shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your brothers, you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother."}, {"pk": 2704528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cOnly, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to you, \u2018Do not return that way again.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself."}, {"pk": 2704530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from the one before the priests, the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2704531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim and guard all the Words of this Torah and these laws, to do them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThe priests, the L\u0115wites, all the tribe of L\u0115wi, have no part nor inheritance with Yisra\u2019\u0115l. They are to eat the offerings of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made by fire, and His inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "But among his brothers <i>L\u0115wi</i> has no inheritance. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is his inheritance, as He has spoken to him."}, {"pk": 2704535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the priest\u2019s right from the people, from those who slaughter a slaughtering, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach;"}, {"pk": 2704536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "the first-fruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you give to him."}, {"pk": 2704537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, him and his sons forever."}, {"pk": 2704538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd when the L\u0115wite comes from one of your gates, from where he has sojourned among all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall come with all the desire of his being to the place which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chooses,"}, {"pk": 2704539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "then he shall serve in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, like all his brothers the L\u0115wites, who are standing there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThey are to have portion for portion to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "When you come into the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@50 12:30>note</a> at Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/30'>12:30</a>"}, {"pk": 2704542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cLet no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,"}, {"pk": 2704543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead."}, {"pk": 2704544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor whoever does these is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and because of these abominations \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim drives them out from before you."}, {"pk": 2704545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBe perfect before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has not appointed such for you."}, {"pk": 2704547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@50 18:18>note</a> at Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/18'>18:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2704548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "according to all you asked of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331 in the day of the assembly, saying, \u2018Let me not hear again the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018What they have spoken is good."}, {"pk": 2704550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "I shall raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.", "comment": "See also Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/22-26'>3:22-26</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/37'>7:37</a>"}, {"pk": 2704551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him."}, {"pk": 2704552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd when you say in your heart, \u2018How do we know the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not spoken?\u2019 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2704554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "when the prophet speaks in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him."}, {"pk": 2704555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim cuts off the nations whose land \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess."}, {"pk": 2704557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cPrepare a way for yourself, and divide into three parts the border of your land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to inherit, that any man-slayer shall flee there."}, {"pk": 2704558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And this matter of the man-slayer who flees there and lives: he who strikes his neighbour unknowingly, not having hated him in time past,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "even he who goes to the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies \u2014 let him flee to one of these cities and live,"}, {"pk": 2704560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the man-slayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall strike his being, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him before."}, {"pk": 2704561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cTherefore I am commanding you, saying, \u2018Separate three cities for yourself.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim enlarges your border, as He swore to your fathers, and has given you the land which He promised to give to your fathers - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "when you guard all this command to do it, which I am commanding you today, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and to walk in His ways all the days \u2014 then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,"}, {"pk": 2704564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon you."}, {"pk": 2704565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut when anyone hates his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him and rise against him and strike his being so that he dies, then he shall flee to one of these cities,"}, {"pk": 2704566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die."}, {"pk": 2704567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYour eye shall not pardon him, but you shall purge the blood of innocent blood from Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that it might be well with you."}, {"pk": 2704568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDo not remove your neighbour\u2019s boundary, which those in the past have set, in your inheritance which you inherit in the land that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess."}, {"pk": 2704569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cOne witness does not rise up against a man concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established."}, {"pk": 2704570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWhen a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse him of turning aside,"}, {"pk": 2704571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "then both men who have the dispute shall stand before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days."}, {"pk": 2704572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd let the rest hear and fear, and never again do this evil matter in your midst."}, {"pk": 2704575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd let your eye not pardon, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."}, {"pk": 2704576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen you go out to battle against your enemies, and shall see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, is with you."}, {"pk": 2704577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall come and speak to the people,"}, {"pk": 2704578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall say to them, \u2018Hear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l: You are drawing near today to battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not fear, or tremble, or be afraid before them,"}, {"pk": 2704579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the officers shall speak to the people, saying, \u2018Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it."}, {"pk": 2704581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man should begin to use it."}, {"pk": 2704582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And who is the man who is engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, \u2018Who is the man who is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brothers faint like his heart.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint commanders of the divisions to lead the people."}, {"pk": 2704585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you shall make a call for peace to it."}, {"pk": 2704586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that if it accepts your call for peace, and shall open to you, then all the people found in it are to be your compulsory labour, and serve you."}, {"pk": 2704587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut if it does not make peace with you, and shall fight against you, then you shall besiege it,"}, {"pk": 2704588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall give it into your hands, and you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2704589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cOnly the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you take as plunder for yourself. And you shall eat the enemies\u2019 plunder which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim gives you."}, {"pk": 2704590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cDo so to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations."}, {"pk": 2704591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "Only, of the cities of these peoples which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that breathe,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "but you shall certainly put them under the ban: the H\u0323ittite and the Amorite and the Kena\u201banite and the Perizzite and the H\u0323iwwite and the Yeb\u0331usite, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has commanded you,"}, {"pk": 2704593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhen you besiege a city for a long time by fighting against it to take it, you do not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. If you do eat of them, do not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man to be besieged by you?"}, {"pk": 2704595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cOnly the trees which you know are not trees for food you do destroy and cut down, to build siege-works against the city that is fighting against you, until it falls."}, {"pk": 2704596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who struck him,"}, {"pk": 2704597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about."}, {"pk": 2704598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke,"}, {"pk": 2704599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer\u2019s neck there in the wadi."}, {"pk": 2704600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the priests, the sons of L\u0115wi, shall come near, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is <i>tried</i>."}, {"pk": 2704601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi."}, {"pk": 2704602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall answer and say, \u2018Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it."}, {"pk": 2704603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, forgive Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom You have ransomed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them."}, {"pk": 2704604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "When you go out to fight against your enemies, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall give them into your hand, and you shall take them captive,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "and shall see among the captives a woman fair of form, and shall delight in her and take her for your wife,"}, {"pk": 2704607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails,"}, {"pk": 2704608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "and put aside the mantle of her captivity, and shall dwell in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a month of days. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife."}, {"pk": 2704609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go at her desire, but you do not sell her at all for silver. Do not treat her harshly, since you have humbled her."}, {"pk": 2704610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "When a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and the first-born son is of her who is unloved,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "then it shall be, on the day he makes his sons to inherit his possessions, he is not allowed to treat the son of the beloved wife as first-born in the face of the son of the unloved, who is <i>truly</i> the first-born."}, {"pk": 2704612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut he is to acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength \u2014 the right of the first-born is his."}, {"pk": 2704613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "When a man has a wayward and rebellious son who is not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, does not listen to them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city,"}, {"pk": 2704615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "and shall say to the elders of his city, \u2018This son of ours is wayward and rebellious. He is not listening to our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThen all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. And let all Yisra\u2019\u0115l hear, and fear."}, {"pk": 2704617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd when a man has committed a sin worthy of death, then he shall be put to death and you shall hang him on a tree."}, {"pk": 2704618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cLet his body not remain overnight on the tree, for you shall certainly bury him the same day \u2014 for he who is hanged is accursed of Elohim \u2014 so that you do not defile the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen you see your brother\u2019s ox or his sheep straying away, you shall not hide yourself from them. Return them to your brother without fail."}, {"pk": 2704620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it, then you shall return it to him."}, {"pk": 2704621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd so you do with his donkey, and so you do with his garment, and so you do with whatever your brother loses, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to hide yourself."}, {"pk": 2704622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhen you see your brother\u2019s donkey or his ox fall down on the way, you shall not hide yourself from them. Help him raise them without fail."}, {"pk": 2704623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cA woman does not wear that which pertains to a man, nor does a man put on a woman\u2019s garment, for whoever does this is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhen you come upon a bird\u2019s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young \u2014"}, {"pk": 2704625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201clet the mother go without fail, and take the young for yourself, so that it might be well with you, and that you shall prolong <i>your</i> days."}, {"pk": 2704626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring blood-guilt on your house when one falls from it."}, {"pk": 2704627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cDo not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled."}, {"pk": 2704628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cDo not plough with an ox and a donkey together."}, {"pk": 2704629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cDo not put on a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together."}, {"pk": 2704630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cMake tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself."}, {"pk": 2704631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "When any man takes a wife, and shall go in to her, and shall hate her,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "and shall make abusive charges against her and bring an evil name on her and say, \u2018I took this woman, and when I came to her I did not find her a maiden,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the <i>proof</i> of the girl\u2019s maidenhood to the elders of the city at the gate."}, {"pk": 2704634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the girl\u2019s father shall say to the elders, \u2018I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he hates her."}, {"pk": 2704635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd see, he has made abusive charges against her, saying, I did not find your daughter a maiden,\u201d and yet these are the <i>proofs</i> of my daughter\u2019s maidenhood.\u2019 And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city."}, {"pk": 2704636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him,"}, {"pk": 2704637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "and fine him one hundred pieces of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name on a maiden of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And she is to be his wife, he is not allowed to put her away all his days."}, {"pk": 2704638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "But if the matter is true, that the girl was not found a maiden,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father\u2019s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done wickedness in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to whore in her father\u2019s house. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cWhen a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "When a girl who is a maiden is engaged to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and shall stone them to death with stones, the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbour\u2019s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut if a man finds the girl who is engaged in the field, and the man takes hold of her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die."}, {"pk": 2704644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "But you shall do no matter to the girl. The girl has no sin worthy of death \u2014 for the matter is like a man who rises against his neighbour and murders him \u2014 a being - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "for he found her in the field, and she cried out, the engaged girl, but without anyone to save her."}, {"pk": 2704646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cWhen a man finds a girl who is a maiden, who is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,"}, {"pk": 2704647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl\u2019s father fifty pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife because he has humbled her. He is not allowed to put her away all his days."}, {"pk": 2704648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "A man does not take his father\u2019s wife, nor uncover his father\u2019s skirt.", "comment": "Hebrew - kanaph: wing, extremity, border or robe."}, {"pk": 2704649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cHe who is wounded by crushing of testicles or whose penis is cut off, shall not enter into the community of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "A mamzer shall not enter the community of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even a tenth generation of his shall not enter the community of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Mamzer (Hebrew) - Born from prohibited union - See Explanatory Notes \"Mamzer\""}, {"pk": 2704651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAn Ammonite or Mo\u2019ab\u0331ite shall not enter the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even a tenth generation of them shall not ever enter the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2704652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way when you came out of Mitsrayim, and because they hired against you Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor from Pethor of Aram Naharayim, to curse you."}, {"pk": 2704653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim refused to listen to Bil\u201bam, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim turned the curse into a blessing for you, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim loves you."}, {"pk": 2704654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo not seek their peace nor their good, all your days, forever."}, {"pk": 2704655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cDo not loathe an Ed\u0331omite, for he is your brother. Do not loathe a Mitsrian, because you were a stranger in his land."}, {"pk": 2704656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe children of the third generation born to them do enter the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhen the camp goes out against your enemies, then you shall guard yourself from every evil matter."}, {"pk": 2704658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen there is any man among you who is not clean because of an emission in the night, then he shall go outside the camp. Let him not come into the midst of the camp."}, {"pk": 2704659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And it shall be, at the approach of evening, that he bathes with water. And when the sun sets let him come into the midst of the camp.", "comment": "Lit. To the face of evening."}, {"pk": 2704660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall have a place outside the camp, where you shall go out,"}, {"pk": 2704661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "and you shall have a sharp implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your excrement."}, {"pk": 2704662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you. Therefore your camp shall be set-apart, so that He does not see unclean matter among you, and shall turn away from you."}, {"pk": 2704663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou do not hand over to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you."}, {"pk": 2704664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cLet him dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it is pleasing to him. Do not oppress him."}, {"pk": 2704665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cNone of the daughters of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is to be a cult prostitute, nor any of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l be a cult prostitute."}, {"pk": 2704666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "Do not bring the harlot-fee of a whore or the pay of a dog to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.", "comment": "Male prostitute."}, {"pk": 2704667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cDo not lend at interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, or interest of whatever is lent at interest."}, {"pk": 2704668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cTo a foreigner you lend at interest, but to your brother you do not lend at interest, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim might bless you in all that you put your hand to in the land which you are entering to possess."}, {"pk": 2704669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWhen you make a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is certainly requiring it of you, and it shall be sin in you."}, {"pk": 2704670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut when you abstain from vowing, it is not sin in you."}, {"pk": 2704671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThat which has gone from your lips you shall guard and do, for you voluntarily vowed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim what you have promised with your mouth."}, {"pk": 2704672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cWhen you come into your neighbour\u2019s vineyard, you shall eat to the satisfaction of your desire, but do not put any in a receptacle of yours."}, {"pk": 2704673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cWhen you come into your neighbour\u2019s standing grain, you shall pluck the heads with your hand, but do not use a sickle on your neighbour\u2019s standing grain."}, {"pk": 2704674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house,", "comment": "Proof that she is not a maiden, indicating that she had previously been fornicating. See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/32'>5:32</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/9'>19:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2704675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "and if she left his house and went and became another man\u2019s wife,"}, {"pk": 2704676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "and the latter husband shall hate her and write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or when the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,"}, {"pk": 2704677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be an abomination before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And do not bring sin on the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhen a man has taken a new wife, let him not go out into the army nor let any matter be imposed upon him. He shall be exempt one year for the sake of his home, to rejoice with his wife whom he has taken."}, {"pk": 2704679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cNo one takes in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for he would be taking a life in pledge."}, {"pk": 2704680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhen a man is found kidnapping any of his brothers of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and treats him harshly or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst."}, {"pk": 2704681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTake heed, in an outbreak of leprosy, to diligently guard and do according to all that the priests, the L\u0115wites, teach you. As I have commanded them, so you shall guard to do."}, {"pk": 2704682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cRemember what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim did to Miryam on the way when you came out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen you lend your brother a loan, do not go into his house to get his pledge."}, {"pk": 2704684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cStand outside, and let the man to whom you lend bring the pledge out to you."}, {"pk": 2704685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd if the man is poor, do not sleep with his pledge."}, {"pk": 2704686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBy all means return the pledge to him at sundown, and he shall sleep in his own garment, and shall bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDo not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, of your brothers or of your strangers who are in your land within your gates."}, {"pk": 2704688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cGive him his wages on the same day, and do not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and lifts up his being to it, so that he does not cry out against you to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it shall be sin in you."}, {"pk": 2704689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFathers are not put to death for their children, and children are not put to death for their fathers, each is to die for his own sin."}, {"pk": 2704690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDo not twist the right-ruling of a stranger or the fatherless, nor take the garment of a widow."}, {"pk": 2704691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim ransomed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word."}, {"pk": 2704692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhen you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim might bless you in all the work of your hands."}, {"pk": 2704693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cWhen you beat your olive trees, do not examine the branch behind you. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."}, {"pk": 2704694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWhen you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean behind you. Let it be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."}, {"pk": 2704695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim. Therefore I am commanding you to do this word."}, {"pk": 2704696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen there is a dispute between men, then they shall come unto judgment, and they shall be judged, and the righteous declared righteous and the wrongdoer declared wrong."}, {"pk": 2704697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and be struck in his presence with the number of blows according to his wrong."}, {"pk": 2704698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cForty strikes he gives him but no more, lest he strike him with many more blows than these, and your brother be degraded before your eyes."}, {"pk": 2704699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not muzzle an ox while it is threshing."}, {"pk": 2704700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhen brothers dwell together, and one of them has died, and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not become a stranger\u2019s outside. Her husband\u2019s brother does go in to her, and shall take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband\u2019s brother to her."}, {"pk": 2704701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that the first-born son which she bears does rise up for the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "But if the man does not desire to take his brother\u2019s wife, then let his brother\u2019s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, \u2018My husband\u2019s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, he does not agree to perform the duty of my husband\u2019s brother.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe elders of his city shall then call him and speak to him, and he shall stand and say, \u2018I have no desire to take her,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "then his brother\u2019s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal from his foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, \u2018Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother\u2019s house.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "And in Yisra\u2019\u0115l his name shall be called, \u2018The house of him who had his sandal removed.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWhen men fight with one another, a man and his brother, and the wife of one shall draw near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and shall put out her hand and take hold of him by the genitals,"}, {"pk": 2704707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "then you shall cut off her hand \u2014 your eye does not pardon."}, {"pk": 2704708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light."}, {"pk": 2704709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small."}, {"pk": 2704710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou shall have a perfect and right weight, a perfect and right measure, so that they prolong your days on the soil which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor all who do these, and all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "Remember what Amal\u0115q did to you on the way as you were coming out of Mitsrayim,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "how he met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in your rear, when you were tired and weary. And he did not fear Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTherefore it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you blot out the remembrance of Amal\u0115q from under the heavens. Do not forget!"}, {"pk": 2704715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And it shall be, when you come into the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "that you shall take some of the first of all the fruits of the soil which you bring from your land that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, and shall put it in a basket and go to the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there."}, {"pk": 2704717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, \u2018I shall declare today to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim that I have come to the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to our fathers to give us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it before the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall answer and say before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, \u2018My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous."}, {"pk": 2704720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "But the Mitsrites did evil to us, and afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us."}, {"pk": 2704721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "Then we cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of our fathers, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression."}, {"pk": 2704722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought us out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, with great fear and with signs and wonders."}, {"pk": 2704723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd He brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "And now, see, I have brought the first-fruits of the land which You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have given me.\u2019 Then you shall place it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and bow down before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "and shall rejoice in all the good which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given to you and your house, you and the L\u0115wite and the stranger who is among you."}, {"pk": 2704726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen you have completed tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the L\u0115wite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within your gates and have been satisfied,"}, {"pk": 2704727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cthen you shall say before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, \u2018I have put away the set-apart <i>portion</i> from my house, and also have given it to the L\u0115wite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your command which You have commanded me. I have not transgressed Your commands, nor have I forgotten."}, {"pk": 2704728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, I have done according to all that You have commanded me."}, {"pk": 2704729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "Look from Your set-apart dwelling place, from the heavens, and bless Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the land which You have given us, as You swore to our fathers, \u201ca land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2704730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cToday \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is commanding you to do these laws and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and with all your being."}, {"pk": 2704731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYou have today caused \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to proclaim to be your Elohim, and to walk in His ways and guard His laws, and His commands, and His right-rulings, and to obey His voice."}, {"pk": 2704732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has caused you to proclaim today to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to guard all His commands,"}, {"pk": 2704733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cso as to set you high above all nations which He has made, for a praise, and for a name, and for esteem, and for you to be a set-apart people to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, as He has spoken."}, {"pk": 2704734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh, with the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, commanded the people, saying, \u201cGuard all the commands which I am commanding you today."}, {"pk": 2704735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, on the day when you pass over the Yard\u0115n to the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and plaster them with plaster,"}, {"pk": 2704736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "and write on them all the Words of this Torah, when you have passed over, so that you go into the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you, \u2018a land flowing with milk and honey,\u2019 as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers has spoken to you."}, {"pk": 2704737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And it shall be, when you have passed over the Yard\u0115n, that on Mount \u011ayb\u0331al you set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall plaster them with plaster,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "and build a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim there, a slaughter-place of stones \u2014 do not use an iron <i>tool</i> on them."}, {"pk": 2704739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBuild the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with complete stones, and you shall offer ascending offerings on it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cand shall slaughter peace <i>offerings</i>, and eat there, and rejoice before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "And you shall write all the Words of this Torah on the stones \u2014 plainly and well."}, {"pk": 2704742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh and the priests, the L\u0115wites, spoke to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cBe silent and hear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l: This day you have become the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2704743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "and you shall obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and do His commands and His laws which I command you today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "And Mosheh commanded the people on that day, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThese are to stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Yard\u0115n: Shim\u201bon, and L\u0115wi, and Yehud\u0331ah, and Yissask\u0331ar, and Yos\u0115ph, and Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2704746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd these are to stand on Mount \u011ayb\u0331al to curse: Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Gad\u0331, and Ash\u0115r, and Zeb\u0331ulun, Dan, and Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2704747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the L\u0115wites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2704748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "Cursed is the man who makes a carved or moulded image, an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.\u2019 And all the people shall answer and say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "Cursed is he who makes light of his father or his mother.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "Cursed is he who moves his neighbour\u2019s boundary.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "Cursed is he who misleads the blind in the way.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "Cursed is he who lies with his father\u2019s wife, because he has uncovered his father\u2019s bed.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "Cursed is he who lies with any beast.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "Cursed is he who strikes his neighbour secretly.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike an innocent being.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "Cursed is he who does not establish the Words of this Torah.\u2019 And all the people shall say, \u2018Am\u0115n!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if you diligently obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands which I command you today, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall set you high above all nations of the earth."}, {"pk": 2704761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim:"}, {"pk": 2704762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field."}, {"pk": 2704763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBlessed is the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock \u2014 the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks."}, {"pk": 2704764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBlessed is your basket and your kneading bowl."}, {"pk": 2704765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you when you come in, and blessed are you when you go out."}, {"pk": 2704766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 causes your enemies who rise against you to be smitten before your face \u2014 they come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways."}, {"pk": 2704767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commands the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and shall bless you in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you."}, {"pk": 2704768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does establish you as a set-apart people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and walk in His ways."}, {"pk": 2704769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd all peoples of the earth shall see that the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is called upon you, and they shall be afraid of you."}, {"pk": 2704770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall make you to have plenty of what is good, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers to give you."}, {"pk": 2704771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opens to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. And you shall lend to many nations, but you do not borrow."}, {"pk": 2704772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall be only on top, and not be beneath, if you obey the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, which I command you today, to guard and do."}, {"pk": 2704773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd do not turn aside from any of the Words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other mighty ones to serve them."}, {"pk": 2704774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cCursed are you in the city, and cursed are you in the field."}, {"pk": 2704776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cCursed is your basket and your kneading bowl."}, {"pk": 2704777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cCursed is the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks."}, {"pk": 2704778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cCursed are you when you come in, and cursed are you when you go out."}, {"pk": 2704779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sends on you the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken Me."}, {"pk": 2704780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess."}, {"pk": 2704781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strikes you with wasting disease, and with inflammation, and with burning, and with extreme heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish."}, {"pk": 2704782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you iron."}, {"pk": 2704783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes the rain of your land powder and dust; from the heavens it comes down on you until you are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2704784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 causes you to be defeated before your enemies \u2014 you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth."}, {"pk": 2704785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away."}, {"pk": 2704786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall strike you with the boils of Mitsrayim, with tumours, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you are unable to be healed."}, {"pk": 2704787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall strike you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart."}, {"pk": 2704788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be groping at noon, as a blind man gropes in darkness, and not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and plundered all the days, with no one to save you."}, {"pk": 2704789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cYou become engaged to a wife, but another man does lie with her. You build a house, but do not dwell in it. You plant a vineyard, but do not use its fruit."}, {"pk": 2704790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cYour ox is slaughtered before your eyes, but you do not eat of it. Your donkey is violently taken from before you, and it is not given back to you. Your sheep are given to your enemies, with no one to save them."}, {"pk": 2704791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cYour sons and your daughters are given to another people, and your eyes look and fail for them all day long, and your hand powerless."}, {"pk": 2704792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cA people whom you have not known eat the fruit of your land and all your labours. And you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days."}, {"pk": 2704793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be maddened because of the sight which your eyes see."}, {"pk": 2704794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strikes you in the knees and on the legs with evil boils of which you are unable to be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head."}, {"pk": 2704795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, wood and stone."}, {"pk": 2704796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cThus you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a mockery among all the peoples to which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 drives you."}, {"pk": 2704797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cYou take much seed out into the field but gather little in, for the locust consumes it."}, {"pk": 2704798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cYou plant vineyards, and shall labour, but you neither drink of the wine nor gather, for the worm eats it."}, {"pk": 2704799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cYou have olive trees in all your border, but do not anoint with oil, for your olives drop off."}, {"pk": 2704800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cYou bring forth sons and daughters, but they are not with you, for they go into captivity."}, {"pk": 2704801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cLocusts possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground."}, {"pk": 2704802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cThe sojourner who is among you rises higher and higher above you, but you come down lower and lower."}, {"pk": 2704803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cHe lends to you, but you do not lend to him. He is the head, and you are the tail."}, {"pk": 2704804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd all these curses shall come upon you, and they shall pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which He commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed, forever."}, {"pk": 2704806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 47, "text": "Because you did not serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with joy and gladness of heart for all the plenty,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 48, "text": "you shall serve your enemies whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you."}, {"pk": 2704808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,"}, {"pk": 2704809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 50, "text": "a fierce-looking nation, which shall show no regard for the elderly nor show favour to the young,"}, {"pk": 2704810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 51, "text": "and they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. They leave you no grain, nor new wine, nor oil, nor the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you."}, {"pk": 2704811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall besiege you at all your gates till your high and fenced walls, in which you are trusting, come down in all your land. And they shall besiege you at all your gates in all your land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you."}, {"pk": 2704812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you, in the siege and distress in which your enemies distress you."}, {"pk": 2704813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 54, "text": "The man among you who is tender, and who is very delicate, his eye is evil against his brother, against the wife of his bosom, and against the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 55, "text": "against giving any of them the flesh of his children that he eats, because it is all that has been left to him in the siege and distress with which your enemy distresses you in all your gates."}, {"pk": 2704815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cThe tender and the delicate woman among you, who has not tried to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,"}, {"pk": 2704816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 57, "text": "and against her seed which comes out from between her feet, and her children whom she bears, for she eats them in secret for lack of all, in the siege and distress with which your enemy distresses you in all your gates."}, {"pk": 2704817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 58, "text": "If you do not guard to do all the Words of this Torah that are written in this book, to fear this esteemed and awesome Name, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 59, "text": "then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues, great and lasting plagues, and grievous and lasting sicknesses."}, {"pk": 2704819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 60, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall bring back on you all the diseases of Mitsrayim, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you,"}, {"pk": 2704820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 61, "text": "also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this Torah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does bring upon you until you are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2704821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 62, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be left with few men, although you had become as numerous as the stars of the heavens, because you did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 63, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, that as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rejoiced over you to do you good and increase you, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does rejoice over you to destroy you and lay you waste. And you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess."}, {"pk": 2704823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 64, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone."}, {"pk": 2704824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 65, "text": "\u201cAnd among those nations you are to find no rest, nor have a resting place for the sole of your foot. But there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give you a trembling heart, and failing eyes, and sorrow of being."}, {"pk": 2704825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 66, "text": "\u201cAnd your life shall be hanging in suspense before you, and you shall fear night and day, and not be certain of your life."}, {"pk": 2704826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 67, "text": "\u201cIn the morning you say, \u2018Oh, that it were evening!\u2019 And at evening you say, \u2018Oh, that it were morning!\u2019 because of the fear of your heart, with which you fear, and because of the sight which your eyes see."}, {"pk": 2704827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 28, "verse": 68, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall bring you back to Mitsrayim in ships, by a way of which I said to you, \u2018You are never to see it again.\u2019 And there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one to buy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "These are the words of the covenant which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh to make with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, besides the covenant which He made with them in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "And Mosheh called all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and said to them, \u201cYou yourselves saw all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did before your eyes in the land of Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land."}, {"pk": 2704830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYour eyes saw the great trials, the signs, and those great wonders."}, {"pk": 2704831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not given you a heart to know and eyes to see and ears to hear, till this day."}, {"pk": 2704832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your garments have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet."}, {"pk": 2704833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou ate no bread and drank no wine nor strong drink, so that you might know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when you came to this place, Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon and O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we struck them,"}, {"pk": 2704835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "and took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and to the Gad\u0331ites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2704836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore you shall guard the words of this covenant, and do them, so that you prosper in all that you do."}, {"pk": 2704837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAll of you are standing today before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2704838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner who is in the midst of your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,"}, {"pk": 2704839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "so that you should enter into covenant with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and into His oath, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim makes with you today,"}, {"pk": 2704840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "in order to establish you today as a people for Himself, and He Himself be your Elohim, as He has spoken to you, and as He has sworn to your fathers, to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "And not with you alone I am making this covenant and this oath,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "but with him who stands here with us today before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, as well as with him who is not here with us today."}, {"pk": 2704843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor you know how we dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim and how we passed through the nations which you passed through,"}, {"pk": 2704844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "and you saw their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them,"}, {"pk": 2704845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "lest there should be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe, whose heart turns away today from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to go and serve the mighty ones of these nations, lest there should be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood."}, {"pk": 2704846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, \u2018I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,\u2019 in order to add drunkenness to thirst."}, {"pk": 2704847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not forgive him, but rather, the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His jealousy shall burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall settle on him, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall blot out his name from under the heavens."}, {"pk": 2704848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall separate him for evil, out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2704849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the generation to come of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent into it:"}, {"pk": 2704850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "All its land is sulphur, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sed\u0331om and Amorah, Ad\u0331mah and Tseb\u0331oyim, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 overthrew in His displeasure and His wrath.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "And all nations shall say, \u2018Why has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 done so to this land? What does the heat of this great displeasure mean?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be said, \u2018Because they have forsaken the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2704853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "And they went and served other mighty ones and bowed themselves to them, mighty ones that they did not know and that He had not given to them,"}, {"pk": 2704854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "therefore the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book."}, {"pk": 2704855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 uprooted them from their land in displeasure, and in wrath, and in great rage, and cast them into another land, as it is today.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe secret <i>matters</i> belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, but what is revealed belongs to us and to our children forever, to do all the Words of this Torah."}, {"pk": 2704857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when all these words come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart among all the nations where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim drives you,"}, {"pk": 2704858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children,"}, {"pk": 2704859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has scattered you."}, {"pk": 2704860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIf any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under the heavens, from there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does gather you, and from there He does take you."}, {"pk": 2704861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And He shall do good to you, and increase you more than your fathers."}, {"pk": 2704862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live,"}, {"pk": 2704863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you."}, {"pk": 2704864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall turn back and obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and do all His commands which I command you today."}, {"pk": 2704865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall make you have excess in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground for good. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turns back to rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers,"}, {"pk": 2704866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "if you obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being."}, {"pk": 2704867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off."}, {"pk": 2704868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIt is not in the heavens, to say, \u2018Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, \u2018Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2704870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart \u2014 to do it."}, {"pk": 2704871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "in that I am commanding you today to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to guard His commands, and His laws, and His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess."}, {"pk": 2704873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut if your heart turns away, and you do not obey, and shall be drawn away, and shall bow down to other mighty ones and serve them,"}, {"pk": 2704874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI have declared to you today that you shall certainly perish, you shall not prolong your days in the land which you are passing over the Yard\u0115n to enter and possess."}, {"pk": 2704875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cI have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed,"}, {"pk": 2704876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cto love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him \u2014 for He is your life and the length of your days \u2014 to dwell in the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore to your fathers, to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to give them."}, {"pk": 2704877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh went and spoke these words to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2704878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "and he said to them, \u201cI am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to me, \u2018You do not pass over this Yard\u0115n.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim Himself is passing over before you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them. Yehoshua himself is passing over before you, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2704880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall do to them as He did to Sih\u0323on and to O\u1e21, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them."}, {"pk": 2704881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you."}, {"pk": 2704882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBe strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh called Yehoshua and said to him before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cBe strong and courageous, for you are going with this people to the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to let them inherit it."}, {"pk": 2704884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "And it is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is going before you, He Himself is with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged."}, {"pk": 2704885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mosheh wrote this Torah and gave it to the priests, the sons of L\u0115wi, who bore the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and to all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mosheh commanded them, saying, \u201cAt the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Sukkot,", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2704887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "when all Yisra\u2019\u0115l comes to appear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in the place which He chooses, read this Torah before all Yisra\u2019\u0115l in their hearing."}, {"pk": 2704888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAssemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and guard to do all the Words of this Torah."}, {"pk": 2704889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yard\u0115n to possess.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSee, the days have drawn near for you to die. Call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Appointment, so that I command him.\u201d And Mosheh and Yehoshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2704891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared at the Tent in a column of a cloud, and the column of a cloud stood above the door of the Tent."}, {"pk": 2704892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh, \u201cSee, you are about to sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise and whore after the mighty ones of the strangers of the land into the midst of which they shall enter, and forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them."}, {"pk": 2704893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThen My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, \u2018Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall certainly hide My face in that day, because of all the evil which they have done, for they shall turn to other mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2704895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd now write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant."}, {"pk": 2704897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them."}, {"pk": 2704898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "And Mosheh wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "And He commanded Yehoshua son of Nun, and said, \u201cBe strong and courageous, for you are to bring the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l into the land of which I swore to them, and I Myself am with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be, when Mosheh had completed writing the Words of this Torah in a book, until their completion,"}, {"pk": 2704901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "that Mosheh commanded the L\u0115wites, who bore the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTake this Book of the Torah, and you shall place it beside the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and it shall be there as a witness against you,"}, {"pk": 2704903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "for I myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then how much more after my death?"}, {"pk": 2704904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAssemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them."}, {"pk": 2704905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "For I know that after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil shall come to you in the latter days, because you do what is evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke Him through the work of your hands."}, {"pk": 2704906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "So Mosheh spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l the words of this song till their completion:"}, {"pk": 2704907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cGive ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And hear, O earth, The words of my mouth."}, {"pk": 2704908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cLet my instruction fall as rain, My speech drop down as dew, As fine rain on the tender plants, And as showers on the grass."}, {"pk": 2704909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor I proclaim the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Ascribe greatness to our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2704910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThe Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are right-ruling, An \u011al of truth and without unrighteousness, Righteous and straight is He."}, {"pk": 2704911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cA twisted and crooked generation has corrupted itself, Their blemish, <i>they are</i> not His children."}, {"pk": 2704912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo you do this to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you, Who created you and established you?"}, {"pk": 2704913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and let him show you, Your elders, and let them say to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance When He separated the sons of Ad\u0331am, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor the portion of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His people, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 His allotted inheritance."}, {"pk": 2704916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "He found him in a wilderness, And in a wasted, howling desert. He encompassed him, He made him understand, He watched over him as the apple of His eye.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/8'>2:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2704917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAs an eagle stirs up its nest, Flutters over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Bearing them on its wings."}, {"pk": 2704918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 alone led him, And there was no strange mighty one with him."}, {"pk": 2704919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHe made him ride in the heights of the earth, And he ate the fruit of the fields, And He made him to draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,"}, {"pk": 2704920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cCurds from the cattle, And milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, And goats, with the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes."}, {"pk": 2704921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut Yeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are covered with fat; So he forsook Eloah who made him, And scorned the Rock of his deliverance."}, {"pk": 2704922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThey moved Him to jealousy with foreign <i>matters</i>, With abominations they provoked Him."}, {"pk": 2704923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThey slaughtered to demons \u2014 not Eloah \u2014 Mighty ones they did not know, New ones who came lately, Which your fathers did not fear."}, {"pk": 2704924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cYou neglected the Rock who brought you forth, And forgot the \u011al who fathered you."}, {"pk": 2704925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw, and despised, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters."}, {"pk": 2704926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd He said, \u2018Let Me hide My face from them, Let Me see what their end is, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom there is no trusting."}, {"pk": 2704927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "They made Me jealous by what is not \u011al, They provoked Me with their worthless <i>matters</i>. But I make them jealous by those who are no people, I provoke them with a foolish nation."}, {"pk": 2704928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "For a fire was kindled in My wrath And burns to the bottom of She\u2019ol, And consumes the earth and its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of mountains.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes - \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2704929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cI gather evils upon them, I use up My arrows upon them \u2014"}, {"pk": 2704930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cWasted by scarcity of food, And consumed by heat and bitter destruction, And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With the poison of serpents of the dust."}, {"pk": 2704931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThe sword bereaves from the outside, And fear from within, Both young man and maiden, Nursing child with the man of grey hairs."}, {"pk": 2704932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "I said, \u2018I should blow them away, I should make the remembrance of them To cease from among men,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "If I did not fear the enemy\u2019s taunt, Lest their adversaries misunderstand, Lest they say, \u201cOur hand is high, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not done all this.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2704934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor they are a nation lost to counsel, And there is no understanding in them."}, {"pk": 2704935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "If they were wise, They would understand this, They would consider their latter end!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cHow would one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given them up?"}, {"pk": 2704937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cFor their rock is not like our Rock \u2014 Even our enemies are judges."}, {"pk": 2704938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cTheir vine is of the vine of Sed\u0331om And of the fields of Amorah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter."}, {"pk": 2704939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cTheir wine is the poison of serpents, And the fierce venom of cobras."}, {"pk": 2704940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "text": "Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?"}, {"pk": 2704941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "text": "Vengeance is Mine, and repayment, At the time their foot slips; For near is the day of their calamity, And the <i>matters</i> prepared are hastening to them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rightly rules His people And has compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, Shut up or at large."}, {"pk": 2704943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 37, "text": "And He shall say, \u2018Where are their mighty ones, The rock in whom they sought refuge?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 38, "text": "Who ate the fat of their slaughterings, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them arise and help you, Let it be a hiding-place for you!"}, {"pk": 2704945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 39, "text": "See now that I, I am He, And there is no Elohim besides Me. I put to death and I make alive. I have wounded, and I heal. And from My hand no one delivers!"}, {"pk": 2704946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 40, "text": "For I lift My hand to the heavens, And shall say: As I live forever,"}, {"pk": 2704947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 41, "text": "If I have sharpened My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I shall return vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me."}, {"pk": 2704948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 42, "text": "I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired enemy chiefs.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 43, "text": "O nations, acclaim His people! For He avenges the blood of His servants, And returns vengeance to His adversaries, And shall pardon His land, His people."}, {"pk": 2704950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 44, "text": "Then Mosheh came, with Hosh\u0115a son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people."}, {"pk": 2704951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 45, "text": "And when Mosheh ended speaking all these words to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2704952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 46, "text": "he said to them, \u201cSet your heart on all the words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah."}, {"pk": 2704953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 47, "text": "For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong your days on the soil which you pass over the Yard\u0115n to possess."}, {"pk": 2704954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 48, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Mosheh that same day, saying,"}, {"pk": 2704955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cGo up this mountain of the Ab\u0331arim, Mount Neb\u0331o, which is in the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, which is opposite Yerih\u0323o, and look at the land of Kena\u201ban, which I give to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l as a possession,"}, {"pk": 2704956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 50, "text": "and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aharon your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,"}, {"pk": 2704957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 51, "text": "because you trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l at the waters of Merib\u0331ah Qad\u0331\u0115sh, in the Wilderness of Tsin, because you did not set Me apart in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 32, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cFor you are to look at the land before you, but not enter there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "And this is the blessing with which Mosheh the man of Elohim blessed the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l before his death."}, {"pk": 2704960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came from Sinai, and rose from S\u0115\u201bir for them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and came with ten thousands of set-apart ones \u2014 at His right hand a law of fire for them."}, {"pk": 2704961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "Indeed, He loves the peoples, all His set-apart ones are in Your hand. And they, they sat down at Your feet, receiving Your Words."}, {"pk": 2704962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "Mosheh commanded us a Torah, an inheritance of the assembly of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2704963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "And He was Sovereign in Yeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "Let Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n live, and not die, and let his men be numbered."}, {"pk": 2704965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And this of Yehud\u0331ah, and he said, \u201cHear, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the voice of Yehud\u0331ah, and bring him to his people. His hands shall fight for him, and You be a help against his enemies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "And of L\u0115wi he said, \u201cYour Tummim and your Urim belong to your lovingly-commited One, Whom you tried at Massah, with Whom you contended at the waters of Merib\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2704967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "who said of his father and mother, \u2018I have not seen them.\u2019 And he did not acknowledge his brothers, or know his own children, for they have guarded Your Word and watched over Your covenant."}, {"pk": 2704968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThey teach Your right-rulings to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Your Torah to Yisra\u2019\u0115l. They put incense before You, and a complete ascending offering on Your slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2704969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Smite the loins of those who rise against him, and of those who hate him, that they rise no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "Of Binyamin he said, \u201cLet the beloved of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dwell in safety by Him, shielding him all the day, as he dwells between His shoulders.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "And of Yos\u0115ph he said, \u201cBlessed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is his land, with the choicest from the heavens, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath,"}, {"pk": 2704972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "with the choice fruits of the sun, with the choice yield of the months,"}, {"pk": 2704973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "with the finest of the ancient mountains, with the choicest of the everlasting hills,"}, {"pk": 2704974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "with the choicest of the earth and all that fills it, and the good pleasure of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come on the head of Yos\u0115ph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers."}, {"pk": 2704975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "His splendour is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2704976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "And of Zeb\u0331ulun he said, \u201cRejoice, O Zeb\u0331ulun, in your going out, and Yissask\u0331ar in your tents!"}, {"pk": 2704977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "They call peoples to the mountain, there they slaughter slaughterings of righteousness, for they draw from the riches of the seas, and treasures hidden in the sand."}, {"pk": 2704978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "And of Gad\u0331 he said, \u201cBlessed is he who enlarges Gad\u0331. He dwells as a lion, and shall tear off the arm, also the crown."}, {"pk": 2704979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "And he chose the best for himself, for there the portion of the inscriber was hidden. And he came with the heads of the people. The righteousness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he did, and His right-rulings with Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2704980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "And of Dan he said, \u201cDan is a lion\u2019s cub, that leaps from Bashan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "And of Naphtali he said, \u201cO Naphtali, satisfied with pleasure, and filled with the blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, possess the west and the south.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "And of Ash\u0115r he said, \u201cAsh\u0115r is most blessed of sons. Let him be accepted by his brothers, and dip his foot in oil."}, {"pk": 2704983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYour sandals are iron and bronze, and your strength as your days."}, {"pk": 2704984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cO Yeshurun, there is no one like \u011al, riding the heavens to help you, and on the clouds, in His excellency."}, {"pk": 2704985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cThe Elohim of old is a refuge, and beneath are everlasting arms. And He drives out the enemy from before you and says, \u2018Destroy!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2704986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThus Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwells in safety, the fountain of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 alone, in a land of grain and new wine. His heavens also drop down dew."}, {"pk": 2704987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "text": "Blessed are you, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Who is like you, a people saved by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the shield of your help, and He who is the sword of your excellency! And your enemies are subdued for you, and you tread down their high places."}, {"pk": 2704988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mosheh went up from the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 to Mount Neb\u0331o, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Yerih\u0323o. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed him all the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 as far as Dan,"}, {"pk": 2704989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "and all Naphtali and the land of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, all the land of Yehud\u0331ah as far as the Western Sea,"}, {"pk": 2704990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "and the Negeb\u0331, and the plain of the Valley of Yerih\u0323o, the city of palm trees, as far as Tso\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2704991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cThis is the land of which I swore to Ab\u0331raham, to Yitsh\u0323aq, and to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, saying, \u2018To your seed I give it.\u2019 I have let you look at it with your eyes, but you do not pass over there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2704992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 died there in the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2704993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "And He buried him in a valley in the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, opposite B\u0115yth Pe\u201bor, and no one knows his burial-place to this day."}, {"pk": 2704994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mosheh was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his freshness gone."}, {"pk": 2704995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l wept for Mosheh in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 thirty days. And the days of weeping and mourning for Mosheh were completed."}, {"pk": 2704996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Mosheh had laid his hands on him. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l listened to him, and did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2704997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "And since then no prophet has arisen in Yisra\u2019\u0115l like Mosheh, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knew face to face,"}, {"pk": 2704998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "for all the signs and wonders which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent him to do in the land of Mitsrayim, before Pharaoh, and before all his servants, and in all his land,"}, {"pk": 2704999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 5, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "and for all that strong hand and all the great fearsome deeds which Mosheh did before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, after the death of Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Yehoshua son of Nun, the assistant of Mosheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cMosheh My servant is dead, so now, arise, pass over this Yard\u0115n, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cEvery place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given you, as I spoke to Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFrom the wilderness and this Leb\u0331anon even as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the H\u0323ittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, is your border."}, {"pk": 2705004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cNo man is going to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Mosheh, so I am with you. I do not fail you nor forsake you."}, {"pk": 2705005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBe strong and courageous, for you are to let this people inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them."}, {"pk": 2705006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cOnly be strong and very courageous, to guard to do according to all the Torah which Mosheh My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you act wisely wherever you go."}, {"pk": 2705007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cDo not let this Book of the Torah depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and act wisely."}, {"pk": 2705008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cHave I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, nor be discouraged, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is with you wherever you go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cPass through the midst of the camp and command the people, saying, \u2018Prepare food for yourselves, for within three days you are passing over this Yard\u0115n, to go in to possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you to possess.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoshua spoke to the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites and to the Gad\u0331ites and to half the tribe of Menashsheh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cRemember the word which Mosheh, servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, commanded you, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving you rest, and He shall give you this land.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cLet your wives, your little ones, and your livestock stay in the land which Mosheh gave you beyond the Yard\u0115n. But you shall pass before your brothers in fives, all your brave fighters, and shall help them,"}, {"pk": 2705014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "until \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given your brothers rest, as unto you. So shall they also take possession of the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess that which Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave you beyond the Yard\u0115n toward the rising of the sun.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And they answered Yehoshua, saying, \u201cAll that you have commanded us we do, and wherever you send us we go."}, {"pk": 2705016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAccording to all that we obeyed Mosheh, so we obey you. Only, let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim be with you, as He was with Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWhoever rebels against your mouth and does not obey your words, in all that you command him, is put to death. Only be strong and courageous.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun secretly sent out two men from Shittim to spy, saying, \u201cGo, see the land, and Yerih\u0323o.\u201d And they went, and came to the house of a woman, a whore, and her name was Rah\u0323ab\u0331, and they lay down there."}, {"pk": 2705019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "But it was reported to the sovereign of Yerih\u0323o, saying, \u201cSee, men from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have come here tonight to search out the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign of Yerih\u0323o sent to Rah\u0323ab\u0331, saying, \u201cBring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "But the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she said, \u201cThe men came to me, but I did not know where they were from."}, {"pk": 2705022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThen it came to be as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, so that you overtake them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof."}, {"pk": 2705024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And the men pursued them by the way to the Yard\u0115n, to the fords. And they shut the gate afterwards as soon as the pursuers had gone out."}, {"pk": 2705025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,"}, {"pk": 2705026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "and she said to the men, \u201cI know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of you."}, {"pk": 2705027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor we have heard how \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you when you came out of Mitsrayim, and what you did to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yard\u0115n, Sih\u0323on and O\u1e21, whom you put under the ban."}, {"pk": 2705028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd when we heard, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in anyone because of you, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, He is Elohim in the heavens above and on earth beneath."}, {"pk": 2705029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please swear to me by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, since I have shown you loving-commitment, that you also show loving-commitment to my father\u2019s house, and shall give me a true token,"}, {"pk": 2705030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "and shall spare my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and shall deliver our lives from death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And the men said to her, \u201cOur lives for yours, if you do not expose this matter of ours, then it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given us the land, that we shall treat you in loving-commitment and truth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "So she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall and she dwelt on the wall."}, {"pk": 2705033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And she said to them, \u201cGo to the mountain, lest the pursuers come upon you. And you shall hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned, and afterwards go on your way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the men said to her, \u201cWe are released from this oath of yours which you have made us swear,"}, {"pk": 2705035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father\u2019s household to your own home."}, {"pk": 2705036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that anyone who goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood is on his own head, and we are innocent. And anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand is laid on him."}, {"pk": 2705037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd if you expose this matter of ours, then we shall be released from your oath which you made us swear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And she said, \u201cLet it be according to your words.\u201d And she sent them away, and they went. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window."}, {"pk": 2705039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "So they left and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. And the pursuers sought them in all the way, but did not find them."}, {"pk": 2705040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "Then the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and passed over. And they came to Yehoshua son of Nun, and related to him all that had befallen them."}, {"pk": 2705041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And they said to Yehoshua, \u201cTruly \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given all the land into our hands, and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted away because of us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Shittim and came to the Yard\u0115n, he and all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and stayed there before they passed over."}, {"pk": 2705043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, after three days, that the officers went into the midst of the camp,"}, {"pk": 2705044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "and they commanded the people, saying, \u201cWhen you see the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and the priests, the L\u0115wites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and follow it."}, {"pk": 2705045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cOnly, keep a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you know which way to go, for you have not passed over this way before.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yehoshua said to the people, \u201cSet yourselves apart, for tomorrow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is doing wonders in your midst.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoshua spoke to the priests, saying, \u201cTake up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people.\u201d So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people."}, {"pk": 2705048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cThis day I begin to make you great before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that they know that I am with you as I was with Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, \u2018When you come to the edge of the water of the Yard\u0115n, stand in the Yard\u0115n.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cCome near, and hear the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua said, \u201cBy this you shall know that the living \u011al is in your midst, and that He is certainly driving out from before you the Kena\u201banites and the H\u0323ittites and the H\u0323iwwites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Yeb\u0331usites:"}, {"pk": 2705052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSee, the ark of the covenant of the Master of all the earth is passing over before you into the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, one man from every tribe."}, {"pk": 2705054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Master of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Yard\u0115n, that the waters of the Yard\u0115n are cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and stand as a heap.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be, when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Yard\u0115n, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,"}, {"pk": 2705056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "and as those bearing the ark came to the Yard\u0115n, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark dipped in the edge of the water \u2014 now the Yard\u0115n overflows all its banks during all the time of harvest \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Ad\u0331am, the city that is beside Tsarethan. And the waters going down into the Sea of the Arab\u0331ah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Yard\u0115n. And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had completely passed over the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when the entire nation had completely passed over the Yard\u0115n, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Yehoshua, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe,"}, {"pk": 2705061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "and command them, saying, \u2018Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Yard\u0115n, from the place where the priests\u2019 feet stood firm. And you shall bring them with you and leave them in the camp in which you spend the night.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehoshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, one man from every tribe,"}, {"pk": 2705063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "and Yehoshua said to them, \u201cPass over before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim into the midst of the Yard\u0115n, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2705064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "so that this shall be a sign in your midst when your children ask in time to come, saying, \u2018What do these stones mean to you?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThen you shall answer them that the waters of the Yard\u0115n were cut off before the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. When it passed over the Yard\u0115n, the waters of the Yard\u0115n were cut off. And these stones shall be for a remembrance to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did so, as Yehoshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Yard\u0115n, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to Yehoshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and took them over with them to their camp, and laid them down there."}, {"pk": 2705067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Yehoshua also set up twelve stones in the midst of the Yard\u0115n, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood. And they are there to this day."}, {"pk": 2705068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Yard\u0115n until every matter was finished that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Yehoshua to speak to the people, according to all that Mosheh had commanded Yehoshua. And the people hastened and passed over."}, {"pk": 2705069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the priests passed over in the presence of the people."}, {"pk": 2705070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the sons of Gad\u0331, and half the tribe of Menashsheh passed over in fives before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as Mosheh had spoken to them."}, {"pk": 2705071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "About forty thousand armed ones of the army passed over before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for battle, to the desert plains of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "On that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made Yehoshua great before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they feared him, as they had feared Mosheh, all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2705073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Yehoshua, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cCommand the priests who bear the ark of the Witness, and let them come up from the Yard\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehoshua commanded the priests, saying, \u201cCome up from the Yard\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had come from the midst of the Yard\u0115n, and the soles of the priests\u2019 feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Yard\u0115n returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before."}, {"pk": 2705077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And the people came up from the Yard\u0115n on the tenth day of the first new <i>moon</i>, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And those twelve stones which they took out of the Yard\u0115n, Yehoshua set up in Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2705079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And he said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cWhen your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, \u2018What are these stones?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "then you shall let your children know, saying, \u2018Yisra\u2019\u0115l passed over this Yard\u0115n on dry land,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim dried up the waters of the Yard\u0115n before you until you had passed over, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim did to the Sea of Reeds, which He dried up before us until we had passed over,"}, {"pk": 2705082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "so that all the peoples of the earth shall know the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that it is strong, so that you shall fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when all the sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yard\u0115n westward, and all the sovereigns of the Kena\u201banites who were by the sea, heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had dried up the waters of the Yard\u0115n from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l until we had passed over, that their heart melted. And there was no spirit in them any longer, because of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "At that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cMake knives of flint for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l again the second time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "So Yehoshua made knives of flint for himself, and circumcised the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l at the Hill of Foreskins."}, {"pk": 2705086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And this is why Yehoshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Mitsrayim who were males, all the men of battle, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2705087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised."}, {"pk": 2705088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "For the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation \u2014 the men of battle who came out of Mitsrayim \u2014 were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 swore not to show them the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, \u201ca land flowing with milk and honey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yehoshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way."}, {"pk": 2705090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when they had completed circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed."}, {"pk": 2705091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cToday I have rolled away the reproach of Mitsrayim from you.\u201d So the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day."}, {"pk": 2705092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l camped in Gilgal, and performed the P\u0115sah\u0323 on the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i> at evening on the desert plains of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And they ate of the stored grain of the land on the morrow after the P\u0115sah\u0323, unleavened bread and roasted grain on this same day."}, {"pk": 2705094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the stored grain of the land. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Kena\u201ban that year."}, {"pk": 2705095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when Yehoshua was by Yerih\u0323o, that he lifted his eyes and looked and saw a Man standing opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Yehoshua went to Him and said to Him, \u201cAre You for us or for our adversaries?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And He said, \u201cNo, for I have now come as Captain of the host of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And Yehoshua fell on his face to the earth and did obeisance, and said to Him, \u201cWhat is my Master saying to His servant?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Captain of the host of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cTake your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is set-apart.\u201d And Yehoshua did so."}, {"pk": 2705098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yerih\u0323o was shut up tight because of the presence of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 none going out, and none coming in."}, {"pk": 2705099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cSee! I have given Yerih\u0323o and its sovereign, mighty brave men, into your hand."}, {"pk": 2705100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall go around the city, all the men of battle going around the city once. Do this for six days."}, {"pk": 2705101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd let seven priests bear seven shopharot of the yob\u0331elim before the ark, and on the seventh day go around the city seven times while the priests blow with the shopharot.", "comment": "Plural of Shophar.<br>Plural of Yob\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2705102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when they make a long blast with the horn of a yob\u0331el, and when you hear the voice of the shophar, that all the people shout with a great sound. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.\u201d", "comment": "Animal horn, traditionally ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2705103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, \u201cTake up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven shopharot of yob\u0331elim before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And he said to the people, \u201cPass over, and go around the city, and let him who is armed pass over before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when Yehoshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven shopharot of the yob\u0331elim before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 passed over and blew with the shopharot, and the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went after them."}, {"pk": 2705106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And the armed men went before the priests who blew the shopharot, and the rear guard came after the ark, going on and blowing with the shopharot."}, {"pk": 2705107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "But Yehoshua had commanded the people, saying, \u201cDo not <i>make</i> a sound or cause your voice to be heard, nor let any word come out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, \u2018Shout!\u2019 Then you shall shout.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went around the city, going around once. And they came into the camp and stayed in the camp."}, {"pk": 2705109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And seven priests bearing seven shopharot of the yob\u0331elim before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 were walking, going on, and they blew with the shopharot, and the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, going on, and blowing with the shopharot."}, {"pk": 2705111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And the second day they went around the city once and returned to the camp. Thus they did six days."}, {"pk": 2705112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and went around the city seven times in this way. Only on that day they went around the city seven times."}, {"pk": 2705113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the shopharot, that Yehoshua said to the people, \u201cShout, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given you the city!"}, {"pk": 2705114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the city shall be put under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Only Rah\u0323ab\u0331 the whore is to live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent."}, {"pk": 2705115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you, by all means guard yourselves from that which is under the ban, lest you come under the ban when you take of that which is under the ban, and make the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l a curse, and shall trouble it."}, {"pk": 2705116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they go into the treasury of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And the people shouted when the <i>priests</i> blew the shopharot. And it came to be when the people heard the voice of the shophar, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. And the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city."}, {"pk": 2705118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And they put under the ban all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2705119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And to the two men who had spied out the land Yehoshua said, \u201cGo into the house of the woman, the whore, and from there bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rah\u0323ab\u0331, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and set them outside the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "However, Yehoshua kept alive Rah\u0323ab\u0331 the whore, and her father\u2019s household, and all that she had. And she dwelt in the midst of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yehoshua warned them at that time, saying, \u201cCursed is the man before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who rises up and builds this city Yerih\u0323o \u2014 he lays its foundation with his first-born, and with his youngest he sets up its gates.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Yehoshua, and a report about him was in all the land."}, {"pk": 2705125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "But the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l committed a trespass regarding that which is under the ban, for Ak\u0331an son of Karmi, son of Zab\u0331di, son of Zerah\u0323, of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, took of that which is under the ban. And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Now Yehoshua sent men from Yerih\u0323o to Ai, which is beside B\u0115yth Awen, on the east side of B\u0115yth \u011al, and spoke to them, saying, \u201cGo up and spy out the land.\u201d And the men went up and spied out Ai."}, {"pk": 2705127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And they returned to Yehoshua and said to him, \u201cLet not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people toil up there, for the people of Ai are few.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai."}, {"pk": 2705129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And the men of Ai struck about thirty-six men, for they pursued them from before the gate as far as Sheb\u0331arim, and smote them on the descent. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water."}, {"pk": 2705130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoshua tore his garments, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 until evening, both he and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they put dust on their heads."}, {"pk": 2705131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yehoshua said, \u201cOh Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why have You brought this people over the Yard\u0115n at all, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay beyond the Yard\u0115n!"}, {"pk": 2705132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what do I say when Yisra\u2019\u0115l turns its back before its enemies,"}, {"pk": 2705133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "and the Kena\u201banites and all the inhabitants of the land hear, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What then do You do for Your great Name?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cRise up! Why are you lying on your face?"}, {"pk": 2705135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of that which is under the ban, and have both stolen and deceived, and also put it among their own goods."}, {"pk": 2705136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall not be able to stand before their enemies. They are going to turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I am not with you any more, unless you destroy that which is under the ban from your midst."}, {"pk": 2705137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cRise up, set the people apart, and you shall say, \u2018Set yourselves apart for tomorrow, because thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cThat which is under the ban is in your midst, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l. You are not able to stand before your enemies until you put away that which is under the ban out of your midst.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And you shall be brought near in the morning, according to your tribes. And it shall be, the tribe which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes comes according to clans. And the clan which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes comes by households. And the household which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes comes by men."}, {"pk": 2705139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And it shall be that he who is taken with that which is under the ban is burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and because he has committed wickedness in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "So Yehoshua arose early in the morning and brought Yisra\u2019\u0115l by their tribes, and the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah was taken,"}, {"pk": 2705141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "and he brought the clan of Yehud\u0331ah, and he took the clan of the Zarh\u0323ites. And he brought the clan of the Zarh\u0323ites by men, and Zab\u0331di was taken."}, {"pk": 2705142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And he brought his household by men, and Ak\u0331an son of Karmi, son of Zab\u0331di, son of Zerah\u0323, of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, was taken."}, {"pk": 2705143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Yehoshua said to Ak\u0331an, \u201cMy son, now give esteem to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and make confession to Him. And please declare to me what you have done, do not hide it from me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "So Ak\u0331an answered Yehoshua and said, \u201cTruly, I have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and this is what I did:"}, {"pk": 2705145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWhen I saw among the spoil a lovely garment from Shin\u201bar, and two hundred sheqels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty sheqels, I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the ground in the midst of my tent, with the silver under it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yehoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. And see, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it."}, {"pk": 2705147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And they took them from the midst of the tent, brought them to Yehoshua and to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and laid them out before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "Then Yehoshua, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, took Ak\u0331an son of Zerah\u0323, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the Valley of Ak\u0331or."}, {"pk": 2705149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yehoshua said, \u201cWhy have you troubled us? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does trouble you today!\u201d Then all Yisra\u2019\u0115l stoned him with stones. And they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones."}, {"pk": 2705150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which remains to this day. Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned from the fierceness of His displeasure. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Ak\u0331or to this day."}, {"pk": 2705151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cDo not be afraid, nor be discouraged. Take all the soldiers with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the sovereign of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land."}, {"pk": 2705152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSo you shall do to Ai and its sovereign as you did to Yerih\u0323o and its sovereign. Only its spoil and its livestock you take as plunder for yourselves. Set for yourselves an ambush for the city, behind it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehoshua and all the soldiers rose up, to go up to Ai. And Yehoshua chose thirty thousand mighty brave men and sent them away by night,"}, {"pk": 2705154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "and commanded them, saying, \u201cSee, you are going to lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you shall be prepared,"}, {"pk": 2705155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "while I and all the people who are with me approach the city. And it shall be, when they come out against us, as formerly, that we shall flee before them,"}, {"pk": 2705156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "and they shall come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, as though saying, \u2018They are fleeing before us as formerly.\u2019 And we shall flee before them,"}, {"pk": 2705157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall give it into your hand."}, {"pk": 2705158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you capture the city, that you burn the city with fire. Do according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. See, I have commanded you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoshua sent them out. And they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between B\u0115yth \u011al and Ai, on the west side of Ai. But Yehoshua stayed that night in the midst of the people."}, {"pk": 2705160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua rose up early in the morning and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, before the people to Ai."}, {"pk": 2705161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And all the soldiers who were with him went up and drew near, and came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai, with the valley between them and Ai."}, {"pk": 2705162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between B\u0115yth \u011al and Ai, on the west side of the city."}, {"pk": 2705163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, and Yehoshua went that night into the midst of the valley."}, {"pk": 2705164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hastened and rose up early and went out against Yisra\u2019\u0115l to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city."}, {"pk": 2705165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehoshua and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l let themselves be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2705166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Yehoshua and were drawn away from the city."}, {"pk": 2705167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "So there was not a man left in Ai or B\u0115yth \u011al who did not go out after Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they left the city open and pursued Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cStretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I give it into your hand.\u201d And Yehoshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city,"}, {"pk": 2705169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "and the ambush rose up quickly from their place, and they ran at the stretching out of his hand, and entered the city and took it, and hastened to burn the city with fire."}, {"pk": 2705170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And the men of Ai looked behind them and saw the smoke of the city rising to the heavens. And there was no power in them to flee this way or that way, for the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers."}, {"pk": 2705171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "For when Yehoshua and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that the ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned back and struck the men of Ai."}, {"pk": 2705172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "The others also came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them until none were left, and none had escaped."}, {"pk": 2705173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "But the sovereign of Ai they caught alive, and brought him to Yehoshua."}, {"pk": 2705174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be, when Yisra\u2019\u0115l ended killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all Yisra\u2019\u0115l returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2705175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand \u2014 all men of Ai."}, {"pk": 2705176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yehoshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had put all the inhabitants of Ai under the ban."}, {"pk": 2705177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Yisra\u2019\u0115l took as booty for themselves, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had commanded Yehoshua."}, {"pk": 2705178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And Yehoshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a ruin to this day."}, {"pk": 2705179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And he hanged the sovereign of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Yehoshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, and throw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones, to this day."}, {"pk": 2705180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And Yehoshua built a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Mount \u011ayb\u0331al,"}, {"pk": 2705181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "as Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as it is written in the Book of the Torah of Mosheh, \u201ca slaughter-place of unhewn stones over which no man has wielded iron.\u201d And they offered on it ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and slaughtered peace <i>offerings</i>."}, {"pk": 2705182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And there, in the presence of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, he wrote on the stones a copy of the Torah of Mosheh, which he had written."}, {"pk": 2705183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 the sojourner as well as the native \u2014 with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the L\u0115wites, who bore the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount \u011ayb\u0331al, as Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And afterward he read all the words of the Torah, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2705185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "There was not a word of all that Mosheh had commanded which Yehoshua did not read before all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, with the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who accompanied them."}, {"pk": 2705186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when all the sovereigns who were beyond the Yard\u0115n, in the hills and in the low country and in all the coasts of the Great Sea toward Leb\u0331anon \u2014 the H\u0323ittite and the Amorite, the Kena\u201banite and the Perizzite, the H\u0323iwwite and the Yeb\u0331usite \u2014 heard,"}, {"pk": 2705187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "they gathered together to fight with Yehoshua and Yisra\u2019\u0115l with one accord."}, {"pk": 2705188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And the inhabitants of Gib\u0331\u201bon heard what Yehoshua had done to Yerih\u0323o and Ai,"}, {"pk": 2705189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "and they acted slyly and went and pretended to be envoys. And they took old sacks on their donkeys, old wineskins torn and mended,"}, {"pk": 2705190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "and old and patched sandals on their feet, and old garments on themselves. And all the bread of their provision was dry, it was crumbs."}, {"pk": 2705191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And they went to Yehoshua, to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cWe have come from a far land, and now, make a covenant with us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "But the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to the H\u0323iwwites, \u201cIt could be that you dwell in our midst, so how would we make a covenant with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And they said to Yehoshua, \u201cWe are your servants.\u201d And Yehoshua said to them, \u201cWho are you, and where do you come from?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "So they said to him, \u201cFrom a land very far off your servants have come, because of the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. For we have heard the report of Him, and all that He did in Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2705195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "and all that He had done to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yard\u0115n, to Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, and O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth."}, {"pk": 2705196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSo our elders and all the inhabitants of our land spoke to us, saying, \u2018Take food with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, \u201cWe are your servants, and now, make a covenant with us.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2705197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThis bread of ours we took hot for our provision from our houses on the day that we left to come to you. But now, see, it is dry and it is crumby."}, {"pk": 2705198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd these wineskins which we filled were new, and see, they are torn. And these our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l took some of their food, but they did not ask the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehoshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live, and the rulers of the congregation swore to them."}, {"pk": 2705201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be at the end of three days, after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours who dwelt near them."}, {"pk": 2705202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gib\u0331\u201bon, and Kephirah, and Be\u2019\u0115roth, and Qiryath Ye\u201barim."}, {"pk": 2705203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "But the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not strike them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And all the congregation grumbled against the rulers."}, {"pk": 2705204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "But all the rulers said to all the congregation, \u201cWe have sworn to them by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and we are unable to touch them now."}, {"pk": 2705205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cLet us do this to them: We shall keep them alive, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And the rulers said to them, \u201cLet them live, but let them be woodcutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Yehoshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, \u201cWhy have you deceived us, saying, \u2018We are very far from you,\u2019 yet you are dwelling in our midst?"}, {"pk": 2705208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd now you are cursed, and you shall not cease from being slaves, and woodcutters and drawers of water for the House of my Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And they answered Yehoshua and said, \u201cYour servants were clearly told that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim commanded His servant Mosheh to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. So we were very much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this deed."}, {"pk": 2705210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, we are in your hands. Do with us as it seems good and right to do to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they did not kill them."}, {"pk": 2705212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And that day Yehoshua made them woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even to this day, at the place that He should choose."}, {"pk": 2705213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be when Ad\u0331oni-Tsed\u0331eq sovereign of Yerushalayim heard that Yehoshua had captured Ai and had put it under the ban, that he had done to Ai and its sovereign as he had done to Yerih\u0323o and its sovereign, and that the inhabitants of Gib\u0331\u201bon had made peace with Yisra\u2019\u0115l and were in their midst,"}, {"pk": 2705214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "that they feared greatly, because Gib\u0331\u201bon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty."}, {"pk": 2705215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ad\u0331oni-Tsed\u0331eq sovereign of Yerushalayim sent to Hoham sovereign of H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and to Piram sovereign of Yarmuth, and to Yaphiya sovereign of Lak\u0331ish, and to Deb\u0331ir sovereign of E\u1e21lon, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cCome up to me and help me, and let us strike Gib\u0331\u201bon, for it has made peace with Yehoshua and with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "So the five sovereigns of the Amorites \u2014 the sovereign of Yerushalayim, the sovereign of H\u0323eb\u0331ron, the sovereign of Yarmuth, the sovereign of Lak\u0331ish, the sovereign of E\u1e21lon \u2014 gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gib\u0331\u201bon and fought against it."}, {"pk": 2705218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And the men of Gib\u0331\u201bon sent to Yehoshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, \u201cDo not withdraw your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly, and save us and help us, for all the sovereigns of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have assembled against us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yehoshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the soldiers with him, and all the mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2705220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cDo not fear them, for I have given them into your hand. Not one of them does stand before you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "So then Yehoshua came upon them suddenly, having gone up all night from Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2705222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 threw them into confusion before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they struck them with a great slaughter at Gib\u0331\u201bon, and pursued them along the way that goes to B\u0115yth H\u0323oron, and struck them as far as Az\u0115qah and Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2705223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, as they fled before Yisra\u2019\u0115l and were on the descent of B\u0115yth H\u0323oron, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 threw down large hailstones from the heavens on them as far as Az\u0115qah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had killed with the sword."}, {"pk": 2705224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Yehoshua spoke to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the day when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave the Amorites over to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and he said before the eyes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSun, stand still over Gib\u0331\u201bon; and moon, in the Valley of Ayalon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Yashar? Thus the sun stopped in the midst of the heavens, and did not hasten to go down for an entire day."}, {"pk": 2705226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listened to the voice of a man, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fought for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "So Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, to the camp at Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2705228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Now these five sovereigns had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2705229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And it was reported to Yehoshua, saying, \u201cThe five sovereigns have been found hidden in the cave at Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yehoshua said, \u201cRoll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them."}, {"pk": 2705231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you, do not stand still, but pursue your enemies. And you shall smite them in the rear. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given them into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be, when Yehoshua and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had ended striking them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished \u2014 but those who escaped went into walled cities \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "that all the people returned to the camp, to Yehoshua at Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Yehoshua said, \u201cOpen the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five sovereigns to me from the cave.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And they did so, and brought those five sovereigns to him from the cave: the sovereign of Yerushalayim, the sovereign of H\u0323eb\u0331ron, the sovereign of Yarmuth, the sovereign of Lak\u0331ish, the sovereign of E\u1e21lon."}, {"pk": 2705236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And it came to be, when they brought out those sovereigns to Yehoshua, that Yehoshua called for all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said to the chiefs of the men of battle who went with him, \u201cCome near, put your feet on the necks of these sovereigns.\u201d And they drew near and put their feet on their necks."}, {"pk": 2705237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "Then Yehoshua said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid nor be discouraged, be strong and courageous, for this is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going to do to all your enemies whom you are fighting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And afterward Yehoshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until evening."}, {"pk": 2705239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yehoshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and threw them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave\u2019s mouth, to this day."}, {"pk": 2705240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And on that day Yehoshua captured Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah, and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and he put its sovereign under the ban \u2014 them and all the people who were in it, he left no survivor. And he did to the sovereign of Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah as he had done to the sovereign of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "Then Yehoshua passed over, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, from Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah to Lib\u0331nah. And they fought against Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2705242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 also gave it and its sovereign into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, he left no survivor in it. And he did to its sovereign as he had done to the sovereign of Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2705243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "Then Yehoshua passed over, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, from Lib\u0331nah to Lak\u0331ish, and encamped against it and fought against it."}, {"pk": 2705244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave Lak\u0331ish into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who captured it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2705245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "Then Horam sovereign of Gezer came up to help Lak\u0331ish. And Yehoshua struck him and his people, until he left him no survivor."}, {"pk": 2705246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "Then Yehoshua passed over, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, from Lak\u0331ish to E\u1e21lon. And they encamped against it and fought against it,"}, {"pk": 2705247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "and captured it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword. And all the beings who were in it he put under the ban that day, according to all that he had done to Lak\u0331ish."}, {"pk": 2705248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "Then Yehoshua went up, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, from E\u1e21lon to H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and they fought against it,"}, {"pk": 2705249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its sovereign, and all its cities, and all the people who were in it. He left no survivor, according to all that he had done to E\u1e21lon, but put it and all the people who were in it under the ban."}, {"pk": 2705250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "Then Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, to Deb\u0331ir, and fought against it,"}, {"pk": 2705251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "and captured it and its sovereign and all its cities. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and put all the people who were in it under the ban, he left no survivor. As he had done to H\u0323eb\u0331ron, so he did to Deb\u0331ir and its sovereign, as he had done also to Lib\u0331nah and its sovereign."}, {"pk": 2705252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "Thus Yehoshua struck all the land: the mountain country and the South and the low country and the wilderness slopes, and all their sovereigns. He left no survivor, but put all that breathed under the ban, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had commanded."}, {"pk": 2705253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "And Yehoshua struck them from Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a as far as Azzah, and all the land of Goshen, even as far as Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2705254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "And Yehoshua captured all these sovereigns and their land at one time, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fought for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "text": "And Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, to the camp at Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2705256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Yab\u0331in sovereign of H\u0323atsor heard, that he sent to Yob\u0331ab\u0331 sovereign of Mad\u0331on, and to the sovereign of Shimron, and to the sovereign of Ak\u0331shaph,"}, {"pk": 2705257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "and to the sovereigns who were from the north, in the mountains, and in the desert plain south of Kinneroth, and in the low country, and in the heights of Dor on the west \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "the Kena\u201banites in the east and in the west, and the Amorite, and the H\u0323ittite, and the Perizzite, and the Yeb\u0331usite in the mountains, and the H\u0323iwwite below H\u0323ermon in the land of Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2705259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as numerous as the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots."}, {"pk": 2705260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And all these sovereigns met together, and they came and camped together at the waters of M\u0115rom to fight against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yehoshua, \u201cDo not be afraid of their presence, for tomorrow about this time I am giving all of them over to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, slain. Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yehoshua, and all the soldiers with him, came against them suddenly by the waters of M\u0115rom, and they fell on them."}, {"pk": 2705263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they struck them and pursued them to Great Tsid\u0331on, and to Misrephoth Mayim, and to the Valley of Mitspeh eastward. And they struck them until no survivor was left to them."}, {"pk": 2705264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoshua did to them as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire."}, {"pk": 2705265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua turned back at that time and captured H\u0323atsor, and struck its sovereign with the sword, for H\u0323atsor was formerly the head of all those reigns."}, {"pk": 2705266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And they struck all the beings who were in it with the edge of the sword, putting them under the ban. He did not leave anyone breathing. Then he burned H\u0323atsor with fire."}, {"pk": 2705267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoshua captured all the cities of those sovereigns, and all their sovereigns, and he struck them with the edge of the sword. He put them under the ban, as Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded."}, {"pk": 2705268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "However, Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not burn any cities that stood on their mounds, but Yehoshua burned only H\u0323atsor."}, {"pk": 2705269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l took as booty for themselves. But they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave anyone breathing."}, {"pk": 2705270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh his servant, so Mosheh commanded Yehoshua, and so Yehoshua did. He did not turn aside a word of all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus Yehoshua took all this land: the mountain country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the low country, and the desert plain, and the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and its low lands,"}, {"pk": 2705272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "from Mount H\u0323alaq that goes up to S\u0115\u201bir, and as far as Ba\u201bal Gad\u0331 in the Valley of Leb\u0331anon below Mount H\u0323ermon. And he captured all their sovereigns, and struck them and killed them."}, {"pk": 2705273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "Yehoshua fought with all those sovereigns for a long time."}, {"pk": 2705274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "There was not a city that made peace with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, except the H\u0323iwwites, the inhabitants of Gib\u0331\u201bon. All the others they took in battle."}, {"pk": 2705275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "For it was of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to strengthen their hearts, that they should come against Yisra\u2019\u0115l in battle, in order to put them under the ban, so that they might have no favour, but that He might annihilate them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And at that time Yehoshua came and cut off the Anaqim from the mountains, from H\u0323eb\u0331ron, from Deb\u0331ir, from Anab\u0331, and from all the mountains of Yehud\u0331ah, and from all the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Yehoshua put them with their cities under the ban."}, {"pk": 2705277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "There were none of the Anaqim left in the land of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l; only in Azzah, in Gath, and in Ashdod\u0331 some remained."}, {"pk": 2705278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "Thus Yehoshua took the entire land, according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to Mosheh. And Yehoshua gave it as an inheritance to Yisra\u2019\u0115l according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from fighting."}, {"pk": 2705279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the sovereigns of the land whom the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l struck, and whose land they possessed beyond the Yard\u0115n towards the sun-rising, from the wadi Arnon to Mount H\u0323ermon, and all the desert plain eastward:"}, {"pk": 2705280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in H\u0323eshbon, ruling from Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, from the middle of that wadi, and half Gil\u201bad\u0331, even as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon,"}, {"pk": 2705281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "and the desert plain from the Sea of Kinneroth eastward as far as the Sea of the Arab\u0331ah, the Salt Sea, the way to B\u0115yth Yeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah,"}, {"pk": 2705282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "and the border of O\u1e21, sovereign of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Repha\u2019ites, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Ed\u0331re\u201bi,"}, {"pk": 2705283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "and ruled in Mount H\u0323ermon, and in Salk\u0331ah, and in all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma\u201bak\u0331athites, and the half of Gil\u201bad\u0331 as far as the border of Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon."}, {"pk": 2705284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had stricken them. And Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given it as a possession to the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and to the Gad\u0331ites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2705285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And these are the sovereigns of the land which Yehoshua and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l struck beyond the Yard\u0115n, on the west, from Ba\u201bal Gad\u0331 in the Valley of Leb\u0331anon as far as Mount H\u0323alaq that goes up to S\u0115\u201bir, which Yehoshua gave to the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l as a possession according to their divisions,"}, {"pk": 2705286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "in the mountain country, and in the low country, and in the desert plain, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South, the H\u0323ittites, the Amorites and the Kena\u201banites, the Perizzites, the H\u0323iwwites, and the Yeb\u0331usites:"}, {"pk": 2705287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "the sovereign of Yerih\u0323o, one; the sovereign of Ai, which is beside B\u0115yth \u011al, one;"}, {"pk": 2705288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "the sovereign of Yerushalayim, one; the sovereign of H\u0323eb\u0331ron, one;"}, {"pk": 2705289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "the sovereign of Yarmuth, one; the sovereign of Lak\u0331ish, one;"}, {"pk": 2705290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "the sovereign of E\u1e21lon, one; the sovereign of Gezer, one;"}, {"pk": 2705291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "the sovereign of Deb\u0331ir, one; the sovereign of Ged\u0331er, one;"}, {"pk": 2705292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "the sovereign of H\u0323ormah, one; the sovereign of Arad\u0331, one;"}, {"pk": 2705293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "the sovereign of Lib\u0331nah, one; the sovereign of Ad\u0331ullam, one;"}, {"pk": 2705294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "the sovereign of Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah, one; the sovereign of B\u0115yth \u011al, one;"}, {"pk": 2705295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "the sovereign of Tappuwah\u0323, one; the sovereign of H\u0323\u0115pher, one;"}, {"pk": 2705296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "the sovereign of Aph\u0115q, one; the sovereign of Sharon, one;"}, {"pk": 2705297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "the sovereign of Mad\u0331on, one; the sovereign of H\u0323atsor, one;"}, {"pk": 2705298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "the sovereign of Shimron M\u0115ron, one; the sovereign of Ak\u0331shaph, one;"}, {"pk": 2705299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "the sovereign of Ta\u201banak\u0331, one; the sovereign of Me\u1e21iddo, one;"}, {"pk": 2705300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "the sovereign of Qed\u0331esh, one; the sovereign of Yoqne\u201bam in Karmel, one;"}, {"pk": 2705301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "the sovereign of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the sovereign of the nations of Gilgal, one;"}, {"pk": 2705302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "the sovereign of Tirtsah, one \u2014 thirty-one sovereigns in all."}, {"pk": 2705303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshua was old, advanced in years. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cYou are old, advanced in years, and still much of the land remains to be possessed."}, {"pk": 2705304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThis is the land that remains: all the districts of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,"}, {"pk": 2705305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "from Shih\u0323or which is in front of Mitsrayim, and up to the border of Eqron northward, are considered as Kena\u201banite \u2014 the five princes of the Philistines, the Azzathites, and the Ashdod\u0331ites, the Eshqelonites, the Gittites, and the Eqronites; also the Awwites"}, {"pk": 2705306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "on the south; all the land of the Kena\u201banites, and Me\u201barah that belongs to the Tsid\u0331onians as far as Aph\u0115q, to the border of the Amorites;"}, {"pk": 2705307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "and the land of the Geb\u0331alites, and all Leb\u0331anon, toward the sunrise, from Ba\u201bal Gad\u0331 below Mount H\u0323ermon as far as the entrance to H\u0323amath;"}, {"pk": 2705308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "all the inhabitants of the mountains from Leb\u0331anon as far as Misrephoth Mayim, and all the Tsid\u0331onians. I Myself drive them out from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Only, divide it by lot to Yisra\u2019\u0115l as an inheritance, as I have commanded you."}, {"pk": 2705309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Menashsheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "With them the other half tribe the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites and the Gad\u0331ites received their inheritance, which Mosheh had given them, beyond the Yard\u0115n eastward, as Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given them:"}, {"pk": 2705311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "from Aro\u201b\u0115r which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plain of M\u0115yd\u0331eb\u0331a as far as Dib\u0331on;"}, {"pk": 2705312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "and all the cities of Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who reigned in H\u0323eshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon;"}, {"pk": 2705313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "and Gil\u201bad\u0331, and the border of the Geshurites, and of the Ma\u201bak\u0331athites, and all Mount H\u0323ermon, and all Bashan as far as Salk\u0331ah;"}, {"pk": 2705314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "all the reign of O\u1e21 in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Ed\u0331re\u201bi, who remained of the remnant of the Repha\u2019ites, for Mosheh had stricken and dispossessed them."}, {"pk": 2705315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "However, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not drive out the Geshurites nor the Ma\u201bak\u0331athites, so the Geshurites and the Ma\u201bak\u0331athites dwell in the midst of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to this day."}, {"pk": 2705316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "Only to the tribe of L\u0115wi he had given no inheritance \u2014 the offerings made by fire to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were their inheritance, as He said to them."}, {"pk": 2705317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mosheh gave to the tribe of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, for their clans:"}, {"pk": 2705318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "and their border was from Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plain by M\u0115yd\u0331eb\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2705319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "H\u0323eshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dib\u0331on, and Bamoth Ba\u201bal, and B\u0115yth Ba\u201bal Me\u201bon,"}, {"pk": 2705320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "and Yahtsah, and Qed\u0331\u0115moth, and M\u0115pha\u201bath,"}, {"pk": 2705321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "and Qiryathayim, and Sib\u0331mah, and Tsereth Shah\u0323ar on the mountain of the valley,"}, {"pk": 2705322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "and B\u0115yth Pe\u201bor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and B\u0115yth Yeshimoth;"}, {"pk": 2705323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "and all the cities of the plain, and all the reign of Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, who reigned in H\u0323eshbon, whom Mosheh had stricken with the princes of Mid\u0331yan: Ewi, and Reqem, and Tsur, and H\u0323ur, and Reb\u0331a, princes of Sih\u0323on dwelling in the land."}, {"pk": 2705324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l killed with the sword Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor, the diviner, among those who were killed by them."}, {"pk": 2705325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And the border of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n was the bank of the Yard\u0115n. This was the inheritance of the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n for their clans, the cities and their villages."}, {"pk": 2705326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "And Mosheh gave to the tribe of Gad\u0331, to the children of Gad\u0331 for their clans:"}, {"pk": 2705327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "and their border was Ya\u201bz\u0115r, and all the cities of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and half the land of the children of Ammon as far as Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is before Rabbah,"}, {"pk": 2705328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "and from H\u0323eshbon to Ramath Mitspeh and Betonim, and from Mah\u0323anayim to the border of Deb\u0331ir,"}, {"pk": 2705329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "and in the valley B\u0115yth Haram, and B\u0115yth Nimrah, and Sukkoth, and Tsaphon, the rest of the reign of Sih\u0323on sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, the Yard\u0115n being its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Kinnereth, beyond the Yard\u0115n eastward."}, {"pk": 2705330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "This is the inheritance of the children of Gad\u0331 for their clans, the cities and their villages."}, {"pk": 2705331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "And Mosheh gave to half the tribe of Menashsheh, and it was for half the tribe of the children of Menashsheh for their clans:"}, {"pk": 2705332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "and their border was from Mah\u0323anayim, all Bashan, all the reign of O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, and all the small towns of Ya\u2019ir which are in Bashan, sixty cities;"}, {"pk": 2705333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "and the half of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and Ashtaroth and Ed\u0331re\u201bi, cities of the reign of O\u1e21 in Bashan, were for the children of Mak\u0331ir son of Menashsheh, to the half of the children of Mak\u0331ir for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "These Mosheh gave as an inheritance in the desert plains of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 beyond the Yard\u0115n, by Yerih\u0323o eastward."}, {"pk": 2705335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "But to the tribe of L\u0115wi Mosheh gave no inheritance. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, He was their inheritance, as He had said to them."}, {"pk": 2705336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Now these the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l inherited in the land of Kena\u201ban, which El\u201bazar the priest, and Yehoshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l caused them to inherit."}, {"pk": 2705337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "Their inheritance was by lot, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded by the hand of Mosheh, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe."}, {"pk": 2705338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "For Mosheh had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Yard\u0115n, but to the L\u0115wites he gave no inheritance in their midst."}, {"pk": 2705339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "For the children of Yos\u0115ph had become two tribes: Menashsheh and Ephrayim. And they gave no part to the L\u0115wites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their open land for their livestock and their possessions."}, {"pk": 2705340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh, so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did, and they divided the land."}, {"pk": 2705341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And the children of Yehud\u0331ah came to Yehoshua in Gilgal, and Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh the Qenizzite said to him, \u201cYou know the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Mosheh the man of Elohim concerning you and me in Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a."}, {"pk": 2705342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI was forty years old when Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent me from Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart."}, {"pk": 2705343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim completely."}, {"pk": 2705344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSo Mosheh swore on that day, saying, \u2018The land on which your foot has trodden is your inheritance and your children\u2019s forever, because you have followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim completely.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke this word to Mosheh while Yisra\u2019\u0115l walked in the wilderness. And now, see, I am eighty-five years old today."}, {"pk": 2705346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cYet I am still as strong today as I was on the day that Mosheh sent me. As my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle, and for going out and for coming in."}, {"pk": 2705347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, give me this mountain of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke in that day, for you heard in that day how the Anaqim were there, and that the cities were great and walled. If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with me, then I shall dispossess them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "Yehoshua then blessed him, and gave H\u0323eb\u0331ron to Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2705349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "So H\u0323eb\u0331ron became the inheritance of Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh the Qenizzite to this day, because he followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l completely."}, {"pk": 2705350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "Now the name of H\u0323eb\u0331ron was formerly Qiryath Arba (<i>Arba was</i> the greatest man among the Anaqim). And the land had rest from fighting."}, {"pk": 2705351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And the lot of the tribe of the children of Yehud\u0331ah for their clans was to the border of Ed\u0331om, the Wilderness of Tsin southward in the extreme south."}, {"pk": 2705352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And their southern border began at the edge of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward."}, {"pk": 2705353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And it went out to the southern side of the Ascent of Aqrabbim, passed over to Tsin, and went up on the south side of Qad\u0331\u0115sh Barn\u0115a, and passed over to H\u0323etsron, went up to Ad\u0331ar, and went around to Qarqa,"}, {"pk": 2705354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "and passed over to Atsmon, and went out to the wadi of Mitsrayim, and the border ended at the sea. This is your southern border."}, {"pk": 2705355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And the east border was the Salt Sea as far as the end of the Yard\u0115n. And the border on the northern quarter began at the bay of the sea at the end of the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And the border went up to B\u0115yth H\u0323o\u1e21lah and passed over north of B\u0115yth Arab\u0331ah. And the border went up to the stone of Bohan son of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And the border went up toward Deb\u0331ir from the Valley of Ak\u0331or, and it turned northward toward Gilgal, which is before the Ascent of Ad\u0331ummim, which is south of the wadi. And the border passed over to the waters of \u011an Shemesh and ended at \u011an Ro\u1e21\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And the border went up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom to the southern slope of the Yeb\u0331usite city, that is Yerushalayim. And the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the Valley of Repha\u2019im northward."}, {"pk": 2705359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And the border went around from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtowah\u0323, and went up to the cities of Mount Ephron. And the border went around to Ba\u201balah, that is Qiryath Ye\u201barim."}, {"pk": 2705360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And the border turned around from Ba\u201balah westward to Mount S\u0115\u201bir, and passed over to the side of Mount Ye\u201barim on the north, that is Kesalon, and went down to B\u0115yth Shemesh, and passed over to Timnah."}, {"pk": 2705361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And the border went out to the side of Eqron northward. And the border went around to Shikkeron, and passed over to Mount Ba\u201balah, and went out to Yab\u0331ne\u2019\u0115l. And the border ended at the sea."}, {"pk": 2705362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And the west border was the coastline of the Great Sea. This is the boundary of the children of Yehud\u0331ah all around for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And to Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Yehud\u0331ah, according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Yehoshua: Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron \u2014 <i>Arba was</i> the father of Anaq."}, {"pk": 2705364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And Kal\u0115b\u0331 drove out the three sons of Anaq from there: Sh\u0115shai, and Ah\u0323iman, and Talmai, the children of Anaq."}, {"pk": 2705365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Deb\u0331ir, and the name of Deb\u0331ir formerly was Qiryath S\u0115pher."}, {"pk": 2705366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And Kal\u0115b\u0331 said, \u201cHe who strikes Qiryath S\u0115pher and shall capture it, to him I shall give Ak\u0331sah my daughter as wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And Othni\u2019\u0115l son of Qenaz, the brother of Kal\u0115b\u0331, did capture it, so he gave him Ak\u0331sah his daughter as wife."}, {"pk": 2705368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. And when she got off from the donkey, Kal\u0115b\u0331 said to her, \u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "And she said, \u201cGive me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the South, give me also fountains of water.\u201d And he gave her the upper fountains and the lower fountains."}, {"pk": 2705370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yehud\u0331ah for their clans:"}, {"pk": 2705371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And the cities at the furthest border of the tribe of the children of Yehud\u0331ah, toward the border of Ed\u0331om in the South, were Qab\u0331tse\u2019\u0115l, and \u011ad\u0331er, and Ya\u1e21ur,"}, {"pk": 2705372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "and Qinah, and Dimonah, and Ad\u0331ad\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2705373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "and Qed\u0331esh, and H\u0323atsor, and Yithnan,"}, {"pk": 2705374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "Ziph, and Telem, and Be\u201baloth,"}, {"pk": 2705375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "and H\u0323atsor, H\u0323ad\u0331attah, and Qeriyoth, H\u0323etsron, that is H\u0323atsor,"}, {"pk": 2705376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "Amam, and Shema, and Molad\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2705377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "and H\u0323atsar Gaddah, and H\u0323eshmon, and B\u0115yth Pelet,"}, {"pk": 2705378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "and H\u0323atsar Shu\u201bal, and Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and Bizyothyah,"}, {"pk": 2705379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "Ba\u201balah, and Iyim, and Etsem,"}, {"pk": 2705380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "and Eltolad\u0331, and Kesil, and H\u0323ormah,"}, {"pk": 2705381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "and Tsiqla\u1e21, and Mad\u0331mannah, and Sansannah,"}, {"pk": 2705382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "and Leb\u0331a\u2019oth, and Shilh\u0323im, and Ayin, and Rimmon. All the cities were twenty-nine, with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "In the low country: Eshta\u2019ol, and Tsor\u201bah, and Ashnah,"}, {"pk": 2705384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "and Zanowah\u0323, and \u011an Gannim, Tappuwah\u0323 and \u011anam,"}, {"pk": 2705385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "Yarmuth and Ad\u0331ullam, Sok\u0331oh and Az\u0115qah,"}, {"pk": 2705386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "and Sha\u201barayim, and Ad\u0331ithayim, and Ged\u0331\u0115rah, and Ged\u0331\u0115rothayim \u2014 fourteen cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "Tsenan, and H\u0323ad\u0331ashah, and Mi\u1e21dal Gad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2705388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "and Dil\u201ban, and Mitspeh, and Yoqthe\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2705389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "Lak\u0331ish, and Botsqath, and E\u1e21lon,"}, {"pk": 2705390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "text": "and Kabbon, and Lah\u0323mam, and Kithlish,"}, {"pk": 2705391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "text": "and Ged\u0331\u0115roth, B\u0115yth Da\u1e21on, and Na\u201bamah, and Maqq\u0115d\u0331ah \u2014 sixteen cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 42, "text": "Lib\u0331nah, and Ether, and Ashan,"}, {"pk": 2705393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 43, "text": "and Yiphtah\u0323, and Ashnah, and Netsib\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2705394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 44, "text": "and Qe\u201bilah, and Ak\u0331zib\u0331, and Mar\u0115shah \u2014 nine cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 45, "text": "Eqron with its towns and its villages,"}, {"pk": 2705396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 46, "text": "from Eqron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod\u0331, with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 47, "text": "Ashdod\u0331, its towns and its villages; Azzah, its towns and its villages; as far as the wadi of Mitsrayim and the Great Sea with its coastline."}, {"pk": 2705398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 48, "text": "And in the mountain country: Shamur, and Yattir, and Sok\u0331oh,"}, {"pk": 2705399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 49, "text": "and Dannah, and Qiryath Sannah, that is Deb\u0331ir,"}, {"pk": 2705400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 50, "text": "and Anab\u0331, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,"}, {"pk": 2705401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 51, "text": "and Goshen, and H\u0323olon, and Giloh \u2014 eleven cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 52, "text": "Arab\u0331, and Dumah, and Esh\u201ban,"}, {"pk": 2705403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 53, "text": "and Yanim, and B\u0115yth Tappuwah\u0323, and Aph\u0115qah,"}, {"pk": 2705404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 54, "text": "and H\u0323umtah, and Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Tsi\u201bor \u2014 nine cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 55, "text": "Ma\u201bon, Karmel, and Ziph, and Yutah,"}, {"pk": 2705406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 56, "text": "and Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and Yoqd\u0331e\u201bam, and Zanowah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2705407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 57, "text": "Qayin, Gib\u0331\u201bah, and Timnah \u2014 ten cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 58, "text": "H\u0323alh\u0323ul, B\u0115yth Tsur, and Ged\u0331or,"}, {"pk": 2705409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 59, "text": "and Ma\u201barath, and B\u0115yth Anoth, and Elteqon \u2014 six cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 60, "text": "Qiryath Ba\u201bal, that is Qiryath Ye\u201barim, and Rabbah \u2014 two cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 61, "text": "In the wilderness: B\u0115yth Arab\u0331ah, Middin, and Sek\u0331ak\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2705412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 62, "text": "and Nib\u0331shan, and the City of Salt, and \u011an Ged\u0331i \u2014 six cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 15, "verse": 63, "text": "As for the Yeb\u0331usites, the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the children of Yehud\u0331ah were unable to drive them out, so the Yeb\u0331usites have dwelt with the children of Yehud\u0331ah at Yerushalayim to this day."}, {"pk": 2705414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And the lot for the children of Yos\u0115ph went out from the Yard\u0115n, by Yerih\u0323o, to the waters of Yerih\u0323o on the east, to the wilderness going up from Yerih\u0323o through the mountains to B\u0115yth \u011al,"}, {"pk": 2705415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "and went out from B\u0115yth \u011al to Luz, and passed over to the border of the Arkites at Ataroth,"}, {"pk": 2705416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "and went down westward to the boundary of the Yaphl\u0115tites, as far as the boundary of Lower B\u0115yth H\u0323oron to Gezer, and it ended at the sea."}, {"pk": 2705417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus the children of Yos\u0115ph, Menashsheh and Ephrayim, inherited."}, {"pk": 2705418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And the border of the children of Ephrayim, according to their clans, was: The border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth Addar as far as Upper B\u0115yth H\u0323oron."}, {"pk": 2705419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And the border went out toward the sea, to Mik\u0331methath on the north, then the border went around eastward to Ta\u2019anath Shiloh, and passed over it on the east of Yanoh\u0323ah,"}, {"pk": 2705420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "and went down from Yanoh\u0323ah to Ataroth and Na\u201barah, reached to Yerih\u0323o, and came out at the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "From Tappuwah\u0323 the border went westward to the wadi Qanah, and it ended at the sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephrayim for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And the separate cities for the children of Ephrayim were in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Menashsheh, all the cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And they did not drive out the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in Gezer, so the Kena\u201banites dwell among the Ephrayimites to this day and have become compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2705424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And the lot for the tribe of Menashsheh, for he was the first-born of Yos\u0115ph, was: for Mak\u0331ir the first-born of Menashsheh, father of Gil\u201bad\u0331, because he was a man of battle, therefore he had Gil\u201bad\u0331 and Bashan."}, {"pk": 2705425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And for the rest of the children of Menashsheh for their clans there was: for the children of Ab\u0331i\u201bezer, and for the children of H\u0323\u0115leq, and for the children of Asri\u2019\u0115l, and for the children of Shek\u0331em, and for the children of H\u0323\u0115pher, and for the children of Shemid\u0331a. These were the male children of Menashsheh son of Yos\u0115ph according to their clans."}, {"pk": 2705426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "But Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331 son of H\u0323\u0115pher, son of Gil\u201bad\u0331, son of Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh, had no sons, but only daughters. And these were the names of his daughters: Mah\u0323lah and No\u201bah, H\u0323o\u1e21lah, Milkah and Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2705427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And they came near before El\u201bazar the priest, before Yehoshua son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh to give us an inheritance among our brothers.\u201d So he gave them an inheritance among their father\u2019s brothers, according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And ten portions fell to Menashsheh, besides the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 and Bashan, which were beyond the Yard\u0115n,"}, {"pk": 2705429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "because the daughters of Menashsheh received an inheritance among his sons. And the rest of Menashsheh\u2019s sons had the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And the border of Menashsheh was from Ash\u0115r to Mik\u0331methath, which faces Shek\u0331em. And the border went up to the right to the inhabitants of \u011an Tappuwah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2705431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "The land of Tappuwah\u0323 belonged to Menashsheh, but Tappuwah\u0323 on the border of Menashsheh belonged to the children of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2705432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And the border went down to the wadi Qanah, southward to the wadi. These cities of Ephrayim were in the midst of the cities of Menashsheh, but the border of Menashsheh was north of the wadi, and it ended at the sea."}, {"pk": 2705433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "Southward it was Ephrayim\u2019s, and northward it was Menashsheh\u2019s, and the sea was its border, and they reached to Ash\u0115r on the north and to Yissask\u0331ar on the east."}, {"pk": 2705434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And in Yissask\u0331ar and in Ash\u0115r, Menashsheh had B\u0115yth She\u2019an and its towns, and Yib\u0331le\u201bam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of \u011an Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Ta\u201banak\u0331 and its towns, and the inhabitants of Me\u1e21iddo and its towns \u2014 three of the heights."}, {"pk": 2705435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "But the children of Menashsheh were unable to drive out the inhabitants of those cities, for the Kena\u201banites desired to dwell in that land."}, {"pk": 2705436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l grew strong, that they put the Kena\u201banites to compulsory labour, but did not utterly drive them out."}, {"pk": 2705437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And the children of Yos\u0115ph spoke to Yehoshua, saying, \u201cWhy have you given us but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing we are a great people whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed until now?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehoshua said to them, \u201cIf you are a great people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and the Repha\u2019ites, since the hill country of Ephrayim is too narrow for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the children of Yos\u0115ph said, \u201cThe hill country is not enough for us, and all the Kena\u201banites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are of B\u0115yth She\u2019an and its towns and those who are of the Valley of Yizre\u201b\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehoshua spoke to the house of Yos\u0115ph, to Ephrayim and to Menashsheh, saying, \u201cYou are a great people and have great power, you are not to have one lot,"}, {"pk": 2705441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "for the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and its farthest limits shall be yours. For you are to drive out the Kena\u201banites, though they have iron chariots and are strong.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l assembled at Shiloh, and they let the Tent of Appointment dwell there. And the land was subdued before them."}, {"pk": 2705443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And seven tribes were left among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who had not yet shared their inheritance."}, {"pk": 2705444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "So Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cTill when are you going to fail to go in and possess the land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers has given you?"}, {"pk": 2705445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAppoint three men from each tribe, and let me send them out to go through the land and describe it according to their inheritance, and come back to me."}, {"pk": 2705446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall divide it into seven portions \u2014 Yehud\u0331ah stays within their border on the south, and the house of Yos\u0115ph stays within their border on the north \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "and you shall describe the land in seven portions, and shall bring it to me. Then I shall cast lots for you here before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2705448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut the L\u0115wites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is their inheritance. And Gad\u0331, and Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and half the tribe of Menashsheh have received their inheritance beyond the Yard\u0115n on the east, which Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "So the men rose up and went. And Yehoshua commanded those who went to describe the land, saying, \u201cGo, walk through the land, and describe it, and come back to me, and let me cast lots for you here before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Shiloh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "So the men went, and passed through the land, and described it in a book in seven portions by cities. And they came to Yehoshua at the camp in Shiloh."}, {"pk": 2705451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehoshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there Yehoshua divided the land to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l according to their portions."}, {"pk": 2705452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And the lot of the tribe of the children of Binyamin came up for their clans, and the border of their lot came out between the children of Yehud\u0331ah and the children of Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2705453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And their border was on the north side from the Yard\u0115n, and the border went up to the side of Yerih\u0323o on the north, and went up through the mountains westward, and ended at the Wilderness of B\u0115yth Awen."}, {"pk": 2705454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, that is B\u0115yth \u011al, southward. And the border went down to Ataroth Ad\u0331ar, by the hill that lies on the south side of Lower B\u0115yth H\u0323oron."}, {"pk": 2705455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And the border was drawn and went around the west side to the south, from the hill that faces B\u0115yth H\u0323oron southward, and it ended at Qiryath Ba\u201bal, that is Qiryath Ye\u201barim, a city of the children of Yehud\u0331ah. This was the west side."}, {"pk": 2705456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And the south side was from the end of Qiryath Ye\u201barim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtowah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2705457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And the border came down to the end of the mountain that faces the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of the Repha\u2019im on the north, and went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Yeb\u0331usite city on the south, and went down to \u011an Ro\u1e21\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And it was drawn from the north, went out to \u011an Shemesh, and went out toward Geliloth, which is opposite the Ascent of Ad\u0331ummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan son of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n,"}, {"pk": 2705459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "and passed over to the side opposite Arab\u0331ah northward, and went down to Arab\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2705460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And the border passed over to the side of B\u0115yth H\u0323o\u1e21lah northward, and the border ended at the north bay at the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Yard\u0115n. This was the southern boundary,"}, {"pk": 2705461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "and the Yard\u0115n borders it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Binyamin, according to its boundaries all around, for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And the cities for the tribe of the children of Binyamin, for their clans, were Yerih\u0323o, and B\u0115yth H\u0323o\u1e21lah, and \u011ameq Qetsits,"}, {"pk": 2705463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "and B\u0115yth Arab\u0331ah, and Tsemarayim, and B\u0115yth \u011al,"}, {"pk": 2705464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "and Awwim, and Parah, and Ophrah,"}, {"pk": 2705465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "and Kephar Ha\u201bammoni, and Ophni, and Gab\u0331a \u2014 twelve cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "Gib\u0331\u201bon, and Ramah, and Be\u2019\u0115roth,"}, {"pk": 2705467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "and Mitspeh, and Kephirah, and Motsah,"}, {"pk": 2705468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "and Reqem, and Yirpe\u2019\u0115l, and Taralah,"}, {"pk": 2705469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "and Tsela, Eleph, and the Yeb\u0331usite, that is Yerushalayim, Gib\u0331\u201bath, and Qiryath \u2014 fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Binyamin for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And the second lot came out for Shim\u201bon, for the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon for their clans. And their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2705471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And they had in their inheritance Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, or Sheb\u0331a, and Molad\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2705472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "and H\u0323atsar Shu\u201bal, and Balah, and Etsem,"}, {"pk": 2705473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "and Eltolad\u0331, and Bethul, and H\u0323ormah,"}, {"pk": 2705474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "and Tsiqla\u1e21, and B\u0115yth Markab\u0331oth, and H\u0323atsar Susah,"}, {"pk": 2705475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "and B\u0115yth Leb\u0331a\u2019oth, and Sharuh\u0323en \u2014 thirteen cities and their villages."}, {"pk": 2705476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "Ayin, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan \u2014 four cities and their villages;"}, {"pk": 2705477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "and all the villages that were all around these cities as far as Ba\u201balath Be\u2019\u0115r, Ramath Ne\u1e21eb\u0331. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "The inheritance of the children of Shim\u201bon was out of the portion of the children of Yehud\u0331ah, for the portion of the children of Yehud\u0331ah was too much for them. So the children of Shim\u201bon had their inheritance within their inheritance."}, {"pk": 2705479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And the third lot came up for the children of Zeb\u0331ulun for their clans, and the border of their inheritance was as far as Sarid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And their border went toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth, and reached to the wadi that faced Yoqne\u201bam,"}, {"pk": 2705481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "and turned back from Sarid\u0331 eastward toward the sunrise, to the border of Kisloth Tab\u0331or, and went out toward Dab\u0331erath, and went up to Yaphiya."}, {"pk": 2705482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "And from there it passed over eastward, to the east of Gath H\u0323\u0115pher, toward Eth Qatsin, and went out to Rimmon, which borders on N\u0115\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2705483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And the border went around it on the north side of H\u0323annathon, and it ended in the Valley of Yiphthah\u0323 \u011al;"}, {"pk": 2705484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "also Qattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Yid\u0331alah, and B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em \u2014 twelve cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "This was the inheritance of the children of Zeb\u0331ulun for their clans, these cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "The fourth lot came out to Yissask\u0331ar, for the children of Yissask\u0331ar, for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And their border was toward Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and Kesulloth, and Shun\u0115m,"}, {"pk": 2705488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "and H\u0323apharayim, and Shiyon, and Anah\u0323arath,"}, {"pk": 2705489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "and Rabbith, and Qishyon, and Eb\u0331ets,"}, {"pk": 2705490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "and Remeth, and \u011an Gannim, and \u011an H\u0323addah, and B\u0115yth Patsts\u0115ts."}, {"pk": 2705491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And the border reached to Tab\u0331or, and Shah\u0323atsimah, and B\u0115yth Shemesh, and their border ended at the Yard\u0115n \u2014 sixteen cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yissask\u0331ar for their clans, the cities and their villages."}, {"pk": 2705493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Ash\u0115r for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "And their border was H\u0323elqath, and H\u0323ali, and Beten, and Ak\u0331shaph,"}, {"pk": 2705495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "and Allammelek\u0331, and Amad\u0331, and Mish\u2019al. And it reached to Mount Karmel westward, and to Brook Shih\u0323or Lib\u0331nath,"}, {"pk": 2705496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "and turned toward the sunrise, to B\u0115yth Da\u1e21on, and reached to Zeb\u0331ulun and to the Valley of Yiphthah\u0323 \u011al, then northward beyond B\u0115yth \u011ameq and Ne\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, and went out to Kab\u0331ul which was on the left,"}, {"pk": 2705497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "and H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331, and H\u0323ammon, and Qanah, as far as Great Tsid\u0331on."}, {"pk": 2705498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "And the border turned to Ramah and to the strong city Tsor, and the border turned to H\u0323osah, and ended at the sea, from the coast to Ak\u0331zib\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ummah, and Aph\u0115q, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331 were included \u2014 twenty-two cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ash\u0115r for their clans, these cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "And their border was from H\u0323eleph, from the terebinth tree in Tsa\u2019anannim, and Ad\u0331ami Neqeb\u0331, and Yab\u0331ne\u2019\u0115l, as far as Laqqum, and it ended at the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "And the border turned westward to Aznoth Tab\u0331or, and went out from there toward H\u0323uqqoq, and reached to Zeb\u0331ulun on the south side and Ash\u0115r on the west side, and ended at Yehud\u0331ah by the Yard\u0115n toward the sunrise."}, {"pk": 2705504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "And the cities of defence were Tsiddim, Ts\u0115r, and H\u0323ammath, Raqqath, and Kinnereth,"}, {"pk": 2705505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "and Ad\u0331amah, and Ramah, and H\u0323atsor,"}, {"pk": 2705506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "and Qed\u0331esh, and Ed\u0331re\u201bi, and \u011an H\u0323atsor,"}, {"pk": 2705507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "and Yiron, and Mi\u1e21dal \u011al, H\u0323or\u0115m, and B\u0115yth Anath, and B\u0115yth Shemesh \u2014 nineteen cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "text": "This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali for their clans, the cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "text": "The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan for their clans."}, {"pk": 2705510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "text": "And the border of their inheritance was Tsor\u201bah, and Eshta\u2019ol, and Ir Shemesh,"}, {"pk": 2705511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "text": "and Sha\u201balabbin, and Ayalon, and Yithlah,"}, {"pk": 2705512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 43, "text": "and \u011alon, and Timnathah, and Eqron,"}, {"pk": 2705513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 44, "text": "and Elteq\u0115h, and Gibbethon, and Ba\u201balath,"}, {"pk": 2705514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 45, "text": "and Yehud\u0331, and Ben\u0115i Beraq, and Gath Rimmon,"}, {"pk": 2705515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 46, "text": "and M\u0115y Yarqon, and Raqqon, with the border before Yapho."}, {"pk": 2705516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 47, "text": "And the border of the children of Dan went out from them. And the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and captured it. And they struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, and called it Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father."}, {"pk": 2705517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 48, "text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan for their clans, these cities with their villages."}, {"pk": 2705518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 49, "text": "And when they had ended dividing the land as an inheritance according to their borders, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave an inheritance to Yehoshua son of Nun in their midst."}, {"pk": 2705519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 50, "text": "According to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Serah\u0323 in the mountains of Ephrayim. And he built the city and dwelt in it."}, {"pk": 2705520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 19, "verse": 51, "text": "These were the inheritances which El\u201bazar the priest, and Yehoshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l divided as an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, at the door of the Tent of Appointment. And they ended dividing the country."}, {"pk": 2705521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Yehoshua, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Mosheh,"}, {"pk": 2705523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "for the man-slayer who strikes any being mistakenly, unknowingly, to flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the revenger of blood."}, {"pk": 2705524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And he shall flee to one of those cities, and stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the hearing of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city as one of them, and give him a place, and he shall dwell among them."}, {"pk": 2705525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And when the revenger of blood pursues him, they do not give the man-slayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbour unknowingly, and did not hate him beforehand."}, {"pk": 2705526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for right-ruling, and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then let the man-slayer return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "So they set apart Qed\u0331esh in Galil, in the mountains of Naphtali, and Shek\u0331em in the mountains of Ephrayim, and Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron, in the mountains of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2705528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And beyond the Yard\u0115n, by Yerih\u0323o eastward, they appointed Betser in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and Ramoth in Gil\u201bad\u0331, from the tribe of Gad\u0331, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2705529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "These were the cities appointed for all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and for the stranger who sojourned in their midst, for anyone striking any being unknowingly, to flee there, and not die by the hand of the revenger of blood until he stood before the congregation."}, {"pk": 2705530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And the heads of the fathers of the L\u0115wites came near to El\u201bazar the priest, to Yehoshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Kena\u201ban, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded through Mosheh to give us cities to dwell in, with their open land for our livestock.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "So the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave to the L\u0115wites from their inheritance, at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, these cities and their open land:"}, {"pk": 2705533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And the lot came out for the clans of the Qehathites. And the children of Aharon the priest, who were of the L\u0115wites, had thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, from the tribe of Shim\u201bon, and from the tribe of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2705534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And the rest of the children of Qehath had ten cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephrayim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2705535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And the children of G\u0115rshon had thirteen cities by lot from the clans of the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar, from the tribe of Ash\u0115r, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Menashsheh in Bashan."}, {"pk": 2705536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "The children of Merari for their clans had twelve cities from the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and from the tribe of Gad\u0331, and from the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun."}, {"pk": 2705537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Thus the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave these cities with their open land by lot to the L\u0115wites, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "So from the tribe of the children of Yehud\u0331ah and from the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon they gave these cities which are mentioned by name,"}, {"pk": 2705539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "and they were for the children of Aharon, one of the clans of the Qehathites, who were of the children of L\u0115wi, for the lot was theirs first."}, {"pk": 2705540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And they gave them Qiryath Arba, that is H\u0323eb\u0331ron \u2014 <i>Arba was</i> the father of Anaq \u2014 in the mountains of Yehud\u0331ah, with the open land surrounding it."}, {"pk": 2705541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh as his possession."}, {"pk": 2705542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "But to the children of Aharon the priest they gave H\u0323eb\u0331ron with its open land \u2014 a city of refuge for the man-slayer \u2014 and Lib\u0331nah with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "and Yattir with its open land, and Eshtemoa with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "and H\u0323olon with its open land, and Deb\u0331ir with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "and Ayin with its open land, and Yuttah with its open land, and B\u0115yth Shemesh with its open land \u2014 nine cities from those two tribes."}, {"pk": 2705546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And from the tribe of Binyamin, Gib\u0331\u201bon with its open land, Geb\u0331a with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "Anathoth with its open land, and Almon with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "All the cities of the children of Aharon, the priests, were thirteen cities with their open lands."}, {"pk": 2705549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And the clans of the children of Qehath, the L\u0115wites, the rest of the children of Qehath, even they had the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2705550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And they gave them Shek\u0331em with its open land in the mountains of Ephrayim as a city of refuge for the man-slayer, and Gezer with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "and Qib\u0331tsayim with its open land, and B\u0115yth H\u0323oron with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And from the tribe of Dan, Elteq\u0115h with its open land, Gibbethon with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "Ayalon with its open land, and Gath Rimmon with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And from the half-tribe of Menashsheh, Ta\u201bnak\u0331 with its open land, and Gath Rimmon with its open land \u2014 two cities."}, {"pk": 2705555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "All the ten cities with their open lands were for the rest of the clans of the children of Qehath."}, {"pk": 2705556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "And to the children of G\u0115rshon, of the clans of the L\u0115wites, from the other half-tribe of Menashsheh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its open land as a city of refuge for the man-slayer, and Be\u201beshterah with its open land \u2014 two cities."}, {"pk": 2705557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "And from the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar, Qishyon with its open land, Dab\u0331erath with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "Yarmuth with its open land, and \u011an Gannim with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "And from the tribe of Ash\u0115r, Mish\u2019al with its open land, Ab\u0331don with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "H\u0323elqath with its open land, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331 with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "And from the tribe of Naphtali, Qed\u0331esh in Galil with its open land as a city of refuge for the man-slayer, and H\u0323ammoth Dor with its open land, and Qartan with its open land \u2014 three cities."}, {"pk": 2705562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "All the cities of the G\u0115rshonites for their clans were thirteen cities with their open land."}, {"pk": 2705563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "And to the clans of the children of Merari, the rest of the L\u0115wites, from the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun, Yoqne\u201bam with its open land, Qartah with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "Dimnah with its open land, Nahalal with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "text": "And from the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Betser with its open land, Yahtsah with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 37, "text": "Qed\u0331\u0115moth with its open land, and M\u0115pha\u201bath with its open land \u2014 four cities."}, {"pk": 2705567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 38, "text": "And from the tribe of Gad\u0331, Ramoth in Gil\u201bad\u0331 with its open land as a city of refuge for the man-slayer, and Mah\u0323anayim with its open land,"}, {"pk": 2705568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 39, "text": "H\u0323eshbon with its open land, Ya\u201bz\u0115r with its open land \u2014 four cities in all."}, {"pk": 2705569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 40, "text": "All the cities for the children of Merari for their clans, the rest of the clans of the L\u0115wites, were by their lot twelve cities."}, {"pk": 2705570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 41, "text": "All the cities of the L\u0115wites within the possession of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were forty-eight cities with their open lands."}, {"pk": 2705571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 42, "text": "Each of these cities had its open land surrounding it. So it was with all these cities."}, {"pk": 2705572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 43, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave to Yisra\u2019\u0115l all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it, and dwelt in it."}, {"pk": 2705573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 44, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave all their enemies into their hand."}, {"pk": 2705574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 21, "verse": 45, "text": "Not a word failed of any good word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 all came in."}, {"pk": 2705575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Yehoshua called for the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and the Gad\u0331ites, and half the tribe of Menashsheh,"}, {"pk": 2705576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "and said to them, \u201cYou, you have guarded all that Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you."}, {"pk": 2705577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYou have not left your brothers these many days, up to this day, but have guarded the Charge, the command of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2705578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given rest to your brothers, as He promised them. So now, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave you beyond the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cOnly, diligently guard to do the command and the Torah which Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded you, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands, and to cling to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents."}, {"pk": 2705581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And to half the tribe of Menashsheh Mosheh had given a possession in Bashan, but to the <i>other</i> half of it Yehoshua gave <i>land</i> among their brothers beyond the Yard\u0115n, westward. So when Yehoshua sent them away to their tents, he also blessed them,"}, {"pk": 2705582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "and spoke to them, saying, \u201cReturn to your tents with great riches, and with very much livestock, and with silver, and with gold, and with bronze, and with iron, and with countless garments. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the children of Gad\u0331, and half the tribe of Menashsheh returned, and left the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l at Shiloh, which is in the land of Kena\u201ban, to go to the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331, to the land of their possession, which they possessed according to the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And they came to the districts of the Yard\u0115n which is in the land of Kena\u201ban, and the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the children of Gad\u0331, and half the tribe of Menashsheh built a slaughter-place there by the Yard\u0115n, a great conspicuous slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2705585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard it said, \u201cSee, the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the children of Gad\u0331, and half the tribe of Menashsheh have built a slaughter-place opposite the land of Kena\u201ban, in the districts of the Yard\u0115n, at the border of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard, all the congregation of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l assembled at Shiloh to go to fight against them."}, {"pk": 2705587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "So the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar the priest to the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and to the children of Gad\u0331, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh, into the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2705588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "and ten rulers with him, one ruler each from the chief house of every tribe of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And each one was the head of the house of his father among the divisions of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "And they came to the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and to the children of Gad\u0331, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh, to the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and spoke with them, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThus says all the congregation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018What is this trespass you have committed against the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to turn away this day from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in that you have built for yourselves a slaughter-place, to rebel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this day?"}, {"pk": 2705591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "Is the crookedness of Pe\u201bor not enough for us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2705592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "that you turn away today from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And it shall be, if you rebel today against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that tomorrow He is wroth with all the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "And indeed, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, where the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves a slaughter-place besides the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2705594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "Did not Ak\u0331an son of Zerah\u0323 commit a trespass in that which is under the ban, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? And he was not the only one to die in his crookedness.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "Then the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the children of Gad\u0331, and half the tribe of Menashsheh answered and said to the heads of the divisions of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2705596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\"\u011al Elohim \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u011al Elohim \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He knows, and let Yisra\u2019\u0115l itself know. If this has been in rebellion, or if in trespass against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not save us this day."}, {"pk": 2705597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cIf we have built ourselves a slaughter-place to turn from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, or if to offer ascending offerings or grain offerings on it, or if to make slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> on it, let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Himself require it."}, {"pk": 2705598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut truly, from fear, for a reason we did this, saying, \u2018In time to come your sons might speak to our sons, saying, \u201cWhat have you to do with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2705599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made the Yard\u0115n a border between you and us, you children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and children of Gad\u0331. You have no portion with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d So your sons would make our sons stop fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cSo we said, \u2018Let us now prepare to build ourselves a slaughter-place, not for ascending offering nor for slaughtering,"}, {"pk": 2705601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "but to be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, to do the service of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before Him with our ascending offerings, with our slaughterings, and with our peace <i>offerings</i>, that your sons should not say to our sons in time to come, \u201cYou have no portion with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2705602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSo we said that it shall be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, \u2018See the pattern of the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which our fathers made, though not for ascending offerings nor for slaughterings, but it is a witness between you and us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFar be it from us to rebel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and to turn from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this day, to build a slaughter-place for ascending offerings, for grain offerings, or for slaughterings, besides the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim which is before His Dwelling Place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "And Pineh\u0323as the priest and the rulers of the congregation, and the heads of the thousands of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were with him, heard the words that the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the children of Gad\u0331, and the children of Menashsheh spoke, and it was good in their eyes."}, {"pk": 2705605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "And Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar the priest said to the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and to the children of Gad\u0331, and to the children of Menashsheh, \u201cToday we know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in our midst, because you have not committed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this trespass. Now you have delivered the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "And Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and the children of Gad\u0331, from the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 to the land of Kena\u201ban, to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and brought back word to them."}, {"pk": 2705607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "So the matter was good in the eyes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l blessed Elohim. And they spoke no more of going against to fight, to destroy the land where the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and Gad\u0331 dwelt."}, {"pk": 2705608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "And the children of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n and the children of Gad\u0331 called the slaughter-place, \u201cA witness between us that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, a long time after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given rest to Yisra\u2019\u0115l from all their enemies round about, that Yehoshua was old, advanced in years."}, {"pk": 2705610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yehoshua called for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, \u201cI am old, advanced in years."}, {"pk": 2705611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you, you have seen all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has done to all these nations because of you, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is He who was fighting for you."}, {"pk": 2705612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Yard\u0115n, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun."}, {"pk": 2705613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim thrust them out from before you, and shall drive them out from before you, and you shall possess their land, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has promised you."}, {"pk": 2705614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be very strong to guard and to do all that is written in the Book of the Torah of Mosheh, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,"}, {"pk": 2705615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "so as not to go in among these nations, these who remain among you. And make no mention of the name of their mighty ones, nor swear <i>by them</i>, nor serve them nor bow down to them.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/23/13'>23:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2705616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut cling to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, as you have done to this day."}, {"pk": 2705617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has driven out from before you great and strong nations. As for you, no one has stood against you to this day."}, {"pk": 2705618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cOne man of you put a thousand to flight, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is He who is fighting for you, as He has promised you."}, {"pk": 2705619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall diligently guard yourselves, to love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2705620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut if you do turn back at all, and cling to the remnant of these nations, these that remain among you, and intermarry with them, and go in to them and they to you,"}, {"pk": 2705621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "know for certain that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall no longer drive these nations out from before you. And they shall be snares and traps to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you."}, {"pk": 2705622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd see, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your beings that not one word has failed of all the good words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim spoke concerning you. All of it has come to you, and not one word of them has failed."}, {"pk": 2705623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, that as every good word has come upon you which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim promised you, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does bring upon you every evil word, until He has destroyed you from this good land which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has given you,"}, {"pk": 2705624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "when you transgress the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, which He commanded you, and shall go and serve other mighty ones, and bow down to them. And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshua gathered all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Shek\u0331em and called for the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers. And they presented themselves before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2705626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yehoshua said to all the people, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Long ago your fathers dwelt beyond the River \u2014 Terah\u0323, the father of Ab\u0331raham and the father of Nah\u0323or. And they served other mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2705627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "So I took your father Ab\u0331raham from beyond the River, and caused him to go through all the land of Kena\u201ban, and multiplied his offspring and gave him Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2705628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And to Yitsh\u0323aq I gave Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and \u011asaw. And to \u011asaw I gave the mountains of S\u0115\u201bir to possess, but Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and his children went down to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2705629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "Then I sent Mosheh and Aharon, and plagued Mitsrayim, as I did in their midst. And afterward I brought you out."}, {"pk": 2705630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And I brought your fathers out of Mitsrayim, and you came to the sea. And the Mitsrians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2705631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He put thick darkness between you and the Mitsrians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Mitsrayim. And you dwelt in the wilderness a long time."}, {"pk": 2705632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Yard\u0115n, and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you."}, {"pk": 2705633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And Balaq son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, rose up and fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and sent and called for Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor to curse you."}, {"pk": 2705634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "But I refused to listen to Bil\u201bam, so he continued to bless you, and I delivered you out of his hand."}, {"pk": 2705635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And you passed over the Yard\u0115n and came to Yerih\u0323o. And the masters of Yerih\u0323o, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Kena\u201banite, and the H\u0323ittite, and the Girgashite, and the H\u0323iwwite, and the Yeb\u0331usite fought against you. But I gave them into your hand."}, {"pk": 2705636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two sovereigns of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow."}, {"pk": 2705637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And I gave you a land for which you did not labour, and cities which you did not build. And you dwell in them, you eat of the vineyards and olive-trees which you did not plant.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd now, fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, serve Him in perfection and in truth, and put away the mighty ones which your fathers served beyond the River and in Mitsrayim, and serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2705639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd if it seems evil in your eyes to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And the people answered and said, \u201cFar be it from us to forsake \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to serve other mighty ones,"}, {"pk": 2705641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is He who has brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs before our eyes, and has guarded us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed."}, {"pk": 2705642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We too serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is our Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Yehoshua said to the people, \u201cYou are not able to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is a set-apart Elohim, a jealous \u011al is He. He does not bear with your transgression and with your sins,"}, {"pk": 2705644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "if you forsake \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and shall serve mighty ones of a stranger. Then He shall turn back and do you evil and consume you, after He has been good to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "And the people said to Yehoshua, \u201cNo, but we do serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Yehoshua said to the people, \u201cYou are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for yourselves, to serve Him.\u201d And they said, \u201cWitnesses!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd now, put away the mighty ones of the stranger which are in your midst, and incline your heart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And the people said to Yehoshua, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim we serve, and His voice we obey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and laid on them a law and a right-ruling in Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2705650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "Then Yehoshua wrote these words in the Book of the Torah of Elohim. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the set-apart place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yehoshua said to all the people, \u201cSee, this stone is a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke to us. And it shall be a witness against you, lest you lie against your Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "Then Yehoshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance."}, {"pk": 2705653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "And after these events it came to be that Yehoshua son of Nun, the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, died, one hundred and ten years old."}, {"pk": 2705654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Serah\u0323, which is in the mountains of Ephrayim, on the north side of Mount Ga\u201bash."}, {"pk": 2705655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l served \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Yehoshua, who had known all the works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had done for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "text": "And the bones of Yos\u0115ph, which the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had brought up out of Mitsrayim, they buried at Shek\u0331em, in the plot of ground which Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had bought from the sons of H\u0323amor the father of Shek\u0331em for one hundred qesitah, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Yos\u0115ph.", "comment": "A monetary unit of uncertain value, perhaps in the form of a lamb."}, {"pk": 2705657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 6, "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "text": "And El\u201bazar son of Aharon died, and they buried him in a hill that belonged to Pineh\u0323as his son, which was given to him in the hill country of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2705658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, after the death of Yehoshua, that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l asked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWho of us should go up first against the Kena\u201banites to fight against them?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cYehud\u0331ah does go up. See, I have given the land into his hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said to Shim\u201bon his brother, \u201cCome up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Kena\u201banites. And I myself shall also go with you into your allotment.\u201d So Shim\u201bon went with him."}, {"pk": 2705661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah went up, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave the Kena\u201banites and the Perizzites into their hand. And they struck ten thousand men at Bezeq."}, {"pk": 2705662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And they found Ad\u0331oni-B\u0331ezeq in Bezeq, and fought against him, and struck the Kena\u201banites and the Perizzites."}, {"pk": 2705663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "But Ad\u0331oni-B\u0331ezeq fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes."}, {"pk": 2705664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And Ad\u0331oni-B\u0331ezeq said, \u201cSeventy sovereigns with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather <i>food</i> under my table. As I have done, so Elohim has repaid me.\u201d And they brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died there."}, {"pk": 2705665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Yehud\u0331ah fought against Yerushalayim and captured it, and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire."}, {"pk": 2705666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And afterward the children of Yehud\u0331ah went down to fight against the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in the mountains, in the South, and in the low country."}, {"pk": 2705667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah went against the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in H\u0323eb\u0331ron \u2014 now the name of H\u0323eb\u0331ron was formerly Qiryath Arba \u2014 and they struck Sh\u0115shai, and Ah\u0323iman, and Talmai."}, {"pk": 2705668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And from there they went against the inhabitants of Deb\u0331ir \u2014 now the name of Deb\u0331ir was formerly Qiryath S\u0115pher."}, {"pk": 2705669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And Kal\u0115b\u0331 said, \u201cHe who smites Qiryath S\u0115pher, and shall capture it, to him I shall give my daughter Ak\u0331sah as wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And Othni\u2019\u0115l son of Qenaz, Kal\u0115b\u0331\u2019s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him his daughter Ak\u0331sah as wife."}, {"pk": 2705671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be, when she came in, that she urged him to ask her father for a field. And when she got off from her donkey, Kal\u0115b\u0331 said to her, \u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cGive me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.\u201d So Kal\u0115b\u0331 gave her the upper springs and the lower springs."}, {"pk": 2705673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And the children of the Q\u0115ynite, father-in-law of Mosheh, went up from the city of palms with the children of Yehud\u0331ah into the Wilderness of Yehud\u0331ah, which is in the Ne\u1e21eb\u0331 of Arad\u0331. And they went and dwelt among the people."}, {"pk": 2705674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah went with Shim\u201bon his brother, and they struck the Kena\u201banites who inhabited Tsephath, and put it under the ban. So the name of the city was called H\u0323ormah."}, {"pk": 2705675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah captured Azzah and its border, and Ashqelon and its border, and Eqron and its border."}, {"pk": 2705676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Yehud\u0331ah, so they took possession of the mountains, but they were unable to drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron."}, {"pk": 2705677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And they gave H\u0323eb\u0331ron to Kal\u0115b\u0331, as Mosheh had said, and he drove out from there the three sons of Anaq."}, {"pk": 2705678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "However, the children of Binyamin did not drive out the Yeb\u0331usites who inhabited Yerushalayim, so the Yeb\u0331usites have dwelt with the children of Binyamin in Yerushalayim to this day."}, {"pk": 2705679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And the house of Yos\u0115ph also went up against B\u0115yth \u011al, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with them."}, {"pk": 2705680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And the house of Yos\u0115ph sent men to spy out B\u0115yth \u011al \u2014 now the name of the city was formerly Luz."}, {"pk": 2705681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And the watchmen saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, \u201cPlease show us the entrance to the city, and we shall show you loving-commitment.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But the man and all his clan they let go,"}, {"pk": 2705683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "and the man went to the land of the H\u0323ittites and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day."}, {"pk": 2705684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "And Menashsheh did not dispossess B\u0115yth She\u2019an and its villages, nor Ta\u201banak\u0331 and its villages, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, nor the inhabitants of Yib\u0331le\u201bam and its villages, nor the inhabitants of Me\u1e21iddo and its villages, for the Kena\u201banites desired to dwell in that land."}, {"pk": 2705685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, when Yisra\u2019\u0115l was strong, that they put the Kena\u201banites into compulsory labour, but did not completely drive them out."}, {"pk": 2705686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "Neither did Ephrayim drive out the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in Gezer, so the Kena\u201banites dwelt in their midst, in Gezer."}, {"pk": 2705687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "Neither did Zeb\u0331ulun drive out the inhabitants of Qitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Kena\u201banites dwelt in their midst, and became compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2705688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "Neither did Ash\u0115r drive out the inhabitants of Akko nor the inhabitants of Tsid\u0331on, nor of Ah\u0323lab\u0331, nor of Ak\u0331zib\u0331, nor of H\u0323elbah, nor of Aphiq, nor of Reh\u0323ob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "So the Ash\u0115rites dwelt in the midst of the Kena\u201banites, the inhabitants of the land, because they did not drive them out."}, {"pk": 2705690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of B\u0115yth Shemesh nor the inhabitants of B\u0115yth Anath, but they dwelt among the Kena\u201banites, the inhabitants of the land. And the inhabitants of B\u0115yth Shemesh and of B\u0115yth Anath became compulsory labour for them."}, {"pk": 2705691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "And the Amorites pressed the children of Dan into the mountains, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley,"}, {"pk": 2705692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "and the Amorites desired to dwell in Mount H\u0323eres, in Ayalon, and in Sha\u201balb\u0331im. But when the hand of the house of Yos\u0115ph became stronger, they became compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2705693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "And the border of the Amorites was from the Ascent of Aqrabbim, from Sela, and upward."}, {"pk": 2705694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came up from Gilgal to Bok\u0331im, and said, \u201cI led you up from Mitsrayim and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers, and I said, \u2018I do not break My covenant with you,"}, {"pk": 2705695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "and as for you, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land \u2014 break down their slaughter-places.\u2019 But you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?"}, {"pk": 2705696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore I also said, \u2018I am not driving them out before you, and they shall be adversaries to you, and their mighty ones shall be a snare to you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, when the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke these words to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that the people lifted up their voice and wept."}, {"pk": 2705698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "So they called the name of that place Bok\u0331im, and slaughtered there to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Yehoshua dismissed the people, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went each to his own inheritance to possess the land."}, {"pk": 2705700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And the people served \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Yehoshua, who had seen all the great works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had done for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And Yehoshua son of Nun, the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, died, one hundred and ten years old."}, {"pk": 2705702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath H\u0323eres, in the mountains of Ephrayim, on the north side of Mount Ga\u201bash."}, {"pk": 2705703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And all that generation were likewise gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them who did not know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 nor the work which He had done for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Then the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and served the Ba\u201bals,"}, {"pk": 2705705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "and forsook \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and went after other mighty ones, of the mighty ones of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them, and provoked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "So they forsook \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and served Ba\u201bal and the Ashtoreths."}, {"pk": 2705707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Therefore He gave them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them. And He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, and they were unable to stand before their enemies any longer."}, {"pk": 2705708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Wherever they went out, the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was against them for evil, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken, and as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had sworn to them. And they were distressed \u2014 greatly."}, {"pk": 2705709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raised up rulers who saved them from the hand of those who plundered them."}, {"pk": 2705710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "However, they did not listen to their rulers either, but went whoring after other mighty ones, and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 they did not do so."}, {"pk": 2705711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raised up rulers for them, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with the ruler and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the ruler, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had compassion on their groaning because of those who oppressed them and crushed them."}, {"pk": 2705712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, when the ruler was dead, that they would turn back and do more corruptly than their fathers, to go after other mighty ones, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not refrain from their practices and from their stubborn way."}, {"pk": 2705713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and He said, \u201cBecause this nation has transgressed My covenant that I commanded their fathers, and has not obeyed My voice,"}, {"pk": 2705714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "I also shall no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Yehoshua left when he died,"}, {"pk": 2705715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "in order to try Yisra\u2019\u0115l by them, whether they would guard the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to walk in them as their fathers guarded them, or not.\u201d", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/8/2'>8:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2705716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 left those nations, without driving them out at once, and did not give them into the hand of Yehoshua."}, {"pk": 2705717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the nations which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 left, to try Yisra\u2019\u0115l by them, all those who had not known all the battles in Kena\u201ban,"}, {"pk": 2705718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "only that the generations of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l might know, to teach them battle, only those who before did not know them:"}, {"pk": 2705719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "five princes of the Philistines, and all the Kena\u201banites, and the Tsid\u0331onians, and the H\u0323iwwites who dwelt in Mount Leb\u0331anon, from Mount Ba\u201bal H\u0323ermon to the entrance of H\u0323amath."}, {"pk": 2705720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And they were to try Yisra\u2019\u0115l by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2705721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in the midst of the Kena\u201banites, the H\u0323ittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the H\u0323iwwites, and the Yeb\u0331usites,"}, {"pk": 2705722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "and took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2705723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Thus the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and forgot \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and served the Ba\u201bals and the Ash\u0115rahs."}, {"pk": 2705724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and He sold them into the hand of Kushan-Rish\u201bathayim sovereign of Aram Naharayim. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l served Kushan-Rish\u201bathayim eight years."}, {"pk": 2705725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raised up a saviour for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who saved them: Othni\u2019\u0115l son of Qenaz, Kal\u0115b\u0331\u2019s younger brother."}, {"pk": 2705726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon him, and he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and went out to battle, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave into his hand Kushan-Rish\u201bathayim sovereign of Aram Naharayim. And his hand prevailed over Kushan-Rish\u201bathayim,"}, {"pk": 2705727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "and the land had rest for forty years. Then Othni\u2019\u0115l son of Qenaz died,"}, {"pk": 2705728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l again did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made E\u1e21lon sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 strong against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because they had done evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And he gathered to himself the children of Ammon and Amal\u0115q, and went and struck Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they took possession of the city of palms."}, {"pk": 2705730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l served E\u1e21lon sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 eighteen years."}, {"pk": 2705731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raised up a saviour for them: \u011ahud\u0331 son of G\u0115ra, a Binyamite, a man impeded in his right hand. And by him the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent a present to E\u1e21lon sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u011ahud\u0331 made himself a sword, it was double-edged and a cubit in length, and he girded it under his long robe on his right thigh."}, {"pk": 2705733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And he brought the present to E\u1e21lon sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331. Now E\u1e21lon was a very fat man."}, {"pk": 2705734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be that when he had finished bringing near the present, he sent away the people bearing the present."}, {"pk": 2705735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "But he himself turned back from the stone images that were at Gilgal, and said, \u201cI have a secret message for you, O sovereign.\u201d And he said, \u201cBe silent!\u201d And all those standing beside him went out from him."}, {"pk": 2705736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u011ahud\u0331 came to him while he was sitting in his cool roof room. And \u011ahud\u0331 said, \u201cI have a message from Elohim for you.\u201d So he arose from his seat."}, {"pk": 2705737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u011ahud\u0331 reached with his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his stomach."}, {"pk": 2705738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And the handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his stomach, and it came out behind."}, {"pk": 2705739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "Then \u011ahud\u0331 went out to the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them."}, {"pk": 2705740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And when he had gone out, his servants came to look and saw the doors of the roof room were locked. So they said, \u201cHe is only covering his feet in the cool roof room.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "And they waited until they were ashamed, but saw he was not opening the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened them and saw their master, fallen to the ground, dead."}, {"pk": 2705742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "But while they were delaying \u011ahud\u0331 escaped and had passed beyond the stone images, and escaped to Se\u201birah."}, {"pk": 2705743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, when he arrived, that he blew the shophar in the mountains of Ephrayim, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went down with him from the mountains, with him leading them.", "comment": "Animal horn, traditionally a ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2705744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cFollow me, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given your enemies the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites into your hand.\u201d And they went down after him, and took the fords of Yard\u0115n leading to Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and did not allow anyone to pass over."}, {"pk": 2705745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "And they struck about ten thousand men of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 at that time, all robust and brave men, and not a man escaped."}, {"pk": 2705746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "And on that day Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was humbled under the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the land had rest for eighty years."}, {"pk": 2705747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "And after him was Shamgar son of Anath, and he struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. And he too saved Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And when \u011ahud\u0331 was dead, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l again did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sold them into the hand of Yab\u0331in the sovereign of Kena\u201ban, who reigned in H\u0323atsor. And the commander of his army was Sisera, who was dwelling in H\u0323arosheth Haggoyim."}, {"pk": 2705750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he harshly oppressed the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And Deb\u0331orah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappid\u0331oth, was ruling Yisra\u2019\u0115l at that time."}, {"pk": 2705752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And she was dwelling under the palm tree of Deb\u0331orah between Ramah and B\u0115yth \u011al in the mountains of Ephrayim. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came up to her for right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2705753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And she sent and called for Baraq son of Ab\u0331ino\u201bam from Qed\u0331esh in Naphtali, and said to him, \u201cHas not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l commanded, \u2018Go, and you shall draw towards Mount Tab\u0331or, and shall take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zeb\u0331ulun,"}, {"pk": 2705754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "and I shall draw unto you Sisera, the commander of Yab\u0331in\u2019s army, with his chariots and his company at the wadi Qishon, and shall give him into your hand\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And Baraq said to her, \u201cIf you go with me, then I shall go; but if you do not go with me, I do not go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And she said, \u201cI shall certainly go with you. Only, there shall be no esteem for you in the journey you are taking, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going to sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.\u201d So Deb\u0331orah arose and went with Baraq to Qed\u0331esh."}, {"pk": 2705757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And Baraq called Zeb\u0331ulun and Naphtali to Qed\u0331esh. And he went up \u2014 ten thousand men under his command \u2014 and Deb\u0331orah went up with him."}, {"pk": 2705758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And H\u0323eb\u0331er the Q\u0115ynite, of the children of H\u0323ob\u0331ab\u0331 the father-in-law of Mosheh, had separated himself from the Q\u0115ynites and pitched his tent near the terebinth tree at Tsa\u201banayim, which is beside Qed\u0331esh."}, {"pk": 2705759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And they reported to Sisera that Baraq son of Ab\u0331ino\u201bam had gone up to Mount Tab\u0331or."}, {"pk": 2705760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "So Sisera called all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from H\u0323arosheth Haggoyim to the wadi Qishon."}, {"pk": 2705761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And Deb\u0331orah said to Baraq, \u201cRise up! For this is the day in which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given Sisera into your hand. Has not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gone out before you?\u201d And Baraq went down from Mount Tab\u0331or with ten thousand men after him."}, {"pk": 2705762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 destroyed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Baraq. And Sisera leaped from his chariot and fled away on foot."}, {"pk": 2705763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "But Baraq pursued the chariots and the army as far as H\u0323arosheth Haggoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword, not one was left."}, {"pk": 2705764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Sisera, meanwhile, had fled on foot to the tent of Ya\u201b\u0115l, the wife of H\u0323eb\u0331er the Q\u0115ynite, for there was peace between Yab\u0331in sovereign of H\u0323atsor and the house of H\u0323eb\u0331er the Q\u0115ynite."}, {"pk": 2705765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ya\u201b\u0115l went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, \u201cTurn aside, my master, turn aside to me, do not fear.\u201d So he turned aside with her into the tent, and she covered him with a blanket."}, {"pk": 2705766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cPlease give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.\u201d So she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him a drink, and covered him."}, {"pk": 2705767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cStand at the door of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and asks you, and says, \u2018Is there a man here?\u2019 you shall say, \u2018No.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "But Ya\u201b\u0115l, H\u0323eb\u0331er\u2019s wife, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into the side of his head, and it went down into the ground \u2014 for he was fast asleep and exhausted \u2014 and he died."}, {"pk": 2705769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And see, as Baraq pursued Sisera, Ya\u201b\u0115l came out to meet him, and said to him, \u201cCome, let me show you the man whom you are seeking.\u201d And when he went into her tent, there lay Sisera, dead with the peg in the side of his head."}, {"pk": 2705770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And on that day Elohim humbled Yab\u0331in sovereign of Kena\u201ban in the presence of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And the hand of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l grew stronger and stronger against Yab\u0331in sovereign of Kena\u201ban, until they had cut off Yab\u0331in sovereign of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2705772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And on that day Deb\u0331orah and Baraq son of Ab\u0331ino\u201bam sang, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFor leaders leading in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the people volunteering, bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2705774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cHear, O sovereigns! Give ear, O princes! I, I do sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I sing praise to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when You went out from S\u0115\u201bir, when You stepped from the field of Ed\u0331om, the earth shook and the heavens poured, the clouds also poured water."}, {"pk": 2705776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThe mountains flowed at the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, this Sinai, at the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIn the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Ya\u201b\u0115l, the highways were deserted, and the travellers went in crooked ways."}, {"pk": 2705778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cLeadership ceased, it ceased in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, until I, Deb\u0331orah, arose \u2014 a mother in Yisra\u2019\u0115l arose."}, {"pk": 2705779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThey chose new mighty ones, then fighting was in the gates! Neither a shield nor spear was seen among forty thousand in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cMy heart is towards the inscribers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the volunteers among the people. Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2705781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk along the way, declare it!"}, {"pk": 2705782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBy the voice of shouters, between the places of drawing water, there they recount the righteous acts of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the righteous acts of His leadership in Yisra\u2019\u0115l; then the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall go down to the gates."}, {"pk": 2705783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWake up, wake up, Deb\u0331orah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Arise, Baraq, and lead your captives away, O son of Ab\u0331ino\u201bam!"}, {"pk": 2705784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThen He set the remnant to rule the nobles; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down for me against the mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2705785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cOut of Ephrayim their root is against Amal\u0115q. After you, Binyamin, with your peoples, out of Mak\u0331ir inscribers came down, and out of Zeb\u0331ulun those who handle the scribe\u2019s reed."}, {"pk": 2705786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the heads of Yissask\u0331ar were with Deb\u0331orah. And as Yissask\u0331ar, so was Baraq sent into the valley under his command. Among the divisions of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n there were great searchings of heart."}, {"pk": 2705787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWhy did you remain among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? The divisions of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n have great searchings of heart."}, {"pk": 2705788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cGil\u201bad\u0331 remained beyond the Yard\u0115n, and why did Dan remain on ships? Ash\u0115r continued at the seashore, and remained by its landing places."}, {"pk": 2705789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cZeb\u0331ulun is a people who risked their lives to the point of death, Naphtali also, on the heights of the field."}, {"pk": 2705790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSovereigns came, they fought, then the sovereigns of Kena\u201ban fought in Ta\u201banak\u0331, by the waters of Me\u1e21iddo; they took no spoils of silver."}, {"pk": 2705791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFrom the heavens they fought; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera."}, {"pk": 2705792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThe wadi of Qishon swept them away, that age-old wadi, the wadi of Qishon. O my being, you have trampled in strength!"}, {"pk": 2705793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThen stamped hoofs of horses, with the galloping, galloping of his steeds."}, {"pk": 2705794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "Curse M\u0115roz,\u2019 said a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018curse, curse its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the help of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 among the mighty.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBlessed above women is Ya\u201b\u0115l, the wife of H\u0323eb\u0331er the Q\u0115ynite \u2014 above women in tents she is blessed."}, {"pk": 2705796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cHe asked for water, she gave milk; she brought out curdled milk in a bowl for nobles."}, {"pk": 2705797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cShe stretched her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen\u2019s hammer. Then she pounded Sisera, she smashed his head, she pierced and struck through the side of his head."}, {"pk": 2705798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBetween her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell \u2014 destroyed."}, {"pk": 2705799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThrough the window the mother of Sisera looked, and cried out through the lattice, \u2018Why does his chariot delay to come? Why have the steps of his chariots tarried?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe wise ones of her princesses answered her, indeed, she answered herself,"}, {"pk": 2705801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "Do they not find and divide the spoil: a girl or two for each man; a spoil of dyed work for Sisera, a spoil of dyed work embroidered, dyed work richly embroidered for the necks of the looter?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSo do all Your enemies perish, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! But let those who love Him be like the sun rising in its might!\u201d And the land had rest forty years."}, {"pk": 2705803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them into the hand of Mid\u0331yan for seven years,"}, {"pk": 2705804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "and the hand of Mid\u0331yan was strong against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And before the faces of the Mid\u0331yanites the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l made for themselves the refuges which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds."}, {"pk": 2705805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, whenever Yisra\u2019\u0115l had sown, that Mid\u0331yan would come up, and Amal\u0115q and the people of the East would come up against them,"}, {"pk": 2705806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "and encamp against them and destroy the increase of the soil as far as Azzah, and leave no food in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey."}, {"pk": 2705807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "For they came up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts. And they and their camels were without number. And they came into the land to destroy it."}, {"pk": 2705808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus Yisra\u2019\u0115l was brought very low because of Mid\u0331yan, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2705809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 because of Mid\u0331yan,"}, {"pk": 2705810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent a prophet to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I have brought you up from Mitsrayim and I brought you out of the house of bondage,"}, {"pk": 2705811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "and I delivered you out of the hand of the Mitsrites and out of the hand of all your oppressors, and drove them out before you and gave you their land."}, {"pk": 2705812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And I said to you, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, do not fear the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. And you have not obeyed My voice.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Yo\u2019ash the Ab\u0331i\u201bezerite, while his son Gid\u0331\u201bon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the eyes of the Mid\u0331yanites."}, {"pk": 2705814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him, and said to him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you, you mighty brave one!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon said to Him, \u201cO my master, if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with us, why has all this come upon us? And where are all His wonders which our fathers related to us, saying, \u2018Did not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bring us up from Mitsrayim?\u2019 But now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has left us and given us into the hands of Mid\u0331yan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned to him and said, \u201cGo in this strength of yours, and you shall save Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the hand of the Mid\u0331yanites. Have I not sent you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to Him, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with what do I save Yisra\u2019\u0115l? See, my clan is the weakest in Menashsheh, and I am the least in my father\u2019s house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cBecause I am with you, you shall strike the Mid\u0331yanites as one man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said to Him, \u201cPlease, if I have found favour in Your eyes, then show me a sign that it is You who are speaking with me."}, {"pk": 2705820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cPlease do not move away from here, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You.\u201d And He said, \u201cI shall stay until you return.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread from an \u0115phah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot. And he brought them out to Him, under the terebinth tree, and presented it."}, {"pk": 2705822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And the Messenger of Elohim said to him, \u201cTake the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.\u201d And he did so."}, {"pk": 2705823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 put forth the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went from his sight."}, {"pk": 2705824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And when Gid\u0331\u201bon saw that He was a Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Gid\u0331\u201bon said, \u201cOh Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! For I have seen a Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 face to face.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cPeace be with you! Do not fear, you do not die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon built a slaughter-place there to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and called it: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Ab\u0331i\u201bezerites."}, {"pk": 2705827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And the same night it came to be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cTake the young bull of your father, and the second bull of seven years old, and you shall throw down the slaughter-place of Ba\u201bal that your father has, and cut down the Ash\u0115rah that is beside it."}, {"pk": 2705828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall build a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim on top of this rock in an orderly way, and shall take the second bull and offer an ascending offering with the wood of the image which you cut down.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon took ten men from among his servants and did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to him. And it came to be, because he feared his father\u2019s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, that he did it by night."}, {"pk": 2705830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And the men of the city arose early in the morning and saw the slaughter-place of Ba\u201bal was broken down, and the Ash\u0115rah that was beside it had been cut down, and the second bull was being offered on the slaughter-place which was built."}, {"pk": 2705831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cWho has done this deed?\u201d And when they had inquired and asked, they said, \u201cGid\u0331\u201bon son of Yo\u2019ash has done this deed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "And the men of the city said to Yo\u2019ash, \u201cBring out your son, so that he dies, for he has broken down the slaughter-place of Ba\u201bal, and because he has cut down the Ash\u0115rah that was beside it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "And Yo\u2019ash said to all who stood against him, \u201cYou, would you plead for Ba\u201bal? You, would you save him? Let the one who would plead for him be put to death by morning! If he is a mighty one, let him plead for himself, because his slaughter-place has been broken down!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "So that day he called him Yerubba\u201bal, saying, \u201cLet Ba\u201bal plead against him, because he has broken down his slaughter-place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "Now all Mid\u0331yan and Amal\u0115q and the people of the East, were gathered together. And they passed over and encamped in the Valley of Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "Then the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon Gid\u0331\u201bon, and he blew the shophar, and the Ab\u0331i\u201bezerites gathered behind him."}, {"pk": 2705837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "And he sent messengers throughout all Menashsheh, who also gathered behind him. And he sent messengers to Ash\u0115r, and to Zeb\u0331ulun, and to Naphtali. And they came up to meet them."}, {"pk": 2705838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon said to Elohim, \u201cIf You are saving Yisra\u2019\u0115l by my hand as You have said,"}, {"pk": 2705839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "see, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You are saving Yisra\u2019\u0115l by my hand, as You have said.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "And it was so, and he rose early the next morning and pressed the fleece, and wrung dew out of the fleece, to fill a bowl with water."}, {"pk": 2705841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon said to Elohim, \u201cDo not be displeased with me, and let me speak only this time: Please let me try only this time with the fleece, please let it be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "And Elohim did so that night, and it was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground."}, {"pk": 2705843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yerubba\u201bal, that is Gid\u0331\u201bon, and all the people who were with him rose up early and encamped by the fountain of H\u0323arod\u0331, so that the camp of Mid\u0331yan was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley."}, {"pk": 2705844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Gid\u0331\u201bon, \u201cThe people who are with you are too many for Me to give Mid\u0331yan into their hands, lest Yisra\u2019\u0115l boast against Me, saying, \u2018My own hand has saved me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd now, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, \u2018Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him turn back, and leave Mount Gil\u201bad\u0331.\u2019 \u201d And twenty-two thousand of the people turned back, while ten thousand remained."}, {"pk": 2705846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Gid\u0331\u201bon, \u201cThe people are still too many. Bring them down to the water, and let Me prove them for you there. And it shall be, that of whom I say to you, \u2018This one goes with you,\u2019 let him go with you. And of whomever I say to you, \u2018This one does not go with you,\u2019 let him not go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "So he brought the people down to the water. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Gid\u0331\u201bon, \u201cEveryone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, separate him from everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men, and all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water."}, {"pk": 2705849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Gid\u0331\u201bon, \u201cBy the three hundred men who lapped I save you, and shall give Mid\u0331yan into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And the people took food and their shopharot in their hands. And he sent away all <i>the rest</i> of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, each to his tent, but held onto those three hundred men. Now the camp of Mid\u0331yan was below him in the valley.", "comment": "Plural of shophar, an animal horn; traditionally a ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2705851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, on that night, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cArise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand."}, {"pk": 2705852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut if you are afraid to go down, go down, you and Purah your servant, to the camp."}, {"pk": 2705853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall hear what they say, and after that let your hands be strengthened. And you shall go down against the camp.\u201d So he went down with Purah his servant to the edge of the <i>formation of</i> fives who were in the camp."}, {"pk": 2705854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mid\u0331yan and Amal\u0115q, and all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as many as locusts. And their camels were as numerous as the sand by the seashore."}, {"pk": 2705855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon came, and see, a man was relating a dream to his companion, and said, \u201cSee I had a dream, and see, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Mid\u0331yan, and it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent fell down.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And his companion answered and said, \u201cThis is none other than the sword of Gid\u0331\u201bon son of Yo\u2019ash, a man of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Elohim has given Mid\u0331yan and all the camp into his hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when Gid\u0331\u201bon heard this dream related, and its interpretation, that he bowed himself down. And he returned to the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said, \u201cArise, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given the camp of Mid\u0331yan into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put shopharot into the hands of all of them, with empty jars, and torches inside the jars."}, {"pk": 2705859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cWatch me and do likewise. And see, when I come to the edge of the camp do as I do."}, {"pk": 2705860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall blow with the shophar, I and all those with me, then you shall also blow with the shopharot round about all the camp, and say, \u2018For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for Gid\u0331\u201bon!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, as they had but newly posted the watch. And they blew with the shopharot and broke the jars that were in their hands."}, {"pk": 2705862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And the three companies blew with the shopharot and broke the jars, and held the torches in their left hands and the shopharot in their right hands for blowing. And they cried, \u201cA sword for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for Gid\u0331\u201bon!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And each stood in his place, round about the camp. And all the army ran and cried out and fled,"}, {"pk": 2705864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "and the three hundred blew the shopharot, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set the sword of each one against the other throughout all the camp. And the army fled to B\u0115yth Shittah, toward Tser\u0115rah, as far as the border of Ab\u0331\u0115l Meh\u0323olah, by Tabbath."}, {"pk": 2705865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were called from Naphtali, and from Ash\u0115r, and from all Menashsheh, and pursued Mid\u0331yan."}, {"pk": 2705866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "Then Gid\u0331\u201bon sent messengers throughout all the mountains of Ephrayim, saying, \u201cCome down to meet Mid\u0331yan, and capture from them the watering places as far as B\u0115yth Barah and the Yard\u0115n.\u201d So all the men of Ephrayim were called and captured the watering places as far as B\u0115yth Barah and the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And they captured two princes of Mid\u0331yan, Or\u0115b\u0331 and Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331, and killed Or\u0115b\u0331 at the rock of Or\u0115b\u0331, and Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331 they killed at the winepress of Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331 while they pursued Mid\u0331yan. And they brought the heads of Or\u0115b\u0331 and Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331 to Gid\u0331\u201bon beyond the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2705868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And the men of Ephrayim said to him, \u201cWhat is this you have done to us by not calling us when you went to fight with Mid\u0331yan?\u201d And they contended with him sharply,"}, {"pk": 2705869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "and he said to them, \u201cWhat have I done as compared with you? Are the gleanings of Ephrayim not better than the grape harvest of Ab\u0331i\u201bezer?"}, {"pk": 2705870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cElohim has given into your hands the princes of Mid\u0331yan, Or\u0115b\u0331 and Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331. And what was I able to do as compared with you?\u201d And when he had said that their rage toward him subsided."}, {"pk": 2705871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the Yard\u0115n, passing over, weary yet pursuing."}, {"pk": 2705872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said to the men of Sukkoth, \u201cPlease give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna, sovereigns of Mid\u0331yan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "But the leaders of Sukkoth said, \u201cAre the hands of Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon said, \u201cBecause of this, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna into my hand, I shall tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And he went up from there to Penu\u2019\u0115l and spoke to them in the same way. And the men of Penu\u2019\u0115l answered him as the men of Sukkoth had answered him."}, {"pk": 2705876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "So he spoke also to the men of Penu\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cWhen I come back in peace I shall break down this tower!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna were at Qarqor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East. Now those who had <i>already</i> fallen were one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword."}, {"pk": 2705878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nob\u0331ah\u0323 and Yo\u1e21behah. And he struck the camp while the camp was at ease."}, {"pk": 2705879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna fled, and he pursued them, and captured the two sovereigns of Mid\u0331yan, Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna, and shuddered the entire army."}, {"pk": 2705880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon son of Yo\u2019ash returned from battle, from the Ascent of H\u0323eres,"}, {"pk": 2705881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "and captured a youth of the men of Sukkoth and questioned him. So <i>the youth</i> wrote down for him the leaders of Sukkoth and its elders, seventy-seven men."}, {"pk": 2705882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And he came to the men of Sukkoth and said, \u201cSee: Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, \u2018Are the hands of Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2705883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Sukkoth <i>a lesson</i>."}, {"pk": 2705884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And he broke down the tower of Penu\u2019\u0115l and killed the men of the city."}, {"pk": 2705885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said to Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna, \u201cHow were the men whom you killed at Tab\u0331or?\u201d So they answered, \u201cThey were like you, each one looked like the son of a sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said, \u201cThey were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said to Yether his first-born, \u201cRise, kill them!\u201d But the youth would not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a youth."}, {"pk": 2705888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna said, \u201cRise yourself, and fall on us. For as a man is, so is his might.\u201d So Gid\u0331\u201bon arose and killed Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels\u2019 necks."}, {"pk": 2705889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "So the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Gid\u0331\u201bon, \u201cRule over us, both you and your son, also your son\u2019s son, for you have saved us from the hand of Mid\u0331yan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "But Gid\u0331\u201bon said to them, \u201cI do not rule over you, nor does my son rule over you. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does rule over you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon said to them, \u201cI have a request to make of you, that each of you give me the ring from his spoil.\u201d For they had rings of gold, because they were Yishma\u201b\u0115lites."}, {"pk": 2705892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "And they said, \u201cWe shall certainly give them.\u201d And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the ring from his spoil."}, {"pk": 2705893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And the weight of the gold rings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred pieces of gold \u2014 besides the crescent ornaments, and the pendants, and purple robes which were on the sovereigns of Mid\u0331yan, and besides the chains that were around their camels\u2019 necks."}, {"pk": 2705894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon made it into a shoulder garment and set it up in his city, Ophrah. And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l went whoring after it there. And it became a snare to Gid\u0331\u201bon and to his house."}, {"pk": 2705895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "Thus Mid\u0331yan was humbled before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they lifted their heads no more. And the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gid\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2705896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And Yerubba\u201bal son of Yo\u2019ash went and dwelt in his own house."}, {"pk": 2705897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon had seventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives."}, {"pk": 2705898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And his concubine who was in Shek\u0331em also bore him a son, and he gave him the name Ab\u0331imelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And Gid\u0331\u201bon son of Yo\u2019ash died at a good old age, and was buried in the burial-site of Yo\u2019ash his father, in Ophrah of the Ab\u0331i\u201bezerites."}, {"pk": 2705900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And it came to be, when Gid\u0331\u201bon was dead, that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l again went whoring after the Ba\u201bals, and made Ba\u201bal-Berith their mighty one."}, {"pk": 2705901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "Thus the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not remember \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies round about,"}, {"pk": 2705902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "nor did they show loving-commitment to the house of Yerubba\u201bal, Gid\u0331\u201bon, according to all the good which he did for Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 son of Yerubba\u201bal went to Shek\u0331em, to his mother\u2019s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the clan of the house of his mother\u2019s father, saying,"}, {"pk": 2705904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cPlease speak in the hearing of all the masters of Shek\u0331em, \u2018Which is better for you, that seventy men, all the sons of Yerubba\u201bal rule over you, or that one man rule over you?\u2019 And you shall remember that I am your own flesh and bone.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And his mother\u2019s brothers spoke all these words concerning him in the hearing of all the masters of Shek\u0331em. And their heart inclined toward Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, for they said, \u201cHe is our brother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Ba\u201bal-Berith, with which Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 hired worthless and reckless men. And they followed him."}, {"pk": 2705907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And he went to his father\u2019s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Yerubba\u201bal, on one stone. But Yotham the youngest son of Yerubba\u201bal was left, because he hid himself."}, {"pk": 2705908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And all the masters of Shek\u0331em gathered together, and all of B\u0115yth Millo, and they went and made Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 sovereign beside the terebinth tree at the post that was in Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2705909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And they informed Yotham, and he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out, and said to them, \u201cHear me, you masters of Shek\u0331em, and let Elohim hear you!"}, {"pk": 2705910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe trees went forth to anoint a sovereign over them. And they said to the olive tree, \u2018reign over us!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the olive tree said to them, \u2018Shall I leave my oil, with which they esteem mighty ones and men, and go to sway over trees?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThen the trees said to the fig tree, \u2018Come, reign over us!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the fig tree said to them, \u2018Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over trees?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThen the trees said to the vine, \u2018Come, reign over us!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the vine said to them, \u2018Shall I leave my new wine, which rejoices mighty ones and men, and go to sway over trees?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThen all the trees said to the bramble, \u2018Come, reign over us!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the bramble said to the trees, \u2018If in truth you anoint me as sovereign over you, come, take shelter in my shade. But if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Leb\u0331anon!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2705918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, if you have acted in truth and integrity in setting up Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 to reign, and if you have acted well with Yerubba\u201bal and his house, and have done to him as his hands did to you \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "for my father fought for you and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Mid\u0331yan,"}, {"pk": 2705920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "but you have risen up against my father\u2019s house today, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and set up Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, the son of his female servant, to reign over the masters of Shek\u0331em, because he is your brother \u2014"}, {"pk": 2705921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "if then you have acted in truth and integrity with Yerubba\u201bal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and let him also rejoice in you."}, {"pk": 2705922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut if not, let fire come out from Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and devour the masters of Shek\u0331em and B\u0115yth Millo, and let fire come out from the masters of Shek\u0331em and from B\u0115yth Millo and devour Ab\u0331imelek\u0331!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Yotham ran away and fled, and he went to Be\u2019\u0115r and dwelt there, for fear of Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 his brother."}, {"pk": 2705924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 governed Yisra\u2019\u0115l three years,"}, {"pk": 2705925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "and Elohim sent an evil spirit between Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and the masters of Shek\u0331em. And the masters of Shek\u0331em acted treacherously against Ab\u0331imelek\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2705926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "in order that the violence done to the seventy sons of Yerubba\u201bal might come, and their blood be laid on Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 their brother, who killed them, and on the masters of Shek\u0331em, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers."}, {"pk": 2705927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And the masters of Shek\u0331em set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed over by them along that way. And it was reported to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ga\u201bal son of Eb\u0331ed\u0331 came with his brothers and passed over to Shek\u0331em. And the masters of Shek\u0331em put their trust in him,"}, {"pk": 2705929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "and went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards and trod out, and held a feast. And they went into the house of their mighty one, and ate and drank, and cursed Ab\u0331imelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ga\u201bal son of Eb\u0331ed\u0331 said, \u201cWho is Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and who is Shek\u0331em, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Yerubba\u201bal, and is not Zeb\u0331ul his officer? Serve the men of H\u0323amor the father of Shek\u0331em! But why should we serve him?"}, {"pk": 2705931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cIf only this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Ab\u0331imelek\u0331.\u201d And he said to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, \u201cIncrease your army and come out!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And when Zeb\u0331ul, the governor of the city, heard the words of Ga\u201bal son of Eb\u0331ed\u0331, his displeasure burned."}, {"pk": 2705933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "And he sent messengers to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 by deceit, saying, \u201cSee, Ga\u201bal son of Eb\u0331ed\u0331 and his brothers have come to Shek\u0331em. And see, they are besieging the city against you."}, {"pk": 2705934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd now, get up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field."}, {"pk": 2705935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, as soon as the sun is up in the morning, then rise early and rush upon the city. And see, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to them as your hand finds to do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and all the people who were with him rose up by night, and laid in wait against Shek\u0331em in four companies."}, {"pk": 2705937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "Now Ga\u201bal son of Eb\u0331ed\u0331 went out and stood in the entrance to the city gate, and Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and the people who were with him rose from lying in wait."}, {"pk": 2705938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And when Ga\u201bal saw the people, he said to Zeb\u0331ul, \u201cSee, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!\u201d But Zeb\u0331ul said to him, \u201cYou are seeing the shadows of the mountains like men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "And Ga\u201bal spoke again and said, \u201cSee, people are coming down from the high part of the land, and another company is coming from the Diviners\u2019 Terebinth Tree.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And Zeb\u0331ul said to him, \u201cNow where is your mouth with which you said, \u2018Who is Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, that we should serve him?\u2019 Are not these the people whom you despised? I beg you, go out and fight them now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "So Ga\u201bal went out, leading the masters of Shek\u0331em, and fought Ab\u0331imelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 pursued him, and he fled from him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate."}, {"pk": 2705943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 stayed at Arumah, and Zeb\u0331ul drove out Ga\u201bal and his brothers, so that they would not dwell in Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2705944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "text": "And it came to be the next day that the people went out into the field, and they informed Ab\u0331imelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "text": "And he took his people, and divided them into three companies, and laid in wait in the field, and looked and saw the people coming out of the city. And he rose against them and struck them."}, {"pk": 2705946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city. And the other two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and struck them."}, {"pk": 2705947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 45, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 fought against the city all that day, and captured the city and killed the people who were in it. And he broke down the city and sowed it with salt."}, {"pk": 2705948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 46, "text": "And all the masters of the tower of Shek\u0331em had heard that, and entered the stronghold of the house of \u011al Berith."}, {"pk": 2705949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 47, "text": "And it was reported to Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 that all the masters of the tower of Shek\u0331em were gathered together."}, {"pk": 2705950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 48, "text": "So Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 went up to Mount Tsalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, \u201cWhat you have seen me do, hurry, do as I have done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 49, "text": "And all the people likewise cut down each one his own branch and followed Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and put them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire above them, so that all the men of the tower of Shek\u0331em died, about a thousand men and women."}, {"pk": 2705952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 50, "text": "Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 then went to Th\u0115b\u0331\u0115ts, and he encamped against Th\u0115b\u0331\u0115ts and captured it."}, {"pk": 2705953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 51, "text": "However, there was a strong tower in the city, and all the men and women and all the masters of the city fled there and shut themselves in, and went up to the top of the tower."}, {"pk": 2705954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 52, "text": "And Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the door of the tower to burn it with fire."}, {"pk": 2705955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 53, "text": "But a certain woman dropped an upper millstone on the head of Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, and crushed his skull."}, {"pk": 2705956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 54, "text": "He then immediately called the young man, his armour-bearer, and said to him, \u201cDraw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, \u2018A woman killed him.\u2019 \u201d And his young man thrust him through, and he died."}, {"pk": 2705957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 55, "text": "And when the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 was dead, each one went to his own place."}, {"pk": 2705958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 56, "text": "Thus did Elohim repay the evil of Ab\u0331imelek\u0331, which he had done to his father to kill his seventy brothers."}, {"pk": 2705959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 9, "verse": 57, "text": "And all the evil of the men of Shek\u0331em Elohim turned back on their own heads, and the curse of Yotham son of Yerubba\u201bal came on them."}, {"pk": 2705960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And after Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 there arose Tola son of Pu\u2019ah, son of Dod\u0331o, a man of Yissask\u0331ar, to save Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And he dwelt in Shamur in the mountains of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2705961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamur."}, {"pk": 2705962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And after him arose Ya\u2019ir, a Gil\u201bad\u0331ite, and he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l twenty-two years."}, {"pk": 2705963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns, which are called Hawoth Yair to this day, which are in the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ya\u2019ir died, and was buried in Qamon."}, {"pk": 2705965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l again did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and served the Ba\u201bals and the Ashtoreths, and the mighty ones of Aram, and the mighty ones of Tsid\u0331on, and the mighty ones of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the mighty ones of the children of Ammon, and the mighty ones of the Philistines \u2014 and forsook \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and did not serve Him."}, {"pk": 2705966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2705967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And they crushed and oppressed the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that year \u2014 for eighteen years \u2014 all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were beyond the Yard\u0115n in the land of the Amorites, in Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And the children of Ammon passed over the Yard\u0115n to fight against Yehud\u0331ah, and against Binyamin, and against the house of Ephrayim, so that Yisra\u2019\u0115l had great distress."}, {"pk": 2705969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWe have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our Elohim and served the Ba\u201bals!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cWas it not from the Mitsrites and from the Amorites and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines <i>that I saved you</i>?"}, {"pk": 2705971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the Tsid\u0331onians and Amal\u0115q and Ma\u201bon oppressed you. And you cried out to Me, and I saved you from their hand."}, {"pk": 2705972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut you, you have forsaken Me and served other mighty ones. Therefore I do not save you again."}, {"pk": 2705973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cGo and cry out to the mighty ones which you have chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWe have sinned! Do to us whatever is good in Your eyes, only deliver us today, please.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "So they put away the foreign mighty ones from their midst and served \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And His being was grieved with the trouble of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "Then the children of Ammon were called together and encamped in Gil\u201bad\u0331. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered together and encamped in Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2705977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And the people, the heads of Gil\u201bad\u0331, said to each other, \u201cLet the man who is the first to fight against the children of Ammon be head over all the inhabitants of Gil\u201bad\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite was a mighty brave one, but he was the son of a whore. And Gil\u201bad\u0331 brought forth Yiphtah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2705979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And the wife of Gil\u201bad\u0331 bore sons. And when his wife\u2019s sons grew up, they drove Yiphtah\u0323 out, and said to him, \u201cYou shall not have an inheritance in the house of our father, for you are the son of another woman.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 fled from his brothers and dwelt in the land of Tob\u0331. And worthless men banded together with Yiphtah\u0323 and went out with him."}, {"pk": 2705981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, some time later, that the children of Ammon fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, when the children of Ammon fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331 went to bring Yiphtah\u0323 out of the land of Tob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And they said to Yiphtah\u0323, \u201cCome, and you shall be our commander, and let us fight against the children of Ammon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "But Yiphtah\u0323 said to the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331, \u201cDid you not hate me, and drive me from my father\u2019s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331 said to Yiphtah\u0323, \u201cThat is the reason we have turned to you, that you shall go with us and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gil\u201bad\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 said to the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331, \u201cIf you take me back home to fight against the children of Ammon, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives them to me, am I to be your head?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331 said to Yiphtah\u0323, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "Then Yiphtah\u0323 went with the elders of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and the people set him over them, as head and commander. And Yiphtah\u0323 spoke all his words before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2705989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 sent messengers to the sovereign of the children of Ammon, saying, \u201cWhat is between you and me, that you have come to fight against me in my land?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sovereign of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Yiphtah\u0323, \u201cBecause Yisra\u2019\u0115l took my land when they came up out of Mitsrayim, from the Arnon as far as the Yabboq, and to the Yard\u0115n. And now, give back those lands in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "But Yiphtah\u0323 again sent messengers to the sovereign of the children of Ammon,"}, {"pk": 2705992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "and said to him, \u201cThis is what Yiphtah\u0323 said, \u2018Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not take the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, nor the land of the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2705993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "For when they came up from Mitsrayim, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l walked through the wilderness as far as the Sea of Reeds and came to Qad\u0331\u0115sh,"}, {"pk": 2705994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "then Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent messengers to the sovereign of Ed\u0331om, saying, \u201cPlease let me pass over, through your land.\u201d But the sovereign of Ed\u0331om would not listen. And they also sent to the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, but he refused, so Yisra\u2019\u0115l stayed at Qad\u0331\u0115sh."}, {"pk": 2705995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Ed\u0331om and the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and came to the east side of the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and encamped beyond Arnon. But they did not enter the border of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, for Arnon was the border of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2705996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent messengers to Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201cPlease let us pass over, through your land into our place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2705997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "But Sih\u0323on did not trust Yisra\u2019\u0115l to pass over through his border, and Sih\u0323on gathered all his people together, and they encamped in Yahats, and fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2705998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave Sih\u0323on and all his people into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they struck them. So Yisra\u2019\u0115l took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land."}, {"pk": 2705999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus they took possession of all the border of the Amorites, from Arnon to the Yabboq and from the wilderness to the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2706000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has driven out the Amorites from before His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, should you then possess it?"}, {"pk": 2706001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "Whatever Kemosh your mighty one gives you to possess, do you not possess it? And all that which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim takes possession of before us, we possess."}, {"pk": 2706002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And now are you any better than Balaq son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331? Did he ever strive against Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Did he ever fight against them?"}, {"pk": 2706003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "While Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in H\u0323eshbon and its villages, and in Aro\u201b\u0115r and its villages, and in all the cities along the banks of Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time?"}, {"pk": 2706004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "So I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me evil by fighting against me. Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Judge, judge today between the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the children of Ammon.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "But the sovereign of the children of Ammon did not listen to the words which Yiphtah\u0323 sent him."}, {"pk": 2706006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon Yiphtah\u0323, and he passed through Gil\u201bad\u0331 and Menashsheh, and passed through Mitspeh of Gil\u201bad\u0331. And from Mitspeh of Gil\u201bad\u0331 he passed on toward the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2706007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 made a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cIf You give the children of Ammon into my hands,"}, {"pk": 2706008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I shall offer it up as an ascending offering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "Yiphtah\u0323 then passed on toward the children of Ammon to fight against them, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them into his hands."}, {"pk": 2706010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "And he struck them from Aro\u201b\u0115r as far as Minnith, twenty cities, and to Ab\u0331\u0115l Keramim, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 came to his house at Mitspah, and saw his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing. Now except for her he had neither son nor daughter."}, {"pk": 2706012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be, when he saw her, that he tore his garments, and said, \u201cOh my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me! And I, I have given my word to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I am unable to turn back.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cMy father, if you have given your word to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, the children of Ammon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "And she said to her father, \u201cLet this be done for me: let me alone for two new <i>moons</i>, and let me go and wander on the mountains and bewail my maidenhood, my friends and I.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "Then he said, \u201cGo.\u201d And he sent her away for two new <i>moons</i>. And she went with her friends, and bewailed her maidenhood on the mountains."}, {"pk": 2706016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "And it came to be at the end of two new <i>moons</i> that she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. And it became a statute in Yisra\u2019\u0115l"}, {"pk": 2706017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "that the daughters of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went every year for four days to lament the daughter of Yiphtah\u0323 the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite."}, {"pk": 2706018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And the men of Ephrayim gathered together, and passed over toward Tsaphon, and said to Yiphtah\u0323, \u201cWhy did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We are going to burn your house over you with fire!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 said to them, \u201cMy people and I were in a great struggle with the children of Ammon. And when I called you, you did not save me out of their hands."}, {"pk": 2706020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I saw that you would not save me, then I took my life in my hands and went over against the children of Ammon. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them into my hand. And why have you come up to me today to fight against me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "Yiphtah\u0323 then gathered together all the men of Gil\u201bad\u0331 and fought against Ephrayim. And the men of Gil\u201bad\u0331 struck Ephrayim, because they had said, \u201cYou Gil\u201bad\u0331ites are fugitives of Ephrayim in the midst of Ephrayim, in the midst of Menashsheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And Gil\u201bad\u0331 captured the fords of the Yard\u0115n that faced Ephrayim. And it came to be, when the fugitives from Ephrayim said, \u201cLet me pass over,\u201d the men of Gil\u201bad\u0331 said to him, \u201cYou are an Ephrayimite!\u201d If he said, \u201cNo,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "then they would say to him, \u201cPlease say, \u2018Shibboleth\u2019!\u201d And he would say, \u201cSibboleth,\u201d for he was unable to pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Yard\u0115n. And at that time there fell forty-two thousand Ephrayimites."}, {"pk": 2706024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yiphtah\u0323 ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l six years. And Yiphtah\u0323 the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And after him, Ib\u0331tsan of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters \u2014 he sent abroad and brought in thirty daughters for his sons. And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l seven years."}, {"pk": 2706027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ib\u0331tsan died and was buried at B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2706028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And after him \u011alon the Zeb\u0331ulunite ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l ten years."}, {"pk": 2706029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u011alon the Zeb\u0331ulunite died and was buried at Ayalon in the land of Zeb\u0331ulun."}, {"pk": 2706030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And after him, Ab\u0331don son of Hill\u0115l the Pirathonite ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2706031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "and he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy young donkeys. And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l eight years."}, {"pk": 2706032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ab\u0331don son of Hill\u0115l the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephrayim, in the mountains of the Amal\u0115qites."}, {"pk": 2706033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And again the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years."}, {"pk": 2706034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And there was a certain man from Tsor\u201bah, of the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manowah\u0323. And his wife was barren and had not borne."}, {"pk": 2706035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And a Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to the woman and said to her, \u201cSee now, you are barren and have not borne, but you shall conceive, and you shall bear a son."}, {"pk": 2706036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please guard, and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat any unclean <i>food</i>."}, {"pk": 2706037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor look, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And let no razor come upon his head, for the youth is a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb on. And he shall begin to save Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the hand of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And the woman came and spoke to her husband, saying, \u201cA Man of Elohim came to me, and His appearance was like the appearance of a Messenger of Elohim, very awesome. But I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not declare to me His name."}, {"pk": 2706039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd He said to me, \u2018See, you are conceiving and bearing a son. And now, drink no wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean <i>food</i>, for the youth is a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb to the day of his death.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please let the Man of Elohim whom You sent come to us again and teach us what to do for the youth who is to be born.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim listened to the voice of Manowah\u0323, and the Messenger of Elohim came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field, but Manowah\u0323 her husband was not with her."}, {"pk": 2706042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And the woman ran hurriedly and informed her husband, and said to him, \u201cSee, He has appeared to me, the Man who came to me the other day!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 arose and went after his wife, and came to the Man, and he said to Him, \u201cAre You the Man who spoke to this woman?\u201d And He said, \u201cI am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 said, \u201cNow let Your words come true! What is to be the rule for the youth\u2019s life and his work?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Manowah\u0323, \u201cLet the woman guard all that I said to her."}, {"pk": 2706046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cLet her not eat any <i>food</i> that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean <i>food</i>. Let her guard all that which I have commanded her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 said to the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cPlease let us detain You, and prepare a young goat for You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Manowah\u0323, \u201cThough you detain Me, I do not eat your food. But if you offer an ascending offering, offer it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d For Manowah\u0323 did not know He was a Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Manowah\u0323 said to the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhat is Your name? When Your words come true, then we shall esteem You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cWhy do you ask My name, since it is wondrous?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And He did wondrously while Manowah\u0323 and his wife looked on."}, {"pk": 2706052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be, as the flame went up toward the heavens from the slaughter-place, that the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went up in the flame of the slaughter-place. And Manowah\u0323 and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground."}, {"pk": 2706053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not appear any more to Manowah\u0323 and his wife. Then Manowah\u0323 knew that He was a Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And Manowah\u0323 said to his wife, \u201cWe shall certainly die, because we have seen Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "But his wife said to him, \u201cIf \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had been pleased to put us to death, He would not have accepted an ascending offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all this, nor would He have let us hear the like of this!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "So the woman bore a son and called his name Shimshon. And the child grew, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed him."}, {"pk": 2706057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 began to move him at Mah\u0323an\u0115h Dan, between Tsor\u201bah and Eshta\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2706058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shimshon went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And he went up and informed his father and mother, saying, \u201cI have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. And now, take her for me for a wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "But his father and mother said to him, \u201cIs there no woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you should take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?\u201d And Shimshon said to his father, \u201cTake her for me, for she is pleasing in my eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "However, his father and mother did not know that it was of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines were ruling over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Shimshon went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah, and saw a young lion roaring as it met him."}, {"pk": 2706063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came mightily upon him, and he tore it apart as the tearing apart of a young goat, with naught in his hand. But he did not make known to his father or his mother what he had done."}, {"pk": 2706064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And he went down and spoke to the woman, and she pleased Shimshon well."}, {"pk": 2706065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And when he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion, and saw a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion."}, {"pk": 2706066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And he took some of it in his hands and went along, eating. And he came to his father and mother, and gave them, and they ate. But he did not make known to them that he took the honey out of the carcass of the lion."}, {"pk": 2706067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "So his father went down to the woman. And Shimshon gave a feast there, for young men used to do so."}, {"pk": 2706068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him."}, {"pk": 2706069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shimshon said to them, \u201cPlease let me put forth a riddle to you. If you clearly solve and explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, then I shall give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of garments."}, {"pk": 2706070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut if you are unable to explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of garments.\u201d And they said to him, \u201cPut forth your riddle and let us hear it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cOut of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.\u201d And for three days they were unable to explain the riddle."}, {"pk": 2706072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be on the seventh day that they said to Shimshon\u2019s wife, \u201cEntice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or else we burn you and your father\u2019s house with fire. Have you invited us in order to take what is ours? Is it not?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shimshon\u2019s wife wept before him, and said, \u201cYou only hate me, and do not love me! You have put forth a riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to me.\u201d And he said to her, \u201cLook, I have not explained it to my father or my mother, and should I explain it to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And she had wept before him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it came to be on the seventh day that he informed her, because she pressed him so much. She then explained the riddle to the sons of her people."}, {"pk": 2706075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, \u201cWhat is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cIf you had not ploughed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashqelon and struck thirty of their men, stripped them, and gave the changes <i>of garments</i> to those who had explained the riddle. And his displeasure burned, and he went back up to his father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2706077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And Shimshon\u2019s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend."}, {"pk": 2706078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, after some time, in the days of wheat harvest, that Shimshon visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, \u201cLet me go in to my wife, into her room.\u201d But her father would not permit him to go in."}, {"pk": 2706079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And her father said, \u201cIndeed, I thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, take her instead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shimshon said to them, \u201cThis time I am blameless regarding the Philistines if I do evil to them!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And Shimshon went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails,"}, {"pk": 2706082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "and set the torches on fire, and sent them out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, even the vineyards and olive-trees."}, {"pk": 2706083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Philistines said, \u201cWho did this?\u201d And they answered, \u201cShimshon, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife and gave her to his companion.\u201d Then the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire."}, {"pk": 2706084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And Shimshon said to them, \u201cThough you do this, yet I shall take revenge on you, and after that I cease.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And he struck them hip and thigh, a great slaughter, and went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of \u011aytam."}, {"pk": 2706086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "The Philistines then went up and encamped in Yehud\u0331ah, and spread out against Leh\u0323i."}, {"pk": 2706087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And the men of Yehud\u0331ah said, \u201cWhy have you come up against us?\u201d And they answered, \u201cWe have come up to bind Shimshon, to do to him as he has done to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "Then three thousand men of Yehud\u0331ah went down to the cleft of the rock of \u011aytam and said to Shimshon, \u201cDo you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? Why have you done this to us?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cAs they did to me, so I did to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe have come down to bind you, to give you into the hand of the Philistines.\u201d And Shimshon said to them, \u201cSwear to me not to fall on me yourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, \u201cNo, but we are certainly going to bind you, and shall give you into their hand but certainly not kill you.\u201d So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock."}, {"pk": 2706091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "When he came to Leh\u0323i, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came mightily upon him. And the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that is burned with fire, and his bonds broke loose from his hands."}, {"pk": 2706092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and struck a thousand men with it."}, {"pk": 2706093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shimshon said, \u201cWith the jawbone of a donkey, one heap, two heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey I have stricken a thousand men!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when he had ended speaking, that he threw the jawbone from his hand, and called that place Ramath Leh\u0323i."}, {"pk": 2706095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And he became very thirsty, and cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cYou have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant. And now, am I to die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "And Elohim split the hollow place that is in Leh\u0323i, and water came out, and he drank. And his spirit came back, and he revived. So he called its name \u011an Haqqore, which is in Leh\u0323i to this day."}, {"pk": 2706097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l twenty years in the days of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shimshon went to Azzah and saw a woman there, a whore, and went in to her \u2014"}, {"pk": 2706099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "the Azzathites saying, \u201cShimshon has come here!\u201d So they went round and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and kept silent all night, saying, \u201cIn the morning, when it is daylight, then we shall kill him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "Now Shimshon lay until midnight, and rose at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two gateposts, and pulled them up with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and took them to the top of the hill that faces H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2706101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be afterward that he loved a woman in the wadi Sor\u0115q, whose name was Delilah."}, {"pk": 2706102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And the princes of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, \u201cEntice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and see by what we might overpower him, then we shall bind him to humble him. And let us give you, each one of us, eleven hundred pieces of silver.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And Delilah said to Shimshon, \u201cPlease reveal to me where your great strength lies, and by what you might be bound, to humble you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And Shimshon said to her, \u201cIf they bind me with seven fresh cords, not yet dried, then I shall be weak, and be like any other man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "The princes of the Philistines then brought her seven fresh cords, not yet dried, and she bound him with them,"}, {"pk": 2706106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "while those lying in wait stayed with her in the room. And she said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Shimshon!\u201d But he broke the cords as a strand of yarn breaks when it touches fire. So the secret of his strength remained unknown."}, {"pk": 2706107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And Delilah said to Shimshon, \u201cLook, you have mocked me and spoken lies to me. Now, please reveal to me by what you might be bound.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cIf they bind me tightly with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall be weak, and be like any other man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Shimshon!\u201d And those lying in wait were sitting in the inner room. But he broke them off his arms like a thread."}, {"pk": 2706110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "So Delilah said to Shimshon, \u201cUntil now you have mocked me and spoken lies to me, reveal to me how you might be bound.\u201d And he said to her, \u201cIf you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "Then she fastened it with a pin, and said to him, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Shimshon!\u201d But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled out the pin of the loom and the web."}, {"pk": 2706112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "Then she said to him, \u201cHow do you say, \u2018I love you,\u2019 when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not made known to me where your great strength lies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, so that his being was wearied to death,"}, {"pk": 2706114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "that he made known to her all his heart, and said to her, \u201cNo razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to Elohim from my mother\u2019s womb. If I were shaven, then my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And Delilah saw that he had made known to her all his heart, and she sent and called for the princes of the Philistines, saying, \u201cCome up once more, for he has made known to me all his heart.\u201d So the princes of the Philistines came up to her and brought the silver in their hand."}, {"pk": 2706116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And she made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head. Thus she began to humble him, and his strength left him."}, {"pk": 2706117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And she said, \u201cThe Philistines are upon you, Shimshon!\u201d And he awoke from his sleep, and said, \u201cLet me go out as before, at other times, and shake myself loose!\u201d But he did not know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had turned aside from him."}, {"pk": 2706118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Azzah, and bound him with bronze shackles. And he became a grinder in the prison."}, {"pk": 2706119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaven."}, {"pk": 2706120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "And the princes of the Philistines gathered to slaughter a great slaughtering to Da\u1e21on their mighty one, and to rejoice. And they said, \u201cOur mighty one has given Shimshon our enemy into our hands!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "And the people saw him, and praised their mighty one, for they said, \u201cOur mighty one has given into our hands our enemy, the destroyer of our land, who slew many of us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, when their hearts were glad, that they said, \u201cCall for Shimshon, and let him entertain us.\u201d So they called for Shimshon from the prison, and he entertained them. And they made him stand between the columns."}, {"pk": 2706123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "And Shimshon said to the young man who who was holding his hand, \u201cLet me alone and let me feel the columns which support the house, so that I lean on them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "And the house was filled with men and women. And all the princes of the Philistines were there. And about three thousand men and women were on the roof who watched Shimshon entertaining."}, {"pk": 2706125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "And Shimshon called to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cO Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, only this time, O Elohim, and let me avenge myself on the Philistines with vengeance for my two eyes!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "And Shimshon took hold of the two middle columns which supported the house, and he braced himself against them, one on his right and the other on his left."}, {"pk": 2706127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "And Shimshon said, \u201cLet me die with the Philistines!\u201d And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell on the princes and all the people in it. And the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life."}, {"pk": 2706128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "And his brothers and all his father\u2019s household came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Tsor\u201bah and Eshta\u2019ol in the burial-site of his father Manowah\u0323. And he had ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l twenty years."}, {"pk": 2706129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a man from the hill country of Ephrayim, whose name was Mik\u0331ahu."}, {"pk": 2706130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said to his mother, \u201cThe eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and on which you put a curse, even saying it in my ears. Look, the silver is with me, I took it.\u201d And his mother said, \u201cBlessed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be my son!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And he gave back the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, \u201cI had truly set apart the silver from my hand to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for my son, to make a carved image and a moulded image, and now, I give it back to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And he gave the silver back to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a moulded image. And they were in the house of Mik\u0331ahu."}, {"pk": 2706133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "Now the man Mik\u0331ah had a house of mighty ones, and made a shoulder garment and house idols. And he ordained one of his sons, who became his priest."}, {"pk": 2706134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "In those days there was no sovereign in Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 everyone did what was right in his own eyes.", "comment": "See also Jdg. <a href='/TS2009/7/21/25'>21:25</a> and Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/8'>12:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2706135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And there was a young man from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah, of the clan of Yehud\u0331ah. And he was a L\u0115wite, and he was sojourning there."}, {"pk": 2706136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And the man went out of the city of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah to sojourn wherever he could find a place. And he came to the mountains of Ephrayim, to the house of Mik\u0331ah, as he journeyed."}, {"pk": 2706137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And Mik\u0331ah said to him, \u201cWhere do you come from?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cI am a L\u0115wite from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah, and I am on my way to find a place to sojourn.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And Mik\u0331ah said to him, \u201cDwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I give you ten pieces of silver per year, and a suit of garments, and your food.\u201d And the L\u0115wite went in."}, {"pk": 2706139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "So the L\u0115wite agreed to dwell with the man. And the young man became like one of his sons to him."}, {"pk": 2706140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Mik\u0331ah ordained the L\u0115wite, and the young man became his priest, and he was in the house of Mik\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2706141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mik\u0331ah said, \u201cNow I know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does good to me, since I have a L\u0115wite as priest!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "In those days there was no sovereign in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in, for until that day all their inheritance among the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had not yet fallen to them."}, {"pk": 2706143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And the children of Dan sent five men of their clan, brave men from Tsor\u201bah and Eshta\u2019ol, to spy out the land and search it. And they said to them, \u201cGo, search the land,\u201d so they went to the mountains of Ephrayim, to the house of Mik\u0331ah, and spent the night there."}, {"pk": 2706144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "When they were near the house of Mik\u0331ah, they recognised the voice of the young L\u0115wite, and turned aside and said to him, \u201cWho brought you here? What are you doing in this place, and what do you have here?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cMik\u0331ah did such and such for me. And he hired me, and I have become his priest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cPlease inquire of Elohim, and we shall know whether the journey on which we are going is prosperous.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "And the priest said to them, \u201cGo in peace. Your journey on which you go is before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the five men left and came to Layish, and saw the people who were in their midst, how they dwelt safely, according to the ruling of the Tsid\u0331onians, at rest and unsuspecting. And no one possessing authority in the land was reproaching for any matter. And they were far from the Tsid\u0331onians, and they had no word with anyone."}, {"pk": 2706149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And the spies came back to their brothers at Tsor\u201bah and Eshta\u2019ol, and their brothers said to them, \u201cWhat do you <i>say</i>?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And they said, \u201cArise, and let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and look, it is very good. And you sit still! Do not hesitate to go to enter in to possess the land."}, {"pk": 2706151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen you go, you are to come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is spacious. For Elohim has given it into your hands, a place in which there is no lack of any matter which is on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And six hundred men of the clan of the Danites went from there, from Tsor\u201bah and Eshta\u2019ol, armed for battle."}, {"pk": 2706153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And they went up and encamped in Qiryath Ye\u201barim in Yehud\u0331ah. Therefore they call that place Mah\u0323an\u0115h D\u0331an to this day. See, it is west of Qiryath Ye\u201barim."}, {"pk": 2706154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And they passed over from there to the mountains of Ephrayim, and came to the house of Mik\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2706155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Layish answered and said to their brothers, \u201cDo you know that there are in these houses a shoulder garment, and house idols, and a carved image, and a moulded image? And now, you know what to do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young L\u0115wite man, the house of Mik\u0331ah, and greeted him."}, {"pk": 2706157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And the six hundred men, armed for battle, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate."}, {"pk": 2706158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, and entering there, they took the carved image, and the shoulder garment, and the house idols, and the moulded image, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who were armed for battle."}, {"pk": 2706159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And these went into Mik\u0331ah\u2019s house and took the idol, and the shoulder garment, and the house idols, and the moulded image. Then the priest said to them, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cBe silent, put your hand over your mouth, and come with us, and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest to the household of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a clan in Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And the heart of the priest was glad. And he took the shoulder garment, and the house idols, and the carved image, and took his place among the people."}, {"pk": 2706162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And they turned and went, and put the little ones, and the livestock, and the valuables in front of them."}, {"pk": 2706163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "They had gone some distance from the house of Mik\u0331ah, when the men who were in the houses near Mik\u0331ah\u2019s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan,"}, {"pk": 2706164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "and called out to the children of Dan. So they turned around and said to Mik\u0331ah, \u201cWhat is the matter, that you have gathered such a company?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And he said, \u201cYou have taken away my mighty ones which I made, and the priest, and you are leaving. Now what more do I have? What is this you say to me, \u2018What is the matter?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And the children of Dan said to him, \u201cDo not let your voice be heard among us, lest men, bitter of being, fall upon you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And the children of Dan went their way. And when Mik\u0331ah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house."}, {"pk": 2706168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "Then they took what Mik\u0331ah had made, and the priest who had belonged to him, and went to Layish, to a people who were at rest and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire."}, {"pk": 2706169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Tsid\u0331on, and they had no word with anyone. And it was in the valley that belongs to B\u0115yth Reh\u0323ob\u0331. And they rebuilt the city and dwelt there."}, {"pk": 2706170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But previously the name of the city was Layish."}, {"pk": 2706171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "And the children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image. And Yehonathan son of G\u0115reshom, son of Menashsheh, and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day the land was taken into exile."}, {"pk": 2706172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And they set up for themselves the carved image of Mik\u0331ah, which he had made, all the days that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh."}, {"pk": 2706173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in those days, when there was no sovereign in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that there was a certain L\u0115wite sojourning on the further side of the mountains of Ephrayim. And he took for himself a concubine from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2706174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And his concubine committed whoring against him, and went away from him to her father\u2019s house at B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah, and was there four new <i>moons</i> of days.", "comment": "Four whole months."}, {"pk": 2706175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And her husband arose and went after her, to speak to her heart and bring her back, having his servant and a couple of donkeys with him. And she brought him into her father\u2019s house. And the father of the young woman saw him, and he was glad to meet him."}, {"pk": 2706176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And his father-in-law, the young woman\u2019s father, took hold of him, and he dwelt with him three days. And they ate and drank and spent the nights there."}, {"pk": 2706177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be on the fourth day that they arose early in the morning. And he prepared to leave, but the young woman\u2019s father said to his son-in-law, \u201cRefresh your heart with a piece of bread, and afterward go your way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "So they sat down, and the two of them ate and drank together. And the young woman\u2019s father said to the man, \u201cPlease agree to stay all night, and let your heart be glad.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the man arose to go, his father-in-law urged him. So he spent the night there again."}, {"pk": 2706180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to go. But the young woman\u2019s father said, \u201cPlease refresh your heart.\u201d So they delayed until afternoon, and both of them ate."}, {"pk": 2706181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And the man arose to go, he and his concubine and his servant. But his father-in-law, the young woman\u2019s father, said to him, \u201cSee, the day is now drawing toward evening. Please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end. Stay here, and let your heart be glad. And you shall rise early tomorrow for your journey, and you shall go to your tent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "But the man would not stay that night. And he arose and left, and came to a place opposite Yeb\u0331us, that is Yerushalayim. And with him were the two saddled donkeys, and his concubine with him."}, {"pk": 2706183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "They were near Yeb\u0331us, and the day was far spent. And the servant said to his master, \u201cCome, please, and let us turn aside into this city of the Yeb\u0331usites and spend the night in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "And his master said to him, \u201cLet us not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But we shall pass over to Gib\u0331\u201bah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said to his servant, \u201cCome, let us draw near to one of these places, and spend the night in Gib\u0331\u201bah or in Ramah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And they passed over and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gib\u0331\u201bah, which belongs to Binyamin,"}, {"pk": 2706187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "and they turned off there to go in to spend the night in Gib\u0331\u201bah. So he went in, and he sat down in the open square of the city, for no one would take them into his house to spend the night."}, {"pk": 2706188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "But see, an old man came in from his work in the field at evening, who also was from the mountains of Ephrayim. And he was sojourning in Gib\u0331\u201bah, whereas the men of the place were Binyamites."}, {"pk": 2706189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And when he lifted up his eyes, he saw the traveller in the open square of the city. And the old man said, \u201cWhere are you going, and where do you come from?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cWe are passing over from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah to the other side of the mountains of Ephrayim. I am from there, and I went to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah, and I am going to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. But there is no one taking me into his house,"}, {"pk": 2706191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and bread and wine for myself, and for your female servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of any matter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And the old man said, \u201cPeace be with you! However, let all your needs be on me, only do not spend the night in the open square.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And he brought him into his house, and gave fodder to the donkeys. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank."}, {"pk": 2706194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "They were making their hearts glad, and see, men of the city, sons of Beliya\u201bal, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, \u201cBring out the man who came to your house, so that we know him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "But the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, \u201cNo, my brothers! I beg you, do no evil! Since this man has come into my house, do not do this folly."}, {"pk": 2706196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cLook, here is my maiden daughter and the man\u2019s concubine. Let me bring them out now, and humble them, and do with them what is good in your eyes, but do not do such a foolish matter to this man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "But the men would not listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them. And they knew her and rolled themselves on her all night until morning, and let her go when the day began to break."}, {"pk": 2706198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "And as morning appeared the woman came back and fell down at the door of the man\u2019s house where her master was, till it was light."}, {"pk": 2706199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "And her master rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, and saw his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold."}, {"pk": 2706200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cRise up and let us go.\u201d But there was no answer. Then he took her on the donkey, and the man rose and went to his place,"}, {"pk": 2706201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "and came into his house and took a knife, then took hold of his concubine, and cut her up limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be that all who saw it said, \u201cThere has never been, and there has not been seen the like of this, from the day that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came up from the land of Mitsrayim until this day. Set your <i>heart</i> on it, take counsel, and speak up!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came out, from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and from the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331, and the congregation assembled as one man before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2706204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword."}, {"pk": 2706205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And the children of Binyamin heard that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had gone up to Mitspah. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cSpeak up, how did this evil come about?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And the man, the L\u0115wite, husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, \u201cMy concubine and I went into Gib\u0331\u201bah, which belongs to Binyamin, to spend the night."}, {"pk": 2706207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the masters of Gib\u0331\u201bah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They thought to kill me, but instead they humbled my concubine, and she died."}, {"pk": 2706208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThen I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the land of the inheritance of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because they committed wickedness and folly in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cLook, you are all children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, speak and give your counsel here!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And all the people rose as one man, saying, \u201cLet not one of us go to his tent, nor any of us turn back to his house."}, {"pk": 2706211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd now, this is what we do to Gib\u0331\u201bah: <i>go</i> against it by lot."}, {"pk": 2706212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd we shall take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make food for the people, to prepare for their going to Gib\u0331\u201bah in Binyamin, for all the folly they did in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were gathered against the city, knit together as one man."}, {"pk": 2706214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent men through all the tribe of Binyamin, saying, \u201cWhat is this evil that has come about among you?"}, {"pk": 2706215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now, give us the men, the sons of Beliya\u201bal who are in Gib\u0331\u201bah, so that we put them to death and put away evil from Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d But the children of Binyamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "So the children of Binyamin gathered together from their cities to Gib\u0331\u201bah, to go to battle against the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And from their cities at that time the children of Binyamin registered twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gib\u0331\u201bah, who registered seven hundred chosen men."}, {"pk": 2706218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed, each one could sling a stone at a hair\u2019s breadth and not miss."}, {"pk": 2706219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And besides Binyamin, the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l registered four hundred thousand men who drew the sword, all of these were men of battle."}, {"pk": 2706220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l rose and went up to B\u0115yth \u011al to ask of Elohim, and they said, \u201cWho of us go up first to battle against the children of Binyamin?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cYehud\u0331ah first.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l rose in the morning and encamped against Gib\u0331\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2706222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out to battle against Binyamin, and the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l put themselves in battle array to fight against them at Gib\u0331\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2706223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "And the children of Binyamin came out of Gib\u0331\u201bah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "But the people, the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, strengthened themselves and again formed the battle line at the place where they had put themselves in array on the first day."}, {"pk": 2706225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up and wept before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 until evening, and asked of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cShould I again draw near for battle against the children of my brother Binyamin?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cGo up against him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l drew near to the children of Binyamin on the second day."}, {"pk": 2706227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "And Binyamin went out against them from Gib\u0331\u201bah on the second day, and cut down to the ground eighteen thousand more of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 all these drew the sword."}, {"pk": 2706228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "And all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, even all the people, went up and came to B\u0115yth \u011al and wept, and sat there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and fasted that day until evening. And they offered ascending offerings and peace offerings before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l asked of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 the ark of the covenant of Elohim was there in those days,"}, {"pk": 2706230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "and Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar, son of Aharon, stood before it in those days \u2014 saying, \u201cShould I yet again go out to battle against the children of my brother Binyamin, or should I cease?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cGo up, for tomorrow I give them into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l set ambushers all around Gib\u0331\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2706232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up against the children of Binyamin on the third day, and put themselves in battle array against Gib\u0331\u201bah as at the other times."}, {"pk": 2706233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "And the children of Binyamin came out to meet the people \u2014 drawn away from the city. And they began to strike some of the people, slaying, as at the other times, in the highways, of which one went up to B\u0115yth \u011al and the other to Gib\u0331\u201bah in the field, about thirty men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "And the children of Binyamin said, \u201cThey are going to be smitten before us, as previously.\u201d But the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cLet us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l rose from their place and put themselves in battle array at Ba\u201bal Tamar. And the ambush of Yisra\u2019\u0115l broke forth from their position at Ma\u201bareh \u00cceb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2706236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And ten thousand chosen men from all Yisra\u2019\u0115l came against Gib\u0331\u201bah, and the battle was fierce. But they did not know that calamity was close to them."}, {"pk": 2706237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote Binyamin before Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men on that day in Binyamin \u2014 all these drew the sword."}, {"pk": 2706238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "And the children of Binyamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had given ground to the Binyamites, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set against Gib\u0331\u201bah,"}, {"pk": 2706239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "and the ambush hurried and came against Gib\u0331\u201bah, and the ambush spread out and struck the entire city with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2706240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "And the appointed signal between the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise up from the city,"}, {"pk": 2706241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "text": "then the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l would turn in battle, and Binyamin began to strike dead about thirty of the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. For they said, \u201cThey are indeed smitten before us, as at the first battle.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "text": "Then the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, and the Binyamites looked behind them, and saw the entire city going up in smoke to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2706243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "text": "And when the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l turned back, the men of Binyamin were troubled, for they saw that calamity was close to them."}, {"pk": 2706244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "text": "And they turned their backs before the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l toward the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, while those who had come out of the cities were destroying them in their midst."}, {"pk": 2706245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "text": "They surrounded the Binyamites and pursued them, and with ease trampled them down as far as the front of Gib\u0331\u201bah toward the east."}, {"pk": 2706246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 44, "text": "And there fell of Binyamin eighteen thousand men \u2014 all of these were mighty men."}, {"pk": 2706247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 45, "text": "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. And they cut down five thousand of them on the highways, and followed after them up to Gid\u0331om, and struck two thousand of them."}, {"pk": 2706248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 46, "text": "And all who fell of Binyamin that day were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword, all of these were mighty men."}, {"pk": 2706249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 47, "text": "But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they dwelt at the rock of Rimmon for four new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2706250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 20, "verse": 48, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l turned back against the children of Binyamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword from every city, men and beasts, all who were found. And they set fire to all the cities they came to."}, {"pk": 2706251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had sworn an oath at Mitspah, saying, \u201cNot one of us shall give his daughter to Binyamin as a wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "So the people came to B\u0115yth \u011al, and sat there until evening before Elohim, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly,"}, {"pk": 2706253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, why has this come about in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that today there should be one tribe missing in Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be on the morrow, that the people rose early and built a slaughter-place there, and brought ascending offerings and peace offerings."}, {"pk": 2706255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWho is there among all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who did not come up with the assembly to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d For they had made a great oath concerning anyone who had not come up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Mitspah, saying, \u201cHe shall certainly be put to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were sorry for Binyamin their brother, and said, \u201cOne tribe is cut off from Yisra\u2019\u0115l today."}, {"pk": 2706257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhat do we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 not to give them our daughters as wives?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And they said, \u201cWhich one of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not come up to Mitspah to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d And see, no one had come to the camp from Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 to the assembly."}, {"pk": 2706259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "For when the people called a roll, see, not one of the inhabitants of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 was there."}, {"pk": 2706260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their bravest men, and commanded them, saying, \u201cGo, and you shall strike the inhabitants of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 with the edge of the sword, even the women and children."}, {"pk": 2706261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd this is what you do: Put under the ban every male, and every woman who has known a man by lying with him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And they found among the inhabitants of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 four hundred young maidens who had not known a man. And they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2706263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "Then all the congregation sent, and spoke to the children of Binyamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them."}, {"pk": 2706264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And Binyamin turned back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331. But even so there were not enough for them."}, {"pk": 2706265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And the people were sorry for Binyamin, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had made a breach in the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And the elders of the congregation said, \u201cWhat do we do for wives for those who remain, since the women have been destroyed out of Binyamin?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And they said, \u201cThere is an inheritance for the survivors of Binyamin, and no tribe is to be destroyed from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut we are unable to give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have sworn an oath, saying, \u2018Cursed be the one who gives a wife to Binyamin.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "So they said, \u201cSee, there is a yearly festival of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Shiloh, which is north of B\u0115yth \u011al, on the east side of the highway that goes up from B\u0115yth \u011al to Shek\u0331em, and south of Leb\u0331onah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And they commanded the children of Binyamin, saying, \u201cGo, lie in wait in the vineyards,"}, {"pk": 2706271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cand watch. And see, when the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, then you shall come out from the vineyards, and every man catch a wife for himself from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2706272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we shall say to them, \u2018Favour us with them, because we did not take a wife for any of them in battle, neither have you given them to them, making yourselves guilty of your oath.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And the children of Binyamin did so, and took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them."}, {"pk": 2706274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went from there at that time, each one to his tribe and clan. And they went from there, each one to his inheritance."}, {"pk": 2706275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 7, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "In those days there was no sovereign in Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 everyone did what was right in his own eyes.", "comment": "See Jdg. <a href='/TS2009/7/17/6'>17:6</a> and Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/8'>12:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2719215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, in the days when the rulers ruled, that there was a scarcity of food in the land. And a man from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, Yehud\u0331ah, went to sojourn in the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, he and his wife and his two sons."}, {"pk": 2719216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And the name of the man was Elimelek\u0331, and the name of his wife was Na\u201bomi, and the names of his two sons were Mah\u0323lon and Kilyon \u2014 Ephrathites of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, Yehud\u0331ah. And they went to the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and came to be there."}, {"pk": 2719217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Elimelek\u0331, husband of Na\u201bomi, died. And she was left with her two sons."}, {"pk": 2719218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And they took wives of the women of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years."}, {"pk": 2719219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mah\u0323lon and Kilyon also died, both of them, so the woman was bereaved of her two sons and of her husband."}, {"pk": 2719220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And she rose up, with her daughters-in-law, and returned from the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, for she had heard in the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had visited His people in giving them bread."}, {"pk": 2719221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And she left the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her. And they went on the way to return to the land of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And Na\u201bomi said to her two daughters-in-law, \u201cGo, return each to her mother\u2019s house. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 show loving-commitment to you, as you have shown to the dead and to me."}, {"pk": 2719223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 grant that you find rest, each in the house of her husband.\u201d Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept."}, {"pk": 2719224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And they said to her, \u201cNo, we shall go back with you to your people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "But Na\u201bomi said, \u201cGo back, my daughters, why go with me? Have I still sons in my womb, that they should become your husbands?"}, {"pk": 2719226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cGo back, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have expectancy, even if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,"}, {"pk": 2719227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has gone out against me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her."}, {"pk": 2719229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And she said, \u201cLook, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her mighty ones. Go back, follow your sister-in-law.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "But Ruth said, \u201cDo not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.", "comment": "Ruth, great-grandmother of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cWhere you die, I die, and there I shall be buried. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do so to me, and more also \u2014 for death itself parts you and me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And when she saw that she was strengthening herself to go with her, she ceased to speak to her."}, {"pk": 2719233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And both of them went until they came to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em. And it came to be, when they had come to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, that all the city was moved because of them, and they said, \u201cIs this Na\u201bomi?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And she said to them, \u201cDo not call me Na\u201bomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me."}, {"pk": 2719235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI went out filled, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Na\u201bomi, since \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has witnessed against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus Na\u201bomi returned, and Ruth the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and they came to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em at the beginning of barley harvest."}, {"pk": 2719237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And Na\u201bomi had a relative on her husband\u2019s side, a man of great wealth, of the clan of Elimelek\u0331, and his name was Bo\u201baz."}, {"pk": 2719238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ruth, the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess, said to Na\u201bomi, \u201cPlease let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose eyes I find favour.\u201d So she said to her, \u201cGo, my daughter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. As it turned out, she came to the part of the field belonging to Bo\u201baz, the near relative of Elimelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And see, Bo\u201baz had come from B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, and said to the reapers, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be with you!\u201d And they answered him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bless you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And Bo\u201baz said to his servant who was appointed over the reapers, \u201cWhose young woman is this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "So the servant who was appointed over the reapers answered and said, \u201cIt is the young Mo\u2019ab\u0331ite woman who came back with Na\u201bomi from the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2719243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "and she said, \u2018Please let me glean, and gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.\u2019 And she came and has remained from morning until now \u2014 she sat a little in the house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And Bo\u201baz said to Ruth, \u201cYou have heard, have you not, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close to my young women."}, {"pk": 2719245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cLet your eyes be on the field which they reap, and you shall go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, \u201cWhy have I found favour in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, seeing I am a foreigner?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And Bo\u201baz answered and said to her, \u201cI have been told all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before."}, {"pk": 2719248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 repay your work, and your reward is complete from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And she said, \u201cLet me find favour in your eyes, my master, because you have comforted me, and have spoken to the heart of your female servant, though I am not like one of your female servants.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And Bo\u201baz said to her, \u201cCome here at mealtime. Then you shall eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.\u201d And she sat beside the reapers, and he passed roasted grain to her. And she ate and was satisfied, and had left over."}, {"pk": 2719251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And she rose up to glean, and Bo\u201baz commanded his young men, saying, \u201cLet her glean even among the sheaves, and do not embarrass her."}, {"pk": 2719252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cRather, draw out from the bundles for her, and leave it for her to glean, and do not restrain her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an \u0115phah of barley."}, {"pk": 2719254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out and gave to her what she had left over after she was satisfied."}, {"pk": 2719255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "Then her mother-in-law asked her, \u201cWhere have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who took notice of you.\u201d And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, \u201cThe name of the man I worked today with is Bo\u201baz.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And Na\u201bomi said to her daughter-in-law, \u201cBlessed be he of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has not forsaken His loving-commitment to the living and the dead!\u201d And Na\u201bomi said to her, \u201cThe man is a relative of ours, one of our redeemers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And Ruth the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess said, \u201cHe also said to me, \u2018Stay close to my young people until they have completed all my harvest.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2719258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And Na\u201bomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, \u201cIt is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that they do not meet you in any other field.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And she stayed close by the young women of Bo\u201baz to glean, till the completion of barley harvest and wheat harvest, but she dwelt with her mother-in-law."}, {"pk": 2719260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Na\u201bomi her mother-in-law said to her, \u201cMy daughter, should I not seek rest for you, so that it is well with you?"}, {"pk": 2719261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd now, is not Bo\u201baz, with whose young women you have been, our relative? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing-floor."}, {"pk": 2719262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd, you shall bathe and anoint yourself, and put your garments on and go down to the threshing-floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking."}, {"pk": 2719263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall notice the place where he lies, and shall go in and uncover his feet, and lie down. And let him make known to you what you should do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And she said to her, \u201cAll that you say to me, I do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And she went down to the threshing-floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her."}, {"pk": 2719266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And Bo\u201baz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. And she came softly and uncovered his feet, and lay down."}, {"pk": 2719267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself, and saw a woman lying at his feet!"}, {"pk": 2719268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said, \u201cWho are you?\u201d And she answered, \u201cI am Ruth, your female servant. Now you shall spread your covering over your female servant \u2014 for you are a redeemer.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed are you of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my daughter! For you have shown more loving-commitment at the end than at the beginning, not to go after young men, whether poor or rich."}, {"pk": 2719270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd now, my daughter, do not fear. All that you say I do for you, for all the people of my town know that you are a capable woman."}, {"pk": 2719271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, it is true that I am your redeemer. However, there is a redeemer nearer than I."}, {"pk": 2719272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cStop over tonight, and in the morning it shall be that if he does redeem you, good \u2014 let him do it. But if he is not pleased to redeem you, then I shall redeem you, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives! Lie down until morning.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And she lay at his feet until morning, and she arose before one could recognise another. And he said, \u201cLet it not be known that the woman came to the threshing-floor.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said, \u201cBring the shawl that is on you and hold it.\u201d So she held it and he measured six <i>measures</i> of barley, and laid it on her. And she went into the city."}, {"pk": 2719275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, \u201cIs that you, my daughter?\u201d And she explained to her all that the man had done for her."}, {"pk": 2719276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And she said, \u201cHe gave me these six <i>measures</i> of barley, for he said to me, \u2018Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2719277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And she said, \u201cWait, my daughter, until you know how the matter falls, for the man is not going to rest until he has completed the matter this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And Bo\u201baz went up to the gate and sat down there. And see, the redeemer of whom Bo\u201baz had spoken came by. And Bo\u201baz said, \u201cTurn aside, So-and-so, sit down here.\u201d And he turned aside and sat down."}, {"pk": 2719279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, \u201cSit down here.\u201d So they sat down."}, {"pk": 2719280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "He then said to the redeemer, \u201cNa\u201bomi, who has come back from the fields of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, \u2018Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not redeem it, inform me, so that I know. For there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.\u2019 \u201d And he said, \u201cI redeem it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And Bo\u201baz said, \u201cOn the day you buy the field from the hand of Na\u201bomi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And the redeemer said, \u201cI am not able to redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. Redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I am not able to redeem it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And this was formerly done in Yisra\u2019\u0115l concerning redeeming and exchanging, to confirm every word: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a witness in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2719285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "So the redeemer said to Bo\u201baz, \u201cBuy it for yourself.\u201d Then he took off his sandal."}, {"pk": 2719286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And Bo\u201baz said to the elders and to all the people, \u201cYou are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelek\u0331\u2019s, and all that was Kilyon\u2019s and Mah\u0323lon\u2019s, from the hand of Na\u201bomi."}, {"pk": 2719287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd also, Ruth the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess, the wife of Mah\u0323lon, I have acquired as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead should not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, \u201cWitnesses! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 make the woman who is coming to your house as Rah\u0323\u0115l and as L\u0115\u2019ah, the two who built the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And prove your worth in Ephrathah and proclaim the Name in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2719289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd let your house be like the house of Perets, whom Tamar bore to Yehud\u0331ah, of the seed which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does give you from this young woman.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And Bo\u201baz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 granted her conception, and she bore a son."}, {"pk": 2719291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And the women said to Na\u201bomi, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. And let his Name be proclaimed in Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2719292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And Na\u201bomi took the child and laid him on her bosom, and became a nurse to him."}, {"pk": 2719294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And the women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, \u201cThere is a son born to Na\u201bomi.\u201d And they called his name Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331. He was the father of Yishai, the father of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And this is the genealogy of Perets: Perets brought forth H\u0323etsron."}, {"pk": 2719296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And H\u0323etsron brought forth Ram, and Ram brought forth Amminad\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And Amminad\u0331ab\u0331 brought forth Nah\u0323shon, and Nah\u0323shon brought forth Salmon."}, {"pk": 2719298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And Salmon brought forth Bo\u201baz, and Bo\u201baz brought forth Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 8, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331 brought forth Yishai, and Yishai brought forth Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a certain man of Ramathayim Tsophim, of the mountains of Ephrayim, and his name was Elqanah son of Yeroh\u0323am, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Tsuph, an Ephrayimite."}, {"pk": 2706277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And he had two wives, the name of one was H\u0323annah, and the name of the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but H\u0323annah had no children."}, {"pk": 2706278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Now this man went up from his city year by year to worship and to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of \u011ali, H\u0323ophni and Pineh\u0323as, the priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, were there."}, {"pk": 2706279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the day came for Elqanah to make a slaughtering, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters,"}, {"pk": 2706280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "but, although he loved H\u0323annah, he gave only one portion to H\u0323annah, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had shut up her womb."}, {"pk": 2706281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Moreover, her rival also provoked her greatly, to make her irritable, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had shut up her womb."}, {"pk": 2706282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And so he did, year by year. Whenever she went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, she was provoked, so that she wept and did not eat."}, {"pk": 2706283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And her husband Elqanah said to her, \u201cH\u0323annah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And H\u0323annah rose up after eating and drinking in Shiloh, while \u011ali the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And she was bitter in life, and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and wept greatly."}, {"pk": 2706286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And she made a vow and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, if You would indeed look on the affliction of your female servant and remember me, and not forget your female servant, but shall give your female servant a male child, then I shall give him to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the days of his life, and let no razor come upon his head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And it came to be, as she kept on praying before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that \u011ali was watching her mouth."}, {"pk": 2706288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323annah spoke in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. So \u011ali thought she was drunk."}, {"pk": 2706289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Then \u011ali said to her, \u201cHow long are you going to be drunk? Put your wine away from you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And H\u0323annah answered and said, \u201cNo, my master, I am a woman pained in spirit. And I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my being before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cDo not take your female servant for a daughter of Beliya\u201bal, for it is out of my great concern and provocation that I have spoken until now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u011ali answered and said, \u201cGo in peace, and the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l give you your petition which you have asked of Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And she said, \u201cLet your female servant find favour in your eyes.\u201d And the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no more <i>sad</i>."}, {"pk": 2706294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And they rose up early in the morning and worshipped before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elqanah knew H\u0323annah his wife, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 remembered her."}, {"pk": 2706295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be at the turn of days, that H\u0323annah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cBecause I have asked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And the man Elqanah and all his house went up to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the yearly slaughtering and his vow."}, {"pk": 2706297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "But H\u0323annah did not go up, for she said to her husband, \u201cWhen the child is weaned, then I shall take him. And he shall appear before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and remain forever there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And her husband Elqanah said to her, \u201cDo what is good in your eyes. Remain until you have weaned him. Only let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 establish His word.\u201d And the woman remained and nursed her son until she had weaned him."}, {"pk": 2706299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one \u0115phah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Shiloh. And the child was young.", "comment": "DSS read a \u2018one three year old bull\u2019. See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/9'>15:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2706300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And they slew a bull, and brought the child to \u011ali."}, {"pk": 2706301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And she said, \u201cO my master! As your being lives, my master, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cI prayed for this youth, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has granted me what I asked of Him."}, {"pk": 2706303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSo I have also loaned him to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. All the days that he lives he shall be loaned to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And he worshipped there before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And H\u0323annah prayed and said, \u201cMy heart rejoices in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my horn has been high in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. My mouth is opened wide over my enemies, for I have rejoiced in Your deliverance."}, {"pk": 2706305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThere is no one set-apart like \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for there is no one besides You, and there is no rock like our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2706306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cDo not multiply words so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is an \u011al of knowledge, and by Him deeds are weighed."}, {"pk": 2706307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumble shall be girded with strength."}, {"pk": 2706308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThe satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children pines away."}, {"pk": 2706309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 puts to death and makes alive, He brings down to She\u2019ol and raises up."}, {"pk": 2706310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and lifts up."}, {"pk": 2706311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cHe raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to sit with princes, and make them inherit a throne of esteem. For the supports of the earth belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He has set the world upon them."}, {"pk": 2706312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cHe guards the feet of His lovingly-commited ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power."}, {"pk": 2706313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThose who oppose \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are shattered, from the heavens He thunders against them. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 judges the ends of the earth, and gives strength to His sovereign, and exalts the horn of His anointed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elqanah went to his house at Ramah. But the youth served \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before \u011ali the priest."}, {"pk": 2706315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sons of \u011ali were sons of Beliya\u201bal \u2014 they did not know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And the ruling of the priests with the people was that when any man slaughtered a slaughtering, the priest\u2019s servant shall come with a three-pronged flesh-hook in his hand while the meat was cooking,"}, {"pk": 2706317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "and shall strike it into the basin, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot. And the priest would take for himself all that the flesh-hook brought up. Thus they did in Shiloh to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who came there."}, {"pk": 2706318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Also, before they burned the fat, the priest\u2019s servant would come and say to the man who slaughtered, \u201cGive meat for roasting to the priest, for he does not accept cooked meat from you, but raw.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And if the man said to him, \u201cLet the fat be burned up first, then take as much as your being desires,\u201d he would then answer him, \u201cNo, but give it to me now. And if not, I shall take it by strength.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sin of the young men was very great before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for the men despised the offering of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "But Shemu\u2019\u0115l was attending before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 a youth, wearing a linen shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2706322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And his mother would make him a little robe, and bring it to him year by year when she came up with her husband to slaughter the yearly slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2706323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u011ali blessed Elqanah and his wife, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 give you offspring from this woman for the one she prayed for and gave to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d Then they would go to their own home."}, {"pk": 2706324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 visited H\u0323annah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters, while the young Shemu\u2019\u0115l grew before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u011ali was very old, and had heard all that his sons were doing to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and how they lay with the women who were assembling at the door of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2706326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhy do you do deeds like these? For I hear of your evil deeds from all the people."}, {"pk": 2706327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cNo, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear: making the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 transgress."}, {"pk": 2706328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIf one man sins against another, Elohim shall judge him. But if a man sins against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who shall pray for him?\u201d But they did not listen to the voice of their father, though \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was pleased to put them to death."}, {"pk": 2706329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "And the young Shemu\u2019\u0115l was growing in stature, and was in favour with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and also with men."}, {"pk": 2706330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And a man of Elohim came to \u011ali and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Did I not clearly reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Mitsrayim in Pharaoh\u2019s house,"}, {"pk": 2706331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "even to choose him out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to be My priest, to offer upon My slaughter-place, to burn incense, and to wear a shoulder garment before Me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l made by fire?"}, {"pk": 2706332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "Why do you kick at My slaughtering and My offering which I have commanded in My Dwelling Place, and esteem your sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Yisra\u2019\u0115l My people?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTherefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l declares, \u2018I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.\u2019 But now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 declares, \u2018Far be it from Me, for those who <i>highly</i> esteem Me I <i>highly</i> esteem, and those who despise Me are lightly esteemed."}, {"pk": 2706334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "See, the days are coming that I shall cut off your arm and the arm of your father\u2019s house, so that an old man shall not be <i>found</i> in your house."}, {"pk": 2706335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "And you shall see an enemy in My Dwelling Place, despite all the good which Elohim does for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever."}, {"pk": 2706336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My slaughter-place is to consume your eyes and grieve your life, and all the increase of your house die as men."}, {"pk": 2706337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "And this is the sign to you that comes upon your two sons, upon H\u0323ophni and Pineh\u0323as: in one day they are going to die, both of them."}, {"pk": 2706338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "And I shall raise up for Myself a trustworthy priest who does according to what is in My heart and in My being. And I shall build him a steadfast house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever."}, {"pk": 2706339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "And it shall be that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a cake of bread, and say, \u201cPlease, put me in one of the priestly positions to eat a piece of bread.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And the young Shemu\u2019\u0115l was serving \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before \u011ali. And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was rare in those days \u2014 no vision breaking forth."}, {"pk": 2706341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be in that day, that \u011ali was lying down in his place. And his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he was unable to see,"}, {"pk": 2706342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And the lamp of Elohim had not gone out in the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 where the ark of Elohim was, and Shemu\u2019\u0115l was lying down to sleep."}, {"pk": 2706343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and he answered, \u201cHere I am!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "He then ran to \u011ali and said, \u201cHere I am, for you called me.\u201d But he said, \u201cI did not call \u2014 lie down again.\u201d So he went and lay down."}, {"pk": 2706345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 again called, \u201cShemu\u2019\u0115l!\u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l arose and went to \u011ali, and said, \u201cHere I am, for you called me.\u201d But he answered, \u201cMy son, I did not call \u2014 lie down again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Now Shemu\u2019\u0115l did not yet know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not yet revealed to him."}, {"pk": 2706347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called Shemu\u2019\u0115l again the third time, and he arose and went to \u011ali, and said, \u201cHere I am, for you did call me.\u201d Then \u011ali understood that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had called the youth."}, {"pk": 2706348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "So \u011ali said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cGo, lie down. And it shall be, if He calls you, say, \u2018Speak, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for Your servant hears.\u2019 \u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l went and lay down in his place."}, {"pk": 2706349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came and stood and called as at other times, \u201cShemu\u2019\u0115l! Shemu\u2019\u0115l!\u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l answered, \u201cSpeak, for Your servant hears.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am doing a matter in Yisra\u2019\u0115l at which both ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle."}, {"pk": 2706351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIn that day I shall confirm against \u011ali all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end."}, {"pk": 2706352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor I have declared to him that I am judging his house forever for the crookedness which he knows, because his sons cursed Elohim, and he did not rebuke them."}, {"pk": 2706353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd therefore I have sworn to the house of \u011ali that the crookedness of the house of \u011ali shall never be atoned for, by slaughtering or grain offering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l lay down until morning, and opened the doors of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l was afraid to report the vision to \u011ali."}, {"pk": 2706355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Then \u011ali called Shemu\u2019\u0115l and said, \u201cShemu\u2019\u0115l, my son!\u201d And he answered, \u201cHere I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat is the word that He spoke to you? Please do not hide it from me. Elohim do so to you, and more also, if you hide a word from me of all the words that He spoke to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l reported to him all the words, and hid none from him. And he said, \u201cIt is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Let Him do what is good in His eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l grew up, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him and did not let any of his words fall to the ground."}, {"pk": 2706359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a knew that Shemu\u2019\u0115l had been established as a prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 continued to appear in Shiloh, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 revealed Himself to Shemu\u2019\u0115l in Shiloh by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus the word of Shemu\u2019\u0115l was to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out to battle against the Philistines, and encamped beside Eb\u0331en Ha\u201b\u0115zer, while the Philistines encamped in Aph\u0115q."}, {"pk": 2706362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Philistines put themselves in battle array against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And when the battle spread, Yisra\u2019\u0115l was stricken by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field."}, {"pk": 2706363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And when the people came into the camp, the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhy has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from Shiloh to us, so that He comes into our midst and save us from the hand of our enemies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, dwelling between the kerub\u0331im. And the two sons of \u011ali, H\u0323ophni and Pineh\u0323as, were there with the ark of the covenant of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2706365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And when the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came into the camp, all Yisra\u2019\u0115l shouted so loudly that the earth shook."}, {"pk": 2706366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, \u201cWhat is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?\u201d And when they knew that the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had come into the camp,"}, {"pk": 2706367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "the Philistines were afraid, for they said, \u201cElohim has come into the camp!\u201d And they said, \u201cWoe to us! For it has never been like this before."}, {"pk": 2706368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWoe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty Elohim? These are the Elohim who struck the Mitsrites with all the plagues in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2706369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBe strong and be men, you Philistines, that you do not become servants of the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men, and fight!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And the Philistines fought, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l was smitten, and every man fled to his tent. And the slaughter was very great, and there fell of Yisra\u2019\u0115l thirty thousand foot soldiers."}, {"pk": 2706371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And the ark of Elohim was captured, and the two sons of \u011ali died, H\u0323ophni and Pineh\u0323as."}, {"pk": 2706372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And a man of Binyamin ran from the battle line the same day, and came to Shiloh with his garments torn and dirt on his head."}, {"pk": 2706373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And he came in and saw \u011ali, sitting on a seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of Elohim. And the man came into the city and reported it, and all the city cried out."}, {"pk": 2706374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u011ali heard the noise of the outcry and said, \u201cWhat is the noise of this uproar?\u201d And the man came hastily and informed \u011ali."}, {"pk": 2706375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Now \u011ali was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were so dim that he was unable to see."}, {"pk": 2706376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And the man said to \u011ali, \u201cI am he who came from the battle. And I fled today from the battle line.\u201d And he said, \u201cWhat was the matter, my son?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And the messenger answered and said, \u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. And your two sons have died, H\u0323ophni and Pineh\u0323as, and the ark of Elohim has been captured.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, when he made mention of the ark of Elohim, that \u011ali fell off the seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. And he ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l forty years."}, {"pk": 2706379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And his daughter-in-law, Pineh\u0323as\u2019 wife, was pregnant, about to bear. And when she heard the news that the ark of Elohim was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth, because her pains came upon her."}, {"pk": 2706380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, \u201cDo not fear, for you have borne a son.\u201d But she did not answer, nor did she set her heart to it."}, {"pk": 2706381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And she called the child Ik\u0331ab\u0331od\u0331, saying, \u201cThe esteem has departed from Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d because the ark of Elohim was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband."}, {"pk": 2706382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And she said, \u201cThe esteem has departed from Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the ark of Elohim was taken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Philistines took the ark of Elohim and brought it from Eb\u0331en Ha\u201b\u0115zer to Ashdod\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2706384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "and the Philistines took the ark of Elohim and brought it into the house of Da\u1e21on and set it by Da\u1e21on."}, {"pk": 2706385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And the Ashdod\u0331ites rose early in the morning and saw Da\u1e21on fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So they took Da\u1e21on and put it in its place again."}, {"pk": 2706386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And they arose early the next morning and saw Da\u1e21on fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the head of Da\u1e21on and both the palms of its hands cut off, on the threshold, only Da\u1e21on itself was left of it."}, {"pk": 2706387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "That is why, to this day, the priests of Da\u1e21on and all who come into Da\u1e21on\u2019s house do not tread on the threshold of Da\u1e21on in Ashdod\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "But the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was heavy on the Ashdod\u0331ites, and He wasted them and struck them with tumours \u2014 Ashdod\u0331 and its borders."}, {"pk": 2706389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the men of Ashdod\u0331 saw this, they said, \u201cLet not the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l remain with us, for His hand has been hard on us, and on Da\u1e21on our mighty one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Then they sent and gathered to them all the princes of the Philistines, and said, \u201cWhat do we do with the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d And they answered, \u201cLet the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l be removed to Gath.\u201d And they removed the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, after they removed it, that the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was against the city with a very great destruction. And He struck the men of the city, from the least to the greatest, and tumours broke out on them."}, {"pk": 2706392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "They then sent the ark of Elohim to Eqron. And it came to be, as the ark of Elohim came to Eqron, that the Eqronites cried out, saying, \u201cThey have removed the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to us, to kill us and our people!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And they sent and gathered together all the princes of the Philistines, and said, \u201cSend away the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and let it return to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.\u201d For there had come a deadly destruction throughout all the city \u2014 the hand of Elohim was very heavy there."}, {"pk": 2706394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And the men who did not die were stricken with tumours, and the cry of the city went up to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2706395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was in the field of the Philistines for seven new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2706396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, \u201cWhat do we do with the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Let us know with what we should send it to its place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said, \u201cIf you send away the ark of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, do not send it empty, but you shall certainly return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you are going to be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand does not turn aside from you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said, \u201cWhat is the guilt offering which we return to Him?\u201d And they answered, \u201cThe number of the princes of the Philistines: five golden tumours and five golden rats. For the same plague was on all of you and on your princes."}, {"pk": 2706399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall make images of your tumours and images of your rats that ruin the land, and you shall give esteem to the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. It could be that He does lift His hand from you, from your mighty ones, and from your land."}, {"pk": 2706400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd why do you harden your hearts as the Mitsrites and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had severely dealt with them, did they not send them away, and they went?"}, {"pk": 2706401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, take and make a new wagon, and two milk cows which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the wagon. And take their calves home, away from them."}, {"pk": 2706402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd take the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and put it on the wagon. And put the objects of gold which you are returning to Him as a guilt offering in a chest by its side, and send it away, and it shall go."}, {"pk": 2706403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall see, if it goes up the way to its own border, to B\u0115yth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that His hand has not come against us \u2014 an accident it was to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And the men did so and took two milk cows and hitched them to the wagon, and shut up their calves at home."}, {"pk": 2706405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And they put the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the wagon, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumours."}, {"pk": 2706406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And the cows went straight for the way to B\u0115yth Shemesh, and went along the highway, bellowing as they went, and did not turn aside, right or left. And the princes of the Philistines went after them to the border of B\u0115yth Shemesh."}, {"pk": 2706407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And <i>they</i> of B\u0115yth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And they lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it."}, {"pk": 2706408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And the wagon came into the field of Yehoshua of B\u0115yth Shemesh and stood there, and there was a great stone. So they split the wood of the wagon and offered the cows as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And the L\u0115wites took down the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the chest that was with it, in which were the objects of gold, and put them on the great stone. And the men of B\u0115yth Shemesh offered ascending offerings and slaughtered slaughterings the same day to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And when the five princes of the Philistines saw it, they returned to Eqron the same day."}, {"pk": 2706411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And these are the gold tumours which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: one for Ashdod\u0331, one for Azzah, one for Ashqelon, one for Gath, one for Eqron,"}, {"pk": 2706412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "and the gold rats, by the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five princes, both walled cities and country villages, even as far as the great meadow on which they placed the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>remain</i> to this day in the field of Yehoshua of B\u0115yth Shemesh."}, {"pk": 2706413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And He struck among the men of B\u0115yth Shemesh, for they had looked into the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He struck among the people seventy men, and the people mourned because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 struck among the people, a great smiting."}, {"pk": 2706414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And the men of B\u0115yth Shemesh said, \u201cWho is able to stand before this set-apart \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim? And to whom shall He go from us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Qiryath Ye\u201barim, saying, \u201cThe Philistines have brought back the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Come down, take it up to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the men of Qiryath Ye\u201barim came and took the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and brought it into the house of Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331 on the hill, and set apart El\u201bazar his son to guard the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, from the day that the ark remained in Qiryath Ye\u201barim, that the time increased, it came to be twenty years. And all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l lamented after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l spoke to all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cIf you return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all your hearts, then put away the foreign mighty ones and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and serve Him only, so that He delivers you from the hand of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l put away the Ba\u201bals and Ashtaroth, and served \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 only."}, {"pk": 2706420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cGather all Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Mitspah and let me pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And they gathered to Mitspah and drew water, and poured it out before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they fasted that day, and said there, \u201cWe have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l rightly ruled the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l at Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2706422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the Philistines heard that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had gathered together at Mitspah, the princes of the Philistines went up against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard of it, and were afraid of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cDo not cease to cry out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim for us, that He would save us from the hand of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l took a suckling lamb and offered it as an ascending offering, completely, to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered him."}, {"pk": 2706425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, as Shemu\u2019\u0115l offered up the ascending offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 thundered with a great noise on that day on the Philistines, and troubled them, and they were smitten before Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out from Mitspah and pursued the Philistines, and struck them as far as below B\u0115yth Kar."}, {"pk": 2706427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l took a stone and set it up between Mitspah and Sh\u0115n, and called its name Eb\u0331en Ha\u201b\u0115zer, saying, \u201cThus far \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has helped us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus the Philistines were humbled, and no longer came into the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was against the Philistines all the days of Shemu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Yisra\u2019\u0115l were returned to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from Eqron to Gath. And Yisra\u2019\u0115l recovered its border from the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the Amorites."}, {"pk": 2706430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l rightly ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l all the days of his life,"}, {"pk": 2706431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "and each year he made the rounds of B\u0115yth \u011al, and Gilgal, and Mitspah, and rightly ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l in all those places."}, {"pk": 2706432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "Then he returned to Ramah, for his home was there. And there he rightly ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and there he built a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Shemu\u2019\u0115l was old, that he made his sons rulers over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And the name of his first-born was Yo\u2019\u0115l, and the name of his second, Ab\u0331iyah, rulers in Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2706435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "But his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after own gain, and took bribes, and twisted right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2706436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered together and came to Shemu\u2019\u0115l at Ramah,"}, {"pk": 2706437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "and said to him, \u201cLook, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a sovereign to rule us like all the nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "But the word was evil in the eyes of Shemu\u2019\u0115l when they said, \u201cGive us a sovereign to rule us.\u201d So Shemu\u2019\u0115l prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cListen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them."}, {"pk": 2706440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAccording to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Mitsrayim, even to this day \u2014 forsaking Me and serving other mighty ones \u2014 so they are doing to you too."}, {"pk": 2706441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd now, listen to their voice, but you shall certainly warn them, and shall make known to them the ruling of the sovereign who does reign over them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l spoke all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the people who asked him for a sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2706443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "and said, \u201cThis is the ruling of the sovereign who does reign over you: He shall take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and they shall run before his chariots,"}, {"pk": 2706444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "and appoint commanders over his thousands and commanders over his fifties, or to plough his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons, and equipment for his chariots."}, {"pk": 2706445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd your daughters he is going to take to be perfumers, and cooks, and bakers."}, {"pk": 2706446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the best of your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-trees he is going to take and give them to his servants."}, {"pk": 2706447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd a tenth of your grain and your vintage he is going to take and give it to his officers and servants."}, {"pk": 2706448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys he is going to take and use for his own work."}, {"pk": 2706449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cA tenth of your sheep he is going to take, and you are to be his servants."}, {"pk": 2706450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall cry out in that day because of your sovereign whom you have chosen for yourselves, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not going to answer you in that day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "However, the people refused to listen to the voice of Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and said, \u201cNo, but let a sovereign be over us."}, {"pk": 2706452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "Then we shall be, we also, like all the nations, and our sovereign shall rule us and go out before us and fight our battles.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cListen to their voice, and make them a sovereign.\u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cEach of you go to his city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a man of Binyamin whose name was Qish, son of Ab\u0331i\u2019\u0115l, son of Tseror, son of Bek\u0331orath, son of Aphiyah\u0323, a Binyamite, a mighty man of power."}, {"pk": 2706456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And he had a son whose name was Sha\u2019ul, young and handsome. And there was not a more handsome man than he among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, taller than any of the people by the shoulders and upwards."}, {"pk": 2706457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And the donkeys of Qish, father of Sha\u2019ul, were lost. And Qish said to his son Sha\u2019ul, \u201cPlease take one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And he passed through the mountains of Ephrayim and through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. Then they passed through the land of Sha\u201balim, but they were not. Then he passed through the land of the Binyamites, but they did not find them."}, {"pk": 2706459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "They came to the land of Tsuph, and Sha\u2019ul said to his servant who was with him, \u201cCome, let us turn back, lest my father stops <i>thinking</i> about the donkeys and become worried about us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cSee, there is in this city a man of Elohim, and the man is esteemed. All that he says comes true, without fail. Now, let us go there. It could be that he shows us the way to go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his servant, \u201cBut look, if we go, what do we bring the man? For the bread in our bags is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of Elohim. What do we have?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And the servant answered Sha\u2019ul again and said, \u201cLook, I have here at hand one fourth of a sheqel of silver. And I shall give that to the man of Elohim, and he shall make known to us our way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "Formerly, in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when a man went to inquire of Elohim, he spoke thus, \u201cCome, let us go to the seer,\u201d for the prophet of today was formerly called a seer."}, {"pk": 2706464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his servant, \u201cYour word is good. Come, let us go.\u201d And they went to the city where the man of Elohim was."}, {"pk": 2706465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them, \u201cIs the seer here?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And they answered them and said, \u201cHe is. Look, ahead of you. Hurry now, for he came to this city today, for the people have a slaughtering on the high place today."}, {"pk": 2706467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAs you come into the city, you are going to find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people do not eat until he comes, for he blesses the slaughtering, afterward they who are invited eat. And now, go up, for you should find him about this time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And they went up to the city. They were coming into the midst of the city, and saw Shemu\u2019\u0115l coming out toward them to go up to the high place."}, {"pk": 2706469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had revealed to Shemu\u2019\u0115l in his ear the day before Sha\u2019ul came, saying,"}, {"pk": 2706470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAt this time tomorrow I shall send you a man from the land of Binyamin, and you shall anoint him leader over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and he shall save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen My people, because their cry has come to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And when Shemu\u2019\u0115l saw Sha\u2019ul, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cSee, the man of whom I spoke to you. Let this one govern My people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul drew near to Shemu\u2019\u0115l in the gate, and said, \u201cPlease inform me, where is the house of the seer?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l answered Sha\u2019ul and said, \u201cI am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today. And tomorrow I shall let you go and make known to you all that is in your heart."}, {"pk": 2706474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAs for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your heart on them, for they have been found. And on whom is all the desire of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Is it not on you and on all your father\u2019s house?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul answered and said, \u201cAm I not a Binyamite \u2014 of the smallest of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Binyamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l took Sha\u2019ul and his servant and brought them into the hall, and gave to them a place at the head of those who were invited, and there were about thirty men."}, {"pk": 2706477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to the cook, \u201cBring the portion which I gave you, of which I told you to set it aside.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And the cook brought out the thigh with its upper part and set it before Sha\u2019ul. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cSee what was kept back. It was set aside for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this appointed time, saying, I have invited the people.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul ate with Shemu\u2019\u0115l on that day."}, {"pk": 2706479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And they came down from the high place into the city, and Shemu\u2019\u0115l spoke with Sha\u2019ul on the roof."}, {"pk": 2706480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And they rose early. And it came to be about the dawning of the day that Shemu\u2019\u0115l called to Sha\u2019ul on the roof, saying, \u201cRise, so that I send you on your way.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul rose, and both of them went outside, he and Shemu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "As they were walking toward the edge of the city, Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cSay to the servant to go on ahead of us.\u201d And he went on. \u201cBut you stand here a moment, so that I let you hear the word of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said, \u201cIs it not because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has anointed you leader over His inheritance?"}, {"pk": 2706483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen you leave me today, you shall find two men by Rah\u0323\u0115l\u2019s burial-place in the border of Binyamin at Tseltsah\u0323, and they shall say to you, \u2018The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And see, your father has left the matters of the donkeys and is worrying about you, saying, \u201cWhat shall I do for my son?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2706484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall pass on from there, and beyond, and shall come to the terebinth tree of Tab\u0331or. And three men going up to Elohim at B\u0115yth \u011al shall find you there, one bearing three young goats, another bearing three loaves of bread, and another bearing a skin of wine."}, {"pk": 2706485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand."}, {"pk": 2706486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAfter that go to the hill of Elohim where the Philistine watch-post is. And it shall be, when you have come there to the city, that you shall meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, and a tambourine, and a flute, and a lyre before them, and they are prophesying."}, {"pk": 2706487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall come upon you, and you shall prophesy with them and be turned into another man."}, {"pk": 2706488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when these signs come to you, do for yourself as your hand finds to do, for Elohim is with you."}, {"pk": 2706489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall go down before me to Gilgal. And see, I am coming down to you to offer ascending offerings and slaughter slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i>. Wait seven days, till I come to you, then I shall make known to you what you should do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, when he had turned his back to go from Shemu\u2019\u0115l, that Elohim gave him another heart. And all those signs came on that day."}, {"pk": 2706491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And they came there to the hill and saw a group of prophets, to meet him. And the Spirit of Elohim came upon him, and he prophesied in their midst."}, {"pk": 2706492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, all who knew him formerly looked and saw that he prophesied among the prophets. So the people said to each other, \u201cWhat is this that has come upon the son of Qish? Is Sha\u2019ul also among the prophets?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And a man there answered and said, \u201cAnd who is their father?\u201d That is why it became a proverb, \u201cIs Sha\u2019ul also among the prophets?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And when he stopped prophesying, he went to the high place."}, {"pk": 2706495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And the uncle of Sha\u2019ul asked him and his servant, \u201cWhere did you go?\u201d And he said, \u201cTo look for the donkeys. And when we saw that they were nowhere to be found, we went to Shemu\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And the uncle of Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cPlease inform me what Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his uncle, \u201cHe informed us plainly that the donkeys had been found.\u201d But he did not disclose to him about the matter of the reign, what Shemu\u2019\u0115l had said."}, {"pk": 2706498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l called the people together to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Mitspah,"}, {"pk": 2706499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "and said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I have brought Yisra\u2019\u0115l up out of Mitsrayim, and delivered you from the hand of the Mitsrites and from the hand of all reigns and from those who oppressed you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd today you have rejected your Elohim, who Himself saved you out of all your evils and your distresses. And you have said to Him, \u2018No, but set a sovereign over us!\u2019 And now, present yourselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by your tribes and by your clans.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l brought near all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the tribe of Binyamin was taken."}, {"pk": 2706502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "Then he brought near the tribe of Binyamin, by their clans, and the clan of Matri was taken, and Sha\u2019ul son of Qish was taken. And when they sought him, he could not be found."}, {"pk": 2706503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And they asked again of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHas the man come here yet?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered, \u201cSee, he has hidden by the baggage.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And they ran and brought him from there. And he stood in the midst of the people, and he was taller than any of the people, from his shoulders and upwards."}, {"pk": 2706505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to all the people, \u201cDo you see him whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?\u201d And all the people shouted and said, \u201cLet the sovereign live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l declared to the people the rulings of the reign, and wrote it in a book and placed it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l sent all the people away, each to his house."}, {"pk": 2706507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul went to his house too, to Gib\u0331\u201bah. And with him went brave men whose hearts Elohim had touched."}, {"pk": 2706508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "But the sons of Beliya\u201bal said, \u201cWhat! Does this one save us?\u201d And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he kept silent."}, {"pk": 2706509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And Nah\u0323ash the Ammonite came up and camped against Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331. And all the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh said to Nah\u0323ash, \u201cMake a covenant with us, and we shall serve you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Nah\u0323ash the Ammonite answered them, \u201cFor this I make a covenant with you, that I dig out all your right eyes, and I shall bring reproach on all Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And the elders of Yab\u0331\u0115sh said to him, \u201cLeave us alone for seven days, so that we send messengers to all the borders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And then, if there is no one to save us, we shall come out to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And the messengers came to Gib\u0331\u201bah of Sha\u2019ul and spoke the words in the hearing of the people. And all the people lifted up their voices and wept."}, {"pk": 2706513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And look, Sha\u2019ul was coming behind the herd from the field. And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cWhy are the people weeping?\u201d And they related to him the words of the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh."}, {"pk": 2706514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Spirit of Elohim came upon Sha\u2019ul mightily as he heard these words, and his displeasure burned greatly."}, {"pk": 2706515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And he took a yoke of cattle and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l by the hands of messengers, saying, \u201cWhoever does not go out with Sha\u2019ul and Shemu\u2019\u0115l to battle, let this be done to his cattle.\u201d And the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell on the people, and they came out as one man."}, {"pk": 2706516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And he mustered them in Bezeq, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were three hundred thousand, and the men of Yehud\u0331ah thirty thousand."}, {"pk": 2706517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And they said to the messengers who came, \u201cSay this to the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331, \u2018Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have help.\u2019 \u201d Then the messengers came and informed the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh, and they rejoiced."}, {"pk": 2706518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "So the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh said, \u201cTomorrow we come out to you, and you shall do to us whatever seems good to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, on the next day, that Sha\u2019ul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And it came to be that those left were scattered, so that no two of them were left together."}, {"pk": 2706520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And the people said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cWho said, \u2018Shall Sha\u2019ul reign over us?\u2019 Bring the men, so that we put them to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cNo man is put to death this day, for today \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has wrought deliverance in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to the people, \u201cCome, and let us go to Gilgal and renew the reign there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they set up Sha\u2019ul to reign before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Gilgal, and there they slaughtered slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And there Sha\u2019ul rejoiced, and all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, very greatly."}, {"pk": 2706524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cLook, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have set a sovereign over you."}, {"pk": 2706525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd now, look, the sovereign is walking before you. And I am old and grey, and look, my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth to this day."}, {"pk": 2706526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLook, here I am. Witness against me before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I abused, or from whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? \u2014 then I restore it to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said, \u201cYou have not oppressed us or abused us, nor have you taken any <i>bribe</i> from anyone\u2019s hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "So he said to them, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is witness against you, and His anointed is witness today, that you have found naught in my hand.\u201d And they answered, \u201cHe is witness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to the people, \u201cIt is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who appointed Mosheh and Aharon, and who brought your fathers up from the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2706530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, stand still, so that I judge you before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning all the righteous acts of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He did to you and your fathers:"}, {"pk": 2706531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen Ya\u201baqob\u0331 had come to Mitsrayim, and your fathers cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent Mosheh and Aharon, who brought your fathers out of Mitsrayim and made them dwell in this place."}, {"pk": 2706532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut they forgot \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of H\u0323atsor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331. And they fought against them."}, {"pk": 2706533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u2018We have sinned, because we have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and served the Ba\u201bals and the Ashtaroth. And now, deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we serve You.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent Yerubba\u201bal, and Bed\u0331an, and Yiphtah\u0323, and Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies round about, and you dwelt in safety."}, {"pk": 2706535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd when you saw that Nah\u0323ash sovereign of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, \u2018No, but let a sovereign reign over us,\u2019 when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim was your sovereign."}, {"pk": 2706536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now, here is the sovereign whom you have chosen and whom you have asked. And see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has set a sovereign over you."}, {"pk": 2706537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIf you fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and shall serve Him and obey His voice, and not rebel against the command of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then both you and the sovereign who reigns over you shall follow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2706538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and shall rebel against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be against you, as it was against your fathers."}, {"pk": 2706539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, stand and see this great matter which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does before your eyes:"}, {"pk": 2706540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cIs today not the wheat harvest? Let me call to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so that He sends thunder and rain \u2014 know then and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in asking for yourselves a sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l called to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and Shemu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And all the people said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cPray for your servants to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, that we do not die, for we have added to all our sins <i>this</i> evil of asking for ourselves a sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to the people, \u201cDo not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And you shall serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all your heart,"}, {"pk": 2706544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "and do not turn aside after worthless <i>matters</i> which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless."}, {"pk": 2706545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not cast away His people, for His great Name\u2019s sake, seeing it has pleased \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to make you His people."}, {"pk": 2706546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAlso, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way."}, {"pk": 2706547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cOnly fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and you shall serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider what marvels He has done for you."}, {"pk": 2706548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut if you persist in doing evil, both you and your sovereign are consumed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul was ... years old when he began to reign. And when he had reigned two years over Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2706550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "Sha\u2019ul chose for himself three thousand men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And two thousand were with Sha\u2019ul in Mik\u0331mash and in the mountains of B\u0115yth \u011al, and a thousand were with Yonathan in Gib\u0331\u201bah of Binyamin. And the rest of the people he sent away, each to his tent."}, {"pk": 2706551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yonathan struck the watch-post of the Philistines that was in Geb\u0331a, and the Philistines heard of it. And Sha\u2019ul blew with the shophar throughout all the land, saying, \u201cLet the Hebrews hear!\u201d", "comment": "An animal horn. Traditionally a ram\u2019s horn."}, {"pk": 2706552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard the news that Sha\u2019ul had stricken a watch-post of the Philistines, and also that Yisra\u2019\u0115l had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were summoned to Sha\u2019ul at Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2706553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Philistines gathered to fight Yisra\u2019\u0115l, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And they came up and encamped in Mik\u0331mash, east of B\u0115yth Awen."}, {"pk": 2706554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that they were in trouble, for the people were distressed, and the people hid in caves, and in thorny bushes, and in rocks, and in holes, and in pits."}, {"pk": 2706555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And <i>some</i> Hebrews passed over the Yard\u0115n to the land of Gad\u0331 and Gil\u201bad\u0331. But Sha\u2019ul was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him, trembling."}, {"pk": 2706556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And he waited for seven days, according to the appointment with Shemu\u2019\u0115l. But Shemu\u2019\u0115l did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him."}, {"pk": 2706557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cBring an ascending offering and peace offerings here to me.\u201d And he offered the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2706558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, as he had finished offering the ascending offering, look, Shemu\u2019\u0115l came. And Sha\u2019ul went out to meet him, to bless him."}, {"pk": 2706559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "Then Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhat have you done?\u201d And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cBecause I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered at Mik\u0331mash,"}, {"pk": 2706560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "so I said, \u2018The Philistines are going to come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not appeased the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 So I felt compelled, and offered an ascending offering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cYou have been foolish. You have not guarded the command of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, which He commanded you. For now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would have established your reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever."}, {"pk": 2706562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut now, your reign is not going to stand. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall seek for Himself a man after His own heart, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall command him to be leader over His people, because you have not guarded what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded you.\u201d", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/13/22'>13:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2706563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l arose and went up from Gilgal to Gib\u0331\u201bah of Binyamin. And Sha\u2019ul mustered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men."}, {"pk": 2706564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, and Yonathan his son, and the people who were present with them remained in Gib\u0331\u201bah of Binyamin, while the Philistines camped at Mik\u0331mash."}, {"pk": 2706565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And from the camp of the Philistines raiders went out in three companies. The one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shu\u201bal,"}, {"pk": 2706566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "and another company turned toward the way of B\u0115yth H\u0323oron, and another company turned toward the way of the border that overlooks the Valley of Tseb\u0331o\u201bim toward the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2706567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the Philistines said, \u201cLest the Hebrews make swords or spears.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l went down to the Philistines, each one to sharpen his ploughshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his sickle."}, {"pk": 2706569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "And the charge was a pim for the ploughshares, and the mattocks, and the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads."}, {"pk": 2706570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be, on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Sha\u2019ul and Yonathan. But they were found with Sha\u2019ul and Yonathan his son."}, {"pk": 2706571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And the outpost of the Philistines went out to the pass of Mik\u0331mash."}, {"pk": 2706572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be one day that Yonathan son of Sha\u2019ul said to the young man who bore his armour, \u201cCome, and let us go over to the outpost of the Philistines which is on the other side.\u201d But he did not inform his father."}, {"pk": 2706573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul remained at the outskirts of Gib\u0331\u201bah under a pomegranate tree at Mi\u1e21ron, and the people who were with him were about six hundred men."}, {"pk": 2706574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ah\u0323iyah son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331, Ik\u0331ab\u0331od\u0331\u2019s brother, son of Pineh\u0323as, son of \u011ali, the priest of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Shiloh, was wearing a shoulder garment. And the people did not know that Yonathan had gone."}, {"pk": 2706575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And between the passes, by which Yonathan sought to go over to the outpost of the Philistines, there was an edge of a rock on one side and an edge of a rock on the other side. And the name of one was Bots\u0115ts, and the name of the other Seneh."}, {"pk": 2706576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "The one edge was on the north opposite Mik\u0331mash, and the other on the south opposite Gib\u0331\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2706577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehonathan said to the young man who bore his armour, \u201cCome, and let us go over to the outpost of these uncircumcised. If so be, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does work for us. For there is no hindrance for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to save by many or by few.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And his armour-bearer said to him, \u201cDo all that is in your heart, incline yourself. See, I am with you, according to your heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And Yehonathan said, \u201cSee, we are passing over to the men \u2014 and show ourselves to them."}, {"pk": 2706580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf they say this to us, \u2018Wait until we come to you,\u2019 then we shall stand still in our place and not go up to them."}, {"pk": 2706581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut if they say this, \u2018Come up to us,\u2019 then we shall go up. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given them into our hand, and this is the sign to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And both of them disclosed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, \u201cSee, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And the men of the outpost called to Yonathan and his armour-bearer, and said, \u201cCome up to us, and let us teach you a lesson.\u201d Then Yonathan said to his armour-bearer, \u201cCome up after me, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given them into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armour-bearer after him. And they fell before Yonathan, and his armour-bearer was putting them to death behind him."}, {"pk": 2706585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And that first smiting which Yonathan and his armour-bearer struck was about twenty men, in about half an acre of land."}, {"pk": 2706586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The outpost and the raiders also trembled, and the ground shook. And it became a trembling of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2706587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And the watchmen of Sha\u2019ul in Gib\u0331\u201bah of Binyamin looked and saw the crowd melting away, and they went here and there."}, {"pk": 2706588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to the people who were with him, \u201cPlease inspect and see who has gone from us.\u201d So they inspected and saw that Yonathan and his armour-bearer were missing."}, {"pk": 2706589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Ah\u0323iyah, \u201cBring the ark of Elohim here.\u201d For the ark of Elohim was with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on that day."}, {"pk": 2706590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, while Sha\u2019ul talked to the priest, that the noise which was in the camp of the Philistines went on, and became great, so Sha\u2019ul said to the priest, \u201cWithdraw your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul was called, and all the people who were with him, and they went to the battle. And see, every man\u2019s sword was against his neighbour \u2014 a very great confusion."}, {"pk": 2706592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before that time, who went up with them into the camp, turned round, they too, to be with Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who were with Sha\u2019ul and Yonathan."}, {"pk": 2706593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who had hidden in the mountains of Ephrayim, heard that the Philistines fled, and they also pursued them in the battle."}, {"pk": 2706594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Yisra\u2019\u0115l that day, and the battle passed over to B\u0115yth Awen."}, {"pk": 2706595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were distressed that day, for Sha\u2019ul had placed the people under oath, saying, \u201cCursed be the man who eats food until evening, and I have taken revenge on my enemies.\u201d Therefore none of the people tasted food."}, {"pk": 2706596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And all <i>they</i> of the land came into the woods, and there was honey on the ground."}, {"pk": 2706597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And the people came into the woods and saw the honey, dripping. But no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath."}, {"pk": 2706598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "But Yonathan had not heard that his father had taken an oath of the people, and he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth. And his eyes lit up."}, {"pk": 2706599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "Then one of the people said, \u201cYour father strictly took an oath of the people, saying, \u2018Cursed be the man who eats food today.\u2019 \u201d And the people were weary."}, {"pk": 2706600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And Yonathan said, \u201cMy father has troubled the land. Now see how my eyes lit up when I tasted a little of this honey."}, {"pk": 2706601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cHow much better if the people had well eaten today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For then, would not the slaughter among the Philistines have been greater?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "And they struck the Philistines that day from Mik\u0331mash to Ayalon. So the people were very weary,"}, {"pk": 2706603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "and the people pounced on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and slew them on the ground. And the people ate with the blood."}, {"pk": 2706604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "And they told Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cLook, the people are sinning against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by eating with the blood!\u201d And he said, \u201cYou have acted treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cScatter among the people, and say to them, \u2018Each one bring his ox near to me, and each one his sheep, and you shall slay them here, and eat. And do not sin against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by eating with the blood.\u2019 \u201d So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slew it there."}, {"pk": 2706606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul built a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It was the first slaughter-place he built to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cLet us go down after the Philistines by night, and plunder them until the morning light, and not leave a man of them.\u201d And they said, \u201cDo whatever seems good to you.\u201d But the priest said, \u201cLet us draw near to Elohim here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul asked of Elohim, \u201cShould I go down after the Philistines? Do You give them into the hand of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d But He did not answer him that day."}, {"pk": 2706609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cCome over here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see what this sin was today."}, {"pk": 2706610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cFor as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, who saves Yisra\u2019\u0115l, though it be in Yonathan my son, he shall certainly die.\u201d But not one among all the people answered him."}, {"pk": 2706611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "text": "And he said to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cYou be on one side, and my son Yonathan and I be on the other side.\u201d And the people said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cDo what seems good to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cGive a perfect <i>lot</i>.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul and Yonathan were taken, but the people escaped."}, {"pk": 2706613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cCast <i>lots</i> between my son Yonathan and me.\u201d And Yonathan was taken."}, {"pk": 2706614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "text": "Sha\u2019ul then said to Yonathan, \u201cExplain to me what you have done.\u201d And Yonathan explained to him, and said, \u201cI only tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand. See, let me die!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul answered, \u201cElohim do so and more also, for you shall certainly die, Yonathan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "text": "But the people said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cShould Yonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Far be it! As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, let not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has wrought with Elohim this day.\u201d Thus the people ransomed Yonathan, and he did not die."}, {"pk": 2706617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 46, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul returned from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place."}, {"pk": 2706618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 47, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul took the reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and fought against all his enemies round about, against Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and against the children of Ammon, and against Ed\u0331om, and against the sovereigns of Tsob\u0331ah, and against the Philistines. And wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment."}, {"pk": 2706619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 48, "text": "And he gathered an army and struck the Amal\u0115qites, and delivered Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the hands of those who plundered them."}, {"pk": 2706620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 49, "text": "And the sons of Sha\u2019ul were Yonathan and Yishwi and Malkishua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born M\u0115rab\u0331, and the name of the younger Mik\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2706621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 50, "text": "And the name of Sha\u2019ul\u2019s wife was Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the daughter of Ah\u0323ima\u201bats. And the name of the commander of his army was Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, uncle of Sha\u2019ul.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 51, "text": "And Qish was the father of Sha\u2019ul, and N\u0115r the father of Ab\u0331n\u0115r was the son of Ab\u0331i\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 14, "verse": 52, "text": "And there was tough fighting against the Philistines all the days of Sha\u2019ul. And when Sha\u2019ul saw any mighty man or any brave man, he took him for himself.", "comment": "Lit. strong."}, {"pk": 2706624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent me to anoint you sovereign over His people, over Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And now, listen to the voice of the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018I shall punish Amal\u0115q for what he did to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up from Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2706626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "Now go, and you shall strike Amal\u0115q and put under the ban all that he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul summoned the people and mustered them in Tela\u2019im, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2706628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul came to a city of Amal\u0115q, and lay in wait in the wadi."}, {"pk": 2706629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to the Q\u0115ynites, \u201cGo, turn aside, come down from among the Amal\u0115qites, lest I destroy you with them. For you did show loving-commitment to all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l when they came up out of Mitsrayim.\u201d So the Q\u0115ynites turned aside from the midst of the Amal\u0115qites."}, {"pk": 2706630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul struck the Amal\u0115qites, from H\u0323awilah all the way to Shur, which is before Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2706631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And he caught A\u1e21a\u1e21 sovereign of the Amal\u0115qites alive, and put under the ban all the people with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2706632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul and the people spared A\u1e21a\u1e21 and the best of the sheep, and the cattle, and the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not put them under the ban. But all goods despised and worthless, that they put under the ban."}, {"pk": 2706633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, saying,"}, {"pk": 2706634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI am grieved that I have set up Sha\u2019ul as sovereign, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.\u201d And it displeased Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and he cried to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all night."}, {"pk": 2706635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l rose early in the morning to meet Sha\u2019ul, and it was told to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cSha\u2019ul went to Karmel, and see, he set up a monument for himself, then turned and passed over, and went down to Gilgal.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l came to Sha\u2019ul, and Sha\u2019ul said to him, \u201cBlessed are you of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! I have performed the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "But Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhat then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cThey have brought them from Amal\u0115q, because the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle, to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. And the rest we have put under the ban.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cWait, and let me declare to you what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me last night.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cSpeak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cThough you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? And did not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 anoint you sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2706641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent you on the way, and said, \u2018Go, and you shall put under the ban the sinners, the Amal\u0115qites, and fight against them until they are consumed.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd why did you not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but swooped down on the spoil, and did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI did obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I went on the way on which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent me, and brought back A\u1e21a\u1e21 sovereign of Amal\u0115q, and I put Amal\u0115q under the ban."}, {"pk": 2706644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut the people took of the spoil, of the sheep and cattle, the best of that which should have been put under the ban, to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in Gilgal.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cDoes \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is <i>better</i> than the fat of rams."}, {"pk": 2706646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He also does reject you as sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI have sinned, for I have transgressed the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice."}, {"pk": 2706648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please pardon my sin, and return with me, and let me bow myself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "But Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cI do not return with you, for you have rejected the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does reject you from being sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And as Shemu\u2019\u0115l turned around to go away, <i>Sha\u2019ul</i> took hold of the edge of his robe, and it tore."}, {"pk": 2706651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has torn the reign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from you today, and has given it to a neighbour of yours, better than you."}, {"pk": 2706652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cMoreover, the Eminence of Yisra\u2019\u0115l does not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "Then he said, \u201cI have sinned. But esteem me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and return with me, and I shall bow myself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l turned back after Sha\u2019ul, and Sha\u2019ul bowed himself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cBring A\u1e21a\u1e21 sovereign of the Amal\u0115qites here to me.\u201d So A\u1e21a\u1e21 came to him delightedly, and A\u1e21a\u1e21 said, \u201cTruly, the bitterness of death has turned aside.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cAs your sword bereaved women, let your mother be bereaved among women too.\u201d Shemu\u2019\u0115l then hewed A\u1e21a\u1e21 to pieces before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2706657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l went to Ramah, while Sha\u2019ul went up to his house at Gib\u0331\u201bah of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2706658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l did not see Sha\u2019ul again until the day of his death, for Shemu\u2019\u0115l mourned for Sha\u2019ul. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was grieved that He had made Sha\u2019ul to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2706659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cHow long are you going to mourn for Sha\u2019ul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Fill your horn with oil, and go, I am sending you to Yishai the B\u0115yth Leh\u0323emite. For I have seen among his sons a sovereign for Myself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cHow would I go? When Sha\u2019ul hears it, he shall kill me.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cTake a heifer with you, and say, \u2018I have come to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall invite Yishai to the slaughtering, then let Me show you what to do. And you shall anoint for Me the one I say to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l did what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, and went to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, \u201cDo you come in peace?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said, \u201cIn peace. I have come to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Set yourselves apart, and you shall come with me to the slaughtering.\u201d And he set Yishai and his sons apart, and invited them to the slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2706664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, when they came, that he saw Eliyab\u0331 and thought, \u201cThe anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is indeed before Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shemu\u2019\u0115l, \u201cDo not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him, for not as man sees, for man looks at the eyes, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 looks at the heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "Then Yishai called Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and made him pass before Shemu\u2019\u0115l. And he said, \u201cNeither has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chosen this one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "Next Yishai made Shammah pass by. And he said, \u201cNeither has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chosen this one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yishai made seven of his sons pass before Shemu\u2019\u0115l. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Yishai, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not chosen these.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Yishai, \u201cAre these all the young men?\u201d And he said, \u201cThere remains yet the youngest, and see, he is tending the sheep.\u201d And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Yishai, \u201cSend and bring him, for we do not turn round till he comes here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and handsome. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cArise, anoint him, for this is the one!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon Dawid\u0331 from that day and onwards. And Shemu\u2019\u0115l arose and went to Ramah."}, {"pk": 2706672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned aside from Sha\u2019ul, and an evil spirit from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 troubled him."}, {"pk": 2706673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And the servants of Sha\u2019ul said to him, \u201cLook, now, an evil spirit from Elohim is troubling you."}, {"pk": 2706674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cPlease, let our master command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skilled player on the lyre. And it shall be that when the evil spirit from Elohim is upon you, that he shall play with his hand, and you be well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his servants, \u201cPlease get me a man that plays well, and bring him to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And one of the servants answered and said, \u201cLook, I have seen a son of Yishai the B\u0115yth Leh\u0323emite, who knows how to play, a brave one, and a man of battle, and skilled in words, and a handsome man. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "So Sha\u2019ul sent messengers to Yishai, and said, \u201cSend me your son Dawid\u0331, who is with the sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yishai took a donkey loaded with bread, and a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by his son Dawid\u0331 to Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2706679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to Sha\u2019ul and stood before him. And he loved him greatly, and he became his armour-bearer."}, {"pk": 2706680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "Sha\u2019ul therefore sent to Yishai, saying, \u201cPlease let Dawid\u0331 stand before me, for he has found favour in my eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be, whenever the <i>evil</i> spirit from Elohim was upon Sha\u2019ul, that Dawid\u0331 would take a lyre and play it with his hand. Then Sha\u2019ul would become refreshed and well, and the evil spirit would leave him."}, {"pk": 2706682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Philistines had gathered their armies for battle, and came together at Sok\u0331oh, which belongs to Yehud\u0331ah, and encamped between Sok\u0331oh and Az\u0115qah, in Ephes Dammim."}, {"pk": 2706683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul and the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were gathered and encamped in the Valley of \u011alah, and drew up in battle array to meet the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And the Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l stood on a mountain on the other side, with the valley between them."}, {"pk": 2706685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines, named Golyath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span."}, {"pk": 2706686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And a bronze helmet was on his head, and he was armed with a scaled armour, and the weight of the coat was five thousand sheqels of bronze,"}, {"pk": 2706687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "and bronze shin guards on his legs and a bronze spear between his shoulders."}, {"pk": 2706688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And the wood of his spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam, and his iron spearhead <i>weighed</i> six hundred sheqels, and a shield-bearer went before him."}, {"pk": 2706689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And he stood and shouted to the armies of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said to them, \u201cWhy have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Sha\u2019ul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me."}, {"pk": 2706690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf he is able to fight with me, and shall strike me, then we shall be your servants. But if I overcome him and shall strike him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "Then the Philistine said, \u201cThis day I shall reproach the armies of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Give me a man, and let us fight together.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard these words of the Philistine, and they were broken down and in great fear."}, {"pk": 2706693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Now Dawid\u0331 was the son of that Ephrathite of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em in Yehud\u0331ah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha\u2019ul the man was old among men."}, {"pk": 2706694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And the three oldest sons of Yishai went, they had gone to follow Sha\u2019ul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliyab\u0331 the first-born, and his second Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and the third Shammah."}, {"pk": 2706695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2706696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "but Dawid\u0331 went and returned from Sha\u2019ul to feed his father\u2019s sheep at B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2706697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "And for forty days the Philistine drew near, morning and evening, and took his stand."}, {"pk": 2706698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Yishai said to his son Dawid\u0331, \u201cPlease take to your brothers an \u0115phah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp."}, {"pk": 2706699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd take these ten cheeses to the commander of the thousand, and see how your brothers are, and bring back news of them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "For Sha\u2019ul and they and all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were in the Valley of \u011alah, fighting with the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a herdsman, and took and went as Yishai had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight, and they shouted for the battle."}, {"pk": 2706702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army."}, {"pk": 2706703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 left his supplies in the hand of the keeper of the supplies, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers."}, {"pk": 2706704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "And he was speaking with them and saw the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Golyath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines. And he spoke according to the same words, and Dawid\u0331 heard."}, {"pk": 2706705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when they saw the man, ran from him and were in great fear."}, {"pk": 2706706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cHave you seen this man who has come up? For he has come up to reproach Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And it shall be that the man who strikes him, the sovereign is going to enrich him with great riches, and give him his daughter, and give his father\u2019s house exemption in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, \u201cWhat shall be done for the man who strikes this Philistine and shall take away reproach from Yisra\u2019\u0115l? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should reproach the armies of the living Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "And the people answered him according to this word, saying, \u201cThis is what is done for the man who strikes him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "And Eliyab\u0331 his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliyab\u0331\u2019s displeasure burned against Dawid\u0331, and he said, \u201cWhy did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cNow what have I done? Was it not but a word?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "text": "And he turned around from him toward another and said the same word. And these people answered him a word like the first word."}, {"pk": 2706712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "text": "And when the words which Dawid\u0331 spoke were heard, they reported them to Sha\u2019ul, and he sent for him."}, {"pk": 2706713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cLet no man\u2019s heart fail because of him, your servant is going, and shall fight with this Philistine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cYou are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he a man of battle from his youth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cYour servant has been tending sheep for his father, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,"}, {"pk": 2706716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 35, "text": "I went out after it and struck it, and rescued <i>it</i> from its mouth. And when it rose against me, I took hold of <i>it</i> by its beard, and struck it and killed it."}, {"pk": 2706717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cYour servant has stricken both lion and bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, seeing he has reproached the armies of the living Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 37, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He does deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cGo, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be with you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 38, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul dressed Dawid\u0331 with his garments, and he put a bronze helmet on his head, and put a coat of armour on him."}, {"pk": 2706720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 39, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 girded his sword over his garments, and began to go, but he had not tried them. Then Dawid\u0331 said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cI am not able to go with these, for I have not tried them.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 took them off."}, {"pk": 2706721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 40, "text": "And he took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in a shepherd\u2019s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine."}, {"pk": 2706722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 41, "text": "And the Philistine came, and began drawing near to Dawid\u0331, and the man who bore the shield went before him."}, {"pk": 2706723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 42, "text": "And when the Philistine looked about and saw Dawid\u0331, he despised him, for he was a youth, and ruddy and of handsome appearance."}, {"pk": 2706724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 43, "text": "And the Philistine said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cAm I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?\u201d And the Philistine cursed Dawid\u0331 by his mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2706725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 44, "text": "And the Philistine said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cCome to me, and I give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 45, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 said to the Philistine, \u201cYou come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of the armies of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom you have reproached."}, {"pk": 2706727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cThis day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall deliver you into my hand, and I shall strike you and take your head from you, and give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines today to the birds of the heavens and the wild beasts of the earth, so that all the earth know that Elohim is for Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2706728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 47, "text": "and all this assembly know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not save with sword and spear, for the battle belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He shall give you into our hands.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 48, "text": "And it came to be, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet Dawid\u0331, that Dawid\u0331 hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine."}, {"pk": 2706730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 49, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 put his hand in his bag and took out a stone, and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground."}, {"pk": 2706731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 50, "text": "Thus Dawid\u0331 was stronger than the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him, and there was no sword in the hand of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 51, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled."}, {"pk": 2706733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 52, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley and to the gates of Eqron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the way to Sha\u201barayim, even as far as Gath and Eqron."}, {"pk": 2706734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 53, "text": "Then the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l turned back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camps."}, {"pk": 2706735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 54, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Yerushalayim, but he put his weapons in his tent."}, {"pk": 2706736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 55, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul saw Dawid\u0331 going out against the Philistine, he said to Ab\u0331n\u0115r, the commander of the army, \u201cAb\u0331n\u0115r, whose son is this youth?\u201d And Ab\u0331n\u0115r said, \u201cAs your being lives, O sovereign, I do not know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 56, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cAsk whose son this young man is.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 57, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 returned from the striking of the Philistine, Ab\u0331n\u0115r took him and brought him before Sha\u2019ul with the head of the Philistine in his hand."}, {"pk": 2706739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 17, "verse": 58, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to him, \u201cWhose son are you, young man?\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cThe son of your servant Yishai the B\u0115yth Leh\u0323emite.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha\u2019ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawid\u0331, and Yehonathan loved him as his own being."}, {"pk": 2706741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father\u2019s house any more."}, {"pk": 2706742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehonathan and Dawid\u0331 made a covenant, because he loved him as his own being."}, {"pk": 2706743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehonathan took off the robe that was on him and gave it to Dawid\u0331, and his garments, even to his sword and his bow and his girdle."}, {"pk": 2706744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went out wherever Sha\u2019ul sent him. He acted wisely, and Sha\u2019ul set him over the men of battle, and it was right in the eyes of all the people and also in the eyes of Sha\u2019ul\u2019s servants."}, {"pk": 2706745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, as they came in, as Dawid\u0331 was returning from striking the Philistine, that the women came out from all the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, singing and dancing, to meet Sha\u2019ul the sovereign with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments."}, {"pk": 2706746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And the women sang as they danced, and said, \u201cSha\u2019ul struck his thousands, and Dawid\u0331 his ten thousands.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul was very wroth, and this matter was evil in his eyes, and he said, \u201cTo Dawid\u0331 they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands. So what more for him, except the reign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And from that day on Sha\u2019ul eyed Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be on the next day that an evil spirit from Elohim came upon Sha\u2019ul, and he prophesied inside the house, while Dawid\u0331 was playing <i>the lyre</i> with his hand, as usual. And the spear was in the hand of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2706750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul hurled the spear, for he said, \u201cLet me strike Dawid\u0331, even to the wall.\u201d But twice Dawid\u0331 withdrew from his presence."}, {"pk": 2706751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul was afraid of Dawid\u0331, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him, but from Sha\u2019ul He had turned away."}, {"pk": 2706752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "Sha\u2019ul therefore removed him from his presence, and made him his commander over a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people."}, {"pk": 2706753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was acting wisely in all his ways, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him."}, {"pk": 2706754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul saw that he was acting very wisely, and was afraid of him."}, {"pk": 2706755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "But all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah loved Dawid\u0331, as he went out and came in before them."}, {"pk": 2706756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cSee my older daughter M\u0115rab\u0331! I give her to you as a wife. Only be brave for me, and fight the battles of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d For Sha\u2019ul thought, \u201cLet not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cWho am I, and what is my life or my father\u2019s clan in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that I should be son-in-law to the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be at the time when M\u0115rab\u0331, Sha\u2019ul\u2019s daughter, should have been given to Dawid\u0331, that she was given to Ad\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l the Meh\u0323olathite as a wife."}, {"pk": 2706759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And Mik\u0331al, Sha\u2019ul\u2019s daughter, loved Dawid\u0331. And they told Sha\u2019ul, and the matter was right in his eyes."}, {"pk": 2706760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cLet me give her to him and let her be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines be against him.\u201d So Sha\u2019ul said to Dawid\u0331 a second time, \u201cBecome my son-in-law today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul commanded his servants, \u201cSpeak to Dawid\u0331 gently, and say, \u2018See, the sovereign has delighted in you, and all his servants have loved you. And now, be the sovereign\u2019s son-in-law!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "And the servants of Sha\u2019ul spoke those words in the hearing of Dawid\u0331. And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cDoes it seem to you a small matter to be a sovereign\u2019s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And the servants of Sha\u2019ul told him, saying, \u201cDawid\u0331 has spoken according to these words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cSay to Dawid\u0331, \u2018The sovereign has no delight in any payment for the bride but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the sovereign\u2019s enemies.\u2019 \u201d But Sha\u2019ul intended to have Dawid\u0331 fall by the hand of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2706765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And his servants declared these words to Dawid\u0331, and it pleased Dawid\u0331 well to become the sovereign\u2019s son-in-law. And the days had not expired,"}, {"pk": 2706766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "and Dawid\u0331 arose and went, he and his men, and struck two hundred men of the Philistines. And Dawid\u0331 brought their foreskins, and they set them before the sovereign, to become the sovereign\u2019s son-in-law. And Sha\u2019ul gave him Mik\u0331al his daughter as a wife."}, {"pk": 2706767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul saw and knew that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Dawid\u0331, and Mik\u0331al daughter of Sha\u2019ul did love him."}, {"pk": 2706768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "So then Sha\u2019ul was still more afraid of Dawid\u0331. And Sha\u2019ul came to be an enemy of Dawid\u0331 all the days."}, {"pk": 2706769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "And the princes of the Philistines went out to <i>fight</i>. And it came to be, whenever they went out, that Dawid\u0331 acted more wisely than all the servants of Sha\u2019ul, so that his name came to be very precious."}, {"pk": 2706770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul spoke to Yonathan his son and to all his servants, to put Dawid\u0331 to death. But Yehonathan, Sha\u2019ul\u2019s son, delighted much in Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2706771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "and Yehonathan declared to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cMy father Sha\u2019ul seeks to put you to death. And now, please be on your guard until morning, and dwell in secrecy, and hide."}, {"pk": 2706772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I myself shall go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and speak with my father about you, and shall see, and shall let you know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehonathan spoke well of Dawid\u0331 to Sha\u2019ul his father, and said to him, \u201cLet not the sovereign sin against his servant, against Dawid\u0331, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you."}, {"pk": 2706774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor he took his life in his hands and struck the Philistine, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 wrought a great deliverance for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then do you sin against innocent blood, to put Dawid\u0331 to death without cause?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul listened to the voice of Yehonathan, and Sha\u2019ul swore, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, he does not die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "Yehonathan then called Dawid\u0331, and Yehonathan told him all these words. So Yehonathan brought Dawid\u0331 to Sha\u2019ul, and he was in his presence as before."}, {"pk": 2706777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And there was fighting again, and Dawid\u0331 went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them, a great smiting, and they fled before him."}, {"pk": 2706778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And an evil spirit from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon Sha\u2019ul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And Dawid\u0331 was playing <i>the lyre</i> with his hand,"}, {"pk": 2706779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "and Sha\u2019ul sought to strike the spear through Dawid\u0331, and into the wall, but he slipped away from the presence of Sha\u2019ul, so he struck the spear into the wall. And Dawid\u0331 fled and escaped that night."}, {"pk": 2706780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul sent messengers to Dawid\u0331\u2019s house to watch him and to put him to death in the morning. And Mik\u0331al, Dawid\u0331\u2019s wife, informed him, saying, \u201cIf you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you are put to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "So Mik\u0331al let Dawid\u0331 down through a window, and he went and fled and escaped."}, {"pk": 2706782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mik\u0331al took the household idol and laid it in the bed, and put a cover of goats\u2019 <i>hair</i> for his head, and covered it with a garment."}, {"pk": 2706783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul sent messengers to take Dawid\u0331, she said, \u201cHe is sick.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul sent the messengers back to see Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cBring him up to me in the bed to put him to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And the messengers came in and saw the household idol in the bed, with a cover of goats\u2019 <i>hair</i> for his head."}, {"pk": 2706786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "Sha\u2019ul then said to Mik\u0331al, \u201cWhy have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he escaped?\u201d And Mik\u0331al answered Sha\u2019ul, \u201cHe said to me, \u2018Let me go, why should I put you to death?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "Now Dawid\u0331 fled and escaped, and went to Shemu\u2019\u0115l at Ramah, and told him all that Sha\u2019ul had done to him. And he and Shemu\u2019\u0115l went and dwelt in Nawith."}, {"pk": 2706788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And it was reported to Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cSee, Dawid\u0331 is in Nawith in Ramah!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul sent messengers to take Dawid\u0331. And they saw the assembly of the prophets prophesying, and Shemu\u2019\u0115l standing as leader over them, and the Spirit of Elohim came upon the messengers of Sha\u2019ul, and they also prophesied."}, {"pk": 2706790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. So Sha\u2019ul sent messengers again, the third time, and they prophesied also."}, {"pk": 2706791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Sek\u0331u. And he asked, and said, \u201cWhere are Shemu\u2019\u0115l and Dawid\u0331?\u201d And one said, \u201cThere in Nawith in Ramah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "So he went there to Nawith in Ramah. And the Spirit of Elohim was upon him too, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Nawith in Ramah."}, {"pk": 2706793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And he also stripped off his garments and prophesied before Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, \u201cIs Sha\u2019ul also among the prophets?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 fled from Nawith in Ramah, and went and said to Yehonathan, \u201cWhat have I done? What is my crookedness, and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yehonathan said to him, \u201cFar be it! You are not going to die! See, my father does no big matter nor small matter without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this matter from me? It is not so!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 swore again, and said, \u201cYour father knows well that I have found favour in your eyes, and he says, \u2018Do not let Yehonathan know this, lest he be grieved.\u2019 But truly, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives and as your being lives, there is but a step between me and death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehonathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cWhatever your desire is, I do it for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Yehonathan, \u201cSee, tomorrow is the new <i>moon</i>, and I ought to sit with the sovereign to eat. But let me go, and I shall hide in the field until the third day at evening."}, {"pk": 2706799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIf your father misses me at all, then you shall say, \u2018Dawid\u0331 earnestly asked my permission to run over to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, his city, for a yearly slaughtering is made there for all the clan.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIf he says thus, \u2018It is well,\u2019 your servant is safe. But if he is very displeased, then know that he has resolved to do evil."}, {"pk": 2706801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall show loving-commitment to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with you. And if there is crookedness in me, put me to death yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehonathan said, \u201cFar be it from you! For if I knew with certainty that my father has resolved that evil is to come upon you, then would I not make it known to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Yehonathan, \u201cWho would make it known to me, or what if your father answers you sharply?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yehonathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cCome, and let us go out into the field.\u201d And they both went out into the field."}, {"pk": 2706805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehonathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l <i>be witness</i>! When I search out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and see if there is good toward Dawid\u0331, and I do not send to you or disclose it to you,"}, {"pk": 2706806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "so let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do so and much more to Yehonathan. And if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I shall disclose it to you and send you away, and you shall go in peace. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be with you as He has been with my father."}, {"pk": 2706807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut show me the loving-commitment of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, not only while I still live, so that I do not die,"}, {"pk": 2706808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "and do not cut off your loving-commitment from my house forever, no, not when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has cut off every one of the enemies of Dawid\u0331 from the face of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yehonathan made a covenant with the house of Dawid\u0331, <i>saying</i>, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall require it at the hand of the enemies of Dawid\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehonathan again made Dawid\u0331 swear, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own being."}, {"pk": 2706811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "So Yehonathan said to him, \u201cTomorrow is the new <i>moon</i>, and you shall be missed, because your seat shall be empty."}, {"pk": 2706812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd on the third day, go down quickly and you shall come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed, and shall remain by the stone \u011atsel."}, {"pk": 2706813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd let me shoot three arrows to the side of it as though shooting at a target,"}, {"pk": 2706814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "and see, I shall send the youth, saying, \u2018Go, find the arrows.\u2019 If I expressly say to the youth, \u2018Look, the arrows are on this side of you, get them and come,\u2019 then, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, there is safety for you and no concern."}, {"pk": 2706815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut if I say thus to the youth, \u2018Look, the arrows are beyond you,\u2019 go your way, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent you away."}, {"pk": 2706816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd as for the word which you and I have spoken of, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is between you and me forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 hid in the field. And when the new <i>moon</i> came, the sovereign sat down by the food to eat."}, {"pk": 2706818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "And the sovereign sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall, with Yehonathan standing, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r sitting by Sha\u2019ul\u2019s side, but the place of Dawid\u0331 was empty."}, {"pk": 2706819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul spoke not <i>a word</i> that day, for he thought, \u201cIt is an accident; he is not clean, for he has not been cleansed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be the next day, the second <i>day</i> of the new <i>moon</i>, that Dawid\u0331\u2019s place was empty. And Sha\u2019ul said to Yehonathan his son, \u201cWhy has the son of Yishai not come to eat, either yesterday or today?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "And Yehonathan answered Sha\u2019ul, \u201cDawid\u0331 earnestly asked my permission <i>to go</i> to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2706822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd he said, \u2018Please let me go, for our clan has a slaughtering in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favour in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers.\u2019 That is why he has not come to the sovereign\u2019s table.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "Then the displeasure of Sha\u2019ul burned against Yehonathan, and he said to him, \u201cYou son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Yishai to your own shame and to the shame of your mother\u2019s nakedness?"}, {"pk": 2706824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cFor as long as the son of Yishai lives on the earth, you shall not be established, you and your reign. And now, send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "And Yehonathan answered Sha\u2019ul his father, and said to him, \u201cWhy should he be put to death? What has he done?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "At that, Sha\u2019ul hurled a spear at him to smite him. Then Yehonathan knew that his father had resolved to put Dawid\u0331 to death."}, {"pk": 2706827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And Yehonathan rose up from the table in the heat of displeasure, and ate no food the second day of the new <i>moon</i>, for he was grieved for Dawid\u0331, because his father put him to shame."}, {"pk": 2706828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be, in the morning, that Yehonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with Dawid\u0331, and a small youth was with him."}, {"pk": 2706829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "And he said to the youth, \u201cNow run, find the arrows which I shoot.\u201d As the youth ran, he shot an arrow beyond him."}, {"pk": 2706830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "And when the youth came to the place where the arrow was which Yehonathan had shot, Yehonathan called out after the youth and said, \u201cIs not the arrow beyond you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "And Yehonathan shouted after the youth, \u201cMake haste, hurry, do not stand still!\u201d And Yehonathan\u2019s youth picked up the arrows and came to his master."}, {"pk": 2706832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "text": "But the youth knew not a speck. Only Yehonathan and Dawid\u0331 knew of the matter."}, {"pk": 2706833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "text": "Then Yehonathan gave his weapons to the youth and said to him, \u201cGo, take them to the city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "text": "And as soon as the youth had gone, Dawid\u0331 rose up from the south side, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another. And they wept together, but Dawid\u0331 more so."}, {"pk": 2706835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "text": "And Yehonathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cGo in peace, since we have both sworn in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is between you and me, and between your seed and my seed, forever.\u2019 \u201d Then he arose and left, and Yehonathan went into the city."}, {"pk": 2706836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to Nob\u0331, to Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 the priest. And Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 trembled when he met Dawid\u0331, and asked him, \u201cWhy are you alone, and no one is with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 the priest, \u201cThe sovereign has commanded me a word, and said to me, \u2018Let no one know whatever of the word about which I send you, and which I have commanded you.\u2019 And I have directed my young men to such and such a place."}, {"pk": 2706838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd now, what do you have on hand? Give five loaves into my hand, or whatever is found.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And the priest answered Dawid\u0331 and said, \u201cThere is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is set-apart bread \u2014 provided the young men have kept themselves from women.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 answered the priest, and said to him, \u201cTruly, women have been kept from us about three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men are set-apart, and it is an ordinary mission, and also, it was set-apart in the vessel today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the priest gave him set-apart <i>bread</i>, for there was no bread there except the showbread which had been taken from before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in order to put hot bread in on the day it is taken away."}, {"pk": 2706842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "Now one of the servants of Sha\u2019ul was there that day, detained before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And his name was Do\u2019\u0115\u1e21, an Ed\u0331omite, the chief of the herdsmen who belonged to Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2706843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ah\u0323imelek\u0331, \u201cIs there not here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the matter of the sovereign was urgent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And the priest said, \u201cThe sword of Golyath the Philistine, whom you struck in the Valley of \u011alah. See, it is wrapped in a garment behind the shoulder garment. If you would take it, take it. For there is none other except this one here.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cThere is none like it, give it to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rose and fled that day from before Sha\u2019ul, and went to Ak\u0331ish the sovereign of Gath."}, {"pk": 2706846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "But the servants of Ak\u0331ish said to him, \u201cIs this not Dawid\u0331 the sovereign of the land? Did they not sing of him to each other in dances, saying, \u2018Sha\u2019ul struck his thousands, and Dawid\u0331 his ten thousands\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took these words to heart, and was very much afraid of Ak\u0331ish the sovereign of Gath,"}, {"pk": 2706848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "and changed his behaviour before them, and feigned madness in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down on his beard."}, {"pk": 2706849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "Then Ak\u0331ish said to his servants, \u201cLook, you see the man is acting like a madman. Why do you bring him to me?"}, {"pk": 2706850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAm I short of madmen, that you have brought this one to act as a madman near me? Should this one come into my house?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went from there and escaped to the cave of Ad\u0331ullam. And his brothers and all his father\u2019s house heard it, and went down to him there."}, {"pk": 2706852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone bitter in being gathered to him. So he became head over them, and there were about four hundred men with him."}, {"pk": 2706853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went from there to Mitspeh of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and said to the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cPlease let my father and mother come here with you, till I know what Elohim does for me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And he left them with the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and they dwelt with him all the time that Dawid\u0331 was in the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2706855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "And the prophet Gad\u0331 said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cDo not remain in the stronghold. Leave, and go to the land of Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 left and went into the H\u0323ereth woods."}, {"pk": 2706856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul heard that Dawid\u0331 and the men who were with him had been discovered, while Sha\u2019ul was in Gib\u0331\u201bah, sitting under a tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants standing about him."}, {"pk": 2706857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his servants who were standing around him, \u201cHear now, you Binyamites! Does the son of Yishai give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?"}, {"pk": 2706858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Yishai. And there is not one of you who is grieved for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And Do\u2019\u0115\u1e21 the Ed\u0331omite, who was set over the servants of Sha\u2019ul, answered and said, \u201cI saw the son of Yishai going to Nob\u0331, to Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd he inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Golyath the Philistine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sovereign sent someone to call Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 the priest, son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331, and all his father\u2019s house, the priests who were in Nob\u0331. And they all came to the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2706862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "and Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cHear now, son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331!\u201d And he answered, \u201cHere I am, my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to him, \u201cWhy have you conspired against me, you and the son of Yishai, by giving him bread and a sword, and have inquired of Elohim for him, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 answered the sovereign and said, \u201cAnd who among all your servants is so trustworthy as Dawid\u0331, who is the sovereign\u2019s son-in-law, and has turned aside to your counsel, and is esteemed in your house?"}, {"pk": 2706865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cHave I today begun to inquire of Elohim for him? Far be it from me! Let not the sovereign lay a case against his servant, or against any in the house of my father. For your servant knew not of all this, little or much.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cYou shall certainly die, Ah\u0323imelek\u0331, you and all your father\u2019s house!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "The sovereign then said to the guards who stood about him, \u201cTurn and put the priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to death, because their hand also is with Dawid\u0331, and because they knew when he fled and did not reveal it to me.\u201d But the servants of the sovereign would not lift their hands to come against the priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign said to Do\u2019\u0115\u1e21, \u201cYou turn and come against the priests!\u201d So Do\u2019\u0115\u1e21 the Ed\u0331omite turned and came against the priests, and put to death on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2706869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "And he struck Nob\u0331, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, from men even to women, from children even to nursing infants, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword."}, {"pk": 2706870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And one of the sons of Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331, named Eb\u0331yathar, escaped and fled after Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "And Eb\u0331yathar reported to Dawid\u0331 that Sha\u2019ul had killed the priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Eb\u0331yathar, \u201cI knew that day, when Do\u2019\u0115\u1e21 the Ed\u0331omite was there, that he would certainly inform Sha\u2019ul. I am accountable for all the lives of your father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2706873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cRemain with me, do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life, but with me you are safe.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And they informed Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cSee, the Philistines are fighting against Qe\u201bilah, and they are plundering the threshing-floors.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cShall I go and strike these Philistines?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cGo and smite the Philistines, and save Qe\u201bilah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331\u2019s men said to him, \u201cSee, we here in Yehud\u0331ah are afraid. How much more, then, if we go to Qe\u201bilah against the armies of the Philistines?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 once again. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered him and said, \u201cArise, go down to Qe\u201bilah, for I am giving the Philistines into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 and his men went to Qe\u201bilah and fought with the Philistines, and he led away their livestock and struck them, a great smiting. Thus Dawid\u0331 saved the inhabitants of Qe\u201bilah."}, {"pk": 2706879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, when Eb\u0331yathar son of Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 fled to Dawid\u0331 at Qe\u201bilah, that he went down with a shoulder garment in his hand."}, {"pk": 2706880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul was informed that Dawid\u0331 had gone to Qe\u201bilah. Then Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cElohim has estranged him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul summoned all the people to battle, to go down to Qe\u201bilah to besiege Dawid\u0331 and his men."}, {"pk": 2706882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 knew that Sha\u2019ul was plotting evil against him, and said to Eb\u0331yathar the priest, \u201cBring the shoulder garment here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Your servant has heard for certain that Sha\u2019ul seeks to come to Qe\u201bilah to destroy the city for my sake."}, {"pk": 2706884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAre the landowners of Qe\u201bilah going to surrender me into his hand? Is Sha\u2019ul coming down, as Your servant has heard? O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, I pray, let Your servant know.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cHe is coming down.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cAre the landowners of Qe\u201bilah going to surrender me and my men into the hand of Sha\u2019ul?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cThey are going to surrender you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 and his men, about six hundred, arose and left Qe\u201bilah and went wherever they could go. And Sha\u2019ul was informed that Dawid\u0331 had escaped from Qe\u201bilah, and he ceased to go out."}, {"pk": 2706887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 remained in the wilderness, in strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the Wilderness of Ziph. And Sha\u2019ul sought him every day, but Elohim did not give him into his hand."}, {"pk": 2706888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 saw that Sha\u2019ul had come out to seek his life while Dawid\u0331 was in the Wilderness of Ziph at H\u0323oresh."}, {"pk": 2706889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yehonathan, Sha\u2019ul\u2019s son, arose and went to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323oresh and strengthened his hand in Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2706890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "and said to him, \u201cDo not fear, for the hand of Sha\u2019ul my father is not going to find you, and you are to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I am to be next to you. Even my father Sha\u2019ul knows that.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And they made a covenant before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Dawid\u0331 remained at H\u0323oresh while Yehonathan went to his own house."}, {"pk": 2706892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "And the Ziphites came up to Sha\u2019ul at Gib\u0331\u201bah, saying, \u201cIs Dawid\u0331 not hiding with us in strongholds H\u0323oresh, in the hill of H\u0323ak\u0331ilah, which is on the south of the wasteland?"}, {"pk": 2706893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O sovereign, by all the desire of your being, come down, come down, and our part is to surrender him into the sovereign\u2019s hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cBlessed are you of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for you have sympathy with me."}, {"pk": 2706895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cPlease go, prepare yet further and find out and see the place where his hide-out is, who has seen him there. For I am told that he is very cunning."}, {"pk": 2706896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSo look, and learn all about the hiding places where he hides. And you shall come back to me with certainty, then I shall go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search for him throughout all the clans of Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "And they rose up and went to Ziph before Sha\u2019ul, while Dawid\u0331 and his men were in the Wilderness of Ma\u201bon, in the desert plain on the south of the wasteland."}, {"pk": 2706898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul and his men went to seek him, and they informed Dawid\u0331, so he went down to the rock, and remained in the Wilderness of Ma\u201bon. And when Sha\u2019ul heard this, he pursued Dawid\u0331 in the Wilderness of Ma\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2706899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul went on one side of the mountain, and Dawid\u0331 and his men on the other side of the mountain. And Dawid\u0331 was hurrying to get away from Sha\u2019ul, for Sha\u2019ul and his men were surrounding Dawid\u0331 and his men to take them."}, {"pk": 2706900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "Then a messenger came to Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cHurry and come, for the Philistines have invaded the land!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "So Sha\u2019ul turned back from pursuing Dawid\u0331, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammah\u0323leqoth."}, {"pk": 2706902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went up from there and remained in strongholds at \u011an Ged\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2706903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Sha\u2019ul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, \u201cSee, Dawid\u0331 is in the Wilderness of \u011an Ged\u0331i.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "So Sha\u2019ul took three thousand chosen men from all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and went to seek Dawid\u0331 and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats."}, {"pk": 2706905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And he came to the sheepfolds, on the way, and there was a cave. And Sha\u2019ul went in to relieve himself. Now Dawid\u0331 and his men were sitting in the sides of the cave."}, {"pk": 2706906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And the men of Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cSee, the day of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to you, \u2018See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you!\u2019 \u201d And Dawid\u0331 arose and gently cut off a corner of Sha\u2019ul\u2019s robe."}, {"pk": 2706907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be afterward that the heart of Dawid\u0331 struck him because he had cut the robe of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2706908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "So he said to his men, \u201cFar be it from me, by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I should do this matter to my master, anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to stretch out my hand against him, for he is the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 dispersed his servants with words, and did not allow them to rise against Sha\u2019ul. And Sha\u2019ul rose up from the cave and went on his way."}, {"pk": 2706910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And afterward Dawid\u0331 arose and went out of the cave, and called out to Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cMy master the sovereign!\u201d And when Sha\u2019ul looked behind him, Dawid\u0331 bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2706911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cWhy do you listen to the words of men who say, \u2018See, Dawid\u0331 seeks to do you evil\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2706912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee, this day your eyes have seen that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave you today into my hand in the cave, and <i>one</i> said to kill you. But my eye pardoned you, and I said, \u2018I do not stretch out my hand against my master, for he is the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, while you are hunting my life to take it."}, {"pk": 2706914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 judge between you and me, and let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 revenge me on you, but my hand is not against you."}, {"pk": 2706915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAs the proverb of the ancients says, \u2018Wrong comes from the wrongdoer.\u2019 But my hand is not against you."}, {"pk": 2706916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAfter whom has the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?"}, {"pk": 2706917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be judge, and rightly rule between you and me, and see and plead my case, and rightly rule me out of your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when Dawid\u0331 had ended speaking these words to Sha\u2019ul, that Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cIs this your voice, my son Dawid\u0331?\u201d So Sha\u2019ul lifted up his voice and wept."}, {"pk": 2706919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cYou are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil."}, {"pk": 2706920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you have shown today how you have done good to me, for when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 surrendered me into your hand you did not kill me."}, {"pk": 2706921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor if a man finds his enemy, shall he let him get away safely? And let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 reward you with good for what you have done to me today."}, {"pk": 2706922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd now look, I know that you shall certainly reign, and that the reign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be established in your hand."}, {"pk": 2706923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd now, swear to me by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that you do not cut off my seed after me, nor destroy my name from my father\u2019s house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 swore to Sha\u2019ul. Then Sha\u2019ul went home, and Dawid\u0331 and his men went up to the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2706925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l died, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered and mourned for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And Dawid\u0331 arose and went down into the Wilderness of Paran."}, {"pk": 2706926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "Now there was a man in Ma\u201bon and his work was in Karmel, and the man was very great. And he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he came to be shearing his sheep in Karmel."}, {"pk": 2706927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "And the name of the man was Nab\u0331al, and the name of his wife Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful. But the man was hard and evil in his doings. And he was of Kal\u0115b\u0331."}, {"pk": 2706928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 heard in the wilderness that Nab\u0331al was shearing his sheep."}, {"pk": 2706929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent ten young men, and Dawid\u0331 said to the young men, \u201cGo up to Karmel, and you shall come to Nab\u0331al, and greet him in my name,"}, {"pk": 2706930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "and say this, \u2018Long life and peace to you! And peace to your house, and peace to all that you have!"}, {"pk": 2706931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And now, I have heard that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us. We did not put them to shame, and not a speck of theirs was missing all the days they were in Karmel."}, {"pk": 2706932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "Ask your young men, and let them inform you. So let <i>my</i> young men find favour in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son Dawid\u0331.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2706933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And the young men of Dawid\u0331 came and spoke to Nab\u0331al according to all these words in the name of Dawid\u0331, and waited."}, {"pk": 2706934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "But Nab\u0331al answered the servants of Dawid\u0331 and said, \u201cWho is Dawid\u0331, and who is the son of Yishai? The servants who are running away from their masters, have become many nowadays."}, {"pk": 2706935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "And the young men of Dawid\u0331 turned around on their way and went back, and came and reported to him all these words."}, {"pk": 2706937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to his men, \u201cEach one gird on his sword.\u201d So they each girded on his sword, and Dawid\u0331 also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with Dawid\u0331, and two hundred remained with the baggage."}, {"pk": 2706938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "And one of the young men informed Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil, the wife of Nab\u0331al, saying, \u201cSee, Dawid\u0331 has sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scoffed at them."}, {"pk": 2706939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut the men were very good to us, and did not put us to shame, nor did we miss any <i>item</i> all the days we accompanied them, when we were in the fields."}, {"pk": 2706940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThey were a wall to us both by night and day, all the days we were with them tending the sheep."}, {"pk": 2706941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd now, know and see what you should do, for evil has been resolved against our master, and against all his household, and he is too much of a son of Beliya\u201bal to speak to.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "Then Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep made ready, five measures of roasted grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys."}, {"pk": 2706943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "And she said to her servants, \u201cPass over before me. See, I am coming after you.\u201d But she did not inform her husband Nab\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2706944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill, and there were Dawid\u0331 and his men, coming down toward her, and she met them."}, {"pk": 2706945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 had said, \u201cOnly in vain have I protected all that this one has in the wilderness, so that not a speck was missing of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good."}, {"pk": 2706946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cLet Elohim do so, and more also, to the enemies of Dawid\u0331, if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "And Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil saw Dawid\u0331, and she hastened to come down from the donkey, and fell on her face before Dawid\u0331, and bowed down to the ground,"}, {"pk": 2706948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "and fell at his feet and said, \u201cOn me, my master, let this crookedness be on me! And please let your female servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your female servant."}, {"pk": 2706949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cPlease, let not my master regard this man of Beliya\u201bal, Nab\u0331al. For as his name is, so is he: Nab\u0331al is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your female servant, did not see the young men of my master whom you sent."}, {"pk": 2706950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd now my master, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives and as your being lives, since \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has withheld you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies be as Nab\u0331al, even those seeking evil against my master."}, {"pk": 2706951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd now this present which your female servant has brought to my master, let it be given to the young men who follow my master."}, {"pk": 2706952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cPlease forgive the transgression of your female servant. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is certainly making a steadfast house for my master, because my master fights the battles of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and evil is not found in you in <i>all</i> your days."}, {"pk": 2706953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd if a man rises to pursue you and seek your life, and the life of my master has been bound in the bundle of the living with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, then the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling."}, {"pk": 2706954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done for my master according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has commanded you to be ruler over Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2706955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "do not let this be a staggering and stumbling of heart to my master, that you have shed blood without cause, or that my master has saved himself. And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done good to my master, then remember your female servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who sent you to meet me today!"}, {"pk": 2706957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd blessed is your good taste, and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand."}, {"pk": 2706958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cNevertheless, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l lives, who has kept me back from doing evil to you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, not a male would have been left to Nab\u0331al by break of day, for certain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, \u201cGo up in peace to your house. See, I have listened to your voice and have accepted your face.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "text": "And Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil went to Nab\u0331al, and see, he was at a feast in his house, like the feast of a sovereign. And Nab\u0331al\u2019s heart was glad within him, and he was exceedingly drunk. So she told him not a word, little or much, until morning light."}, {"pk": 2706961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "text": "And it came to be, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nab\u0331al, and his wife had told him these matters, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone."}, {"pk": 2706962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "text": "And it came to be in about ten days, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote Nab\u0331al, and he died."}, {"pk": 2706963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 heard that Nab\u0331al was dead, and he said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nab\u0331al, and has kept His servant from evil! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has returned the evil of Nab\u0331al on his own head.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 sent and spoke to Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil, to take her as his wife."}, {"pk": 2706964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "text": "And when the servants of Dawid\u0331 had come to Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil at Karmel, they spoke to her saying, \u201cDawid\u0331 sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 41, "text": "And she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, \u201cHere is your female servant, a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 42, "text": "And Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil hurried and rose, and rode on a donkey, with five of her female attendants. And she followed the messengers of Dawid\u0331, and became his wife."}, {"pk": 2706967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 43, "text": "Dawid\u0331 had also taken Ah\u0323ino\u201bam of Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and so both of them were his wives."}, {"pk": 2706968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 25, "verse": 44, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul had given Mik\u0331al his daughter, Dawid\u0331\u2019s wife, to Palti son of Layish, who was from Galliym."}, {"pk": 2706969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Ziphites came to Sha\u2019ul at Gib\u0331\u201bah, saying, \u201cIs not Dawid\u0331 hiding himself in the hill of H\u0323ak\u0331ilah, overlooking the wasteland?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul rose up and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, and with him three thousand chosen men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to seek Dawid\u0331 in the Wilderness of Ziph."}, {"pk": 2706971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul encamped in the hill of H\u0323ak\u0331ilah, overlooking the wasteland, by the way, while Dawid\u0331 was dwelling in the wilderness, and he saw that Sha\u2019ul came after him into the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2706972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent out spies, and learned that Sha\u2019ul had indeed come."}, {"pk": 2706973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rose up and came to the place where Sha\u2019ul had encamped. And Dawid\u0331 saw the place where Sha\u2019ul lay, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, the commander of his army. And Sha\u2019ul was lying within the enclosure, with the people encamped all around him."}, {"pk": 2706974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 spoke up and said to Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 the H\u0323ittite and to Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah, brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, saying, \u201cWho does go down with me to Sha\u2019ul in the camp?\u201d And Ab\u0331ishai said, \u201cI, I go down with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishai came to the people by night and saw Sha\u2019ul lying asleep within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r and the people lay all around him."}, {"pk": 2706976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ab\u0331ishai said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cElohim has surrendered your enemy into your hand this day. And now, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right into the earth, and not a second time!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 said to Ab\u0331ishai, \u201cDo not destroy him, for who shall stretch out his hand against the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and be guiltless?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "Dawid\u0331 also said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, except \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does smite him, or his day come that he shall die, or he shall go out to battle and perish,"}, {"pk": 2706979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "far be it from me, by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I stretch out my hand against the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And now, please take the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 took the spear and the jug of water by Sha\u2019ul\u2019s head, and they went away. And no man saw it or knew it or awoke, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had fallen on them."}, {"pk": 2706981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 passed over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill far away, a great distance being between them."}, {"pk": 2706982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 called out to the people and to Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, saying, \u201cDo you not answer, Ab\u0331n\u0115r?\u201d And Ab\u0331n\u0115r answered and said, \u201cWho are you, calling out to the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ab\u0331n\u0115r, \u201cAre you not a man? And who is like you in Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Why then have you not guarded your master the sovereign? For one of the people came in to destroy your master the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2706984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWhat you have done is not good. As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not guarded your master, the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And now see where the sovereign\u2019s spear is, and the jug of water that was by his head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul recognised Dawid\u0331\u2019s voice, and said, \u201cIs that your voice, my son Dawid\u0331?\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cIt is my voice, my master, O sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhy is this that my master is pursuing his servant? For what have I done, or what evil is in my hand?"}, {"pk": 2706987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please, let my master the sovereign hear the words of his servant: If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has moved you against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, then they are cursed before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for they have driven me out today that I should not join myself to the inheritance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018Go, serve other mighty ones.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2706988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cI have sinned. Come back, my son Dawid\u0331. For no more am I going to do evil to you, because my life was precious in your eyes today. See, I have acted foolishly, and have greatly strayed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 answered and said, \u201cSee, the sovereign\u2019s spear! And let one of the young men come over and get it."}, {"pk": 2706991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 reward every man for his righteousness and his trustworthiness, for this day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave you into my hand, but I would not stretch out my hand against the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2706992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd see, as your life has been valued in my eyes today, so let my life be valued in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and let Him deliver me out of all distress.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cBlessed are you, my son Dawid\u0331, achieving much, and indeed prevailing!\u201d Then Dawid\u0331 went on his way, and Sha\u2019ul returned to his place."}, {"pk": 2706994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said in his heart, \u201cNow I shall perish by the hand of Sha\u2019ul, some day. There is naught better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Sha\u2019ul shall give up searching for me any longer in any part of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I shall escape out of his hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 rose up and passed over with the six hundred men who were with him to Ak\u0331ish son of Ma\u201bok\u0331, sovereign of Gath."}, {"pk": 2706996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 dwelt with Ak\u0331ish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household \u2014 Dawid\u0331 with his two wives, Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the Yizre\u201b\u0115litess, and Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the Karmelitess, Nab\u0331al\u2019s widow."}, {"pk": 2706997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And it was reported to Sha\u2019ul that Dawid\u0331 had fled to Gath, so he sought him no more."}, {"pk": 2706998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ak\u0331ish, \u201cIf I have now found favour in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, to dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2706999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ak\u0331ish gave him Tsiqla\u1e21 that day. That is why Tsiqla\u1e21 has belonged to the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah to this day."}, {"pk": 2707000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "And the time that Dawid\u0331 dwelt in the country of the Philistines came to be a year and four new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2707001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amal\u0115qites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2707002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 had stricken the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away sheep, and cattle, and donkeys, and camels, and garments, and returned and came to Ak\u0331ish."}, {"pk": 2707003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ak\u0331ish would say, \u201cWhere have you made a raid today?\u201d And Dawid\u0331 would say, \u201cAgainst the South of Yehud\u0331ah, or against the South of the Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115lites, or against the South of the Q\u0115ynites.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "Dawid\u0331 did not keep alive man nor woman, to bring news to Gath, saying, \u201cLest they inform against us, saying, \u2018Thus Dawid\u0331 did.\u2019 \u201d And this was his practice all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2707005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And Ak\u0331ish trusted Dawid\u0331, saying <i>to himself</i>, \u201cHe has indeed made himself a stench to his people in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and has become my servant forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in those days that the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, to fight with Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Ak\u0331ish said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cYou know, of course, that you are to go out with me in the army, you and your men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ak\u0331ish, \u201cVery well, you shall know what your servant should do.\u201d And Ak\u0331ish said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cVery well, I make you one of my chief guardians forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l had died, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Sha\u2019ul had put away the mediums and the spiritists from the land."}, {"pk": 2707009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "And the Philistines were gathered, and came and encamped at Shun\u0115m. And Sha\u2019ul gathered all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they encamped at Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2707010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly."}, {"pk": 2707011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets."}, {"pk": 2707012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "Sha\u2019ul then said to his servants, \u201cFind me a woman who is a medium, to go to her and inquire of her.\u201d And his servants said to him, \u201cLook, there is a woman who is a medium at \u011an Dor.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul disguised himself and put on other garments, and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, \u201cPlease divine for me, and bring up for me the one I shall name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "But the woman said to him, \u201cLook, you know what Sha\u2019ul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to put me to death?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul swore to her by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, no punishment comes upon you for this matter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And the woman said, \u201cWhom do I bring up for you?\u201d So he said, \u201cBring up Shemu\u2019\u0115l for me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And when the woman saw Shemu\u2019\u0115l, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cWhy have you deceived me? You yourself are Sha\u2019ul!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sovereign said to her, \u201cDo not be afraid. What did you see?\u201d And the woman said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cI saw a spirit coming up out of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cWhat is his form?\u201d And she said, \u201cAn old man is coming up, and he is covered with a mantle.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul knew that it was Shemu\u2019\u0115l, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2707020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shemu\u2019\u0115l said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cWhy have you disturbed me by bringing me up?\u201d And Sha\u2019ul answered, \u201cI am deeply distressed, for the Philistines are fighting against me, and Elohim has turned aside from me and does not answer me any more, neither by prophets nor by dreams. So I have called you, to reveal to me what I should do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "Then Shemu\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cAnd why do you ask me, seeing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has turned aside from you and has become your enemy?"}, {"pk": 2707022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done for Himself as He spoke by me. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has torn the reign out of your hand and given it to your neighbour, to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBecause you did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 nor execute His burning wrath upon Amal\u0115q, therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done this matter to you today."}, {"pk": 2707024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFurther, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 also gives Yisra\u2019\u0115l with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons are with me. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 also gives the army of Yisra\u2019\u0115l into the hand of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And immediately Sha\u2019ul fell on the ground, his complete length, and greatly feared because of the words of Shemu\u2019\u0115l. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day or all night."}, {"pk": 2707026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "And the woman came to Sha\u2019ul and saw that he had been greatly disturbed, and said to him, \u201cSee, your female servant has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hands and have listened to the words which you spoke to me."}, {"pk": 2707027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please listen to the voice of your female servant too, and let me set a piece of bread before you. And eat, so that you have strength when you go on your way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "But he refused and said, \u201cI am not going to eat.\u201d But his servants, together with the woman, urged him. And he listened to their voice. So he rose from the ground and sat on the bed."}, {"pk": 2707029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "And the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it. And she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread from it."}, {"pk": 2707030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "And she brought it before Sha\u2019ul and his servants. And they ate, and rose up and went away that night."}, {"pk": 2707031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Philistines gathered all their armies at Aph\u0115q, while Yisra\u2019\u0115l encamped by a fountain which is in Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "And the princes of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and Dawid\u0331 and his men were passing on in the rear with Ak\u0331ish."}, {"pk": 2707033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "And the princes of the Philistines said, \u201cWho are these Hebrews?\u201d And Ak\u0331ish said to the princes of the Philistines, \u201cIs this not Dawid\u0331, the servant of Sha\u2019ul sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who has been with me these days, or these years? And to this day I have found no <i>evil</i> in him since he came over.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him, and the princes of the Philistines said to him, \u201cSend the man back, let him return to the place which you have appointed for him, and do not let him go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he appease his master, if not with the heads of these men?"}, {"pk": 2707035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIs this not Dawid\u0331, of whom they sang to each other in dances, saying, \u2018Sha\u2019ul struck his thousands, and Dawid\u0331 his ten thousands\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ak\u0331ish called Dawid\u0331 and said to him, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, you have been straight, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my eyes. For to this day I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. But in the eyes of the princes you are not good."}, {"pk": 2707037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, return, and go in peace, and do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ak\u0331ish, \u201cBut what have I done? And to this day what have you found in your servant as long as I have been with you, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my master the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "But Ak\u0331ish answered and said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cI know that you are as good in my eyes as a messenger of Elohim, but the princes of the Philistines have said, \u2018Let him not go up with us to the battle.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now, rise early in the morning with your master\u2019s servants who have come with you. And as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, then go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and his men rose up early to go in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Dawid\u0331 and his men came to Tsiqla\u1e21, on the third day, that the Amal\u0115qites had invaded the South and Tsiqla\u1e21, and struck Tsiqla\u1e21 and burned it with fire."}, {"pk": 2707043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "And they took captive the women and those who were there, from small to great. They did not kill anyone, but they led them away and went their way."}, {"pk": 2707044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and his men came to the city and saw it burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive."}, {"pk": 2707045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep."}, {"pk": 2707046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331\u2019s two wives, Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the Yizre\u201b\u0115litess, and Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the widow of Nab\u0331al the Karmelite, had been taken captive."}, {"pk": 2707047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the being of all the people was grieved, each for his sons and his daughters. But Dawid\u0331 strengthened himself in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2707048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Eb\u0331yathar the priest, son of Ah\u0323imelek\u0331, \u201cPlease bring the shoulder garment here to me.\u201d So Eb\u0331yathar brought the shoulder garment to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cDo I pursue this band? Do I overtake them?\u201d And He answered him, \u201cPursue, for you shall certainly overtake them, and certainly rescue.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the wadi Besor, where a halt was made by those who were left behind,"}, {"pk": 2707051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "while Dawid\u0331 pursued, he and four hundred men \u2014 for two hundred halted, who were too faint to pass over the wadi Besor."}, {"pk": 2707052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "And they found a man in the field, a Mitsrian, and took him to Dawid\u0331. And they gave him bread and he ate, and they let him drink water,"}, {"pk": 2707053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "and gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his strength came back to him, for he had not eaten bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights."}, {"pk": 2707054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cTo whom do you belong, and where are you from?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am a young man from Mitsrayim, servant of an Amal\u0115qite. And my master left me behind, for I had been sick three days."}, {"pk": 2707055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cWe attacked the south of the Ker\u0115thites and against that which belongs to Yehud\u0331ah, and upon the south of Kal\u0115b\u0331, and we burned Tsiqla\u1e21 with fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cCould you bring me down to this marauding band?\u201d And he said, \u201cSwear to me by Elohim that you neither kill me nor surrender me into the hands of my master, then I bring you down to this marauding band.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "And he brought him down and saw they were spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and celebrating, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2707058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day. And none of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled."}, {"pk": 2707059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rescued all that the Amal\u0115qites had taken. Dawid\u0331 also rescued his two wives."}, {"pk": 2707060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "And there was none missing to them, whether small or great, whether sons or daughters, or spoil or whatever they had taken from them. Dawid\u0331 recovered all."}, {"pk": 2707061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "Besides, Dawid\u0331 captured all the flocks and herds they had driven before those livestock, and they said, \u201cThis is Dawid\u0331\u2019s spoil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to the two hundred men who were too faint to follow Dawid\u0331, who had also been left at the wadi Besor. And they went out to meet Dawid\u0331 and to meet the people who were with him. And when Dawid\u0331 came near the people, he greeted them."}, {"pk": 2707063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And all the evil and worthless men of those who went with Dawid\u0331 answered and said, \u201cBecause they did not go with us, we do not give them any of the spoil that we have rescued, except for every man\u2019s wife and children, and let them take them and go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cMy brothers, do not do so with what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given us, who has protected us and gave into our hand the band that came against us."}, {"pk": 2707065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd who would listen to you in this matter? For as his portion is who goes down to the battle, so is his portion who remains with the baggage, they share alike.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, from that day forward, he appointed it for a law and a right-ruling for Yisra\u2019\u0115l to this day."}, {"pk": 2707067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 came to Tsiqla\u1e21, he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Yehud\u0331ah, to his friends, saying, \u201cHere is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "to those in B\u0115yth \u011al, and to those in Ramoth of the South, and to those in Yattir,"}, {"pk": 2707069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "and to those in Aro\u201b\u0115r, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa,"}, {"pk": 2707070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "and to those in Rak\u0331al, and to those in the cities of the Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115lites, and to those in the cities of the Q\u0115ynites,"}, {"pk": 2707071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "and to those in H\u0323ormah, and to those in Korashan, and to those in Athak\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2707072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "and to those in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and to all the places where Dawid\u0331 had gone up and down, he and his men."}, {"pk": 2707073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Philistines were fighting against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2707074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Philistines followed hard after Sha\u2019ul and his sons. And the Philistines struck Yehonathan, and Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and Malkishua, sons of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2707075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "And the battle went hard against Sha\u2019ul, and the archers hit him, so that he was severely wounded by the archers."}, {"pk": 2707076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his armour-bearer, \u201cDraw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and roll themselves on me.\u201d But his armour-bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Sha\u2019ul took the sword and fell on it."}, {"pk": 2707077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "And when his armour-bearer saw that Sha\u2019ul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him."}, {"pk": 2707078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus Sha\u2019ul died, and three of his sons, and his armour-bearer, also all his men, together on that day."}, {"pk": 2707079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "And they saw \u2014 the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were beyond the valley, and those who were beyond the Yard\u0115n \u2014 that the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had fled and that Sha\u2019ul and his sons were dead. So they forsook the cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them."}, {"pk": 2707080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "And the next day it came to be, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Sha\u2019ul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2707081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "And they cut off his head and stripped off his armour, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines, to announce it in the house of their idols and to the people."}, {"pk": 2707082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "And they placed his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of B\u0115yth Shan."}, {"pk": 2707083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "And the inhabitants of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 heard what the Philistines had done to Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2707084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "and all the brave men arose and went all night, and took the body of Sha\u2019ul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of B\u0115yth Shan. And they came to Yab\u0331\u0115sh and burned them there."}, {"pk": 2707085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 9, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Yab\u0331\u0115sh, and fasted for seven days."}, {"pk": 2707086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be after the death of Sha\u2019ul, when Dawid\u0331 had returned from striking the Amal\u0115qites, that Dawid\u0331 remained two days in Tsiqla\u1e21."}, {"pk": 2707087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be on the third day, that see, a man came out of the camp from Sha\u2019ul with his garments torn and dust on his head. And it came to be, when he came to Dawid\u0331, that he fell to the ground and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2707088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cFrom where do you come?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cI have escaped from the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cWhat was the matter? Please inform me.\u201d And he said, \u201cThe people have fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Sha\u2019ul and Yehonathan his son are dead too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to the young man who informed him, \u201cHow do you know that Sha\u2019ul and Yehonathan his son are dead?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And the young man who informed him said, \u201cBy chance I was on Mount Gilboa and saw Sha\u2019ul leaning on his spear. And see, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him."}, {"pk": 2707092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me, and I answered, \u2018Here I am.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd he said to me, \u2018Who are you?\u2019 So I answered him, \u2018I am an Amal\u0115qite.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd he said to me, \u2018Please stand over me and put me to death, for agony has seized me, but my life is still in me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSo I stood beside him and put him to death, for I knew he would not live after he had fallen. And I took the diadem that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took hold of his garments and tore them, and also all the men who were with him."}, {"pk": 2707097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Sha\u2019ul and for Yehonathan his son, and for the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because they had fallen by the sword."}, {"pk": 2707098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 asked the young man who informed him, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI am the son of a sojourner, an Amal\u0115qite.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cHow was it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 called one of the young men and said, \u201cDraw near and fall on him!\u201d And he struck him so that he died."}, {"pk": 2707101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cYour blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has witnessed against you, saying, \u2018I myself have put to death the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 lamented with this lamentation over Sha\u2019ul and over Yehonathan his son,"}, {"pk": 2707103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "and he ordered \u201cThe Bow\u201d to be taught to the children of Yehud\u0331ah. See, it is written in the Book of Yashar:"}, {"pk": 2707104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThe splendour of Yisra\u2019\u0115l Is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!"}, {"pk": 2707105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cDeclare it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashqelon, Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult."}, {"pk": 2707106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cMountains of Gilboa! No dew or rain be upon you, Nor fields of offerings. For there the shield of the mighty lay rejected, The shield of Sha\u2019ul, not anointed with oil."}, {"pk": 2707107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFrom the blood of the slain, From the fat of the mighty, The bow of Yehonathan did not turn back, And the sword of Sha\u2019ul did not return empty."}, {"pk": 2707108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSha\u2019ul and Yehonathan were beloved And pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions."}, {"pk": 2707109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cDaughters of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 weep over Sha\u2019ul, Who wrapped you in scarlet, with finery; Who decked your robes with ornaments of gold."}, {"pk": 2707110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cHow the mighty have fallen In the midst of the battle! Yehonathan was slain in your high places."}, {"pk": 2707111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cI am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women."}, {"pk": 2707112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cHow the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of battle perish!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be afterwards that Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cDo I go up to any of the cities of Yehud\u0331ah?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cGo up.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cWhere should I go up?\u201d And He said, \u201cTo H\u0323eb\u0331ron.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went up there, as well as his two wives, Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the Yizre\u201b\u0115litess, and Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the widow of Nab\u0331al the Karmelite."}, {"pk": 2707115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 brought up the men who were with him, each man with his household, and they dwelt in the cities of H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2707116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And the men of Yehud\u0331ah came, and anointed Dawid\u0331 sovereign over the house of Yehud\u0331ah there. They also reported to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cThe men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 are they who buried Sha\u2019ul.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then sent messengers to the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331, and said to them, \u201cYou are blessed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for you have shown this loving-commitment to your master, to Sha\u2019ul, that you buried him."}, {"pk": 2707118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 show loving-commitment and truth to you, and I am also going to do you good, because you have done this deed."}, {"pk": 2707119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, let your hands be strengthened and be brave, for your master Sha\u2019ul is dead, and also the house of Yehud\u0331ah has anointed me sovereign over them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "But Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, commander of the army of Sha\u2019ul, took Ishbosheth the son of Sha\u2019ul, and brought him over to Mah\u0323anayim,"}, {"pk": 2707121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "and set him up to reign over Gil\u201bad\u0331, and over the Ash\u0115rites, and over Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and over Ephrayim, and over Binyamin, and over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Ishbosheth, son of Sha\u2019ul, was forty years old when he began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and he reigned two years. Only the house of Yehud\u0331ah followed Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And the time that Dawid\u0331 was sovereign in H\u0323eb\u0331ron over the house of Yehud\u0331ah was seven years and six new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2707124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, and the servants of Ishbosheth son of Sha\u2019ul, went out from Mah\u0323anayim to Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2707125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah, and the servants of Dawid\u0331, went out and met them by the pool of Gib\u0331\u201bon. And they sat down, one on one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool."}, {"pk": 2707126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cLet the young men now rise and compete before us.\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said, \u201cLet them rise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And they rose and went over by number, twelve from Binyamin, followers of Ishbosheth son of Sha\u2019ul, and twelve from the servants of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And each man took hold of his opponent by the head and <i>thrust</i> his sword in his opponent\u2019s side, and they fell down together. So that place was called the Field of Sharp Swords, which is in Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2707129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the battle was fierce that day, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r and the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were smitten before the servants of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And there were three sons of Tseruyah there, Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishai and Asah\u2019\u0115l. And Asah\u2019\u0115l was light on his feet, as one of the gazelles in the field."}, {"pk": 2707131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And Asah\u2019\u0115l pursued Ab\u0331n\u0115r, and in going he did not turn aside to the right or to the left from following Ab\u0331n\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2707132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r looked behind him and said, \u201cAre you Asah\u2019\u0115l?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r said to him, \u201cTurn aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take his armour for yourself.\u201d But Asah\u2019\u0115l would not turn aside from following him."}, {"pk": 2707134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r again said to Asah\u2019\u0115l, \u201cTurn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I face your brother Yo\u2019ab\u0331?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "But he refused to turn aside, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r struck him with the blunt end of the spear in the stomach, so that the spear came out of his back. And he fell down there and died on the spot. And it came to be that as many as came to the place where Asah\u2019\u0115l fell down and died, stood still."}, {"pk": 2707136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishai pursued Ab\u0331n\u0115r. And the sun was going down and they came to the hill of Ammah, which overlooks Giyah\u0323 by the way to the Wilderness of Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2707137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And the children of Binyamin gathered together behind Ab\u0331n\u0115r and became a single company, and took their stand on top of a hill."}, {"pk": 2707138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r called to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and said, \u201cShould the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it is bitter in the latter end? And when are you going to say to the people to turn back from pursuing their brothers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said, \u201cAs Elohim lives, if you had not spoken, then all the people would have given up pursuing their brothers only the next morning.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "Yo\u2019ab\u0331 then blew with a shophar, and all the people halted and pursued Yisra\u2019\u0115l no further, nor did they fight any more."}, {"pk": 2707141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r and his men went on all that night through the desert plain, and passed over the Yard\u0115n, and went through all Bithron. And they came to Mah\u0323anayim."}, {"pk": 2707142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 turned back from pursuing Ab\u0331n\u0115r. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants nineteen men and Asah\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "But the servants of Dawid\u0331 had stricken, of Binyamin and Ab\u0331n\u0115r\u2019s men, three hundred and sixty men who died."}, {"pk": 2707144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "And they brought Asah\u2019\u0115l and buried him in his father\u2019s burial-site, which was in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and his men went all night, and they came to H\u0323eb\u0331ron at daybreak."}, {"pk": 2707145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And the fighting between the house of Sha\u2019ul and the house of Dawid\u0331 was long drawn out. But Dawid\u0331 was going on and was strong, and the house of Sha\u2019ul was going on and was weak."}, {"pk": 2707146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And sons were born to Dawid\u0331 in H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And his first-born was Amnon by Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the Yizre\u201b\u0115litess;"}, {"pk": 2707147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "and his second, Kil\u2019ab\u0331, by Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the widow of Nab\u0331al the Karmelite; and the third, Ab\u0331shalom son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, the daughter of Talmai, sovereign of Geshur;"}, {"pk": 2707148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "and the fourth, Ad\u0331oniyah son of H\u0323aggith; and the fifth, Shephatyah son of Ab\u0331ital;"}, {"pk": 2707149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "and the sixth, Yithre\u201bam, by Dawid\u0331\u2019s wife E\u1e21lah. These were born to Dawid\u0331 in H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2707150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, while there was fighting between the house of Sha\u2019ul and the house of Dawid\u0331, that Ab\u0331n\u0115r was strengthening himself in the house of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2707151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul had a concubine, whose name was Ritspah, daughter of Ayah. And <i>Ishbosheth</i> said to Ab\u0331n\u0115r, \u201cWhy have you gone in to my father\u2019s concubine?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r was very displeased at the words of Ishbosheth, and said, \u201cAm I a dog\u2019s head that belongs to Yehud\u0331ah, that I show loving-commitment to the house of Sha\u2019ul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends today, and have not let you fall into the hand of Dawid\u0331, that you charge me today with a sin concerning this woman?"}, {"pk": 2707153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cElohim does so to Ab\u0331n\u0115r, and more also, if I do not do for Dawid\u0331 as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn to him:"}, {"pk": 2707154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "to cause the reign to pass over from the house of Sha\u2019ul, and to raise up the throne of Dawid\u0331 over Yisra\u2019\u0115l and over Yehud\u0331ah, from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And he was unable to answer Ab\u0331n\u0115r another word, because he feared him."}, {"pk": 2707156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r sent messengers on his behalf to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cWhose is the land?\u201d saying also, \u201cMake your covenant with me, and see, my hand is with you to bring all Yisra\u2019\u0115l to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cGood, I make a covenant with you. Only one matter I am asking of you: you do not see my face unless you first bring Mik\u0331al, daughter of Sha\u2019ul, when you come to see my face.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then sent messengers to Ishbosheth son of Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cGive me my wife Mik\u0331al, to whom I became engaged for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Palti\u2019\u0115l son of Layish."}, {"pk": 2707160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "But her husband went with her to Bah\u0323urim, going on and weeping behind her. And Ab\u0331n\u0115r said to him, \u201cGo, turn back!\u201d And he turned back."}, {"pk": 2707161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r had a word with the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cIn time past you were seeking for Dawid\u0331 to be sovereign over you."}, {"pk": 2707162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd now, do it! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken of Dawid\u0331, saying, \u2018By the hand of My servant Dawid\u0331, I save My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the hand of the Philistines and the hand of all their enemies.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r also spoke in the hearing of Binyamin. And Ab\u0331n\u0115r also went to speak in the hearing of Dawid\u0331 in H\u0323eb\u0331ron all that seemed good to Yisra\u2019\u0115l and all the house of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2707164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r and twenty men with him came to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And Dawid\u0331 made a feast for Ab\u0331n\u0115r and the men who were with him."}, {"pk": 2707165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And Ab\u0331n\u0115r said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cLet me arise and go, and gather all Yisra\u2019\u0115l to my master the sovereign, and let them make a covenant with you, and you shall reign over all that your being desires.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 sent Ab\u0331n\u0115r away, and he went in peace."}, {"pk": 2707166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And see, the servants of Dawid\u0331 and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 came from a raid and brought much spoil with them. But Ab\u0331n\u0115r was not with Dawid\u0331 in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace."}, {"pk": 2707167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and all the army that was with him came, and they reported to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, saying, \u201cAb\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r came to the sovereign, and he sent him away, and he has gone in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 went to the sovereign and said, \u201cWhat have you done? See, Ab\u0331n\u0115r has come to you! Why is it that you sent him away, and he has already gone?"}, {"pk": 2707169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYou know that Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r came to deceive you, to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "Yo\u2019ab\u0331 then left Dawid\u0331, and he sent messengers after Ab\u0331n\u0115r, who brought him back from the well of Sirah. But Dawid\u0331 did not know it."}, {"pk": 2707171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "Thus Ab\u0331n\u0115r returned to H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there struck him in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of Asah\u2019\u0115l his brother."}, {"pk": 2707172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 heard it afterwards, he said, \u201cMy reign and I are guiltless before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forever of the blood of Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2707173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cLet it rest on the head of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and on all his father\u2019s house. And let there never fail to be in the house of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 one who has a discharge or is a leper, or who is taking hold of a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "So Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishai his brother killed Ab\u0331n\u0115r, because he had killed their brother Asah\u2019\u0115l at Gib\u0331\u201bon in the battle."}, {"pk": 2707175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and to all the people who were with him, \u201cTear your garments, gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Ab\u0331n\u0115r.\u201d And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 followed the coffin."}, {"pk": 2707176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "And they buried Ab\u0331n\u0115r in H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And the sovereign lifted up his voice and wept at the burial-site of Ab\u0331n\u0115r, and all the people wept."}, {"pk": 2707177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sovereign sang a lament over Ab\u0331n\u0115r and said, \u201cShould Ab\u0331n\u0115r die as a fool dies?"}, {"pk": 2707178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cYour hands were not bound nor your feet put into shackles. As one falls before sons of evil, so you fell.\u201d And all the people wept over him again."}, {"pk": 2707179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "And all the people came to cause Dawid\u0331 to eat food while it was still day, but Dawid\u0331 swore, saying, \u201cElohim do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or whatever else till the sun goes down!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "text": "And all the people took note of it, and it was good in their eyes, since whatever the sovereign did was good in the eyes of all the people."}, {"pk": 2707181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "text": "And all the people and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l knew that day that it had not been the sovereign\u2019s intent to kill Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2707182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "text": "The sovereign also said to his servants, \u201cDo you not know that a prince and a great one has fallen in Yisra\u2019\u0115l today?"}, {"pk": 2707183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 3, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd I am weak today, though anointed sovereign. And these men, the sons of Tseruyah, are too harsh for me. Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 repay the evil-doer according to his evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And the son of Sha\u2019ul heard that Ab\u0331n\u0115r had died in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and he lost heart, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l was troubled."}, {"pk": 2707185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And the son of Sha\u2019ul had two men, commanders of bands, and the name of one was Ba\u201banah and the name of the other R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, sons of Rimmon the Be\u2019\u0115rothite, of the children of Binyamin. For Be\u2019\u0115roth was also reckoned to Binyamin,"}, {"pk": 2707186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "because the Be\u2019\u0115rothites fled to Gittayim and have been sojourners there until this day."}, {"pk": 2707187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Now Yehonathan, son of Sha\u2019ul, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Sha\u2019ul and Yehonathan came from Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it came to be, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephib\u0331osheth."}, {"pk": 2707188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "So the sons of Rimmon the Be\u2019\u0115rothite, R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 and Ba\u201banah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on his bed at noon."}, {"pk": 2707189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And they came into the midst of the house, to fetch wheat, and they struck him in the stomach, and R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 and Ba\u201banah his brother escaped."}, {"pk": 2707190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Thus they came into the house when he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, and they struck him, and slew him, and beheaded him. And they took his head, and went the way of the desert plain all night,"}, {"pk": 2707191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "and brought the head of Ishbosheth to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and said to the sovereign, \u201cSee, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Sha\u2019ul your enemy, who sought your life. So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given my master the sovereign vengeance on Sha\u2019ul and his seed this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 answered R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 and Ba\u201banah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Be\u2019\u0115rothite, and said to them, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, who has ransomed my life out of all distress,"}, {"pk": 2707193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "when someone reported to me, saying, \u2018See, Sha\u2019ul is dead,\u2019 and he was a bearer of good news in his own eyes, I then took hold of him and killed him in Tsiqla\u1e21, which was the reward I gave him for his news."}, {"pk": 2707194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHow much more, when wrong men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the burial-site of Ab\u0331n\u0115r in H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2707196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323eb\u0331ron and spoke, saying, \u201cLook, we are your bone and your flesh."}, {"pk": 2707197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFormerly, when Sha\u2019ul was sovereign over us, you were the one who led Yisra\u2019\u0115l out and brought them in. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to you, \u2018Shepherd My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and be ruler over Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to the sovereign at H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Sovereign Dawid\u0331 made a covenant with them at H\u0323eb\u0331ron before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they anointed Dawid\u0331 sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "Dawid\u0331 was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years."}, {"pk": 2707200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "In H\u0323eb\u0331ron he reigned over Yehud\u0331ah seven years and six new <i>moons</i>, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2707201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign and his men went to Yerushalayim against the Yeb\u0331usites, the inhabitants of the land. And they spoke to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cExcept you take away the blind and the lame, you are not going to come in here,\u201d thinking, \u201cDawid\u0331 is not going to come in here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 captured the stronghold of Tsiyon, the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said on that day, \u201cAnyone who strikes the Yeb\u0331usites, let him go by the water-shaft and <i>take</i> the lame and the blind, who are hated by Dawid\u0331\u2019s being.\u201d That is why they say, \u201cThe blind and the lame do not come into the house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the City of Dawid\u0331. And Dawid\u0331 built all around from the Millo and inward."}, {"pk": 2707205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went on and became great, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts was with him."}, {"pk": 2707206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Now H\u0323iram sovereign of Tsor sent messengers to Dawid\u0331, and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And they built a house for Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 knew that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had established him as sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and that He had exalted His reign, because of His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took more concubines and wives from Yerushalayim, after he had come from H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and more sons and daughters were born to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And these were the names of those born to him in Yerushalayim: Shammua, and Shob\u0331ab\u0331, and Nathan, and Shelomoh,"}, {"pk": 2707210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "and Yib\u0331h\u0323ar, and Elishua, and Nephe\u1e21, and Yaphiya,"}, {"pk": 2707211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "and Elishama, and Elyad\u0331a, and Eliphelet."}, {"pk": 2707212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Philistines heard that they had anointed Dawid\u0331 sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and all the Philistines went up to search for Dawid\u0331, but Dawid\u0331 heard and went down to the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2707213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Philistines came and spread themselves out in the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2707214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cDo I go up against the Philistines? Do You give them into my hand?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cGo up, for I shall certainly give the Philistines into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to Ba\u201bal Peratsim, and Dawid\u0331 struck them there. And he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has broken through my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of water.\u201d So he called the name of that place Ba\u201bal Peratsim."}, {"pk": 2707216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And they left their images there, and Dawid\u0331 and his men took them away."}, {"pk": 2707217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And the Philistines again came up and were spread out in the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2707218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 inquired of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He said, \u201cDo not go up, turn around behind them, and you shall come upon them in front of the mulberry trees."}, {"pk": 2707219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you hear the sound of stepping in the tops of the mulberry trees, then act promptly, for then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 did so, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geb\u0331a as far as Gezer."}, {"pk": 2707221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Now Dawid\u0331 again gathered all the chosen men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, thirty thousand."}, {"pk": 2707222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rose up and went with all the people who were with him from Ba\u201bal\u0115 Yehud\u0331ah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim, that is called by the Name, the Name \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of Hosts, who dwells between the kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2707223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And they placed the ark of Elohim on a new wagon, and brought it from the house of Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ah\u0323yo, sons of Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, were leading the new wagon."}, {"pk": 2707224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And they brought it from the house of Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, which was on the hill, with the ark of Elohim. And Ah\u0323yo was walking before the ark."}, {"pk": 2707225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were dancing before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with all <i>instruments of</i> fir wood, and with lyres, and with harps, and with tambourines, and with sistrums, and with cymbals."}, {"pk": 2707226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nak\u0331on, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of Elohim and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled."}, {"pk": 2707227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Uzzah, and Elohim struck him there for the fault. And he died there by the ark of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2707228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was displeased because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had broken out against Uzzah. And he called the name of the place Perets Uzzah, until this day."}, {"pk": 2707229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was afraid of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on that day, and said, \u201cHow shall the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 come to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 would not move the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with him into the City of Dawid\u0331, but Dawid\u0331 turned it aside to the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om the Gittite."}, {"pk": 2707231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 remained in the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om the Gittite three new <i>moons</i>, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om and all his house."}, {"pk": 2707232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And it was reported to Sovereign Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om and all that he has, because of the ark of Elohim.\u201d Dawid\u0331 then went and brought up the ark of Elohim from the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om to the City of Dawid\u0331 with rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2707233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when those bearing the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had gone six steps, that he slaughtered bulls and fatted sheep."}, {"pk": 2707234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 danced before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all his might. And Dawid\u0331 was wearing a linen shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2707235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Thus Dawid\u0331 and all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l brought up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with shouting and with a voice of a shophar."}, {"pk": 2707236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came into the City of Dawid\u0331, that Mik\u0331al, daughter of Sha\u2019ul, looked through a window and saw Sovereign Dawid\u0331 leaping and dancing before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and she despised him in her heart."}, {"pk": 2707237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "So they brought the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in, and set it in its place in the midst of the Tent that Dawid\u0331 had pitched for it. And Dawid\u0331 brought ascending offerings before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and peace offerings."}, {"pk": 2707238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 had finished bringing ascending offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2707239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And he apportioned to all the people, to all the crowd of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from man even to women, to each one a loaf of bread, and a measure, and a cake of raisins. And all the people left, each one to his house."}, {"pk": 2707240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 returned to bless his household, and Mik\u0331al the daughter of Sha\u2019ul came out to meet Dawid\u0331, and said, \u201cHow esteemed was the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l today, uncovering himself today in the eyes of the female servants of his servants, as one of the foolish ones shamelessly uncovers himself!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 said to Mik\u0331al, \u201cBefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, commanded me to be ruler over the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so I danced before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall be even more slight than this, and shall be humble in my own eyes. But as for the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I am esteemed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And Mik\u0331al the daughter of Sha\u2019ul had no children to the day of her death."}, {"pk": 2707244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be when the sovereign was dwelling in his house, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given him rest from all his enemies all around,"}, {"pk": 2707245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "that the sovereign said to Nathan the prophet, \u201cSee now, I am dwelling in a house of cedar, but the ark of Elohim dwells within curtains.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And Nathan said to the sovereign, \u201cGo, do all that is in your heart, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be that night that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Nathan, saying,"}, {"pk": 2707248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cGo and say to My servant Dawid\u0331, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWould you build a house for Me to dwell in?"}, {"pk": 2707249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l up from Mitsrayim, even to this day, but have moved about in a Tent and in a Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2707250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWherever I have walked with all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2707251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now, say to My servant Dawid\u0331, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cI took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be ruler over My people, over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth."}, {"pk": 2707253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall appoint a place for My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall plant them, and they shall dwell in a place of their own and no longer be afraid, neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them again, as at the first,"}, {"pk": 2707254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "even from the day I commanded rulers over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has declared to you that He would make you a house."}, {"pk": 2707255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen your days are filled and you rest with your fathers, I shall raise up your seed after you, who comes from your inward parts, and shall establish his reign."}, {"pk": 2707256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHe does build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his reign forever."}, {"pk": 2707257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI am to be his Father, and he is My son. If he does perversely, I shall reprove him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2707258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut My loving-commitment does not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Sha\u2019ul, whom I removed from before you."}, {"pk": 2707259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd your house and your reign are to be steadfast forever before you \u2014 your throne is established forever.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 went in and sat before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and he said, \u201cWho am I, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?"}, {"pk": 2707262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd yet this was a small matter in Your eyes, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And You have also spoken of Your servant\u2019s house for a great while to come. And is this the torah of man, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2707263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd what more does Dawid\u0331 say to You? For You, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, know Your servant."}, {"pk": 2707264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBecause of Your word, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, to make it known to Your servant."}, {"pk": 2707265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cYou are great indeed, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For there is none like You, and there is no Elohim but You, according to all that we have heard with our ears."}, {"pk": 2707266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd who is like Your people, like Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the one nation on the earth whom Elohim went to ransom for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a Name, and to do for You greatness, and awesome deeds for Your land before Your people, whom You ransomed for Yourself from Mitsrayim, from the nations and their mighty ones?"}, {"pk": 2707267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd You have established for Yourself Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l as Your own people forever, and You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have become their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2707268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said."}, {"pk": 2707269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd let Your Name be made great forever, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is the Elohim over Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 And let the house of Your servant Dawid\u0331 be established before You."}, {"pk": 2707270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, \u2018I build you a house.\u2019 Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You."}, {"pk": 2707271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are Elohim, and Your words are true, and You have spoken this goodness to Your servant."}, {"pk": 2707272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd now, be pleased to bless the house of Your servant, to be before You, forever. For You, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken it, and with Your blessing let the house of Your servant be blessed forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that Dawid\u0331 struck the Philistines and humbled them. And Dawid\u0331 took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2707274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "He also struck Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and measured them off with a line, causing them to lie down on the earth. With two lines he measured off those to be put to death, and with one complete line those to be kept alive. And the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants, and brought presents."}, {"pk": 2707275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Dawid\u0331 also struck Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer son of Reh\u0323ob\u0331, sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah, as he went to restore his rule at the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2707276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And Dawid\u0331 destroyed all the chariots, but he left of them a hundred chariots."}, {"pk": 2707277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Arameans of Dammeseq came to help Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah, and Dawid\u0331 struck twenty-two thousand of the Arameans."}, {"pk": 2707278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 put watch-posts in Aram of Dammeseq. And the Arameans became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants, and brought presents. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Dawid\u0331 wherever he went."}, {"pk": 2707279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took the shields of gold which were on the servants of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer, and brought them to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And from Betah\u0323 and from B\u0115rothai, cities of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer, Sovereign Dawid\u0331 took very much bronze."}, {"pk": 2707281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And To\u201bi sovereign of H\u0323amath heard that Dawid\u0331 had stricken all the army of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer,"}, {"pk": 2707282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "so To\u201bi sent Yoram his son to Sovereign Dawid\u0331, to ask peace of him and bless him, because he had fought against Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer and struck him, for Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer had battles with To\u201bi. And <i>Yoram</i> brought with him objects of silver, and objects of gold, and objects of bronze."}, {"pk": 2707283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "Sovereign Dawid\u0331 also set these apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, along with the silver and gold that he had set apart from all the nations which he had humbled:"}, {"pk": 2707284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "from Aram, and from Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amal\u0115q, and from the spoil of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer son of Reh\u0323ob\u0331, sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2707285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 made a name <i>for himself</i> when he returned from striking eighteen thousand Arameans in the Valley of Salt."}, {"pk": 2707286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And he put watch-posts in Ed\u0331om. Throughout all Ed\u0331om he put watch-posts, and all the Ed\u0331omites became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Dawid\u0331 wherever he went."}, {"pk": 2707287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 reigned over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Dawid\u0331 was doing right-ruling and righteousness to all his people."}, {"pk": 2707288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah was over the army, and Yehoshaphat son of Ah\u0323ilud\u0331 was recorder,"}, {"pk": 2707289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "and Tsad\u0331oq son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331 and Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 son of Eb\u0331yathar were the priests, and Serayah was the scribe,"}, {"pk": 2707290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a was over both the Ker\u0115thites and the Pel\u0115thites, and Dawid\u0331\u2019s sons were priests."}, {"pk": 2707291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cIs there still anyone who is left of the house of Sha\u2019ul, that I might show him loving-commitment, because of Yehonathan?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And the house of Sha\u2019ul had a servant whose name was Tsib\u0331a. And they had called him to Dawid\u0331, and the sovereign said to him, \u201cAre you Tsib\u0331a?\u201d And he said, \u201cYour servant!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cIs there not still someone of the house of Sha\u2019ul, so that I show him the loving-commitment of Elohim?\u201d And Tsib\u0331a said to the sovereign, \u201cThere is still a son of Yehonathan, lame in his feet.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "So the sovereign said to him, \u201cWhere is he?\u201d And Tsib\u0331a said to the sovereign, \u201cSee, he is in the house of Mak\u0331ir son of Ammi\u2019\u0115l, in Lo D\u0331eb\u0331ar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 sent and brought him out of the house of Mak\u0331ir son of Ammi\u2019\u0115l, from Lo D\u0331eb\u0331ar."}, {"pk": 2707296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And Mephib\u0331osheth son of Yehonathan, son of Sha\u2019ul, came to Dawid\u0331, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cMephib\u0331osheth!\u201d And he answered, \u201cHere is your servant!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then said to him, \u201cDo not fear, for I shall certainly show you loving-commitment because of Yehonathan your father, and shall return to you all the land of Sha\u2019ul your grandfather, and let you eat bread at my table continually.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And he bowed himself and said, \u201cWhat is your servant, that you should turn to such a dead dog as I?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign called Tsib\u0331a servant of Sha\u2019ul, and said to him, \u201cI have given to your master\u2019s son all that belonged to Sha\u2019ul and to all his house."}, {"pk": 2707300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in <i>its yield</i>, and your master\u2019s son shall have food to eat. But let Mephib\u0331osheth your master\u2019s son eat bread at my table always.\u201d And Tsib\u0331a had fifteen sons and twenty servants."}, {"pk": 2707301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And Tsib\u0331a said to the sovereign, \u201cAccording to all that my master the sovereign has commanded his servant, so your servant does.\u201d \u201cAs for Mephib\u0331osheth,\u201d <i>said the sovereign</i>, \u201che shall eat at my table as one of the sons of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And Mephib\u0331osheth had a young son whose name was Mik\u0331a. And all who dwelt in the house of Tsib\u0331a were servants of Mephib\u0331osheth."}, {"pk": 2707303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mephib\u0331osheth was dwelling in Yerushalayim, for he ate continually at the sovereign\u2019s table. And he was lame in both his feet."}, {"pk": 2707304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that the sovereign of the children of Ammon died, and H\u0323anun his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2707305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cLet me show loving-commitment to H\u0323anun son of Nah\u0323ash, as his father showed loving-commitment to me.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And when Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon,"}, {"pk": 2707306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to H\u0323anun their master, \u201cIs Dawid\u0331 esteeming your father in your eyes in that he has sent comforters to you? Has Dawid\u0331 not rather sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "So H\u0323anun took Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, as far as their buttocks, and sent them away."}, {"pk": 2707308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And they informed Dawid\u0331, and he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the sovereign said, \u201cWait at Yerih\u0323o until your beards have grown, and then return.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they had become a stench to Dawid\u0331, the children of Ammon sent and hired Arameans of B\u0115yth Reh\u0323ob\u0331 and Arameans of Tsob\u0331a, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the sovereign of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, one thousand men, and men of Tob\u0331, twelve thousand men."}, {"pk": 2707310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 heard, and sent Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and the entire army, the mighty men."}, {"pk": 2707311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array at the entrance of the gate. And the Arameans of Tsob\u0331a, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331, and men of Tob\u0331, and Ma\u201bak\u0331ah were by themselves in the field."}, {"pk": 2707312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, and he chose out of all the chosen men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and put them in battle array against the Arameans."}, {"pk": 2707313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And the rest of the people he gave under the hand of Ab\u0331ishai his brother, and he put them in battle array against the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2707314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And he said, \u201cIf the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me. But if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I shall come and help you."}, {"pk": 2707315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBe strong, and let us show strength for our people and for the cities of our Elohim, and let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do what is good in His eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 drew near, and the people with him, to battle against Aram, and they fled before him."}, {"pk": 2707317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they also fled before Ab\u0331ishai, and went into the city. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 returned from the children of Ammon and came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And Aram saw that they were smitten before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they gathered together,"}, {"pk": 2707319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "and Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River, and they came to H\u0323\u0115lam. And Shob\u0331ak\u0331 the commander of the army of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer went before them."}, {"pk": 2707320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And it was reported to Dawid\u0331, and he gathered all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and passed over the Yard\u0115n, and came to H\u0323\u0115lam. And Aram set themselves in battle array against Dawid\u0331 and they fought with him."}, {"pk": 2707321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And Aram fled before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Dawid\u0331 killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand horsemen of Aram, and he struck Shob\u0331ak\u0331, commander of their army, who died there."}, {"pk": 2707322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And all the sovereigns, the servants of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer, saw that they were smitten by Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and made peace with Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and served them. And the Arameans were afraid to help the children of Ammon any more."}, {"pk": 2707323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be at the turn of the year, at the time sovereigns go out <i>to battle</i>, that Dawid\u0331 sent Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and his servants with him, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But Dawid\u0331 remained at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, at evening time, that Dawid\u0331 rose up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the sovereign\u2019s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very good to look at."}, {"pk": 2707325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent and asked about the woman, and one said, \u201cIs this not Bathsheb\u0331a, the daughter of Eliyam, the wife of Uriyah the H\u0323ittite?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent messengers, to fetch her. And she came to him, and he lay with her \u2014 for she was cleansing herself from her uncleanness \u2014 and she returned to her house."}, {"pk": 2707327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And the woman conceived, and sent and informed Dawid\u0331, and said, \u201cI am pregnant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 sent to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cSend Uriyah the H\u0323ittite to me.\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 sent Uriyah to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And Uriyah came to him, and Dawid\u0331 asked how Yo\u2019ab\u0331 was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the fighting was going."}, {"pk": 2707330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Uriyah, \u201cGo down to your house and wash your feet.\u201d And Uriyah went out from the sovereign\u2019s house, and a gift from the sovereign followed him."}, {"pk": 2707331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "But Uriyah lay down at the door of the sovereign\u2019s house with all the servants of his master, and did not go down to his house."}, {"pk": 2707332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And they informed Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cUriyah did not go down to his house,\u201d So Dawid\u0331 said to Uriyah, \u201cDid you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And Uriyah said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cThe ark and Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah are dwelling in booths, and my master Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and the servants of my master are encamped in the open fields. And I, should I go to my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your being lives, let me not do this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Uriyah, \u201cRemain here today also, and tomorrow I let you go.\u201d So Uriyah remained in Yerushalayim, that day and the next."}, {"pk": 2707335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his master, but he did not go down to his house."}, {"pk": 2707336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be in the morning that Dawid\u0331 wrote a letter to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and sent it by the hand of Uriyah."}, {"pk": 2707337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And he wrote in the letter, saying, \u201cSet Uriyah in the front of the toughest battle, and you shall turn away from him, and he shall be stricken and shall die.\u201d", "comment": "Lit. strong."}, {"pk": 2707338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, as Yo\u2019ab\u0331 watched the city, that he appointed Uriyah to the place where he knew there were brave men."}, {"pk": 2707339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And the men of the city came out and fought with Yo\u2019ab\u0331. And some of the people of the servants of Dawid\u0331 fell. And Uriyah the H\u0323ittite also died."}, {"pk": 2707340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 sent and reported to Dawid\u0331 all the events of the battle,"}, {"pk": 2707341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "and commanded the messenger, saying, \u201cWhen you have finished reporting all the events of the battle to the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2707342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "then it shall be, if the sovereign\u2019s wrath rises and he says to you, \u2018Why did you go so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?"}, {"pk": 2707343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Who struck Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 the son of Yerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Th\u0115b\u0331\u0115ts? Why did you go near the wall?\u2019 Then you shall say, \u2018Your servant Uriyah the H\u0323ittite is also dead.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And the messenger went, and came and reported to Dawid\u0331 all with which Yo\u2019ab\u0331 had sent him."}, {"pk": 2707345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And the messenger said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cThe men have been mighty against us and came out to us in the field, but we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate."}, {"pk": 2707346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd the archers shot from the wall at your servants. And some of the sovereign\u2019s servants are dead, and your servant Uriyah the H\u0323ittite is also dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to the messenger, \u201cSay to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u2018Do not let this matter be evil in your eyes, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.\u2019 And strengthen him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And the wife of Uriyah heard that Uriyah her husband was dead, and she lamented for her husband."}, {"pk": 2707349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And when her mourning was over, Dawid\u0331 sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the deed that Dawid\u0331 had done was evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent Nathan to Dawid\u0331. And he came to him, and said to him, \u201cThere were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor."}, {"pk": 2707351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThe rich one had flocks and herds, very many."}, {"pk": 2707352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBut the poor one had only one little ewe lamb which he had bought and kept alive. And it grew up with him and with his children together. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom. And it was like a daughter to him."}, {"pk": 2707353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd a traveller came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but he took the poor man\u2019s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And the wrath of Dawid\u0331 burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, the man who has done this is a son of death!"}, {"pk": 2707355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAlso, he has to repay fourfold for the lamb, because he did this deed and because he had no compassion.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "Then Nathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cYou are the man! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I anointed you sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I delivered you from the hand of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2707357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And I gave you your master\u2019s house and your master\u2019s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah. And if that were not enough, I also would have given you much more!"}, {"pk": 2707358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Why have you despised the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriyah the H\u0323ittite with the sword, and his wife you took to be your wife, and you have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2707359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriyah the H\u0323ittite to be your wife.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am raising up evil against you, from your own house, and shall take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbour, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun."}, {"pk": 2707361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "For you did it in secret, but I shall do this deed before all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and before the sun.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Nathan, \u201cI have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And Nathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cAlso, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has put away your sin, you shall not die."}, {"pk": 2707363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cHowever, because by this deed you have greatly scorned \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the child also who is born to you shall certainly die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And Nathan went to his house, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote the child that Uriyah\u2019s wife had born to Dawid\u0331, and he was sick."}, {"pk": 2707365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sought Elohim for the child, and Dawid\u0331 fasted and went in and spent all night lying on the ground."}, {"pk": 2707366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "So the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him up from the earth. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them."}, {"pk": 2707367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And on the seventh day it came to be that the child died. And the servants of Dawid\u0331 were afraid to inform him that the child was dead, for they said, \u201cLook, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our voice. And how do we say to him that the child is dead? Then he shall do evil!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 saw that his servants were whispering, and Dawid\u0331 perceived that the child was dead. Then Dawid\u0331 said to his servants, \u201cIs the child dead?\u201d And they said, \u201cHe is dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then rose up from the ground, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his garments. And he went into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and bowed himself, then came to his own house, and asked, and they set food before him, so he ate."}, {"pk": 2707370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And his servants said to him, \u201cWhat is this that you have done? You fasted and wept because of the living child, but when the child died, you rose up and ate food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhile the child was alive I fasted and wept, for I said, \u2018Who knows whether \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shows favour unto me, and the child shall live?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut now he is dead, why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, but he does not return to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 comforted Bathsheb\u0331a his wife, and went in to her and lay with her. So she bore a son, and he called his name Shelomoh. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loved him,"}, {"pk": 2707374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "and sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Yed\u0331id\u0331eyah, because of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and captured the royal city."}, {"pk": 2707376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 sent messengers to Dawid\u0331, and said, \u201cI have fought against Rabbah, and I have captured the city\u2019s water supply."}, {"pk": 2707377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd now, gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and it be called after my name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 gathered all the people and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and captured it."}, {"pk": 2707379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "And he took their sovereign\u2019s crown from his head. And its weight was a talent of gold, with precious stones, and it was on Dawid\u0331\u2019s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount."}, {"pk": 2707380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "And he brought out the people who were in it, and set them to the saw and to sharp instruments of iron and to axes of iron, and made them pass over to the brick works. And so he did with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And Dawid\u0331 and all the people returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that Ab\u0331shalom son of Dawid\u0331 had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar, and Amnon son of Dawid\u0331 loved her."}, {"pk": 2707382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And Amnon was distressed, even to become sick, because of his sister Tamar \u2014 for she was a maiden \u2014 and it was hard in the eyes of Amnon to do whatever to her."}, {"pk": 2707383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And Amnon had a friend whose name was Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of Shim\u201bah, Dawid\u0331\u2019s brother. Now Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 was a very wise man."}, {"pk": 2707384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cWhy are you, the sovereign\u2019s son, becoming thinner day after day? Explain it to me.\u201d And Amnon said to him, \u201cI love Tamar, my brother Ab\u0331shalom\u2019s sister.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 said to him, \u201cLie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, \u2018Please let my sister Tamar come and give me food, and make the food before my eyes so that I see it, and eat it from her hand.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the sovereign came to see him, Amnon said to the sovereign, \u201cPlease let Tamar my sister come and make a couple of cakes for me before my eyes, so that I eat from her hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent to Tamar, to the house, saying, \u201cPlease go to the house of your brother Amnon, and make food for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "So Tamar went to her brother Amnon\u2019s house, while he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it, and made cakes before his eyes, and baked the cakes."}, {"pk": 2707389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "And she took the pan and turned them out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, \u201cMake everyone go away from me.\u201d And they all went out from him."}, {"pk": 2707390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And Amnon said to Tamar, \u201cBring the food into the bedroom, that I eat from your hand.\u201d And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon her brother in the bedroom."}, {"pk": 2707391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And she brought them to him to eat, and he took hold of her and said to her, \u201cCome, lie with me, my sister.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And she answered him, \u201cNo, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Do not do this wickedness!"}, {"pk": 2707393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I, where could I take my shame? And you \u2014 you would be like one of the fools in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And now, please speak to the sovereign, for he would not withhold me from you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "But he would not listen to her voice, and being stronger than she, he humbled her and lay with her."}, {"pk": 2707395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Amnon then hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, \u201cArise, go!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cNo, for this evil of sending me away is worse than the other you have done to me.\u201d But he would not listen to her."}, {"pk": 2707397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And he called his young man serving him, and said, \u201cNow put this one out, away from me, and bolt the door behind her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "And she had on a long coat, for the sovereign\u2019s maiden daughters wore such garments. And his servant put her out and bolted the door behind her."}, {"pk": 2707399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her long coat that was on her, and put her hand on her head and went away crying bitterly."}, {"pk": 2707400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom her brother said to her, \u201cHas Amnon your brother been with you? But now, keep silent, my sister. He is your brother, do not take this matter to heart.\u201d So Tamar remained in the house of her brother Ab\u0331shalom, but was ruined."}, {"pk": 2707401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 heard all these reports, and he was very wroth."}, {"pk": 2707402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither good nor evil. For Ab\u0331shalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar."}, {"pk": 2707403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be, after two years, that Ab\u0331shalom had sheep-shearers in Ba\u201bal Hatsor, which is beside Ephrayim, and Ab\u0331shalom invited all the sons of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom came to the sovereign and said, \u201cSee, your servant has sheep-shearers. Please, let the sovereign and his servants go with your servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "But the sovereign said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cNo, my son, let us not all go now, lest we be too heavy on you.\u201d And he urged him, but he would not go. And he blessed him."}, {"pk": 2707406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom said, \u201cIf not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.\u201d And the sovereign said to him, \u201cWhy should he go with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom urged him, so he let Amnon and all the sons of the sovereign go with him."}, {"pk": 2707408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom had commanded his servants, saying, \u201cWatch, and when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I shall say to you, \u2018Strike Amnon!\u2019 then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and brave.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "Then the servants of Ab\u0331shalom did to Amnon as Ab\u0331shalom had commanded. Then all the sons of the sovereign rose up, and each one mounted his mule and fled."}, {"pk": 2707410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be, while they were on the way, that news came to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cAb\u0331shalom has stricken all the sons of the sovereign, and not one of them is left!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sovereign rose up and tore his garments and lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their garments torn."}, {"pk": 2707412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "And Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of Shim\u201bah, Dawid\u0331\u2019s brother, answered and said, \u201cDo not let my master say they have killed all the young men, the sons of the sovereign, for only Amnon is dead. For by the mouth of Ab\u0331shalom this has been appointed from the day that he humbled his sister Tamar."}, {"pk": 2707413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd now, let not my master the sovereign take the matter to his heart, to think that all the sons of the sovereign are dead. For only Amnon is dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom fled, and the young man who was watching lifted up his eyes and looked and saw many people were coming from the way behind him, on the side of the hill."}, {"pk": 2707415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "Then Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 said to the sovereign, \u201cLook, the sons of the sovereign are coming; as your servant said, so it is.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "And it came to be, as soon as he had finished speaking, that look, the sons of the sovereign came, and they lifted up their voice and wept. And the sovereign too, and all his servants wept very bitterly."}, {"pk": 2707417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "But Ab\u0331shalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud\u0331, sovereign of Geshur. And <i>Dawid\u0331</i> mourned for his son all the days."}, {"pk": 2707418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "text": "So Ab\u0331shalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years."}, {"pk": 2707419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "text": "Sovereign Dawid\u0331 then longed to go to Ab\u0331shalom, for he had been comforted concerning Amnon, because he was dead."}, {"pk": 2707420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah knew that the heart of the sovereign was towards Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 sent to Teqowa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, \u201cPlease pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead."}, {"pk": 2707422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThen you shall go to the sovereign and speak to him according to this word.\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 put the words in her mouth."}, {"pk": 2707423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the woman of Teqowa spoke to the sovereign, she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, \u201cSave, O sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign said to her, \u201cWhat is your trouble?\u201d And she answered, \u201cTruly I am a widow, my husband is dead."}, {"pk": 2707425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd your female servant had two sons. And the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him."}, {"pk": 2707426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd see, the entire clan has risen up against your female servant and said, \u2018Give him who struck his brother, so that we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.\u2019 Thus they would extinguish my burning coal that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign said to the woman, \u201cGo to your house, and let me give commands concerning you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And the woman of Teqowa said to the sovereign, \u201cMy master, O sovereign, let the crookedness be on me and on my father\u2019s house, and the sovereign and his throne be guiltless.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cWhoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and let him no longer touch you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And she said, \u201cPlease let the sovereign remember \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and the redeemer of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.\u201d And he said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And the woman said, \u201cPlease, let your female servant speak a word to my master the sovereign.\u201d And he said, \u201cSpeak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And the woman said, \u201cAnd why have you reasoned like this against the people of Elohim? For in speaking this word the sovereign is as one who is guilty, in that the sovereign does not bring his outcast one home again."}, {"pk": 2707433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him."}, {"pk": 2707434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd now I have come to speak this word to my master the sovereign because the people have made me afraid. And your female servant said, \u2018Please let me speak to the sovereign, it could be that the sovereign does what his female servant asks,"}, {"pk": 2707435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "for the sovereign has listened to deliver his female servant from the hand of the man <i>seeking</i> to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThen your female servant said, \u2018Please let the word of my master the sovereign be comforting, for my master the sovereign is as the messenger of Elohim, in discerning the good and the evil. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim is with you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign answered and said to the woman, \u201cPlease do not hide from me the matter that I am asking you.\u201d And the woman said, \u201cPlease, let my master the sovereign speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cIs the hand of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 with you in all this?\u201d And the woman answered and said, \u201cAs your being lives, my master the sovereign, no one <i>turns</i> to the right or to the left from all that my master the sovereign has spoken. For your servant Yo\u2019ab\u0331 commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your female servant."}, {"pk": 2707439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYour servant Yo\u2019ab\u0331 has done this to change the appearance of the matter. But my master is wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of Elohim, to know all that is in the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sovereign said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cSee now, you shall do this matter. And go, bring back the young man Ab\u0331shalom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 fell to the ground on his face and did obeisance, and blessed the sovereign. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said, \u201cToday your servant knows that I have found favour in your eyes, my master, O sovereign, in that the sovereign has done the word of his servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 rose up and went to Geshur, and brought Ab\u0331shalom to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cLet him return to his own house, but do not let him see my face.\u201d And Ab\u0331shalom went to his own house, and did not see the sovereign\u2019s face."}, {"pk": 2707444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And in all Yisra\u2019\u0115l there was no one who was praised as much as Ab\u0331shalom for his handsomeness. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him."}, {"pk": 2707445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And when he cut the hair of his head \u2014 for it was at every year\u2019s end that he cut it because it was heavy on him \u2014 when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sheqels by the sovereign\u2019s weight."}, {"pk": 2707446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And to Ab\u0331shalom were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of beautiful appearance."}, {"pk": 2707447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom dwelt in Yerushalayim, two years, and he had not seen the sovereign\u2019s face."}, {"pk": 2707448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "Then Ab\u0331shalom sent for Yo\u2019ab\u0331, to send him to the sovereign, but he would not come to him. And he sent again the second time, but he would not come."}, {"pk": 2707449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "And he said to his servants, \u201cSee, Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s field is near mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.\u201d And Ab\u0331shalom\u2019s servants set the field on fire."}, {"pk": 2707450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "Then Yo\u2019ab\u0331 rose up and came to the house of Ab\u0331shalom, and said to him, \u201cWhy have your servants set my field on fire?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cLook, I sent to you, saying, \u2018Come here, so that I send you to the sovereign, to say, \u201cWhy have I come from Geshur? It was good for me while I was there.\u201d \u2019 And now, let me see the sovereign\u2019s face. And if there is any crookedness in me, then you shall put me to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "Yo\u2019ab\u0331 then went to the sovereign and informed him. And he called for Ab\u0331shalom, and he came to the sovereign and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the sovereign. Then the sovereign kissed Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be after this that Ab\u0331shalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him."}, {"pk": 2707454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. And it came to be, whenever anyone who had a complaint came to the sovereign for a right-ruling, that Ab\u0331shalom would call to him and say, \u201cWhat city are you from?\u201d And when he said, \u201cYour servant is from such and such a tribe of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "Ab\u0331shalom would say to him, \u201cLook, your matters are good and right, but you have nobody from the sovereign to hear you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom would say, \u201cOh, that I were made judge in the land, and everyone who has any complaint or case would come to me, and I shall let right be done to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, whenever anyone came near him to bow down to him, that he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him."}, {"pk": 2707458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom did this to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who came to the sovereign for right-ruling. And Ab\u0331shalom stole the hearts of the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be at the end of forty years that Ab\u0331shalom said to the sovereign, \u201cPlease, let me go to H\u0323eb\u0331ron and pay the vow which I vowed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "<em>Forty years</em>: Some manuscipts have <em>four years</em>."}, {"pk": 2707460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, \u2018If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 indeed brings me back to Yerushalayim, then I shall serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign said to him, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d And he rose up and went to H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2707462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "But Ab\u0331shalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cAs soon as you hear the voice of the shophar, then you shall say, \u2018Ab\u0331shalom is sovereign in H\u0323eb\u0331ron!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And with Ab\u0331shalom went two hundred men from Yerushalayim who were invited, and they went along unsuspectingly, and did not know the matter at all."}, {"pk": 2707464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "Ab\u0331shalom also sent for Ah\u0323ithophel the Gilonite, counsellor of Dawid\u0331, from his city, from Giloh, while he slaughtered slaughterings. And it came to be that the conspiracy became potent, for the people with Ab\u0331shalom kept increasing."}, {"pk": 2707465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "Then a messenger came to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cThe hearts of the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are with Ab\u0331shalom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to all his servants who were with him at Yerushalayim, \u201cRise up, and let us flee, for none of us shall escape from Ab\u0331shalom. Go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly and bring evil upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sovereign\u2019s servants said to the sovereign, \u201cLook, your servants <i>shall do</i> according to all my master the sovereign chooses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sovereign went out, and all his household at his feet. But the sovereign left ten women, concubines, to look after the house."}, {"pk": 2707469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "So the sovereign went out, and all the people at his feet, and they stood still at the last house."}, {"pk": 2707470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And all his servants were passing on at his side. And all the Ker\u0115thites, and all the Pel\u0115thites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had followed him from Gath, were passing on before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sovereign said to Ittai the Gittite, \u201cWhy do you go, you also, with us? Turn back and remain with the sovereign, for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your own place."}, {"pk": 2707472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou came yesterday, and should I today make you wander up and down with us, when I am going wherever I am going? Return, and take your brothers back. Loving-commitment and truth be with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And Ittai answered the sovereign and said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, and as my master the sovereign lives, in whatever place my master the sovereign is, whether in death or life, let your servant also be there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "Therefore Dawid\u0331 said to Ittai, \u201cGo, and pass over.\u201d And Ittai the Gittite and all his men and all the little ones who were with him passed over."}, {"pk": 2707475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And all the land was weeping with a loud voice, and all the people were passing over. And the sovereign himself was passing over the wadi Qid\u0331ron, and all the people were passing over toward the way of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2707476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And see, Tsad\u0331oq also <i>came</i>, and all the L\u0115wites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of Elohim. And they set down the ark of Elohim, and Eb\u0331yathar went up until all the people completed passing over from the city."}, {"pk": 2707477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "And the sovereign said to Tsad\u0331oq, \u201cTake the ark of Elohim back to the city. If I find favour in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, then He shall bring me back and show me both it and His dwelling."}, {"pk": 2707478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut if He says thus, \u2018I have not delighted in you,\u2019 here I am, let Him do to me as <i>seems</i> good in His eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign said to Tsad\u0331oq the priest, \u201cAre you not a seer? Return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ah\u0323ima\u201bats your son, and Yehonathan son of Eb\u0331yathar."}, {"pk": 2707480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSee, I am waiting in the desert plains of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar took the ark of Elohim back to Yerushalayim, and they remained there."}, {"pk": 2707482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went up by the ascent of the <i>Mount of</i> Olives, and wept as he went up. And he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up."}, {"pk": 2707483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was informed, saying, \u201cAh\u0323ithophel is among the conspirators with Ab\u0331shalom.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I pray You, make the counsel of Ah\u0323ithophel foolish!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And it came to be that Dawid\u0331 came to the summit, where he bowed himself before Elohim, and saw H\u0323ushai the Arkite, <i>coming</i> to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head."}, {"pk": 2707485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to him, \u201cIf you pass on with me, then you shall become a burden to me,"}, {"pk": 2707486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "but if you return to the city, and say to Ab\u0331shalom, \u2018I am your servant, O sovereign \u2014 once servant of your father, but now I am your servant,\u2019 then you shall nullify the counsel of Ah\u0323ithophel for me."}, {"pk": 2707487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd are not Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar the priests with you there? And it shall be that every matter you hear from the sovereign\u2019s house, you should report to Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar the priests."}, {"pk": 2707488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cSee, there with them are their two sons, Ah\u0323ima\u201bats, Tsad\u0331oq\u2019s son, and Yehonathan, Eb\u0331yathar\u2019s son. And by them you shall send me every matter you hear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And H\u0323ushai, Dawid\u0331\u2019s friend, went into the city. And Ab\u0331shalom came into Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 had passed on a little from the summit, and saw Tsib\u0331a the servant of Mephib\u0331osheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves, and one hundred cakes of raisins, and one hundred summer fruit, and a skin of wine."}, {"pk": 2707491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign said to Tsib\u0331a, \u201cWhy do you have these?\u201d And Tsib\u0331a said, \u201cThe donkeys are for the sovereign\u2019s household to ride on, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for the wearied to drink in the wilderness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cAnd where is the son of your master?\u201d And Tsib\u0331a said to the sovereign, \u201cSee, he remains in Yerushalayim, for he said, \u2018Today the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is going to return the reign of my father to me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign said to Tsib\u0331a, \u201cSee, all that belongs to Mephib\u0331osheth is yours.\u201d And Tsib\u0331a said, \u201cI have bowed myself, let me find favour in your eyes, my master, O sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Sovereign Dawid\u0331 came to Bah\u0323urim he saw a man from the clan of the house of Sha\u2019ul, whose name was Shim\u201bi son of G\u0115ra, coming from there. He came out, cursing as he came."}, {"pk": 2707495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And he pelted, with stones, Dawid\u0331 and all the servants of Sovereign Dawid\u0331. And all the people and all the mighty men were on his right and on his left."}, {"pk": 2707496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And this is what Shim\u201bi said as he cursed, \u201cGet out! Get out! O man of blood, and man of Beliya\u201bal!"}, {"pk": 2707497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought upon you all the blood of the house of Sha\u2019ul, in whose place you have reigned. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given the reign into the hand of Ab\u0331shalom your son. And see, you are in your own evil, for you are a man of blood!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah said to the sovereign, \u201cWhy should this dead dog curse my master the sovereign? Please, let me pass over and take off his head!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, you sons of Tseruyah? For let him curse, even because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to him, \u2018Curse Dawid\u0331.\u2019 And who should say, \u2018Why did you do that?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ab\u0331ishai and all his servants, \u201cSee how my son who came from my own body seeks my life, and how much more now this Binyamite? Leave him alone, and let him curse, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken to him."}, {"pk": 2707501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIf so be, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does look on my affliction, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall return good to me for his cursing today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And as Dawid\u0331 and his men went in the way, Shim\u201bi walked alongside him on the hillside, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and kicked up dust."}, {"pk": 2707503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the sovereign and all the people who were with him became weary, and they refreshed themselves there."}, {"pk": 2707504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom and all the people, the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, came to Yerushalayim, and Ah\u0323ithophel was with him."}, {"pk": 2707505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when H\u0323ushai the Arkite, the friend of Dawid\u0331, had come to Ab\u0331shalom, that H\u0323ushai said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cLet the sovereign live! Let the sovereign live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom said to H\u0323ushai, \u201cIs this your loving-commitment to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And H\u0323ushai said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cNo, I am for the one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and this people and all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have chosen, and with him I remain."}, {"pk": 2707508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd besides, whom should I serve? Should it not be before his son? As I have served before your father, so I am before you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom said to Ah\u0323ithophel, \u201cGive your advice. What should we do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "And Ah\u0323ithophel said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cGo in to your father\u2019s concubines, whom he has left to look after the house. And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father. And the hands of all who are with you shall be strong.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "So they pitched a tent for Ab\u0331shalom on the top of the house, and Ab\u0331shalom went in to his father\u2019s concubines before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "Now the advice Ah\u0323ithophel gave in those days was as if one had inquired at the word of Elohim. So was all the advice of Ah\u0323ithophel both to Dawid\u0331 and to Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ah\u0323ithophel said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cPlease let me choose twelve thousand men, and let me arise and pursue Dawid\u0331 tonight,"}, {"pk": 2707514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "and come upon him while he is weary and weak. And I shall make him afraid and all the people who are with him shall flee. And I shall strike the sovereign alone,"}, {"pk": 2707515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "and bring back all the people to you. When all return except the man whom you seek, all the people should be at peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And the saying pleased Ab\u0331shalom and all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "But Ab\u0331shalom said, \u201cNow call H\u0323ushai the Arkite also, and let us hear what he says too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And H\u0323ushai came to Ab\u0331shalom, and Ab\u0331shalom spoke to him, saying, \u201cAh\u0323ithophel has spoken according to this word. Should we do as he says? If not, speak up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And H\u0323ushai said to Ab\u0331shalom, \u201cThe advice that Ah\u0323ithophel has given is not good at this time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323ushai said, \u201cYou know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are as bitter in being as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is a man of battle, and would not spend the night with the people."}, {"pk": 2707521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSee, by now he is hidden in some pit, or in some place. And it shall be, when some of them fall at the first, that whoever hears it shall say, \u2018There has been a slaughter among the people who are following Ab\u0331shalom.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd even he who is brave, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, would utterly melt. For all Yisra\u2019\u0115l knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are brave men."}, {"pk": 2707523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut I advise: Let all Yisra\u2019\u0115l without fail be gathered to you, from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, as numerous as the sand by the sea, and that you yourself go to battle."}, {"pk": 2707524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd we shall come upon him in some place where he is found, and fall on him as the dew falls on the ground. And there shall be left of him and of all the men with him not even one."}, {"pk": 2707525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd if he withdraws into a city, then all Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall bring ropes to that city. And we shall pull it into the wadi, until there is not one small stone found there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "Ab\u0331shalom and all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l then said, \u201cThe advice of H\u0323ushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ah\u0323ithophel.\u201d For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had ordained to nullify the good advice of Ah\u0323ithophel, for the sake of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bringing evil upon Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "H\u0323ushai then said to Tsad\u0331oq and to Eb\u0331yathar the priests, \u201cAh\u0323ithophel has advised Ab\u0331shalom and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l such and such, but I have advised so and so."}, {"pk": 2707528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, send hastily and inform Dawid\u0331, saying, \u2018Do not spend this night in the desert plains of the wilderness, but pass over without fail, lest the sovereign and all the people with him be swallowed up.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehonathan and Ah\u0323ima\u201bats were stationed at \u011an Ro\u1e21\u0115l, and a female servant would come and inform them, and they would go and inform Sovereign Dawid\u0331, for they could not be seen entering the city."}, {"pk": 2707530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "But a youth saw them, and informed Ab\u0331shalom. So the two of them went away at once and came to a man\u2019s house in Bah\u0323urim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down into it."}, {"pk": 2707531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "And the woman took and spread a covering over the well\u2019s mouth, and spread ground grain on it, so the matter was not known."}, {"pk": 2707532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "And the servants of Ab\u0331shalom came to the woman at the house and said, \u201cWhere are Ah\u0323ima\u201bats and Yehonathan?\u201d And the woman said to them, \u201cThey have passed over the stream of water.\u201d And they looked and did not find them, and returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be, after they had left, that they came up out of the well and went and informed Sovereign Dawid\u0331, and said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cArise and pass over the water quickly. For thus Ah\u0323ithophel has advised against you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and all the people who were with him rose up and passed over the Yard\u0115n. And by morning light not even one remained who had not gone over the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2707535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "And Ah\u0323ithophel saw that his advice was not followed, so he saddled his donkey, and rose up and went home to his house, to his city. Then he gave command to his house, and hanged himself, and died. And he was buried in his father\u2019s burial-site."}, {"pk": 2707536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to Mah\u0323anayim. And Ab\u0331shalom passed over the Yard\u0115n, he and all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him."}, {"pk": 2707537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom appointed Amasa over the army instead of Yo\u2019ab\u0331. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Yithra, a Yisra\u2019\u0115li, who had gone in to Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the daughter of Nah\u0323ash, sister of Tseruyah, Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s mother."}, {"pk": 2707538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Ab\u0331shalom encamped in the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, when Dawid\u0331 had come to Mah\u0323anayim, that Shob\u0331i son of Nah\u0323ash from Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Mak\u0331ir son of Ammi\u2019\u0115l from Lo D\u0331eb\u0331ar, and Barzillai the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite from Ro\u1e21elim,"}, {"pk": 2707540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "brought beds and basins, and earthen vessels and wheat, and barley and flour, and roasted <i>grain</i> and beans, and lentils, and parched <i>vegetables</i>,"}, {"pk": 2707541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "text": "and honey and curds, and sheep and cheese of the herd, for Dawid\u0331 and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, \u201cThe people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 mustered the people who were with him, and set commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds over them."}, {"pk": 2707543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 sent out one third of the people under the hand of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and one third under the hand of Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah, Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s brother, and one third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the sovereign said to the people, \u201cI shall certainly go out with you too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "But the people answered, \u201cDo not go out, for if we flee away, they would not set heart upon us. Even if half of us die, they would not set heart upon us. For now, ten thousand are like us. Therefore, it is better for you to support us from the city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign said to them, \u201cThat which is good in your eyes I do.\u201d And the sovereign stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands."}, {"pk": 2707546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign ordered Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and Ab\u0331ishai and Ittai, saying, \u201cBe gentle with the young man Ab\u0331shalom for my sake.\u201d And all the people heard when the sovereign gave all the commanders orders concerning Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "So the people went out into the field to meet Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the battle was in the forest of Ephrayim,"}, {"pk": 2707548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "and the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were smitten there before the servants of Dawid\u0331. And the slaughter there that day was great \u2014 twenty thousand."}, {"pk": 2707549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured."}, {"pk": 2707550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And when Ab\u0331shalom met the servants of Dawid\u0331, Ab\u0331shalom was riding on a mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught hold in the terebinth. And he was suspended between the heavens and earth while the mule which was under him passed on."}, {"pk": 2707551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And a certain man saw it and informed Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and said, \u201cLook, I saw Ab\u0331shalom hanging in a terebinth tree!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said to the man who informed him, \u201cNow look, you saw, and why did you not strike him to the earth there? Then I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "But the man answered Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cThough I were to receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the son of the sovereign. Because in our hearing the sovereign commanded you and Ab\u0331ishai and Ittai, saying, \u2018Take heed, you who go against the youth, against Ab\u0331shalom!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cOtherwise I would have been untrue to my own life. For no matter is hidden from the sovereign, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said, \u201cLet me not waste time here with you.\u201d And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Ab\u0331shalom\u2019s heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree."}, {"pk": 2707556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And ten young men who bore Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s armour went around, and struck Ab\u0331shalom and put him to death."}, {"pk": 2707557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 blew with the shophar, and the people returned from pursuing Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for Yo\u2019ab\u0331 had held the people back."}, {"pk": 2707558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And they took Ab\u0331shalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest, and heaped a very large pile of stones over him. And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l fled, each one to his tent."}, {"pk": 2707559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ab\u0331shalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a monument for himself, which is in the Sovereign\u2019s Valley. For he said, \u201cI have no son to keep my name in remembrance.\u201d And he called the monument after his own name. And to this day it is called Ab\u0331shalom\u2019s Monument."}, {"pk": 2707560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And Ah\u0323ima\u201bats son of Tsad\u0331oq said, \u201cPlease let me run and take the news to the sovereign, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has avenged him of his enemies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "But Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said to him, \u201cYou are not the man to take the news today, but you shall take the news another day. But today you do not take news, because the sovereign\u2019s son is dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said to the Kushite, \u201cGo, inform the sovereign what you have seen.\u201d And the Kushite bowed himself to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and ran."}, {"pk": 2707563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ah\u0323ima\u201bats son of Tsad\u0331oq said again to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cAnd whatever might be, please let me also run after the Kushite.\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said, \u201cWhy would you run, my son, there is no news to bring you reward.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever might be,\u201d <i>he said</i>, \u201clet me run.\u201d So he said to him, \u201cRun.\u201d And Ah\u0323ima\u201bats ran by the way of the plain, and passed the Kushite."}, {"pk": 2707565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "Now Dawid\u0331 was sitting between the two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, and lifted his eyes and looked and saw a man, running alone."}, {"pk": 2707566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "So the watchman called out and told the sovereign. And the sovereign said, \u201cIf he is alone, there is news in his mouth.\u201d And he came nearer and nearer."}, {"pk": 2707567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And the watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called out to the gatekeeper and said, \u201cSee, a man, running by himself!\u201d And the sovereign said, \u201cThis one is also bringing news.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And the watchman said, \u201cI see the running of the first is like the running of Ah\u0323ima\u201bats son of Tsad\u0331oq.\u201d And the sovereign said, \u201cThis is a good man, and he comes with good news.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ah\u0323ima\u201bats called out and said to the sovereign, \u201cPeace!\u201d Then he bowed down with his face to the earth before the sovereign, and said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who has surrendered the men who raised their hand against my master the sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cPeace to the young man, to Ab\u0331shalom?\u201d And Ah\u0323ima\u201bats answered, \u201cWhen Yo\u2019ab\u0331 sent the sovereign\u2019s servant and me your servant, I saw a great crowd, but I did not know why.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cTurn aside and stand here.\u201d And he turned aside and stood still."}, {"pk": 2707572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And see, the Kushite came, and the Kushite said, \u201cReceive news, my master the sovereign! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has avenged you this day of all those who rose against you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "And the sovereign said to the Kushite, \u201cPeace to the young man, to Ab\u0331shalom?\u201d And the Kushite answered, \u201cLet the enemies of my master the sovereign, and all who rise against you for evil, be as that young man is!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sovereign was shaken, and went up to the room over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said this, \u201cO my son Ab\u0331shalom! My son, my son Ab\u0331shalom, if only I had died instead of you! O Ab\u0331shalom my son, my son!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And it was reported to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cSee, the sovereign is weeping and mourning for Ab\u0331shalom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "So the deliverance that day was turned into mourning for all the people. For the people heard on that day, saying, \u201cThe sovereign has been grieved for his son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."}, {"pk": 2707578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign covered his face, and the sovereign cried out with a loud voice, \u201cO my son Ab\u0331shalom! O Ab\u0331shalom, my son, my son!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 came into the house to the sovereign, and said, \u201cToday you have put to shame all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and daughters, and the lives of your wives and the lives of your concubines,"}, {"pk": 2707580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have made it clear today that you have neither commanders nor servants, for today I know that if Ab\u0331shalom had lived and all of us had died today, then it would be right in your eyes."}, {"pk": 2707581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, arise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants. For I swear by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, if you do not go out, not one passes the night with you. And that is worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "So the sovereign rose up and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, \u201cLook, the sovereign is sitting in the gate.\u201d And all the people came before the sovereign. As for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, they had fled, each one to his tent."}, {"pk": 2707583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, that all the people were contending throughout all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThe sovereign delivered us from the hand of the enemies, he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled from the land because of Ab\u0331shalom,"}, {"pk": 2707584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "and Ab\u0331shalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. And now, why are you silent about bringing back the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 sent to Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar the priests, saying, \u201cSpeak to the elders of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u2018Why are you the last to bring the sovereign back to his house, since the words of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l have come to the sovereign, to his house?"}, {"pk": 2707586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the sovereign?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd say to Amasa, \u2018Are you not my bone and my flesh? Elohim do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days in place of Yo\u2019ab\u0331.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus he swayed the hearts of all the men of Yehud\u0331ah as one man, so that they sent to the sovereign, <i>saying</i> \u201cReturn, you and all your servants!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "So the sovereign returned and came to the Yard\u0115n. And Yehud\u0331ah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the sovereign, to bring the sovereign over the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2707590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shim\u201bi son of G\u0115ra, a Binyamite, who was from Bah\u0323urim, hastened and came down with the men of Yehud\u0331ah to meet Sovereign Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And with him were a thousand men of Binyamin, and Tsib\u0331a the servant of the house of Sha\u2019ul, and his fifteen sons, and his twenty servants with him. And they rushed over the Yard\u0115n before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And they passed over the ford to bring over the sovereign\u2019s household, and to do what was good in his eyes. And Shim\u201bi son of G\u0115ra fell down before the sovereign when he had passed over the Yard\u0115n,"}, {"pk": 2707593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "and said to the sovereign, \u201cDo not let my master reckon crookedness to me, neither remember what wrong your servant did on the day that my master the sovereign left Yerushalayim, that the sovereign should take it to heart."}, {"pk": 2707594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor I, your servant, know that I have sinned. And see, I have come today, first of all the house of Yos\u0115ph, to go down to meet my master the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "But Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah answered and said, \u201cShould Shim\u201bi not be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, you sons of Tseruyah, that you are to be adversaries to me today? Should any man be put to death in Yisra\u2019\u0115l today? For do I not know that I am sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l today?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "So the sovereign said to Shim\u201bi, \u201cYou do not die.\u201d And the sovereign swore to him."}, {"pk": 2707598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And Mephib\u0331osheth son of Sha\u2019ul came down to meet the sovereign. And he had not attended to his feet, nor trimmed his moustache, nor washed his garments, from the day the sovereign went away until the day he came back in peace."}, {"pk": 2707599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, when he had come to Yerushalayim to meet the sovereign, that the sovereign said to him, \u201cWhy did you not go with me, Mephib\u0331osheth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "And he answered, \u201cMy master, O sovereign, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, \u2018I am saddling a donkey for myself to ride on it and go to the sovereign,\u2019 because your servant is lame."}, {"pk": 2707601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd he spoke slander against your servant to my master the sovereign, but my master the sovereign is as a messenger of Elohim. Therefore do what is good in your eyes."}, {"pk": 2707602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor all of my father\u2019s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "Then the sovereign said to him, \u201cWhy do you speak any more of your matters? I have said, \u2018You and Tsib\u0331a share the land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mephib\u0331osheth said to the sovereign, \u201cRather, let him take it all, since my master the sovereign has come back in peace to his own house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "And Barzillai the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite came down from Ro\u1e21elim and passed over the Yard\u0115n with the sovereign, to send him on his way over the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2707606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "And Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had sustained the sovereign while he was dwelling at Mah\u0323anayim, for he was a very rich man."}, {"pk": 2707607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sovereign said to Barzillai, \u201cPass over with me, and I shall provide for you with me in Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "But Barzillai said to the sovereign, \u201cHow many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?"}, {"pk": 2707609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cI am now eighty years old. Do I discern between the good and evil? Does your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Do I still hear the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my master the sovereign?"}, {"pk": 2707610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cYour servant would only pass over the Yard\u0115n with the sovereign for a short distance. And why should the sovereign repay me with such a reward?"}, {"pk": 2707611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cPlease let your servant turn back again to die in my own city, near the burial-site of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham, let him pass over with my master the sovereign, and do for him what is good in your eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "And the sovereign answered, \u201cKimham is passing over with me, and let me do for him what is good in your eyes. Now whatever you choose of me, I do for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "text": "Then all the people went over the Yard\u0115n. And when the sovereign had passed over, the sovereign kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place."}, {"pk": 2707614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "text": "And the sovereign passed over to Gilgal, and Kimham passed over with him. And all the people of Yehud\u0331ah brought the sovereign over, and also half the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "text": "And see, all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were coming to the sovereign! And they said to the sovereign, \u201cWhy have our brothers, the men of Yehud\u0331ah, stolen you away and brought the sovereign, and his household, and all Dawid\u0331\u2019s men with him over the Yard\u0115n?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "text": "And all the men of Yehud\u0331ah answered the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cBecause the sovereign is our relative. And why are you displeased over this matter? Have we at all eaten at the sovereign\u2019s cost? Or has he given us any gift?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 19, "verse": 43, "text": "And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l answered the men of Yehud\u0331ah, and said, \u201cWe have ten parts in the sovereign, and in Dawid\u0331 too, we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Was it not our advice first to bring back our sovereign?\u201d But the words of the men of Yehud\u0331ah were harsher than the words of the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And there came to be a man of Beliya\u201bal, whose name was Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri, a Binyamite. And he blew with the shophar, and said, \u201cWe have no part in Dawid\u0331, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Yishai \u2014 each one to his tents, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "Then all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l deserted Dawid\u0331, to follow Sheb\u0331a the son of Bik\u0331ri. But the men of Yehud\u0331ah, from the Yard\u0115n as far as Yerushalayim, clung to their sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to his house at Yerushalayim. And the sovereign took the ten women, his concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and put them in a protected house and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood."}, {"pk": 2707621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign said to Amasa, \u201cCall the men of Yehud\u0331ah for me within three days, and be present here yourself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And Amasa went to call the men of Yehud\u0331ah. But he delayed longer than the appointed time which Dawid\u0331 had appointed him."}, {"pk": 2707623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ab\u0331ishai, \u201cNow Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri is going to do us more evil than Ab\u0331shalom. Take the servants of your master, and pursue him, lest he find for himself walled cities, and escape us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the men of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 went out after him, with the Ker\u0115thites and the Pel\u0115thites, and all the mighty men. And they went out of Yerushalayim to pursue Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2707625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "When they were near the large stone which is in Gib\u0331\u201bon, Amasa came before them. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 was dressed in battle armour, and on it was a girdle with a sword fastened in its sheath at his hips. And as he went forward, it fell out."}, {"pk": 2707626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said to Amasa, \u201cPeace, my brother?\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him."}, {"pk": 2707627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "But Amasa was not on guard against the sword in Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s hand. And he struck him with it in the stomach, and his inward parts poured out on the ground, and he did not <i>strike</i> him again, and he died. Then Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishai his brother pursued Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2707628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And a man, one of Yo\u2019ab\u0331\u2019s men, stood beside him, and said, \u201cWhoever is well pleased with Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and whoever is for Dawid\u0331, let him follow Yo\u2019ab\u0331!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And Amasa was rolling in his blood in the middle of the highway. And the man saw that all the people stood still, so he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came upon him halted."}, {"pk": 2707630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "When he was removed from the highway, all the men passed on after Yo\u2019ab\u0331 to pursue Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2707631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And he passed over through all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Ab\u0331\u0115l, and to B\u0115yth Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and to all the B\u0115rites. And they were assembled and went after him too."}, {"pk": 2707632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And they went and besieged him in Ab\u0331\u0115l of B\u0115yth Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and they cast up a siege mound against the city. And it stood in a rampart, and all the people who were with Yo\u2019ab\u0331 battered the wall to throw it down."}, {"pk": 2707633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "Then a wise woman called out from the city, \u201cListen, listen! Please say to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u2018Come nearby, so that I speak to you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And he came near to her, and the woman said, \u201cAre you Yo\u2019ab\u0331?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI am.\u201d Then she said to him, \u201cListen to the words of your female servant.\u201d And he answered, \u201cI am listening.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "Then she spoke, saying, \u201cIn former times they often spoke, saying, \u2018Let them inquire of Ab\u0331\u0115l,\u2019 and so they ended <i>the matter</i>."}, {"pk": 2707636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cI am of the peaceable and trustworthy ones in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Why do you swallow up the inheritance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 answered and said, \u201cFar be it, far be it from me to swallow up or to destroy!"}, {"pk": 2707638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThat is not the case. But a man from the mountains of Ephrayim, Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri by name, has raised his hand against the sovereign, against Dawid\u0331. Hand him over, him alone, and I withdraw from the city.\u201d And the woman said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, \u201cLook, his head is going to be thrown to you over the wall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "So the woman in her wisdom went to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheb\u0331a son of Bik\u0331ri, and threw it out to Yo\u2019ab\u0331. Then he blew with the shophar, and they dispersed from the city, each one to his tent. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 returned to the sovereign at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "Now Yo\u2019ab\u0331 was over all the army of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Benayah son of Yehoyad\u0331a was over the Ker\u0115thites and the Pel\u0115thites,"}, {"pk": 2707641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "and Ad\u0331oram was over the compulsory labour, and Yehoshaphat son of Ah\u0323ilud\u0331 was recorder,"}, {"pk": 2707642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "and Shewa was scribe, and Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar were the priests,"}, {"pk": 2707643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "and Ira the Ya\u201birite was priest to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a scarcity of food in the days of Dawid\u0331 for three years, year after year. And Dawid\u0331 sought the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered, \u201cBecause of Sha\u2019ul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gib\u0331\u201bonites.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "The sovereign therefore called the Gib\u0331\u201bonites and spoke to them. Now the Gib\u0331\u201bonites were not of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but of the remnant of the Amorites. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had sworn protection to them, but Sha\u2019ul had sought to strike them in his ardour for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2707646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 said to the Gib\u0331\u201bonites, \u201cWhat should I do for you? And with what do I make atonement, so that you bless the inheritance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And the Gib\u0331\u201bonites said to him, \u201cIt is no matter of silver or gold between us and Sha\u2019ul, or his house, neither is it for us to put to death any man in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d And he said, \u201cWhatever you say I do for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And they said to the sovereign, \u201cThe man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2707649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "let seven men of his sons be given to us, and we shall hang them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Gib\u0331\u201bah of Sha\u2019ul, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 chose.\u201d And the sovereign said, \u201cI give them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "But the sovereign spared Mephib\u0331osheth son of Yehonathan, son of Sha\u2019ul, because of the oath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that was between them, between Dawid\u0331 and Yehonathan son of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2707651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign took the two sons of Ritspah the daughter of Ayah, whom she bore to Sha\u2019ul: Armoni and <i>the other</i> Mephib\u0331osheth, and the five sons of Mik\u0331al the daughter of Sha\u2019ul, whom she brought up for Ad\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l the son of Barzillai, the Meh\u0323olathite,"}, {"pk": 2707652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "and gave them into the hands of the Gib\u0331\u201bonites, and they hanged them on the hill before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So the seven fell together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest."}, {"pk": 2707653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ritspah the daughter of Ayah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night."}, {"pk": 2707654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was informed what Ritspah the daughter of Ayah, the concubine of Sha\u2019ul, had done."}, {"pk": 2707655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went and took the bones of Sha\u2019ul, and the bones of Yehonathan his son, from the men of Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 who had stolen them from the street of B\u0115yth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Sha\u2019ul in Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2707656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And he brought up the bones of Sha\u2019ul and the bones of Yehonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged,"}, {"pk": 2707657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "and buried the bones of Sha\u2019ul and Yehonathan his son in the land of Binyamin in Tsela, in the burial-site of Qish his father, and did all that the sovereign commanded. And after that Elohim heard prayer for the land."}, {"pk": 2707658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Philistines were again fighting against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so Dawid\u0331 and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines. And Dawid\u0331 was weary,"}, {"pk": 2707659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "and Yishbo-Benob\u0331 \u2014 who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred pieces, who was bearing a new sword \u2014 spoke of striking Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "But Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah came to help him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then Dawid\u0331\u2019s men swore to him, saying, \u201cDo not go out with us to battle any more, lest you put out the lamp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be afterward, that there was a battle again with the Philistines at Gob\u0331. Then Sibbek\u0331ai the H\u0323ushathite struck Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant."}, {"pk": 2707662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And there was a battle with the Philistines again at Gob\u0331, where Elh\u0323anan son of Ya\u201bar\u0115y-Ore\u1e21im the B\u0115yth Leh\u0323emite struck Golyath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam."}, {"pk": 2707663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And there was a battle in Gath again, where there was a man of great height, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number. And he also was descended from the giants."}, {"pk": 2707664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And he reproached Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Yehonathan son of Shim\u201bi, the brother of Dawid\u0331, struck him."}, {"pk": 2707665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "These four were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of Dawid\u0331 and by the hand of his servants."}, {"pk": 2707666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 spoke to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the words of this song, on the day when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2707667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer."}, {"pk": 2707668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cMy Elohim is my rock, I take refuge in Him, My shield and the horn of my deliverance, My high tower and my refuge. My Saviour, You save me from violence."}, {"pk": 2707669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI call on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the One to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies."}, {"pk": 2707670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor the waves of death surrounded me, Floods of Beliya\u201bal made me afraid,"}, {"pk": 2707671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThe cords of She\u2019ol were all around me; The snares of death were before me."}, {"pk": 2707672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIn my distress I called upon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And to my Elohim I cried. And from His H\u0115k\u0331al He heard my voice, And my cry was in His ears."}, {"pk": 2707673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of the heavens were troubled, Because He was wroth."}, {"pk": 2707674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSmoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it."}, {"pk": 2707675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd He bowed the heavens and came down, And thick darkness was under His feet."}, {"pk": 2707676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd He rode upon a kerub\u0331, and flew, And was seen upon the wings of the wind."}, {"pk": 2707677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd He put darkness around Him as booths, Darkness of waters, thick clouds."}, {"pk": 2707678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFrom the brightness before Him Coals of fire were kindled."}, {"pk": 2707679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 thundered from the heavens, And the Most High sent forth His voice."}, {"pk": 2707680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd He sent out arrows and scattered them, Lightning, and confused them."}, {"pk": 2707681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered At the rebuke of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils."}, {"pk": 2707682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cHe sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters."}, {"pk": 2707683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHe delivered me from my strong enemy, From those hating me, For they were stronger than I."}, {"pk": 2707684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThey confronted me in the day of my calamity, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was my support."}, {"pk": 2707685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd He brought me out into a large place, He delivered me for He delighted in me."}, {"pk": 2707686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He repaid me."}, {"pk": 2707687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor I have guarded the ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And have not acted wrongly against my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2707688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor all His right-rulings are before me; As for His laws, I do not turn from them."}, {"pk": 2707689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd I am perfect before Him, And I guard myself from my crookedness."}, {"pk": 2707690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 repays me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness before His eyes."}, {"pk": 2707691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cWith the lovingly-commited <i>ones</i> You show Yourself lovingly-commited, With the perfect one You show Yourself perfect,"}, {"pk": 2707692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWith the clean You show Yourself clean, And with the crooked You show Yourself twisted."}, {"pk": 2707693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor You save the humble people, But Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low."}, {"pk": 2707694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor You are my lamp, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes my darkness light."}, {"pk": 2707695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor with You I run against a band, With my Elohim I leap over a wall."}, {"pk": 2707696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cThe \u011al \u2014 His way is perfect; The Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is proven; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him."}, {"pk": 2707697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor who is \u011al, besides \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And who is a rock, besides our Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2707698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "\"\u011al is my mighty stronghold, And He makes my way perfect,"}, {"pk": 2707699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cMaking my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places,"}, {"pk": 2707700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cTeaching my hands for battle, So that my arms bend a bow of bronze."}, {"pk": 2707701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd You give me the shield of Your deliverance, And Your lowliness makes me great."}, {"pk": 2707702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cYou enlarge my step under me, So that my feet shall not slip."}, {"pk": 2707703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cI pursue my enemies and destroy them, And I do not turn back till they are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2707704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd I destroy them and crush them, So that they do not rise, And fall under my feet."}, {"pk": 2707705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd You gird me with strength for battle, You cause my adversaries to bow under me."}, {"pk": 2707706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd You make my enemies turn their backs, Those hating me, and I cut them off."}, {"pk": 2707707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cThey look but there is no saviour, Unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but He shall not answer them."}, {"pk": 2707708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd I beat them as dust of the earth, I beat them small as dirt in the streets \u2014 I spread them out."}, {"pk": 2707709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd You deliver me from the strivings of my people, You safeguard me as the head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me."}, {"pk": 2707710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cSons of the foreigner submit to me, As soon as they hear they obey me."}, {"pk": 2707711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cSons of the foreigner fade away, And gird themselves from their strongholds."}, {"pk": 2707712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives! And blessed is my Rock! And exalted is my Elohim, The Rock of my deliverance,"}, {"pk": 2707713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 48, "text": "\"\u011al who avenges me, And bringing peoples down under me,"}, {"pk": 2707714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cAnd bringing me out from my enemies; You raise me up above those rising up against me; You deliver me from a man of violence."}, {"pk": 2707715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cTherefore I give thanks to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, among nations, And I sing praise to Your Name."}, {"pk": 2707716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 22, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cA tower of deliverance is He to His sovereign, And showing loving-commitment to His anointed, To Dawid\u0331 and his seed, forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the last words of Dawid\u0331, the saying of Dawid\u0331 son of Yishai, the saying of the man raised above, the anointed of the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and the sweet singer of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2707718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThe Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken through me, And His word is on my tongue."}, {"pk": 2707719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, The Rock of Yisra\u2019\u0115l spoke to me, \u2018One who rules over man righteously,"}, {"pk": 2707720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWho rules in the fear of Elohim, Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Tender grass from the earth From sunshine, from rain.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor is not my house so with \u011al? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all <i>matters</i>, and guarded. For all my deliverance and all desire, Shall He not make it send forth a Branch?"}, {"pk": 2707722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut the worthless are all as thorns thrust away, For they are not taken with hands,"}, {"pk": 2707723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut the man who touches them Uses iron or the shaft of a spear, And with fire they are burned up in <i>their</i> place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "These are the names of the mighty men whom Dawid\u0331 had: Yosh\u0115b\u0331-Bassheb\u0331eth the Tah\u0323kemonite, chief among the officers, he was Ad\u0331ino the Etsnite, for eight hundred slain at one time."}, {"pk": 2707725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "And after him was El\u201bazar son of Dod\u0331o, the Ah\u0323oh\u0323ite, one of the three mighty men with Dawid\u0331 when they taunted the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had gone up."}, {"pk": 2707726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, but his hand clung to the sword, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought about a great deliverance that day. And the people returned after him only to plunder."}, {"pk": 2707727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And after him was Shammah son of A\u1e21\u0115 the Hararite. And the Philistines had gathered into a company where there was a plot of ground covered with lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2707728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "But he took his stand in the middle of the field, and delivered it, and struck the Philistines, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 wrought a great deliverance."}, {"pk": 2707729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "And three of the thirty chief men went down at harvest time and came to Dawid\u0331 at the cave of Ad\u0331ullam, while the army of Philistines encamped in the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2707730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was then in the stronghold, while a watch-post of the Philistines was then in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2707731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 longed and said, \u201cOh that someone would give me a drink of the water from the well of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, which is by the gate!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to Dawid\u0331. But he would not drink it, but poured it out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said, \u201cFar be it from me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to do this \u2014 the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives!\u201d So he would not drink it. This is what the three mighty men did."}, {"pk": 2707734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And Ab\u0331ishai the brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, son of Tseruyah, was chief of another three. And he lifted his spear against three hundred men whom he slew, and had a name among these three."}, {"pk": 2707735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "Was he not the most esteemed of three? And he became their commander, but he did not come to the first three."}, {"pk": 2707736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "And Benayahu was the son of Yehoyad\u0331a, son of a brave man from Qab\u0331tse\u2019\u0115l, great in deeds. He struck two lion-like men of Mo\u2019ab\u0331. And he went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day."}, {"pk": 2707737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "And he struck a Mitsrian, an impressive man. And the Mitsrian had a spear in his hand, so he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Mitsrian\u2019s hand, and killed him with his own spear."}, {"pk": 2707738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "This is what Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a did, and had a name among three mighty men."}, {"pk": 2707739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "He was more esteemed than the thirty, but he did not come to the first three. And Dawid\u0331 set him over his guard."}, {"pk": 2707740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "Asah\u2019\u0115l the brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 was one of the thirty; Elh\u0323anan son of Dod\u0331o of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em,"}, {"pk": 2707741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "Shammah the H\u0323arod\u0331ite, Eliqa the H\u0323arod\u0331ite,"}, {"pk": 2707742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "H\u0323elets the Paltite, Ira son of Iqq\u0115sh the Teqowite,"}, {"pk": 2707743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "Ab\u0331i\u201bezer the Anethothite, Meb\u0331unnai the H\u0323ushathite,"}, {"pk": 2707744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "Tsalmon the Ah\u0323oh\u0323ite, Maharai the Netophathite,"}, {"pk": 2707745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "H\u0323\u0115leb\u0331 son of Ba\u201banah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Rib\u0331ai from Gib\u0331\u201bah of the children of Binyamin,"}, {"pk": 2707746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "Benayahu the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the wadis of Ga\u201bash,"}, {"pk": 2707747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "Ab\u0331i-Alb\u0331on the Arbathite, Azmaweth the Barh\u0323umite,"}, {"pk": 2707748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "Elyah\u0323ba the Sha\u201balbonite of the sons of Yash\u0115n, Yehonathan,"}, {"pk": 2707749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "Shammah the Hararite, Ah\u0323yam son of Sharar the Hararite,"}, {"pk": 2707750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "Eliphelet son of Ah\u0323asbai, son of the Ma\u201bak\u0331athite, Eliyam son of Ah\u0323ithophel the Gilonite,"}, {"pk": 2707751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "H\u0323etsrai the Karmelite, Pa\u201barai the Arbite,"}, {"pk": 2707752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "Yi\u1e21\u2019al son of Nathan of Tsob\u0331ah, Bani the Gad\u0331ite,"}, {"pk": 2707753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "Tseleq the Ammonite, Nah\u0323arai the Be\u2019\u0115rothite, armour-bearer of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah,"}, {"pk": 2707754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "Ira the Yithrite, Gar\u0115b\u0331 the Yithrite,"}, {"pk": 2707755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "and Uriyah the H\u0323ittite \u2014 thirty-seven in all."}, {"pk": 2707756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And again the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and moved Dawid\u0331 against them to say, \u201cGo, number Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 the commander of the army who was with him, \u201cGo please, throughout all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and register the people, so that I know the number of the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 said to the sovereign, \u201cEven if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does add to the people a hundredfold more than there are, and the eyes of my master the sovereign see it, but why does my master the sovereign delight in this matter?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "However, the sovereign\u2019s word was strong towards Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and against the commanders of the army. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the sovereign to register the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And they passed over the Yard\u0115n and camped in Aro\u201b\u0115r, on the right side of the town which is in the midst of the wadi of Gad\u0331, and toward Ya\u201bz\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2707761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "Then they came to Gil\u201bad\u0331 and to the land of Tah\u0323tim H\u0323od\u0331shi, and they came to Dan Ya\u201ban and around to Tsid\u0331on."}, {"pk": 2707762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And they came to the stronghold of Tsor and to all the cities of the H\u0323iwwites and the Kena\u201banites, and went out to South Yehud\u0331ah as far as Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2707763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And when they had gone through all the land, they came to Yerushalayim at the end of nine new <i>moons</i> and twenty days."}, {"pk": 2707764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 gave the number of the registration of the people to the sovereign, and there were in Yisra\u2019\u0115l eight hundred thousand brave men who drew the sword, and the men of Yehud\u0331ah were five hundred thousand men."}, {"pk": 2707765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And the heart of Dawid\u0331 struck him after he had numbered the people. And Dawid\u0331 said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, I pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 rose up in the morning, and the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to the prophet Gad\u0331, Dawid\u0331\u2019s seer, saying,"}, {"pk": 2707767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cGo, and you shall speak to Dawid\u0331, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI hold three <i>options</i> before you. Choose one of them, and I do it to you.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "Gad\u0331 then came to Dawid\u0331 and informed him. And he said to him, \u201cShould seven years of scarcity of food come to you in your land? Or would you flee three new <i>moons</i> before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or should there be three days\u2019 plague in your land? Now know and see what answer I take back to Him who sent me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Gad\u0331, \u201cI am in great trouble. Please let us fall into the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for His compassion is great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent a plague upon Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the morning till the appointed time, and from Dan to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a seventy thousand men of the people died."}, {"pk": 2707771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And the messenger stretched out His hand over Yerushalayim to destroy it, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 relented concerning the evil, and said to the messenger who was destroying the people, \u201cIt is enough, now stop Your hand.\u201d And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was by the threshing-floor of Arawnah the Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2707772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 spoke to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 when he saw the messenger who was striking the people, and said, \u201cSee, I have sinned, and I have done perversely. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father\u2019s house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And Gad\u0331 came that day to Dawid\u0331 and said to him, \u201cGo up, raise a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the threshing-floor of Arawnah the Yeb\u0331usite.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And Dawid\u0331, according to the word of Gad\u0331, went up as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded."}, {"pk": 2707775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "And Arawnah looked and saw the sovereign and his servants coming toward him. And Arawnah went out and bowed before the sovereign with his face to the ground."}, {"pk": 2707776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "And Arawnah said, \u201cWhy has my master the sovereign come to his servant?\u201d And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cTo buy the threshing-floor from you, to build a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so that the plague be withdrawn from the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And Arawnah said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cLet my master the sovereign take and offer that which seems good to him. Here are cattle for ascending offering, and threshing implements and the yokes of the cattle for wood."}, {"pk": 2707778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAll these, O sovereign, Arawnah has given to the sovereign.\u201d And Arawnah said to the sovereign, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim accept you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sovereign said to Arawnah, \u201cNo, let me buy it from you for a price, for certain. I am not offering ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim without cost.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 bought the threshing-floor and the cattle for fifty sheqels of silver."}, {"pk": 2707780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 10, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 built a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 there, and offered ascending offerings and peace offerings. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 was old, advanced in years. And they covered him with garments, but he could not get warm."}, {"pk": 2707782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "So his servants said to him, \u201cLet them seek for our master the sovereign a young woman, a maiden, and she shall stand before the sovereign and be his companion, and shall lie in your bosom, so that our master the sovereign gets warm.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And they sought for a beautiful young woman in all the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and found Ab\u0331isha\u1e21 the Shunammite, and brought her to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And the young woman was very beautiful. And she was a companion for the sovereign, and served him, but the sovereign did not know her."}, {"pk": 2707785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ad\u0331oniyah son of H\u0323aggith exalted himself, saying, \u201cI reign.\u201d And he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him."}, {"pk": 2707786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Now his father had not worried him at any time by saying, \u201cWhy have you done so?\u201d He was also very good-looking. And he was born after Ab\u0331shalom."}, {"pk": 2707787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And he talked with Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah and with Eb\u0331yathar the priest, and they supported Ad\u0331oniyah."}, {"pk": 2707788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "But Tsad\u0331oq the priest, and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, and Nathan the prophet, and Shim\u201bi, and R\u0115\u201bi, and the mighty men who belonged to Dawid\u0331 were not with Ad\u0331oniyahu."}, {"pk": 2707789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ad\u0331oniyahu slaughtered sheep and cattle and fatlings by the stone of Zoh\u0323eleth, which is by \u011an Ro\u1e21\u0115l. He also invited all his brothers, the sovereign\u2019s sons, and all the men of Yehud\u0331ah, servants of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, or Benayahu, or the mighty men, or Shelomoh his brother."}, {"pk": 2707791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Nathan then spoke to Bathsheb\u0331a the mother of Shelomoh, saying, \u201cHave you not heard that Ad\u0331oniyahu son of H\u0323aggith has become sovereign, and Dawid\u0331 our master does not know it?"}, {"pk": 2707792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd now, come let me give you advice, and deliver your own life and the life of your son Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2707793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cGo immediately to Sovereign Dawid\u0331 and say to him, \u2018Did you not, my master, O sovereign, swear to your female servant, saying, \u201cCertainly, your son Shelomoh shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne\u201d? Why then has Ad\u0331oniyahu become sovereign?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cLook, while you are still speaking there with the sovereign let me come in after you and confirm your words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And Bathsheb\u0331a went into the room to the sovereign. Now the sovereign was very old, and Ab\u0331isha\u1e21 the Shunammite was serving the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Bathsheb\u0331a bowed and did obeisance to the sovereign. And the sovereign said, \u201cWhat do you wish?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And she said to him, \u201cMy master, you swore by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim to your female servant, saying, \u2018Certainly, Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd now, look! Ad\u0331oniyah has become sovereign. And now, my master the sovereign, you do not know about it."}, {"pk": 2707799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd he has slaughtered great numbers of bulls and fatlings and sheep, and has invited all the sons of the sovereign, and Eb\u0331yathar the priest, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 the commander of the army, but he did not invite Shelomoh your servant."}, {"pk": 2707800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you my master, O sovereign, the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l are on you, to declare to them who is going to sit on the throne of my master the sovereign after him."}, {"pk": 2707801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cOtherwise it shall be, when my master the sovereign rests with his fathers, that I and my son Shelomoh shall be considered sinners.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And see, while she was still speaking with the sovereign, Nathan the prophet also came in."}, {"pk": 2707803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "So they informed the sovereign, saying, \u201cHere is Nathan the prophet.\u201d And when he came in before the sovereign, he bowed down before the sovereign with his face to the ground."}, {"pk": 2707804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And Nathan said, \u201cMy master, O sovereign, have you said, \u2018Ad\u0331oniyahu shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2707805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor he has gone down today, and has slaughtered great numbers of bulls and fatlings and sheep, and has invited all the sovereign\u2019s sons, and the commanders of the army, and Eb\u0331yathar the priest. And look! They are eating and drinking before him. And they say, \u2018Let Sovereign Ad\u0331oniyahu live!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut he has not invited me, me your servant, nor Tsad\u0331oq the priest, nor Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, nor your servant Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2707807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cIf this matter is from my master the sovereign, then you did not let your servant know who should sit on the throne of my master the sovereign after him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 answered and said, \u201cCall Bathsheb\u0331a to me.\u201d So she came into the sovereign\u2019s presence and stood before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "And the sovereign took an oath and said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, who has ransomed my life out of all distress,"}, {"pk": 2707810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "even as I swore to you by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Certainly, Shelomoh your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,\u2019 even so I do this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "And Bathsheb\u0331a bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the sovereign, and said, \u201cLet my master Sovereign Dawid\u0331 live forever!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cCall me Tsad\u0331oq the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a.\u201d And they came before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sovereign said to them, \u201cTake with you the servants of your master, and you shall have Shelomoh my son ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gih\u0323on."}, {"pk": 2707814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd there Tsad\u0331oq the priest and Nathan the prophet shall anoint him sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And blow the shophar, and say, \u2018Let Sovereign Shelomoh live!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall reign in my place. For I have commanded him to be ruler over Yisra\u2019\u0115l and over Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "And Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a answered the sovereign and said, \u201cAm\u0115n! So says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of my master the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has been with my master the sovereign, so let Him be with Shelomoh and make his throne greater than the throne of my master Sovereign Dawid\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "Then Tsad\u0331oq the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, and the Ker\u0115thites, and the Pel\u0115thites went down and had Shelomoh ride on Sovereign Dawid\u0331\u2019s mule, and took him to Gih\u0323on."}, {"pk": 2707819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "And Tsad\u0331oq the priest took a horn of oil from the Tent and anointed Shelomoh. And they blew with the shophar, and all the people said, \u201cLet Sovereign Shelomoh live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "And all the people came up after him. And the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise!"}, {"pk": 2707821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "And Ad\u0331oniyahu and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 heard the voice of the shophar, and said, \u201cWhy is the city in such a noisy uproar?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "And he was still speaking, then see, Yonathan came, son of Eb\u0331yathar the priest. And Ad\u0331oniyahu said to him, \u201cCome in, for you are a brave man, and you bring good news.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "But Yonathan answered and said to Ad\u0331oniyahu, \u201cNo! Our master Sovereign Dawid\u0331 has made Shelomoh sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2707824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "and the sovereign has sent with him Tsad\u0331oq the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, and the Ker\u0115thites, and the Pel\u0115thites. And they had him ride on the sovereign\u2019s mule."}, {"pk": 2707825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd Tsad\u0331oq the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him sovereign at Gih\u0323on. And they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is moved. This is the noise you heard."}, {"pk": 2707826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd further, Shelomoh sits on the throne of the reign."}, {"pk": 2707827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd further, the servants of the sovereign have gone to bless our master Sovereign Dawid\u0331, saying, \u2018Let your Elohim make the name of Shelomoh better than your name, and his throne greater than your throne.\u2019 And the sovereign bowed himself on the bed."}, {"pk": 2707828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cAnd the sovereign also said thus, \u2018Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, while my eyes see it!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "And all the guests who were invited by Ad\u0331oniyahu were afraid, and rose, and each one went his way."}, {"pk": 2707830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "And Ad\u0331oniyahu was afraid of Shelomoh, and rose, and went and took hold of the horns of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2707831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "And it was reported to Shelomoh, saying, \u201cLook, Ad\u0331oniyahu is afraid of Sovereign Shelomoh. And look, he has taken hold of the horns of the slaughter-place, saying, \u2018Let Sovereign Shelomoh swear to me today that he does not put his servant to death with the sword.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "text": "And Shelomoh said, \u201cIf he proves himself a worthy man, not one hair of him is going to fall to the earth, but if evil is found in him, then he shall die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh sent, and they brought him down from the slaughter-place. And he came and fell down before Sovereign Shelomoh. And Shelomoh said to him, \u201cGo to your house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And the days of Dawid\u0331 drew near to die, and he commanded Shelomoh his son, saying,"}, {"pk": 2707835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI am going the way of all the earth. And you shall be strong, and be a man."}, {"pk": 2707836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd guard the Charge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim: to walk in His ways, to guard His laws, His commands, His right-rulings, and His witnesses, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, so that you do wisely all that you do and wherever you turn;"}, {"pk": 2707837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "so that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does establish His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, \u2018If your sons guard their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their being,\u2019 saying, \u2018there is not to cease a man of yours on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd also, you know what Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r and Amasa son of Yether, that he killed them, and shed the blood of battle in peace, and put the blood of battle on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet."}, {"pk": 2707839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSo act according to your wisdom, and do not let his grey hair go down to She\u2019ol in peace."}, {"pk": 2707840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut show loving-commitment to the sons of Barzillai the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for so they came to me when I fled from Ab\u0331shalom your brother."}, {"pk": 2707841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd see, with you is Shim\u201bi son of G\u0115ra, the Binyamite from Bah\u0323urim, who cursed me with a grievous cursing in the day when I went to Mah\u0323anayim. But he came down to meet me at the Yard\u0115n, and I swore to him by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018I shall not put you to death with the sword.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd now, do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man and know what you should do to him, and shall bring his grey hair down to She\u2019ol with blood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And the days that Dawid\u0331 reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l was forty years. He reigned seven years in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years."}, {"pk": 2707845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shelomoh sat on the throne of his father Dawid\u0331. And his reign was firmly established."}, {"pk": 2707846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And Ad\u0331oniyahu son of H\u0323aggith came to Bathsheb\u0331a the mother of Shelomoh, and she said, \u201cDo you come in peace?\u201d And he said, \u201cPeace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cI have a word for you,\u201d and she said, \u201cSpeak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said, \u201cYou know that the reign was mine, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had set their faces toward me, that I should reign. But the reign has been turned around, and has become my brother\u2019s, for it was his from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, I am making one request of you, do not refuse me.\u201d And she said to him, \u201cSay it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said, \u201cPlease speak to Sovereign Shelomoh \u2014 for he would not refuse you \u2014 to give me Ab\u0331isha\u1e21 the Shunammite as wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And Bathsheb\u0331a said, \u201cGood, let me speak for you to the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And Bathsheb\u0331a came to Sovereign Shelomoh, to speak to him for Ad\u0331oniyahu. And the sovereign rose up to meet her and bowed down to her, and sat down on his throne and had a throne set for the sovereign\u2019s mother. So she sat at his right hand."}, {"pk": 2707853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And she said, \u201cI am making one small request of you, do not refuse me.\u201d And the sovereign said to her, \u201cAsk it, my mother, for I do not refuse you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "Then she said, \u201cLet Ab\u0331isha\u1e21 the Shunammite be given to Ad\u0331oniyahu your brother as wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh answered and said to his mother, \u201cNow why do you ask Ab\u0331isha\u1e21 the Shunammite for Ad\u0331oniyahu? Ask for him the reign also \u2014 for he is my older brother \u2014 for him, and for Eb\u0331yathar the priest, and for Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh swore by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cElohim does so to me, and more also, if Ad\u0331oniyahu has not spoken this word against his own life!"}, {"pk": 2707857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd now, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, who established me and set me on the throne of Dawid\u0331 my father, and who has made me a house, as He promised, Ad\u0331oniyahu shall be put to death today!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh sent by the hand of Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, and he fell upon him, and he died."}, {"pk": 2707859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "Then the sovereign said to Eb\u0331yathar the priest, \u201cGo to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you deserve death. But I do not put you to death at this time, because you did bear the ark of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before my father Dawid\u0331, and because you were afflicted in all my father was afflicted in.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "So Shelomoh dismissed Eb\u0331yathar from being priest to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to fill the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke concerning the house of \u011ali at Shiloh."}, {"pk": 2707861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "And news came to Yo\u2019ab\u0331, for Yo\u2019ab\u0331 had turned aside after Ad\u0331oniyah, though he did not turn aside after Ab\u0331shalom. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 fled to the Tent of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and took hold of the horns of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2707862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "And the report came to Sovereign Shelomoh that Yo\u2019ab\u0331 had fled to the Tent of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and see, he is by the slaughter-place. Then Shelomoh sent Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, saying, \u201cGo, fall on him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "So Benayahu came to the Tent of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said to him, \u201cThus said the sovereign, \u2018Come out!\u2019 \u201d And he said, \u201cNo, for here I die.\u201d And Benayahu brought back word to the sovereign, saying, \u201cThus said Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and thus he answered me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sovereign said to him, \u201cDo as he has said, and fall upon him. And you shall bury him, so that you take away from me and from the house of my father the blood which Yo\u2019ab\u0331 shed without cause."}, {"pk": 2707865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall return his blood on his head, because he had fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father Dawid\u0331 did not know it: Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, commander of the army of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Amasa son of Yether, commander of the army of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2707866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cSo shall their blood return upon the head of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and upon the head of his seed forever. But upon Dawid\u0331 and his seed, upon his house and his throne, there is to be peace forever from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "Then Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a went up and fell upon him and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2707868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "And the sovereign put Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a in his place over the army, and the sovereign put Tsad\u0331oq the priest in the place of Eb\u0331yathar."}, {"pk": 2707869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "And the sovereign sent and called for Shim\u201bi, and said to him, \u201cBuild yourself a house in Yerushalayim and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere."}, {"pk": 2707870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, on the day you go out and pass over the wadi Qid\u0331ron, know for certain that you shall die \u2014 your blood is on your own head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "And Shim\u201bi said to the sovereign, \u201cThe word is good. As my master the sovereign has said, so your servant does.\u201d So Shim\u201bi dwelt in Yerushalayim many days."}, {"pk": 2707872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "And it came to be at the end of three years, that two slaves of Shim\u201bi fled to Ak\u0331ish son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, sovereign of Gath. And they informed Shim\u201bi, saying, \u201cSee, your slaves are in Gath!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "And Shim\u201bi rose up, and saddled his donkey, and went to Ak\u0331ish at Gath to look for his slaves. And Shim\u201bi went and brought his slaves from Gath."}, {"pk": 2707874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "And Shelomoh was told that Shim\u201bi had gone from Yerushalayim to Gath and had come back."}, {"pk": 2707875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "So the sovereign sent and called for Shim\u201bi, and said to him, \u201cDid I not make you swear by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and warn you, saying, \u2018Know for certain that on the day you leave to go anywhere, you shall certainly die\u2019? And you said to me, \u2018The word I have heard is good.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd why have you not guarded the oath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the command that I gave you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "The sovereign also said to Shim\u201bi, \u201cYou shall know all the evil that your heart has known, that you did to my father Dawid\u0331. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall return your evil on your own head."}, {"pk": 2707878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cBut Sovereign Shelomoh is blessed, and the throne of Dawid\u0331 is established before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "So the sovereign commanded Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, and he went out and fell on him, and he died. And the reign was established in the hand of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2707880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shelomoh joined in marriage with Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and took the daughter of Pharaoh, and brought her to the City of Dawid\u0331 until he had completed building his own house, and the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the wall all around Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2707881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Only, the people slaughtered at the high places, for a house for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had not been built until those days."}, {"pk": 2707882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shelomoh loved \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, walking in the laws of his father Dawid\u0331, except that he slaughtered and burned incense at the high places."}, {"pk": 2707883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign went to Gib\u201bon to slaughter there, for that was the great high place. Shelomoh offered a thousand ascending offerings on that slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2707884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "At Gib\u201bon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Shelomoh in a dream by night, and Elohim said, \u201cAsk what I should give you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And Shelomoh said, \u201cYou have shown great loving-commitment to your servant Dawid\u0331 my father, as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You. And You have guarded for him this great loving-commitment, and did give him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2707886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, You have set up Your servant to reign instead of my father Dawid\u0331. But I am a little child, I do not know how to go out or to come in."}, {"pk": 2707887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted."}, {"pk": 2707888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cShall You then give to Your servant an understanding heart to rule Your people, to discern between good and evil? For who is able to rule this great people of Yours?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And the word was good in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that Shelomoh had asked this."}, {"pk": 2707890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "So Elohim said to him, \u201cBecause you have asked this, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2707891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "see, I shall do according to your words. See, I shall give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and none like you shall arise after you."}, {"pk": 2707892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall also give you what you have not asked: both riches and esteem, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the sovereigns all your days."}, {"pk": 2707893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd if you walk in My ways, to guard My laws and My commands, as your father Dawid\u0331 walked, then I shall prolong your days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shelomoh awoke, and see, it was a dream! And he came into Yerushalayim and stood before the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and offered up ascending offerings and made peace offerings. And he made a feast for all his servants."}, {"pk": 2707895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Then two women, whores, came to the sovereign, and stood before him."}, {"pk": 2707896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And one woman said, \u201cO my master, this woman and I dwell in the same house. And I gave birth while she was in the house."}, {"pk": 2707897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together. There was no one else with us in the house, only the two of us in the house."}, {"pk": 2707898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThen this woman\u2019s son died in the night, because she lay on him."}, {"pk": 2707899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd she rose up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your female servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom."}, {"pk": 2707900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I rose up in the morning to nurse my son and saw he was dead. But I looked at him closely in the morning, and saw he was not my son whom I had borne.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And the other woman said, \u201cNo! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.\u201d And the first woman said, \u201cNo! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.\u201d And they spoke before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cThe one says, \u2018This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one,\u2019 while the other says, \u2018No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2707903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cBring me a sword.\u201d So they brought a sword before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2707904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cDivide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "And the woman whose son was living spoke to the sovereign, for she was overcome with compassion for her son. And she said, \u201cO my master, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!\u201d But the other said, \u201cLet him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign answered and said, \u201cGive the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him \u2014 she is his mother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard of the right-ruling which the sovereign had rendered. And they feared the sovereign, for they saw that the wisdom of Elohim was in him to do right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2707908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be that Sovereign Shelomoh was sovereign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2707909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And these were his chief officials: Azaryahu son of Tsad\u0331oq, the priest;"}, {"pk": 2707910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "Elih\u0323oreph and Ah\u0323iyah, sons of Shisha, scribes; Yehoshaphat son of Ah\u0323ilud\u0331, the recorder;"}, {"pk": 2707911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a, over the army; and Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar, the priests;"}, {"pk": 2707912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "and Azaryahu son of Nathan, over the officers; Zab\u0331ud\u0331 son of Nathan, a priest, friend of the sovereign;"}, {"pk": 2707913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "and Ah\u0323ishar, over the household; and Ad\u0331oniram son of Ab\u0331da, over the compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2707914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And Shelomoh had twelve governors over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who provided food for the sovereign and his household \u2014 each one made provision for one new <i>moon</i> of the year \u2014"}, {"pk": 2707915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "and these were their names: Ben-H\u0323ur, in the mountains of Ephrayim;"}, {"pk": 2707916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Ben-Deqer, in Maqats and Sha\u201balb\u0331im and B\u0115yth Shemesh and \u011alon B\u0115yth H\u0323anan;"}, {"pk": 2707917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Ben-H\u0323esed\u0331 in Arubboth, Sok\u0331oh and all the land of H\u0323\u0115pher were his;"}, {"pk": 2707918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Ben-Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Shelomoh became his wife;"}, {"pk": 2707919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Ba\u201bana son of Ah\u0323ilud\u0331, in Ta\u201banak\u0331 and Me\u1e21iddo, and all B\u0115yth She\u2019an, which is beside Tsarethan below Yizre\u201b\u0115l, from B\u0115yth She\u2019an to Ab\u0331\u0115l Meh\u0323olah, as far as the other side of Yoqne\u201bam;"}, {"pk": 2707920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Ben-Geb\u0331er, in Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331, the towns of Ya\u2019ir son of Menashsheh in Gil\u201bad\u0331 were his; the portion of Argob\u0331 in Bashan, sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars, were his;"}, {"pk": 2707921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Ah\u0323inad\u0331ab\u0331 son of Iddo, in Mah\u0323anayim;"}, {"pk": 2707922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Ah\u0323ima\u201bats in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Shelomoh as wife;"}, {"pk": 2707923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Ba\u201banah son of H\u0323ushai, in Ash\u0115r and in Aloth;"}, {"pk": 2707924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Yehoshaphat son of Paruwah\u0323, in Yissask\u0331ar;"}, {"pk": 2707925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "Shim\u201bi son of \u011alah, in Binyamin;"}, {"pk": 2707926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "Geb\u0331er son of Uri, in the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331, in the land of Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites and of O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, and one governor was in the land."}, {"pk": 2707927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l were as numerous as the sand by the sea, eating and drinking and rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2707928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And Shelomoh was ruling over all reigns from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Mitsrayim. They did taskwork and served Shelomoh all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2707929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And Shelomoh\u2019s food supply for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, and sixty kors of meal,"}, {"pk": 2707930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "ten fatted cattle and twenty cattle from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl."}, {"pk": 2707931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "For he was ruling over all on this side of the River from Tiphsah\u0323 even to Azzah, over all the sovereigns on this side of the River. And he had peace on all sides round about him."}, {"pk": 2707932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt safely, each man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan as far as Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, all the days of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2707933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "And Shelomoh had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."}, {"pk": 2707934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "And these governors, each one in his new <i>moon</i>, provided food for Sovereign Shelomoh and for all who came to the table of Sovereign Shelomoh. There was no lack in their supply."}, {"pk": 2707935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "They also brought barley and straw to the appointed place, for the horses and steeds, each one according to his right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2707936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "And Elohim gave Shelomoh exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore."}, {"pk": 2707937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And Shelomoh\u2019s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2707938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "For he was wiser than all men, than \u011aythan the Ezrahite, and H\u0115man, and Kalkol, and Darda, the sons of Mah\u0323ol. And his name was in all the nations round about."}, {"pk": 2707939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five."}, {"pk": 2707940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Leb\u0331anon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. And he spoke of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping creatures, and of fish."}, {"pk": 2707941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "And there came from all peoples, from all the sovereigns of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2707942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And H\u0323iram sovereign of Tsor sent his servants to Shelomoh, because he heard that they had anointed him sovereign in place of his father, for H\u0323iram had always loved Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shelomoh sent to H\u0323iram, saying,"}, {"pk": 2707944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYou know my father Dawid\u0331 was unable to build a house for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim because of the battles which were all around him, until \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 put them under the soles of his feet."}, {"pk": 2707945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim has given me rest all around, there is neither adversary nor evil incident."}, {"pk": 2707946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I intend to build a house for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to my father Dawid\u0331, saying, \u2018Your son, whom I set on your throne in your place, he does build the house for My Name.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2707947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd now, command that they cut down cedars for me from Leb\u0331anon. And let my servants be with your servants, and let me pay you wages for your servants according to whatever you say. For you know there is none among us who knows to cut timber like the Tsid\u0331onians.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when H\u0323iram heard the words of Shelomoh, that he rejoiced greatly and said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this day, for He has given Dawid\u0331 a wise son over this great people!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323iram sent to Shelomoh, saying, \u201cI have heard that which you sent me. Let me do all you desire concerning the cedar and cypress logs."}, {"pk": 2707950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cLet my servants bring them down from Leb\u0331anon to the sea, then I put them in rafts by sea to the place you direct me. And I shall spread them out there, then you take them up, while you do my desire by giving food for my household.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And H\u0323iram gave Shelomoh cedar and cypress logs \u2014 all his desire."}, {"pk": 2707952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And Shelomoh gave H\u0323iram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of pressed oil. Thus Shelomoh gave to H\u0323iram year by year."}, {"pk": 2707953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave Shelomoh wisdom, as He promised him. And there was peace between H\u0323iram and Shelomoh, and the two of them made a covenant."}, {"pk": 2707954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh raised up compulsory labour out of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the compulsory labour was thirty thousand men."}, {"pk": 2707955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And he sent them to Leb\u0331anon, ten thousand <i>per</i> new <i>moon</i> by courses \u2014 they were one new <i>moon</i> in Leb\u0331anon, two new <i>moons</i> at home. And Ad\u0331oniram was over the compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2707956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shelomoh had seventy thousand bearing burdens, and eighty thousand hewing <i>stone</i> in the mountains,"}, {"pk": 2707957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "besides three thousand three hundred from the chiefs of Shelomoh\u2019s deputies who were over the work, those ruling over the people who laboured in the work."}, {"pk": 2707958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign commanded, and they brought large stones, precious stones, to lay the foundation of the House with hewn stones."}, {"pk": 2707959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shelomoh\u2019s builders, and H\u0323iram\u2019s builders, and the men of Geb\u0331al did hew, and prepared timber and stones to build the House."}, {"pk": 2707960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, in the fourth year of the reign of Shelomoh over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in the new <i>moon</i> of Ziw, which is the second new <i>moon</i>, that he began to build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2707961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And the house which Sovereign Shelomoh built for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was sixty cubits long, and twenty wide, and thirty cubits high."}, {"pk": 2707962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And the porch at the front of the H\u0115k\u0331al of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the House, and its width ten cubits, from the front of the House."}, {"pk": 2707963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And he made for the House windows with narrowed frames."}, {"pk": 2707964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And against the wall of the House he built rooms all around, <i>against</i> the walls of the House, all around the H\u0115k\u0331al and the Speaking Place. Thus he made side rooms all around."}, {"pk": 2707965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "The lowest side room was five cubits wide, and the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third one was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the House, so as not to lay hold on the walls of the House."}, {"pk": 2707966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the House, when it was being built, was built with finished stone made ready beforehand, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built."}, {"pk": 2707967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "The doorway for the middle side room was on the right side of the House. And they went up by stairs to the middle side rooms, and from the middle to the third."}, {"pk": 2707968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "So he built the House and completed it, and he panelled the House with beams and boards of cedar."}, {"pk": 2707969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And he built the side rooms of the structure against all the House, each five cubits high, and they were fastened to the House with cedar beams."}, {"pk": 2707970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Shelomoh, saying,"}, {"pk": 2707971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThis House which you are building \u2014 if you walk in My laws, and do My right-rulings, and shall guard all My commands and walk in them, then I shall confirm My word with you, which I spoke to your father Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2707972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "and shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and not forsake My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2707973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "So Shelomoh built the House and completed it."}, {"pk": 2707974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And he built the walls of the House inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the House to the ceiling he panelled them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the House with planks of cypress."}, {"pk": 2707975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And he built twenty cubits at the rear of the House, from floor to the walls, with cedar boards. And he built it inside as the Speaking Place, as the Most Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2707976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And the House was forty cubits, it is the H\u0115k\u0331al before it."}, {"pk": 2707977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the cedar for the House inside was carved with ornaments and open flowers; all was cedar, not a stone was seen."}, {"pk": 2707978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And he prepared the Speaking Place in the midst of the House, to place the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 there."}, {"pk": 2707979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And the front of the Speaking Place was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. And he overlaid it with refined gold, and overlaid the slaughter-place of cedar."}, {"pk": 2707980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And Shelomoh overlaid the inside of the House with refined gold, and made gold chains pass over the front of the Speaking Place, and overlaid it with gold."}, {"pk": 2707981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus he overlaid the entire House with gold, until the entire House was completed. And the entire slaughter-place that was by the Speaking Place he overlaid with gold."}, {"pk": 2707982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And inside the Speaking Place he made two kerub\u0331im of olive wood, ten cubits high."}, {"pk": 2707983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And one wing of the kerub\u0331 was five cubits, and the other wing of the kerub\u0331 five cubits \u2014 ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other."}, {"pk": 2707984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And the other kerub\u0331 was ten cubits. Both kerub\u0331im were of the same size and shape."}, {"pk": 2707985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "The height of one kerub\u0331 was ten cubits, and so was the other kerub\u0331."}, {"pk": 2707986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "And he placed the kerub\u0331im in the midst of the inner house. And they stretched out the wings of the kerub\u0331im so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the other kerub\u0331 touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room."}, {"pk": 2707987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And he overlaid the kerub\u0331im with gold."}, {"pk": 2707988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "And he carved all the walls of the House all around, both inside and outside, with carved figures of kerub\u0331im, and palm trees, and open flowers."}, {"pk": 2707989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "And he overlaid the floor of the House with gold, inside and outside."}, {"pk": 2707990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "And for the entrance of the Speaking Place he made doors of olive wood: the lintel, doorposts, a fifth."}, {"pk": 2707991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "And the two doors were of olive wood. And he carved on them figures of kerub\u0331im, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. And he spread the gold on the kerub\u0331im and on the palm trees."}, {"pk": 2707992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "And so he made doorposts for the door of the H\u0115k\u0331al of olive wood \u2014 a fourth part."}, {"pk": 2707993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "And the two doors were of cypress wood, the two leaves of the one folded, and two leaves of the other door folded."}, {"pk": 2707994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "And he carved kerub\u0331im, and palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold laid smoothly on the carved work."}, {"pk": 2707995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams."}, {"pk": 2707996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "In the fourth year the foundation of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was laid, in the month Ziw."}, {"pk": 2707997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth new <i>moon</i>, the house was completed in all its matters and according to all its plans. Thus he built it for seven years."}, {"pk": 2707998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shelomoh built his own house for thirteen years, and he completed his entire house."}, {"pk": 2707999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And he built the house of the forest of Leb\u0331anon. It was one hundred cubits long, and fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar columns, and cedar beams on the columns."}, {"pk": 2708000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And it was panelled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five columns, fifteen to a row."}, {"pk": 2708001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And there were windows with narrowed frames in three rows, and window was opposite window, three times."}, {"pk": 2708002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And all the doorways and doorposts had square frames. And window was opposite window, three times."}, {"pk": 2708003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made the porch of the columns, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. And the porch was in front of them, and the columns and the roof was in front of them."}, {"pk": 2708004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Right-ruling, where he ruled. And it was panelled with cedar from floor to floor."}, {"pk": 2708005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And the house where he was to dwell, <i>in</i> the other courtyard, within the hall was of like workmanship. And Shelomoh made a house like this hall for Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, whom he had taken."}, {"pk": 2708006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "All these were of precious stone hewn to size, sawed with a saw, inside and out, from the foundation to the coping, and also on the outside to the great courtyard."}, {"pk": 2708007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And the foundation was of precious stone, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits."}, {"pk": 2708008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And above were precious stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood."}, {"pk": 2708009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "So the great courtyard all around had three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the porch of the House."}, {"pk": 2708010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh sent and brought H\u0323iram from Tsor."}, {"pk": 2708011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tsor, a bronze worker. And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to Sovereign Shelomoh and did all his work."}, {"pk": 2708012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And he cast two columns of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each."}, {"pk": 2708013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "And he made two capitals of cast bronze, to put on the tops of the columns \u2014 the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the columns, seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital."}, {"pk": 2708015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And he made the columns, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top, and so he did for the other capital."}, {"pk": 2708016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And the capitals that were on top of the columns in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits."}, {"pk": 2708017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And there were capitals above also on the two columns, by the bulge which was next to the network. And the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows on each of the capitals all around."}, {"pk": 2708018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And he set up the columns by the porch of the H\u0115k\u0331al. And he set up the column on the right and called its name Yak\u0331in, and he set up the column on the left and called its name Bo\u201baz."}, {"pk": 2708019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And on the top of the columns was lily work. Thus the work of the columns was completed."}, {"pk": 2708020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And he made the Sea of cast <i>metal</i>, ten cubits from one rim to the other, round all about, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured around it."}, {"pk": 2708021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And below its rim were ornaments all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The ornaments were cast in two rows when it was cast."}, {"pk": 2708022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. And the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts were inward."}, {"pk": 2708023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "And it was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths."}, {"pk": 2708024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "And he made ten stands of bronze, each stand was four cubits long, and four cubits wide, and three cubits high."}, {"pk": 2708025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "And this is how the stands were made: They had side panels, and the side panels were between frames,"}, {"pk": 2708026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "and on the side panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and kerub\u0331im, and a pedestal above on the frame. Below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beaten work."}, {"pk": 2708027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "And each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and its four feet had supports. Under the basin were cast supports beside each wreath."}, {"pk": 2708028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "And its opening inside the crown at the top was one cubit. And the opening was round, like the work of the pedestal, one and a half cubits. And also on the opening were engravings, but the side panels were square, not round."}, {"pk": 2708029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "And the four wheels were under the side panels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the stand, and the height of a wheel was one and a half cubits."}, {"pk": 2708030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "And the wheels were made like chariot wheels. Their axle pins, and their rims, and their spokes, and their hubs were all cast."}, {"pk": 2708031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "And there were four supports at the four corners of each stand, its supports were of the stand itself."}, {"pk": 2708032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "And on the top of the stand, half a cubit in height \u2014 round all around. And on the top of the stand, its flanges and its side panels were of the same."}, {"pk": 2708033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "And on the plates of its flanges and on its side panels he engraved kerub\u0331im, lions, and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around."}, {"pk": 2708034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "He made the ten stands like this: all of them were of one mould, one measure, and one shape."}, {"pk": 2708035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "And he made ten basins of bronze; each basin contained forty baths, and each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands."}, {"pk": 2708036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "And he put five stands on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house, and he put the Sea on the right side of the house to the east, facing the south."}, {"pk": 2708037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "And H\u0323iram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. And H\u0323iram completed doing all the work that he was to do for Sovereign Shelomoh on the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4:"}, {"pk": 2708038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "the two columns, and the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the columns, and the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the columns;"}, {"pk": 2708039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the columns;"}, {"pk": 2708040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "and the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands;"}, {"pk": 2708041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "and the one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea;"}, {"pk": 2708042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls. And all these utensils which H\u0323iram made for Sovereign Shelomoh for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 were of polished bronze."}, {"pk": 2708043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "The sovereign had them cast in clay in the district of Yard\u0115n between Sukkoth and Tsarethan."}, {"pk": 2708044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "And Shelomoh left all the utensils <i>unweighed</i>, because they were many, nor was the weight of the bronze searched out."}, {"pk": 2708045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "So Shelomoh made all the utensils for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: the slaughter-place of gold, and the table of gold on which was the showbread;"}, {"pk": 2708046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "and the lampstands of refined gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the Speaking Place, with the flowers and the lamps and the snuffers of gold;"}, {"pk": 2708047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "and the basins, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the ladles, and the fire holders of refined gold, and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the Most Set-apart Place, and for the doors of the house of the H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2708048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "text": "Thus all the work which Sovereign Shelomoh had done for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was completed. And Shelomoh brought in the set-apart items of his father Dawid\u0331: the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Shelomoh assembled the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to Sovereign Shelomoh in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the City of Dawid\u0331, which is Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2708050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l assembled to Sovereign Shelomoh at the festival in the month of \u011aythanim, which is the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2708051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came, and the priests took up the ark,"}, {"pk": 2708052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "and brought up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the Tent of Appointment, and all the set-apart utensils that were in the Tent. And the priests and the L\u0115wites brought them up,"}, {"pk": 2708053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "and Sovereign Shelomoh, and all the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who had assembled with him, were with him before the ark, slaughtering so many sheep and cattle, that they could not be counted or numbered."}, {"pk": 2708054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to its place, into the Speaking Place of the House, to the Most Set-apart Place, under the wings of the kerub\u0331im,"}, {"pk": 2708055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "for the kerub\u0331im spread two wings over the place of the ark, and the kerub\u0331im covered over the ark and its poles."}, {"pk": 2708056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And the poles extended so that the ends of the poles were seen from the set-apart place, in front of the Speaking Place, but they were not seen from outside. And they are there to this day."}, {"pk": 2708057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "There was naught in the ark, only the two tablets of stone which Mosheh put there at H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made a covenant with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2708058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, when the priests came out of the Set-apart Place, that the cloud filled the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "so that the priests were unable to stand and perform the service because of the cloud, for the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shelomoh said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said He would dwell in the dark cloud."}, {"pk": 2708061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "I have indeed built You an exalted house, an established place for You to dwell in forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And the sovereign turned around and blessed all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, while all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was standing."}, {"pk": 2708063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who spoke with His mouth to my father Dawid\u0331, and with His hand has filled it, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "Since the day I brought My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of Mitsrayim, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in which to build a house for My Name to be there, but I chose Dawid\u0331 to be over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd it was in the heart of my father Dawid\u0331 to build a house for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my father Dawid\u0331, \u2018Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My Name, you did well that it was in your heart."}, {"pk": 2708067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "Only, you do not build the house, but your son, who is coming from your loins, he does build the house for My Name.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cNow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has established His word which He spoke, and I have been raised up instead of my father Dawid\u0331, and sit on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 promised, and built a house for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2708069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "and have appointed there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And Shelomoh stood before the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in front of all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2708071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, there is no Elohim in the heavens above or on earth below like You, guarding Your covenant and loving-commitment with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,"}, {"pk": 2708072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "who has guarded that which You did promise Your servant Dawid\u0331 my father. Indeed, You have both spoken with Your mouth and have filled it with Your hand, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2708073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, guard what You promised Your servant Dawid\u0331 my father, saying, \u2018There is not to cease a man of yours before Me, sitting on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 only, if your sons guard their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, please let Your word come true which You have spoken to Your servant Dawid\u0331 my father."}, {"pk": 2708075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor is it true: Elohim dwells on the earth? See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built!"}, {"pk": 2708076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cYet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today?"}, {"pk": 2708077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, \u2018My Name is there,\u2019 to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place."}, {"pk": 2708078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThen, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive?"}, {"pk": 2708079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cIf anyone sins against his neighbour, and he has lifted up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and comes and swears before Your slaughter-place in this House,"}, {"pk": 2708080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "then hear in the heavens, and act and rightly rule Your servants, declaring the wrongdoer wrong, bringing his way on his head, and declaring the righteous right by giving him according to his righteousness."}, {"pk": 2708081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cWhen Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House,"}, {"pk": 2708082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers."}, {"pk": 2708083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cWhen the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,"}, {"pk": 2708084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 for You teach them the good way in which they should walk \u2014 and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2708085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cWhen there is scarcity of food in the land; when there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, grasshoppers; when their enemy distresses them in the land of their cities; any plague, any sickness,"}, {"pk": 2708086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "whatever prayer, whatever supplication <i>made</i> by anyone of all Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House,"}, {"pk": 2708087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "then hear in the heavens, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render unto everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know. Because You \u2014 You alone \u2014 know the hearts of all the sons of men,"}, {"pk": 2708088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "text": "so that they fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers."}, {"pk": 2708089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAlso, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but has come from a far land for Your Name\u2019s sake \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 42, "text": "since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm \u2014 and he shall come and pray toward this House,"}, {"pk": 2708091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 43, "text": "hear in the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, so that all peoples of the earth know Your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name."}, {"pk": 2708092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cWhen Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,"}, {"pk": 2708093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 45, "text": "then shall You hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?"}, {"pk": 2708094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cWhen they sin against You \u2014 for there is no one who does not sin \u2014 and You become enraged with them and give them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;"}, {"pk": 2708095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 47, "text": "and they shall turn back unto their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and shall turn, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, \u2018We have sinned and acted crookedly, we have committed wrong,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 48, "text": "and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,"}, {"pk": 2708097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 49, "text": "then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,"}, {"pk": 2708098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 50, "text": "and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You? And give them compassion before those who took them captive, and they shall have compassion on them."}, {"pk": 2708099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 51, "text": "For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Mitsrayim, out of the iron furnace."}, {"pk": 2708100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cLet Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to listen to them whenever they call to You."}, {"pk": 2708101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cFor You have separated them unto Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant Mosheh, when You brought our fathers out of Mitsrayim, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 54, "text": "And it came to be, when Shelomoh had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that he rose up from before the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2708103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 55, "text": "And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with a loud voice, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has given rest to His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good word, which He promised through His servant Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2708105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 57, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is with us as He was with our fathers \u2014 He does not leave us nor forsake us \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 58, "text": "to incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands and His laws and His right-rulings, which He commanded our fathers."}, {"pk": 2708107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 59, "text": "\u201cAnd let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, be near \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim day and night, to maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the matter of each day in its day,"}, {"pk": 2708108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 60, "text": "so that all the peoples of the earth might know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is Elohim, there is no one else."}, {"pk": 2708109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 61, "text": "\u201cLet your heart therefore be perfect to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to walk in His laws and guard His commands, as at this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 62, "text": "And the sovereign and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him slaughtered slaughterings before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 63, "text": "And Shelomoh slaughtered slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i>, which he slaughtered to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the sovereign and all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dedicated the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 64, "text": "On that day the sovereign set apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for there he made ascending offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze slaughter-place that was before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was too small to contain the ascending offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings."}, {"pk": 2708113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 65, "text": "And Shelomoh at that time performed the Festival, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, a great assembly from the entrance of H\u0323amath to the wadi of Mitsrayim, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, seven days and seven days \u2014 fourteen days.", "comment": "It seems that the first seven were the Festival of H\u0323anukkah (Dedication), and the last seven the Festival of Sukkot (Booths)."}, {"pk": 2708114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 8, "verse": 66, "text": "On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the sovereign, and went to their tents rejoicing and glad of heart for all the goodness that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had done for His servant Dawid\u0331, and for Yisra\u2019\u0115l His people."}, {"pk": 2708115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Shelomoh had finished building the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the house of the sovereign, and all the desire of Shelomoh which he was pleased to do,"}, {"pk": 2708116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Shelomoh the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gib\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2708117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cI have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there."}, {"pk": 2708118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you, if you walk before Me as your father Dawid\u0331 walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, if you guard My laws and My right-rulings,"}, {"pk": 2708119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "then I shall establish the throne of your reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever, as I promised Dawid\u0331 your father, saying, \u2018There is not to cease a man of yours on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIf you at all turn back, you or your sons, from following Me, and do not guard My commands, My laws, which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones and bow yourselves to them,"}, {"pk": 2708121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "then I shall cut off Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the face of the soil which I have given them, and send away from My presence this house which I have set apart for My Name. And Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be a proverb and a mockery among all the peoples."}, {"pk": 2708122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd this house, which has been exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and hiss, and say, \u2018Why has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 done thus to this land and to this house?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThen they shall say, \u2018Because they have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, who brought their fathers out of the land of Mitsrayim, and they took hold of other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to them and served them. That is why \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought all this evil on them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, at the end of twenty years, that Shelomoh had built the two houses, the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the house of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "H\u0323iram the sovereign of Tsor had supplied Shelomoh with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he desired. Then Sovereign Shelomoh gave H\u0323iram twenty cities in the land of Galil."}, {"pk": 2708126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And H\u0323iram came from Tsor to see the cities which Shelomoh had given him, but they were not right in his eyes,"}, {"pk": 2708127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "and he said, \u201cWhat are these cities you have given me, my brother?\u201d And he called them the land of Kab\u0331ul, as they are to this day."}, {"pk": 2708128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323iram sent the sovereign one hundred and twenty talents of gold."}, {"pk": 2708129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And this is the purpose of the compulsory labour which Sovereign Shelomoh raised, to build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Yerushalayim, and H\u0323atsor, and Me\u1e21iddo, and Gezer \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Kena\u201banites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a payment for the bride to his daughter, Shelomoh\u2019s wife \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "and Shelomoh built Gezer, and Lower B\u0115yth H\u0323oron,"}, {"pk": 2708132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "and Ba\u201balath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2708133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "and all the storage cities that Shelomoh had, and cities for his chariots and cities for his cavalry, and whatever Shelomoh desired to build in Yerushalayim, and in Leb\u0331anon, and in all the land of his rule."}, {"pk": 2708134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "All the people who were left of the Amorites, the H\u0323ittites, the Perizzites, the H\u0323iwwites, and the Yeb\u0331usites, who were not of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had not been able to destroy completely \u2014 from these Shelomoh raised compulsory labour, as it is to this day."}, {"pk": 2708136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "But Shelomoh did not make slaves of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because they were men of battle, and his servants, and his rulers, and his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry."}, {"pk": 2708137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "These were the chiefs of the officials who were over the work of Shelomoh: five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people who did the work."}, {"pk": 2708138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "But the daughter of Pharaoh came up from the City of Dawid\u0331 to her house that he built for her. Then he built Millo."}, {"pk": 2708139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And three times a year Shelomoh brought ascending offerings and peace offerings on the slaughter-place which he had built for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he burned incense with that which was before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 thus gave completeness to the House."}, {"pk": 2708140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh built a fleet of ships at Etsyon Geb\u0331er, which is near \u011ayloth on the shore of the Sea of Reeds, in the land of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2708141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And H\u0323iram sent his servants with the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, to work with the servants of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And they went to Ophir, and took four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and brought it to Sovereign Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a heard of the report of Shelomoh concerning the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and came to try him with hard questions."}, {"pk": 2708144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And she came to Yerushalayim with a very great company, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones. And she came to Shelomoh, and she spoke with him about all that was in her heart."}, {"pk": 2708145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shelomoh answered all her questions. There was no matter hidden for the sovereign that he did not make known to her."}, {"pk": 2708146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a saw all the wisdom of Shelomoh, and the house that he had built,"}, {"pk": 2708147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "and the food on his table, and the seating of his servants, and the service of his waiters and their attire, and his cupbearers, and his ascending offerings which he offered in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there was no more spirit in her."}, {"pk": 2708148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Then she said to the sovereign, \u201cThe word I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom was true."}, {"pk": 2708149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And see, I have not been told the half! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the report which I heard."}, {"pk": 2708150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBlessed are your men and blessed are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who are hearing your wisdom!"}, {"pk": 2708151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who delighted in you, to put you on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has loved Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever, therefore He made you sovereign, to do right-ruling and righteousness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And she gave the sovereign one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones. Never again did so many spices come as the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a gave to Sovereign Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And also, the ships of H\u0323iram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought almug wood, a great many, and precious stones from Ophir."}, {"pk": 2708154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sovereign made steps of the almug wood for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for the sovereign\u2019s house, also lyres and harps for singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day."}, {"pk": 2708155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh gave the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a all she desired, whatever she asked, besides what he gave her according to the hand of Sovereign Shelomoh. And she turned and went to her land, she and her servants."}, {"pk": 2708156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And the weight of gold that came to Shelomoh yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,"}, {"pk": 2708157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "besides that from men of travel, and the profit from traders, and from all the sovereigns of Arab\u0331ia, and from the governors of the land."}, {"pk": 2708158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh made two hundred large shields of beaten gold \u2014 six hundred pieces of gold went into each shield;"}, {"pk": 2708159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "and three hundred shields of beaten gold \u2014 three minas of gold went into each shield. And the sovereign put them in the House of the Forest of Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2708160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with refined gold."}, {"pk": 2708161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round at the back, and there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests."}, {"pk": 2708162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And twelve lions were standing there, one on each side of the six steps. The like of it was never made in any reign."}, {"pk": 2708163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And all the drinking vessels of Sovereign Shelomoh were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Leb\u0331anon were of refined gold \u2014 not of silver, for this was reckoned of little value in the days of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "For the sovereign had ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of H\u0323iram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and baboons."}, {"pk": 2708165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh was greater than any of the sovereigns of the earth in riches and wisdom."}, {"pk": 2708166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And all the earth sought the presence of Shelomoh to hear his wisdom, which Elohim had put in his heart."}, {"pk": 2708167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And they were each bringing his present: objects of silver and objects of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, the matter of a year by year."}, {"pk": 2708168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And Shelomoh gathered chariots and horsemen, and he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the sovereign in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign made silver as common in Yerushalayim as stones, and he made cedars as plenty as the sycamores which are in the low country."}, {"pk": 2708170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And Shelomoh had horses brought out from Mitsrayim and Qu\u0115h; the sovereign\u2019s merchants bought them in Qu\u0115h at a price."}, {"pk": 2708171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "And a chariot came up and went out from Mitsrayim for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse one hundred and fifty. And so, by their hand, they brought them out to all the sovereigns of the H\u0323ittites and the sovereigns of Aram."}, {"pk": 2708172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh loved many foreign women in addition to the daughter of Pharaoh: Mo\u2019ab\u0331ite, Ammonite, Ed\u0331omite, Tsid\u0331onian, and H\u0323ittite women;"}, {"pk": 2708173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "from the nations of whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cYou do not go into them, and they do not go into you, for they shall certainly turn away your hearts after their mighty ones.\u201d Shelomoh clung to these in love."}, {"pk": 2708174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And his wives turned away his heart."}, {"pk": 2708175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, when Shelomoh was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other mighty ones. And his heart was not perfect with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, as was the heart of his father Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And Shelomoh went after Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsid\u0331onians, and after Milkom the abomination of the Ammonites."}, {"pk": 2708177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus Shelomoh did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not follow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 completely, like his father Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Then Shelomoh built a high place for Kemosh the abomination of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, on the hill that is east of Yerushalayim, and for Molek\u0331 the abomination of the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2708179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and slaughtered to their mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2708180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was enraged with Shelomoh, because his heart had turned away from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who had appeared to him twice,"}, {"pk": 2708181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "and had commanded him concerning this word, not to go after other mighty ones. But he did not guard what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded."}, {"pk": 2708182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Shelomoh, \u201cBecause you have done this, and have not guarded My covenant and My laws, which I have commanded you, I shall certainly tear the reign away from you and give it to your servant."}, {"pk": 2708183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cOnly, I do not do it in your days, for the sake of your father Dawid\u0331. Out of the hand of your son I shall tear it."}, {"pk": 2708184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cOnly, I shall not tear away all the reign but give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant Dawid\u0331, and for the sake of Yerushalayim which I have chosen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raised up an adversary against Shelomoh, Had\u0331ad\u0331 the Ed\u0331omite. He was of the seed of the sovereign in Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2708186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when Dawid\u0331 was in Ed\u0331om, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had struck every male in Ed\u0331om \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Yo\u2019ab\u0331 remained there with all Yisra\u2019\u0115l for six new <i>moons</i>, until every male in Ed\u0331om was cut off \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "that Had\u0331ad\u0331 fled to go to Mitsrayim, he and certain Ed\u0331omites of his father\u2019s servants with him, while Had\u0331ad\u0331 was still a little child."}, {"pk": 2708189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And they arose from Mid\u0331yan and came to Paran, and took men with them from Paran and came to Mitsrayim, to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, who gave him a house, and ordered food for him, and gave him land."}, {"pk": 2708190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And Had\u0331ad\u0331 found much favour in the eyes of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Sovereigness Tah\u0323pen\u0115s."}, {"pk": 2708191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And the sister of Tah\u0323pen\u0115s bore him Genub\u0331ath his son, whom Tah\u0323pen\u0115s weaned in Pharaoh\u2019s house. And Genub\u0331ath was in the house of Pharaoh among the sons of Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2708192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And Had\u0331ad\u0331 heard in Mitsrayim that Dawid\u0331 slept with his fathers, and that Yo\u2019ab\u0331 the commander of the army was dead, and Had\u0331ad\u0331 said to Pharaoh, \u201cLet me go to my land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And Pharaoh said to him, \u201cBut what have you lacked with me, that you are now seeking to go to your own land?\u201d And he answered, \u201cNo, but please let me go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And Elohim raised up another adversary against him, Rezon son of Elyad\u0331a who had fled from his master, Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2708195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "and gathered men to him and became commander over a raiding band, when Dawid\u0331 killed those of <i>Tsob\u0331ah</i>. And they went to Dammeseq and dwelt there, and reigned in Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2708196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And he was an adversary of Yisra\u2019\u0115l all the days of Shelomoh \u2014 besides the trouble that Had\u0331ad\u0331 caused \u2014 and he was hostile to Yisra\u2019\u0115l and reigned over Aram."}, {"pk": 2708197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And a servant of Shelomoh, Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, an Ephrayimite from Tser\u0115d\u0331ah, whose mother\u2019s name was Tseru\u201bah, a widow, also lifted up a hand against the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And this is what caused him to lift up a hand against the sovereign: Shelomoh had built Millo, repairing the breaks in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father."}, {"pk": 2708199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "And the man Yarob\u0331\u201bam was a brave man. And Shelomoh, seeing that the young man was doing his work well, made him the officer over all the compulsory labour of the house of Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2708200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be at that time, when Yarob\u0331\u201bam went out of Yerushalayim, that the prophet Ah\u0323iyah the Shilonite met him on the way. And he was wearing a new garment, and the two were alone in the field."}, {"pk": 2708201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ah\u0323iyah took hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces,"}, {"pk": 2708202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "and said to Yarob\u0331\u201bam, \u201cTake for yourself ten pieces, for thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018See, I am tearing the reign out of the hand of Shelomoh and shall give ten tribes to you,"}, {"pk": 2708203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "but he shall have one tribe for the sake of My servant Dawid\u0331, and for the sake of Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth the mighty one of the Tsid\u0331onians, to Kemosh the mighty one of the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites, and to Milkom the mighty one of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways \u2014 to do what is right in My eyes, and My laws and My right-rulings, as did his father Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "But I do not take all the reign out of his hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of My servant Dawid\u0331, whom I chose because he guarded My commands and My laws."}, {"pk": 2708206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "And I shall take the reign out of his son\u2019s hand and give it to you, the ten tribes."}, {"pk": 2708207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawid\u0331 shall always have a lamp before Me in Yerushalayim, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My Name there."}, {"pk": 2708208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "So I take you, and you shall reign over all that your being desires, and you shall be sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "And it shall be, if you obey all that I command you, and shall walk in My ways, and do what is right in My eyes, to guard My laws and My commands, as My servant Dawid\u0331 did, then I shall be with you and build for you a steadfast house, as I built for Dawid\u0331, and shall give Yisra\u2019\u0115l to you."}, {"pk": 2708210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "And because of this I humble the seed of Dawid\u0331, but not forever.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "And Shelomoh sought to kill Yarob\u0331\u201bam, but Yarob\u0331\u201bam rose up and fled to Mitsrayim, to Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim, and was in Mitsrayim until the death of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Shelomoh, all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Shelomoh?"}, {"pk": 2708213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "And the days that Shelomoh reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l was forty years."}, {"pk": 2708214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "So Shelomoh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father, and Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam went to Shek\u0331em, for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had gone to Shek\u0331em to set him up to reign."}, {"pk": 2708216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, when Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at heard this \u2014 he was still in Mitsrayim, for he had fled from the presence of Sovereign Shelomoh and had been dwelling in Mitsrayim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "that they sent and called him. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came and spoke to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYour father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we serve you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cGo away for three days, then come back to me.\u201d And the people went."}, {"pk": 2708220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam consulted the elders who stood before his father Shelomoh while he still lived, and he said, \u201cWhat do you advise me to answer these people?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, \u201cIf you are a servant to these people today, and shall serve them, and shall answer them and speak good words to them, then they shall be your servants all the days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "But he ignored the advice the elders gave him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him."}, {"pk": 2708223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, \u2018Lighten the yoke which your father put on us\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, \u201cSay this to this people who have spoken to you, saying, \u2018Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us.\u2019 Say this to them, \u2018My little finger is thicker than my father\u2019s waist!"}, {"pk": 2708225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And now, my father laid a heavy yoke on you, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "So Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all the people came to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam the third day, as the sovereign had spoken, saying, \u201cCome back to me the third day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "But the sovereign answered the people harshly, and ignored the advice which the elders had given him,"}, {"pk": 2708228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "So the sovereign did not listen to the people, for the turn <i>of events</i> was from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in order to establish His word, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken by Ah\u0323iyah the Shilonite to Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at."}, {"pk": 2708230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that the sovereign did not listen to them. Then the people answered the sovereign, saying, \u201cWhat portion do we have in Dawid\u0331? And there is no inheritance in the son of Yishai. To your mighty ones, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Now, see to your own house, O Dawid\u0331!\u201d So Yisra\u2019\u0115l went to their tents.", "comment": "Heb. <em>elohim</em>, which the Scribes (<em>Sopherim</em>) later on emended to read \u201ctents.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "But as for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who dwelt in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam reigned over them."}, {"pk": 2708232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And when Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam sent Ad\u0331oram, who was over the compulsory labour, all Yisra\u2019\u0115l stoned him with stones, and he died. And Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam hastily mounted his chariot to flee to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "Thus Yisra\u2019\u0115l revolted against the house of Dawid\u0331 to this day."}, {"pk": 2708234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be when all Yisra\u2019\u0115l heard that Yarob\u0331\u201bam had come back, they sent for him and called him to the congregation, and set him up to reign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. There was none who followed the house of Dawid\u0331, except the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah only."}, {"pk": 2708235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam came to Yerushalayim, and he assembled all the house of Yehud\u0331ah with the tribe of Binyamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen brave men, to fight against the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to bring back the reign to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2708236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "But the word of Elohim came to Shemayah the man of Elohim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and to all the house of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not go up or fight against your brothers the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Let every man return to his house, for this matter is from Me.\u201d \u2019 \u201d So they obeyed the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and turned back, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam built Shek\u0331em in the mountains of Ephrayim, and dwelt there. And he went out from there and built Penu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam said in his heart, \u201cNow the reign shall return to the house of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cIf these people go up to do slaughterings in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Yerushalayim, then the heart of this people shall turn back to their master, Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and they shall kill me and go back to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "So the sovereign took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, \u201cIt is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim. See, your mighty ones, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "And he set up one in B\u0115yth \u011al, and the other he put in Dan."}, {"pk": 2708244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "And this matter became a sin, for the people went before the one as far as Dan."}, {"pk": 2708245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "And he made the house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2708246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam performed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth new <i>moon</i>, like the festival that was in Yehud\u0331ah, and he offered on the slaughter-place. So he did at B\u0115yth \u011al, slaughtering to the calves that he had made. And at B\u0115yth \u011al he appointed the priests of the high places which he had made."}, {"pk": 2708247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "And he made offerings on the slaughter-place which he had made at B\u0115yth \u011al on the fifteenth day of the eighth new <i>moon</i>, in the new <i>moon</i> which he had devised in his own heart. And he performed a festival for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and offered on the slaughter-place and burned incense."}, {"pk": 2708248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And see, a man of Elohim went from Yehud\u0331ah to B\u0115yth \u011al by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, while Yarob\u0331\u201bam was standing by the slaughter-place to burn incense."}, {"pk": 2708249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And he cried out against the slaughter-place by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cO slaughter-place, slaughter-place! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, a son is to be born to the house of Dawid\u0331, Yoshiyahu is his name. And on you he shall slaughter the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men\u2019s bones be burned on you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And he gave a sign the same day, saying, \u201cThis is the sign which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken: See, the slaughter-place is split apart, and the ashes on it is poured out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be when Sovereign Yarob\u0331\u201bam heard the saying of the man of Elohim, who cried out against the slaughter-place in B\u0115yth \u011al, that he stretched out his hand from the slaughter-place, saying, \u201cSeize him!\u201d Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, dried up, so that he was unable to bring it back to him."}, {"pk": 2708252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And the slaughter-place was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the slaughter-place, according to the sign which the man of Elohim had given by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign answered and said to the man of Elohim, \u201cPlease appease the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and pray for me, that my hand might be restored to me.\u201d And the man of Elohim appeased the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the sovereign\u2019s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before."}, {"pk": 2708254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "The sovereign then said to the man of Elohim, \u201cCome home with me and refresh yourself, and I give you a gift.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "But the man of Elohim said to the sovereign, \u201cIf you were to give me half your house, I do not go in with you, nor do I eat bread nor drink water in this place."}, {"pk": 2708256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor so He commanded me by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018Do not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2708258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And a certain old prophet was dwelling in B\u0115yth \u011al, and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of Elohim had done that day in B\u0115yth \u011al, the words which he had spoken to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And their father said to them, \u201cWhich way did he go?\u201d And his sons had seen which way the man of Elohim went who came from Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said to his sons, \u201cSaddle the donkey for me.\u201d And they saddled the donkey for him, and he rode on it,"}, {"pk": 2708261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "and went after the man of Elohim, and found him sitting under a terebinth. And he said to him, \u201cAre you the man of Elohim who came from Yehud\u0331ah?\u201d And he said, \u201cI am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cCome home with me and eat bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said, \u201cI am not able to return with you or to go in with you, nor am I to eat bread or drink water with you in this place."}, {"pk": 2708264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor word came to me by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Do not eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by going the way you came.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cI too am a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke to me by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018Bring him back with you to your house, and let him eat bread and drink water.\u2019 \u201d But he lied to him."}, {"pk": 2708266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "So he turned back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water."}, {"pk": 2708267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be, as they sat at the table, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to the prophet who had brought him back,"}, {"pk": 2708268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "and he cried out to the man of Elohim who came from Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have rebelled against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and have not guarded the command which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim commanded you,"}, {"pk": 2708269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "and turned back, and ate bread, and drank water in the place of which He said to you, \u201cDo not eat bread nor drink water,\u201d your body shall not enter the burial-site of your fathers.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be, after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back."}, {"pk": 2708271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "And he went, and a lion met him on the way and killed him. And his body was thrown on the way. And the donkey was standing by it, and the lion was standing by the body."}, {"pk": 2708272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And see, men were passing by and saw the body thrown on the way, while the lion was standing by the body. And they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet dwelt."}, {"pk": 2708273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "And the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard it, and said, \u201cIt is the man of Elohim who rebelled against the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave him to the lion, and it tore him apart and killed him, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "And he spoke to his sons, saying, \u201cSaddle the donkey for me.\u201d And they saddled it."}, {"pk": 2708275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "So he went and found his body thrown on the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor mauled the donkey."}, {"pk": 2708276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "And the prophet lifted up the body of the man of Elohim, and placed it on the donkey, and brought it back. And the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him,"}, {"pk": 2708277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "and he placed his body in his own burial-site. And they lamented over him, saying, \u201cOh, my brother!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "And it came to be, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, \u201cWhen I am dead, then you shall bury me in the burial-site where the man of Elohim is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones."}, {"pk": 2708279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor the word which he cried out, by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, against the slaughter-place in B\u0115yth \u011al, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Shomeron, shall certainly come to be.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "After this event Yarob\u0331\u201bam did not turn from his evil way, but again he made priests from all sorts of people for the high places. Whoever wished, he ordained, to become one of the priests of the high places."}, {"pk": 2708281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "And this matter was the sin of the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, even to cut it off and destroy it from the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2708282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "At that time Ab\u0331iyah the son of Yarob\u0331\u201bam became sick."}, {"pk": 2708283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam said to his wife, \u201cPlease arise, and disguise yourself, so they do not know that you are the wife of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and go to Shiloh. See, Ah\u0323iyah the prophet is there, who spoke to me of <i>becoming</i> sovereign over this people."}, {"pk": 2708284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. Let him declare to you what becomes of the child.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam\u2019s wife did so, and rose up and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ah\u0323iyah. But Ah\u0323iyahu was unable to see, for his eyes had set because of his age."}, {"pk": 2708286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to Ah\u0323iyahu, \u201cSee, the wife of Yarob\u0331\u201bam is coming to ask you a word about her son, for he is sick. Speak to her thus and thus. For it shall be, when she comes in, that she makes herself strange.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, when Ah\u0323iyahu heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, \u201cCome in, wife of Yarob\u0331\u201bam. Why are you making yourself strange? And I have been sent to you with a hard <i>word</i>."}, {"pk": 2708288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "Go, say to Yarob\u0331\u201bam, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cBecause I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2708289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "and tore the reign away from the house of Dawid\u0331, and gave it to you \u2014 and you have not been as My servant Dawid\u0331, who guarded My commands and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes,"}, {"pk": 2708290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "but you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other mighty ones and moulded images to provoke Me, and have cast Me behind your back \u2014"}, {"pk": 2708291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "therefore, see, I am bringing evil to the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and shall cut off from Yarob\u0331\u201bam every male in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whether shut up or left at large, and sweep away the remnant of the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone."}, {"pk": 2708292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "Those of Yarob\u0331\u201bam who die in the city the dogs do eat, and those who die in the field the birds of the heavens do eat, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken it!\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2708293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die."}, {"pk": 2708294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd all Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Yarob\u0331\u201bam who shall come to the burial-site, because in him there is found a good report toward \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2708295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall raise up for Himself a sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l who cuts off the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, this day, and even now!"}, {"pk": 2708296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall strike Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as a reed is shaken in the water, and shall pluck Yisra\u2019\u0115l from this good soil which He gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the River, because they made their Ash\u0115rim, provoking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "and He shall give Yisra\u2019\u0115l up, because of the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, who sinned and who made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And the wife of Yarob\u0331\u201bam rose up and went, and came to Tirtsah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died."}, {"pk": 2708299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And they buried him, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l lamented for him, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke through His servant Ah\u0323iyahu the prophet."}, {"pk": 2708300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, how he fought and how he reigned, see, they are written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And the days that Yarob\u0331\u201bam reigned was twenty-two years. So he slept with his fathers, and Nad\u0331ab\u0331 his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "Meanwhile Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh reigned in Yehud\u0331ah. Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam was forty-one years old when he became sovereign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to put His Name there. And his mother\u2019s name was Na\u201bamah the Ammonitess."}, {"pk": 2708303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done."}, {"pk": 2708304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ash\u0115rim on every high hill and under every green tree."}, {"pk": 2708305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And there were also cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dispossessed before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, in the fifth year of Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, that Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And he took away the treasures of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the treasures of the sovereign\u2019s house, he even took away all. And he took away all the shields of gold which Shelomoh had made."}, {"pk": 2708308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam made shields of bronze to replace them, and entrusted them into the hands of the chiefs of the guard, who guarded the entrance of the sovereign\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2708309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, whenever the sovereign went into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the guards would bring them, then take them back into the guardroom."}, {"pk": 2708310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "And there was fighting between Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam and Yarob\u0331\u201bam all the days."}, {"pk": 2708312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "So Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And the name of his mother was Na\u201bamah the Ammonitess. And Ab\u0331iyam his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, Ab\u0331iyam became sovereign over Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "He reigned three years in Yerushalayim, and his mother\u2019s name was Ma\u201bak\u0331ah the granddaughter of Ab\u0331ishalom."}, {"pk": 2708315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him, and his heart was not perfect to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, as was the heart of his father Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "But for Dawid\u0331\u2019s sake \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim gave him a lamp in Yerushalayim, to raise up his son after him and by establishing Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2708317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "for Dawid\u0331 did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not turn aside from all that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriyah the H\u0323ittite."}, {"pk": 2708318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And there was fighting between Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam and Yarob\u0331\u201bam all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2708319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ab\u0331iyam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah? And there was fighting between Ab\u0331iyam and Yarob\u0331\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2708320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "So Ab\u0331iyam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Asa his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And in the twentieth year of Yarob\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Asa became sovereign over Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And he reigned forty-one years in Yerushalayim, and his grandmother\u2019s name was Ma\u201bak\u0331ah the granddaughter of Ab\u0331ishalom."}, {"pk": 2708323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And Asa did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his father Dawid\u0331 had done,"}, {"pk": 2708324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "and put away the cult prostitutes from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made."}, {"pk": 2708325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And he also removed Ma\u201bak\u0331ah his grandmother from being sovereigness mother, because she had made an abominable image for Ash\u0115rah. And Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it by the wadi Qid\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2708326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "But the high places were not removed. However, Asa\u2019s heart was perfect with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all his days."}, {"pk": 2708327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And he brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the set-apart items of his father, and his own set-apart items: silver and gold and utensils."}, {"pk": 2708328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And there was fighting between Asa and Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l all their days."}, {"pk": 2708329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came up against Yehud\u0331ah, and built Ramah, to keep anyone from going out or coming in to Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the treasuries of the sovereign\u2019s house, and gave them into the hand of his servants. And Sovereign Asa sent them to Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 son of Tab\u0331rimmon, son of H\u0323ezyon, sovereign of Aram, who dwelt in Dammeseq, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cLet there be a covenant between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a present of silver and gold. Come, break your covenant with Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that he withdraws from me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 listened to Sovereign Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and struck Iyon, and Dan, and Ab\u0331\u0115l B\u0115yth Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and all Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2708333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be, when Ba\u201basha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2708334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Sovereign Asa summoned all Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 none was exempted \u2014 and they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Ba\u201basha had used for building. And with them Sovereign Asa built Geb\u0331a of Binyamin, and Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2708335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet."}, {"pk": 2708336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "So Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father. And Yehoshaphat his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "And Nad\u0331ab\u0331 son of Yarob\u0331\u201bam became sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the second year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and he reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l two years."}, {"pk": 2708338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "Then Ba\u201basha son of Ah\u0323iyah, of the house of Yissask\u0331ar, conspired against him. And Ba\u201basha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had laid siege to Gibbethon."}, {"pk": 2708340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ba\u201basha killed him in the third year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, when he became sovereign, that he struck all the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam. He did not leave to Yarob\u0331\u201bam anyone breathing, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had spoken by His servant Ah\u0323iyah the Shilonite,"}, {"pk": 2708342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "because of the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Nad\u0331ab\u0331, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And there was fighting between Asa and Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l all their days."}, {"pk": 2708345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "In the third year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Ba\u201basha son of Ah\u0323iyah became sovereign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Tirtsah, and reigned twenty-four years."}, {"pk": 2708346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and walked in the way of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and in his sin by which he had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Y\u0115hu son of H\u0323anani, against Ba\u201basha, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBecause I raised you up out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but you walked in the way of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and made My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, to provoke Me with their sins,"}, {"pk": 2708349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "see, I am going to sweep away Ba\u201basha and his house, and shall make your house like the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam the son of Neb\u0331at."}, {"pk": 2708350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnyone belonging to Ba\u201basha who dies in a city the dogs eat, and anyone belonging to him who dies in a field the birds of the heavens eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ba\u201basha, what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "So Ba\u201basha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirtsah. And his son \u011alah reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "Moreover, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came by the prophet Y\u0115hu son of H\u0323anani against Ba\u201basha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in provoking Him with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and because he struck them."}, {"pk": 2708354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "In the twenty-sixth year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u011alah son of Ba\u201basha began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Tirtsah, two years."}, {"pk": 2708355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirtsah drinking himself drunk in the house of Artsa, who was over his house in Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2708356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "Then Zimri came in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when he began to reign, as soon as he was seated on his throne, that he struck all the household of Ba\u201basha. He did not leave him one male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends."}, {"pk": 2708358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "So Zimri destroyed the entire house of Ba\u201basha, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He spoke against Ba\u201basha by Y\u0115hu the prophet,"}, {"pk": 2708359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "for all the sins of Ba\u201basha and the sins of \u011alah his son, by which they had sinned and by which they had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, in provoking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with their worthlessnesses."}, {"pk": 2708360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the rest of the acts of \u011alah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "In the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirtsah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2708362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And the people who were encamped heard it said, \u201cZimri has conspired and also struck the sovereign.\u201d So all Yisra\u2019\u0115l set up Omri, the commander of the army, to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l that day in the camp."}, {"pk": 2708363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And Omri went up, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2708364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, when Zimri saw that the city was captured, that he went into a high place of the sovereign\u2019s house and burned the sovereign\u2019s house down upon himself with fire, and died,"}, {"pk": 2708365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "because of the sins which he had sinned in doing evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in walking in the way of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy he made, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "Then the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tib\u0331ni son of Ginath, to make him reign, and half followed Omri."}, {"pk": 2708368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "But the people who followed Omri were stronger than the people who followed Tib\u0331ni son of Ginath. And Tib\u0331ni died and Omri reigned."}, {"pk": 2708369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "In the thirty-first year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Omri became sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and reigned twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirtsah."}, {"pk": 2708370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "And he bought the hill of Shomeron from Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Shomeron, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill."}, {"pk": 2708371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "And Omri did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did evil more than all those before him,"}, {"pk": 2708372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "and walked in all the ways of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, and in his sin by which he had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, provoking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with their worthlessnesses."}, {"pk": 2708373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he attained, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Shomeron. And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "In the thirty-eighth year of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Ah\u0323ab\u0331 son of Omri became sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 son of Omri reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron twenty-two years."}, {"pk": 2708376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 son of Omri did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, more than all those before him."}, {"pk": 2708377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "And it came to be, as though it had been a light matter for him to walk in the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, that he took as wife Izeb\u0331el the daughter of Ethba\u201bal, sovereign of the Tsid\u0331onians. And he went and served Ba\u201bal and bowed himself to it,"}, {"pk": 2708378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "and raised up a slaughter-place for Ba\u201bal in the house of Ba\u201bal, which he had built in Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 made an Ash\u0115rah. And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 did more to provoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l than all the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l before him."}, {"pk": 2708380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "In his days H\u0323i\u2019\u0115l of B\u0115yth \u011al built Yerih\u0323o. He laid its foundation at the cost of Ab\u0331iram his first-born, and at the cost of his youngest son Se\u1e21ub\u0331 he set up its gates, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He had spoken through Yehoshua son of Nun."}, {"pk": 2708381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u011aliyahu the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gil\u201bad\u0331, said to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cGo away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the wadi Kerith, which flows into the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2708384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that you drink from the stream, and I shall command the ravens to feed you there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And he went and did according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for he went and dwelt by the wadi Kerith, which flows into the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2708386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the stream."}, {"pk": 2708387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be after a while that the stream dried up, because there had been no rain in the land."}, {"pk": 2708388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cRise up, go to Tsarephath, which belongs to Tsid\u0331on, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And he rose up and went to Tsarephath, and came to the gate of the city and saw a widow there gathering sticks. And he called and said to her, \u201cPlease bring me a little water in a vessel to drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And as she was going to get it, he called and said to her, \u201cPlease bring me a piece of bread in your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "And she said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar. And see, I am gathering a couple of sticks and shall go in and prepare it for myself and my son, and we shall eat it, and die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u011aliyah said to her, \u201cDo not fear, go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me. And afterward make some for yourself and your son."}, {"pk": 2708394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor the jar of oil run dry, until the day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sends rain on the earth.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "So she went and did according to the word of \u011aliyahu, and she and he and her household ate for many days."}, {"pk": 2708396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke by \u011aliyahu."}, {"pk": 2708397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And after these events it came to be that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was very severe until there was no breath left in him.", "comment": "Lit. strong."}, {"pk": 2708398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "And she said to \u011aliyahu, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, O man of Elohim? Have you come to me to bring my crookedness to be remembered, and to kill my son?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cGive me your son.\u201d So he took him from her arms and took him to the upper room where he was dwelling, and laid him on his own bed,"}, {"pk": 2708400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "and cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, have You also brought evil on the widow with whom I am sojourning, to kill her son?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, I pray, let the life of this child come back to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard the voice of \u011aliyahu, and the life of the child came back to him, and he lived."}, {"pk": 2708403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u011aliyahu took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And \u011aliyahu said, \u201cSee, your son lives!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And the woman said to \u011aliyahu, \u201cNow by this I know that you are a man of Elohim, and that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in your mouth is truth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And after many days it came to be that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to \u011aliyahu, in the third year, saying, \u201cGo, present yourself to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, and I give rain on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "Thereupon \u011aliyahu went to present himself to Ah\u0323ab\u0331. And the scarcity of food in Shomeron was severe.", "comment": "Lit. strong."}, {"pk": 2708407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had called Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu, who was over his house. Now Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 exceedingly."}, {"pk": 2708408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, while Izeb\u0331el cut down the prophets of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water."}, {"pk": 2708409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had said to Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu, \u201cGo into the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis, it could be that we find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, and not have any livestock cut off."}, {"pk": 2708410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "And they divided the land between them to pass over it, Ah\u0323ab\u0331 went one way by himself, and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu went another way by himself."}, {"pk": 2708411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And as Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu was on his way, then see, \u011aliyahu met him. And he recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, \u201cIs that you, my master \u011aliyahu?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And he answered him, \u201cIt is I. Go, say to your master, \u2018\u011aliyahu is here.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, to kill me?"}, {"pk": 2708414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim lives, there is no nation or reign where my master has not sent to look for you. And when they said, \u2018He is not here,\u2019 he made the reign or nation swear that they could not find you."}, {"pk": 2708415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd now you say, \u2018Go, say to your master, \u201c\u011aliyahu is here\u201d \u2019!"}, {"pk": 2708416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes you away to a place I do not know. And I shall come to report to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, and when he does not find you, he shall kill me. But I your servant have feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from my youth."}, {"pk": 2708417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWas it not reported to my master what I did when Izeb\u0331el killed the prophets of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how I hid one hundred men of the prophets of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?"}, {"pk": 2708418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd now you say, \u2018Go, say to your master, \u201c\u011aliyahu is here!\u201d \u2019 Then he shall kill me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I shall indeed show myself to him today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu then went to meet Ah\u0323ab\u0331 and informed him, and Ah\u0323ab\u0331 went to meet \u011aliyahu."}, {"pk": 2708421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when Ah\u0323ab\u0331 saw \u011aliyahu, that Ah\u0323ab\u0331 said to him, \u201cIs that you, O disturber of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And he answered, \u201cI have not disturbed Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but you and your father\u2019s house, in that you have forsaken the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and you have followed the Ba\u201bals."}, {"pk": 2708423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd now, send and gather all Yisra\u2019\u0115l to me on Mount Karmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba\u201bal, and the four hundred prophets of Ash\u0115rah, who eat at Izeb\u0331el\u2019s table.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "Ah\u0323ab\u0331 then sent for all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and gathered the prophets on Mount Karmel."}, {"pk": 2708425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u011aliyahu came to all the people, and said, \u201cHow long would you keep hopping between two opinions? If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is Elohim, follow Him; and if Ba\u201bal, follow him.\u201d But the people answered him not a word."}, {"pk": 2708426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to the people, \u201cI alone am left a prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but the prophets of Ba\u201bal are four hundred and fifty men."}, {"pk": 2708427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cNow let them give us two bulls. And let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but set no fire. And I, I prepare the other bull, and shall lay it on the wood, but set no fire."}, {"pk": 2708428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall call on the name of your mighty one, and I, I call on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the Elohim who answers by fire, He is Elohim.\u201d So all the people answered and said, \u201cThe word is good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to the prophets of Ba\u201bal, \u201cChoose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many. And call on the name of your mighty one, but set no fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "So they took the bull which was given them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Ba\u201bal from morning even until noon, saying, \u201cO Ba\u201bal, answer us!\u201d But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the slaughter-place which they had made."}, {"pk": 2708431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be at noon, that \u011aliyahu taunted them and said, \u201cCry aloud, for he is a mighty one; he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or it could be that he is asleep and has to be awakened!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves, according to their ruling, with knives and spears, until the blood gushed out on them."}, {"pk": 2708433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of bringing the <i>evening</i> offering. But there was no voice and no one answered, and no one paying attention."}, {"pk": 2708434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "Then \u011aliyahu said to all the people, \u201cCome closer to me.\u201d And all the people came closer to him. And he repaired the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that was broken down."}, {"pk": 2708435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And \u011aliyahu took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to whom the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had come, saying, \u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l is your name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "And with the stones he built a slaughter-place in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And he made a trench around the slaughter-place large enough to hold two seahs of seed."}, {"pk": 2708437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "And he arranged the wood, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, \u201cFill four jars with water, and pour it on the ascending offering and on the wood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "Then he said, \u201cDo it a second time,\u201d and they did it a second time. And he said, \u201cDo it a third time,\u201d and they did it a third time."}, {"pk": 2708439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "And the water flowed around the slaughter-place, and he filled the trench with water too."}, {"pk": 2708440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "text": "And it came to be, at the time of bringing the <i>evening</i> offering, that \u011aliyahu the prophet came near and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, let it be known today: You are Elohim in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I Your servant, have done all these matters by Your word."}, {"pk": 2708441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnswer me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, answer me, and let this people know that You are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, and You shall turn their hearts back to You again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "text": "Then the fire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell and consumed the ascending offering, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench."}, {"pk": 2708443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "text": "And all the people saw, and fell on their faces, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He is the Elohim! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He is the Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to them, \u201cSeize the prophets of Ba\u201bal! Do not let one of them escape!\u201d So they seized them, and \u011aliyahu brought them down to the wadi Qishon and slew them there."}, {"pk": 2708445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 41, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, \u201cGo up, eat and drink, because of the sound of the noise of rain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 42, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 went up to eat and to drink. And \u011aliyahu went up to the top of Karmel, and he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees,"}, {"pk": 2708447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 43, "text": "and said to his servant, \u201cGo up, please, look closely toward the sea.\u201d So he went up and looked closely, and said, \u201cNot a speck.\u201d And seven times he said, \u201cGo again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 44, "text": "And it came to be the seventh time, that he said, \u201cSee, a little cloud as small as a man\u2019s hand is coming out of the sea!\u201d And he said, \u201cGo up, say to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, \u2018Hitch up, and go down before the rain stops you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 45, "text": "And in the meantime, it came to be that the heavens became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain, while Ah\u0323ab\u0331 rode and went to Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 18, "verse": 46, "text": "And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was on \u011aliyahu. And he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 to the entrance of Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Ah\u0323ab\u0331 reported to Izeb\u0331el all that \u011aliyahu had done, also how he slew all the prophets with the sword,"}, {"pk": 2708452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "Izeb\u0331el sent a messenger to \u011aliyahu, saying, \u201cSo let the mighty ones do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And he feared, and rose up and ran for his life, and went to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, which belongs to Yehud\u0331ah, and left his servant there."}, {"pk": 2708454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "But he himself went a day\u2019s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, \u201cIt is enough! Now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And he lay and slept under a broom tree, and see, a messenger touched him, and said to him, \u201cRise, eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And he looked and saw by his head a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and turned and lay down."}, {"pk": 2708457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came back the second time, and touched him, and said, \u201cRise, eat, for the journey is too much for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, the mountain of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2708459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And there he went into a cave and spent the night there. And see, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him, and said to him, \u201cWhat are you doing here, \u011aliyahu?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said, \u201cI have been very jealous for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have forsaken Your covenant. They have thrown down Your slaughter-places, and they have killed Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said, \u201cGo out, and stand on the mountain before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 passed by, and a great and strong wind tearing the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not in the earthquake,"}, {"pk": 2708462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "and after the earthquake a fire \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was not in the fire, and after the fire a still small voice."}, {"pk": 2708463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when \u011aliyahu heard it, that he wrapped his face in his robe and went out and stood at the cave opening. And see, a voice came to him, and said, \u201cWhat are you doing here, \u011aliyahu?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cI have been very jealous for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have forsaken Your covenant. They have thrown down Your slaughter-places, and they have killed Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cGo, return on your way to the Wilderness of Dammeseq. And you shall go in and anoint H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l as sovereign over Aram."}, {"pk": 2708466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd anoint Y\u0115hu son of Nimshi as sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Ab\u0331\u0115l Meh\u0323olah as prophet in your place."}, {"pk": 2708467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that whoever escapes the sword of H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l, Y\u0115hu does kill. And whoever escapes from the sword of Y\u0115hu, Elisha does kill."}, {"pk": 2708468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall leave seven thousand in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all whose knees have not bowed to Ba\u201bal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And he went from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke <i>of oxen</i> before him, and he was with the twelfth. And \u011aliyahu passed by him and threw his robe on him."}, {"pk": 2708470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And he left the oxen and ran after \u011aliyahu, and said, \u201cPlease let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I follow you.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cGo, turn back, for what have I done to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And he turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and cooked their flesh, using the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he rose up and followed \u011aliyahu, and became his servant."}, {"pk": 2708472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 the sovereign of Aram gathered all his army, and there were thirty-two sovereigns with him, with horses and chariots. And he went up and besieged Shomeron, and fought against it."}, {"pk": 2708473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And he sent messengers into the city to Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said to him, \u201cThus said Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2708474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "Your silver and your gold are mine, and your wives and children, the best, are mine.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l answered and said, \u201cAs you say, my master, O sovereign, I am yours, and all that I have.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messengers came back and said, \u201cThus speaks Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331, saying, \u2018Indeed I have sent to you, saying, \u201cGive me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "but about this time tomorrow I shall send my servants to you, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants. And it shall be, that whatever is pleasing in your eyes they shall lay hold of and take it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l called all the elders of the land, and said, \u201cPlease know and see the evil this one is seeking, for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I did not refuse him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And all the elders and all the people said to him, \u201cDo not listen nor agree.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "So he said to the messengers of Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331, \u201cSay to my master the sovereign, \u2018All that you sent for to your servant the first time I shall do, but this I am unable to do.\u2019 \u201d And the messengers went and brought back word to him."}, {"pk": 2708481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 sent to him and said, \u201cThe mighty ones do so to me, and more also, if enough dust is left of Shomeron for a handful for each of the people who follow me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l answered and said, \u201cSpeak, \u2018Him who girds on <i>his armour</i> should not boast like him who lays it down.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And it came to be when this word was heard, as he and the sovereigns were drinking in the booths, that he said to his servants, \u201cSet yourselves.\u201d So they set themselves against the city."}, {"pk": 2708484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And see, a prophet came near to Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Have you seen all this great company? See, I am giving it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 said, \u201cBy whom?\u201d And he said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018By the young rulers of the provinces.\u2019 \u201d And he said, \u201cWho opens the attack?\u201d Then he answered, \u201cYou.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And he mustered the young rulers of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two. And after them he mustered all the people, all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, seven thousand."}, {"pk": 2708487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And they went out at noon, while Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 and the thirty-two sovereigns helping him were getting drunk in the booths."}, {"pk": 2708488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And the young rulers of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 sent out, and they reported to him, saying, \u201cMen have come out of Shomeron!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "Then he said, \u201cIf they have come out for peace, seize them alive. And if they have come out for battle, seize them alive.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "So these young rulers of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them."}, {"pk": 2708491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And each struck his man, so the Arameans fled, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l pursued them. And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 the sovereign of Aram escaped on a horse with the horsemen."}, {"pk": 2708492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Arameans, a great smiting."}, {"pk": 2708493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "And the prophet came to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and said to him, \u201cGo, strengthen yourself. And know and see what you should do, for at the turn of the year the sovereign of Aram is coming up against you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "And the servants of the sovereign of Aram said to him, \u201cTheir mighty ones are mighty ones of the hills. That is why they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain \u2014 are we not stronger than they?"}, {"pk": 2708495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cNow do this: Take away the sovereigns, each from his position, and put officers in their places,"}, {"pk": 2708496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "and number an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot, and let us fight against them in the plain \u2014 are we not stronger than they?\u201d And he listened to their voice and did so."}, {"pk": 2708497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "And it came to be, at the turn of the year, that Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 mustered the Arameans and went up to Aph\u0115q to fight against Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were mustered and were fed, and they went against them. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the land."}, {"pk": 2708499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "And there came near a man of Elohim and spoke to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because the Arameans have said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is Elohim of the hills, but He is not Elohim of the valleys,\u201d therefore I shall give all this great company into your hand, and you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "And they encamped opposite each other for seven days. And it came to be that on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l struck one hundred thousand foot soldiers of the Arameans in one day."}, {"pk": 2708501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "And those that were left fled to Aph\u0115q, into the city, and a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 fled and went into the city, into an inner room."}, {"pk": 2708502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "And his servants said to him, \u201cSee now, we have heard that the sovereigns of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are lovingly-commited sovereigns. Please, let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. It could be that he spares your life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes around their heads, and came to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and said, \u201cYour servant Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 said, \u2018Please let me live.\u2019 \u201d And he said, \u201cIs he still alive? He is my brother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "And the men divined and they quickly grasped it and said, \u201cYour brother Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331.\u201d And he said, \u201cGo, bring him.\u201d So Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 came out to him, and he let him come up on the chariot."}, {"pk": 2708505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 said to him, \u201cThe cities which my father took from your father I return. And set up market-places for yourself in Dammeseq, as my father did in Shomeron.\u201d And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 said, \u201cI send you away with this covenant.\u201d And he made a covenant with him and sent him away."}, {"pk": 2708506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cStrike me, please.\u201d But the man refused to strike him."}, {"pk": 2708507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "Then he said to him, \u201cBecause you have not obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, see, as soon as you leave me a lion shall strike you.\u201d And when he left him, a lion found him and struck him."}, {"pk": 2708508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "And he found another man, and said, \u201cStrike me, please.\u201d So the man struck him, striking and wounding."}, {"pk": 2708509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "Then the prophet went and waited for the sovereign by the way, and disguised himself with a bandage on his eyes."}, {"pk": 2708510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "text": "And as the sovereign passed by, he cried out to the sovereign and said, \u201cYour servant went out into the midst of the battle. And see, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, \u2018Guard this man. If he should in any way be missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, while your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.\u201d And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201cYour judgment is right, you yourself have decided it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "text": "Then he quickly removed the bandage from his eyes. And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l recognised him as one of the prophets."}, {"pk": 2708513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I put under the ban, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went to his house embittered and displeased, and came to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, after these events, that Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite had a vineyard which was in Yizre\u201b\u0115l, near the palace of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 the sovereign of Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 spoke to Nab\u0331oth, saying, \u201cGive me your vineyard, and it shall be a vegetable garden for me, since it adjoins my house. And let me give you a better vineyard for it. If it is good in your eyes, let me give you its worth in silver.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And Nab\u0331oth said to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, \u201cFar be it from me, by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 went into his house embittered and displeased because of the word which Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite had spoken to him when he said, \u201cI do not give you the inheritance of my fathers.\u201d And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and did not eat food."}, {"pk": 2708519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And Izeb\u0331el his wife came to him, and said to him, \u201cWhy is your spirit so embittered that you are not eating food?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to her, \u201cBecause I spoke to Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite, and said to him, \u2018Give me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I give you another vineyard for it.\u2019 But he answered, \u2018I do not give you my vineyard.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "So Izeb\u0331el his wife said to him, \u201cDo you now rule over Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Rise up, eat food, and let your heart be glad. Let me give you the vineyard of Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Then she wrote letters in Ah\u0323ab\u0331\u2019s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling in the city with Nab\u0331oth."}, {"pk": 2708523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And she wrote in the letters, saying, \u201cProclaim a fast, and seat Nab\u0331oth at the head of the people,"}, {"pk": 2708524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "and seat two men, sons of Beliya\u201bal before him to bear witness against him, saying, \u2018You have blasphemed Elohim and the sovereign.\u2019 Then you shall take him out, and stone him to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And the men of his city, the elders and nobles who were inhabitants of his city, did as Izeb\u0331el had sent to them, as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them."}, {"pk": 2708526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "They proclaimed a fast, and seated Nab\u0331oth at the head of the people."}, {"pk": 2708527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And the men, sons of Beliya\u201bal, came in and sat before him. And the men of Beliya\u201bal witnessed against him, against Nab\u0331oth, in the presence of the people, saying, \u201cNab\u0331oth has blasphemed Elohim and the sovereign!\u201d So they took him outside the city and stoned him with stones, and he died."}, {"pk": 2708528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And they sent to Izeb\u0331el, saying, \u201cNab\u0331oth has been stoned and is dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when Izeb\u0331el heard that Nab\u0331oth had been stoned and was dead, that Izeb\u0331el said to Ah\u0323ab\u0331, \u201cArise, take possession of the vineyard of Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite, which he refused to give you for silver, for Nab\u0331oth is not alive but dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when Ah\u0323ab\u0331 heard that Nab\u0331oth was dead, that Ah\u0323ab\u0331 rose to go down to take possession of the vineyard of Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite."}, {"pk": 2708531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to \u011aliyahu the Tishbite, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cRise up, go down to meet Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who lives in Shomeron. See, he is in the vineyard of Nab\u0331oth, where he has gone down to take possession of it."}, {"pk": 2708533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall speak to him, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHave you murdered and also taken possession?\u201d \u2019 And you shall speak to him, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIn the place where dogs licked the blood of Nab\u0331oth, the dogs are going to lick your blood, even yours.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 said to \u011aliyahu, \u201cHave you found me, O my enemy?\u201d And he answered, \u201cI have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4:"}, {"pk": 2708535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "See, I am bringing evil on you, and shall consume your descendants, and cut off from Ah\u0323ab\u0331 every male in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, both those shut up and those left at large,"}, {"pk": 2708536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "and make your house like the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, and like the house of Ba\u201basha son of Ah\u0323iyah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me, and made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd also of Izeb\u0331el \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken, saying, \u2018The dogs are going to eat Izeb\u0331el by the wall of Yizre\u201b\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThe dogs are going to eat whoever belongs to Ah\u0323ab\u0331 and dies in the city, and the birds of the heavens are going to eat whoever dies in the field.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "Indeed, there never was anyone like Ah\u0323ab\u0331 who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because Izeb\u0331el his wife stirred him up."}, {"pk": 2708540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dispossessed from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, when Ah\u0323ab\u0331 heard those words, that he tore his garments and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went softly."}, {"pk": 2708542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to \u011aliyahu the Tishbite, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSee how Ah\u0323ab\u0331 has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I do not bring the evil in his days, but in the days of his son I bring the evil on his house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And they continued three years without fighting between Aram and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, in the third year, that Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah came down to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to his servants, \u201cDo you know that Ramoth in Gil\u201bad\u0331 is ours, and we are keeping silent from taking it out of the hand of the sovereign of Aram!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cDo you go with me to battle at Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331?\u201d And Yehoshaphat said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yehoshaphat said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cPlease, first inquire for the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, \u201cDo I go against Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331 to battle, or do I refrain?\u201d And they said, \u201cGo up, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does give it into the hand of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yehoshaphat said, \u201cIs there not here a prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 besides, that we might inquire of him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cThere is still one man, Mik\u0331ayehu son of Yimlah, to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by him. But I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.\u201d And Yehoshaphat said, \u201cLet not the sovereign say so!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "So the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l called an officer and said, \u201cBring Mik\u0331ayehu son of Yimlah at once!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah were sitting, each on his throne, dressed in their robes, at a threshing-floor at the entrance of the gate of Shomeron. And all the prophets were prophesying before them."}, {"pk": 2708554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyah son of Kena\u201banah had made horns of iron for himself, and said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018With these you push the Arameans until they are destroyed.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And all the prophets were prophesying so, saying, \u201cGo up to Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331 and prosper, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give it into the hand of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And the messenger who had gone to call Mik\u0331ayehu spoke to him, saying, \u201cSee now, the words of the prophets with one mouth are good towards the sovereign. Please, let your word be like the word of one of them, and you shall speak good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, whatever \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 says to me, that I speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "And he came to the sovereign, and the sovereign said to him, \u201cMik\u0331ayehu, do we go against Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331 to battle, or do we refrain?\u201d And he answered him, \u201cGo and prosper, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give it into the hand of the sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sovereign said to him, \u201cHow many times have I made you swear that you do not speak to me, except the truth, in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "So he said, \u201cI saw all Yisra\u2019\u0115l scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018These have no master. Let everyone return to his house in peace.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cHave I not said to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "Then he said, \u201cTherefore hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: I saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing by Him, on His right and on His left."}, {"pk": 2708563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018Who shall entice Ah\u0323ab\u0331 to go up and fall at Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331?\u2019 And this one said this, and another said that."}, {"pk": 2708564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd a spirit came forward and stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u2018Let me entice him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u2018In what way?\u2019 And he said, \u2018I shall go out and be a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets.\u2019 And He said, \u2018Entice him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken evil concerning you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of Kena\u201banah came near and struck Mik\u0331ayehu on the cheek, and said, \u201cWhere did the spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pass over from me to speak to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cLook, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cTake Mik\u0331ayehu, and return him to Amon the governor of the city, and to Yo\u2019ash son of the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2708570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "and say, \u2018Thus said the sovereign, \u201cPut this one in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I come in peace.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cIf you ever return in peace, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not spoken by me.\u201d And he said, \u201cHear, all you people!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehoshaphat the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah went up to Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cLet me disguise myself and go into battle, but you put on your robes.\u201d So the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l disguised himself and went into battle."}, {"pk": 2708574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sovereign of Aram had commanded the thirty-two commanders of his chariots, saying, \u201cFight with no one small or great, but only with the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "And it came to be, when the commanders of the chariots saw Yehoshaphat, that they said, \u201cIndeed, it is the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d So they turned aside to fight against him, and Yehoshaphat cried out."}, {"pk": 2708576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "And it came to be, when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they turned back from pursuing him."}, {"pk": 2708577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "And a man drew a bow in his simplicity, and struck the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l between the joints of his armour. And he said to the driver of his chariot, \u201cTurn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "text": "And the battle increased that day. And the sovereign was propped up in his chariot, facing the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood ran out from the wound onto the floor of the chariot."}, {"pk": 2708579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "text": "And as the sun was going down, a shout passed through the camp, saying, \u201cEach to his city, and each to his land!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "text": "So the sovereign died and was brought to Shomeron, and they buried the sovereign in Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "text": "And when the chariot was washed at a pool in Shomeron, the dogs licked up his blood, where the whores bathed, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had spoken."}, {"pk": 2708582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "text": "So Ah\u0323ab\u0331 slept with his fathers, and Ah\u0323azyahu his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "text": "And Yehoshaphat son of Asa began to reign over Yehud\u0331ah in the fourth year of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "text": "Yehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became sovereign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Azub\u0331ah the daughter of Shilh\u0323i."}, {"pk": 2708586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "text": "And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Only, the high places were not taken away, for the people slaughtered and burned incense on the high places."}, {"pk": 2708587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "text": "And Yehoshaphat made peace with the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, and the might that he showed, and how he fought, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "text": "And the rest of the cult prostitutes, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he cleared out from the land."}, {"pk": 2708590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 47, "text": "And there was then no sovereign in Ed\u0331om, a deputy was sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 48, "text": "Yehoshaphat made Tarshish ships to go to Ophir for gold. However, they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Etsyon Geb\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2708592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 49, "text": "Then Ah\u0323azyahu son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cLet my servants go with your servants in the ships.\u201d But Yehoshaphat would not."}, {"pk": 2708593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 50, "text": "So Yehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father. And Yehoram his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 51, "text": "Ah\u0323azyahu son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron in the seventeenth year of Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and reigned two years over Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2708595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 52, "text": "and did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin,"}, {"pk": 2708596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 11, "chapter": 22, "verse": 53, "text": "and served Ba\u201bal and bowed himself to it, and provoked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to all that his father had done."}, {"pk": 2708597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mo\u2019ab\u0331 revolted against Yisra\u2019\u0115l after the death of Ah\u0323ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ah\u0323azyah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Shomeron, and was injured, and sent messengers and said to them, \u201cGo, inquire of Ba\u201bal-Zeb\u0331ub\u0331, the mighty one of Eqron, if I shall recover from this injury.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "But a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to \u011aliyah the Tishbite, \u201cRise up, go up to meet the messengers of the sovereign of Shomeron, and say to them, \u2018Is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra\u2019\u0115l that you are going to inquire of Ba\u201bal-Zeb\u0331ub\u0331, the mighty one of Eqron?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSo therefore, thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018You are not going to get out of the bed to which you have gone up, for you shall certainly die.\u2019 \u201d And \u011aliyah went."}, {"pk": 2708601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, \u201cWhy have you come back?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cA man came up to meet us, and said to us, \u2018Go, return to the sovereign who sent you, and say to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra\u2019\u0115l that you are sending to inquire of Ba\u201bal-Zeb\u0331ub\u0331, the mighty one of Eqron? Therefore you are not going to get out of the bed to which you have gone up, for you shall certainly die.\u2019\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat was the man like who came up to meet you and spoke to you these words?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And they answered him, \u201cHe was a hairy man, and wore a leather girdle around his waist.\u201d And he said, \u201cIt is \u011aliyah the Tishbite.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "He then sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men. And he went up to him, and see, he was sitting on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, \u201cMan of Elohim, the sovereign has said, \u2018Come down!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u011aliyahu answered and said to the captain of fifty, \u201cAnd if I am a man of Elohim, let fire come down from the heavens and consume you and your fifty men.\u201d And fire came down from the heavens and consumed him and his fifty."}, {"pk": 2708607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "He then sent another captain of fifty with his fifty men to him. And he answered and said to him, \u201cMan of Elohim, this is what the sovereign said, \u2018Come down at once!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u011aliyah answered and said to them, \u201cIf I am a man of Elohim, let fire come down from the heavens and consume you and your fifty men.\u201d And a fire of Elohim came down from the heavens and consumed him and his fifty."}, {"pk": 2708609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And again he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before \u011aliyahu, and pleaded with him, and said to him, \u201cMan of Elohim, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes."}, {"pk": 2708610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSee, fire has come down from the heavens and burned up the first two captains of fifties with their fifties. But let my life be precious in your eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to \u011aliyahu, \u201cGo down with him; do not be afraid of him.\u201d So he rose up and went down with him to the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2708612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "and spoke to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba\u201bal-Zeb\u0331ub\u0331, the mighty one of Eqron, is it because there is no Elohim in Yisra\u2019\u0115l to inquire of His word? Therefore you are not going to get out of the bed to which you have gone up, for you shall certainly die.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And he died, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which \u011aliyahu had spoken. And Yehoram reigned in his place, in the second year of Yehoram son of Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, for he had no son."}, {"pk": 2708614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ah\u0323azyahu which he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was to take up \u011aliyahu to the heavens by a whirlwind, that \u011aliyahu went with Elisha from Gilgal."}, {"pk": 2708616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to Elisha, \u201cPlease remain here, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent me on to B\u0115yth \u011al.\u201d And Elisha said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, and as your being lives, I do not leave you!\u201d And they went down to B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2708617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sons of the prophets who were at B\u0115yth \u011al came out to Elisha, and said to him, \u201cDo you know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is taking away your master from your head?\u201d And he said, \u201cI also know, be silent!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to him, \u201cElisha, please remain here, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent me on to Yerih\u0323o.\u201d And he said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, and as your being lives, I do not leave you!\u201d And they came into Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2708619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sons of the prophets who were at Yerih\u0323o came to Elisha and said to him, \u201cDo you know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is taking away your master from over you today?\u201d And he said, \u201cI also know, be silent!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u011aliyahu said to him, \u201cPlease remain here, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent me on to the Yard\u0115n.\u201d And he said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, and as your being lives, I do not leave you!\u201d And the two of them went on."}, {"pk": 2708621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood facing them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2708622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u011aliyahu took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the water. And it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them passed over on dry ground."}, {"pk": 2708623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, when they had passed over, that \u011aliyahu said to Elisha, \u201cAsk what I am to do for you, before I am taken away from you!\u201d And Elisha said, \u201cPlease let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said, \u201cYou have made it hard to ask, yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it is yours; but if not, it is not.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, as they continued on and spoke, that see, a chariot of fire with horses of fire which separated the two of them. And \u011aliyahu went up by a whirlwind into the heavens."}, {"pk": 2708626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, \u201cMy father, my father, the chariot of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and its horsemen!\u201d And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garments and tore them into two pieces."}, {"pk": 2708627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And he took up the mantle of \u011aliyahu that had fallen from him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2708628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And he took the mantle of \u011aliyahu that had fallen from him, and struck the water, and said, \u201cWhere is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of \u011aliyahu?\u201d And he struck the water, and it was divided this way and that, and Elisha passed over."}, {"pk": 2708629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the sons of the prophets who were from Yerih\u0323o saw him, they said, \u201cThe spirit of \u011aliyahu rests on Elisha.\u201d And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him."}, {"pk": 2708630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cLook, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and search for your master, lest the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.\u201d And he said, \u201cSend no one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "But they pressed upon him till he was ashamed, and he said, \u201cSend.\u201d So they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him."}, {"pk": 2708632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And they returned to him, for he remained in Yerih\u0323o, and he said to them, \u201cDid I not say to you, \u2018Do not go\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And the men of the city said to Elisha, \u201cLook, the site of this city is good, as my master sees, but the waters are spoilt, and the soil barren.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said, \u201cBring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.\u201d And they brought it to him."}, {"pk": 2708635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And he went out to the source of the water, and threw salt in there, and said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018I have healed this water \u2014 no longer shall death or barrenness come from it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And the waters were healed, to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke."}, {"pk": 2708637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And he went up from there to B\u0115yth \u011al. And as he was going up the way, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, \u201cGo up, baldhead! Go up, baldhead!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And two female bears came out of the forest and tore to pieces forty-two of the youths."}, {"pk": 2708639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And from there he went to Mount Karmel, and from there he returned to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l at Shomeron in the eighteenth year of Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and reigned twelve years."}, {"pk": 2708641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but not like his father and mother; for he removed the statue of Ba\u201bal which his father had made."}, {"pk": 2708642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "But he clung to the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin. He did not turn away from them."}, {"pk": 2708643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And M\u0115ysha sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was a sheep-breeder, and he paid the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams."}, {"pk": 2708644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, when Ah\u0323ab\u0331 died, that the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 revolted against the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sovereign Yehoram went out of Shomeron at that time and mustered all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And he went and sent to Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u201cThe sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 has revolted against me. Do you go with me to fight against Mo\u2019ab\u0331?\u201d And he said, \u201cI go up. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhich way do we go up?\u201d And he said, \u201cBy way of the Wilderness of Ed\u0331om.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went, and the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and the sovereign of Ed\u0331om, and went round a journey of seven days. And there was no water for the army, nor for the cattle that followed them."}, {"pk": 2708649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhat? Has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 called these three sovereigns to give them into the hand of Mo\u2019ab\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yehoshaphat said, \u201cIs there no prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 here? Then let us inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 through him.\u201d One of the servants of the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l then answered and said, \u201cElisha son of Shaphat is here, who poured water out on the hands of \u011aliyahu.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoshaphat said, \u201cThe word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with him.\u201d And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehoshaphat and the sovereign of Ed\u0331om went down to him."}, {"pk": 2708652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And Elisha said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cWhat have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.\u201d And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201cNo, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has called these three sovereigns to give them into the hand of Mo\u2019ab\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And Elisha said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts lives, before whom I stand, if it were not that I regard the presence of Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, I would not look at you nor see you."}, {"pk": 2708654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd now, bring me a harpist.\u201d And it came to be, when the harpist played, that the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon him."}, {"pk": 2708655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Make this wadi ditches \u2014 ditches.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018You are not going to see wind, nor rain. Yet that wadi is to be filled with water, so that you, your cattle, and your beasts shall drink.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd this shall be but a light matter in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And He shall give Mo\u2019ab\u0331 into your hand."}, {"pk": 2708658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall strike every walled city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up every fountain of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be in the morning, when the grain offering was offered, that see, water came by way of Ed\u0331om, and the land was filled with water."}, {"pk": 2708660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And when all Mo\u2019ab\u0331 heard that the sovereigns had come up to fight against them, all who were able to bear arms and older were gathered, and they stood at the border."}, {"pk": 2708661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun was shining on the water. And the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites saw the water on the other side as red as blood."}, {"pk": 2708662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And they said, \u201cThis is blood. The sovereigns have indeed struck swords and have killed one another. And now, Mo\u2019ab\u0331, to the spoil!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And they came to the camp of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l rose up and struck the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites, so that they fled before them. And striking they struck the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites."}, {"pk": 2708664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "And they broke down the cities, and each man threw a stone on every good piece of land and filled it. And they stopped up all the fountains of water and cut down all the good trees, until <i>only</i> the stones of Qir H\u0323araseth was left. And the slingers went round and struck it."}, {"pk": 2708665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "And when the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 saw that the battle was too strong for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the sovereign of Ed\u0331om, but they could not,"}, {"pk": 2708666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "then took his eldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him as an ascending offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they left him and returned to the land."}, {"pk": 2708667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, \u201cYour servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the lender has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And Elisha said to her, \u201cWhat should I do for you? Inform me, what do you have in the house?\u201d And she said, \u201cYour female servant has none at all in the house except a pot of oil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And he said, \u201cGo, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbours, empty vessels, do not get a few."}, {"pk": 2708670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons. Then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the filled ones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought <i>the vessels</i> to her, and she poured it out."}, {"pk": 2708672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, when the vessels were filled, that she said to her son, \u201cBring me another vessel.\u201d But he said to her, \u201cThere is not another vessel.\u201d And the oil ceased."}, {"pk": 2708673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "So she went and informed the man of Elohim, and he said, \u201cGo, sell the oil and pay your debt. And you <i>and</i> your sons live on the rest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be on a day that Elisha went to Shun\u0115m, where there was a prominent woman, and she took hold of him to eat some food. And it came to be, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat some food."}, {"pk": 2708675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And she said to her husband, \u201cLook, I know that this is a set-apart man of Elohim, who passes by us continually."}, {"pk": 2708676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cPlease, let us make a small upper room on the wall, and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand. And it shall be, whenever he comes to us, let him turn in there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be on a day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there."}, {"pk": 2708678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said to G\u0115h\u0323azi his servant, \u201cCall this Shunammite woman.\u201d So he called her, and she stood before him."}, {"pk": 2708679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cPlease say to her, \u2018Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What is there to be done for you? Should I speak on your behalf to the sovereign or to the commander of the army?\u2019 \u201d And she answered, \u201cI am dwelling among my own people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat then is to be done for her?\u201d And G\u0115h\u0323azi answered, \u201cWell, she has no son, and her husband is old.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said, \u201cCall her.\u201d So he called her, and she stood in the doorway."}, {"pk": 2708682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said, \u201cAbout this appointed time next year you shall embrace a son.\u201d And she said, \u201cNo, my master, man of Elohim, do not lie to your female servant!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had spoken to her."}, {"pk": 2708684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And the child grew. And it came to be on a day that he went out to his father, to the reapers,"}, {"pk": 2708685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "and he said to his father, \u201cMy head, my head!\u201d And he said to a servant, \u201cTake him to his mother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "So he took him and brought him to his mother, and he sat on her knees till noon, and died."}, {"pk": 2708687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of Elohim, and shut <i>the door</i> on him, and went out."}, {"pk": 2708688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And she called to her husband, and said, \u201cPlease send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, so that I hurry to the man of Elohim and return.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhy are you going to him today? It is neither the new <i>moon</i> nor the sabbath.\u201d And she said, \u201cIt is well!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, \u201cDrive and go, do not slow down, except I speak to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And she went, and came to the man of Elohim at Mount Karmel. And it came to be, when the man of Elohim saw her at a distance, that he said to his servant G\u0115h\u0323azi, \u201cSee, the Shunammite woman."}, {"pk": 2708692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cPlease run now to meet her, and say to her, \u2018Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?\u2019 \u201d And she answered, \u201cIt is well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "And she came to the man of Elohim at the hill, and she took hold of him by the feet, but G\u0115h\u0323azi came near to push her away. But the man of Elohim said, \u201cLeave her alone, for her being is bitter in her, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has hidden it from me, and has not revealed it to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "And she said, \u201cDid I ask a son of my master? Did I not say, \u2018Do not deceive me\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "And he said to G\u0115h\u0323azi, \u201cGird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. When you meet anyone, do not greet him, and when anyone greets you, do not answer him. And you shall lay my staff on the face of the child.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And the mother of the child said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, and as your being lives, I do not leave you.\u201d And he rose and followed her."}, {"pk": 2708697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "And G\u0115h\u0323azi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child. But there was no voice and there was no hearing, so he went back to meet him, and reported to him, saying, \u201cThe child has not awakened.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And Elisha came into the house and saw the child was dead, lying on his bed,"}, {"pk": 2708699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "and he went in, and shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands, and stretched himself out on the child, and the flesh of the child became warm."}, {"pk": 2708701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "And he returned and walked back and forth in the house, then went up and stretched himself out on him. And the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes."}, {"pk": 2708702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "And he called G\u0115h\u0323azi and said, \u201cCall this Shunammite.\u201d So he called her. And she came in to him, and he said, \u201cPick up your son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "Then she went in and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and picked up her son and went out."}, {"pk": 2708704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "And Elisha returned to Gilgal. And the scarcity of food was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, \u201cPut on the large pot, and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "And one went out to the field to gather plants, and found a wild vine, and gathered wild cucumbers from it, filling the skirt of his garment, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were."}, {"pk": 2708706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "They then served it to the men to eat. And it came to be, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, \u201cO man of Elohim, there is death in the pot!\u201d And they were unable to eat it."}, {"pk": 2708707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "And he said, \u201cThen bring some flour.\u201d And he put it into the pot, and said, \u201cServe it to the people to eat.\u201d And there was no evil matter in the pot."}, {"pk": 2708708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "Now a man came from Ba\u201bal Shalishah, and brought the man of Elohim bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, \u201cGive it to the people to eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "And his servant said, \u201cWhat? Do I set this before one hundred men?\u201d And he said, \u201cGive it to the people to eat. For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Eat and have some left over.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "And he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And Na\u201baman, commander of the army of the sovereign of Aram, was a great man in the eyes of his master, and highly respected, because by him \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given deliverance to Aram. And he was a brave man, <i>but</i> leprous."}, {"pk": 2708712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Arameans had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and she served the wife of Na\u201baman."}, {"pk": 2708713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And she said to her mistress, \u201cIf only my master were with the prophet who is in Shomeron! Then he would recover him of his leprosy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And Na\u201baman went in and reported to his master, saying, \u201cThus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign of Aram said, \u201cGo, enter, and let me send a letter to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d And he went and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand <i>pieces</i> of gold, and ten changes of garments."}, {"pk": 2708716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And he brought the letter to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which said, \u201cAnd now, when this letter comes to you, see I have sent Na\u201baman my servant to you, so that you shall recover him of his leprosy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l read the letter, that he tore his garments and said, \u201cAm I Elohim, to kill and keep alive, that this man sends a man to me to recover him of his leprosy? For consider now, and see how he is seeking an occasion with me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when Elisha the man of Elohim heard that the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had torn his garments, that he sent to the sovereign, saying, \u201cWhy have you torn your garments? Please let him come to me, so that he knows that there is a prophet in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "So Na\u201baman came with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the entrance of the house of Elisha."}, {"pk": 2708720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, \u201cGo, and you shall wash seven times in the Yard\u0115n, that your flesh might be restored to you, and be clean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "But Na\u201baman became wroth, and went away and said, \u201cSee, I said to myself, \u2018He would certainly come out to me, and stand and call on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leprosy.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAre not the Ab\u0331anah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Dammeseq, better than all the waters of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Could I not wash in them and be clean?\u201d And he turned and went away in a rage."}, {"pk": 2708723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, \u201cMy father, if the prophet had spoken to you a great matter, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, \u2018Wash, and be clean\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Then he went down and dipped seven times in the Yard\u0115n, according to the word of the man of Elohim. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."}, {"pk": 2708725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And he returned to the man of Elohim, he and all his company, and came and stood before him and said, \u201cSee, now I know that there is no Elohim in all the earth, except in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And now, please take a gift from your servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "But he said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, before whom I stand, I do not accept it.\u201d And he pressed on him to accept it, but he refused."}, {"pk": 2708727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Na\u201baman said, \u201cIf not, please let your servant be given two mule-loads of earth, for no longer is your servant going to make an ascending offering and slaughtering to other mighty ones, but to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 grant forgiveness to your servant in this matter: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon; when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please grant forgiveness to your servant in this matter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said to him, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d And he went from him some distance."}, {"pk": 2708730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And G\u0115h\u0323azi, the servant of Elisha the man of Elohim, said, \u201cLook, my master has spared Na\u201baman this Aramean, <i>while</i> not receiving from his hands what he brought. But <i>as</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, I shall run after him and take whatever from him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And G\u0115h\u0323azi pursued Na\u201baman. And when Na\u201baman saw him running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, \u201cIs there peace?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And he said, \u201cPeace. My master has sent me, saying, \u2018Look, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephrayim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "And Na\u201baman said, \u201cPlease accept two talents.\u201d And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants. And they bore them ahead of him."}, {"pk": 2708734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And when he came to the high place, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house, and let the men go, and they went."}, {"pk": 2708735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And he went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, \u201cWhere did you go, G\u0115h\u0323azi?\u201d And he said, \u201cYour servant did not go anywhere.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "But he said to him, \u201cDid not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to accept silver and to accept garments, and olive-trees and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?"}, {"pk": 2708737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSo let the leprosy of Na\u201baman cling to you and your descendants forever.\u201d And he went out from him as leprous as snow."}, {"pk": 2708738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, \u201cSee, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us."}, {"pk": 2708739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cPlease, let us go to the Yard\u0115n, and let every man take a log from there, and let us make there a place to dwell.\u201d And he answered, \u201cGo.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Then the one said, \u201cPlease undertake to go with your servants.\u201d And he answered, \u201cI shall go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And he went with them, and they came to the Yard\u0115n, and they cut down trees."}, {"pk": 2708742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, as one was cutting down a tree, that the iron axe head fell into the water. And he cried out and said, \u201cOh my master, for it was borrowed!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And the man of Elohim said, \u201cWhere did it fall?\u201d And he showed him the place. And he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float."}, {"pk": 2708744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And he said, \u201cPick it up.\u201d And he reached out his hand and took it."}, {"pk": 2708745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign of Aram was fighting against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and took counsel with his servants, saying, \u201cMy camp is in such and such a place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And the man of Elohim sent to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cBe on guard, do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "The sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l then sent to the place of which the man of Elohim had spoken to him, and warned him, so that he was on his guard there, not once, and not twice."}, {"pk": 2708748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And this greatly troubled the heart of the sovereign of Aram. And he called his servants and said to them, \u201cDeclare to me! Who of us is for the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And one of his servants said, \u201cNone, my master, O sovereign, for Elisha, the prophet who is in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, declares to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l the words that you speak in your bedroom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said, \u201cGo and see where he is, so that I send and get him.\u201d And it was reported to him, saying, \u201cSee, he is in Dothan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city."}, {"pk": 2708752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And the servant of the man of Elohim rose early and went out, and saw an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, \u201cOh, my master! What do we do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And he answered, \u201cDo not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And Elisha prayed, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I pray, open his eyes and let him see.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opened the eyes of the young man, and he looked and saw the mountain covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha."}, {"pk": 2708755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cStrike this nation with blindness, I pray.\u201d And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha."}, {"pk": 2708756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And Elisha said to them, \u201cThis is not the way, nor is this the city. Follow me, and let me bring you to the man whom you seek.\u201d But he led them to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be, when they had come to Shomeron, that Elisha said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, open the eyes of these men so that they see.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opened their eyes, and they looked and saw they were in the midst of Shomeron!"}, {"pk": 2708758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And when the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw them, he said to Elisha, \u201cMy father, should I strike? Should I strike?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "But he said, \u201cDo not strike. Do you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and water before them and let them eat and drink and go to their master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And he made a great feast for them. And after they ate and drank, he let them go, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aramean raiders came no more into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And after this it came to be that Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 the sovereign of Aram mustered all his army, and went up and besieged Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey\u2019s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver."}, {"pk": 2708763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "And it came to be, as the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, \u201cHelp, my master, O sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "And he said, \u201cIf \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not help you, where do I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And the sovereign said to her, \u201cWhat is troubling you?\u201d And she answered, \u201cThis woman said to me, \u2018Give your son and let us eat him today, and tomorrow we eat my son.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2708766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSo we cooked my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, \u2018Give your son and let us eat him.\u2019 But she has hidden her son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign heard the words of the woman, that he tore his garments. And as he passed by on the wall, the people looked and saw the sackcloth on his body, underneath."}, {"pk": 2708768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cElohim do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "And Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And <i>the sovereign</i> sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, \u201cDo you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master\u2019s feet behind him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "While he was still speaking with them, then see, the messenger came down to him, and he said, \u201cLook, this evil is from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why should I wait for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 any longer?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elisha said, \u201cHear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018About this time tomorrow a seah of fine flour for a sheqel, and two seahs of barley for a sheqel, at the gate of Shomeron.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And an officer on whose hand the sovereign leaned answered the man of Elohim and said, \u201cLook, if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is making windows in the heavens, shall this word come true?\u201d And he said, \u201cLook, you are about to see it with your eyes, but not eat of it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. And they said to each other, \u201cWhy are we sitting here until we are dead?"}, {"pk": 2708774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIf we shall say, \u2018Let us go into the city,\u2019 the scarcity of food is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we shall die. And now, come, let us surrender to the army of the Arameans. If they keep us alive, we live. And if they kill us, we shall die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "So at twilight they rose up to go to the camp of the Arameans. And when they had come to the outskirts of the Aramean camp, look, no one was there."}, {"pk": 2708776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had caused the army of the Arameans to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army, and they said to each other, \u201cLook, the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has hired against us the sovereigns of the H\u0323ittites and the sovereigns of the Mitsrians to come against us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "So they rose up and fled at twilight, and left the camp as it is \u2014 their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys \u2014 and they fled for their lives."}, {"pk": 2708778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and took from there silver and gold and garments, and went and hid them. And they came back and went into another tent, and took from there and went and hid it."}, {"pk": 2708779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "Then they said to each other, \u201cWe are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent. And if we wait until morning light, then evil shall come upon us. And now, come, let us go and inform the house of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and informed them, saying, \u201cWe went to the camp of Aram, and look, there is not a man or a voice of man, only horses tied and donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And the gatekeepers called, and they informed the house of the sovereign inside."}, {"pk": 2708782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "So the sovereign rose up in the night and said to his servants, \u201cLet me now inform you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are starving, so they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, \u2018When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and enter into the city.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And one of his servants answered and said, \u201cPlease, let some take five of the horses that are left in the city. Look, they are like the entire crowd of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that are left in it, look, they are like the entire crowd of Yisra\u2019\u0115l left from those who are consumed. So let us send and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "They then took two chariots with horses. And the sovereign sent them in the direction of the camp of Aram, saying, \u201cGo and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And they went after them to the Yard\u0115n. And look, all the way was littered with garments and weapons which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and reported to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. So a seah of fine flour was for a sheqel, and two seahs of barley for a sheqel, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of Elohim had said, who spoke when the sovereign came down to him."}, {"pk": 2708788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, as the man of Elohim had spoken to the sovereign, saying, \u201cTwo seahs of barley for a sheqel, and a seah of fine flour for a sheqel, at this time tomorrow in the gate of Shomeron,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "that officer answered the man of Elohim, and said, \u201cNow look, if \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is making windows in the heavens, is it according to this word?\u201d And he had said, \u201cLook, you are about to see it with your eyes, but not eat of it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And so it came to be for him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died."}, {"pk": 2708791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, \u201cRise up and go, you and your household, and sojourn wherever you do sojourn, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has called for a scarcity of food, and also, it is coming upon the land for seven years.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And the woman rose up and did according to the word of the man of Elohim, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines, seven years."}, {"pk": 2708793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she went to cry out to the sovereign for her house and for her land."}, {"pk": 2708794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign was speaking to G\u0115h\u0323azi, the servant of the man of Elohim, saying, \u201cPlease relate to me all the great matters Elisha has done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, as he was relating to the sovereign how he had restored the dead to life, that see, the woman whose son he had restored to life, was crying out to the sovereign for her house and for her land. And G\u0115h\u0323azi said, \u201cMy master, O sovereign, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "So the sovereign asked the woman, and she related to him. And the sovereign appointed a certain eunuch for her, saying, \u201cReturn all that was hers, and all the increase of the field from the day that she left the land until now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Elisha came to Dammeseq, and Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 sovereign of Aram was sick. And it was reported to him, saying, \u201cThe man of Elohim has come here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sovereign said to H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l, \u201cTake a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of Elohim, and inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by him, saying, \u2018Do I recover from this sickness?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l went to meet him and took a present with him, of all the good <i>wares</i> of Dammeseq, forty camel-loads. And he came and stood before him, and said, \u201cYour son Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 sovereign of Aram has sent me to you, saying, \u2018Do I recover from this sickness?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And Elisha said to him, \u201cGo, say to him, \u2018You shall certainly recover.\u2019 But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has shown me that he shall certainly die.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And he looked <i>at him</i> steadily until he was ashamed. Then the man of Elohim wept."}, {"pk": 2708802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWhy is my master weeping?\u201d And he answered, \u201cBecause I know the evil that you are going to do to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: Setting their strongholds on fire, and killing their young men with the sword, and dashing their children, and ripping open their women with child.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cBut what is your servant \u2014 a dog, that he should perform this great matter?\u201d And Elisha answered, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has shown that you are to be sovereign over Aram!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And he left Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, \u201cWhat did Elisha say to you?\u201d And he answered, \u201cHe said to me that you shall certainly recover.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And on the next day it came to be that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died. And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And in the fifth year of Yoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 Yehoshaphat was sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 Yehoram son of Yehoshaphat began to reign as sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had done, for the daughter of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 was his wife. And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not destroy Yehud\u0331ah, for the sake of Dawid\u0331 His servant, as He promised him to give a lamp to him and his sons forever."}, {"pk": 2708810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "In his days Ed\u0331om revolted from under the hand of Yehud\u0331ah, and made a sovereign over themselves."}, {"pk": 2708811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And Yoram passed over to Tsa\u201bir, and all his chariots with him. And he rose by night and struck the Ed\u0331omites who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots, but his people fled to their tents."}, {"pk": 2708812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "Yet Ed\u0331om has been in revolt from under the hand of Yehud\u0331ah to this day. Then Lib\u0331nah revolted at the same time."}, {"pk": 2708813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yoram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "So Yoram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Ah\u0323azyahu his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "In the twelfth year of Yoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Ah\u0323azyahu son of Yehoram sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah began to reign."}, {"pk": 2708816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "Ah\u0323azyahu was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Athalyahu, the granddaughter of Omri, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And he walked in the way of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, and did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had done, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And he went with Yoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 to battle against H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram at Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331, and the Arameans struck Yoram."}, {"pk": 2708819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And Sovereign Yoram went back to Yizre\u201b\u0115l to recover from the wounds with which the Arameans had stricken him at Ramah, when he fought against H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram. Then Ah\u0323azyahu son of Yehoram, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, went down to see Yoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 in Yizre\u201b\u0115l, for he was sick."}, {"pk": 2708820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, \u201cGird your loins and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall go there and look there for Y\u0115hu son of Yehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room,"}, {"pk": 2708822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cand take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI have anointed you sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d \u2019 Then you shall open the door and flee, and do not wait.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "So the young man \u2014 the young man the prophet \u2014 went to Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2708824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "and came in and saw the commanders of the army sitting. And he said, \u201cI have a message for you, O commander.\u201d And Y\u0115hu said, \u201cFor which one of us?\u201d And he said, \u201cFor you, commander.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And he rose up and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I have anointed you sovereign over the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And you shall strike the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 your master, and I shall avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, at the hand of Izeb\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2708827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And all the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 shall perish. And I shall cut off from Ah\u0323ab\u0331 all the males in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, both those shut up and those left at large."}, {"pk": 2708828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And I shall give up the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 like the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, and like the house of Ba\u201basha son of Ah\u0323iyah."}, {"pk": 2708829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And the dogs are going to eat Izeb\u0331el in the portion of Yizre\u201b\u0115l, with none to bury her.\u2019 \u201d Then he opened the door and fled."}, {"pk": 2708830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And Y\u0115hu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, \u201cIs there peace? Why did this madman come to you?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cYou know the man and his talk.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And they said, \u201cA lie! Reveal it to us now.\u201d So he said, \u201cThus and thus he spoke to me, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI have anointed you sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And they hurried, and each one took his garment and put it under him on the top of the steps. And they blew with the shophar, saying, \u201cY\u0115hu reigns!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus Y\u0115hu son of Yehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Yoram \u2014 now Yoram had been guarding Ramoth Gil\u201bad\u0331, he and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, against H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram."}, {"pk": 2708834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "But Sovereign Yehoram had returned to Yizre\u201b\u0115l to recover from the wounds with which the Arameans had stricken him when he fought with H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram \u2014 Y\u0115hu now said, \u201cIf this is your desire, let no one leave or escape from the city to go and make it known in Yizre\u201b\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And Y\u0115hu rode in a chariot and went to Yizre\u201b\u0115l, for Yoram was laid up there. And Ah\u0323azyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah had come down to see Yoram."}, {"pk": 2708836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And a watchman stood on the tower in Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and he saw the company of Y\u0115hu as he came, and said, \u201cI see a company of men.\u201d And Yehoram said, \u201cGet a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, \u2018Is there peace?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And the horseman went to meet him, and said, \u201cThus said the sovereign, \u2018Is there peace?\u2019 \u201d And Y\u0115hu said, \u201cWhat have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me.\u201d And the watchman spoke, saying, \u201cThe messenger went to them, but is not coming back.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "Then he sent out a second horseman who came to them, and said, \u201cThus said the sovereign, \u2018Is there peace?\u2019 \u201d And Y\u0115hu answered, \u201cWhat have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And the watchman spoke, saying, \u201cHe went up to them and is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Y\u0115hu son of Nimshi, for he drives madly!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Yehoram said, \u201cHitch up.\u201d And his chariot was hitched up. And Yehoram sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Ah\u0323azyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah went out, each in his chariot. And they went out to meet Y\u0115hu, and met him on the portion of Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite."}, {"pk": 2708841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to be, when Yehoram saw Y\u0115hu, that he said, \u201cIs there peace, Y\u0115hu?\u201d But he answered, \u201cWhat peace, as long as the whorings of your mother Izeb\u0331el and her witchcraft are so many?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "Thereupon Yehoram turned his hands around and fled, and said to Ah\u0323azyahu, \u201cTreachery, O Ah\u0323azyah!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And Y\u0115hu drew his bow and struck Yehoram between his arms. And the arrow came out at his heart, and he sank down in his chariot."}, {"pk": 2708844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And <i>Y\u0115hu</i> said to Bid\u0331qar his officer, \u201cTake him up, and throw him into the portion of the field of Nab\u0331oth the Yizre\u201b\u0115lite. Remember how you and I were riding together behind Ah\u0323ab\u0331 his father, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lifted up this pronouncement against him:"}, {"pk": 2708845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "Have I not seen the blood of Nab\u0331oth and the blood of his sons last night?\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018And I shall repay you in this portion,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And now, take up, throw him on the portion, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And Ah\u0323azyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah saw this and fled up the way to B\u0115yth Haggan. And Y\u0115hu pursued him, and said, \u201cStrike him, him too, in the chariot,\u201d at the ascent to Gur, which is by Yib\u0331le\u201bam. And he fled to Me\u1e21iddo, and died there."}, {"pk": 2708847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "Then his servants conveyed him in the chariot to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his burial-place with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And in the eleventh year of Yoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, Ah\u0323azyah began to reign over Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And Y\u0115hu came to Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and Izeb\u0331el heard of it. And she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window."}, {"pk": 2708850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "And as Y\u0115hu came to the gate, she said, \u201cIs it peace, Zimri, killer of your master?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "And he lifted up his face to the window and said, \u201cWho is with me? Who?\u201d And two, three eunuchs looked down to him."}, {"pk": 2708852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And he said, \u201cThrow her down.\u201d And they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot."}, {"pk": 2708853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And he went in, and he ate and drank, and said, \u201cGo now, see to this cursed one, and bury her, for she was a sovereign\u2019s daughter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "So they went to bury her, but all they found of her was the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands."}, {"pk": 2708855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And they came back and informed him. And he said, \u201cThis is the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which He spoke by His servant \u011aliyahu the Tishbite, saying, \u2018In the portion of Yizre\u201b\u0115l dogs are going to eat the flesh of Izeb\u0331el,"}, {"pk": 2708856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "and the corpse of Izeb\u0331el shall be as dung on the surface of the field, in the portion of Yizre\u201b\u0115l, so that they do not say, \u201cThis is Izeb\u0331el.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2708857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had seventy sons in Shomeron. And Y\u0115hu wrote letters and sent to Shomeron, to the rulers of Yizre\u201b\u0115l, to the elders, and to the guardians of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, saying,"}, {"pk": 2708858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And now, when this letter comes to you, since your master\u2019s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, and a walled city, and weapons,"}, {"pk": 2708859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "choose the best and most upright of your master\u2019s sons, and set him on his father\u2019s throne, and fight for your master\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2708860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And they were greatly afraid, and said, \u201cLook, two sovereigns have not stood before him, how do we stand, we?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And he who was over the house, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and the guardians, sent to Y\u0115hu, saying, \u201cWe are your servants, and all that you say to us we do. We do not set up anyone to reign. Do what is good in your eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And he wrote a second letter to them, saying, If you are for me, and if you obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master\u2019s sons, and come to me at Yizre\u201b\u0115l by this time tomorrow. Now the sovereign\u2019s sons, seventy beings, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up."}, {"pk": 2708863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when the letter came to them, that they took the sovereign\u2019s sons and slew them, seventy men, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "Then a messenger came and informed him, saying, \u201cThey have brought the heads of the sovereign\u2019s sons.\u201d And he said, \u201cMake them two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be, in the morning, that he went out and stood, and said to all the people, \u201cYou are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck all these?"}, {"pk": 2708866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cKnow now that not one word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke concerning the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 does fall to the ground, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done what He spoke by His servant \u011aliyahu.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And Y\u0115hu struck all those left of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 in Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and all his great men and his friends and his priests, until he left him without a survivor."}, {"pk": 2708868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And he rose up to go, and went to Shomeron. On the way, at B\u0115yth \u011aqed\u0331 of the Shepherds,"}, {"pk": 2708869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Y\u0115hu met the brothers of Ah\u0323azyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and said, \u201cWho are you?\u201d And they answered, \u201cWe are brothers of Ah\u0323azyahu, and we have come down to greet the sons of the sovereign and the sons of the sovereigness mother.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cTake them alive!\u201d So they took them alive, and slew them at the well of B\u0115yth \u011aqed\u0331, forty-two men, and he left none of them."}, {"pk": 2708871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And he left there and met Yehonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, coming to meet him, and blessed him and said to him, \u201cIs your heart right, as my heart is toward your heart?\u201d And Yehonad\u0331ab\u0331 answered, \u201cIt is.\u201d <i>Y\u0115hu said</i>, \u201cIf it is, give me your hand.\u201d And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot."}, {"pk": 2708872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said, \u201cCome with me, and see my ardour for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And they made him ride in his chariot."}, {"pk": 2708873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And he came to Shomeron, and struck all those left of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 in Shomeron, till he had destroyed them, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke to \u011aliyahu."}, {"pk": 2708874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And Y\u0115hu gathered all the people and said to them, \u201cAh\u0323ab\u0331 served Ba\u201bal a little; Y\u0115hu serves him much."}, {"pk": 2708875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd now, call to me all the prophets of Ba\u201bal, all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great slaughtering to make to Ba\u201bal. Anyone who is lacking shall not live!\u201d But Y\u0115hu did this deceptively, in order to destroy the servants of Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2708876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And Y\u0115hu said, \u201cSet apart an assembly for Ba\u201bal.\u201d So they proclaimed it."}, {"pk": 2708877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And Y\u0115hu sent throughout all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and all the servants of Ba\u201bal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they came into the house of Ba\u201bal, and the house of Ba\u201bal was filled from end to end."}, {"pk": 2708878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And he said to him who was over the wardrobe, \u201cBring out garments for all the servants of Ba\u201bal.\u201d And he brought out garments for them."}, {"pk": 2708879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And Y\u0115hu and Yehonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 went into the house of Ba\u201bal, and said to the servants of Ba\u201bal, \u201cSearch and see that no servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are here with you, but only the servants of Ba\u201bal.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "So they went in to make slaughterings and ascending offerings. Now Y\u0115hu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, \u201cThe man who lets escape <i>any</i> of the men whom I have brought into your hands \u2014 his life for his life!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, when he had finished making the ascending offering, Y\u0115hu said to the guard and to the officers, \u201cGo in, strike them, let no one come out!\u201d And they struck them with the edge of the sword, and the guards and the officers threw them out, and went into the inner room of the house of Ba\u201bal,"}, {"pk": 2708882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "and brought out the pillars of the house of Ba\u201bal and burned them,"}, {"pk": 2708883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "and broke down the statue of Ba\u201bal, and broke down the house of Ba\u201bal and made it a latrine to this day."}, {"pk": 2708884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "Thus Y\u0115hu destroyed Ba\u201bal out of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "However, Y\u0115hu did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, from the golden calves that were at B\u0115yth \u011al and Dan."}, {"pk": 2708886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Y\u0115hu, \u201cBecause you have done well by doing what is right in My eyes, and have done to the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 all that was in My heart, your sons are going to sit on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to the fourth <i>generation</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "But Y\u0115hu did not guard to walk in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with all his heart. For he did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "In those days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 began to cut off some in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l struck them throughout all the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2708889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "from the Yard\u0115n to the sun-rising: all the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 \u2014 the Gad\u0331ites, and the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and the Menashshehites \u2014 from Aro\u201b\u0115r, which is by the wadi Arnon, including Gil\u201bad\u0331 and Bashan."}, {"pk": 2708890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Y\u0115hu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "So Y\u0115hu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Shomeron. And Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "And the days that Y\u0115hu reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron were twenty-eight years."}, {"pk": 2708893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And Athalyah was the mother of Ah\u0323azyahu. And when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the offspring of the reign."}, {"pk": 2708894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "But Yehosheb\u0331a, the daughter of Sovereign Yoram, sister of Ah\u0323azyahu, took Yo\u2019ash son of Ah\u0323azyah, and stole him away from among the sons of the sovereign\u2019s sons who were put to death. So they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athalyahu, and he was not put to death."}, {"pk": 2708895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And he remained with her in hiding in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for six years, while Athalyah was reigning over the land."}, {"pk": 2708896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And in the seventh year Yehoyad\u0331a sent and brought the commanders of hundreds, with the Karites and the runners, and brought them into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to him. And he made a covenant with them and took an oath from them in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and showed them the son of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And he commanded them, saying, \u201cThis is what you are to do: One-third of you who come in on the Sabbath to be on guard in the sovereign\u2019s house,"}, {"pk": 2708898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "and one-third at the gate of Sur, and one-third at the gate behind the runners. And you shall be on guard in the house, lest it be broken down."}, {"pk": 2708899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the two detachments of you who are going out on the Sabbath shall be on guard in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall surround the sovereign on all sides, every man with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes within the ranks, let him be put to death. And be with the sovereign as he goes out and as he comes in.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "So the commanders of the hundreds did according to all that Yehoyad\u0331a the priest commanded. And each of them took his men who were going in on the Sabbath, with those who were going out on the Sabbath, and came to Yehoyad\u0331a the priest."}, {"pk": 2708902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And the priest gave the commanders of hundreds the spears and shields which had belonged to Sovereign Dawid\u0331, that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And the runners stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, all around the sovereign, from the right side of the House to the left side of the House, by the slaughter-place and the House."}, {"pk": 2708904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And he brought out the son of the sovereign and put on him the diadem and the Witness. And they set him up to reign and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, \u201cLet the sovereign live!\u201d", "comment": "Lit. struck."}, {"pk": 2708905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And Athalyah heard the noise of the runners, the people, and she came to the people, into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "and looked and saw the sovereign standing by a column, according to the ruling, and the chiefs and the trumpeters were beside the sovereign, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athalyah tore her garments and cried out, \u201cTreason! Treason!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the officers of the army, and said to them, \u201cTake her outside the ranks, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.\u201d For the priest had said, \u201cDo not let her be killed in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "So they took hold of her, and she went by way of the horses\u2019 entrance to the sovereign\u2019s house, and was put to death there."}, {"pk": 2708909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a made a covenant between \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the sovereign and the people, to be the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 also between the sovereign and the people."}, {"pk": 2708910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And all the people of the land went to the house of Ba\u201bal, and broke it down. They completely broke up its slaughter-places and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Ba\u201bal before the slaughter-places. And the priest appointed inspectors over the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "and took the commanders of hundreds, and the Karites, and the runners, and all the people of the land. And they brought the sovereign down from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and went by way of the gate of the runners to the sovereign\u2019s house. And he sat on the throne of the sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2708912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city had rest, for they had slain Athalyahu with the sword in the sovereign\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2708913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Yeho\u2019ash was seven years old when he began to reign."}, {"pk": 2708914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Yeho\u2019ash began to reign in the seventh year of Y\u0115hu, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Tsib\u0331yah of Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2708915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the days in which Yehoyad\u0331a the priest instructed him."}, {"pk": 2708916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "However, the high places were not taken away; the people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places."}, {"pk": 2708917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash said to the priests, \u201cAll the silver of the set-apart gifts that are brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the silver coming over, each man\u2019s assessment silver, all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "let the priests take for themselves, each from his friend. And let them strengthen the breaches of the House, wherever there is a breach.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, by the twenty-third year of Sovereign Yeho\u2019ash, that the priests had not strengthened the breaches of the House,"}, {"pk": 2708920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "and Sovereign Yeho\u2019ash called Yehoyad\u0331a the priest and the other priests, and said to them, \u201cWhy have you not strengthened the breaches of the House? And now, do not take any more silver from your friends, but give it for the breaches of the House.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And the priests agreed that they would neither receive any more silver from the people, nor strengthen the breaches of the House."}, {"pk": 2708922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the slaughter-place, on the right side as one comes into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the priests who guarded the door put there all the silver that was brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2708923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, whenever they saw that there was much silver in the chest, that the sovereign\u2019s scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the silver that was found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "and gave the silver, weighed out, into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they paid it out to the carpenters and builders who worked on the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "and to stonemasons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone to strengthen the breach of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and for all that was paid out to strengthen the House."}, {"pk": 2708926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "However there were not made for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 basins of silver, snuffers, sprinkling-bowls, trumpets, any objects of gold, or objects of silver, from the silver that was brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2708927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "for they gave that to the workmen, and they strengthened the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with it."}, {"pk": 2708928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the silver to be paid to workmen, for they acted trustworthily."}, {"pk": 2708929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "The silver from the trespass offerings and the silver from the sin offerings was not brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It belonged to the priests."}, {"pk": 2708930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram went up and fought against Gath, and captured it. And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l set his face to go up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah took all the set-apart gifts that his fathers, Yehoshaphat and Yehoram and Ah\u0323azyahu, sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, had set apart, and his own set-apart gifts, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in the sovereign\u2019s house, and sent them to H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram. Then he went away from Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yo\u2019ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Yo\u2019ash in the house of Millo, which goes down to Silla."}, {"pk": 2708934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "For Yozak\u0331ar son of Shim\u201bath and Yehozab\u0331ad\u0331 son of Shom\u0115r, his servants, struck him. So he died, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Amatsyah his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "In the twenty-third year of Yo\u2019ash son of Ah\u0323azyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az son of Y\u0115hu began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, and reigned seventeen years."}, {"pk": 2708936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and followed the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin. He did not turn away from them."}, {"pk": 2708937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and He gave them into the hand of H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 son of H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l, all the days."}, {"pk": 2708938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az sought the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listened to him, for He saw the oppression of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because the sovereign of Aram oppressed them."}, {"pk": 2708939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave Yisra\u2019\u0115l a saviour, so that they came out from under the hand of Aram. And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in their tents as before."}, {"pk": 2708940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "However, they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, but walked in them. Moreover, the Ash\u0115rah also remained in Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "For He left of the army of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az only fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the sovereign of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing."}, {"pk": 2708942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "So Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Shomeron. And Yo\u2019ash his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "In the thirty-seventh year of Yo\u2019ash sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Yeho\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, sixteen years."}, {"pk": 2708945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from all the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin \u2014 he walked in it."}, {"pk": 2708946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yo\u2019ash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amatsyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "So Yo\u2019ash slept with his fathers. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam sat on his throne. And Yo\u2019ash was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And Elisha had become sick with the sickness in which he died. And Yo\u2019ash the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, \u201cO my father, my father, the chariots of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and their horsemen!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elisha said to him, \u201cTake a bow and some arrows.\u201d And he took a bow and some arrows."}, {"pk": 2708950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And he said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cPlace your hand on the bow.\u201d So he placed his hand, and Elisha placed his hands on the hands of the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2708951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "and said, \u201cOpen the east window.\u201d And he had opened it and Elisha said, \u201cShoot.\u201d And he shot. Then he said, \u201cThe arrow of deliverance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the arrow of deliverance from Aram, for you shall strike Aram at Aph\u0115q until it is finished.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Then he said, \u201cTake the arrows,\u201d and he took them. And he said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cStrike the ground,\u201d and he struck three times, and stopped."}, {"pk": 2708953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And the man of Elohim was wroth with him and said, \u201cYou should have struck five or six times, then you would have stricken Aram till its utter destruction. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the raiding bands from Mo\u2019ab\u0331 came into the land in the spring of the year."}, {"pk": 2708955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be, they were burying a man, and there they saw a raiding band, and cast the man in the burial-site of Elisha. And the man fell and touched the bones of Elisha, and came to life and stood on his feet."}, {"pk": 2708956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram oppressed Yisra\u2019\u0115l all the days of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az."}, {"pk": 2708957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed favour to them, and had compassion on them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and would not destroy them or cast them from His presence as yet."}, {"pk": 2708958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "And H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram died. And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az recovered from the hand of Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331, son of H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az his father in battle. Yo\u2019ash struck him three times, and he recovered the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "In the second year of Yo\u2019ash son of Yo\u2019ah\u0323az, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Amatsyahu son of Yo\u2019ash, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, began to reign."}, {"pk": 2708961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yeho\u201baddin of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but not like his father Dawid\u0331. He did according to all his father Yo\u2019ash did."}, {"pk": 2708963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places."}, {"pk": 2708964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, as soon as the reign was strengthened in his hand, that he struck his servants who had stricken his father the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2708965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "But he did not put to death the children of the strikers, according to what is written in the Book of the Torah of Mosheh, in which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded, saying, \u201cFathers are not put to death for the children, and children are not put to death for the fathers, but each one is put to death for his own sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "He struck Ed\u0331om in the Valley of Salt, ten thousand, and took Sela in battle, and called its name Yoqthe\u2019\u0115l to this day."}, {"pk": 2708967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "Amatsyah then sent messengers to Yeho\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, son of Y\u0115hu, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cCome, let us look each other in the face!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent to Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u201cThe thistle that was in Leb\u0331anon sent to the cedar that was in Leb\u0331anon, saying, \u2018Give your daughter to my son as wife.\u2019 And a wild beast that was in Leb\u0331anon passed by and trampled the thistle."}, {"pk": 2708969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou have certainly stricken Ed\u0331om, and your heart has lifted you up. Be esteemed and stay in your house. But why do you stir up yourself to evil, that you should fall \u2014 you and Yehud\u0331ah with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2708970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "But Amatsyahu did not listen, so Yeho\u2019ash sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up, and he and Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah faced one another at B\u0115yth Shemesh, which belongs to Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2708971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah was smitten before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they each fled to his tent."}, {"pk": 2708972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yeho\u2019ash sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l caught Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, son of Yeho\u2019ash, son of Ah\u0323azyahu, at B\u0115yth Shemesh. And they came to Yerushalayim and he broke through the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits,"}, {"pk": 2708973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "and took all the gold and silver, and all the objects that were found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in the treasuries of the sovereign\u2019s house, and hostages, and returned to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2708974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yeho\u2019ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "So Yeho\u2019ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron with the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And Amatsyahu son of Yo\u2019ash, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, lived fifteen years after the death of Yeho\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Amatsyahu, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim, and he fled to Lak\u0331ish. And they sent after him to Lak\u0331ish and killed him there,"}, {"pk": 2708979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "and brought him on horses, and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2708980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And all the people of Yehud\u0331ah took Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and set him up to reign instead of his father Amatsyahu."}, {"pk": 2708981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "He built \u011aylath and restored it to Yehud\u0331ah, after the sovereign slept with his fathers."}, {"pk": 2708982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "In the fifteenth year of Amatsyahu son of Yo\u2019ash, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Yo\u2019ash, the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, began to reign in Shomeron, and reigned forty-one years."}, {"pk": 2708983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from all the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "He restored the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the entrance of H\u0323amath to the Sea of the Arab\u0331ah, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which He had spoken through His servant Yonah son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath H\u0323\u0115pher."}, {"pk": 2708985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw that the affliction of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was very bitter. And there was no one, neither shut up nor left at large, to help Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2708986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had not said that He would blot out the name of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from under the heavens, but saved them by the hand of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Yo\u2019ash."}, {"pk": 2708987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yarob\u0331\u201bam, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered Dammeseq and H\u0323amath for Yehud\u0331ah in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2708988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "So Yarob\u0331\u201bam slept with his fathers, the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Zek\u0331aryah his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "In the twenty-seventh year of Yarob\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Azaryah son of Amatsyah, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, began to reign."}, {"pk": 2708990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yek\u0331olyahu of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2708991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father Amatsyahu did,"}, {"pk": 2708992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "however, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places."}, {"pk": 2708993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote the sovereign, so that he was a leper until the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Yotham son of the sovereign was over the house, ruling the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2708994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Azaryahu, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2708995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "So Azaryah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Yotham his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "In the thirty-eighth year of Azaryahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Zek\u0331aryahu son of Yarob\u0331\u201bam began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, for six new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2708997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2708998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And Shallum son of Yab\u0331\u0115sh conspired against him, and struck him in front of the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2708999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Zek\u0331aryah, see, they are written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "This was the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke to Y\u0115hu, saying, \u201cYour sons to the fourth <i>generation</i> are going to sit on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d And it came to be so."}, {"pk": 2709001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "Shallum son of Yab\u0331\u0115sh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziyah, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah. And he reigned a month of days in Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2709002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And Menah\u0323\u0115m son of Gad\u0331i went up from Tirtsah, and came to Shomeron, and struck Shallum son of Yab\u0331\u0115sh in Shomeron and killed him, and reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he led, see, they are written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And Menah\u0323\u0115m struck Tiphsah\u0323, and all who were there, and its borders, from Tirtsah. Because they did not open it to him, therefore he struck it. And he ripped open all the pregnant women."}, {"pk": 2709005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "In the thirty-ninth year of Azaryah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Menah\u0323\u0115m son of Gad\u0331i began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, ten years in Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2709006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, all his days."}, {"pk": 2709007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "Pul the sovereign of Ashshur came against the land. And Menah\u0323\u0115m gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, for his hand to be with him to strengthen the reign in his hand."}, {"pk": 2709008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And Menah\u0323\u0115m exacted the silver of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty sheqels of silver, to give to the sovereign of Ashshur. And the sovereign of Ashshur turned back, and did not stay there in the land."}, {"pk": 2709009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Menah\u0323\u0115m, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2709010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "So Menah\u0323\u0115m slept with his fathers. And Peqah\u0323yah his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "In the fiftieth year of Azaryah the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Peqah\u0323yah the son of Menah\u0323\u0115m began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, for two years."}, {"pk": 2709012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2709013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "And Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, a chief officer of his, conspired against him and struck him in Shomeron, in the high place of the sovereign\u2019s house, along with Argob\u0331 and Ary\u0115h, and with him were fifty men of Gil\u201bad\u0331. So he killed him and reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Peqah\u0323yah, and all that he did, see, they are written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "In the fifty-second year of Azaryah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, for twenty years."}, {"pk": 2709016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, who had made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin."}, {"pk": 2709017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "In the days of Peqah\u0323 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Ti\u1e21lath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur came and took Iyon, and Ab\u0331\u0115l B\u0115yth Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and Yanowah\u0323, and Qed\u0331esh, and H\u0323atsor, and Gil\u201bad\u0331, and Galil, all the land of Naphtali, and took them into exile to Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "And Hosh\u0115a son of \u011alah led a conspiracy against Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Yotham son of Uzziyah."}, {"pk": 2709019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Peqah\u0323, and all that he did, see, they are written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "In the second year of Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Yotham son of Uzziyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, began to reign."}, {"pk": 2709021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yerusha the daughter of Tsad\u0331oq."}, {"pk": 2709022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did according to all that his father Uzziyahu did."}, {"pk": 2709023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "In those days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 began to send Retsin sovereign of Aram and Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu against Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2709026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "So Yotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father. And Ah\u0323az his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "In the seventeenth year of Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, Ah\u0323az son of Yotham, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, began to reign."}, {"pk": 2709028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "Ah\u0323az was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, as his father Dawid\u0331 had done."}, {"pk": 2709029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "But he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and he also made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had dispossessed from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And he slaughtered and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."}, {"pk": 2709031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Retsin sovereign of Aram and Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, came up to Yerushalayim, to battle. And they besieged Ah\u0323az but were unable to overcome him."}, {"pk": 2709032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "At that time Retsin sovereign of Aram recovered \u011aylath for Aram, and drove the men of Yehud\u0331ah from \u011aylath. And the Ed\u0331omites went to \u011aylath, and have dwelt there to this day."}, {"pk": 2709033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And Ah\u0323az sent messengers to Ti\u1e21lath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur, saying, \u201cI am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the sovereign of Aram and from the hand of the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who are rising up against me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ah\u0323az took the silver and gold that was found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and in the treasuries of the house of the sovereign, and sent it as a present to the sovereign of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur listened to him. And the sovereign of Ashshur went up against Dammeseq and captured it, and exiled it to Qir, and he killed Retsin."}, {"pk": 2709036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sovereign Ah\u0323az went to meet Ti\u1e21lath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur at Dummeseq, and saw a slaughter-place that was at Dammaseq. And Sovereign Ah\u0323az sent to Uriyah the priest a sketch of the slaughter-place and its pattern, according to all its workmanship."}, {"pk": 2709037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And Uriyah the priest built a slaughter-place according to all that Sovereign Ah\u0323az had sent from Dammeseq. And Uriyah the priest made it before Sovereign Ah\u0323az came from Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2709038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And when the sovereign came from Dammeseq, the sovereign saw the slaughter-place, and the sovereign approached the slaughter-place and made offerings on it."}, {"pk": 2709039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And he burned his ascending offering and his grain offering. And he poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2709040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the bronze slaughter-place which was before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he brought from the front of the House, from between the new slaughter-place and the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and put it on the north side of <i>his</i> slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2709041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And Sovereign Ah\u0323az commanded Uriyah the priest, saying, \u201cOn the great slaughter-place burn the morning ascending offering, and the evening grain offering, and the sovereign\u2019s ascending offering, and his grain offering, with the ascending offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings. And sprinkle on it all the blood of the ascending offering and all the blood of the slaughtering. And the bronze slaughter-place is for me to inquire by.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And Uriyah the priest did according to all that Sovereign Ah\u0323az commanded."}, {"pk": 2709043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sovereign Ah\u0323az cut off the side panels of the stands, and removed the basins from them. And he took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stones."}, {"pk": 2709044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And the covered way which they had built in the House for the Sabbath, and the sovereign\u2019s outer entrance, he took from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because of the sovereign of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ah\u0323az which he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "So Ah\u0323az slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And H\u0323izqiyahu his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "In the twelfth year of Ah\u0323az sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Hosh\u0115a son of \u011alah began to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Shomeron, for nine years."}, {"pk": 2709048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but not as the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were before him."}, {"pk": 2709049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against him. And Hosh\u0115a became his servant, and rendered him a present."}, {"pk": 2709050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "But the sovereign of Ashshur found a conspiracy in Hosh\u0115a, for he had sent messengers to So, sovereign of Mitsrayim, and had not brought a present to the sovereign of Ashshur, as year by year. And the sovereign of Ashshur shut him up, and bound him in prison."}, {"pk": 2709051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur went through all the land, and went up to Shomeron and besieged it for three years."}, {"pk": 2709052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "In the ninth year of Hosh\u0115a, the sovereign of Ashshur captured Shomeron and exiled Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Ashshur, and settled them in H\u0323alah\u0323 and H\u0323ab\u0331or, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes."}, {"pk": 2709053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "Now this came to be because the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim \u2014 who had brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, from under the hand of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim \u2014 and feared other mighty ones,"}, {"pk": 2709054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "and walked in the laws of the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had dispossessed from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that they had made."}, {"pk": 2709055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l secretly did against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim matters that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower unto the walled city,"}, {"pk": 2709056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "and set up for themselves pillars and Ash\u0115rim on every high hill and under every green tree,"}, {"pk": 2709057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "and burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had removed from their presence. And they did evil matters to provoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2709058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "and served the idols, of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to them, \u201cDo not do this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 warned Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah, through all of His prophets, and every seer, saying, \u201cTurn back from your evil ways, and guard My commands and My laws, according to all the Torah which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "But they did not listen and hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not put their trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2709061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "and rejected His laws and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His witnesses which He had witnessed against them, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless, and after the nations who were all around them, of whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded them not to do like them."}, {"pk": 2709062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "And they left all the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Ash\u0115rah and bowed themselves to all the host of the heavens, and served Ba\u201bal,"}, {"pk": 2709063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and practised divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke Him."}, {"pk": 2709064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was very enraged with Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and removed them from His presence \u2014 none was left but the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah alone."}, {"pk": 2709065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah, also, did not guard the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, but walked in the laws of Yisra\u2019\u0115l which they made.", "comment": "Man-made laws."}, {"pk": 2709066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rejected all the seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence."}, {"pk": 2709067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "For He tore Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the house of Dawid\u0331, and they made Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at sovereign. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam drove Yisra\u2019\u0115l from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and made them commit a great sin."}, {"pk": 2709068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l walked in all the sins of Yarob\u0331\u201bam which he did. They did not turn away from them,"}, {"pk": 2709069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "until \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 removed Yisra\u2019\u0115l from His presence, as He spoke by all His servants the prophets. So Yisra\u2019\u0115l was exiled from their land to Ashshur, as it is to this day."}, {"pk": 2709070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur brought <i>people</i> from Bab\u0331el, and from Kuthah, and from Awwa, and from H\u0323amath, and Sepharwayim, and placed <i>them</i> in the cities of Shomeron instead of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they took possession of Shomeron and dwelt in its cities."}, {"pk": 2709071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent lions among them, which were killing among them."}, {"pk": 2709072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "And they spoke to the sovereign of Ashshur, saying, \u201cThe nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Shomeron do not know the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land. And He has sent lions among them, and see, they are slaying among them because they do not know the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur commanded, saying, \u201cSend one of the priests whom you exiled from there, to go there. Let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the right-ruling of the Elohim of the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "And one of the priests whom they had exiled from Shomeron came and dwelt in B\u0115yth \u011al, and taught them how to fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "text": "But every nation was making mighty ones of its own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Shomeronim had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt."}, {"pk": 2709076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "text": "And the men of Bab\u0331el made Sukkoth Benoth, and the men of Kuth made N\u0115r\u1e21al, and the men of H\u0323amath made Ashima,"}, {"pk": 2709077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "text": "and the Awwites made Nib\u0331h\u0323az and Tartaq. And the Sepharwites burned their children in fire to Ad\u0331rammelek\u0331 and Anammelek\u0331, the mighty ones of Sepharim."}, {"pk": 2709078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "text": "They also feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and from every class they made for themselves priests of the high places, who offered for them in the house of the high places."}, {"pk": 2709079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "text": "They were fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and they were serving their own mighty ones, according to the ruling of the nations from among whom they had been exiled.", "comment": "Mixed worship, mixing the true with the false \u2013 compromise."}, {"pk": 2709080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "text": "To this day they are doing according to the former rulings: they are not fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor do they follow their laws or their right-rulings, or the Torah and command which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded the children of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, whose name He made Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2709081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 35, "text": "with whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had made a covenant and commanded them, saying, \u201cDo not fear other mighty ones, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor slaughter to them;"}, {"pk": 2709082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 36, "text": "but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow yourselves, and to Him you shall slaughter."}, {"pk": 2709083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd guard to do forever the laws, and the right-rulings, and the Torah, and the command which He wrote for you. And do not fear other mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2709084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd do not forget the covenant that I have made with you, and do not fear other mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2709085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cBut fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, so that He delivers you from the hand of all your enemies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 40, "text": "And they did not obey, but did according to their former ruling."}, {"pk": 2709087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 17, "verse": 41, "text": "So these nations were fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and served their carved images, both their children and their children\u2019s children. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day.", "comment": "Mixed worship, mixing the true with the false \u2013 compromise."}, {"pk": 2709088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the third year of Hosh\u0115a son of \u011alah, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that H\u0323izqiyah son of Ah\u0323az, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, began to reign."}, {"pk": 2709089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Ab\u0331i, daughter of Zek\u0331aryah."}, {"pk": 2709090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father Dawid\u0331 did."}, {"pk": 2709091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ash\u0115rah, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Mosheh had made, for until those days the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l burned incense to it, and called it Neh\u0323ushtan."}, {"pk": 2709092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "He put his trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and after him was none like him among all the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, nor who were before him,"}, {"pk": 2709093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "and he clung to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. He did not turn away from following Him, but guarded His commands, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2709094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him \u2014 wherever he went he acted wisely. And he rebelled against the sovereign of Ashshur and did not serve him."}, {"pk": 2709095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "He struck the Philistines, as far as Azzah and its borders \u2014 from watchtower unto the walled city."}, {"pk": 2709096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be in the fourth year of Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu, which was the seventh year of Hosh\u0115a son of \u011alah, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against Shomeron and besieged it,"}, {"pk": 2709097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "and they captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of H\u0323izqiyah, that is the ninth year of Hosh\u0115a sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Shomeron was captured."}, {"pk": 2709098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur exiled Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Ashshur, and placed them in H\u0323alah\u0323 and H\u0323ab\u0331or, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,"}, {"pk": 2709099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "because they did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, but transgressed His covenant \u2014 all that Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded. And they did not obey nor do them."}, {"pk": 2709100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And in the fourteenth year of Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu, Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur came up against all the walled cities of Yehud\u0331ah and captured them."}, {"pk": 2709101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah sent to the sovereign of Ashshur at Lak\u0331ish, saying, \u201cI have done wrong, turn away from me. I shall bear whatever you impose on me.\u201d And the sovereign of Ashshur imposed upon H\u0323izqiyah, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold."}, {"pk": 2709102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyah gave him all the silver that was found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in the treasuries of the sovereign\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2709103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "At that time H\u0323izqiyah cut off the doors of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the doorposts which H\u0323izqiyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah had overlaid, and gave it to the sovereign of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur sent the Tartan, and the Rab\u0331saris, and the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h from Lak\u0331ish, with a great army against Yerushalayim, to Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu. And they went up and came to Yerushalayim. And when they had come up, they came and stood by the channel of the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Launderer\u2019s Field."}, {"pk": 2709105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And they called to the sovereign. And Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyahu, who was over the household, and Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them."}, {"pk": 2709106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h said to them, \u201cPlease say to H\u0323izqiyahu, \u2018Thus said the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur, \u201cWhat is this trust in which you have trusted?"}, {"pk": 2709107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou have spoken of having counsel and strength for battle, but they are only words of the lips! And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?"}, {"pk": 2709108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cNow look! You have put your trust in the staff of this crushed reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him."}, {"pk": 2709109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut when you say to me, \u2018We trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim,\u2019 is it not He whose high places and whose slaughter-places H\u0323izqiyahu has taken away, and said to Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, \u2018Bow yourselves before this slaughter-place in Yerushalayim\u2019?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2709110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd now, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the sovereign of Ashshur, then I give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders on them!"}, {"pk": 2709111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd how do you turn back the face of one commander of the least of my master\u2019s servants, and trust in Mitsrayim for chariots and horsemen?"}, {"pk": 2709112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cHave I now come up without \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against this place to destroy it? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Go up against this land, and you shall destroy it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "Then said Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyahu, and Sheb\u0331nah, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 to the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h, \u201cPlease speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in the language of Yehud\u0331ah, in the ears of the people on the wall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h said to them, \u201cHas my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h stood and called out with a loud voice in the language of Yehud\u0331ah, and spoke and said, \u201cHear the word of the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur!"}, {"pk": 2709116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThus said the sovereign, \u2018Do not let H\u0323izqiyahu deceive you, for he is unable to deliver you out of his hand,"}, {"pk": 2709117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "and do not let H\u0323izqiyahu make you trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall certainly deliver us, and this city is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2709118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cDo not listen to H\u0323izqiyahu, for thus said the sovereign of Ashshur, \u2018Make peace with me by a present and come out to me, and let each of you eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree, and each of you drink the waters of his own cistern,"}, {"pk": 2709119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "until I come. Then I shall take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and honey, and live, and not die. But do not listen to H\u0323izqiyahu, when he misleads you, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall deliver us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "Has any of the mighty ones of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur?"}, {"pk": 2709121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "Where are the mighty ones of H\u0323amath and Arpad\u0331? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim and H\u0115na and Iwwah? Did they deliver Shomeron from my hand?"}, {"pk": 2709122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "Who among all the mighty ones of the lands have delivered their land out of my hand, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 should deliver Yerushalayim from my hand?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "text": "But the people were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the sovereign was, \u201cDo not answer him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "text": "And Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyah, who was over the household, and Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Asaph, the recorder, came to H\u0323izqiyahu with their garments torn, and they reported to him the words of the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h."}, {"pk": 2709125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu heard it, that he tore his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2709126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "and sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet, son of Amots."}, {"pk": 2709127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cThus said H\u0323izqiyahu, \u2018This day is a day of distress and rebuke and scorn, for the children have come to birth but there is no power to bring forth."}, {"pk": 2709128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "It could be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does hear all the words of the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And the servants of Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu came to Yeshayahu,"}, {"pk": 2709130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "and Yeshayahu said to them, \u201cSay this to your master, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshur have reviled Me."}, {"pk": 2709131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSee, I am putting a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a report and return to his own land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his land.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h returned and found the sovereign of Ashshur fighting against Lib\u0331nah, for he had heard that he had left Lak\u0331ish."}, {"pk": 2709133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And when the sovereign heard concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kush, \u201cSee, he has come out to fight against you,\u201d he again sent messengers to H\u0323izqiyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSpeak to H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u2018Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, \u201cYerushalayim is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "See, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashshur have done to all lands by putting them under the ban. And are you going to be delivered?"}, {"pk": 2709136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan and H\u0323aran and Retseph, and the sons of \u011ad\u0331en who were in Telassar?"}, {"pk": 2709137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "Where is the sovereign of H\u0323amath, and the sovereign of Arpad\u0331, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharwayim, H\u0115na, and Iwwah?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu received the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read them, and went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And H\u0323izqiyahu spread it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu prayed before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the One who dwells between the kerub\u0331im, You are Elohim, You alone, of all the reigns of the earth. You have made the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2709140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cIncline Your ear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and hear. Open Your eyes, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and see. And hear the words of Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331, which he has sent to reproach the living Elohim."}, {"pk": 2709141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cTruly, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the sovereigns of Ashshur have laid waste the nations and their lands,"}, {"pk": 2709142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men\u2019s hands, wood and stone, and destroyed them."}, {"pk": 2709143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, I pray, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, You alone.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "Then Yeshayahu son of Amots sent to H\u0323izqiyahu, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I have heard that which you have prayed to Me against Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThis is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken concerning him, \u2018The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!"}, {"pk": 2709146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "Whom have you reproached and reviled? Against whom have you raised a voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2709147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "By the hand of your messengers you have reproached \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cWith my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Leb\u0331anon. And I cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypress trees. And I enter its remotest parts, its thickest forest."}, {"pk": 2709148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "I have dug and drunk strange water, and with the soles of my feet I dry up all the streams of defence.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "Have you not heard long ago, I made it; from days of old I formed it? Now I have brought it to be, that you should make walled cities ruinous heaps."}, {"pk": 2709150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame, they were as the grass of the field and the green plants, as the grass on the house-tops and withered before it came up."}, {"pk": 2709151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me."}, {"pk": 2709152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came."}, {"pk": 2709153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "And this is the sign for you: This year you eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit."}, {"pk": 2709154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehud\u0331ah shall again take root downward, and be fruitful."}, {"pk": 2709155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon \u2014 the ardour of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does this.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, \u2018He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it."}, {"pk": 2709157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And he does not come into this city,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "And I shall defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for the sake of Dawid\u0331 My servant.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be in that night that the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went out, and struck in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose up early in the morning and saw all of them dead bodies."}, {"pk": 2709160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "And Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur broke camp and went away, and turned back, and remained in Ninew\u0115h."}, {"pk": 2709161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisrok\u0331 his mighty one, that his sons Ad\u0331rammelek\u0331 and Shar\u2019etser struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son \u011asarh\u0323addon reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "In those days H\u0323izqiyahu was sick unto death. And Yeshayahu the prophet, son of Amots, went to him and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Command your house, for you are going to die, and not live.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI pray to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes.\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu wept bitterly."}, {"pk": 2709165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, before Yeshayahu had gone out into the middle court, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cReturn and say to H\u0323izqiyahu the leader of My people, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Dawid\u0331 your father, \u201cI have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am going to heal you. On the third day go up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall add to your days fifteen years, and deliver you and this city from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur, and shall defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of Dawid\u0331 My servant.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yeshayahu said, \u201cTake a cake of figs.\u201d And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered."}, {"pk": 2709169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu said to Yeshayahu, \u201cWhat is the sign that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does heal me, and that I shall go up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the third day?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yeshayahu said, \u201cThis is the sign for you from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does the word which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu said, \u201cIt would be easy for the shadow to go down ten degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yeshayahu the prophet cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ah\u0323az."}, {"pk": 2709173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "At that time Berod\u0331ak\u0331-Balad\u0331an son of Balad\u0331an, sovereign of Bab\u0331el, sent letters and a present to H\u0323izqiyahu, for he heard that H\u0323izqiyahu had been sick."}, {"pk": 2709174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the precious ointment, and all his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures. There was not an object in his house or in all his rule that H\u0323izqiyahu did not show them."}, {"pk": 2709175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yeshayahu the prophet came to Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu, and said to him, \u201cWhat did these men say, and from where did they come to you?\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu said, \u201cThey came from a distant land, from Bab\u0331el.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat have they seen in your house?\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu answered, \u201cThey saw all that is in my house; there is not an object among my treasures that I did not show them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And Yeshayahu said to H\u0323izqiyahu, \u201cHear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4:"}, {"pk": 2709178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "See, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have treasured up until this day, shall be brought to Bab\u0331el \u2014 no object is to be left,\u2019 said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "And they are going to take away some of your sons who are to be born to you, whom you bring forth, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu said to Yeshayahu, \u201cThe word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which you have spoken is good!\u201d And he said, \u201cIs it not so, if peace and truth are to be in my days?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of the acts of H\u0323izqiyahu, and all his might and how he made a pool and a channel and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "So H\u0323izqiyahu slept with his fathers. And Menashsheh his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was H\u0323ephtsib\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2709184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to the abominations of the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dispossessed before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "For he turned and built the high places which H\u0323izqiyahu his father had destroyed, and raised up slaughter-places for Ba\u201bal, and made an Ash\u0115rah, as Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had done, and he bowed himself to all the host of the heavens and served them."}, {"pk": 2709186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And he built slaughter-places in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said, \u201cIn Yerushalayim I put My Name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And he built slaughter-places for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made his son pass through the fire, and practised magic, and used divination, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke <i>Him</i>."}, {"pk": 2709189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And he placed a carved image of Ash\u0115rah that he had made in the House of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said to Dawid\u0331 and to Shelomoh his son, \u201cIn this house and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, I put My Name forever,"}, {"pk": 2709190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "and no more shall I cause the feet of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to move from the soil which I gave their fathers \u2014 only if they guard to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Torah that My servant Mosheh commanded them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "But they did not obey, and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil than the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had destroyed before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBecause Menashsheh sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah has done these abominations, having done more evil than all the Amorites who were before him, and also made Yehud\u0331ah sin with his idols,"}, {"pk": 2709194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018See, I am bringing such evil upon Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah that both ears of those who hear of it shall tingle."}, {"pk": 2709195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And I shall stretch over Yerushalayim the measuring line of Shomeron and the plummet of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, and shall wipe Yerushalayim as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down."}, {"pk": 2709196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And I shall forsake the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall be for a prey and for a plunder to all their enemies,"}, {"pk": 2709197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "because they have done evil in My eyes, and have provoked Me since the day their fathers came out of Mitsrayim, even to this day.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehud\u0331ah sin, in doing evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "So Menashsheh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of H\u0323aruts of Yoteb\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2709202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his father Menashsheh had done,"}, {"pk": 2709203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "and walked in all the ways that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served, and bowed himself to them,"}, {"pk": 2709204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "and forsook \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the sovereign in his own house."}, {"pk": 2709206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "But the people of the land struck all those who had conspired against Sovereign Amon, and the people of the land set up his son Yoshiyahu to reign in his place."}, {"pk": 2709207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "And he was buried in his burial-place in the garden of Uzza. And his son Yoshiyahu reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yed\u0331id\u0331ah the daughter of Ad\u0331ayah of Botsqath."}, {"pk": 2709210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and walked in all the ways of his father Dawid\u0331, and did not turn aside, right or left."}, {"pk": 2709211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, in the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yoshiyahu, that the sovereign sent Shaphan the scribe, son of Atsalyahu, son of Meshullam, to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cGo up to H\u0323ilqiyahu the high priest, and let him weigh the silver which has been brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people."}, {"pk": 2709213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd let them give it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And let them give it to those who are in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 doing the work, to strengthen the breach of the house,"}, {"pk": 2709214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "to carpenters and to builders and to stonemasons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to strengthen the house."}, {"pk": 2709215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHowever, let not the silver given into their hand be reckoned with them, for they are acting trustworthily.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323ilqiyahu the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, \u201cI have found the Book of the Torah in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And H\u0323ilqiyah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it."}, {"pk": 2709217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And Shaphan the scribe came to the sovereign, and brought word to the sovereign again, saying, \u201cYour servants have gathered the silver that was found in the house, and have given it into the hand of those who do the work, who oversee the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And Shaphan the scribe informed the sovereign, saying, \u201cH\u0323ilqiyah the priest has given me a book.\u201d And Shaphan read it before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2709219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign heard the words of the Book of the Torah, that he tore his garments,"}, {"pk": 2709220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "and the sovereign commanded H\u0323ilqiyah the priest, and Ah\u0323iqam son of Shaphan, and Ak\u0331bor son of Mik\u0331ayah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asayah a servant of the sovereign, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cGo, inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for me, for the people and for all Yehud\u0331ah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "Then H\u0323ilqiyahu the priest, and Ah\u0323iqam, and Ak\u0331bor, and Shaphan, and Asayah went to H\u0323uldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tiqwah, son of H\u0323arh\u0323as, keeper of the wardrobe. Now she was dwelling in Yerushalayim in the Second Quarter. And they spoke with her."}, {"pk": 2709223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "And she said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Say to the man who sent you to Me,"}, {"pk": 2709224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah has read,"}, {"pk": 2709225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other mighty ones to provoke Me with all the works of their hands. And so My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2709226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd to the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, who sent you to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, say this to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cAs for the words which you have heard,"}, {"pk": 2709227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a ruin and a curse, and did tare your garments and wept before Me, I also have heard,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cTherefore, see, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your burial-site in peace, so that your eyes do not see all the evil I am bringing on this place.\u201d \u2019 \u201d And they brought word to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2709229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sovereign sent, and they gathered all the elders of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim to him."}, {"pk": 2709230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all the men of Yehud\u0331ah, and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign stood by the column and made a covenant before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to follow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and to guard His commands and His witnesses and His laws, with all his heart and all his being, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant."}, {"pk": 2709232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "Then the sovereign commanded H\u0323ilqiyahu the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the objects that were made for Ba\u201bal, and for Ash\u0115rah, and for all the host of the heavens. And he burned them outside Yerushalayim in the fields of Qid\u0331ron, and took their ashes to B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2709233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "And he put down the black-robed priests whom the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the places all around Yerushalayim, and those who burned incense to Ba\u201bal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of the heavens.", "comment": "Heb. kemarim."}, {"pk": 2709234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "And he brought out the Ash\u0115rah from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the wadi Qid\u0331ron outside Yerushalayim, and burned it at the wadi Qid\u0331ron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the burial-sites of the sons of the people."}, {"pk": 2709235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, where the women wove tapestries for the Ash\u0115rah."}, {"pk": 2709236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "And he brought all the priests from the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geb\u0331a to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the Gate of Yehoshua the governor of the city, which were to the left of the city gate."}, {"pk": 2709237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Yerushalayim, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers."}, {"pk": 2709238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, so that no man could make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2709239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And he did away with the horses that the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah had given to the sun, at the entrance to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by the room of Nathan-Melek\u0331 the eunuch, that were in the court. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire."}, {"pk": 2709240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And the slaughter-places that were on the roof of the upper room of Ah\u0323az, which the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah had made, and the slaughter-places which Menashsheh had made in the two courtyards of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the sovereign broke down, and rushed from there, and threw their dust into the wadi Qid\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2709241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sovereign defiled the high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the Mountain of Destruction, which Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Tsid\u0331onians, and for Kemosh the abomination of the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites, and for Milkom the abomination of the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2709242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Ash\u0115rim, and filled their places with the bones of men."}, {"pk": 2709243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "And also the slaughter-place that was at B\u0115yth \u011al, and the high place which Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at made, by which he made Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin, both that slaughter-place and the high place he broke down. And he burned the high place and ground it to dust, and burned the Ash\u0115rah."}, {"pk": 2709244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "Then Yoshiyahu turned, and saw the burial-sites that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the burial-sites and burned them on the slaughter-place, and defiled it according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which the man of Elohim proclaimed, who proclaimed these words."}, {"pk": 2709245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat tombstone is this that I see?\u201d And the men of the city said to him, \u201cIt is the burial-site of the man of Elohim who came from Yehud\u0331ah and proclaimed these matters which you have done against the slaughter-place of B\u0115yth \u011al.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said, \u201cLet him alone, let no one move his bones.\u201d So they left his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2709247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yoshiyahu also took away all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Shomeron, which the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had made to provoke. And he did to them according to all the deeds he did in B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2709248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "And he slaughtered all the priests of the high places who were there, on the slaughter-places, and burned men\u2019s bones on them, and went back to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sovereign commanded all the people, saying, \u201cPrepare the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "For such a P\u0115sah\u0323 had not been prepared since the days of the rulers who ruled Yisra\u2019\u0115l, nor in all the days of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2709251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "but in the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yoshiyahu this P\u0115sah\u0323 was prepared before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "And also, Yoshiyahu put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, and the household mighty ones and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Yehud\u0331ah and in Yerushalayim, in order to establish the words of the Torah which were written in the book that H\u0323ilqiyahu the priest found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "And before him there was no sovereign like him, who turned back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all his heart, and with all his being, and with all his might, according to all the Torah of Mosheh; and after him none rose up like him."}, {"pk": 2709254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His wrath burned against Yehud\u0331ah, because of all the provocations with which Menashsheh had provoked Him."}, {"pk": 2709255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cEven Yehud\u0331ah I shall remove from My presence, as I have removed Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I shall reject this city Yerushalayim which I have chosen, and the House of which I said, \u2018My Name is there.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "In his days Pharaoh Nek\u0331o sovereign of Mitsrayim went up against the sovereign of Ashshur, to the River Euphrates. And Sovereign Yoshiyahu went out to him, and he killed him at Me\u1e21iddo when he saw him."}, {"pk": 2709258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "And his servants conveyed his body in a chariot from Me\u1e21iddo, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and buried him in his own burial-place. And the people of the land took Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az son of Yoshiyahu, and anointed him, and set him up to reign in his father\u2019s place."}, {"pk": 2709259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three new <i>moons</i> in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was H\u0323amutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2709260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his fathers did."}, {"pk": 2709261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "And Pharaoh Nek\u0331o imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of H\u0323amath, to keep him from reigning in Yerushalayim. And he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold."}, {"pk": 2709262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "And Pharaoh Nek\u0331o set up Elyaqim son of Yoshiyahu to reign in place of his father Yoshiyahu, and changed his name to Yehoyaqim. And Pharaoh took Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az and went to Mitsrayim, and he died there."}, {"pk": 2709263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "And Yehoyaqim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh. Only, he taxed the land to give silver according to the mouth of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Nek\u0331o."}, {"pk": 2709264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Zeb\u0331id\u0331ah the daughter of Ped\u0331ayah of Rumah."}, {"pk": 2709265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his fathers did."}, {"pk": 2709266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "In his days Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el came up, and Yehoyaqim became his servant for three years. And he turned and rebelled against him."}, {"pk": 2709267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent against him raiding bands of Kasdim, and raiding bands of Aram, and raiding bands of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and raiding bands of the children of Ammon. And He sent them against Yehud\u0331ah to destroy it, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had spoken by His servants the prophets."}, {"pk": 2709268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "Only at the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this came upon Yehud\u0331ah, to remove <i>them</i> from His presence, because of the sins of Menashsheh, according to all that he did,"}, {"pk": 2709269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "and also because of the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not forgive."}, {"pk": 2709270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2709271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "So Yehoyaqim slept with his fathers. And Yehoyak\u0331in his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2709272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sovereign of Mitsrayim did not come out of his land again, for the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had taken all that belonged to the sovereign of Mitsrayim from the wadi of Mitsrayim to the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2709273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "Yehoyak\u0331in was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three new <i>moons</i>. And his mother\u2019s name was Neh\u0323ushta the daughter of Elnathan of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father did."}, {"pk": 2709275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "At that time the servants of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el came up against Yerushalayim, and the city was besieged."}, {"pk": 2709276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el came against the city, as his servants were besieging it."}, {"pk": 2709277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoyak\u0331in sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and his mother, and his servants, and his heads, and his eunuchs went out to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el. And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner."}, {"pk": 2709278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And he took from there all the treasures of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the treasures of the sovereign\u2019s house, and he cut in pieces all the objects of gold which Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had made in the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said."}, {"pk": 2709279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And he exiled all Yerushalayim, and all the officers and all the mighty brave men \u2014 ten thousand exiles \u2014 and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land."}, {"pk": 2709280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And he exiled Yehoyak\u0331in to Bab\u0331el. And the sovereign\u2019s mother, and the sovereign\u2019s wives, and his eunuchs, and the leading men of the land he exiled from Yerushalayim to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2709281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And all the mighty brave men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for battle, these the sovereign of Bab\u0331el brought to Bab\u0331el into exile."}, {"pk": 2709282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el set up Mattanyah, Yehoyak\u0331in\u2019s uncle, to reign in his place, and changed his name to Tsid\u0331qiyahu."}, {"pk": 2709283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "Tsid\u0331qiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was H\u0323amutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2709284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that Yehoyaqim did."}, {"pk": 2709285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "For this took place in Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah because of the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, until He had cast them out from His presence. And Tsid\u0331qiyahu rebelled against the sovereign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2709286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth new <i>moon</i>, on the tenth of the new <i>moon</i>, that Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and all his army came against Yerushalayim and encamped against it, and they built a siege wall against it all around."}, {"pk": 2709287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tsid\u0331qiyahu."}, {"pk": 2709288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "By the ninth of the new <i>moon</i> the scarcity of food had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2709289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "Then the city wall was breached, and all the men of battle <i>fled</i> at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the sovereign\u2019s garden, even though the Kasdim were still encamped all around against the city. And <i>the sovereign</i> went by way of the desert plain."}, {"pk": 2709290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "And the army of the Kasdim pursued the sovereign, and overtook him in the desert plains of Yerih\u0323o, and all his army was scattered from him."}, {"pk": 2709291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And they seized the sovereign and brought him up to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el at Riblah, and they pronounced sentence on him."}, {"pk": 2709292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And they slew the sons of Tsid\u0331qiyahu before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Tsid\u0331qiyahu, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2709293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "And in the fifth new <i>moon</i>, on the seventh of the new <i>moon</i>, which was the nineteenth year of Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an the chief of the guard, a servant of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And he burned the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the house of the sovereign, and all the houses of Yerushalayim \u2014 even every great house he burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2709295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guard broke down the walls of Yerushalayim all around."}, {"pk": 2709296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an the chief of the guard took into exile the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who deserted to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, with the rest of the multitude."}, {"pk": 2709297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "But the chief of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers."}, {"pk": 2709298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And the bronze columns that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the stands and the bronze Sea that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Kasdim broke in pieces, and took their bronze away to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2709299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "And they took the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the ladles, and all the bronze utensils the priests used in the service."}, {"pk": 2709300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "And the chief of the guard took the fire holders and the basins which were of solid gold and solid silver."}, {"pk": 2709301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "The bronze of all these utensils was beyond measure \u2014 the two columns, the one Sea, and the stands, which Shelomoh had made for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "The height of one column was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. And the height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. And the second column was the same, with a network."}, {"pk": 2709303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "And the chief of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Tsephanyahu the second priest, and the three doorkeepers."}, {"pk": 2709304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "And out of the city he took a certain eunuch who was appointed over the men of battle, and five men of those who saw the sovereign\u2019s face, who were found in the city, and the chief scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city."}, {"pk": 2709305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, took them and made them go to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el at Riblah."}, {"pk": 2709306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of H\u0323amath. So he exiled Yehud\u0331ah from its own land."}, {"pk": 2709307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "And he appointed Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, over the people who were left in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el had left."}, {"pk": 2709308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "And all the commanders of the armies, they and their men, heard that the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had appointed Ged\u0331alyahu. And they came to Ged\u0331alyahu at Mitspah, even Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah, and Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and Serayah son of Tanh\u0323umeth the Netophathite, and Ya\u201bazanyahu the son of a Ma\u201bak\u0331athite, they and their men."}, {"pk": 2709309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ged\u0331alyahu swore to them and their men, and said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid of the servants of the Kasdim. Dwell in the land and serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and let it be well with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "And in the seventh new <i>moon</i> it came to be that Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah, son of Elishama, of the seed of the reign, came with ten men and struck Ged\u0331alyahu that he died, and the Yehud\u0331im, and the Kasdim who were with him at Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2709311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "And all the people rose up, small and great, and the commanders of the armies, and went to Mitsrayim, for they were afraid of the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2709312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Yehoyak\u0331in sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, on the twenty-seventh of the new <i>moon</i>, that Ewil-Merod\u0331ak\u0331 sovereign of Bab\u0331el, in the year that he began to reign, released Yehoyak\u0331in sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah from prison,"}, {"pk": 2709313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the sovereigns who were with him in Bab\u0331el,"}, {"pk": 2709314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "and changed his prison garments. And he ate bread continually before the sovereign all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2709315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 12, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "And as his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him from the sovereign, a quota for each day, all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2720529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Ad\u0331am, Sh\u0115th, Enosh,"}, {"pk": 2720530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Q\u0115nan, Mahalal\u2019\u0115l, Yered\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "H\u0323anok\u0331, Methushelah\u0323, Lemek\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Noah\u0323, Sh\u0115m, H\u0323am, and Yapheth."}, {"pk": 2720533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "The sons of Yapheth: Gomer, and Ma\u1e21o\u1e21, and Mad\u0331ai, and Yawan, and Tub\u0331al, and Meshek\u0331, and Tiras."}, {"pk": 2720534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath and To\u1e21armah.", "comment": "Or Riphath - See Explanatory Notes \"Thigh\" and Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/10/3'>10:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2720535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sons of Yawan: Elishah and Tarshishah, Kittim and Rod\u0331anim."}, {"pk": 2720536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "The sons of H\u0323am: Kush and Mitsrayim, Put and Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2720537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of Kush: Seb\u0331a, and H\u0323awilah, and Sab\u0331ta, and Ra\u201bmah, and Sab\u0331tek\u0331a. And the sons of Ra\u201bmah: Sheb\u0331a and Ded\u0331an."}, {"pk": 2720538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And Kush brought forth Nimrod\u0331; he began to be a mighty one on the earth."}, {"pk": 2720539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Mitsrayim brought forth the Lud\u0331im, and the Anamim, and the Lehab\u0331im, and the Naphtuh\u0323im,"}, {"pk": 2720540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "and the Pathrusim, and the Kasluh\u0323im from whom came the Philistines, and the Kaphtorim."}, {"pk": 2720541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And Kena\u201ban brought forth Tsid\u0331on, his first-born, and H\u0323\u0115th,"}, {"pk": 2720542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "and the Yeb\u0331usite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,"}, {"pk": 2720543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "and the H\u0323iwwite, and the Arqite, and the Sinite,"}, {"pk": 2720544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "and the Arwad\u0331ite, and the Tsemarite, and the H\u0323amathite."}, {"pk": 2720545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "The sons of Sh\u0115m: \u011aylam, and Asshur, and Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, and Lud\u0331, and Aram, and Uts, H\u0323ul, and Gether, and Meshek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And Arpak\u0331shad\u0331 brought forth Shelah\u0323, and Shelah\u0323 brought forth \u011ab\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2720547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "To \u011ab\u0331er were born two sons: the name of one was Pele\u1e21, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother\u2019s name was Yoqtan."}, {"pk": 2720548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yoqtan brought forth Almod\u0331ad\u0331, and Sheleph, and H\u0323atsarmaweth, and Yerah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "and Had\u0331oram, and Uzal, and Diqlah,"}, {"pk": 2720550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "and \u011ayb\u0331al, and Ab\u0331ima\u2019\u0115l, and Sheb\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2720551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "and Ophir, and H\u0323awilah, and Yob\u0331ab\u0331. All these were the sons of Yoqtan."}, {"pk": 2720552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "Sh\u0115m, Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, Sh\u0115lah,"}, {"pk": 2720553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u011ab\u0331er, Pele\u1e21, Re\u201bu,"}, {"pk": 2720554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "Seru\u1e21, Nah\u0323or, Terah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "and Ab\u0331ram, that is Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2720556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "The sons of Ab\u0331raham: Yitsh\u0323aq and Yishma\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "These are their genealogies: The first-born of Yishma\u201b\u0115l was Neb\u0331ayoth, and Q\u0115d\u0331ar, and Ad\u0331be\u2019\u0115l, and Mib\u0331sam,"}, {"pk": 2720558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, Had\u0331ad\u0331, and T\u0115ma,"}, {"pk": 2720559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "Yetur, Naphish, and Q\u0115d\u0331emah. These were the sons of Yishma\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "And the sons born to Qeturah, Ab\u0331raham\u2019s concubine: Zimran, and Yoqshan, and Med\u0331an, and Mid\u0331yan, and Yishbaq, and Shuwah\u0323. The sons of Yoqshan: Sheb\u0331a and Ded\u0331an."}, {"pk": 2720561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sons of Mid\u0331yan: \u011aphah, and \u011apher, and H\u0323anok\u0331, and Ab\u0331id\u0331a, and Elda\u201bah. All these were the children of Qeturah."}, {"pk": 2720562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "And Ab\u0331raham brought forth Yitsh\u0323aq. The sons of Yitsh\u0323aq: \u011asaw and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "The sons of \u011asaw: Eliphaz, Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l, and Ye\u201bush, and Ya\u201blam, and Qorah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2720564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "And the sons of Eliphaz: T\u0115man, and Omar, Tsephi, and Gatam, and Qenaz, and Timna, and Amal\u0115q."}, {"pk": 2720565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "The sons of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l: Nah\u0323ath, Zerah\u0323, Shammah, and Mizzah."}, {"pk": 2720566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "And the sons of S\u0115\u201bir: Lotan, and Shob\u0331al, and Tsib\u0331\u201bon, and Anah, and Dishon, and \u011atser, and Dishan."}, {"pk": 2720567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "And the sons of Lotan: H\u0323ori and Homam; Lotan\u2019s sister was Timna."}, {"pk": 2720568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "The sons of Shob\u0331al: Alyan, and Manah\u0323ath, and \u011ayb\u0331al, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Tsib\u0331\u201bon: Ayah and Anah."}, {"pk": 2720569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "The son of Anah was Dishon. The sons of Dishon: H\u0323amran, and Eshban, and Yithran, and Keran."}, {"pk": 2720570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "The sons of \u011atser: Bilhan, and Za\u201bawan, and Ya\u201baqan. The sons of Dishan: Uts and Aran."}, {"pk": 2720571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "And these were the sovereigns who reigned in the land of Ed\u0331om before any sovereign reigned over the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: Bela son of Be\u201bor, and the name of his city was Dinhab\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "And when Bela died, Yob\u0331ab\u0331 son of Zerah\u0323 of Botsrah reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2720573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "And Yob\u0331ab\u0331 died, and H\u0323usham of the land of the T\u0115manites reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2720574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "And when H\u0323usham died, Had\u0331ad\u0331 son of Bed\u0331ad\u0331, who struck Mid\u0331yan in the field of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Awith."}, {"pk": 2720575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "And Had\u0331ad\u0331 died, and Samlah of Masr\u0115qah reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2720576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "And Samlah died, and Sha\u2019ul of Reh\u0323ob\u0331oth-by-the-River reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2720577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul died, and Ba\u201bal-H\u0323anan son of Ak\u0331bor reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2720578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "And Ba\u201bal-H\u0323anan died, and Had\u0331ad\u0331 reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pai. And his wife\u2019s name was Meh\u0115tab\u2019\u0115l the daughter of Matr\u0115d\u0331, the daughter of M\u0115yzahab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "And Had\u0331ad\u0331 died. And the chiefs of Ed\u0331om were Chief Timnah, Chief Alyah, Chief Yeth\u0115th,"}, {"pk": 2720580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "text": "Chief Oholib\u0331amah, Chief \u011alah, Chief Pinon,"}, {"pk": 2720581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "text": "Chief Qenaz, Chief T\u0115man, Chief Mib\u0331tsar,"}, {"pk": 2720582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 1, "verse": 54, "text": "Chief Ma\u1e21di\u2019\u0115l, and Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2720583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "These were the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, Shim\u201bon, L\u0115wi and Yehud\u0331ah, Yissask\u0331ar and Zeb\u0331ulun,"}, {"pk": 2720584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "Dan, Yos\u0115ph and Binyamin, Naphtali, Gad\u0331 and Ash\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2720585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "The sons of Yehud\u0331ah: \u011ar, and Onan, and Sh\u0115lah, the three born to him by the daughter of Shuwa, the Kena\u201banitess. And \u011ar, the first-born of Yehud\u0331ah, was evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He slew him."}, {"pk": 2720586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perets and Zerah\u0323. All the sons of Yehud\u0331ah were five."}, {"pk": 2720587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "The sons of Perets: H\u0323etsron and H\u0323amul."}, {"pk": 2720588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sons of Zerah\u0323: Zimri, and \u011aythan, and H\u0115man, and Kalkol, and Dara, five of them in all."}, {"pk": 2720589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And the son of Karmi was Ak\u0331ar, the troubler of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who trespassed in that which was under the ban."}, {"pk": 2720590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And the son of \u011aythan was Azaryah."}, {"pk": 2720591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323etsron who were born to him: Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l, and Ram, and Kelub\u0331ai."}, {"pk": 2720592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Ram brought forth Amminad\u0331ab\u0331, and Amminad\u0331ab\u0331 brought forth Nah\u0323shon, leader of the children of Yehud\u0331ah;"}, {"pk": 2720593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Nah\u0323shon brought forth Salma, and Salma brought forth Bo\u201baz;"}, {"pk": 2720594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "Bo\u201baz brought forth Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331 brought forth Yishai;"}, {"pk": 2720595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Yishai brought forth Eliyab\u0331 his first-born, and Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331 the second, and Shim\u201ba the third,"}, {"pk": 2720596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Nethan\u2019\u0115l the fourth, Raddai the fifth,"}, {"pk": 2720597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Otsem the sixth, Dawid\u0331 the seventh."}, {"pk": 2720598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And their sisters: Tseruyah and Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil. And the sons of Tseruyah: Ab\u0331ishai, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and Asah\u2019\u0115l, three."}, {"pk": 2720599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Yether the Yishma\u201b\u0115lite."}, {"pk": 2720600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of H\u0323etsron brought forth children by Azub\u0331ah, his wife, and by Yeriyoth. Now these were her sons: Y\u0115sher, and Shob\u0331ab\u0331, and Ardon."}, {"pk": 2720601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And Azub\u0331ah died, and Kal\u0115b\u0331 took Ephrath as his wife, who bore him H\u0323ur."}, {"pk": 2720602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And H\u0323ur brought forth Uri, and Uri brought forth Betsal\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And afterward H\u0323etsron went in to the daughter of Mak\u0331ir the father of Gil\u201bad\u0331, whom he took when he was sixty years old. And she bore him Se\u1e21ub\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And Se\u1e21ub\u0331 brought forth Ya\u2019ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And he took from them Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Ya\u2019ir, with Qenath and its towns, sixty towns. All these <i>belonged to</i> the sons of Mak\u0331ir the father of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And after the death of H\u0323etsron in Kal\u0115b\u0331 Ephrathah, H\u0323etsron\u2019s wife Ab\u0331iyah bore him Ashh\u0323ur the father of Teqowa."}, {"pk": 2720607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And the sons of Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l the first-born of H\u0323etsron were: Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otsem, and Ah\u0323iyah."}, {"pk": 2720608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "And Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam."}, {"pk": 2720609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sons of Ram, the first-born of Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l, were Ma\u201bats, and Yamin, and \u011aqer."}, {"pk": 2720610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Yad\u0331a. And the sons of Shammai: Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ishur."}, {"pk": 2720611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "And the name of the wife of Ab\u0331ishur was Ab\u0331ih\u0323ayil, and she bore him Ah\u0323ban and Molid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sons of Nad\u0331ab\u0331: Seled\u0331 and Appayim, and Seled\u0331 died without children."}, {"pk": 2720613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "And the son of Appayim was Yishi, and the son of Yishi was Sh\u0115shan, and the son of Sh\u0115shan was Ah\u0323lai."}, {"pk": 2720614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "And the sons of Yad\u0331a, the brother of Shammai: Yether and Yonathan, and Yether died without children."}, {"pk": 2720615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sons of Yonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "And Sh\u0115shan had no sons, only daughters. And Sh\u0115shan had a Mitsrian servant whose name was Yarh\u0323a."}, {"pk": 2720617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "And Sh\u0115shan gave his daughter to Yarh\u0323a his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai."}, {"pk": 2720618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "And Attai brought forth Nathan, and Nathan brought forth Zab\u0331ad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "and Zab\u0331ad\u0331 brought forth Ephlal, and Ephlal brought forth Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331 brought forth Y\u0115hu, and Y\u0115hu brought forth Azaryah,"}, {"pk": 2720621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "and Azaryah brought forth H\u0323elets, and H\u0323elets brought forth El\u201basah,"}, {"pk": 2720622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "and El\u201basah brought forth Sismai, and Sismai brought forth Shallum,"}, {"pk": 2720623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "and Shallum brought forth Yeqamyah, and Yeqamyah brought forth Elishama."}, {"pk": 2720624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "And the sons of Kal\u0115b\u0331 the brother of Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l: M\u0115ysha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mar\u0115shah the father of H\u0323eb\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2720625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323eb\u0331ron: Qorah\u0323, and Tappuwah\u0323, and Reqem, and Shema."}, {"pk": 2720626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "And Shema brought forth Rah\u0323am the father of Yorqe\u201bam, and Reqem brought forth Shammai."}, {"pk": 2720627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "And the son of Shammai was Ma\u201bon, and Ma\u201bon was the father of B\u0115yth Tsur."}, {"pk": 2720628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "And \u011aphah, Kal\u0115b\u0331\u2019s concubine, bore H\u0323aran, and Motsa, and Gaz\u0115z. And H\u0323aran brought forth Gaz\u0115z."}, {"pk": 2720629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "text": "And the sons of Yahdai: Re\u1e21em, and Yotham, and G\u0115yshan, and Pelet, and \u011aphah, and Sha\u201baph."}, {"pk": 2720630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "text": "Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, Kal\u0115b\u0331\u2019s concubine, bore Sheb\u0331er and Tirh\u0323anah."}, {"pk": 2720631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "text": "And she bore Sha\u201baph the father of Mad\u0331mannah, Shewa the father of Mak\u0331b\u0115na and the father of Gib\u0331\u201ba. And the daughter of Kal\u0115b\u0331 was Ak\u0331sah."}, {"pk": 2720632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 50, "text": "These were the descendants of Kal\u0115b\u0331: The sons of H\u0323ur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shob\u0331al the father of Qiryath Ye\u201barim,"}, {"pk": 2720633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 51, "text": "Salma the father of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, H\u0323ar\u0115ph the father of B\u0115yth Gad\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2720634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 52, "text": "And Shob\u0331al the father of Qiryath Ye\u201barim had descendants: Haro\u2019eh, half of the Menuh\u0323othites."}, {"pk": 2720635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 53, "text": "And the clans of Qiryath Ye\u201barim: the Yithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Tsor\u201bathites and the Eshta\u2019olites."}, {"pk": 2720636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 54, "text": "The sons of Salma: B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, the Netophathites, Atroth B\u0115yth Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and half of the Menah\u0323tites, and the Tsor\u201bites."}, {"pk": 2720637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 2, "verse": 55, "text": "And the clans of the scribes who dwelt at Yab\u0331\u0115ts: the Tirathites, the Shim\u201bathites, the Suk\u0331athites. These were the Q\u0115ynites who came from H\u0323ammath, the father of the house of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And these were the sons of Dawid\u0331 who were born to him in H\u0323eb\u0331ron: The first-born was Amnon, by Ah\u0323ino\u201bam the Yizre\u201b\u0115litess; the second, Dani\u2019\u0115l, by Ab\u0331i\u1e21ayil the Karmelitess;"}, {"pk": 2720639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "the third, Ab\u0331shalom son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, the daughter of Talmai, sovereign of Geshur; the fourth, Ad\u0331oniyah son of H\u0323aggith;"}, {"pk": 2720640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "the fifth, Shephatyah, by Ab\u0331ital; the sixth, Yithre\u201bam, by his wife E\u1e21lah."}, {"pk": 2720641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Six were born to him in H\u0323eb\u0331ron. And he reigned there seven years and six new <i>moons</i>, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years."}, {"pk": 2720642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And these were born to him in Yerushalayim: Shim\u201ba, and Shob\u0331ab\u0331, and Nathan, and Shelomoh \u2014 four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Yib\u0331h\u0323ar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,"}, {"pk": 2720644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "and No\u1e21ah, and Nephe\u1e21, and Yaphiya,"}, {"pk": 2720645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "and Elishama, and Elyad\u0331a, and Eliphelet, nine,"}, {"pk": 2720646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "all the sons of Dawid\u0331, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister."}, {"pk": 2720647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And Shelomoh\u2019s son was Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, Ab\u0331iyah his son, Asa his son, Yehoshaphat his son,"}, {"pk": 2720648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Yoram his son, Ah\u0323azyahu his son, Yo\u2019ash his son,"}, {"pk": 2720649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Amatsyahu his son, Azaryah his son, Yotham his son,"}, {"pk": 2720650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Ah\u0323az his son, H\u0323izqiyahu his son, Menashsheh his son,"}, {"pk": 2720651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Amon his son, Yoshiyahu his son."}, {"pk": 2720652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sons of Yoshiyahu: Yoh\u0323anan the first-born, the second Yehoyaqim, the third Tsid\u0331qiyahu, the fourth Shallum."}, {"pk": 2720653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sons of Yehoyaqim: Yek\u0331onyah his son and Tsid\u0331qiyah his son."}, {"pk": 2720654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sons of Yek\u0331onyah the captive: She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l his son,"}, {"pk": 2720655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "and Malkiram, and Ped\u0331ayah, and Shenatstsar, Yeqamyah, Hoshama, and Ned\u0331ab\u0331yah."}, {"pk": 2720656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of Ped\u0331ayah: Zerubbab\u0331el and Shim\u201bi. The sons of Zerubbab\u0331el: Meshullam, and H\u0323ananyah, and Shelomith their sister,"}, {"pk": 2720657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "and H\u0323ashub\u0331ah, and Ohel, and Berek\u0331yah, and H\u0323asad\u0331yah, Yushab\u0331-H\u0323esed\u0331, five."}, {"pk": 2720658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323ananyah: Pelatyah and Yeshayah, the sons of Rephayah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, the sons of Shek\u0331anyah."}, {"pk": 2720659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And the son of Shek\u0331anyah: Shemayah. The sons of Shemayah: H\u0323attush, and Yi\u1e21\u2019al, and Bariyah\u0323, and Ne\u201baryah, and Shaphat, six."}, {"pk": 2720660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And the sons of Ne\u201baryah: Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, and H\u0323izqiyah, and Azriqam, three."}, {"pk": 2720661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sons of Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai: Hod\u0331awyah, and Elyashib\u0331, and Pelayah, and Aqqub\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan, and Delayah, and Anani, seven."}, {"pk": 2720662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "The sons of Yehud\u0331ah: Perets, H\u0323etsron, and Karmi, and H\u0323ur, and Shob\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2720663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And Re\u2019ayah son of Shob\u0331al brought forth Yah\u0323ath, and Yah\u0323ath brought forth Ah\u0323umai and Lahad\u0331. These were the clans of the Tsor\u201bathites."}, {"pk": 2720664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And these were of the father of \u011aytam: Yizre\u201b\u0115l, and Yishma, and Yid\u0331bash. And the name of their sister was Hatselelponi;"}, {"pk": 2720665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "and Penu\u2019\u0115l was the father of Ged\u0331or, and \u011azer was the father of H\u0323ushah. These were the sons of H\u0323ur, the first-born of Ephrathah the father of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2720666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ashh\u0323ur the father of Teqowa had two wives, H\u0323elah and Na\u201barah."}, {"pk": 2720667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And Na\u201barah bore him Ahuzzam, and H\u0323\u0115pher, and T\u0115meni, and Ha\u2019ah\u0323ashtari. These were the sons of Na\u201barah."}, {"pk": 2720668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sons of H\u0323elah: Tsereth, and Tsoh\u0323ar, and Ethnan;"}, {"pk": 2720669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "and Qots brought forth Anub\u0331, and Tsob\u0331\u0115b\u0331ah, and the clans of Ah\u0323arh\u0323\u0115l son of Harum."}, {"pk": 2720670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yab\u0331\u0115ts was more esteemed than his brothers, and his mother called his name Yab\u0331\u0115ts, saying, \u201cBecause I bore him in pain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yab\u0331\u0115ts called on the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saying, \u201cOh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, not to be my pain!\u201d And Elohim gave him what he asked."}, {"pk": 2720672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And Kelub\u0331 the brother of Shuh\u0323ah brought forth Meh\u0323ir, who was the father of Eshton."}, {"pk": 2720673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And Eshton brought forth B\u0115yth-Rapha, and Pas\u0115ah\u0323, and Teh\u0323innah the father of Ir-Nah\u0323ash. These were the men of R\u0115k\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sons of Qenaz: Othni\u2019\u0115l and Serayah. And sons of Othni\u2019\u0115l: H\u0323athath,"}, {"pk": 2720675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "and Me\u201bonothai, who brought forth Ophrah. And Serayah brought forth Yo\u2019ab\u0331 the father of G\u0115-H\u0323arashim, for they were craftsmen."}, {"pk": 2720676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sons of Kal\u0115b\u0331 the son of Yephunneh: Iru, \u011alah, and Na\u201bam. And the son of \u011alah was Qenaz."}, {"pk": 2720677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And the sons of Yehallel\u2019\u0115l: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tireya, and Asar\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sons of Ezrah: Yether, and Mered\u0331, and \u011apher, and Yalon. And she bore Miryam, and Shammai, and Yishbah\u0323 the father of Eshtemoa."}, {"pk": 2720679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And his wife Yehud\u0331iyah bore Yered\u0331 the father of Ged\u0331or, and H\u0323eb\u0331er the father of Sok\u0331o, and Yequthi\u2019\u0115l the father of Zanowah\u0323. And these were the sons of Bithyah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered\u0331 took."}, {"pk": 2720680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of Hod\u0331iyah\u2019s wife, the sister of Nah\u0323am, were the fathers of Qe\u201bilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Ma\u201bak\u0331athite."}, {"pk": 2720681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-H\u0323anan, and Tulon. And the sons of Yishi: Zoh\u0323\u0115th and Ben-Zoh\u0323\u0115th."}, {"pk": 2720682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "The sons of Sh\u0115lah the son of Yehud\u0331ah: \u011ar the father of L\u0115k\u0331ah, and La\u201bdah the father of Mar\u0115shah, and the clans of the house of the linen workers of the house of Ashb\u0115a;"}, {"pk": 2720683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "and Yoqim, and the men of Koz\u0115b\u0331a, and Yo\u2019ash, and Saraph who ruled in Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and Yashub\u0331i-Leh\u0323em. But the records were ancient."}, {"pk": 2720684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "These were the potters and those who dwell at Neta\u201bim and Ged\u0331\u0115rah; there they dwelt with the sovereign for his work."}, {"pk": 2720685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "The sons of Shim\u201bon: Nemu\u2019\u0115l, and Yamin, Yarib\u0331, Zerah\u0323, Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2720686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "Shallum his son, Mib\u0331sam his son, Mishma his son."}, {"pk": 2720687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "And the sons of Mishma: H\u0323ammu\u2019\u0115l his son, Zakkur his son, Shim\u201bi his son."}, {"pk": 2720688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "And Shim\u201bi had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, nor did any of their clans increase as much as the children of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "And they dwelt at Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a, and Molad\u0331ah, and H\u0323atsar Shu\u201bal,"}, {"pk": 2720690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "and at Bilhah, and at Etsem, and at Tolad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "and at Bethu\u2019\u0115l, and at H\u0323ormah, and at Tsiqla\u1e21,"}, {"pk": 2720692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "and at B\u0115yth Markab\u0331oth, and at H\u0323atsar Susim, and at B\u0115yth Bir\u201bi, and at Sha\u201barayim. These were their cities until the reign of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And their villages were \u011aytam, and Ayin, and Rimmon, and Tok\u0331en, and Ashan, five cities,"}, {"pk": 2720694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "and all the villages that were around these cities as far as Ba\u201bal. These were their dwelling places, and they kept their genealogy."}, {"pk": 2720695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "And Meshob\u0331ab\u0331, and Yaml\u0115k\u0331, and Yoshah son of Amatsyah;"}, {"pk": 2720696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "and Yo\u2019\u0115l, and Y\u0115hu son of Yoshib\u0331yah, son of Serayah, son of Asi\u2019\u0115l;"}, {"pk": 2720697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "and Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331ah, and Yeshoh\u0323ayah, and Asayah, and Ad\u0331i\u2019\u0115l, and Yesimi\u2019\u0115l, and Benayah;"}, {"pk": 2720698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Yed\u0331ayah, son of Shimri, son of Shemayah."}, {"pk": 2720699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "These mentioned by name were leaders in their clans, and their father\u2019s house increased greatly."}, {"pk": 2720700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "And they went to the entrance of Ged\u0331or, as far as the east side of the valley, to look for pasture for their flocks,"}, {"pk": 2720701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "and they found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, undisturbed and safe, for some H\u0323amites had dwelt there formerly."}, {"pk": 2720702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "And these written by name came in the days of H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and struck their tents, and the homes that were found there, and put them under the ban, as it is to this day, and dwelt in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks there."}, {"pk": 2720703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "And some of them, five hundred men of the sons of Shim\u201bon, went to Mount S\u0115\u201bir, having as their chiefs Pelatyah, and Ne\u201baryah, and Rephayah, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l, the sons of Yishi."}, {"pk": 2720704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "And they struck the rest of the Amal\u0115qites who had escaped, and dwelt there to this day."}, {"pk": 2720705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "As for the sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n the first-born of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 he was the first-born, but because he profaned his father\u2019s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yos\u0115ph, son of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright,"}, {"pk": 2720706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "for Yehud\u0331ah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although the birthright was Yos\u0115ph\u2019s \u2014"}, {"pk": 2720707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "the sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n the first-born of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: H\u0323anok\u0331 and Pallu, H\u0323etsron and Karmi."}, {"pk": 2720708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "The sons of Yo\u2019\u0115l: Shemayah his son, Go\u1e21 his son, Shim\u201bi his son,"}, {"pk": 2720709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "Mik\u0331ah his son, Re\u2019ayah his son, Ba\u201bal his son,"}, {"pk": 2720710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "and Be\u2019\u0115rah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur took into exile. He was leader of the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites."}, {"pk": 2720711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And his brothers by their clans, when the genealogy of their generations was registered: the chief, Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, and Zek\u0331aryahu,"}, {"pk": 2720712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Yo\u2019\u0115l, who dwelt in Aro\u201b\u0115r, as far as Neb\u0331o and Ba\u201bal Me\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2720713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And he dwelt eastward as far as the entrance of the wilderness from the River Euphrates, because their livestock had increased in the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And in the days of Sha\u2019ul they fought against the Ha\u1e21rites, who fell by their hand. And they dwelt in their tents over all the eastern part of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And the children of Gad\u0331 dwelt next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salk\u0331ah:"}, {"pk": 2720716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Yo\u2019\u0115l was the chief, Shapham the next, then Ya\u201banai and Shaphat in Bashan;"}, {"pk": 2720717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "and their brothers of their father\u2019s house: Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and Meshullam, and Sheb\u0331a, and Yorai, and Yakan, and Ziya, and \u011ab\u0331er, seven."}, {"pk": 2720718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "These were the children of Ab\u0331ih\u0323ayil son of H\u0323uri, son of Yarowah\u0323, son of Gil\u201bad\u0331, son of Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, son of Yeshishai, son of Yah\u0323do, son of Buz;"}, {"pk": 2720719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "Ah\u0323i son of Ab\u0331di\u2019\u0115l, son of Guni, was chief of their father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2720720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And they dwelt in Gil\u201bad\u0331, in Bashan and in its villages, and in all the open lands of Sharon within their borders."}, {"pk": 2720721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "All these were registered by genealogies in the days of Yotham sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and in the days of Yarob\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "The sons of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and the Gad\u0331ites, and half the tribe of Menashsheh had forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty brave men, men able to bear shield and sword, to shoot with the bow, and skilled in battle, going out to the army."}, {"pk": 2720723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And they fought against the Ha\u1e21rites, and Yetur, and Naphish, and Nod\u0331ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And they were helped against them, and the Ha\u1e21rites were given into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried out to Elohim in the battle, and He answered their prayer, because they put their trust in Him."}, {"pk": 2720725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And they took away their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand of their sheep, and two thousand of their donkeys, also one hundred thousand of their men,"}, {"pk": 2720726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "for many fell dead, because the battle was of Elohim. And they dwelt in their place until the exile."}, {"pk": 2720727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "And the children of the half-tribe of Menashsheh dwelt in the land. They increased from Bashan to Ba\u201bal H\u0323ermon, that is, to Senir, or Mount H\u0323ermon."}, {"pk": 2720728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And these were the heads of their fathers\u2019 houses: \u011apher, and Yishi, and Eli\u2019\u0115l, and Azri\u2019\u0115l, and Yirmeyah, Hod\u0331awyah, and Yah\u0323di\u2019\u0115l \u2014 mighty brave men, men of name, and heads of their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2720729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "But they trespassed against the Elohim of their fathers, and whored after the mighty ones of the peoples of the land, whom Elohim had destroyed before them."}, {"pk": 2720730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "So the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l stirred up the spirit of Pul sovereign of Ashshur, even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser sovereign of Ashshur. And he took the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and the Gad\u0331ites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh into exile, and brought them to H\u0323alah\u0323, and H\u0323ab\u0331or, and Hara, and the river of Gozan, unto this day."}, {"pk": 2720731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "The sons of L\u0115wi: G\u0115reshom, Qehath, and Merari."}, {"pk": 2720732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sons of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, and H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And the children of Amram: Aharon, and Mosheh, and Miryam. And the sons of Aharon: Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar and Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2720734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "El\u201bazar brought forth Pineh\u0323as, Pineh\u0323as brought forth Ab\u0331ishua;"}, {"pk": 2720735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "and Ab\u0331ishua brought forth Buqqi, and Buqqi brought forth Uzzi;"}, {"pk": 2720736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "and Uzzi brought forth Zerah\u0323yah, and Zerah\u0323yah brought forth Merayoth;"}, {"pk": 2720737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Merayoth brought forth Amaryah, and Amaryah brought forth Ah\u0323itub\u0331;"}, {"pk": 2720738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "and Ah\u0323itub\u0331 brought forth Tsad\u0331oq, and Tsad\u0331oq brought forth Ah\u0323ima\u201bats;"}, {"pk": 2720739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "and Ah\u0323ima\u201bats brought forth Azaryah, and Azaryah brought forth Yoh\u0323anan;"}, {"pk": 2720740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "and Yoh\u0323anan brought forth Azaryah \u2014 it was he who served as priest in the House that Shelomoh built in Yerushalayim;"}, {"pk": 2720741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "and Azaryah brought forth Amaryah, and Amaryah brought forth Ah\u0323itub\u0331;"}, {"pk": 2720742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "and Ah\u0323itub\u0331 brought forth Tsad\u0331oq, and Tsad\u0331oq brought forth Shallum;"}, {"pk": 2720743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "and Shallum brought forth H\u0323ilqiyah, and H\u0323ilqiyah brought forth Azaryah;"}, {"pk": 2720744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "and Azaryah brought forth Serayah, and Serayah brought forth Yehotsad\u0331aq."}, {"pk": 2720745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehotsad\u0331aq went away when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim into exile by the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar."}, {"pk": 2720746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "The sons of L\u0115wi: G\u0115reshom, Qehath, and Merari."}, {"pk": 2720747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And these are the names of the sons of G\u0115reshom: Lib\u0331ni and Shim\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2720748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sons of Qehath: Amram, and Yitshar, and H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "The sons of Merari: Mah\u0323li and Mushi. And these are the clans of the L\u0115wites according to their fathers:"}, {"pk": 2720750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "Of G\u0115reshom were Lib\u0331ni his son, Yah\u0323ath his son, Zimmah his son,"}, {"pk": 2720751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Yo\u2019ah\u0323 his son, Iddo his son, Zerah\u0323 his son, Ye\u2019atherai his son."}, {"pk": 2720752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "The sons of Qehath: Amminad\u0331ab\u0331 his son, Qorah\u0323 his son, Assir his son,"}, {"pk": 2720753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "Elqanah his son, Eb\u0331yasaph his son, Assir his son,"}, {"pk": 2720754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "Tah\u0323ath his son, Uri\u2019\u0115l his son, Uzziyah his son, and Sha\u2019ul his son."}, {"pk": 2720755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And the sons of Elqanah: Amasai and Ah\u0323imoth."}, {"pk": 2720756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "Elqanah \u2014 the sons of Elqanah: Tsophai his son, and Nah\u0323ath his son,"}, {"pk": 2720757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "Eliyab\u0331 his son, Yeroh\u0323am his son, Elqanah his son."}, {"pk": 2720758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And the sons of Shemu\u2019\u0115l: Yo\u2019\u0115l the first-born, and Ab\u0331iyah the second."}, {"pk": 2720759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "The sons of Merari: Mah\u0323li, Lib\u0331ni his son, Shim\u201bi his son, Uzzah his son,"}, {"pk": 2720760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "Shim\u201ba his son, H\u0323aggiyah his son, and Asayah his son."}, {"pk": 2720761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "And these are the men whom Dawid\u0331 appointed over the service of song in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, after the ark came to rest."}, {"pk": 2720762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "And they were rendering service in song before the dwelling place of the Tent of Appointment, until Shelomoh had built the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Yerushalayim, and they performed their duties according to their ruling."}, {"pk": 2720763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "And these are the ones who stood with their sons: Of the sons of the Qehathites were H\u0115man the singer, son of Yo\u2019\u0115l, son of Shemu\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2720764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "son of Elqanah, son of Yeroh\u0323am, son of Eli\u2019\u0115l, son of Towah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "son of Tsuph, son of Elqanah, son of Mah\u0323ath, son of Amasai,"}, {"pk": 2720766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "son of Elqanah, son of Yo\u2019\u0115l, son of Azaryah, son of Tsephanyah,"}, {"pk": 2720767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "son of Tah\u0323ath, son of Assir, son of Eb\u0331yasaph, son of Qorah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "son of Yitshar, son of Qehath, son of L\u0115wi, son of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand, was Asaph son of Berek\u0331yahu, son of Shim\u201ba,"}, {"pk": 2720770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "son of Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, son of Ba\u201bas\u0115yah, son of Malkiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "text": "son of Ethni, son of Zerah\u0323, son of Ad\u0331ayah,"}, {"pk": 2720772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "text": "son of \u011aythan, son of Zimmah, son of Shim\u201bi,"}, {"pk": 2720773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 43, "text": "son of Yah\u0323ath, son of G\u0115reshom, son of L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2720774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 44, "text": "And their brothers, the sons of Merari, on the left hand, were \u011aythan son of Qishi, son of Ab\u0331di, son of Malluk\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 45, "text": "son of H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, son of Amatsyah, son of H\u0323ilqiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 46, "text": "son of Amtsi, son of Bani, son of Shemer,"}, {"pk": 2720777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 47, "text": "son of Mah\u0323li, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2720778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 48, "text": "And their brothers, the L\u0115wites, were appointed to every kind of service of the Dwelling Place of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 49, "text": "But Aharon and his sons offered on the slaughter-place of ascending offering and on the slaughter-place of incense, for all the work of the Most Set-apart Place, and to make atonement for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to all that Mosheh the servant of Elohim had commanded."}, {"pk": 2720780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 50, "text": "And these are the sons of Aharon: El\u201bazar his son, Pineh\u0323as his son, Ab\u0331ishua his son,"}, {"pk": 2720781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 51, "text": "Buqqi his son, Uzzi his son, Zerah\u0323yah his son,"}, {"pk": 2720782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 52, "text": "Merayoth his son, Amaryah his son, Ah\u0323itub\u0331 his son,"}, {"pk": 2720783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 53, "text": "Tsad\u0331oq his son, Ah\u0323ima\u201bats his son."}, {"pk": 2720784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 54, "text": "And these were their dwelling places throughout their settlements within their borders, of the sons of Aharon, of the clan of the Qehathites, for the lot was theirs."}, {"pk": 2720785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 55, "text": "And they gave them H\u0323eb\u0331ron in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, with its surrounding open lands."}, {"pk": 2720786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 56, "text": "But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Kal\u0115b\u0331 son of Yephunneh."}, {"pk": 2720787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 57, "text": "And to the sons of Aharon they gave the cities of refuge: H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Lib\u0331nah with its open lands, and Yattir, and Eshtemoa with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 58, "text": "and H\u0323il\u0115n with its open lands, Deb\u0331ir with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 59, "text": "and Ashan with its open lands, and B\u0115yth Shemesh with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 60, "text": "And from the tribe of Binyamin: Geb\u0331a with its open lands, and Alemeth with its open lands, and Anathoth with its open lands. All their cities among their clans were thirteen."}, {"pk": 2720791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 61, "text": "And to the rest of the clan of the tribe of the Qehathites by lot ten cities from half the tribe of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2720792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 62, "text": "And to the sons of G\u0115reshom, throughout their clans, thirteen cities from the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar, and from the tribe of Ash\u0115r, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Menashsheh in Bashan."}, {"pk": 2720793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 63, "text": "To the sons of Merari, throughout their clans, by lot twelve cities from the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, and from the tribe of Gad\u0331, and from the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun."}, {"pk": 2720794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 64, "text": "So the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave cities with their open lands to the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2720795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 65, "text": "And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Yehud\u0331ah, and from the tribe of the children of Shim\u201bon, and from the tribe of the children of Binyamin these cities which are mentioned by name."}, {"pk": 2720796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 66, "text": "And some of the clans of the sons of Qehath had cities of their borders from the tribe of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2720797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 67, "text": "And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shek\u0331em with its open lands, in the mountains of Ephrayim, and Gezer with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 68, "text": "and Yoqme\u201bam with its open lands, and B\u0115yth H\u0323oron with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 69, "text": "and Ayalon with its open lands, and Gath Rimmon with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 70, "text": "And from the half-tribe of Menashsheh: An\u0115r with its open lands, and Bil\u201bam with its open lands, for the rest of the clan of the sons of Qehath."}, {"pk": 2720801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 71, "text": "From the clan of the half-tribe of Menashsheh the sons of G\u0115reshom: Golan in Bashan with its open lands and Ashtaroth with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 72, "text": "And from the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar: Qed\u0331esh with its open lands, Dab\u0331erath with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 73, "text": "Ramoth with its open lands, and An\u0115m with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 74, "text": "And from the tribe of Ash\u0115r: Mashal with its open lands, and Ab\u0331don with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 75, "text": "and H\u0323uqoq with its open lands, and Reh\u0323ob\u0331 with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 76, "text": "And from the tribe of Naphtali: Qed\u0331esh in Galil with its open lands, and H\u0323ammon with its open lands, and Qiryathayim with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 77, "text": "From the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun the rest of the children of Merari: Rimmon with its open lands and Tab\u0331or with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 78, "text": "And from beyond the Yard\u0115n of Yerih\u0323o, on the east side of the Yard\u0115n, from the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: Betser in the wilderness with its open lands, and Yahtsah with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 79, "text": "Qed\u0331\u0115moth with its open lands, and M\u0115pha\u201bath with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 80, "text": "And from the tribe of Gad\u0331: Ramoth in Gil\u201bad\u0331 with its open lands, and Mah\u0323anayim with its open lands,"}, {"pk": 2720811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 6, "verse": 81, "text": "and H\u0323eshbon with its open lands, and Ya\u201bz\u0115r with its open lands."}, {"pk": 2720812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sons of Yissask\u0331ar: Tola, and Pu\u2019ah, Yashub\u0331, and Shimron, four."}, {"pk": 2720813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephayah, and Yeri\u2019\u0115l, and Yah\u0323mai, and Yib\u0331sam, and Shemu\u2019\u0115l, heads of their father\u2019s house. Of Tola there were great men of might in their generations; their number in the days of Dawid\u0331 was twenty-two thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2720814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And the son of Uzzi: Yizrah\u0323yah, and the sons of Yizrah\u0323yah: Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, and Yo\u2019\u0115l, Yishshiyah. All five of them were heads."}, {"pk": 2720815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers\u2019 houses, were thirty-six thousand, bands of the army for battle, for they had many wives and sons."}, {"pk": 2720816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And their brothers among all the clans of Yissask\u0331ar were mighty brave men, listed by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand in all."}, {"pk": 2720817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "Of Binyamin: Bela, and Bek\u0331er, and Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l, three."}, {"pk": 2720818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sons of Bela: Etsbon, and Uzzi, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l, and Yerimoth, and Iri, five \u2014 heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, and they were listed by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2720819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And the sons of Bek\u0331er: Zemirah, and Yo\u201bash, and Eli\u201bezer, and Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, and Omri, and Yerimoth, and Ab\u0331iyah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Bek\u0331er,"}, {"pk": 2720820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "with their genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2720821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And the son of Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l: Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan: Ye\u201bush, and Binyamin, and \u011ahud\u0331, and Kena\u201banah, and Z\u0115than, and Tarshish, and Ah\u0323ishah\u0323ar."}, {"pk": 2720822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "All these sons of Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l were heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, seventeen thousand two hundred mighty brave men going out to the army for battle."}, {"pk": 2720823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And Shuppim and H\u0323uppim were the sons of Ir, and H\u0323ushim was the son of Ah\u0323\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2720824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "The sons of Naphtali: Yah\u0323tsi\u2019\u0115l, and Guni, and Y\u0115tser, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah."}, {"pk": 2720825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "The sons of Menashsheh: his Aramean concubine bore him Mak\u0331ir the father of Gil\u201bad\u0331, the father of Asri\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mak\u0331ir took wives for H\u0323uppim and Shuppim; and the name of one was Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and the name of the second was Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331. And Tselophh\u0323ad\u0331 had daughters."}, {"pk": 2720827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "But Ma\u201bak\u0331ah the wife of Mak\u0331ir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Raqem."}, {"pk": 2720828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And the son of Ulam: Bed\u0331an. These were the sons of Gil\u201bad\u0331, son of Mak\u0331ir, son of Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2720829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And his sister Hammolek\u0331eth bore Ishhod, and Ab\u0331i\u201bezer, and Mah\u0323lah."}, {"pk": 2720830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of Shemid\u0331a: Ah\u0323yan, and Shek\u0331em, and Liqh\u0323i, and Aniyam."}, {"pk": 2720831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And the sons of Ephrayim: Shuthelah\u0323, and Bered\u0331 his son, and Tah\u0323ath his son, and Elad\u0331ah his son, and Tah\u0323ath his son,"}, {"pk": 2720832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "and Zab\u0331ad\u0331 his son, and Shuthelah\u0323 his son, and Ezer and El\u201bad\u0331. But the men of Gath who were born in that land killed them because they came down to take their livestock."}, {"pk": 2720833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And Ephrayim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him."}, {"pk": 2720834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And when he went in to his wife, she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beri\u201bah, because evil had come upon his house."}, {"pk": 2720835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And his daughter was She\u2019erah, who built Lower and Upper B\u0115yth H\u0323oron and Uzzen She\u2019erah."}, {"pk": 2720836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And Rephah\u0323 was his son, as well as Resheph, and Telah\u0323 his son, and Tah\u0323an his son,"}, {"pk": 2720837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "La\u201bdan his son, Ammihud\u0331 his son, Elishama his son,"}, {"pk": 2720838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "Nun his son, Yehoshua his son."}, {"pk": 2720839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "And their possessions and dwelling places were B\u0115yth \u011al and its towns: to the east Na\u201baran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, and Shek\u0331em and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns."}, {"pk": 2720840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "And by the borders of the children of Menashsheh were B\u0115yth She\u2019an and its towns, Ta\u201banak\u0331 and its towns, Me\u1e21iddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Yos\u0115ph, son of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "The sons of Ash\u0115r: Yimnah, and Yishwah, and Yishwi, and Beri\u201bah, and their sister Serah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2720842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sons of Beri\u201bah: H\u0323eb\u0331er and Malki\u2019\u0115l, who was the father of Birzoth."}, {"pk": 2720843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "And H\u0323eb\u0331er brought forth Yaphl\u0115t, and Shom\u0115r, and H\u0323otham, and their sister Shuwa."}, {"pk": 2720844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "And the sons of Yaphl\u0115t: Pasak\u0331, and Bimhal, and Ashwath. These were the children of Yaphl\u0115t."}, {"pk": 2720845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "And the sons of Shemer: Ah\u0323i, and Rohagah, Yeh\u0323ubbah, and Aram."}, {"pk": 2720846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "And the sons of his brother H\u0323\u0115lem: Tsophah\u0323, and Yimna, and Shelesh, and Amal."}, {"pk": 2720847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "The sons of Tsophah\u0323: Suwah, and H\u0323arnepher, and Shu\u201bal, and B\u0115ri, and Yimrah,"}, {"pk": 2720848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "Betser, and Hod\u0331, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Yithran, and Be\u2019\u0115ra."}, {"pk": 2720849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "And the sons of Yether: Yephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara."}, {"pk": 2720850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "And the sons of Ulla: Arah\u0323, and H\u0323anni\u2019\u0115l, and Ritsya."}, {"pk": 2720851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "All these were the children of Ash\u0115r, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, chosen ones, mighty brave men, chief leaders. And when they registered by genealogy for the army, for battle, their number was twenty-six thousand."}, {"pk": 2720852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And Binyamin brought forth Bela his first-born, Ashb\u0115l the second, Ah\u0323rah\u0323 the third,"}, {"pk": 2720853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "Noh\u0323ah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth."}, {"pk": 2720854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sons of Bela: Addar, and G\u0115ra, and Ab\u0331ihud\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "and Ab\u0331ishua, and Na\u201baman, and Ah\u0323owah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "and G\u0115ra, and Shephuphan, and H\u0323uram."}, {"pk": 2720857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And these are the sons of \u011ah\u0323ud\u0331. They were the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of the inhabitants of Geb\u0331a, and they were exiled to Manah\u0323ath."}, {"pk": 2720858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Na\u201baman, and Ah\u0323iyah, and G\u0115ra \u2014 he exiled them. And \u011ah\u0323ud\u0331 brought forth Uzza and Ah\u0323ihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And Shah\u0323arayim brought forth children in the field of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, after he had sent away H\u0323ushim and Ba\u201bara his wives."}, {"pk": 2720860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And by H\u0323od\u0331esh his wife he brought forth Yob\u0331ab\u0331, and Tsib\u0331ya, and M\u0115ysha, and Malkam,"}, {"pk": 2720861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "and Ye\u201buts, and Shob\u0331yah, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2720862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And by H\u0323ushim he brought forth Ab\u0331itub\u0331 and Elpa\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2720863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sons of Elpa\u201bal: \u011ab\u0331er, and Mish\u201bam, and Shemer, who built Ono and Lod\u0331 with its towns;"}, {"pk": 2720864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "and Beri\u201bah and Shema, who were heads of their fathers\u2019 houses of the inhabitants of Ayalon, who drove out the inhabitants of Gath."}, {"pk": 2720865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "and Ah\u0323yo, Shashaq, and Yer\u0115moth,"}, {"pk": 2720866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "and Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah, and Arad\u0331, and \u011ad\u0331er,"}, {"pk": 2720867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "and Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and Yispah, and Yoh\u0323a were the sons of Beri\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2720868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah, and Meshullam, and H\u0323izqi, and H\u0323eb\u0331er,"}, {"pk": 2720869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "and Yishmerai, and Yizli\u2019ah, and Yob\u0331ab\u0331 were the sons of Elpa\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2720870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yaqim, and Zik\u0331ri, and Zab\u0331di,"}, {"pk": 2720871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "and Eli\u201b\u0115ynai, and Tsillethai, and Eli\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2720872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "and Ad\u0331ayah, and Berayah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shim\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2720873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yishpan, and \u011ab\u0331er, and Eli\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2720874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "and Ab\u0331don, and Zik\u0331ri, and H\u0323anan,"}, {"pk": 2720875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "and H\u0323ananyah, and \u011aylam, and Antothiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "and Yiphdeyah, and Penu\u2019\u0115l were the sons of Shashaq."}, {"pk": 2720877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And Shamsherai, and Sheh\u0323aryah, and Athalyah,"}, {"pk": 2720878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "and Ya\u201bareshyah, and \u011aliyah, and Zik\u0331ri were the sons of Yeroh\u0323am."}, {"pk": 2720879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "These were heads of the fathers\u2019 houses by their generations, heads. These dwelt in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And the father of Gib\u0331\u201bon, whose wife\u2019s name was Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, dwelt at Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2720881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And his first-born son was Ab\u0331don, then Tsur, and Qish, and Ba\u201bal, and Nad\u0331ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "and Ged\u0331or, and Ah\u0323yo, and Zek\u0331er,"}, {"pk": 2720883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "and Miqloth, who brought forth Shim\u201bah. And they also dwelt alongside their relatives in Yerushalayim, with their brothers."}, {"pk": 2720884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And N\u0115r brought forth Qish, and Qish brought forth Sha\u2019ul, and Sha\u2019ul brought forth Yehonathan, and Malkishua, and Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and Esh-Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2720885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And the son of Yehonathan was Merib\u0331-Ba\u201bal, and Merib\u0331-Ba\u201bal brought forth Mik\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "And the sons of Mik\u0331ah: Pithon, and Melek\u0331, and Ta\u2019ar\u0115a, and Ah\u0323az."}, {"pk": 2720887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "And Ah\u0323az brought forth Yeho\u201baddah, and Yeho\u201baddah brought forth Alemeth, and Azmaweth, and Zimri. And Zimri brought forth Motsa."}, {"pk": 2720888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "And Motsa brought forth Bin\u201ba, Raphah his son, El\u201basah his son, Ats\u0115l his son."}, {"pk": 2720889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "And Ats\u0115l had six sons whose names were these: Azriqam, Bok\u0331eru, and Yishma\u201b\u0115l, and She\u201baryah, and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, and H\u0323anan. All these were the sons of Ats\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "And the sons of \u011asheq his brother: Ulam his first-born, Ye\u201bush the second, and Eliphelet the third."}, {"pk": 2720891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "text": "And the sons of Ulam were mighty brave men, archers, and had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. These were all sons of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2720892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l registered themselves by genealogy. And see, they were written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And Yehud\u0331ah was exiled to Bab\u0331el for their trespass."}, {"pk": 2720893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And the first inhabitants who were in their possessions in their cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, were the priests, the L\u0115wites, and the Nethinim."}, {"pk": 2720894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And in Yerushalayim dwelt some of the children of Yehud\u0331ah, and some of the children of Binyamin, and some of the children of Ephrayim and Menashsheh:"}, {"pk": 2720895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "Uthai son of Ammihud\u0331, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, of the sons of Perets, the son of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And of the Shilonites: Asayah the first-born and his sons."}, {"pk": 2720897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And of the sons of Zerah\u0323: Ye\u201bu\u2019\u0115l, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety."}, {"pk": 2720898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And of the sons of Binyamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hod\u0331awyah, son of Hasenu\u2019ah;"}, {"pk": 2720899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "and Yib\u0331neyah son of Yeroh\u0323am; and \u011alah son of Uzzi, son of Mik\u0331ri; and Meshullam son of Shephatyah, son of Re\u201bu\u2019\u0115l, son of Yib\u0331niyah;"}, {"pk": 2720900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were heads of a father\u2019s house in their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2720901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And of the priests: Yed\u0331ayah, and Yehoyarib\u0331, and Yak\u0331in;"}, {"pk": 2720902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "and Azaryah son of H\u0323ilqiyah, son of Meshullam, son of Tsad\u0331oq, son of Merayoth, son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331, the officer over the House of Elohim;"}, {"pk": 2720903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "and Ad\u0331ayah son of Yeroh\u0323am, son of Pashh\u0323ur, son of Malkiyah; and Ma\u201basai son of Ad\u0331i\u2019\u0115l, son of Yah\u0323z\u0115rah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshill\u0115mith, son of Imm\u0115r;"}, {"pk": 2720904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "and their brothers, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, able men for the work of the service of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And of the L\u0115wites: Shemayah son of H\u0323ashshub\u0331, son of Azriqam, son of H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, of the sons of Merari;"}, {"pk": 2720906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "and Baqbaqqar, H\u0323eresh, and Galal, and Mattanyah son of Mik\u0331a, son of Zik\u0331ri, son of Asaph;"}, {"pk": 2720907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah son of Shemayah, son of Galal, son of Yed\u0331uthun; and Berek\u0331yah son of Asa, son of Elqanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites."}, {"pk": 2720908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Aqqub\u0331, and Talmon, and Ah\u0323iman, and their brothers \u2014 Shallum the chief."}, {"pk": 2720909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And up till then they were gatekeepers for the camps of the children of L\u0115wi at the Sovereign\u2019s Gate on the east."}, {"pk": 2720910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And Shallum son of Qor\u0115, son of Eb\u0331yasaph, son of Qorah\u0323, and his brothers, from his father\u2019s house, the Qorh\u0323ites, were over the work of the service, guards of the thresholds of the Tent. And their fathers had been guards of the entrance to the camp of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2720911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And Pineh\u0323as son of El\u201bazar was leader over them in time past. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him."}, {"pk": 2720912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Zek\u0331aryah son of Meshelemyah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the Tent of Appointment."}, {"pk": 2720913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "All those chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. They were registered by genealogy, in their villages. Dawid\u0331 and Shemu\u2019\u0115l the seer had appointed them to their office of trust."}, {"pk": 2720914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "So they and their sons were over the gates of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the House of the Tent, by watches."}, {"pk": 2720915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "The gatekeepers were on the four sides: the east, west, north, and south."}, {"pk": 2720916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And their brothers in their villages had to come with them from time to time for seven days."}, {"pk": 2720917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "For the four chief gatekeepers were in an office of trust. They were L\u0115wites, and they were over the rooms and treasuries of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And they spent the night all around the House of Elohim because they had the duty, and they were to open it morning by morning."}, {"pk": 2720919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And some of them were over the vessels of service, for they brought them in and took them out by count."}, {"pk": 2720920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And some of them were appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the set-apart place, and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the incense and the spices."}, {"pk": 2720921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And some of the sons of the priests blended the compound of spices."}, {"pk": 2720922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "And Mattithyah of the L\u0115wites, the first-born of Shallum the Qorh\u0323ite, was entrusted with the making of the flat cakes."}, {"pk": 2720923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "And some of their brothers of the sons of the Qehathites were over the showbread, to prepare every Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2720924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And these were the singers, heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of the L\u0115wites, in the rooms, and were exempted from other duties, for they were employed in that work day and night."}, {"pk": 2720925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "These heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of the L\u0115wites were heads throughout their generations. They dwelt at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l the father of Gib\u0331\u201bon, whose wife\u2019s name was Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, dwelt at Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2720927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And his first-born son was Ab\u0331don, then Tsur, and Qish, and Ba\u201bal, and N\u0115r, and Nad\u0331ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "and Ged\u0331or, and Ah\u0323yo, and Zek\u0331aryah, and Miqloth."}, {"pk": 2720929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And Miqloth brought forth Shim\u201bam. And they too dwelt alongside their relatives in Yerushalayim, with their brothers."}, {"pk": 2720930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "And N\u0115r brought forth Qish, and Qish brought forth Sha\u2019ul, and Sha\u2019ul brought forth Yehonathan, and Malkishua, and Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and Esh-Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2720931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "And the son of Yehonathan was Merib\u0331-Ba\u201bal, and Merib\u0331-Ba\u201bal brought forth Mik\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2720932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "And the sons of Mik\u0331ah: Pithon, and Melek\u0331, and Tah\u0323r\u0115a,"}, {"pk": 2720933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "text": "and Ah\u0323az, who brought forth Yarah; and Yarah brought forth Alemeth, and Azmaweth, and Zimri. And Zimri brought forth Motsa;"}, {"pk": 2720934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "text": "and Motsa brought forth Bin\u201ba, and Rephayah was his son, El\u201basah his son, Ats\u0115l his son."}, {"pk": 2720935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "text": "And Ats\u0115l had six sons whose names were these: Azriqam, Bok\u0331eru, and Yishma\u201b\u0115l, and She\u201baryah, and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, and H\u0323anan. These were the sons of Ats\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Philistines fought against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2720937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Philistines pursued Sha\u2019ul and his sons, and the Philistines struck Yonathan, and Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and Malkishua, sons of Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2720938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And the battle was heavy on Sha\u2019ul. And the archers hit him, and he was wounded by the archers."}, {"pk": 2720939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said to his armour-bearer, \u201cDraw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come and abuse me.\u201d But his armour-bearer would not, for he was much afraid, so Sha\u2019ul took a sword and fell on it."}, {"pk": 2720940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And when his armour-bearer saw that Sha\u2019ul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died."}, {"pk": 2720941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus Sha\u2019ul and his three sons died, and all his house \u2014 they died together."}, {"pk": 2720942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And when all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Sha\u2019ul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and dwelt in them."}, {"pk": 2720943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And the next day it came to be, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Sha\u2019ul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa."}, {"pk": 2720944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And they stripped him and took his head and his armour, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and among the people,"}, {"pk": 2720945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "and put his armour in the house of their mighty ones, and fastened his head in the house of Da\u1e21on."}, {"pk": 2720946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And all Yab\u0331\u0115sh Gil\u201bad\u0331 heard of all that the Philistines had done to Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2720947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "and all the brave men arose and took the body of Sha\u2019ul and the bodies of his sons. And they brought them to Yab\u0331\u0115sh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk tree at Yab\u0331\u0115sh, and fasted seven days."}, {"pk": 2720948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus Sha\u2019ul died for his trespass which he had trespassed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because he did not guard the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and also for asking a medium for to make inquiry,"}, {"pk": 2720949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "and did not inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So He put him to death, and turned the reign over to Dawid\u0331 son of Yishai."}, {"pk": 2720950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l came together to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323eb\u0331ron, saying, \u201cSee, we are your bone and your flesh."}, {"pk": 2720951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAlso, in time past, even when Sha\u2019ul was sovereign, you were the one who led Yisra\u2019\u0115l out and brought them in. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim said to you, \u2018Shepherd My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and be ruler over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2720952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "So all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to the sovereign at H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Dawid\u0331 made a covenant with them at H\u0323eb\u0331ron before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they anointed Dawid\u0331 sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by Shemu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l went to Yerushalayim, which is Yeb\u0331us, where the Yeb\u0331usites were, the inhabitants of the land."}, {"pk": 2720954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And the inhabitants of Yeb\u0331us said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cYou do not come in here.\u201d But Dawid\u0331 captured the stronghold of Tsiyon, the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cWhoever strikes the Yeb\u0331usites first becomes chief and commander.\u201d And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah went up first, and became chief."}, {"pk": 2720956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 dwelt in the stronghold, so they called it the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And he built the city around it, from Millo round about, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 revived the rest of the city."}, {"pk": 2720958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went on and became great, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts was with him."}, {"pk": 2720959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And these were the heads of the mighty men whom Dawid\u0331 had, who strengthened themselves with him in his reign, with all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to set him up to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2720960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And this is the number of the mighty men whom Dawid\u0331 had: Yashob\u0331\u201bam son of a H\u0323ak\u0331monite, chief of the thirty. He had lifted up his spear against three hundred, slain at one time."}, {"pk": 2720961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And after him was El\u201bazar son of Dod\u0331o, the Ah\u0323oh\u0323ite, who was one of the three mighty men."}, {"pk": 2720962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "He was with Dawid\u0331 at Pasdammim, and the Philistines were gathered there for battle, and a portion of the field was filled with barley, and the people had fled before the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2720963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "But they took their stand in the midst of that field, and delivered it, and struck the Philistines. Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved them by a great deliverance."}, {"pk": 2720964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to Dawid\u0331, into the cave of Ad\u0331ullam, while the army of the Philistines encamped in the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2720965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was then in the stronghold, and the watch-post of the Philistines was then in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em."}, {"pk": 2720966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 longed and said, \u201cOh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, which is by the gate!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to Dawid\u0331. But Dawid\u0331 would not drink it, but poured it out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2720968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said, \u201cFar be it from me, O my Elohim, that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who have risked their lives? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.\u201d And he would not drink it. This is what the three mighty men did."}, {"pk": 2720969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ab\u0331ishai the brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 was chief of another three. And he had lifted up his spear against three hundred men, who were slain, and won a name among the three."}, {"pk": 2720970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Of the three he was more esteemed than the other two men, so he became their head. However he did not come to the first three."}, {"pk": 2720971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Benayah was the son of Yehoyad\u0331a, the son of a brave man from Qab\u0331tse\u2019\u0115l, who had done many deeds. He struck two lion-like Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites. He also went down and struck a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day."}, {"pk": 2720972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And he struck a Mitsrian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. And in the Mitsrian\u2019s hand was a spear like a weaver\u2019s beam, and he went down to him with a staff and wrenched the spear out of the Mitsrian\u2019s hand, and killed him with his own spear."}, {"pk": 2720973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "This is what Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a did, and won a name among the three mighty men."}, {"pk": 2720974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "See, he was more esteemed than the thirty, but he did not come to the first three. And Dawid\u0331 set him over his court."}, {"pk": 2720975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And the mighty men of the armies were Asah\u2019\u0115l the brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, Elh\u0323anan son of Dod\u0331o of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em,"}, {"pk": 2720976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "Shammoth the Harorite, H\u0323\u0115lets the Pelonite,"}, {"pk": 2720977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "Ira son of Iqq\u0115sh the Teqowite, Ab\u0331i\u201bezer the Anathothite,"}, {"pk": 2720978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "Sibbek\u0331ai the H\u0323ushathite, Ilai the Ah\u0323oh\u0323ite,"}, {"pk": 2720979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "Maharai the Netophathite, H\u0323\u0115led\u0331 son of Ba\u201banah the Netophathite,"}, {"pk": 2720980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "Ithai son of Rib\u0331ai of Gib\u0331\u201bah, of the children of Binyamin, Benayah the Pirathonite,"}, {"pk": 2720981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "H\u0323urai of the wadis of Ga\u201bash, Ab\u0331i\u2019\u0115l the Arbathite,"}, {"pk": 2720982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "Azmaweth the Bah\u0323arumite, Elyah\u0323ba the Sha\u201balbonite,"}, {"pk": 2720983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "the sons of Hash\u0115m the Gizonite, Yonathan son of Sha\u1e21\u0115 the Hararite,"}, {"pk": 2720984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "Ah\u0323yam son of Sak\u0331ar the Hararite, Eliphal son of Ur,"}, {"pk": 2720985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "H\u0323\u0115pher the Mek\u0115rathite, Ah\u0323iyah the Pelonite,"}, {"pk": 2720986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "H\u0323etsro the Karmelite, Na\u201barai son of Ezbai,"}, {"pk": 2720987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "Yo\u2019\u0115l the brother of Nathan, Mib\u0331h\u0323ar son of Ha\u1e21ri,"}, {"pk": 2720988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "Tseleq the Ammonite, Nah\u0323arai the B\u0115rothite (the armour-bearer of Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah),"}, {"pk": 2720989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "Ira the Yithrite, Gar\u0115b\u0331 the Yithrite,"}, {"pk": 2720990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "Uriyah the H\u0323ittite, Zab\u0331ad\u0331 son of Ah\u0323lai,"}, {"pk": 2720991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "Ad\u0331ina son of Shiza the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nite, the head of the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and thirty with him,"}, {"pk": 2720992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "H\u0323anan son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and Yoshaphat the Mithnite,"}, {"pk": 2720993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "text": "Uzziya the Ashterathite, Shama and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l the sons of H\u0323otham the Aro\u201b\u0115rite,"}, {"pk": 2720994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "text": "Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l son of Shimri, and Yoh\u0323a his brother, the Titsite,"}, {"pk": 2720995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "text": "Eli\u2019\u0115l the Mah\u0323awite, and Yerib\u0331ai and Yoshawyah the sons of Elna\u201bam, Yithmah the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ite,"}, {"pk": 2720996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "text": "Eli\u2019\u0115l, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331, and Ya\u201basi\u2019\u0115l of Metsob\u0331ayah."}, {"pk": 2720997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Now these are they who came to Dawid\u0331 at Tsiqla\u1e21 while he was still in hiding from Sha\u2019ul son of Qish. And they were among the mighty men, helping the battle,"}, {"pk": 2720998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left, with stones, and with arrows, with bows, of the brothers of Sha\u2019ul, of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2720999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "The chief was Ah\u0323i\u201bezer and Yo\u2019ash, the sons of Shema\u201bah the Gib\u0331\u201bathite; and Yezaw\u2019\u0115l and Pelet, the sons of Azmaweth; and Berak\u0331ah, and Y\u0115hu the Anathothite;"}, {"pk": 2721000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "and Yishmayah the Gib\u0331\u201bonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Yirmeyah, and Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l, and Yoh\u0323anan, and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331 the Ged\u0331\u0115rathite;"}, {"pk": 2721001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Eluzai, and Yerimoth, and Be\u201balyah, and Shemaryahu, and Shephatyahu the H\u0323aruphite;"}, {"pk": 2721002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Elqanah, and Yishshiyahu, and Azar\u2019\u0115l, and Yow\u201bezer, and Yashob\u0331\u201bam the Qorh\u0323ites;"}, {"pk": 2721003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "and Yo\u2019\u0115lah and Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah, the sons of Yeroh\u0323am of Ged\u0331or."}, {"pk": 2721004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And some Gad\u0331ites separated themselves to Dawid\u0331 at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty brave men, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:"}, {"pk": 2721005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u011azer the chief, Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah the second, Eliyab\u0331 the third,"}, {"pk": 2721006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "Mishmannah the fourth, Yirmeyah the fifth,"}, {"pk": 2721007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "Attai the sixth, Eli\u2019\u0115l the seventh,"}, {"pk": 2721008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan the eighth, Elzab\u0331ad\u0331 the ninth,"}, {"pk": 2721009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "Yirmeyahu the tenth, Mak\u0331bannai the eleventh."}, {"pk": 2721010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "These were from the sons of Gad\u0331, chiefs of the army. The least was over a hundred, and the greatest was over a thousand."}, {"pk": 2721011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "These were the ones who passed over the Yard\u0115n in the first new <i>moon</i>, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west."}, {"pk": 2721012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And some of the children of Binyamin and Yehud\u0331ah came to Dawid\u0331 at the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2721013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 went out to face them, and answered and said to them, \u201cIf you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my enemies \u2014 there is no violence in my hands \u2014 let the Elohim of our fathers see and reprove.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the officers, \u201cYours, O Dawid\u0331! And with you, O son of Yishai! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your Elohim shall help you.\u201d And Dawid\u0331 received them, and put them among the chiefs of the raiding band."}, {"pk": 2721015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And some from Menashsheh went over to Dawid\u0331 when he was going with the Philistines to battle against Sha\u2019ul. But they did not help them, for the princes of the Philistines took advice and sent him away, saying, \u201cHe might go over to his master Sha\u2019ul with our heads!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "When he went to Tsiqla\u1e21, those of Menashsheh who went over to him were Ad\u0331nah, and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, and Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l, and Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, and Elihu, and Tsillethai, chiefs of the thousands who were from Menashsheh."}, {"pk": 2721017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And they helped Dawid\u0331 against the raiding bands, for they were all mighty brave men, and they were commanders in the army."}, {"pk": 2721018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "For at that time they came to Dawid\u0331 day by day to help him, until it was a great army, like an army of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "And these were the numbers of the chiefs of those that were armed for battle, and came to Dawid\u0331 at H\u0323eb\u0331ron to turn over the reign of Sha\u2019ul to him, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4:"}, {"pk": 2721020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "Of the children of Yehud\u0331ah bearing shield and spear, six thousand eight hundred armed for battle;"}, {"pk": 2721021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "of the children of Shim\u201bon, mighty brave men for the army, seven thousand one hundred;"}, {"pk": 2721022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "of the children of L\u0115wi four thousand six hundred;"}, {"pk": 2721023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "and Yehoyad\u0331a, the leader of the Aharonites, and with him three thousand seven hundred;"}, {"pk": 2721024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "and Tsad\u0331oq, a young man, a mighty brave man, and from his father\u2019s house twenty-two commanders;"}, {"pk": 2721025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "and the children of Binyamin, relatives of Sha\u2019ul, three thousand \u2014 until then the greatest part of them guarded the charge of the house of Sha\u2019ul;"}, {"pk": 2721026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "and the children of Ephrayim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty brave ones, men of name throughout their father\u2019s house;"}, {"pk": 2721027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "and the half-tribe of Menashsheh eighteen thousand, who were designated by name to come and set up Dawid\u0331 to reign;"}, {"pk": 2721028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "and the children of Yissask\u0331ar who had understanding of the times, to know what Yisra\u2019\u0115l should do, their chiefs were two hundred. And all their brothers <i>acted</i> at their mouth;"}, {"pk": 2721029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "of Zeb\u0331ulun there were fifty thousand going out to the army, arranging battle with all weapons of battle, giving support with undivided heart;"}, {"pk": 2721030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "and of Naphtali one thousand commanders, and with them thirty-seven thousand with shield and spear;"}, {"pk": 2721031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "and of the Danites, arranging battle, twenty-eight thousand six hundred;"}, {"pk": 2721032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "and of Ash\u0115r, going out to the army, arranging battle, forty thousand;"}, {"pk": 2721033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "and of the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites and the Gad\u0331ites and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, from beyond the Yard\u0115n, one hundred and twenty thousand armed for battle with every kind of weapon of battle."}, {"pk": 2721034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "All these men of battle, keeping rank, came to H\u0323eb\u0331ron with a perfect heart, to set up Dawid\u0331 to reign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And all the rest of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were of one heart to set up Dawid\u0331 to reign."}, {"pk": 2721035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "And they were there with Dawid\u0331 three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had prepared for them."}, {"pk": 2721036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "And also those who were near to them, from as far away as Yissask\u0331ar and Zeb\u0331ulun and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and cattle \u2014 food of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and cattle and sheep in great quantities, for there was joy in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 consulted with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader."}, {"pk": 2721038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cIf it seems good to you, and if it is of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, let us send out to our brothers everywhere who are left in all the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and with them to the priests and L\u0115wites who are in their cities of their open lands, and let them be gathered to us;"}, {"pk": 2721039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "and let us bring the ark of our Elohim back to us, for we sought Him not since the days of Sha\u2019ul.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And all the assembly agreed to do so, for the matter was right in the eyes of all the people."}, {"pk": 2721041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 assembled all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from Shih\u0323or in Mitsrayim to as far as the entrance of H\u0323amath, to bring the ark of Elohim from Qiryath Ye\u201barim."}, {"pk": 2721042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up to Ba\u201balah, to Qiryath Ye\u201barim of Yehud\u0331ah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who dwells between the kerub\u0331im, where the Name is called on."}, {"pk": 2721043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And they placed the ark of Elohim on a new wagon from the house of Ab\u0331inad\u0331ab\u0331, and Uzza and Ah\u0323yo were leading the wagon."}, {"pk": 2721044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l were playing before Elohim with all their might, and with songs, and with lyres, and with harps, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets."}, {"pk": 2721045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "And when they came to the threshing-floor of Kid\u0331on, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled."}, {"pk": 2721046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "Then the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark. And he died there before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was displeased because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had broken out against Uzza, therefore that place is called Perets Uzza, until this day."}, {"pk": 2721048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was afraid of Elohim that day, saying, \u201cHow shall I bring the ark of Elohim to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 did not take the ark with him into the City of Dawid\u0331, but took it aside into the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om the Gittite."}, {"pk": 2721050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And the ark of Elohim remained with the household of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om in his house three new <i>moons</i>. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om and all that he had."}, {"pk": 2721051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And H\u0323iram sovereign of Tsor sent messengers to Dawid\u0331, and cedar trees, with stonemasons and carpenters, to build him a house."}, {"pk": 2721052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 knew that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had established him as sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for his reign was highly exalted for the sake of His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took more wives in Yerushalayim, and Dawid\u0331 brought forth more sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2721054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And these are the names of his children whom he had in Yerushalayim: Shammua and Shob\u0331ab\u0331, Nathan and Shelomoh,"}, {"pk": 2721055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "and Yib\u0331h\u0323ar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,"}, {"pk": 2721056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "and No\u1e21ah, and Nephe\u1e21, and Yaphiya,"}, {"pk": 2721057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "and Elishama, and Be\u201belyad\u0331a, and Eliphelet."}, {"pk": 2721058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And when the Philistines heard that Dawid\u0331 had been anointed sovereign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all the Philistines went up to seek Dawid\u0331. And Dawid\u0331 heard and went out against them."}, {"pk": 2721059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And the Philistines came and made a raid on the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2721060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 inquired of Elohim, saying, \u201cDo I go up against the Philistines? And shall You give them into my hand?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cGo up, and I shall give them into your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And they went up to Ba\u201bal Peratsim, and Dawid\u0331 struck them there. Then Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cElohim has broken through my enemies by my hand like a breakthrough of water.\u201d So they called the name of that place Ba\u201bal Peratsim."}, {"pk": 2721062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And they left their mighty ones there, so Dawid\u0331 commanded, and they were burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2721063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And the Philistines once again made a raid on the valley."}, {"pk": 2721064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 again inquired of Elohim, and Elohim said to him, \u201cDo not go up after them. Go around them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees."}, {"pk": 2721065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you hear a sound of stepping in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle, for Elohim shall go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 did as Elohim commanded him, and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gib\u0331\u201bon as far as Gezer."}, {"pk": 2721067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And the name of Dawid\u0331 went out into all lands, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 put the dread of him upon all nations."}, {"pk": 2721068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And he built houses for himself in the City of Dawid\u0331. And he prepared a place for the ark of Elohim, and pitched a tent for it."}, {"pk": 2721069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cNo one is to lift the ark of Elohim but the L\u0115wites, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen them to lift the ark of Elohim and to serve Him forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 assembled all Yisra\u2019\u0115l at Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to its place, which he had prepared for it."}, {"pk": 2721071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 gathered the children of Aharon and the L\u0115wites;"}, {"pk": 2721072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "of the sons of Qehath: Uri\u2019\u0115l the chief, and one hundred and twenty of his brothers;"}, {"pk": 2721073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "of the sons of Merari: Asayah the chief, and two hundred and twenty of his brothers;"}, {"pk": 2721074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "of the sons of G\u0115reshom: Yo\u2019\u0115l the chief, and one hundred and thirty of his brothers;"}, {"pk": 2721075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "of the sons of Elitsaphan: Shemayah the chief, and two hundred of his brothers;"}, {"pk": 2721076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "of the sons of H\u0323eb\u0331ron: Eli\u2019\u0115l the chief, and eighty of his brothers;"}, {"pk": 2721077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "of the sons of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l: Amminad\u0331ab\u0331 the chief, and one hundred and twelve of his brothers."}, {"pk": 2721078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 called for Tsad\u0331oq and Eb\u0331yathar the priests, and for the L\u0115wites, for Uri\u2019\u0115l, Asayah, and Yo\u2019\u0115l, Shemayah, and Eli\u2019\u0115l, and Amminad\u0331ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2721079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "and said to them, \u201cYou are the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> of the L\u0115wites. Set yourselves apart, you and your brothers, then you shall bring up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to the place I have prepared for it."}, {"pk": 2721080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBecause you did not do it the first time, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim broke out against us, because we did not ask Him about the right-ruling.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "So the priests and the L\u0115wites set themselves apart, to bring up the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And the children of the L\u0115wites bore the ark of Elohim on their shoulders, by its poles, as Mosheh had commanded according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 spoke to the leaders of the L\u0115wites to appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song, harps, and lyres, and cymbals, to lift up the voice with joy."}, {"pk": 2721084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And the L\u0115wites appointed H\u0115man son of Yo\u2019\u0115l, and of his brothers, Asaph son of Berek\u0331yahu; and of their brothers, the sons of Merari, \u011aythan son of Qushayahu;"}, {"pk": 2721085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zek\u0331aryahu, B\u0115n, and Ya\u201bazi\u2019\u0115l, and Shemiramoth, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Unni, Eliyab\u0331, and Benayahu, and Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu, and Mattithyahu, and Eliphel\u0115hu, and Miqn\u0115yahu, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om, and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, the gatekeepers;"}, {"pk": 2721086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "and the singers H\u0115man, Asaph, and \u011aythan, were to sound the cymbals of bronze;"}, {"pk": 2721087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "and Zek\u0331aryah, and Azi\u2019\u0115l, and Shemiramoth, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Unni, and Eliyab\u0331, and Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu, and Benayahu, with harps according to Alamoth;"}, {"pk": 2721088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "and Mattithyahu, and Eliphel\u0115hu, and Miqn\u0115yahu, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om, and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, and Azazyahu, to lead with lyres on the Sheminith;"}, {"pk": 2721089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "and Kenanyahu, leader of the L\u0115wites in the song, instructed in the song because he was skilled;"}, {"pk": 2721090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "and Berek\u0331yah and Elqanah were doorkeepers for the ark;"}, {"pk": 2721091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "and Sheb\u0331anyahu, and Yoshaphat, and Nethan\u2019\u0115l, and Amasai, and Zek\u0331aryahu, and Benayahu, and Eli\u201bezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of Elohim. And Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om and Yeh\u0323iyah, were doorkeepers for the ark."}, {"pk": 2721092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "And it was Dawid\u0331 and the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the commanders over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the house of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om with joy."}, {"pk": 2721093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And it came to be, when Elohim helped the L\u0115wites who bore the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that they slaughtered seven bulls and seven rams."}, {"pk": 2721094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the L\u0115wites who bore the ark, the singers, and Kenanyah the leader of the service with the singers. And Dawid\u0331 wore a linen shoulder garment."}, {"pk": 2721095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "So all Yisra\u2019\u0115l brought up the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with shouting and with a voice of a shophar, with trumpets and with cymbals, sounding with harps and lyres."}, {"pk": 2721096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, as the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to the City of Dawid\u0331, that Mik\u0331al the daughter of Sha\u2019ul, looking through a window, saw Sovereign Dawid\u0331 dancing and playing. And she despised him in her heart."}, {"pk": 2721097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And they brought the ark of Elohim, and set it in the midst of the Tent that Dawid\u0331 had pitched for it. And they brought ascending offerings and peace offerings before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 had made an end of offering the ascending offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2721099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "and gave a portion to everyone of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a measure, and a cake of raisins."}, {"pk": 2721100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And he appointed some of the L\u0115wites to serve before the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to bring to remembrance, and to thank, and to praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2721101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "Asaph the chief, and his second Zek\u0331aryah, Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, and Shemiramoth, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Mattithyah, and Eliyab\u0331, and Benayahu, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om, and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, with harps and lyres, but Asaph was sounding with cymbals;"}, {"pk": 2721102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "and Benayahu and Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l the priests continually blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And on that day Dawid\u0331 first gave thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Asaph and his brothers:"}, {"pk": 2721104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, call upon His Name, Make known His deeds among the peoples!"}, {"pk": 2721105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "Sing to Him, sing praise to Him, Speak of all His wonders!"}, {"pk": 2721106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "Boast in His set-apart Name, Let the hearts of those seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rejoice!"}, {"pk": 2721107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "Seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His strength, Seek His face continually!"}, {"pk": 2721108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "Remember His wonders which He has done, His signs and the right-rulings of His mouth,"}, {"pk": 2721109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "O seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, His servant; O children of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, His chosen ones!"}, {"pk": 2721110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "He is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, His right-rulings are in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2721111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "Remember His covenant forever, The Word He commanded for a thousand generations,"}, {"pk": 2721112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "Which He made with Ab\u0331raham, And His oath to Yitsh\u0323aq,"}, {"pk": 2721113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And He established it to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for a law, To Yisra\u2019\u0115l as an everlasting covenant,"}, {"pk": 2721114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "Saying, \u201cTo you I give the land of Kena\u201ban, The portion of your inheritance,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "When you were but few in number, Few indeed, and sojourners in it."}, {"pk": 2721116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And they went up and down, From one nation to another, And from one reign to another people."}, {"pk": 2721117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "He allowed no one to oppress them, And He reproved sovereigns for their sakes, <i>saying</i>:"}, {"pk": 2721118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cDo not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all the earth; Proclaim His deliverance from day to day."}, {"pk": 2721120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "Declare His esteem among the nations, His wonders among all peoples."}, {"pk": 2721121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "For great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and greatly to be praised; And He is to be feared above all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2721122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "For all the mighty ones of the peoples are matters of naught, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made the heavens.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/96/5'>96:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2721123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "Excellency and splendour are before Him, Strength and gladness are in His place."}, {"pk": 2721124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O clans of the peoples, Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 esteem and strength."}, {"pk": 2721125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the esteem of His Name; Bring an offering, and come before Him; Bow yourself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 In the splendour of set-apartness!"}, {"pk": 2721126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "Tremble before Him, all the earth. The world also is firmly established, immovable."}, {"pk": 2721127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; Let the field rejoice, and all that is in it."}, {"pk": 2721129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "Let the trees of the forest then sing before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He shall come to judge the earth."}, {"pk": 2721130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is good, For His loving-commitment is everlasting!"}, {"pk": 2721131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "text": "And say, \u201cSave us, O Elohim of our deliverance; And gather us together, And deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to Your set-apart Name, And boast in Your praise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people said, \u201cAm\u0115n!\u201d and praised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "text": "So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to perform regular service before the ark, as each day required;"}, {"pk": 2721134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "text": "also, Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om with his sixty-eight brothers, including Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om son of Yed\u0331uthun, and H\u0323osah, to be gatekeepers;"}, {"pk": 2721135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "text": "and Tsad\u0331oq the priest and his brothers the priests, before the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at the high place that was at Gib\u0331\u201bon,"}, {"pk": 2721136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "text": "to offer ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the slaughter-place of ascending offering regularly morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He commanded Yisra\u2019\u0115l;"}, {"pk": 2721137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 41, "text": "and with them H\u0115man and Yed\u0331uthun and the rest who were chosen, who were designated by name, to give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2721138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 42, "text": "and with them H\u0115man and Yed\u0331uthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and instruments for the songs of Elohim, and the sons of Yed\u0331uthun for the gate."}, {"pk": 2721139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 16, "verse": 43, "text": "And all the people went, each one to his house, and Dawid\u0331 returned to bless his house."}, {"pk": 2721140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Dawid\u0331 was dwelling in his house, that Dawid\u0331 said to Nathan the prophet, \u201cSee, I am dwelling in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is under curtains.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And Nathan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cDo all that is in your heart, for Elohim is with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be that night that the word of Elohim came to Nathan, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cGo, and you shall say to My servant Dawid\u0331, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou do not build Me a house to dwell in."}, {"pk": 2721144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought up Yisra\u2019\u0115l, even to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from <i>one</i> Dwelling Place <i>to another</i>."}, {"pk": 2721145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWherever I have moved about with all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, have I ever spoken a word to any of the rulers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, \u2018Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2721146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, say this to My servant Dawid\u0331, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cI took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth."}, {"pk": 2721148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall prepare a place for My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l and plant them, and they shall dwell in a place of their own and move no more, nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them any more, as at the first,"}, {"pk": 2721149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "since the time that I commanded rulers to be over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I have humbled all your enemies. And I declared to you that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does build you a house."}, {"pk": 2721150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when your days are filled to go to be with your fathers, that I shall raise up your seed after you, who is of your sons. And I shall establish his reign."}, {"pk": 2721151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cHe does build Me a house, and I shall establish his throne forever."}, {"pk": 2721152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI am to be his Father, and he is to be My son. And My loving-commitment I do not turn away from him, as I took it from him who was before you."}, {"pk": 2721153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall establish him in My house and in My reign forever, and let his throne be established forever.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 came in and sat before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cWho am I, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?"}, {"pk": 2721156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd this was a small matter in Your eyes, O Elohim, but You have spoken of Your servant\u2019s house for a great while to come, and have looked upon me as though I were an exalted man, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWhat more could Dawid\u0331 add to You for the esteem of Your servant? For You know Your servant."}, {"pk": 2721158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for Your servant\u2019s sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all this greatness, in making known all these great matters."}, {"pk": 2721159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, there is none like You, nor is there any Elohim besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears."}, {"pk": 2721160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd who is like Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the one nation on the earth whom Elohim went to redeem for Himself as a people; to make for Yourself a great and awesome Name, by driving out nations from before Your people whom You redeemed from Mitsrayim?"}, {"pk": 2721161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor You appointed Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l to be Your own people forever. And You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have become their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, let it stand fast forever, and do as You have said."}, {"pk": 2721163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSo let it stand fast, and Your Name be great forever, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, is Elohim to Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And let the house of Your servant Dawid\u0331 be established before You.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor You, O my Elohim, have revealed to Your servant to build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found <i>courage</i> to pray before You."}, {"pk": 2721165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are Elohim, and have promised this goodness to Your servant."}, {"pk": 2721166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd now, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant to be before You forever. For You have blessed it, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it is blessed forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that Dawid\u0331 struck the Philistines, and humbled them, and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2721168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And he struck the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites, and the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants, and brought presents."}, {"pk": 2721169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 struck Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah as far as H\u0323amath, as he went to establish his power by the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2721170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And Dawid\u0331 also hamstrung all the chariot <i>horses</i>, but left of them for one hundred chariots."}, {"pk": 2721171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Aram of Darmeseq came to help Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah, Dawid\u0331 struck twenty-two thousand of Aram,"}, {"pk": 2721172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "and Dawid\u0331 stationed <i>men</i> in Aram of Darmeseq, and the Arameans became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants, and brought presents. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Dawid\u0331 wherever he went."}, {"pk": 2721173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer, and brought them to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And from Tib\u0331h\u0323ath and from Kun, cities of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer, Dawid\u0331 brought a large amount of bronze, with which Shelomoh made the bronze Sea, and the columns, and the vessels of bronze."}, {"pk": 2721175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And when To\u201bu sovereign of H\u0323amath heard that Dawid\u0331 had stricken all the army of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer sovereign of Tsob\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2721176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "he sent Had\u0331oram his son to Sovereign Dawid\u0331, to ask peace of him and bless him, because he had fought against Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer and struck him \u2014 because Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer had been fighting against To\u201bu \u2014 with all kinds of objects of gold, and silver, and bronze."}, {"pk": 2721177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Sovereign Dawid\u0331 also set these apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, along with the silver and gold that he had brought from all these nations, from Ed\u0331om, and from Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amal\u0115q."}, {"pk": 2721178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And Ab\u0331ishai son of Tseruyah struck eighteen thousand Ed\u0331omites in the Valley of Salt,"}, {"pk": 2721179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "and he put watch-posts in Ed\u0331om, and all the Ed\u0331omites became Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved Dawid\u0331 wherever he went."}, {"pk": 2721180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 reigned over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and he was doing right-ruling and righteousness to all his people."}, {"pk": 2721181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah was over the army, and Yehoshaphat son of Ah\u0323ilud\u0331 was recorder,"}, {"pk": 2721182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "and Tsad\u0331oq son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331 and Ab\u0331imelek\u0331 son of Eb\u0331yathar were the priests, and Shawsha was the scribe,"}, {"pk": 2721183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "and Benayahu son of Yehoyad\u0331a was over the Ker\u0115thites and the Pel\u0115thites. And the sons of Dawid\u0331 were chiefs at the sovereign\u2019s side."}, {"pk": 2721184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that Nah\u0323ash the sovereign of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cLet me show loving-commitment to H\u0323anun son of Nah\u0323ash, because his father showed loving-commitment to me.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of Dawid\u0331 came to H\u0323anun in the land of the children of Ammon to comfort him."}, {"pk": 2721186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to H\u0323anun, \u201cIs Dawid\u0331 esteeming your father, in your eyes, because he has sent comforters to you? Have his servants not come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "So H\u0323anun took Dawid\u0331\u2019s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away."}, {"pk": 2721188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And when <i>some</i> went and informed Dawid\u0331 about the men, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the sovereign said, \u201cRemain at Yerih\u0323o until your beards have grown, then return.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves a stench to Dawid\u0331, H\u0323anun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-Naharayim, and from Aram-Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, and from Tsob\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the sovereign of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah and his people, who came and encamped before M\u0115yd\u0331eb\u0331a. And the children of Ammon had gathered from their cities, and came to battle."}, {"pk": 2721191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And when Dawid\u0331 heard, he sent Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and the entire army of the mighty men,"}, {"pk": 2721192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "and the children of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the sovereigns who had come were by themselves in the field."}, {"pk": 2721193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And when Yo\u2019ab\u0331 saw that the battle had been set against him before and behind, he chose some of the choice ones of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and put them in battle array to meet Aram."}, {"pk": 2721194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And the rest of the people he put under the command of Ab\u0331ishai his brother, and they set themselves in battle array to meet the children of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2721195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said, \u201cIf Aram is too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I shall help you."}, {"pk": 2721196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBe strong, and let us show strength for our people and for the cities of our Elohim, and let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do what is good in His eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 drew near, and the people with him, to battle against Aram, and they fled before him."}, {"pk": 2721198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they also fled before Ab\u0331ishai his brother, and went into the city. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And when Aram saw that they had been smitten before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, they sent messengers and brought the Arameans who were beyond the River, and Shophak\u0331 the commander of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer\u2019s army went before them."}, {"pk": 2721200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And it was reported to Dawid\u0331, and he gathered all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and passed over the Yard\u0115n and came upon them, and set up in battle array against them. And Dawid\u0331 set up in battle array against Aram, and they fought with him."}, {"pk": 2721201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And Aram fled before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Dawid\u0331 killed seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers of the Arameans, and smote Shophak\u0331 the commander of the army."}, {"pk": 2721202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And the servants of Had\u0331ad\u0331ezer saw that they were smitten by Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they made peace with Dawid\u0331 and became his servants. And the Arameans would not help the children of Ammon any more."}, {"pk": 2721203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be at the turn of the year, at the time sovereigns go out <i>to battle</i>, that Yo\u2019ab\u0331 led out the power of the army and destroyed the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But Dawid\u0331 remained at Yerushalayim. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 struck Rabbah and overthrew it."}, {"pk": 2721204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 took their sovereign\u2019s crown from his head, and found it weighed a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. And it was set on Dawid\u0331\u2019s head. And he also brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount."}, {"pk": 2721205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. And thus Dawid\u0331 did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then Dawid\u0331 and all the people returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And afterward it came to be that fighting broke out at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbek\u0331ai the H\u0323ushathite struck Sippai of the sons of the giant, and they were humbled."}, {"pk": 2721207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And there was fighting again with the Philistines, and Elh\u0323anan son of Ya\u2019ir struck Lah\u0323mi the brother of Golyath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver\u2019s beam."}, {"pk": 2721208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And there was fighting again at Gath, where there was a man of great size, with twenty-four fingers and toes, six and six. And he too was born to the giant."}, {"pk": 2721209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And he reproached Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Yehonathan son of Shim\u201ba, Dawid\u0331\u2019s brother, struck him."}, {"pk": 2721210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of Dawid\u0331 and by the hand of his servants."}, {"pk": 2721211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And Satan stood up against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and moved Dawid\u0331 to number Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Yo\u2019ab\u0331 and to the rulers of the people, \u201cGo, number Yisra\u2019\u0115l from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a to Dan, and bring the number of them to me so that I know it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 answered, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does add to His people a hundred times more than they are. But, my master the sovereign, are they not all my master\u2019s servants? Why does my master seek to do this? Why should he be a cause of guilt in Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "But the sovereign\u2019s word was strong against Yo\u2019ab\u0331. And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 left and went throughout all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yo\u2019ab\u0331 gave the sum of the number of the people to Dawid\u0331. And all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Yehud\u0331ah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword."}, {"pk": 2721216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "But he did not number L\u0115wi and Binyamin among them, for the sovereign\u2019s word was loathsome to Yo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And it was evil in the eyes of Elohim, concerning this matter, and He struck Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Then Dawid\u0331 said to Elohim, \u201cI have sinned greatly, because I have done this matter. But now, I pray, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Gad\u0331, Dawid\u0331\u2019s seer, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cGo, and you shall speak to Dawid\u0331, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI hold three <i>options</i> before you \u2014 choose one of them for yourself, and I do it to you.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "So Gad\u0331 came to Dawid\u0331 and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Choose for yourself"}, {"pk": 2721222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "either three years of scarcity of food, or three new <i>moons</i> to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even the plague in the land, with the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 destroying throughout all the borders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019 And now consider what answer I am to return to Him who sent me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Gad\u0331, \u201cI am in great trouble. Please let me fall into the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for His compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent a plague upon Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and seventy thousand men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fell."}, {"pk": 2721225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elohim sent a messenger to Yerushalayim to destroy it. And as he was destroying, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw, and relented about the evil, and said to the messenger who was destroying, \u201cEnough! Now stop your hand.\u201d And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2721226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 lifted his eyes and saw the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 standing between earth and the heavens, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Yerushalayim. And Dawid\u0331 and the elders, wrapped in sackcloth, fell on their faces."}, {"pk": 2721227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Elohim, \u201cWas it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these, the sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, be against me and my father\u2019s house, but not against Your people, to be plagued.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Gad\u0331 to say to Dawid\u0331 that Dawid\u0331 should go up to raise a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2721229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "So Dawid\u0331 went up at the word of Gad\u0331, which he had spoken in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And Ornan turned and saw the messenger. And his four sons with him hid themselves, and Ornan was threshing wheat."}, {"pk": 2721231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw Dawid\u0331, and he went out from the threshing-floor, and bowed down to Dawid\u0331 with his face to the ground."}, {"pk": 2721232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Ornan, \u201cGive me the site of the threshing-floor, so that I build a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on it. Give it to me at the complete price, so that the plague is restrained from the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And Ornan said to Dawid\u0331, \u201cTake it for yourself, and let my master the sovereign do what is good in his eyes. See, I shall give you the cattle for ascending offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I give it all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And Sovereign Dawid\u0331 said to Ornan, \u201cNo, but I shall certainly buy it at the complete price, for I do not take what is yours for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor offer an ascending offering without cost.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 gave Ornan six hundred sheqels of gold by weight for the place."}, {"pk": 2721236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 built there a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and offered ascending offerings and peace offerings, and called on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And He answered him from the heavens by fire on the slaughter-place of ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2721237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded the messenger, and he returned his sword to its sheath."}, {"pk": 2721238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "At that time, when Dawid\u0331 saw that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had answered him on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Yeb\u0331usite, he slaughtered there,"}, {"pk": 2721239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "for the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the slaughter-place of the ascending offering, which Mosheh had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2721240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 was unable to go before it to inquire of Elohim, for he was afraid of the sword of the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then said, \u201cThis is the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, and this is the slaughter-place of ascending offering for Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 commanded to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And he appointed stonemasons to cut hewn stones to build the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 prepared large quantities of iron for the nails of the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed,"}, {"pk": 2721244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "and cedar trees beyond number, for the Tsid\u0331onians and those from Tsor brought much cedar wood to Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cShelomoh my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to be exceedingly great, for a splendid Name, to all the lands. Please, let me make preparation for it.\u201d So Dawid\u0331 made extensive preparations before his death."}, {"pk": 2721246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "He also called for his son Shelomoh, and commanded him to build a house for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to Shelomoh, \u201cMy son, as for me, it has been in my heart to build a house to the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2721248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "but the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying, \u2018You have shed much blood and have fought great battles. You do not build a house for My Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in My presence."}, {"pk": 2721249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "See, a son is to be born to you, who is a man of rest. And I shall give him rest from all his enemies all around, for Shelomoh is his name, and peace and rest I give to Yisra\u2019\u0115l in his days."}, {"pk": 2721250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "He does build a house for My Name, and he is to be My son, and I am to be his Father. And I shall establish the throne of his reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cNow, my son, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be with you, then you shall prosper and build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, as He has said to you."}, {"pk": 2721252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cOnly, let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 give you wisdom and understanding, and command you concerning Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that you guard the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2721253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "then you shall prosper, if you guard to do the laws and right-rulings with which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded Mosheh concerning Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Be strong and brave, do not fear nor be discouraged."}, {"pk": 2721254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSee, in my affliction I have prepared for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is plenty. And I have prepared timber and stone, and you shall add to them."}, {"pk": 2721255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd with you there are many workmen: hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all types of skilled men for every kind of work."}, {"pk": 2721256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cOf gold and silver and bronze and iron there is no limit. Rise up and do, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 commanded all the rulers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to help Shelomoh his son, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2721258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cIs not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with you? And has He not given you rest all around? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land has been subdued before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and before His people."}, {"pk": 2721259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cNow, give your heart and your being to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. And rise up and build the set-apart place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, to bring the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the set-apart vessels of Elohim into the house that is to be built for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 was old and satisfied with days, and he made his son Shelomoh to reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2721261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "and he gathered all the rulers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, with the priests and the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2721262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And the L\u0115wites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above. And their number, head by head, was thirty-eight thousand males."}, {"pk": 2721263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and six thousand were officers and judges,"}, {"pk": 2721264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "and four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand to give praise to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhich I made for giving praise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 divided them into divisions, of the sons of L\u0115wi: of G\u0115rshon, Qehath, and Merari."}, {"pk": 2721266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "Of the G\u0115rshonites: La\u201bdan and Shim\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2721267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "The sons of La\u201bdan: Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l the head, then Z\u0115tham and Yo\u2019\u0115l, three."}, {"pk": 2721268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "The sons of Shim\u201bi: Shelomith, and H\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of La\u201bdan."}, {"pk": 2721269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sons of Shim\u201bi: Yah\u0323ath, Zina, and Ye\u201bush, and Beri\u201bah. These were the four sons of Shim\u201bi."}, {"pk": 2721270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yah\u0323ath was the head and Zizah the second. But Ye\u201bush and Beri\u201bah did not have many sons, so they were reckoned as one father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2721271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "The sons of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l, four."}, {"pk": 2721272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "The sons of Amram: Aharon and Mosheh. And Aharon was set apart, he and his sons forever, that he should set apart the most set-apart, to burn incense before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to serve Him, and to give the blessing in His Name forever."}, {"pk": 2721273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "Now Mosheh, the man of Elohim, his sons were named after the tribe of L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2721274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "The sons of Mosheh: G\u0115reshom and Eli\u201bezer."}, {"pk": 2721275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "The sons of G\u0115reshom: Sheb\u0331u\u2019\u0115l was the head."}, {"pk": 2721276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sons of Eli\u201bezer: Reh\u0323ab\u0331yah was the head. And Eli\u201bezer had no other sons, but the sons of Reh\u0323ab\u0331yah were very many."}, {"pk": 2721277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "The sons of Yitshar: Shelomith was the head."}, {"pk": 2721278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "The sons of H\u0323eb\u0331ron: Yeriyahu was the head, Amaryah the second, Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l the third, and Yeqam\u201bam the fourth."}, {"pk": 2721279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "The sons of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l: Mik\u0331ah was the head and Yishshiyah the second."}, {"pk": 2721280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "The sons of Merari: Mah\u0323li and Mushi. The sons of Mah\u0323li: El\u201bazar and Qish."}, {"pk": 2721281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "And El\u201bazar died, and had no sons, but only daughters. And their brothers, the sons of Qish, took them."}, {"pk": 2721282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "The sons of Mushi: Mah\u0323li, \u011ad\u0331er, and Yer\u0115moth, three."}, {"pk": 2721283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "These were the sons of L\u0115wi by their fathers\u2019 houses, the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses as they were counted head by head by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the age of twenty years and above."}, {"pk": 2721284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "For Dawid\u0331 said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Yerushalayim forever,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "and also of the L\u0115wites, \u201cThey shall no longer bear the Dwelling Place, or any of the vessels for its service.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "For by the last words of Dawid\u0331 the L\u0115wites were numbered from twenty years old and above,"}, {"pk": 2721287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "because their duty was to help the sons of Aharon in the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the courtyards and in the rooms, in the cleansing of all that was set-apart, and the work of the service of the House of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2721288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "both with the showbread and the fine flour for the grain offering, and with the unleavened cakes and what is baked on the griddle, and with what is mixed and with all kinds of measures and sizes;"}, {"pk": 2721289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "and to stand every morning to thank and praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and so at evening;"}, {"pk": 2721290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "and for all the ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the sabbaths and on the new <i>moons</i> and on the appointed times, by number according to the right-ruling upon them, continually before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4;"}, {"pk": 2721291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "and that they should guard the duty of the Tent of Appointment, the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the sons of Aharon their brothers in the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And the divisions of the sons of Aharon: The sons of Aharon were Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu, El\u201bazar and Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2721293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "But Nad\u0331ab\u0331 and Ab\u0331ihu died before their father, and had no children, so El\u201bazar and Ithamar served as priests."}, {"pk": 2721294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And Dawid\u0331, with Tsad\u0331oq of the sons of El\u201bazar, and Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices in their service."}, {"pk": 2721295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And there were more leaders found of the sons of El\u201bazar than of the sons of Ithamar. So they divided the sons of El\u201bazar into sixteen heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, and the sons of Ithamar into eight heads of their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2721296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And they were divided by lot, one group as another, for there were officials of the set-apart place and officials of Elohim, from the sons of El\u201bazar and from the sons of Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2721297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And the scribe, Shemayah son of Nethan\u2019\u0115l, one of the L\u0115wites, wrote them down before the sovereign, and the rulers, and Tsad\u0331oq the priest, and Ah\u0323imelek\u0331 son of Eb\u0331yathar, and the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of the priests and L\u0115wites, one father\u2019s house taken for El\u201bazar and one for Ithamar."}, {"pk": 2721298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And the first lot came forth to Yehoyarib\u0331, the second to Yed\u0331ayah,"}, {"pk": 2721299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "the third to H\u0323arim, the fourth to Se\u201borim,"}, {"pk": 2721300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "the fifth to Malkiyah, the sixth to Miyamin,"}, {"pk": 2721301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "the seventh to Haqqots, the eighth to Ab\u0331iyah,"}, {"pk": 2721302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "the ninth to Y\u0115shua, the tenth to Shek\u0331anyahu,"}, {"pk": 2721303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "the eleventh to Elyashib\u0331, the twelfth to Yaqim,"}, {"pk": 2721304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "the thirteenth to H\u0323uppah, the fourteenth to Yesheb\u0331\u2019ab\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2721305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Imm\u0115r,"}, {"pk": 2721306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "the seventeenth to H\u0323\u0115zir, the eighteenth to Happitsts\u0115ts,"}, {"pk": 2721307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "the nineteenth to Pethah\u0323yah, the twentieth to Yeh\u0323ezq\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2721308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "the twenty-first to Yak\u0331in, the twenty-second to Gamul,"}, {"pk": 2721309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "the twenty-third to Delayahu, the twenty-fourth to Ma\u201bazyahu."}, {"pk": 2721310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "These were their offices in their service for coming into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 according to their right-ruling by the hand of Aharon their father, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had commanded him."}, {"pk": 2721311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of the sons of L\u0115wi: of the sons of Amram, Shub\u0331a\u2019\u0115l; of the sons of Shub\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, Yeh\u0323deyahu."}, {"pk": 2721312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "Concerning Reh\u0323ab\u0331yahu, of the sons of Reh\u0323ab\u0331yahu, the head was Yishshiyah."}, {"pk": 2721313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "Of the Yitsharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Yah\u0323ath."}, {"pk": 2721314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "Of the sons of <i>H\u0323eb\u0331ron</i>, Yeriyahu <i>was the head</i>, Amaryahu the second, Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l the third, and Yeqam\u201bam the fourth."}, {"pk": 2721315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "Of the sons of Uzzi\u2019\u0115l, Mik\u0331ah; of the sons of Mik\u0331ah, Shamir."}, {"pk": 2721316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "The brother of Mik\u0331ah, Yishshiyah; of the sons of Yishshiyah, Zek\u0331aryahu."}, {"pk": 2721317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "The sons of Merari: Mah\u0323li and Mushi; the son of Ya\u201baziyahu, Beno."}, {"pk": 2721318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "The sons of Merari by Ya\u201baziyahu: Beno, and Shoham, and Zakkur, and Ib\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2721319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "Of Mah\u0323li: El\u201bazar, who had no sons."}, {"pk": 2721320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "Of Qish: the son of Qish, Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sons of Mushi: Mah\u0323li, \u011ad\u0331er, and Yerimoth. These were the sons of the L\u0115wites according to their fathers\u2019 houses."}, {"pk": 2721322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "These also cast lots, they too, as their brothers the sons of Aharon, in the presence of Sovereign Dawid\u0331, and Tsad\u0331oq, and Ah\u0323imelek\u0331, and the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses of the priests and L\u0115wites \u2014 the head of the fathers, as well as his younger brothers."}, {"pk": 2721323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 and the commanders of the army separated for the service some of the sons of Asaph, and of H\u0115man, and of Yed\u0331uthun, who should prophesy with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. And the number of the workmen according to their service was:"}, {"pk": 2721324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "Of the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, and Yos\u0115ph, and Nethanyah, and Ashar\u2019\u0115lah, the sons of Asaph at the hands of Asaph, who prophesied at the hands of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "Of Yed\u0331uthun, the sons of Yed\u0331uthun: Ged\u0331alyahu, and Tseri, and Yeshayahu, H\u0323ashab\u0331yahu, and Mattithyahu, six, under the hands of their father Yed\u0331uthun, who prophesied with a lyre to give thanks and to praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "Of H\u0115man, the sons of H\u0115man: Buqqiyahu, Mattanyahu, Uzzi\u2019\u0115l, Sheb\u0331u\u2019\u0115l, and Yerimoth, H\u0323ananyah, H\u0323anani, Eliyathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Yoshbeqashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mah\u0323aziyoth."}, {"pk": 2721327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "All these were the sons of H\u0115man the sovereign\u2019s seer in the words of Elohim, to exalt his horn. For Elohim gave H\u0115man fourteen sons and three daughters."}, {"pk": 2721328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "All these were at the hands of their father for song in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with cymbals, harps and lyres, for the service of the House of Elohim: Asaph, Yed\u0331uthun, and H\u0115man, at the hands of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And the number of them, with their brothers who were taught in the songs of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all who were skilled, was two hundred and eighty-eight."}, {"pk": 2721330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "And they cast lots for their duty, the small as well as the great, the teacher with the student."}, {"pk": 2721331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And the first lot for Asaph came forth for Yos\u0115ph; Ged\u0331alyahu the second, he, and his brothers and sons, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "the third Zakkur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "the fourth Yitsri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "the fifth Nethanyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "the sixth Buqqiyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "the seventh Yesar\u2019\u0115lah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "the eighth Yeshayahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "the ninth Mattanyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "the tenth Shim\u201bi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "the eleventh Azar\u2019\u0115l, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "the twelfth H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "the thirteenth Shub\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "the fourteenth Mattithyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "the fifteenth Yer\u0115moth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "the sixteenth H\u0323ananyahu, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "the seventeenth Yoshbeqashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "the eighteenth H\u0323anani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "the nineteenth Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "the twentieth Eliyathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "the twenty-first Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "the twenty-second Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "the twenty-third Mah\u0323aziyoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;"}, {"pk": 2721353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "the twenty-fourth Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve."}, {"pk": 2721354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "For the divisions of the gatekeepers: Of the Qorh\u0323ites, Meshelemyahu son of Qor\u0115, of the sons of Asaph."}, {"pk": 2721355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sons of Meshelemyahu: Zek\u0331aryahu the first-born, Yed\u0331iya\u2019\u0115l the second, Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yahu the third, Yathni\u2019\u0115l the fourth,"}, {"pk": 2721356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u011aylam the fifth, Yehoh\u0323anan the sixth, Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai the seventh."}, {"pk": 2721357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sons of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om: Shemayah the first-born, Yehozab\u0331ad\u0331 the second, Yo\u2019ah\u0323 the third, Sak\u0331ar the fourth, Nethan\u2019\u0115l the fifth,"}, {"pk": 2721358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "Ammi\u2019\u0115l the sixth, Yissask\u0331ar the seventh, Pe\u201bullethai the eighth, for Elohim blessed him."}, {"pk": 2721359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "Also to Shemayah his son were sons born who ruled their fathers\u2019 houses, because they were able mighty men."}, {"pk": 2721360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "The sons of Shemayah: Othni, and Repha\u2019\u0115l, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331, Elzab\u0331ad\u0331, whose brothers Elihu and Semak\u0331yahu were able men."}, {"pk": 2721361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "All these were of the sons of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om, they and their sons and their brothers, able men with strength for the work: sixty-two of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2721362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "And Meshelemyahu had sons and brothers, eighteen able men."}, {"pk": 2721363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "Also H\u0323osah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the head (although he was not the first-born, his father made him the head),"}, {"pk": 2721364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "H\u0323ilqiyahu the second, Teb\u0331alyahu the third, Zek\u0331aryahu the fourth. All the sons and brothers of H\u0323osah were thirteen."}, {"pk": 2721365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "These divisions of the gatekeepers, among the chief men, had duties like their brothers, to serve in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "And they cast lots for each gate, the small as well as the great, according to their father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2721367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And the lot to the east fell to Shelemyahu. Then they cast lots for his son Zek\u0331aryahu, a wise counsellor, and his lot came out to the north;"}, {"pk": 2721368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "to Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om to the south, and to his sons the storehouse;"}, {"pk": 2721369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "to Shuppim and H\u0323osah to the west, with the Shallek\u0331eth Gate on the ascending highway; guard corresponding with guard."}, {"pk": 2721370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "On the east were six L\u0115wites, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, and for the storehouse two by two."}, {"pk": 2721371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "As for the Parbar on the west, there were four on the highway and two at the Parbar."}, {"pk": 2721372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the sons of Qorah\u0323 and among the sons of Merari."}, {"pk": 2721373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "And of the L\u0115wites, Ah\u0323iyah was over the treasuries of the House of Elohim and over the treasuries of the set-apart <i>gifts</i>."}, {"pk": 2721374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "The sons of La\u201bdan, the sons of the G\u0115rshonites of La\u201bdan, heads of their fathers\u2019 houses, of La\u201bdan the G\u0115rshonite: Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115li."}, {"pk": 2721375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "The sons of Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115li, Z\u0115tham and Yo\u2019\u0115l his brother, were over the treasuries of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "Of the Amramites, the Yitsharites, the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites, and the Uzzi\u2019\u0115lites,"}, {"pk": 2721377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "even Sheb\u0331u\u2019\u0115l son of G\u0115reshom, son of Mosheh, was overseer of the treasuries."}, {"pk": 2721378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "And his brothers by Eli\u201bezer were Reh\u0323ab\u0331yahu his son, and Yeshayahu his son, and Yoram his son, and Zik\u0331ri his son, and Shelomoth his son."}, {"pk": 2721379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the set-apart gifts which Sovereign Dawid\u0331 and the heads of fathers\u2019 houses, the commanders over thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had set apart."}, {"pk": 2721380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "Some of the booty won in battles they set apart to maintain the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "And all that Shemu\u2019\u0115l the seer, and Sha\u2019ul son of Qish, and Ab\u0331n\u0115r son of N\u0115r, and Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah had set apart, all who were setting apart, were under the hand of Shelomith and his brothers."}, {"pk": 2721382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "Of the Yitsharites, Kenanyahu and his sons were for the outward duties as officials and judges over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "Of the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites, H\u0323ashab\u0331yahu and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred able men, had the oversight of Yisra\u2019\u0115l beyond the Yard\u0115n westward, for all the work of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and in the service of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "Of the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites, Yeriyah was head of the H\u0323eb\u0331ronites according to his genealogy of the fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of Dawid\u0331 they were sought, and there were found among them able men at Ya\u201bz\u0115r of Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "And his brothers were two thousand seven hundred able men, heads of fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, whom Sovereign Dawid\u0331 made officials over the Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115nites, and the Gad\u0331ites, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, in all matters of Elohim and matters of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to their number, the heads of fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, and the commanders of thousands and hundreds and their officers, served the sovereign in all matters of the divisions which came in and went out new <i>moon</i> by new <i>moon</i> throughout all the new <i>moons</i> of the year, each division having twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "Over the first division for the first new <i>moon</i> was Yashob\u0331\u201bam son of Zab\u0331di\u2019\u0115l, and in his division were twenty-four thousand;"}, {"pk": 2721388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "of the sons of Perets, and the chief of all the commanders of the army for the first new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2721389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And over the division of the second new <i>moon</i> was Dod\u0331ai an Ah\u0323oh\u0323ite, and of his division Miqloth also was the leader, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "The third commander of the army for the third new <i>moon</i> was Benayahu, son of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest, who was chief, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "This was the Benayahu who was mighty among the thirty, and was over the thirty, and in his division was Ammizab\u0331ad\u0331 his son."}, {"pk": 2721392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "The fourth for the fourth new <i>moon</i> was Asah\u2019\u0115l the brother of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, and Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah his son after him, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "The fifth for the fifth new <i>moon</i> was Shamhuth the Yizrah\u0323ite, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "The sixth for the sixth new <i>moon</i> was Ira son of Iqq\u0115sh the Teqowite, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "The seventh for the seventh new <i>moon</i> was H\u0323\u0115lets the Pelonite, of the children of Ephrayim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "The eighth for the eighth new <i>moon</i> was Sibbek\u0331ai the H\u0323ushathite, of the Zarh\u0323ites, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "The ninth for the ninth new <i>moon</i> was Ab\u0331i\u201bezer the Anathothite, of the Binyamites, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "The tenth for the tenth new <i>moon</i> was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarh\u0323ites, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "The eleventh for the eleventh new <i>moon</i> was Benayah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephrayim, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "The twelfth for the twelfth new <i>moon</i> was H\u0323eldai the Netophathite, of Othni\u2019\u0115l, and in his division were twenty-four thousand."}, {"pk": 2721401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "And over the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: the chief officer over Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: Eli\u201bezer son of Zik\u0331ri; over Shim\u201bon: Shephatyahu son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah;"}, {"pk": 2721402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "L\u0115wi: H\u0323ashab\u0331yah son of Qemu\u2019\u0115l; over Aharon: Tsad\u0331oq;"}, {"pk": 2721403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah: Elihu, one of Dawid\u0331\u2019s brothers; Yissask\u0331ar: Omri son of Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l;"}, {"pk": 2721404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "Zeb\u0331ulun: Yishmayahu son of Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu; Naphtali: Yerimoth son of Azri\u2019\u0115l;"}, {"pk": 2721405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "the children of Ephrayim: Hosh\u0115a son of Azazyahu; the half-tribe of Menashsheh: Yo\u2019\u0115l son of Ped\u0331ayahu;"}, {"pk": 2721406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "the half-tribe of Menashsheh in Gil\u201bad\u0331: Iddo son of Zek\u0331aryahu; Binyamin: Ya\u201basi\u2019\u0115l son of Ab\u0331n\u0115r;"}, {"pk": 2721407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "Dan: Azar\u2019\u0115l son of Yeroh\u0323am. These were the rulers of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "But Dawid\u0331 did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said He would increase Yisra\u2019\u0115l like the stars of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2721409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "Yo\u2019ab\u0331 son of Tseruyah began a census, but he did not finish, for wrath came upon Yisra\u2019\u0115l because of this census; nor was the number recorded in the account of the annals of Sovereign Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "And Azmaweth son of Ad\u0331i\u2019\u0115l was over the sovereign\u2019s treasuries. And Yehonathan son of Uzziyahu was over the storehouses in the field, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the watchtowers."}, {"pk": 2721411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "And Ezri son of Kelub\u0331 was over those who did the work of the field for tilling the ground."}, {"pk": 2721412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "And Shim\u201bi the Ramathite was over the vineyards, and Zab\u0331di the Shiphmite was over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars."}, {"pk": 2721413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "And Ba\u201bal-H\u0323anan the Ged\u0331\u0115rite was over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the low country, and Yo\u201bash was over the oil-stores."}, {"pk": 2721414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "And Shitrai the Sharonite was over the herds that fed in Sharon, and Shaphat son of Ad\u0331lai was over the herds that were in the valleys."}, {"pk": 2721415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "And Ob\u0331il the Yishma\u201b\u0115lite was over the camels, and Yeh\u0323deyahu the M\u0115ronothite was over the donkeys,"}, {"pk": 2721416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "and Yaziz the Ha\u1e21rite was over the flocks. All of these were heads over the property of Sovereign Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "Also Yehonathan, Dawid\u0331\u2019s uncle, was a counsellor, a wise man and a scribe. And Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l son of H\u0323ak\u0331moni was with the sovereign\u2019s sons."}, {"pk": 2721418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "And Ah\u0323ithophel was the sovereign\u2019s counsellor, and H\u0323ushai the Arkite was the sovereign\u2019s companion."}, {"pk": 2721419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "And after Ah\u0323ithophel was Yehoyad\u0331a son of Benayahu, then Eb\u0331yathar. And the chief of the sovereign\u2019s army was Yo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 assembled at Yerushalayim all the rulers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: the rulers of the tribes and the commanders of the divisions who served the sovereign, the commanders over thousands and commanders over hundreds, and the heads over all the property and possessions of the sovereign and of his sons, with the officials, the mighty men, and all the mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2721421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Sovereign Dawid\u0331 rose to his feet and said, \u201cHear me, my brothers and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and for the footstool of our Elohim, and had made preparations to build it."}, {"pk": 2721422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBut Elohim said to me, \u2018You do not build a house for My Name, because you have been a man of battle and have shed blood.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l chose me above all the house of my father to be sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever, for He has chosen Yehud\u0331ah to be the ruler. And of the house of Yehud\u0331ah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me reign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd of all my sons \u2014 for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given me many sons \u2014 He has chosen my son Shelomoh to sit on the throne of the reign of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 over Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2721425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "and said to me, \u2018Shelomoh your son is the one to build My house and My courtyards, for I have chosen him to be My son, and I Myself am a Father to him."}, {"pk": 2721426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "And I shall establish his reign forever, if he is strong to do My commands and My right-rulings, as it is this day.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now, before the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and in the hearing of our Elohim, guard and seek all the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, so that you possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever."}, {"pk": 2721428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAs for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever."}, {"pk": 2721429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee, now, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen you to build a house for the set-apart place. Be strong, and do it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 gave his son Shelomoh the plans for the porch, and its houses, and its treasuries, and its upper rooms, and its inner rooms, and the place of atonement;"}, {"pk": 2721431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "and the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courtyards of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and of all the rooms all around, and of the treasuries of the House of Elohim, and of the treasuries for the set-apart <i>gifts</i>;"}, {"pk": 2721432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "and for the divisions of the priests and the L\u0115wites, and for all the work of the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and for all the vessels of service in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4;"}, {"pk": 2721433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "even gold by weight for <i>utensils</i> of gold, for all utensils used in every kind of service; for silver for all utensils of silver by weight, for all utensils used in every kind of service;"}, {"pk": 2721434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "and by weight for the lampstands of gold, and their lamps of gold, by weight for each lampstand and its lamps; and for the lampstands of silver by weight, for the lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand;"}, {"pk": 2721435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "and by weight gold for the tables of the showbread, for each table, and silver for the tables of silver;"}, {"pk": 2721436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "and clean gold for the forks, and the basins, and the jars of clean gold, and the golden bowls, by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls, silver by weight for every bowl;"}, {"pk": 2721437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "and refined gold by weight for the slaughter-place of incense, and for the pattern of the chariot of the gold keruh\u0323im, spreading out their wings and covering over the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made me understand all this in writing, by His hand upon me, all the works of these plans.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to his son Shelomoh, \u201cBe strong and courageous, and do it. Do not fear nor be afraid, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, my Elohim, is with you. He shall not leave you nor forsake you, until you have completed all the work for the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd see, the divisions of the priests and the L\u0115wites for all the service of the House of Elohim, and every volunteer of any skill is with you in all work, for every kind of service. And the rulers and all the people are entirely at your command.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 the sovereign said to all the assembly, \u201cMy son Shelomoh, the one whom Elohim has chosen, is young and tender. And the work is great, because the palace is not for man but for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd with all my power I have prepared for the House of my Elohim: the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood, shoham stones, and settings, and fair stones of various colours, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble slabs \u2014 in large quantities."}, {"pk": 2721443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd also, because I delighted in the House of my Elohim, I have treasure of gold and silver; I give for the House of my Elohim even more than all that I have prepared for the Set-apart House:"}, {"pk": 2721444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses;"}, {"pk": 2721445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "the gold for the gold and the silver for the silver, and for all kinds of work to be done by the hands of craftsmen. Who then is moved to fill his hand today for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "And the leaders of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, and the leaders of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with the heads over the sovereign\u2019s work, volunteered"}, {"pk": 2721447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "and gave for the work of the House of Elohim five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron."}, {"pk": 2721448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "And those with whom were found precious <i>stones</i> gave them to the treasury of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, into the hand of Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l the G\u0115rshonite."}, {"pk": 2721449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "And the people rejoiced, for they had given voluntarily, because with a perfect heart they had given voluntarily to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Dawid\u0331 the sovereign also rejoiced greatly."}, {"pk": 2721450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before all the assembly. And Dawid\u0331 said, \u201cBlessed are You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, our Father, forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2721451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cYours, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, is the greatness, the power and the comeliness, the pre-eminence and the excellency, because of all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Yours is the reign, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and You are exalted as head above all."}, {"pk": 2721452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the riches and the esteem come from Your presence, and You rule over all. And in Your hand is power and might, and in Your hand to make great and to give strength to all."}, {"pk": 2721453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now, our Elohim, we thank You and praise Your comely Name."}, {"pk": 2721454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give so voluntarily as this? For all comes from You, and we have given to You out of Your hand."}, {"pk": 2721455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence."}, {"pk": 2721456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, all this store that we have prepared to build You a house for Your set-apart Name is from Your hand, and all is of You."}, {"pk": 2721457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I know, my Elohim, that You are trying the heart and desire uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have voluntarily given all these. And now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to give voluntarily to You."}, {"pk": 2721458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, our fathers, guard this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and prepare their heart toward You."}, {"pk": 2721459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd give my son Shelomoh a perfect heart to guard Your commands and Your witnesses and Your laws, to do all, and to build the palace for which I have prepared.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "And Dawid\u0331 said to all the assembly, \u201cNow bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u201d And all the assembly blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, and bowed their heads and did obeisance to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "And they slaughtered slaughterings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and offered ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the next day: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and slaughterings in large numbers for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "And they ate and drank before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with great joy on that day. And they set up Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331 to reign the second time, and anointed him before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to be leader, and Tsad\u0331oq to be priest."}, {"pk": 2721463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "And Shelomoh sat on the throne of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as sovereign instead of Dawid\u0331 his father, and prospered; and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l obeyed him."}, {"pk": 2721464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "And all the rulers and the mighty men, and also all the sons of Sovereign Dawid\u0331, submitted themselves to Shelomoh the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 exalted Shelomoh exceedingly in the eyes of all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and put upon him such royal splendour as had not been on any sovereign before him in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "Thus Dawid\u0331 son of Yishai reigned over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "And the days that he reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l was forty years. He reigned seven years in H\u0323eb\u0331ron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "And he died in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches and esteem. And Shelomoh his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "And the acts of Sovereign Dawid\u0331, first and last, see, they are written in the book of Shemu\u2019\u0115l the seer, in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad\u0331 the seer,"}, {"pk": 2721470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 13, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "with all his reign and his might, and the times that passed over him, and over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and over all the reigns of the lands."}, {"pk": 2721471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331 strengthened himself over his reign, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim was with him and made him exceedingly great."}, {"pk": 2721472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shelomoh spoke to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>."}, {"pk": 2721473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shelomoh, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gib\u0331\u201bon, for Elohim\u2019s Tent of Appointment was there, which Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had made in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2721474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "However, Dawid\u0331 had brought up the ark of Elohim from Qiryath Ye\u201barim to the place Dawid\u0331 had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the bronze slaughter-place that Betsal\u2019\u0115l son of Uri son of H\u0323ur had made, he put before the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Shelomoh and the assembly sought it."}, {"pk": 2721476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And Shelomoh went up there to the bronze slaughter-place before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which was at the Tent of Appointment, and offered a thousand ascending offerings on it."}, {"pk": 2721477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "That night Elohim appeared to Shelomoh, and said to him, \u201cAsk what should I give you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And Shelomoh said to Elohim, \u201cYou have shown great loving-commitment to Dawid\u0331 my father, and have made me sovereign in his place."}, {"pk": 2721479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cNow, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, let Your promise to Dawid\u0331 my father stand fast, for You have set me up to reign over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth."}, {"pk": 2721480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNow give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I go out and come in before this people. For who <i>is able</i> to rightly rule this great people of Yours?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elohim said to Shelomoh, \u201cBecause this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or esteem or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so as to rightly rule My people over whom I have set you up to reign,"}, {"pk": 2721482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "wisdom and knowledge are given to you. And riches and wealth and esteem I <i>also</i> give you, such as none of the sovereigns have had who have been before you, nor any after you have.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And Shelomoh went to Yerushalayim from the high place that was at Gib\u0331\u201bon, from before the Tent of Appointment, and reigned over Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And Shelomoh gathered chariots and horsemen, and he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the sovereign in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sovereign made silver and gold to be as stones in Yerushalayim, and he made cedars to be as plenty as the sycamores which are in the low country."}, {"pk": 2721486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shelomoh had horses imported from Mitsrayim and from Qu\u0115 \u2014 the sovereign\u2019s merchants bought them in Qu\u0115 at a price."}, {"pk": 2721487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And they came up and brought from Mitsrayim a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. And so, for all the sovereigns of the H\u0323ittites and the sovereigns of Aram, they brought them out by their hand."}, {"pk": 2721488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shelomoh gave word to build a House for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and a house for his reign."}, {"pk": 2721489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Shelomoh enrolled seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand hewing <i>stone</i> in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them."}, {"pk": 2721490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shelomoh sent to H\u0323uram sovereign of Tsor, saying, \u201cAs you did for my father Dawid\u0331, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "see, I am building a House for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, to set it apart to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, and for the continual showbread, and for the ascending offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new <i>moons</i>, and on the appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim. This is for Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever."}, {"pk": 2721492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the House which I build is great, for our Elohim is greater than all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2721493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut who is able to build Him a House, since the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a House, except to offer before Him?"}, {"pk": 2721494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, send me at once a man who knows to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and knowing to engrave with the skilled men who are with me in Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, whom Dawid\u0331 my father has prepared."}, {"pk": 2721495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd send me cedar, cypress and algum logs from Leb\u0331anon, for I know that your servants know to cut timber in Leb\u0331anon. And see, my servants are with your servants,"}, {"pk": 2721496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "even to prepare plenty of timber for me, for the House that I am building is great and marvellous."}, {"pk": 2721497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I have given servants to you, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, and twenty thousand kors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Then H\u0323uram the sovereign of Tsor answered in writing, which he sent to Shelomoh, \u201cBecause \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves His people, He has made you sovereign over them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And H\u0323uram said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who made the heavens and earth, for He has given Sovereign Dawid\u0331 a wise son, knowing wisdom and understanding, to build a House for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and a house for his reign!"}, {"pk": 2721500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now I have sent a skilled man having understanding, H\u0323uram-ab\u0331i,"}, {"pk": 2721501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tsor, who knows to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, purple and blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and with the skilled men of my master Dawid\u0331 your father."}, {"pk": 2721502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd now, the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine which my master has spoken of, let him send to his servants."}, {"pk": 2721503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd let us cut wood from Leb\u0331anon, as much as you need, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Yapho, and you take it up to Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And Shelomoh numbered all the men, the strangers who were in the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to the census in which Dawid\u0331 his father had numbered them, and they were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2721505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And he made seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand hewers <i>of stone</i> in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work."}, {"pk": 2721506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shelomoh began to build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Yerushalayim on Mount Moriyah, where He appeared to his father Dawid\u0331, at the place that Dawid\u0331 had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2721507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And he began to build on the second day of the second new <i>moon</i> in the fourth year of his reign."}, {"pk": 2721508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And these are the foundations which Shelomoh laid for building the House of Elohim: The length by cubits according to the former measure were sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits."}, {"pk": 2721509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And the porch that was in front was twenty cubits long according to the breadth of the house, and the height was one hundred and twenty. And he overlaid the inside with clean gold."}, {"pk": 2721510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And the great house he panelled with cypress which he overlaid with fine gold, and he carved palm trees and chainwork on it."}, {"pk": 2721511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And he covered the house with precious stones for comeliness, and the gold was gold from Parwayim."}, {"pk": 2721512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And he overlaid the house, the beams, the doorposts, and its walls, and its doors with gold, and carved kerub\u0331im on the walls."}, {"pk": 2721513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And he made the House of the Most Set-apart. Its length was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with fine gold, six hundred talents."}, {"pk": 2721514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And the weight of the nails was fifty sheqels of gold. And he overlaid the upper rooms with gold."}, {"pk": 2721515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "In the Most Set-apart House he made two kerub\u0331im of sculptured work, and overlaid them with gold."}, {"pk": 2721516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And the wings of the kerub\u0331im: their <i>total</i> length was twenty cubits, one wing was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing was five cubits, touching the wing of the other kerub\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2721517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "and the wing of the other kerub\u0331 was five cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the other wing also was five cubits, touching the wing of the other kerub\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "The wings of these kerub\u0331im spread out twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet, and they faced inward."}, {"pk": 2721519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and worked kerub\u0331im on it."}, {"pk": 2721520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And at the front of the House he made two columns thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits."}, {"pk": 2721521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And he made wreaths of chainwork, as in the Speaking Place, and put them on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork."}, {"pk": 2721522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And he set up the columns before the H\u0115k\u0331al, one on the right and the other on the left, and called the name of the one on the right Yak\u0331in, and the name of the one on the left Bo\u201baz."}, {"pk": 2721523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And he made a slaughter-place of bronze, twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high."}, {"pk": 2721524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from one rim to the other, round all about. And its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured around it."}, {"pk": 2721525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And figures like oxen were under it, all around it, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. Two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast."}, {"pk": 2721526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. And the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts were inward."}, {"pk": 2721527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And it was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths."}, {"pk": 2721528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made ten basins, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them. In them they rinsed off what pertains to the ascending offering, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in."}, {"pk": 2721529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And he made ten lampstands of gold according to their ruling, and set them in the H\u0115k\u0331al, five on the right side and five on the left."}, {"pk": 2721530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And he made ten tables, and placed them in the H\u0115k\u0331al, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred bowls of gold."}, {"pk": 2721531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And he made the courtyard of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court. And he overlaid these doors with bronze."}, {"pk": 2721532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And he placed the Sea on the right side, eastward over against the south."}, {"pk": 2721533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And H\u0323uram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So H\u0323uram completed doing the work that he was to do for Sovereign Shelomoh for the House of Elohim:"}, {"pk": 2721534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "the two columns and the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two columns, and the two networks to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the columns;"}, {"pk": 2721535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the columns."}, {"pk": 2721536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And he made stands and the basins on the stands,"}, {"pk": 2721537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "one Sea and twelve oxen under it;"}, {"pk": 2721538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "and the pots, and the shovels, and the forks. And all their vessels H\u0323uram his master craftsman made of polished bronze for Sovereign Shelomoh for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "On the plain of Yard\u0115n the sovereign had them cast in clay moulds, between Sukkoth and Tser\u0115d\u0331athah."}, {"pk": 2721540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shelomoh made so large a number of all these vessels that the weight of the bronze was not searched out."}, {"pk": 2721541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And Shelomoh had all the furnishings made for the House of Elohim, and the slaughter-place of gold and the tables on which was the showbread,"}, {"pk": 2721542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "and the lampstands with their lamps of refined gold, to burn according to right-ruling in front of the Speaking Place,"}, {"pk": 2721543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "and the blossoms and the lamps and the snuffers of gold, of perfect gold,"}, {"pk": 2721544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the ladles, and the fire holders of refined gold. And the entrance to the House, its inner doors to the Most Set-apart Place, and the doors of the H\u0115k\u0331al of the House, were of gold."}, {"pk": 2721545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the work that Shelomoh had done for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was completed. And Shelomoh brought in the set-apart items of his father Dawid\u0331: the silver and the gold and all the utensils. And he put them in the treasuries of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shelomoh assembled the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the City of Dawid\u0331, which is Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2721547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l assembled to the sovereign at the festival, which was in the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2721548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And all the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came, and the L\u0115wites took up the ark,"}, {"pk": 2721549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Appointment, and all the set-apart utensils that were in the Tent. The L\u0115wite priests brought them up."}, {"pk": 2721550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh, and all the congregation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were assembled to him before the ark, were slaughtering so many sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered."}, {"pk": 2721551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to its place, into the Speaking Place of the House, to the Most Set-apart Place, under the wings of the kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2721552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "For the kerub\u0331im spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the kerub\u0331im covered over the ark and its poles."}, {"pk": 2721553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark were seen from the set-apart place, in front of the Speaking Place, but they were not seen from outside. And they are there to this day."}, {"pk": 2721554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "There was naught in the ark but the two tablets which Mosheh put there at H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made a covenant with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when they came out of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2721555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be when the priests came out of the Most Set-apart Place \u2014 for all the priests who were present had set themselves apart, there was none to watch by division \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "and the L\u0115wite singers, all those of Asaph and H\u0115man and Yed\u0331uthun, with their sons and their brothers, stood at the east end of the slaughter-place, dressed in white linen, having cymbals and harps and lyres, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets."}, {"pk": 2721557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Then it came to be, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets, and with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and giving praise to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor He is good, for His loving-commitment is everlasting,\u201d that the house, the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, was filled with a cloud,"}, {"pk": 2721558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "and the priests were unable to stand and perform the service because of the cloud, for the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Shelomoh said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said He would dwell in the dark cloud."}, {"pk": 2721560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut I have built You an exalted house, and a place for You to dwell in forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign turned around and blessed all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, while all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l stood."}, {"pk": 2721562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said, \u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who has filled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father Dawid\u0331, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "From the day that I brought My people out of the land of Mitsrayim, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in which to build a house for My Name to be there, nor did I choose any man to be a leader over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "But I have chosen Yerushalayim, for My Name to be there. And I have chosen Dawid\u0331 to be over My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd it was in the heart of my father Dawid\u0331 to build a House for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my father Dawid\u0331, \u2018Because it was in your heart to build a House for My Name, you did well in that it was in your heart."}, {"pk": 2721567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "But you do not build the house, for your son who comes forth from your loins, he does build the House for My Name.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has established His word which He spoke, and I have been raised up instead of my father Dawid\u0331, and sit on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 promised. And I have built the House for the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd there I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He made with the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And he stood before the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in front of all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and spread out his hands \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "for Shelomoh had made a bronze platform five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court. And he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and spread out his hands toward the heavens \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, there is no Elohim in the heavens or on earth like You, guarding the covenant and loving-commitment with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,"}, {"pk": 2721573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "who has guarded what You promised Your servant Dawid\u0331 my father. Indeed, You have both spoken with Your mouth and have filled it with Your hand, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2721574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, guard what You promised Your servant Dawid\u0331 my father, saying, \u2018There is not to cease a man of yours before Me, sitting on the throne of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 only, if your sons guard their way, to walk in My Torah as you have walked before Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, let Your word come true which You have spoken to Your servant Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor is it true: Elohim dwells with men on the earth! See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built!"}, {"pk": 2721577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cYet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You?"}, {"pk": 2721578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor Your eyes to be open toward this House day and night, toward the place You have said to put Your Name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place."}, {"pk": 2721579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd shall You give heed to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when they pray toward this place, and hear from Your dwelling place, in the heavens, and shall hear and forgive?"}, {"pk": 2721580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cIf anyone sins against his neighbour, and he has lifted up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and comes and swears before Your slaughter-place in this House,"}, {"pk": 2721581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "then hear in the heavens, and act, and rightly rule Your servants, repaying the wrong by bringing his way on his own head, and declare right the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness."}, {"pk": 2721582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd if Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l are smitten before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication before You in this House,"}, {"pk": 2721583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "then hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and bring them back to the land which You gave to them and their fathers."}, {"pk": 2721584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cWhen the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they shall pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,"}, {"pk": 2721585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 for You teach them the good way in which they should walk \u2014 and shall send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2721586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cWhen there is scarcity of food in the land; when there is pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies distress them in the land of their cities; any plague or any sickness;"}, {"pk": 2721587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when each one knows his own plague and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this house,"}, {"pk": 2721588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "then hear from the heavens Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know \u2014 for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "so that they fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers."}, {"pk": 2721590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAlso, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but who comes from a far land for the sake of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this House,"}, {"pk": 2721591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "then hear from the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all which the foreigner calls to You for, so that all the people of the earth know Your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and to know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name."}, {"pk": 2721592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cWhen Your people go out to battle against their enemies, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,"}, {"pk": 2721593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "then shall You hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?"}, {"pk": 2721594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cWhen they sin against You \u2014 for there is no one who does not sin \u2014 and You become enraged with them and give them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near,"}, {"pk": 2721595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "and they shall turn back unto their heart, in the land where they have been taken captive, and shall turn, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, \u2018We have sinned, we have acted crookedly, and have done wrong,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their captivity, where they have taken them captive, and they shall pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, and the city which You have chosen, and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,"}, {"pk": 2721597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "then shall You hear from the heavens, Your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You?"}, {"pk": 2721598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cNow, my Elohim, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer of this place."}, {"pk": 2721599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd now, arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. Let Your priests, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, be robed with deliverance, and let Your lovingly-commited ones rejoice in goodness."}, {"pk": 2721600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember the loving-commitment of Your servant Dawid\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Shelomoh had ended praying, fire came down from the heavens and consumed the ascending offering and the slaughterings. And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the House."}, {"pk": 2721602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And the priests were unable to enter the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had filled the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw how the fire came down, and the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the House, and they bowed their faces to the ground on the pavement, and did obeisance and gave thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cFor He is good, for His loving-commitment is everlasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign and all the people slaughtered slaughterings before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh slaughtered a slaughtering of twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the sovereign and all the people dedicated the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And the priests were standing over their duties, and the L\u0115wites with instruments of the song to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which Sovereign Dawid\u0331 had made to give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cFor His loving-commitment is everlasting,\u201d whenever Dawid\u0331 praised by their hand. And the priests were blowing trumpets before them, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l were standing."}, {"pk": 2721607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And Shelomoh set apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for there he made ascending offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze slaughter-place which Shelomoh had made was not able to contain the ascending offerings and the grain offerings and the fat."}, {"pk": 2721608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And Shelomoh at that time observed the Festival seven days, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him, a very great assembly from the entrance of H\u0323amath to the wadi of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2721609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And on the eighth day they held an assembly, for they performed the dedication of the slaughter-place seven days, and the festival seven days."}, {"pk": 2721610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And on the twenty-third day of the seventh new <i>moon</i> he sent the people away to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for the goodness that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had done for Dawid\u0331, and for Shelomoh, and for His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "Thus Shelomoh finished the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the sovereign\u2019s house. And all that came into the heart of Shelomoh to do in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in his own house, he prosperously executed."}, {"pk": 2721612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Shelomoh by night, and said to him, \u201cI have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2721613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIf I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,"}, {"pk": 2721614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "and My people upon whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land."}, {"pk": 2721615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNow, My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place."}, {"pk": 2721616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, I have chosen and set this house apart for My Name to be there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall always be there."}, {"pk": 2721617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you, if you walk before Me as your father Dawid\u0331 walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you guard My laws and My right-rulings,"}, {"pk": 2721618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "then I shall establish the throne of your reign, as I covenanted with Dawid\u0331 your father, saying, \u2018There is not to cease a man of yours as ruler in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut if you turn away and forsake My laws and My commands which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other mighty ones, and bow yourself to them,"}, {"pk": 2721620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "then I shall pluck them from My land, which I have given them, and this house which I have set apart for My Name I shall cast out of My sight and make it to be a proverb and a mockery among all peoples."}, {"pk": 2721621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd this house, which has been exalted, everyone who passes by it is shall be astonished and say, \u2018Why has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 done thus to this land and this house?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThen they shall say, \u2018Because they forsook \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and embraced other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to them and served them, therefore He has brought all this evil on them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be at the end of twenty years, that Shelomoh had built the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and his own house."}, {"pk": 2721624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "As to the cities which H\u0323uram had given to Shelomoh, Shelomoh had built them, and he settled the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l there."}, {"pk": 2721625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And Shelomoh went to H\u0323amath Tsob\u0331ah and took hold of it."}, {"pk": 2721626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And he built Tad\u0331mor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built in H\u0323amath."}, {"pk": 2721627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And he built Upper B\u0115yth H\u0323oron and Lower B\u0115yth H\u0323oron, cities of defence, with walls, gates, and bars,"}, {"pk": 2721628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "also Ba\u201balath and all the storage cities that Shelomoh had, and all the chariot cities and the cities of the cavalry, and all that Shelomoh desired to build in Yerushalayim, and in Leb\u0331anon, and in all the land of his rule."}, {"pk": 2721629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "All the people who were left of the H\u0323ittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the H\u0323iwwites, and the Yeb\u0331usites, who were not of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did not destroy \u2014 from these Shelomoh raised compulsory labour, as it is to this day."}, {"pk": 2721631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And Shelomoh did not make slaves of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for his work, but they were men of battle, and chiefs of his officers, and commanders of his chariots, and his cavalry."}, {"pk": 2721632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And these were the chiefs of the officials of Sovereign Shelomoh: two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people."}, {"pk": 2721633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And Shelomoh brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of Dawid\u0331 to the house he had built for her, for he said, \u201cMy wife does not dwell in the house of Dawid\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for <i>the place</i> where the ark of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has come, is set-apart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Shelomoh offered ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which he had built before the porch,"}, {"pk": 2721635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the command of Mosheh, for the sabbaths, and for the new <i>moons</i>, and for the appointed times three times a year: the Festival of Matzot, and the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot, and the Festival of Sukkot.", "comment": "Weeks.<br>Booths.<br>Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2721636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And according to the ruling of Dawid\u0331 his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, the L\u0115wites for their duties, to praise and serve before the priests, as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for so was the command of Dawid\u0331 the man of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And they did not turn aside from the command of the sovereign to the priests and L\u0115wites concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries."}, {"pk": 2721638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And all the work of Shelomoh was prepared from the day of the foundation of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 until it was completed. And the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was perfected."}, {"pk": 2721639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Shelomoh went to Etsyon Geb\u0331er and \u011ayloth on the seacoast, in the land of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2721640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And H\u0323uram sent him ships by the hand of his servants, and servants who knew the sea. And they went with the servants of Shelomoh to Ophir, and took four hundred and fifty talents of gold from there, and brought it to Sovereign Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2721641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a heard of the report of Shelomoh, and came to Yerushalayim to try Shelomoh with hard questions, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices, and much gold, and precious stones. And she came to Shelomoh, and she spoke with him about all that was in her heart."}, {"pk": 2721642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shelomoh answered all her questions. And there was no matter hidden for Shelomoh which he did not make known to her."}, {"pk": 2721643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a saw the wisdom of Shelomoh, and the house that he had built,"}, {"pk": 2721644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "and the food on his table, and the seating of his servants, and the service of his waiters and their attire, and his cupbearers and their attire, and his ascending offerings that he offered up in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there was no more spirit in her."}, {"pk": 2721645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "Then she said to the sovereign, \u201cTrue was the word I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom."}, {"pk": 2721646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And see, I have not been told the half of the greatness of your wisdom! You exceed the report which I heard."}, {"pk": 2721647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBlessed are your men and blessed are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!"}, {"pk": 2721648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who delighted in you, to put you on His throne to be sovereign for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim! Because your Elohim has loved Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to establish them forever, therefore He made you sovereign over them, to do right-ruling and righteousness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And she gave the sovereign one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones. And there has not been any spices such as those the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a gave to Sovereign Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2721650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And also, the servants of H\u0323uram and the servants of Shelomoh, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones."}, {"pk": 2721651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sovereign made stairs of the algum wood for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for the sovereign\u2019s house, also lyres and harps for singers. And there was never seen the like of them before in the land of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh gave to the sovereigness of Sheb\u0331a all she desired, whatever she asked, besides that which she had brought to the sovereign. And she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants."}, {"pk": 2721653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And the weight of gold that came to Shelomoh yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,"}, {"pk": 2721654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "besides that which the merchants and traders brought. And all the sovereigns of Arab\u0331ia and governors of the land were bringing gold and silver to Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2721655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh made two hundred large shields of beaten gold \u2014 six hundred pieces of beaten gold went into each shield,"}, {"pk": 2721656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "and three hundred shields of beaten gold \u2014 three hundred pieces of gold went into each shield. And the sovereign put them in the House of the Forest of Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2721657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with clean gold,"}, {"pk": 2721658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "and six steps <i>led</i> to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne; and there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests."}, {"pk": 2721659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And twelve lions were standing there, one on each side of the six steps. The like of it was not in any reign."}, {"pk": 2721660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And all the drinking vessels of Sovereign Shelomoh were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Leb\u0331anon were of refined gold \u2014 silver was reckoned of little value in the days of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2721661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "For the sovereign\u2019s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of H\u0323uram. Once in three years the ships of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons."}, {"pk": 2721662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And Sovereign Shelomoh became greater than all the sovereigns of the earth in riches and wisdom."}, {"pk": 2721663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And all the sovereigns of the earth sought the presence of Shelomoh to hear his wisdom, which Elohim had put in his heart."}, {"pk": 2721664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And each man brought his present: objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, the matter of a year by year."}, {"pk": 2721665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And Shelomoh had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the sovereign at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And he ruled over all the sovereigns from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2721667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign made silver in Yerushalayim as the stones, and he made cedar trees as plenty as the sycamores which are in the low country."}, {"pk": 2721668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And they were bringing horses to Shelomoh from Mitsrayim and from all lands."}, {"pk": 2721669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Shelomoh, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ah\u0323iyah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at?"}, {"pk": 2721670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And Shelomoh reigned in Yerushalayim over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l forty years."}, {"pk": 2721671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "So Shelomoh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawid\u0331 his father. And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam went to Shek\u0331em, for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l had gone to Shek\u0331em to set him up to reign."}, {"pk": 2721673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, when Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at heard it \u2014 he was in Mitsrayim where he had fled from the presence of Shelomoh the sovereign \u2014 that Yarob\u0331\u201bam returned from Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2721674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "So they sent for him and called him. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l came and spoke to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYour father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we shall serve you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cCome back to me after three days.\u201d And the people went."}, {"pk": 2721677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam consulted the elders who stood before his father Shelomoh while he still lived, saying, \u201cWhat do you advise me to answer these people?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And they spoke to him, saying, \u201cIf you are good to these people, and shall please them, and speak good words to them, they shall be your servants all the days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "But he ignored the advice the elders gave him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him."}, {"pk": 2721680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cWhat advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, \u2018Lighten the yoke which your father put on us\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, \u201cSay this to the people who have spoken to you, saying, \u2018Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us.\u2019 Say this to them, \u2018My little finger is thicker than my father\u2019s waist!"}, {"pk": 2721682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And now, my father put a heavy yoke on you, but I, I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I with scourges!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "So Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all the people came to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam on the third day, as the sovereign commanded, saying, \u201cCome back to me the third day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sovereign answered them harshly. Thus Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam ignored the advice of the elders,"}, {"pk": 2721685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, but I, I add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I with scourges!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "So the sovereign did not listen to the people, for the turn <i>of events</i> was from Elohim, in order for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to establish His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ah\u0323iyahu the Shilonite to Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at."}, {"pk": 2721687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And when all Yisra\u2019\u0115l saw that the sovereign did not listen to them, the people answered the sovereign, saying, \u201cWhat portion have we in Dawid\u0331? And we have no inheritance in the son of Yishai. Every man to your mighty ones, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Now see to your own house, O Dawid\u0331!\u201d So all Yisra\u2019\u0115l went to their tents."}, {"pk": 2721688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "But as for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who dwelt in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam reigned over them."}, {"pk": 2721689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "Then Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam sent Had\u0331oram, who was over the compulsory labour, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l stoned him with stones, and he died. And Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam hastily mounted his chariot to flee to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "Thus Yisra\u2019\u0115l revolted against the house of Dawid\u0331 to this day."}, {"pk": 2721691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And when Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam came to Yerushalayim, he assembled from the house of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin one hundred and eighty thousand chosen brave men to fight against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to bring back the reign to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2721692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "But the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Shemayahu the man of Elohim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not go up or fight against your brothers! Let every man return to his house, for this matter is from Me.\u201d \u2019 \u201d So they obeyed the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and turned back from going against Yarob\u0331\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2721695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam dwelt in Yerushalayim, and built cities for a defence in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And he built B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, and \u011aytam, and Teqowa,"}, {"pk": 2721697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "and B\u0115yth Tsur, and Sok\u0331o, and Ad\u0331ullam,"}, {"pk": 2721698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "and Gath, and Mar\u0115shah, and Ziph,"}, {"pk": 2721699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "and Ad\u0331orayim, and Lak\u0331ish, and Az\u0115qah,"}, {"pk": 2721700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "and Tsor\u201bah, and Ayalon, and H\u0323eb\u0331ron, which are in Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, cities of defence."}, {"pk": 2721701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And he strengthened the strongholds, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, and oil, and wine,"}, {"pk": 2721702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "and shields and spears in every city, and made them very strong. Thus Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin were his."}, {"pk": 2721703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And from all their borders the priests and the L\u0115wites who were in all Yisra\u2019\u0115l took their stand with him."}, {"pk": 2721704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "For the L\u0115wites left their open lands and their possessions and came to Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, for Yarob\u0331\u201bam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2721705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "as he appointed for himself priests for the high places, and for goats, and the calf idols which he had made."}, {"pk": 2721706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And after the L\u0115wites left, those from all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, such as set their heart to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, came to Yerushalayim to slaughter to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2721707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And they strengthened the reign of Yehud\u0331ah, and made Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh strong for three years, for they walked in the way of Dawid\u0331 and Shelomoh for three years."}, {"pk": 2721708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam took for himself as wife Mah\u0323alath the daughter of Yerimoth son of Dawid\u0331, and of Ab\u0331ih\u0323ayil the daughter of Eliyab\u0331 son of Yishai."}, {"pk": 2721709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And she bore him sons: Ye\u201bush, and Shemaryah, and Zaham."}, {"pk": 2721710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And after her he took Ma\u201bak\u0331ah the granddaughter of Ab\u0331shalom. And she bore him Ab\u0331iyah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith."}, {"pk": 2721711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam loved Ma\u201bak\u0331ah the granddaughter of Ab\u0331shalom more than all his wives and his concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and brought forth twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters."}, {"pk": 2721712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam appointed Ab\u0331iyah son of Ma\u201bak\u0331ah as chief, to be leader among his brothers, in order to make him reign."}, {"pk": 2721713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And he had understanding, and dispersed some of his sons throughout all the lands of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, to all the cities of defence, and gave them ample provision. And he sought many wives <i>for them</i>."}, {"pk": 2721714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam had established the reign and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l with him."}, {"pk": 2721715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, in the fifth year of Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, that Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yerushalayim \u2014 because they had trespassed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2721716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen, and innumerable people who came with him out of Mitsrayim: the Lub\u0331im, the Sukkites and the Kushites."}, {"pk": 2721717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And he took the cities of defence of Yehud\u0331ah and came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And Shemayah the prophet came to Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam and the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah, who had been gathered in Yerushalayim because of Shishaq, and said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishaq.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the rulers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the sovereign humbled themselves, and they said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw that they humbled themselves, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Shemayah, saying, \u201cThey have humbled themselves. I do not destroy them, but I shall give to them some deliverance, and not pour out My wrath on Yerushalayim by the hand of Shishaq,"}, {"pk": 2721721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "but they are to become his servants, so that they know My service and the service of the reigns of the lands.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And Shishaq sovereign of Mitsrayim came up against Yerushalayim, and took away the treasures of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the treasures of the sovereign\u2019s house. He took all, he also took the gold shields which Shelomoh had made."}, {"pk": 2721723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the hands of the chiefs of the guard, who guarded the entrance of the sovereign\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2721724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, whenever the sovereign went into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the guard would go and bring them out, then they would take them back into the guardroom."}, {"pk": 2721725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And when he humbled himself, the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely. And matters also went well in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "So Sovereign Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam strengthened himself in Yerushalayim and reigned. For Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam was forty-one years old when he became sovereign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to put His Name there. And his mother\u2019s name was Na\u201bamah, the Ammonitess."}, {"pk": 2721727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And the acts of Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, the first and the last, are they not written in the book of Shemayah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there was fighting between Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam and Yarob\u0331\u201bam all the days."}, {"pk": 2721729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "So Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Ab\u0331iyah his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "In the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yarob\u0331\u201bam, Ab\u0331iyah began to reign over Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "He reigned three years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Mik\u0331ayahu the daughter of Uri\u2019\u0115l of Gib\u0331\u201bah. And there was fighting between Ab\u0331iyah and Yarob\u0331\u201bam."}, {"pk": 2721732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ab\u0331iyah joined battle with an army of mighty men of battle, four hundred thousand choice men. And Yarob\u0331\u201bam drew up in battle formation against him with eight hundred thousand choice men, mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2721733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ab\u0331iyah stood on Mount Tsemarayim, which is in the mountains of Ephrayim, and said, \u201cHear me, Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2721734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cDo you not know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has given the reign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l to Dawid\u0331 forever, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt?"}, {"pk": 2721735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYet Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Neb\u0331at, the servant of Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331, rose up and rebelled against his master."}, {"pk": 2721736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd vain men gathered to him, sons of Beliya\u201bal, and strengthened themselves against Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam son of Shelomoh, when Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam was young and tender of heart and could not be strong against them."}, {"pk": 2721737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now you think to be strong against the reign of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which is in the hand of the sons of Dawid\u0331. And you are a large crowd, and with you are the gold calves which Yarob\u0331\u201bam made for you as mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2721738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cHave you not thrown out the priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the sons of Aharon, and the L\u0115wites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of the lands, so that whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams then becomes a priest of <i>what are</i> not mighty ones?"}, {"pk": 2721739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut as for us, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is our Elohim, and we have not forsaken Him, and priests are serving \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the sons of Aharon and the L\u0115wites, in the work,"}, {"pk": 2721740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "and are burning to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 every morning and every evening ascending offerings and sweet incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening, for we are guarding the Charge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim. But you have forsaken Him."}, {"pk": 2721741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd see, with us as Head is Elohim Himself, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, do not fight against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers, for you are not going to prosper!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "But Yarob\u0331\u201bam sent round an ambush to go behind them, so they were in front of Yehud\u0331ah, and the ambush was behind them."}, {"pk": 2721743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah turned and saw the battle was both in front and behind them. Then they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the priests sounded the trumpets."}, {"pk": 2721744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And the men of Yehud\u0331ah gave a shout. And it came to be, as the men of Yehud\u0331ah shouted, that Elohim smote Yarob\u0331\u201bam and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l before Ab\u0331iyah and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fled before Yehud\u0331ah, and Elohim gave them into their hand."}, {"pk": 2721746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And Ab\u0331iyah and his people struck them with a great slaughter, and five hundred thousand choice men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l fell slain."}, {"pk": 2721747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were humbled at that time, while the children of Yehud\u0331ah prevailed, because they relied on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2721748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And Ab\u0331iyah pursued Yarob\u0331\u201bam and captured cities from him: B\u0115yth \u011al with its villages, and Yeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages."}, {"pk": 2721749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yarob\u0331\u201bam did not regain power again in the days of Ab\u0331iyahu. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote him, and he died."}, {"pk": 2721750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "But Ab\u0331iyah became strong, and took fourteen wives, and brought forth twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters."}, {"pk": 2721751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Ab\u0331iyah, and his ways, and his words are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo."}, {"pk": 2721752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "So Ab\u0331iyah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land rested ten years."}, {"pk": 2721753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And Asa did what was good and what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2721754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "and removed the slaughter-places of the stranger, and the high places, and broke down the pillars and cut down the Ash\u0115rim,"}, {"pk": 2721755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "and commanded Yehud\u0331ah to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, and to do the Torah and the command."}, {"pk": 2721756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And he removed the high places and the sun-pillars from all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and the reign rested under him."}, {"pk": 2721757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And he built cities of defence in Yehud\u0331ah, since the land had rest and he had no fighting in those years, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had given him rest."}, {"pk": 2721758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And he said to Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cLet us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us, because we have sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim. We have sought, and He has given us rest all around.\u201d So they built and prospered."}, {"pk": 2721759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men from Yehud\u0331ah bearing shields and spears, and from Binyamin two hundred and eighty thousand men bearing shields and drew bows. All of them were mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2721760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And Zerah\u0323 the Kushite came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mar\u0115shah."}, {"pk": 2721761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And Asa went out against him, and they set battle in array in the Valley of Tsephathah at Mar\u0115shah."}, {"pk": 2721762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And Asa called to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, there is no one but You to help between the mighty and the powerless. Help us, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, for we rest on You, and in Your Name we go against this crowd. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are our Elohim, do not let man prevail against You!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote the Kushites before Asa and Yehud\u0331ah, and the Kushites fled."}, {"pk": 2721764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. And the Kushites fell, until none was left alive for them, for they were broken before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His army. And they took very much spoil,"}, {"pk": 2721765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "and struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was exceedingly much spoil in them."}, {"pk": 2721766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And they also struck the camps of the herdsmen, and captured many sheep and camels, and returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Spirit of Elohim came upon Azaryahu son of Od\u0331\u0115d\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, \u201cHear me, Asa, and all Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you."}, {"pk": 2721769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd for many days Yisra\u2019\u0115l has been without the true Elohim, and without a Torah priest, and without Torah."}, {"pk": 2721770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut in their distress they turned to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they sought Him, and He was found by them."}, {"pk": 2721771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd in those days there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, for great disturbances were on all the inhabitants of the lands,"}, {"pk": 2721772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "and they were beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for Elohim troubled them with every distress."}, {"pk": 2721773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut you, be strong and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Od\u0331\u0115d\u0331 the prophet, he strengthened himself, and removed the abominations from all the land of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephrayim, and restored the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that was before the porch of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2721775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "and gathered all Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shim\u201bon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra\u2019\u0115l when they saw that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim was with him."}, {"pk": 2721776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And they gathered together at Yerushalayim in the third new <i>moon</i>, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,"}, {"pk": 2721777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "and slaughtered to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on that day seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the spoil which they had brought."}, {"pk": 2721778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And they entered into a covenant to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers with all their heart and with all their being;"}, {"pk": 2721779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "and whoever would not seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l would be put to death, from small to great, from man to woman."}, {"pk": 2721780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And they swore to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with a loud voice, with shouting and with trumpets and with shopharot."}, {"pk": 2721781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And all Yehud\u0331ah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their being. And He was found by them, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave them rest all around."}, {"pk": 2721782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And he also removed Ma\u201bak\u0331ah, the mother of Asa the sovereign, from being sovereigness mother, because she had made an abominable image of Ash\u0115rah. And Asa cut down her abominable image, and crushed it, and burned it by the wadi Qid\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2721783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "Yet the high places were not removed from Yisra\u2019\u0115l. However, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days."}, {"pk": 2721784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "And he brought into the House of Elohim the set-apart items of his father and his own set-apart items: silver and gold and utensils."}, {"pk": 2721785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "And there was no more fighting until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa."}, {"pk": 2721786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Ba\u201basha the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came up against Yehud\u0331ah and built Ramah, to prevent anyone going out or coming in to Asa, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and of the sovereign\u2019s house, and sent to Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 sovereign of Aram, who dwelt in Darmeseq, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLet there be a covenant between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Come, break your covenant with Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that he withdraws from me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331 listened to Sovereign Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they struck Iyon, and Dan, and Ab\u0331\u0115l Mayim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2721790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, when Ba\u201basha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work."}, {"pk": 2721791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Asa the sovereign brought all Yehud\u0331ah, and they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Ba\u201basha had used for building. And with them he built Geb\u0331a and Mitspah."}, {"pk": 2721792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And at that time H\u0323anani the seer came to Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and said to him, \u201cBecause you have relied on the sovereign of Aram, and have not relied on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, therefore the army of the sovereign of Aram has escaped from your hand."}, {"pk": 2721793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWere the Kushites and the Lub\u0331im not a mighty army with very many chariots and horsemen? And because you relied on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He gave them into your hand."}, {"pk": 2721794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 diligently search throughout all the earth, to show Himself <i>to be</i> strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect to Him. You have acted foolishly in this, so from now on you shall have battles.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in prison, for <i>he was</i> enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time."}, {"pk": 2721796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And look, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease was severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but the physicians."}, {"pk": 2721798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "So Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign."}, {"pk": 2721799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And they buried him in his burial-site, which he had made for himself in the City of Dawid\u0331. And they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various kinds of ointments mixed by the perfumer\u2019s skill. And they made a very great burning for him."}, {"pk": 2721800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2721801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "and placed an army in all the walled cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and set watch-posts in the land of Yehud\u0331ah and in the cities of Ephrayim which Asa his father had taken."}, {"pk": 2721802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with Yehoshaphat, for he walked in the former ways of his father Dawid\u0331, and did not seek the Ba\u201bals,"}, {"pk": 2721803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "but sought the Elohim of his father, and walked in His commands and not according to the deeds of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 established the reign in his hand. And all Yehud\u0331ah gave presents to Yehoshaphat, and he had great riches and esteem."}, {"pk": 2721805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And his heart was exalted in the ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he again removed the high places and the Ash\u0115rim from Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And in the third year of his reign he sent his leaders, Ben-H\u0323ayil, and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, and Zek\u0331aryah, and Nethan\u2019\u0115l, and Mik\u0331ayahu, to teach in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And with them he sent L\u0115wites: Shemayahu, and Nethanyahu, and Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yahu, and Asah\u2019\u0115l, and Shemiramoth, and Yehonathan, and Ad\u0331oniyahu, and Tob\u0331iyahu, and Tob\u0331ad\u0331oniyah, the L\u0115wites, and with them Elishama and Yehoram, the priests."}, {"pk": 2721808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And they taught in Yehud\u0331ah, and with them was the Book of the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they went around into all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and taught the people."}, {"pk": 2721809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell on all the reigns of the lands that were around Yehud\u0331ah, and they did not fight against Yehoshaphat."}, {"pk": 2721810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And some of the Philistines brought Yehoshaphat gifts and a load of silver. And the Arab\u0331ians brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred male goats."}, {"pk": 2721811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yehoshaphat became increasingly great, and he built palaces and storage cities in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And he had much work in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah. And the men of battle, mighty brave men, were in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And these were their numbers, according to their fathers\u2019 houses: Of Yehud\u0331ah, the commanders of thousands: Ad\u0331nah the commander, and with him three hundred thousand mighty brave men;"}, {"pk": 2721814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "and next to him was Yehoh\u0323anan the commander, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;"}, {"pk": 2721815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "and next to him was Amasyah son of Zik\u0331ri, who volunteered himself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and with him two hundred thousand mighty brave men."}, {"pk": 2721816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And of Binyamin: Elyad\u0331a, a mighty brave one, and with him two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield;"}, {"pk": 2721817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "and next to him was Yehozab\u0331ad\u0331, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand prepared for battle."}, {"pk": 2721818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "These were the ones serving the sovereign, besides those whom the sovereign put in the walled cities throughout all Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshaphat had great riches and esteem, and allied himself with Ah\u0323ab\u0331 by marriage."}, {"pk": 2721820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And some years later he went down to visit Ah\u0323ab\u0331 in Shomeron. And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him, and incited him to go up with him to Ramoth Gil\u201bad."}, {"pk": 2721821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cDo you go with me against Ramoth Gil\u201bad?\u201d And he answered him, \u201cI am as you are, and my people as your people, even with you in battle.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehoshaphat said to the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cPlease inquire for the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, \u201cDo we go against Ramoth Gil\u201bad to battle, or do I refrain?\u201d And they said, \u201cGo up, for Elohim does give it into the sovereign\u2019s hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "But Yehoshaphat said, \u201cIs there not still a prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 here, so that we inquire of him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cThere is still one man to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from him; but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Mik\u0331ayehu, the son of Yimla.\u201d And Yehoshaphat said, \u201cLet not the sovereign say so!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "So the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l called one of his officers and said, \u201cBring Mik\u0331ahu son of Yimla at once!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehoshaphat the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, dressed in their robes, sat each on his throne. And they sat at a threshing-floor at the entrance of the gate of Shomeron. And all the prophets were prophesying before them."}, {"pk": 2721828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of Kena\u201banah had made horns of iron for himself, and said, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018With these you push the Arameans until they are destroyed.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And all the prophets were prophesying so, saying, \u201cGo up to Ramoth Gil\u201bad and prosper, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give it into the hand of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And the messenger who had gone to call Mik\u0331ayehu spoke to him, saying, \u201cSee, the words of the prophets with one mouth are good towards the sovereign. So please let your word be like the word of one of them, and you shall speak good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, whatever my Elohim says, that I speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And he came to the sovereign. And the sovereign said to him, \u201cMik\u0331ah, do we go against Ramoth Gil\u201bad to battle, or do I refrain?\u201d And he said, \u201cGo and prosper, and they are given into your hand!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sovereign said to him, \u201cHow many times have I made you swear that you do not speak to me, except the truth, in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "So he said, \u201cI saw all Yisra\u2019\u0115l scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018These have no master. Let each return to his house in peace.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cDid I not say to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "Then he said, \u201cTherefore hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: I saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sitting on His throne, and all the host of the heavens standing on His right and on His left."}, {"pk": 2721837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018Who shall entice Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to go up and fall at Ramoth Gil\u201bad?\u2019 And one said this, and another said that."}, {"pk": 2721838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd a spirit came forward and stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u2018Let me entice him.\u2019 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u2018In what way?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd he said, \u2018I shall go out and be a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets.\u2019 And He said, \u2018Entice him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these prophets of yours, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken evil concerning you.\u201d", "comment": "See 2The. <a href='/TS2009/14/2/11'>2:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2721841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of Kena\u201banah came near and struck Mik\u0331ayehu on the cheek, and said, \u201cWhich way did the spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pass over from me to speak to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cLook, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner room to hide!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "Then the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cTake Mik\u0331ayehu, and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Yo\u2019ash the sovereign\u2019s son,"}, {"pk": 2721844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "and say, \u2018Thus said the sovereign, \u201cPut this one in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2721845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu said, \u201cIf you return at all in peace, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not spoken by me.\u201d And he said, \u201cHear, all you people!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "Then the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehoshaphat the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah went up to Ramoth Gil\u201bad."}, {"pk": 2721847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to Yehoshaphat, \u201cLet me disguise myself and go into battle, but you put on your robes.\u201d And the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l disguised himself, and they went into battle."}, {"pk": 2721848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sovereign of Aram had commanded the commanders of the chariots who were with him, saying, \u201cFight with no one small or great, but only with the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And it came to be, when the commanders of the chariots saw Yehoshaphat, that they said, \u201cIt is the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d So they turned around to fight against him, and Yehoshaphat cried out, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 helped him, and Elohim moved them to turn away from him."}, {"pk": 2721850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "And it came to be, when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that they turned back from pursuing him."}, {"pk": 2721851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "And a man drew a bow in his simplicity, and struck the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l between the joints of his armour. And he said to the driver of his chariot, \u201cTurn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "But the battle increased that day, and the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening, and he died at the time of the going down of the sun."}, {"pk": 2721853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshaphat the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah returned to his house in peace in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And Y\u0115hu son of H\u0323anani the seer went out to face him, and said to Sovereign Yehoshaphat, \u201cDo you help the wrong and love those who hate \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Therefore the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon you."}, {"pk": 2721855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBut good matters are found in you, in that you have removed the Ash\u0115roth from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "So Yehoshaphat dwelt in Yerushalayim, and he went out again among the people from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a to the hill country of Ephrayim, and brought them back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2721857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And he appointed judges in the land in all the walled cities of Yehud\u0331ah, city by city,"}, {"pk": 2721858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "and said to the judges, \u201cWatch what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is with you in the matter of right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2721859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, let the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be upon you. Guard and do it, for there is no unrighteousness with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, nor partiality, nor taking of bribes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And in Yerushalayim Yehoshaphat also appointed some of the L\u0115wites and priests, and some of the chief fathers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the right-ruling of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and for dispute. Then they returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And he commanded them, saying, \u201cDo this in the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, trustworthily and with a perfect heart:"}, {"pk": 2721862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen any dispute comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between Torah and command, laws and right-rulings, then you shall warn them, lest they trespass against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and wrath come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you shall not be guilty."}, {"pk": 2721863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd look, Amaryahu the chief priest is over you in all matters of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yahu son of Yishma\u201b\u0115l, the ruler of the house of Yehud\u0331ah, for all the matters of the sovereign, and the L\u0115wites are officials before you. Be strong and do, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with the good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this it came to be that the children of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and the children of Ammon came in, and with them some of the peoples, against Yehoshaphat to battle."}, {"pk": 2721865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And they came and spoke to Yehoshaphat, saying, \u201cA great army is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Aram. And see, they are in H\u0323atsatson Tamar,\u201d which is \u011an Ged\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2721866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehoshaphat was afraid, and set his face to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah gathered to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even from all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah they came to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in front of the new courtyard,"}, {"pk": 2721869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of our fathers, are You not Elohim in the heavens, and do You not rule over all the reigns of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to stand against You?"}, {"pk": 2721870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAre You not our Elohim? You have driven out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and gave it to the seed of Ab\u0331raham who loves You forever."}, {"pk": 2721871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they dwell in it, and have built You a set-apart place in it for Your Name, saying,"}, {"pk": 2721872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "If evil does come upon us, such as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or scarcity of food, we shall stand before this House and in Your presence \u2014 for Your Name is in this House \u2014 and cry out to You in our distress, and You do hear and save.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2721873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, the children of Ammon and Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and Mount S\u0115\u201bir, whom You would not let Yisra\u2019\u0115l invade when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim, for they turned from them and did not destroy them,"}, {"pk": 2721874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "and see, they are repaying us by coming in to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit."}, {"pk": 2721875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cO our Elohim, would You not judge them? For we are powerless against this great army that is coming against us. And we do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And all Yehud\u0331ah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l son of Zek\u0331aryahu, son of Benayah, son of Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, son of Mattanyah, a L\u0115wite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly,"}, {"pk": 2721878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "and he said, \u201cListen, all Yehud\u0331ah, and you inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and Sovereign Yehoshaphat! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to you, \u2018Do not fear, nor be afraid of the face of this great army, for the battle is not yours, but Elohim\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2721879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "Go down against them tomorrow. See, they are coming up by the ascent of Tsits, and you shall find them at the end of the wadi before the Wilderness of Yeru\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "It is not for you to fight in this. Position yourselves, stand still and see the deliverance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with you, O Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim!\u2019 Do not be afraid nor fear, go out against them tomorrow, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim fell down before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to bow themselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "And the L\u0115wites, of the children of the Qehathites and of the children of the Qorh\u0323ites stood up to praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with exceedingly loud voice."}, {"pk": 2721883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Teqowa. And as they went out, Yehoshaphat stood and said, \u201cHear me, O Yehud\u0331ah and you inhabitants of Yerushalayim: Trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and be steadfast, trust His prophets and prosper.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "And after consulting with the people, he appointed those who should sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and who should praise the splendour of set-apartness, as they went out before the army and were saying, \u201cGive thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for His loving-commitment is everlasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "And when they began singing and praising, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and Mount S\u0115\u201bir, who had come against Yehud\u0331ah, and they were smitten."}, {"pk": 2721886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "Then the children of Ammon and Mo\u2019ab\u0331 stood up against the inhabitants of Mount S\u0115\u201bir to destroy and annihilate them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of S\u0115\u201bir, they helped to destroy one another."}, {"pk": 2721887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "And when Yehud\u0331ah came at the lookout in the wilderness, they looked toward the army and saw their dead bodies, lying on the ground, and none had escaped."}, {"pk": 2721888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, and they found among them a great amount of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could take away. And they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much."}, {"pk": 2721889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berak\u0331ah, for there they blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Therefore the name of that place was called The Valley of Berak\u0331ah to this day."}, {"pk": 2721890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "Then they returned, every man of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, with Yehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Yerushalayim with joy, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had made them rejoice over their enemies."}, {"pk": 2721891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "And they came to Yerushalayim, with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "And the fear of Elohim was on all the reigns of the lands when they heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had fought against the enemies of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "Then the reign of Yehoshaphat was at peace, for his Elohim gave him rest on all sides."}, {"pk": 2721894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "Thus Yehoshaphat reigned over Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Azub\u0331ah the daughter of Shilh\u0323i."}, {"pk": 2721895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "Only, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts for the Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2721897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, the first and the last, see, they are written in the book of Y\u0115hu son of H\u0323anani, which is mentioned in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "And after this Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah joined himself with Ah\u0323azyah sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. He did wrong in doing so."}, {"pk": 2721899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Etsyon Geb\u0331er."}, {"pk": 2721900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "Then Eli\u201bezer son of Dod\u0331awahu of Mar\u0115shah prophesied against Yehoshaphat, saying, \u201cBecause you have joined yourself with Ah\u0323azyahu, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall break up your work.\u201d And the ships were wrecked, so that they were unable to go to Tarshish."}, {"pk": 2721901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of Dawid\u0331. And Yehoram his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And he had brothers, the sons of Yehoshaphat: Azaryahu, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Zek\u0331aryahu, and Azaryahu, and Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and Shephatyahu. All these were sons of Yehoshaphat sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And their father gave them many gifts of silver and gold and precious items, with walled cities in Yehud\u0331ah, but he had given the reign to Yehoram because he was the first-born."}, {"pk": 2721904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And when Yehoram had risen up over the reign of his father and strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also others of the heads of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2721905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "Yehoram was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 had done, for he had the daughter of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 as a wife. And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not destroy the house of Dawid\u0331, because of the covenant He had made with Dawid\u0331, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons, all the days."}, {"pk": 2721908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "In his days the Ed\u0331omites revolted from under the hand of Yehud\u0331ah, and appointed a sovereign over themselves."}, {"pk": 2721909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "Then Yehoram went out with his officers, and all his chariots with him. And it came to be that he rose by night and struck the Ed\u0331omites who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots."}, {"pk": 2721910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "Thus the Ed\u0331omites revolted from under the hand of Yehud\u0331ah to this day. Then Lib\u0331nah revolted from under his hand, because he had forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of his fathers."}, {"pk": 2721911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "He had also made high places in the mountains of Yehud\u0331ah, and caused the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to commit whoring, and led Yehud\u0331ah astray."}, {"pk": 2721912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And a letter came to him from \u011aliyahu the prophet, saying, Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your father Dawid\u0331, \u201cBecause you have not walked in the ways of Yehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2721913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "but have walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and have made Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to commit whoring like the whorings of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father\u2019s household, who were better than yourself,"}, {"pk": 2721914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going to strike with a great blow among your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,"}, {"pk": 2721915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "and you, with many sicknesses, with disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out because of the sickness, day by day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stirred up the spirit of the Philistines against Yehoram, and of the Arab\u0331ians who were near the Kushites."}, {"pk": 2721917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And they came up into Yehud\u0331ah and broke into it, and captured all the possessions that were found in the sovereign\u2019s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that there was not a son left to him except Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, the youngest of his sons."}, {"pk": 2721918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And after all this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 plagued him in his intestines with a disease for which there was no healing."}, {"pk": 2721919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness, and he died in great pain. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning for his fathers."}, {"pk": 2721920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Yerushalayim, to no one\u2019s regret, and passed away. And they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331, but not in the burial-sites of the sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2721921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim set up Ah\u0323azyahu his youngest son to reign in his place, for the raiding band that came with the Arab\u0331ians into the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ah\u0323azyahu son of Yehoram, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, reigned."}, {"pk": 2721922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "Ah\u0323azyahu was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim one year. And his mother\u2019s name was Athalyahu the granddaughter of Omri."}, {"pk": 2721923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "He too walked in the ways of the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, for his mother counselled him to do wrong."}, {"pk": 2721924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, like the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction."}, {"pk": 2721925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "He also walked in their counsel, and went with Yehoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to fight against H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram at Ramoth Gil\u201bad. And the Arameans struck Yoram,"}, {"pk": 2721926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "and he returned to Yizre\u201b\u0115l to recover from the strikings with which they struck him at Ramah, when he fought against H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l sovereign of Aram. And Azaryahu son of Yehoram, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, went down to see Yehoram son of Ah\u0323ab\u0331 in Yizre\u201b\u0115l, for he was sick."}, {"pk": 2721927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "But from Elohim came the downfall of Ah\u0323azyahu, through his coming to Yoram. For when he came he went out with Yehoram against Y\u0115hu son of Nimshi, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had anointed to cut off the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when Y\u0115hu was executing judgment on the house of Ah\u0323ab\u0331, that he found the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah and the sons of Ah\u0323azyahu\u2019s brothers who served Ah\u0323azyahu, and killed them."}, {"pk": 2721929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "So he searched for Ah\u0323azyahu, and they caught him while he was hiding in Shomeron, and brought him to Y\u0115hu, and put him to death, then buried him, for they said, \u201cHe is the son of Yehoshaphat, who sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all his heart.\u201d And there was none in the house of Ah\u0323azyahu strong enough to reign."}, {"pk": 2721930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And when Athalyahu the mother of Ah\u0323azyahu saw that her son was dead, she rose up and destroyed all the offspring of the reign of the house of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2721931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "But Yehoshab\u0331\u201bath, the daughter of the sovereign, took Yo\u2019ash son of Ah\u0323azyahu, and stole him away from among the sovereign\u2019s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedroom. So Yehoshab\u0331\u201bath, the daughter of Sovereign Yehoram, the wife of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest, because she was the sister of Ah\u0323azyahu, hid him from Athalyahu so that she could not put him to death."}, {"pk": 2721932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And he was hidden with them in the House of Elohim for six years, while Athalyah was reigning over the land."}, {"pk": 2721933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the seventh year Yehoyad\u0331a strengthened himself, and made a covenant with the commanders of hundreds: Azaryah son of Yeroh\u0323am, and Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Yehoh\u0323anan, and Azaryahu son of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331, and Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu son of Ad\u0331ayahu, and Elishaphat son of Zik\u0331ri."}, {"pk": 2721934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And they went about through Yehud\u0331ah and gathered the L\u0115wites from all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and the chiefs of the fathers of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the assembly made a covenant with the sovereign in the House of Elohim. And he said to them, \u201cSee, the son of the sovereign is to reign, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said of the sons of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThis is what you do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the L\u0115wites, gatekeepers of the thresholds;"}, {"pk": 2721937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "and one-third are at the sovereign\u2019s house, and one-third at the Gate of the Foundation, while all the people are in the courtyards of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd let no one come into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 except the priests and those of the L\u0115wites who serve \u2014 they go in, for they are set-apart. But all the people are to guard the Charge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the L\u0115wites shall surround the sovereign on all sides, every man with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house, let him be put to death. And be with the sovereign when he comes in and when he goes out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "And the L\u0115wites and all Yehud\u0331ah did according to all that Yehoyad\u0331a the priest commanded. And each man took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those going out on the Sabbath, for Yehoyad\u0331a the priest did not dismiss the divisions."}, {"pk": 2721941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a the priest gave to the commanders of hundreds the spears and the large and small shields which had been Sovereign Dawid\u0331\u2019s, that were in the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2721942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the House to the left side of the House, along by the slaughter-place and by the House, all around the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And they brought out the son of the sovereign and put on him the diadem and the Witness, and set him up to reign. Then Yehoyad\u0331a and his sons anointed him, and said, \u201cLet the sovereign live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And Athalyahu heard the noise of the people running and praising the sovereign, and she came to the people in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2721945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "and looked and saw the sovereign standing by his column at the entrance. And the chiefs and the trumpeters were beside the sovereign, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, also the singers with instruments of song, and those who led in praise. Then Athalyahu tore her garments and said, \u201cTreason! Treason!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a the priest brought out the commanders of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, \u201cTake her outside the ranks, and slay with the sword whoever follows her.\u201d For the priest said, \u201cDo not kill her in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "So they laid hands on her, and she went by way of the entrance of the Horse Gate into the sovereign\u2019s house, and they put her to death there."}, {"pk": 2721948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "Yehoyad\u0331a then made a covenant \u2014 between himself and the people and the sovereign \u2014 to be the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And all the people went to the house of Ba\u201bal, and broke it down. They completely broke up its slaughter-places and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Ba\u201bal before the slaughter-places."}, {"pk": 2721950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a put the offices of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 into the hand of the priests, the L\u0115wites, whom Dawid\u0331 had assigned in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to offer the ascending offerings of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, with rejoicing and with singing, by the hands of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2721951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so that no one who was in any way unclean should enter."}, {"pk": 2721952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "And he took the commanders of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the sovereign down from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they went through the Upper Gate to the sovereign\u2019s house, and set the sovereign on the throne of the reign."}, {"pk": 2721953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "And all the people of the land rejoiced. And the city had rest, for they had slain Athalyahu with the sword."}, {"pk": 2721954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "Yo\u2019ash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Tsib\u0331yah of Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2721955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yo\u2019ash did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the days of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest."}, {"pk": 2721956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a took for him two wives, and he brought forth sons and daughters."}, {"pk": 2721957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And after this it came to be that Yo\u2019ash set his heart on restoring the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And he gathered the priests and the L\u0115wites, and said to them, \u201cGo out to the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and gather from all Yisra\u2019\u0115l silver to repair the House of your Elohim from year to year, and see that you hurry the matter.\u201d But the L\u0115wites did not hurry it."}, {"pk": 2721959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign called Yehoyad\u0331a the chief, and said to him, \u201cWhy have you not required the L\u0115wites to bring in from Yehud\u0331ah and from Yerushalayim the levy of Mosheh the servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and of the assembly of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the Tent of the Witness?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "For the sons of Athalyahu, that wrong woman, had broken into the House of Elohim, and had also prepared all the set-apart <i>vessels</i> of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the Ba\u201bals."}, {"pk": 2721961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "So the sovereign commanded and they made a chest, and set it outside at the gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2721962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "and made it known in Yehud\u0331ah and in Yerushalayim to bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the levy that Mosheh the servant of Elohim had imposed on Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2721963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And all the rulers and all the people rejoiced, and they brought in and put them into the chest to completion."}, {"pk": 2721964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, at that time, when the chest was brought to the sovereign\u2019s official by the hand of the L\u0115wites, and when they saw that there was much silver, that the sovereign\u2019s scribe and the high priest\u2019s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it and returned it to its place. So they did day by day, and gathered a large amount of silver."}, {"pk": 2721965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sovereign and Yehoyad\u0331a gave it to those who did the work of the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they hired stonemasons and carpenters to restore the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and also those who worked in iron and bronze to repair the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And the workmen laboured, and the work of restoration progressed in their hands, and they established the House of Elohim to its proper form and strengthened it."}, {"pk": 2721967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the silver before the sovereign and Yehoyad\u0331a, and they made utensils from it for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, utensils for serving and offering, ladles and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered ascending offerings in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 continually all the days of Yehoyad\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2721968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a was old and satisfied with days, and died, one hundred and thirty years old when he died."}, {"pk": 2721969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "And they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331 among the sovereigns, for he had done good in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, both toward Elohim and His house."}, {"pk": 2721970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And after the death of Yehoyad\u0331a the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah came and bowed themselves to the sovereign. And the sovereign listened to them,"}, {"pk": 2721971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "and they forsook the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, and served the Ash\u0115rim and the idols. And wrath came upon Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim because of their trespass."}, {"pk": 2721972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And He sent prophets to them, to bring them back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they witnessed against them, but they did not listen."}, {"pk": 2721973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "Then the Spirit of Elohim came upon Zek\u0331aryah son of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, \u201cThus said Elohim, \u2018Why are you transgressing the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He has forsaken you.\u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/3/8'>3:8</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/16/8'>16:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2721974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "And they conspired against him, and at the command of the sovereign they stoned him with stones in the courtyard of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2721975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus Yo\u2019ash the sovereign did not remember the loving-commitment which Yehoyad\u0331a his father had done to him, and killed his son. And as he died, he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does see, and repay!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be, at the turn of the year, that the army of Aram came up against him. And they came into Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, and destroyed all the rulers of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the sovereign of Darmeseq."}, {"pk": 2721977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "For the army of Aram came with few men, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Yo\u2019ash."}, {"pk": 2721978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And when they had withdrawn from him \u2014 for they left him very sick \u2014 his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331, but they did not bury him in the burial-sites of the sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2721979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "And these are the ones who conspired against him: Zab\u0331ad\u0331 the son of Shim\u201bath the Ammonitess, and Yehozab\u0331ad\u0331 the son of Shimrith the Mo\u2019ab\u0331itess."}, {"pk": 2721980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "As to his sons, and the many words about him, and the rebuilding of the House of Elohim, see, they are written in the commentary of the book of the sovereigns. And Amatsyahu his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2721981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "Amatsyahu was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Yehoaddan of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2721982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but not with a perfect heart."}, {"pk": 2721983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, upon his strong <i>control</i> of the reign, that he killed his servants who had struck his father the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2721984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "But he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the Torah in the Book of Mosheh, where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded, saying, \u201cFathers are not put to death for their children, and children are not put to death for their fathers, but each one has to die for his own sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "And Amatsyahu gathered Yehud\u0331ah and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, according to the fathers\u2019 houses, for all Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin. And he registered them from twenty years old and above, and found them to be three hundred thousand choice men going out to the army, handling spear and shield."}, {"pk": 2721986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And he hired one hundred thousand mighty brave ones from Yisra\u2019\u0115l for one hundred talents of silver."}, {"pk": 2721987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "But a man of Elohim came to him, saying, \u201cO sovereign, do not let the army of Yisra\u2019\u0115l go with you, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not with Yisra\u2019\u0115l, with all the children of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2721988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut if you are going, do it! Be strong in battle, <i>else</i> Elohim would make you fall before the enemy, for Elohim has power to help and to overthrow.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And Amatsyahu said to the man of Elohim, \u201cBut what do we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d And the man of Elohim answered, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has more to give you than this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "So Amatsyahu dismissed the army that had come to him from Ephrayim, to go back home. And they were greatly enraged against Yehud\u0331ah, and they returned home in a rage."}, {"pk": 2721991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "And Amatsyahu strengthened himself, and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and struck ten thousand of the sons of S\u0115\u201bir."}, {"pk": 2721992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sons of Yehud\u0331ah took captive another ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, and all of them were dashed to pieces."}, {"pk": 2721993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And the soldiers of the army which Amatsyahu had sent back from going with him to battle, they raided the cities of Yehud\u0331ah from Shomeron to B\u0115yth H\u0323oron, and struck three thousand in them, and took much spoil."}, {"pk": 2721994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "And it came to be, after Amatsyahu came from striking the Ed\u0331omites, that he brought the mighty ones of the people of S\u0115\u201bir, and set them up to be his mighty ones, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them."}, {"pk": 2721995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against Amatsyahu, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, \u201cWhy have you sought the mighty ones of the people, which did not deliver their own people from your hand?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, as he talked with him, that the sovereign said to him, \u201cHave we appointed you counsellor to the sovereign? Stop! Why should they strike you?\u201d Then the prophet stopped and said, \u201cI know that Elohim has counselled to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "And Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah took counsel and sent to Yo\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, son of Y\u0115hu, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cCome, let us look each other in the face!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2721998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yo\u2019ash sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sent to Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u201cThe thistle that was in Leb\u0331anon sent to the cedar that was in Leb\u0331anon, saying, \u2018Give your daughter to my son as wife.\u2019 And a wild beast that was in Leb\u0331anon passed by and trampled the thistle."}, {"pk": 2721999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cYou have said, \u2018See, I have stricken Ed\u0331om,\u2019 and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now stay at home, why should you stir up yourself to evil, that you should fall \u2014 you and Yehud\u0331ah with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "But Amatsyahu did not listen, for it came from Elohim, in order to give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the mighty ones of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2722001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "So Yo\u2019ash sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out. And he and Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah faced one another at B\u0115yth Shemesh, which belongs to Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah was smitten before Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they each fled to his tent."}, {"pk": 2722003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yo\u2019ash the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l caught Amatsyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, son of Yo\u2019ash, son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, at B\u0115yth Shemesh, and brought him to Yerushalayim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim from the Gate of Ephrayim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits,"}, {"pk": 2722004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "and <i>took</i> all the gold and the silver, and all the utensils that were found in the House of Elohim with Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ed\u0331om, and the treasures of the sovereign\u2019s house, and hostages, and returned to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2722005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "And Amatsyahu son of Yo\u2019ash, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, lived fifteen years after the death of Yo\u2019ash son of Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Amatsyahu, from the first to the last, see, are they not written in the book of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2722007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "And from the time that Amatsyahu turned away from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they made a conspiracy against him in Yerushalayim, and he fled to Lak\u0331ish. And they sent after him to Lak\u0331ish and killed him there,"}, {"pk": 2722008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "and they brought him on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And all the people of Yehud\u0331ah took Uzziyahu, who was sixteen years old, and set him up to reign instead of his father Amatsyahu."}, {"pk": 2722010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "He built \u011ayloth and restored it to Yehud\u0331ah, after the sovereign slept with his fathers."}, {"pk": 2722011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "Uzziyahu was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yek\u0331olyah of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father Amatsyahu did."}, {"pk": 2722013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "And he sought Elohim in the days of Zek\u0331aryahu, who had understanding in the visions of Elohim. And while he sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim made him prosper."}, {"pk": 2722014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "And he went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Yab\u0331neh, and the wall of Ashdod\u0331, and built cities around Ashdod\u0331 and among the Philistines."}, {"pk": 2722015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "And Elohim helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arab\u0331ians who lived in Gur Ba\u201bal, and the Me\u201bunites."}, {"pk": 2722016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziyahu. And his name spread as far as the entrance of Mitsrayim, for he strengthened himself greatly."}, {"pk": 2722017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "And Uzziyahu built towers in Yerushalayim at the Corner Gate, and at the Valley Gate, and at the corner buttress, and strengthened them."}, {"pk": 2722018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the low country and in the plain, farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in Karmel, for he loved the soil."}, {"pk": 2722019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "And Uzziyah had an army of fighting men who went out to battle by divisions, according to the number on their roll as prepared by Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l the scribe and Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu the officer, under the hand of H\u0323ananyahu, one of the sovereign\u2019s commanders."}, {"pk": 2722020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "The total number of the clan chiefs of the mighty brave ones was two thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2722021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "And under their hand was an army of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred that fought with mighty power, to help the sovereign against the enemy."}, {"pk": 2722022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And Uzziyahu prepared for them, for the entire army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and body armour, and bows, and sling stones."}, {"pk": 2722023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "And he made machines in Yerushalayim, devised by skilled men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name spread far and wide, for he was marvellously helped till he became strong."}, {"pk": 2722024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "But when he became strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he trespassed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim by entering the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to burn incense on the slaughter-place of incense."}, {"pk": 2722025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "And Azaryahu the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who were brave men."}, {"pk": 2722026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "And they stood up against Sovereign Uzziyahu, and said to him, \u201cIt is not for you, Uzziyahu, to burn incense to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but for the priests, the sons of Aharon, who are set-apart to burn incense. Get out of the set-apart place, for you have trespassed, and there is no esteem to you from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "And Uzziyahu was wroth. And he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was wroth with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, beside the incense slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2722028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "And Azaryahu the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and saw that he was leprous on his forehead. And they hurried him from there. And he also hurried to get out, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had struck him."}, {"pk": 2722029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And Sovereign Uzziyahu was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, because he was a leper, for he was cut off from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And Yotham his son was over the sovereign\u2019s house, ruling the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2722030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Uzziyahu, from the first to the last, the prophet Yeshayahu the son of Amots wrote."}, {"pk": 2722031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "So Uzziyahu slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial-place which belonged to the sovereigns, for they said, \u201cHe is a leper.\u201d And Yotham his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "Yotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Yerushah the daughter of Tsad\u0331oq."}, {"pk": 2722033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father Uzziyahu had done. Only, he did not come into the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the people continued to act corruptly."}, {"pk": 2722034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "He built the Upper Gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he built much on the wall of Ophel."}, {"pk": 2722035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And he built cities in the hill country of Yehud\u0331ah, and in the forests he built palaces and towers."}, {"pk": 2722036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "And he fought with the sovereign of the Ammonites and <i>had</i> strong <i>victory</i> over them. And the children of Ammon gave him in that year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand kors of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This is what the children of Ammon paid him, also in the second and third years."}, {"pk": 2722037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yotham strengthened himself, for he prepared his ways before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yotham, and all his battles and his ways, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "So Yotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of Dawid\u0331. And his son Ah\u0323az reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "Ah\u0323az was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Yerushalayim. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his father Dawid\u0331 had done,"}, {"pk": 2722042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "and walked in the ways of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and made moulded images for the Ba\u201bals."}, {"pk": 2722043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "And he himself burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dispossessed from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2722044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "and slaughtered and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."}, {"pk": 2722045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim gave him into the hand of the sovereign of Aram, and they struck him, and took many of them away as captives, and brought them to Darmeseq. And he was also given into the hand of the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who struck him with a great slaughter."}, {"pk": 2722046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "And Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Yehud\u0331ah in one day, all brave men, because they had forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2722047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "And Zik\u0331ri, a mighty man of Ephrayim, killed Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu son of the sovereign, and Azriqam the officer over the house, and Elqanah who was second to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2722048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l took captive from their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons and daughters. And they also seized from them much spoil, and they brought the spoil to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2722049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "But a prophet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was there, whose name was Od\u0331\u0115d\u0331. And he went out before the army that came to Shomeron, and said to them, \u201cSee, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers was displeased with Yehud\u0331ah, He has given them into your hand, and you have killed them in a rage that reaches up to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now you are planning to make the children of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim your male and female slaves, but are you not also guilty before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2722051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cNow therefore, listen to me, and return the captives whom you have taken captive from your brothers, for the heat of the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And some of the heads of the children of Ephrayim: Azaryahu son of Yehoh\u0323anan, Berek\u0331yahu son of Meshill\u0115moth, and Yeh\u0323izqiyahu son of Shallum, and Amasa son of H\u0323ad\u0331lai, stood up against those who came from the army,"}, {"pk": 2722053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "and said to them, \u201cDo not bring the captives here, to bring on us guilt before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Are you planning to add to our sins and to our guilt? For our guilt is great, and burning is the wrath on Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "And the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the assembly."}, {"pk": 2722055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And the men who were designated by name rose up and took the captives, and from the spoil they put on all the naked among them, dressed them and gave them sandals, and gave them food and drink, and anointed them, and let all the weak ones ride on donkeys, and brought them to their brothers at Yerih\u0323o, the city of palm trees, then returned to Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2722056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "At that time Sovereign Ah\u0323az sent to the sovereigns of Ashshur to help him."}, {"pk": 2722057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "For the Ed\u0331omites had come again, and struck Yehud\u0331ah, and took away captives."}, {"pk": 2722058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Philistines invaded the cities of the low country and of the South of Yehud\u0331ah, and captured B\u0115yth Shemesh, and Ayalon, and Ged\u0331\u0115roth, and Sok\u0331o with its villages, and Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages, and dwelt there."}, {"pk": 2722059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had brought Yehud\u0331ah low because of Ah\u0323az sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for he brought about a lack of restraint in Yehud\u0331ah and trespassed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And Tiglath-Pileser the sovereign of Ashshur came against him and distressed him, and did not strengthen him,"}, {"pk": 2722061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "though Ah\u0323az had taken some of the treasures from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the house of the sovereign, and from the leaders, and he gave it to the sovereign of Ashshur, but he did not help him."}, {"pk": 2722062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "And in the time of his distress Sovereign Ah\u0323az trespassed even more against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 this Sovereign Ah\u0323az \u2014"}, {"pk": 2722063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "and he slaughtered to the mighty ones of Darmeseq, those striking him, saying, \u201cBecause the mighty ones of the sovereigns of Aram help them, I slaughter to them and they help me.\u201d But they were to cause him and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l to stumble."}, {"pk": 2722064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "And Ah\u0323az gathered the utensils of the House of Elohim, and cut in pieces the utensils of the House of Elohim, and shut the doors of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and made for himself slaughter-places in every corner of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "And in every city, even the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, he made high places to burn incense to other mighty ones, and provoked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of his fathers."}, {"pk": 2722066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "And the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "So Ah\u0323az slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Yerushalayim, but they did not bring him into the burial-sites of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And H\u0323izqiyahu his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "H\u0323izqiyahu began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was Ab\u0331iyah the daughter of Zek\u0331aryahu."}, {"pk": 2722069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that his father Dawid\u0331 did."}, {"pk": 2722070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "In the first year of his reign, in the first new <i>moon</i>, he opened the doors of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and repaired them,"}, {"pk": 2722071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "and brought in the priests and the L\u0115wites, and gathered them in the open place to the east."}, {"pk": 2722072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cListen to me, O L\u0115wites! Now set yourselves apart, set apart the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers, and remove the uncleanness from the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2722073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor our fathers have trespassed and have done evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, and have forsaken Him, and have turned their faces away from the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and have given their backs."}, {"pk": 2722074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd they have shut the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and they have not burned incense or offered ascending offerings in the set-apart place to the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTherefore the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell upon Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, and He has given them up for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as you see with your eyes."}, {"pk": 2722076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd see, because of this our fathers have fallen by the sword. And our sons, and our daughters, and our wives are in captivity for this."}, {"pk": 2722077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNow it is in my heart to make a covenant with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that the heat of His wrath turns away from us."}, {"pk": 2722078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cMy sons, do not be slack, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and to be attendants for Him and burn incense.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "And the L\u0115wites rose up: Mah\u0323ath son of Amasai and Yo\u2019\u0115l son of Azaryahu, of the sons of the Qehathites; and of the sons of Merari, Qish son of Ab\u0331di and Azaryahu son of Yehallel\u2019\u0115l; and of the G\u0115reshonites, Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Zimmah and \u011ad\u0331en son of Yo\u2019ah\u0323;"}, {"pk": 2722080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "and of the sons of Elitsaphan, Shimri and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l; and of the sons of Asaph, Zek\u0331aryahu and Mattanyahu;"}, {"pk": 2722081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "and of the sons of H\u0115man, Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l and Shim\u201bi; and of the sons of Yed\u0331uthun, Shemayah and Uzzi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "And they gathered their brothers, and set themselves apart, and went according to the command of the sovereign, at the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to cleanse the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "And the priests came into the inner part of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the courtyard of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Then the L\u0115wites received it to take it outside to the wadi Qid\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2722084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "And they began to set apart on the first day of the first new <i>moon</i>, and on the eighth day of the new <i>moon</i> they came to the porch of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they set apart the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first new <i>moon</i> they had finished."}, {"pk": 2722085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "Then they came in to Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu and said, \u201cWe have cleansed all the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the slaughter-place of ascending offerings with all its utensils, and the table of the showbread with all its utensils."}, {"pk": 2722086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd all the utensils which Sovereign Ah\u0323az in his reign had pushed aside, when he trespassed, we have prepared and set apart. And see, they are before the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "And Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu rose up early, and gathered the heads of the city, and went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "And they brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the reign, for the set-apart place, and for Yehud\u0331ah. And he said to the priests, the sons of Aharon, to offer them on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "So they slew the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the slaughter-place. And they slew the rams and sprinkled the blood on the slaughter-place. And they slew the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2722090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "And they brought out the male goats of the sin offering before the sovereign and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,"}, {"pk": 2722091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "and the priests slew them, and with their blood made a sin offering on the slaughter-place, to make an atonement for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the sovereign said that the ascending offering and the sin offering is for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "And he appointed the L\u0115wites in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, according to the command of Dawid\u0331, and of Gad\u0331, seer of the sovereign, and of Nathan the prophet, for the command was by the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by the hand of His prophets."}, {"pk": 2722093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "And the L\u0115wites stood with the instruments of Dawid\u0331, and the priests with the trumpets."}, {"pk": 2722094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu gave the order to offer the ascending offering on the slaughter-place. And when the ascending offering began, the singing unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 began, with the trumpets and with the instruments of Dawid\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "And all the assembly were bowing, and the singers singing, and the trumpeters blowing \u2014 all this until the ascending offering was completed."}, {"pk": 2722096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "And at the completion of the offering, the sovereign and all who were present with him bowed and worshipped."}, {"pk": 2722097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "And Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu and the rulers ordered the L\u0115wites to sing praise to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with the words of Dawid\u0331 and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped."}, {"pk": 2722098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu responded and said, \u201cNow that you have ordained yourselves to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, come near, and bring slaughterings and thank offerings into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And the assembly brought in slaughterings and thank offerings, and all those whose hearts were so moved brought ascending offerings."}, {"pk": 2722099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "text": "And the number of the ascending offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs \u2014 all these for an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 33, "text": "And the set-apart gifts were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep."}, {"pk": 2722101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 34, "text": "Only, the priests were too few, and were unable to skin all the ascending offerings, so their brothers the L\u0115wites helped them until the work was completed and until the other priests had set themselves apart, for the L\u0115wites were more upright of heart to set themselves apart, than the priests."}, {"pk": 2722102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 35, "text": "And there were also many ascending offerings, with the fat of the peace offerings and with the drink offerings for every ascending offering. Thus the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was re-established."}, {"pk": 2722103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 29, "verse": 36, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu and all the people rejoiced that Elohim had prepared the people, because the matter came about so suddenly."}, {"pk": 2722104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu sent to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah, and he also wrote letters to Ephrayim and Menashsheh, to come to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Yerushalayim, to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "But the sovereign and his leaders and all the assembly in Yerushalayim had taken counsel to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 in the second new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2722106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "For they were unable to perform it at its time, because not enough priests had set themselves apart, and the people had not gathered at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "And the matter was right in the eyes of the sovereign and in the eyes of all the assembly."}, {"pk": 2722108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "And they settled the matter, to send a call to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a to Dan, to come to perform a P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l at Yerushalayim, since they had not done it for a long time, as it is written."}, {"pk": 2722109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "And the runners went to all Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah with the letters from the sovereign and his leaders, and spoke according to the command of the sovereign, \u201cChildren of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so that He returns to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the sovereigns of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2722110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers, so that He gave them up to ruin, as you see."}, {"pk": 2722111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cNow do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers, stretch forth the hand to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and come to His set-apart place, which He has set apart forever, and serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, so that His burning wrath turns away from you."}, {"pk": 2722112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor if you turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your brothers and your children shall be shown compassion by their captors, even to return to this land. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shows favour and compassion, and does not turn His face from you if you turn back to Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "And the runners passed from city to city throughout the land of Ephrayim and Menashsheh, as far as Zeb\u0331ulun. But they were laughing at them and mocking them."}, {"pk": 2722114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "Some from Ash\u0115r and Menashsheh and from Zeb\u0331ulun, however, humbled themselves and came to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "Also the hand of Elohim was on Yehud\u0331ah to give them one heart to do the command of the sovereign and the rulers, at the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "And many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Yerushalayim to perform the Festival of Matzot in the second new <i>moon</i>.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2722117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "And they rose up and removed the slaughter-places that were in Yerushalayim, and they removed all the incense slaughter-places and threw them into the wadi Qid\u0331ron."}, {"pk": 2722118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "Then they slew the P\u0115sah on the fourteenth day of the second new <i>moon</i>. And the priests and the L\u0115wites were ashamed, and set themselves apart, and brought the ascending offerings to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Passover."}, {"pk": 2722119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "And they stood in their place according to their right-ruling. According to the Torah of Mosheh, the man of Elohim, the priests sprinkled the blood from the hand of the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2722120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "For many in the assembly had not set themselves apart. Therefore the L\u0115wites were over the slaughter of the P\u0115sah\u0323im for everyone who was not clean, to set them apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "P\u0115sah\u0323im - Plural of P\u0115sah\u0323. See Explanatory Notes \"Passover\""}, {"pk": 2722121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "For many of the people, many from Ephrayim and Menashsheh, Yissask\u0331ar and Zeb\u0331ulun, had not been cleansed, yet they ate the P\u0115sah\u0323 contrary to what was written. But H\u0323izqiyahu prayed for them, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is good, provide atonement for everyone"}, {"pk": 2722122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "who has prepared his heart to seek Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the cleansing of the set-apart place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listened to H\u0323izqiyahu and healed the people."}, {"pk": 2722124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were in Yerushalayim performed the Festival of Matzot seven days with great joy. And the L\u0115wites and the priests praised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 day by day, with instruments of praise before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Unleavened bread."}, {"pk": 2722125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu spoke to the heart of all the L\u0115wites, those having good understanding concerning \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. So they ate during the appointed time, seven days, slaughtering slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> and making confession to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2722126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "And all the assembly took counsel to perform another seven days, and they performed it another seven days with joy."}, {"pk": 2722127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "For H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah presented to the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep, and the rulers presented to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests set themselves apart."}, {"pk": 2722128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "And all the assembly of Yehud\u0331ah rejoiced, and the priests and L\u0115wites, and all the assembly who had come from Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the sojourners who came from the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and those who dwelt in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "And there came to be great joy in Yerushalayim, for since the days of Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331, the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the like of this had not been in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "And the priests, the L\u0115wites, rose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard. And their prayer came up to His set-apart dwelling place, to heaven."}, {"pk": 2722131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And at the completion of all this, all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were present went out to the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Ash\u0115rim, and tore down the high places and the slaughter-places, from all Yehud\u0331ah, and Binyamin, and in Ephrayim and Menashsheh, even to completion. Then all the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l returned to their own cities, each to his possession."}, {"pk": 2722132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu appointed the divisions of the priests and of the L\u0115wites according to their divisions, each according to his service of the priests and L\u0115wites for ascending offerings and peace offerings, to serve and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign portioned of his possessions for the ascending offerings, for the morning and evening ascending offerings, and the ascending offerings for the sabbaths and for the new <i>moons</i> and for the appointed times, as it is written in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said to the people, those who dwelt in Yerushalayim, to give the portion for the priests and the L\u0115wites, so that they are strengthened in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "And as the word spread, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l brought large quantities of the first-fruits of grain and wine, and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field. And they brought in the tithe of all, a large amount."}, {"pk": 2722136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah, those who dwelt in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, brought the tithe of cattle and sheep. Even the tithe of set-apart gifts which were set apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim were brought in, and they gave heaps, heaps."}, {"pk": 2722137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "In the third new <i>moon</i> they began to pile up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2722138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu and the leaders came and saw the heaps, and they blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu asked the priests and the L\u0115wites about the heaps."}, {"pk": 2722140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "And Azaryahu the chief priest, from the house of Tsad\u0331oq, answered him and said, \u201cSince they began to bring the offerings into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed His people. And this great amount is left over.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu ordered them to prepare rooms in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and they prepared them."}, {"pk": 2722142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "Then they brought in the contribution, and the tithes, and the set-apart gifts, trustworthily. And Konanyahu the L\u0115wite was leader over them, and Shim\u201bi his brother was the next."}, {"pk": 2722143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Azazyahu, and Nah\u0323ath, and Asah\u2019\u0115l, and Yerimoth, and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, and Eli\u2019\u0115l, and Yismak\u0331yahu, and Mah\u0323ath, and Benayahu were overseers under the hand of Konanyahu and Shim\u201bi his brother, by order of H\u0323izqiyahu the sovereign and Azaryahu the ruler of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "And Qor\u0115 son of Yimnah the L\u0115wite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the voluntary offerings to Elohim, to distribute the offerings of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the most set-apart gifts."}, {"pk": 2722145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "And under his hand were \u011ad\u0331en, and Minyamin, and Y\u0115shua, and Shemayahu, Amaryahu, and Shek\u0331anyahu, in the cities of the priests, to distribute trustworthily to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as the small."}, {"pk": 2722146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "Besides those males from three years old and up who were written in the genealogy, they distributed to everyone who entered the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his daily portion for the work of his service, by his division,"}, {"pk": 2722147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "and to the priests who were written in the genealogy according to their father\u2019s house, and to the L\u0115wites from twenty years old upward, by their duties in their divisions,"}, {"pk": 2722148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "and to all listed in the genealogy, their little ones and their wives, their sons and daughters, all the company of them. For in their trustworthiness they set themselves apart in set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2722149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "And for the sons of Aharon the priests, who were in the fields of the open land of their cities, in each and every city, there were men who were called by name to distribute portions to all the males among the priests and to all who were listed by genealogies among the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2722150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu did this in all Yehud\u0331ah, and he did what was good and what was right and what was true before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "And in every work that he began in the service of the House of Elohim, in the Torah and in the command, to seek his Elohim, with all his heart, he did and prospered."}, {"pk": 2722152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "After these matters and this trustworthiness, Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur came. And he entered Yehud\u0331ah and encamped against the cities of defence, and said to break them open to himself."}, {"pk": 2722153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu saw that Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 had come, and his face set to fight against Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2722154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "and he took counsel with his rulers and mighty men to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city. And they helped him."}, {"pk": 2722155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "And many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the stream that ran through the land, saying, \u201cWhy should the sovereigns of Ashshur come and find much water?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and outside of it another wall, and strengthened Millo, the City of Dawid\u0331, and made large numbers of weapons and shields."}, {"pk": 2722157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "And he appointed battle officers over the people, and gathered them to him in the open space at the city gate, and spoke to their heart, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBe strong and courageous, do not be afraid nor be cast down before the sovereign of Ashshur, nor before all the army that is with him. For with us there are more than with him."}, {"pk": 2722159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWith him is an arm of flesh, but with us is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to help us and to fight our battles.\u201d And the people leaned on the words of H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "After this Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 the sovereign of Ashshur sent his servants to Yerushalayim \u2014 but he himself, and all his power with him against Lak\u0331ish \u2014 to H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and to all Yehud\u0331ah who were in Yerushalayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThus said Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 the sovereign of Ashshur, \u2018On what are you trusting, that you remain in Yerushalayim under siege?"}, {"pk": 2722162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "Is H\u0323izqiyahu not persuading you to give yourselves over to die by scarcity of food and by thirst, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim shall deliver us from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2722163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "Has not H\u0323izqiyahu himself taken away His high places and His slaughter-places, and ordered Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, saying, \u201cBow yourselves before one slaughter-place and burn incense on it\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2722164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the mighty ones of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?"}, {"pk": 2722165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "Who was there among all the mighty ones of those nations that my fathers put under the ban that could deliver his people from my hand, that your Elohim should be able to deliver you from my hand?"}, {"pk": 2722166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "And now, do not let H\u0323izqiyahu deceive you or persuade you like this, and do not believe him; for no mighty one of any nation or reign was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers \u2014 much less your Elohim, to deliver you from my hand!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2722167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "And his servants spoke even more against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim and against His servant H\u0323izqiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "And he wrote letters to reproach \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and to speak against Him, saying, \u201cAs the mighty ones of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people from my hand, so the Elohim of H\u0323izqiyahu shall not deliver His people from my hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "Then they called out with a loud voice in the language of Yehud\u0331ah to the people of Yerushalayim who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, in order to capture the city."}, {"pk": 2722170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "And they spoke against the Elohim of Yerushalayim, as against the mighty ones of the people of the earth, the work of men\u2019s hands."}, {"pk": 2722171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "And Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu and the prophet Yeshayahu, son of Amots, prayed about this, and cried out to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent a messenger who cut down every mighty brave one, both the leader and the commander in the camp of the sovereign of Ashshur, and he returned shamefaced to his own land, and went into the house of his mighty one, and there some of his own offspring caused him to fall by the sword."}, {"pk": 2722173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saved H\u0323izqiyahu and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim from the hand of Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 the sovereign of Ashshur, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side."}, {"pk": 2722174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "And many brought gifts to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Yerushalayim, and presents to H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and he was exalted in the eyes of all nations thereafter."}, {"pk": 2722175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "In those days H\u0323izqiyahu was sick and near death, and he prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And He spoke to him and appointed a sign for him."}, {"pk": 2722176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "However, H\u0323izqiyahu did not repay according to the good done to him, for his heart was lifted up, therefore wrath came upon him and upon Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "Then H\u0323izqiyahu humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so that the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 did not come upon them in the days of H\u0323izqiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu had much riches and esteem. And he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all desirable utensils;"}, {"pk": 2722179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "and storehouses for the harvest of grain, and wine, and oil, and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and folds for flocks."}, {"pk": 2722180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "And he made cities for himself, and possessions of great numbers of flocks and herds, for Elohim gave him much property."}, {"pk": 2722181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu himself had stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Gih\u0323on, and directed them to the west side of the City of Dawid\u0331. And H\u0323izqiyahu prospered in all his work."}, {"pk": 2722182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "However with the envoys of the princes of Bab\u0331el, whom they sent to ask him about the wonder that was done in the land, Elohim left him, in order to try him, to know all that was in his heart."}, {"pk": 2722183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "And the rest of the acts of H\u0323izqiyahu, and his loving-commitment, see, they are written in the vision of Yeshayahu the prophet, son of Amots, in the book of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "text": "So H\u0323izqiyahu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper burial-sites of the sons of Dawid\u0331. And all Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim esteemed him at his death. And Menashsheh his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "But he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to the abominations of the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 dispossessed from before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "For again he rebuilt the high places which H\u0323izqiyahu his father had broken down, and raised up slaughter-places for the Ba\u201bals, and made Ash\u0115rim, and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens and served them."}, {"pk": 2722188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "And he built slaughter-places in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, of which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had said, \u201cIn Yerushalayim is My Name, forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "And he built slaughter-places for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "And he made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and practised magic, and used divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke Him."}, {"pk": 2722191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made, in the House of Elohim, of which Elohim had said to Dawid\u0331 and to Shelomoh his son, \u201cIn this house and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, I put My Name forever,"}, {"pk": 2722192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "and no more shall I remove the foot of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the soil which I have appointed for your fathers \u2014 only if they guard to do all that I have commanded them, according to all the Torah and the laws and the right-rulings by the hand of Mosheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus Menashsheh led Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim astray, to do more evil than the nations whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had destroyed before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Menashsheh and to his people, but they did not listen."}, {"pk": 2722195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought upon them the commanders of the army of the sovereign of Ashshur, who captured Menashsheh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and made him go to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "And when he was in distress, he sought the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim, and humbled himself greatly before the Elohim of his fathers,"}, {"pk": 2722197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "and prayed to Him. And He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Yerushalayim into his reign. And Menashsheh knew that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "And after this he built a wall outside the City of Dawid\u0331 on the west of Gih\u0323on, in the wadi, and as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate, and it went round Ophel, and he made it exceedingly high. And he put army commanders in all the walled cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "And he removed the foreign mighty ones and the idol from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and all the slaughter-places that he had built in the mount of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in Yerushalayim, and he threw them out of the city."}, {"pk": 2722200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "And he built the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and slaughtered slaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> and thank offerings on it, and ordered Yehud\u0331ah to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "But the people were still slaughtering on the high places, though only to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up the Ash\u0115rim and the carved images, before he was humbled, see, they are written among the words of the seers."}, {"pk": 2722204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "So Menashsheh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "But he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his father Menashsheh had done. And Amon slaughtered to all the carved images which his father Menashsheh had made, and served them."}, {"pk": 2722207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "And he did not humble himself before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as his father Menashsheh had humbled himself, for Amon trespassed more and more."}, {"pk": 2722208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "And his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house."}, {"pk": 2722209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "But the people of the land struck all those who had conspired against Sovereign Amon, and the people of the land set up his son Yoshiyahu to reign in his place."}, {"pk": 2722210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "Yoshiyahu was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did what was right in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and walked in the ways of his father Dawid\u0331, and did not turn aside, right or left."}, {"pk": 2722212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawid\u0331. And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Ash\u0115rim, and the carved images, and the moulded images."}, {"pk": 2722213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "And they broke down the slaughter-places of the Ba\u201bals in his presence, and the sun-pillars which were above them he cut down. And the Ash\u0115rim, and the carved images, and the moulded images he smashed, and ground them up and strewed it on the surface of the burial-sites of those who had slaughtered to them."}, {"pk": 2722214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "And he burned the bones of the priests on their slaughter-places, and cleansed Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2722215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "and in the cities of Menashsheh, and Ephrayim, and Shim\u201bon, as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around."}, {"pk": 2722216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "And he broke down the slaughter-places and the Ash\u0115rim, and ground the carved images into dust, and cut down all the sun-pillars throughout all the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "And in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the House, he sent Shaphan son of Atsalyahu, and Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu the head of the city, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Yo\u2019ah\u0323az the recorder, to repair the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "And they went to H\u0323ilqiyahu the high priest, and they gave the silver that was brought into the House of Elohim, which the L\u0115wites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Menashsheh and Ephrayim, and from all the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and from all Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, and which they had brought back to Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2722219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "and they gave it in the hand of the workmen, those appointed over the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they gave it to the workmen who worked in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to repair and strengthen the house."}, {"pk": 2722220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "And they gave it to the craftsmen and to the builders, to buy hewn stone and timber for couplings and for beams for the houses which the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah had destroyed."}, {"pk": 2722221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "And the men did the work trustworthily. And over them were appointed Yah\u0323ath and Ob\u0331ad\u0331yahu the L\u0115wites, of the sons of Merari, and Zek\u0331aryah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Qehathites, to oversee; and of the L\u0115wites, all of whom were skilled in instruments of song,"}, {"pk": 2722222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "and over the burden bearers, and overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And of the L\u0115wites were scribes, and officers, and gatekeepers."}, {"pk": 2722223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "And when they brought out the silver that was brought into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, H\u0323ilqiyahu the priest found the Book of the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 given by Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2722224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "Then H\u0323ilqiyahu responded and said to Shaphan the scribe, \u201cI have found the Book of the Torah in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And H\u0323ilqiyahu gave the book to Shaphan."}, {"pk": 2722225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shaphan brought the book to the sovereign, and brought the sovereign word, saying, \u201cAll that has been given into the hand of your servants, they are doing."}, {"pk": 2722226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd they have poured out the silver that was found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and have given it into the hand of those appointed and the workmen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shaphan the scribe informed the sovereign, saying, \u201cH\u0323ilqiyahu the priest has given me a book.\u201d And Shaphan read it before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2722228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign heard the words of the Torah, that he tore his garments."}, {"pk": 2722229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "And the sovereign commanded H\u0323ilqiyahu, Ah\u0323iqam son of Shaphan, and Ab\u0331don son of Mik\u0331ah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asayah a servant of the sovereign, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cGo, inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for me, and for him who is left in Yisra\u2019\u0115l and in Yehud\u0331ah, concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not guarded the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to do according to all that is written in this book.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "Then H\u0323ilqiyahu and those of the sovereign went to H\u0323uldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Toqhath, son of H\u0323asrah, keeper of the wardrobe, who was dwelling in Yerushalayim in the Second Quarter. And they spoke to her about this."}, {"pk": 2722232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "And she said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Say to the man who sent you to Me,"}, {"pk": 2722233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2722234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other mighty ones, to provoke Me with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath is poured out on this place, and is not quenched.\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2722235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd to the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, who sent you to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, say this to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whose words you have heard,"}, {"pk": 2722236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBecause your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Elohim when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your garments and wept before Me, I also have heard,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSee, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your burial-site in peace, so that your eyes would not see all the evil that I am bringing on this place and its inhabitants.\u201d \u2019 \u201d So they brought back word to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2722238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "And the sovereign sent and gathered all the elders of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "text": "And the sovereign went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all the men of Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and the priests and the L\u0115wites, and all the people, both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "text": "And the sovereign stood in his place and made a covenant before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to follow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and to guard His commands and His witnesses and His laws, with all his heart and all his being, to do the words of the covenant that were written in this book."}, {"pk": 2722241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "text": "And he made stand all who were present in Yerushalayim and Binyamin. And the inhabitants of Yerushalayim did according to the covenant of Elohim, the Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2722242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "text": "And Yoshiyahu removed all the abominations from all the lands that belonged to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and made all who were present in Yisra\u2019\u0115l diligently serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim. All his days they did not turn away from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2722243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yoshiyahu performed a P\u0115sah\u0323 to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Yerushalayim, and they slew the P\u0115sah\u0323 on the fourteenth day of the first new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2722244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "And he set the priests in their duties and strengthened them for the service of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2722245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "and said to the L\u0115wites who were teaching all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who were set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cPut the set-apart ark in the house which Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, built. It is no longer to be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and His people Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2722246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "and prepare by the fathers\u2019 houses, according to your divisions, by the writing of Dawid\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and by the writing of Shelomoh his son."}, {"pk": 2722247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd stand in the set-apart place by the divisions of the fathers\u2019 houses of your brothers the lay people, and the portion of the father\u2019s house of the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2722248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd slay the P\u0115sah\u0323, and set yourselves apart, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the hand of Mosheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "And Yoshiyahu gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for P\u0115sah\u0323im for everyone present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle \u2014 these were from the sovereign\u2019s possessions."}, {"pk": 2722250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "And his leaders contributed a voluntary offering to the people, to the priests, and to the L\u0115wites. H\u0323ilqiyah, and Zek\u0331aryahu, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, leaders of the House of Elohim, gave to the priests for the P\u0115sah\u0323im two thousand six hundred, and three hundred cattle;"}, {"pk": 2722251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "and Konanyahu, his brothers Shemayahu and Nethan\u2019\u0115l, and H\u0323ashab\u0331yahu and Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, chiefs of the L\u0115wites, gave to the L\u0115wites for P\u0115sah\u0323im five thousand, and five hundred cattle."}, {"pk": 2722252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the L\u0115wites in their divisions, according to the command of the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2722253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "and they slew the P\u0115sah\u0323. And the priests sprinkled out of their hands, while the L\u0115wites were skinning."}, {"pk": 2722254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "And they removed the ascending offerings, to give them to the divisions of the fathers\u2019 houses of the lay people, to bring to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as it is written in the Book of Mosheh, and the same with the cattle."}, {"pk": 2722255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "So they roasted the P\u0115sah\u0323 with fire according to the right-ruling, and they boiled the set-apart offerings in pots, and in cauldrons, and in bowls, and brought them speedily to all the lay people."}, {"pk": 2722256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aharon, were offering ascending offerings and fat until night. So the L\u0115wites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aharon."}, {"pk": 2722257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "And the singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their places, according to the command of Dawid\u0331, and Asaph, and H\u0115man, and Yed\u0331uthun the seer of the sovereign. And the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to leave their position, because their brothers the L\u0115wites prepared for them."}, {"pk": 2722258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "And all the service of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was prepared that day, to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 and to offer ascending offerings on the slaughtplace of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to the command of Sovereign Yoshiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were present performed the P\u0115sah\u0323 at that time, and the Festival of Matzot for seven days."}, {"pk": 2722260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "There had not been a P\u0115sah\u0323 performed in Yisra\u2019\u0115l like it since the days of Shemu\u2019\u0115l the prophet. And none of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had performed such a P\u0115sah\u0323 as Yoshiyahu performed, with the priests and the L\u0115wites, and all Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were present, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "In the eighteenth year of the reign of Yoshiyahu this P\u0115sah\u0323 was performed."}, {"pk": 2722262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "text": "After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the House, Nek\u0331o sovereign of Mitsrayim came up to fight against Karkemish by the Euphrates. And Yoshiyahu went out against him."}, {"pk": 2722263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "text": "And he sent messengers to him, saying, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am fighting, for Elohim commanded me to make haste. Leave Elohim alone, who is with me, lest He destroy you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "text": "However, Yoshiyahu would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself to fight against him, and did not listen to the words of Nek\u0331o from the mouth of Elohim, and came to fight in the Valley of Me\u1e21iddo."}, {"pk": 2722265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "text": "And the archers shot at Sovereign Yoshiyahu. And the sovereign said to his servants, \u201cTake me away, for I am severely wounded.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "text": "And his servants took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Yerushalayim. And he died, and was buried in one of the burial-sites of his fathers. And all Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim were mourning for Yoshiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations, and made it a law in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And see, they are written in the Laments."}, {"pk": 2722268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yoshiyahu and his loving-commitment, according to what was written in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2722269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "text": "and his acts from the first to the last, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2722270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "And the people of the land took Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az son of Yoshiyahu, and set him up to reign in his father\u2019s place in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three new <i>moons</i> in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign of Mitsrayim turned him aside in Yerushalayim, and imposed on the land a levy of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold."}, {"pk": 2722273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign of Mitsrayim made his brother Elyaqim sovereign over Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, and changed his name to Yehoyaqim. And Nek\u0331o took Yeho\u2019ah\u0323az his brother and brought him to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2722274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "Yehoyaqim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el came up against him, and bound him in bronze shackles to take him away to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "And Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar brought some of the utensils from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Bab\u0331el, and put them in his h\u0115k\u0331al at Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "And the rest of the acts of Yehoyaqim, the abominations which he did, and what was found against him, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah. Then Yehoyak\u0331in his son reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2722278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "Yehoyak\u0331in was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Yerushalayim three new <i>moons</i> and ten days. And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Months"}, {"pk": 2722279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "And at the turn of the year Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sent and brought him to Bab\u0331el, with the valuable utensils from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and made Tsid\u0331qiyahu, Yehoyaqim\u2019s brother, sovereign over Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "Tsid\u0331qiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim. He did not humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2722282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "And he also rebelled against Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, who had made him swear by Elohim, but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "Also, all the heads of the priests and the people trespassed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had set apart in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2722284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of their fathers sent to them, by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place."}, {"pk": 2722285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "But they were mocking the messengers of Elohim and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 arose against His people, until there was no healing."}, {"pk": 2722286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore He brought against them the sovereign of the Kasdim, and he killed their young men with the sword in the House of their set-apart place, and had no compassion on young man or maiden, on the aged or the weak \u2014 He gave all into his hand."}, {"pk": 2722287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "And all the utensils from the House of Elohim, great and small, and the treasures of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the treasures of the sovereign and of his leaders, all these he brought to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "And they burned the House of Elohim, and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its valuable utensils."}, {"pk": 2722289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "And those who escaped from the sword he exiled to Bab\u0331el, where they became servants to him and his sons until the reign of the reign of Persia,"}, {"pk": 2722290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "in order to fill the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay waste she kept Sabbath, until seventy years were completed."}, {"pk": 2722291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "And in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the mouth of Yirmeyahu, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stirred up the spirit of Koresh sovereign of Persia, so that he called out in all his reign, and also put it in writing, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 14, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThus said Koresh sovereign of Persia, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the heavens has given me all the reigns of the earth. And He has commanded me to build Him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehud\u0331ah. Whoever is among you of all His people, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim be with him, and let him go up!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2719843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Persia, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by the mouth of Yirmeyah might be accomplished, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stirred up the spirit of Koresh sovereign of Persia, to proclaim throughout all his reign, and also in writing, saying,"}, {"pk": 2719844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said Koresh sovereign of Persia, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the heavens has given me all the reigns of the earth. And He has commanded me to build Him a house in Yerushalayim which is in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Who is among you of all His people? His Elohim be with him! And let him go up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehud\u0331ah, and build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 He is Elohim \u2014 which is in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And whoever is left from all the places where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the voluntary offerings for the House of Elohim which is in Yerushalayim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2719847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin, and the priests and the L\u0115wites, with all those whose spirits Elohim had stirred, rose up to go up and build the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which is in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And all those round about them strengthened their hands with objects of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, besides all that was voluntarily offered."}, {"pk": 2719849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sovereign Koresh brought out the utensils of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had taken from Yerushalayim and put in the house of his mighty ones,"}, {"pk": 2719850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "and Koresh sovereign of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithred\u0331ath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sh\u0115shbatstsar the leader of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And this was their number: thirty gold dishes, one thousand silver dishes, twenty-nine knives,"}, {"pk": 2719852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "thirty gold basins, next, four hundred and ten silver basins, one thousand other utensils."}, {"pk": 2719853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "All the utensils of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred. Sh\u0115shbatstsar took all of them with the exiles who were brought from Bab\u0331el to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles, whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had exiled to Bab\u0331el, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah, each to his own city,"}, {"pk": 2719855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "who came with Zerubbab\u0331el: Y\u0115shua, Neh\u0323emyah, Serayah, Re\u201b\u0115layah, Mordek\u0331ai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bi\u1e21wai, Reh\u0323um, Ba\u201banah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2719856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;"}, {"pk": 2719857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "sons of Shephatyah, three hundred and seventy-two;"}, {"pk": 2719858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "sons of Arah\u0323, seven hundred and seventy-five;"}, {"pk": 2719859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "sons of Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331, of the sons of Y\u0115shua and Yo\u2019ab\u0331, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;"}, {"pk": 2719860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "sons of \u011aylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;"}, {"pk": 2719861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "sons of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five;"}, {"pk": 2719862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "sons of Zakkai, seven hundred and sixty;"}, {"pk": 2719863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "sons of Bani, six hundred and forty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "sons of B\u0115b\u0331ai, six hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "sons of Azgad\u0331, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "sons of Ad\u0331oniqam, six hundred and sixty-six;"}, {"pk": 2719867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "sons of Bi\u1e21wai, two thousand and fifty-six;"}, {"pk": 2719868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "sons of Ad\u0331in, four hundred and fifty-four;"}, {"pk": 2719869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "sons of At\u0115r of H\u0323izqiyah, ninety-eight;"}, {"pk": 2719870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "sons of B\u0115tsai, three hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "sons of Yorah, one hundred and twelve;"}, {"pk": 2719872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "sons of H\u0323ashum, two hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "sons of Gibbar, ninety-five;"}, {"pk": 2719874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "sons of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, one hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "men of Netophah, fifty-six;"}, {"pk": 2719876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2719877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "sons of Azmaweth, forty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "sons of Qiryath Arim, Kephirah, and Be\u2019\u0115roth, seven hundred and forty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "sons of Ramah and Geb\u0331a, six hundred and twenty-one;"}, {"pk": 2719880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "men of Mik\u0331mas, one hundred and twenty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "men of B\u0115yth \u011al and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2719882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "sons of Neb\u0331o, fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "sons of Ma\u1e21bish, one hundred and fifty-six;"}, {"pk": 2719884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "sons of the other \u011aylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;"}, {"pk": 2719885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "sons of H\u0323arim, three hundred and twenty;"}, {"pk": 2719886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "sons of Lod\u0331, H\u0323ad\u0331id\u0331, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five;"}, {"pk": 2719887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "sons of Yerih\u0323o, three hundred and forty-five;"}, {"pk": 2719888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "sons of Sena\u2019ah, three thousand six hundred and thirty."}, {"pk": 2719889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "The priests: sons of Yed\u0331ayah, of the house of Y\u0115shua, nine hundred and seventy-three;"}, {"pk": 2719890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "sons of Imm\u0115r, one thousand and fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "sons of Pashh\u0323ur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;"}, {"pk": 2719892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "sons of H\u0323arim, one thousand and seventeen."}, {"pk": 2719893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "The L\u0115wites: sons of Y\u0115shua and Qadmi\u2019\u0115l, of the sons of Hod\u0331awyah, seventy-four."}, {"pk": 2719894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight."}, {"pk": 2719895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "Sons of the gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of At\u0115r, sons of Talmon, sons of Aqqub\u0331, sons of H\u0323atita, sons of Shob\u0331ai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all."}, {"pk": 2719896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "The Nethinim: sons of Tsih\u0323a, sons of H\u0323asupha, sons of Tabba\u201both,"}, {"pk": 2719897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "sons of Q\u0115ros, sons of Si\u201baha, sons of Pad\u0331on,"}, {"pk": 2719898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "sons of Leb\u0331anah, sons of H\u0323a\u1e21ab\u0331ah, sons of Aqqub\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2719899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "sons of H\u0323a\u1e21ab\u0331, sons of Shamlai, sons of H\u0323anan,"}, {"pk": 2719900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "text": "sons of Gidd\u0115l, sons of Gah\u0323ar, sons of Re\u2019ayah,"}, {"pk": 2719901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "text": "sons of Retsin, sons of Neqod\u0331a, sons of Gazzam,"}, {"pk": 2719902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "text": "sons of Uzza, sons of Pas\u0115ah\u0323, sons of B\u0115sai,"}, {"pk": 2719903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 50, "text": "sons of Asnah, sons of Me\u201bunim, sons of Nephusim,"}, {"pk": 2719904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 51, "text": "sons of Baqbuq, sons of H\u0323aqupha, sons of H\u0323arh\u0323ur,"}, {"pk": 2719905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 52, "text": "sons of Batsluth, sons of Meh\u0323id\u0331a, sons of H\u0323arsha,"}, {"pk": 2719906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 53, "text": "sons of Barqos, sons of Sisera, sons of T\u0115mah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2719907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 54, "text": "sons of Netsiyah\u0323, sons of H\u0323atipha."}, {"pk": 2719908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 55, "text": "Sons of Shelomoh\u2019s servants: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perud\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2719909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 56, "text": "sons of Ya\u201bala, sons of Darqon, sons of Gidd\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2719910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 57, "text": "sons of Shephatyah, sons of H\u0323attil, sons of Pok\u0331ereth of Tseb\u0331ayim, sons of Ami."}, {"pk": 2719911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 58, "text": "All the Nethinim and the children of Shelomoh\u2019s servants were three hundred and ninety-two."}, {"pk": 2719912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 59, "text": "And these were those who came up from T\u0115l Melah\u0323, T\u0115l H\u0323arsha, Kerub, Addan, Imm\u0115r; but they were unable to show their father\u2019s house, and their seed, whether they were of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2719913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 60, "text": "sons of Delayah, sons of Tob\u0331iyah, sons of Neqod\u0331a, six hundred and fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2719914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 61, "text": "and of the sons of the priests: sons of H\u0323ab\u0331ayah, sons of Qots, sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite, and was called by their name."}, {"pk": 2719915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 62, "text": "These sought their register <i>among</i> those who were counted by genealogy, but they were not found, so they were <i>barred</i> from the priesthood as defiled."}, {"pk": 2719916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 63, "text": "And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most set-apart gifts until there stood up a priest with the Urim and Tummim."}, {"pk": 2719917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 64, "text": "The entire assembly was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,"}, {"pk": 2719918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 65, "text": "besides their male and female servants \u2014 these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred men and women singers."}, {"pk": 2719919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 66, "text": "Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,"}, {"pk": 2719920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 67, "text": "their camels four hundred and thirty-five, donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty."}, {"pk": 2719921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 68, "text": "And some of the heads of the fathers\u2019 houses, when they came to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which is in Yerushalayim, offered voluntarily for the House of Elohim, to establish it in its place."}, {"pk": 2719922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 69, "text": "They gave according to their ability to the treasury for the work sixty-one thousand gold drachmas, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly garments."}, {"pk": 2719923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 2, "verse": 70, "text": "And the priests and the L\u0115wites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l in their cities."}, {"pk": 2719924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Now when the seventh new <i>moon</i> came, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were in the cities, the people gathered as one man to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And Y\u0115shua son of Yotsad\u0331aq and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l and his brothers, arose and built the slaughter-place of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to offer ascending offerings on it, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, the man of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "So they set the slaughter-place on its stands, being afraid of the peoples of the lands. And they offered ascending offerings on it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, both the morning and evening ascending offerings."}, {"pk": 2719927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And they performed the Festival of Sukkot, as it is written, and the daily ascending offerings by number, according to the right-ruling for each day,", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2719928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "and afterward the continual ascending offering, and those for new <i>moons</i> and for all the appointed times of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that were set-apart, also for everyone who volunteered a voluntary offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "From the first day of the seventh new <i>moon</i> they began to offer ascending offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. But the foundation of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had not been laid."}, {"pk": 2719930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And they gave silver to the stonemasons and the carpenters, and food, and drink, and oil to the people of Tsid\u0331on and Tsor to bring cedar logs from Leb\u0331anon to the sea at Yapho, according to the permission which they had from Koresh sovereign of Persia."}, {"pk": 2719931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And in the second new <i>moon</i> of the second year of their coming to the House of Elohim, to Yerushalayim, Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, and Y\u0115shua son of Yotsad\u0331aq, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the L\u0115wites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Yerushalayim, began, and they appointed the L\u0115wites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And Y\u0115shua stood up, his sons and his brothers, Qadmi\u2019\u0115l with his sons, the sons of Yehud\u0331ah together, to oversee those working on the House of Elohim: the sons of H\u0323\u0115nad\u0331ad\u0331 with their sons and their brothers the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2719933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And when the builders laid the foundation of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they appointed the priests in their robes, with trumpets, and the L\u0115wites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, after the order of Dawid\u0331 sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2719934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And they responded by praising and giving thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor He is good, for His loving-commitment towards Yisra\u2019\u0115l is forever.\u201d And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because the foundation of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was laid."}, {"pk": 2719935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And many of the priests and L\u0115wites and heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, the old men who had seen the first House, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this House was laid before their eyes, and many shouted aloud for joy,"}, {"pk": 2719936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "and the people could not distinguish the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away."}, {"pk": 2719937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And when the adversaries of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin heard that the sons of the exile were building the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2719938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "they came to Zerubbab\u0331el and the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> and said to them, \u201cLet us build with you, for we seek your Elohim as you do. And we have slaughtered to Him since the days of \u011asarh\u0323addon sovereign of Ashshur, who brought us here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "But Zerubbab\u0331el and Y\u0115shua and the rest of the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said to them, \u201cIt is not for you and for us to build a house for our Elohim, but we alone build to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as Sovereign Koresh the sovereign of Persia has commanded us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be that the people of the land were weakening the hands of the people of Yehud\u0331ah and troubling them in their building,"}, {"pk": 2719941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "and hiring counsellors against them to thwart their plans all the days of Koresh sovereign of Persia, even until the reign of Dareyawesh sovereign of Persia."}, {"pk": 2719942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And in the reign of Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And in the days of Artah\u0323shashta, Bishlam, Mithred\u0331ath, Tab\u0331e\u2019\u0115l, and the rest of their companions wrote to Artah\u0323shashta sovereign of Persia. And the letter was written in Aramaic, and translated <i>from</i> Aramaic."}, {"pk": 2719944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Reh\u0323um the governor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Yerushalayim to Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta, thus:"}, {"pk": 2719945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Reh\u0323um the governor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions \u2014 the judges, and the emissaries, the consuls, the officials, the people of Erek\u0331 and of Bab\u0331el and of Shushan, the Dehawites, the \u011aylamites,"}, {"pk": 2719946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapper took into exile and settled in the cities of Shomeron and the rest beyond the River. And now,"}, {"pk": 2719947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "this is a copy of the letter that they sent him, to Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta from your servants the men beyond the River. And now,"}, {"pk": 2719948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "let it be known to the sovereign that the Yehud\u0331im who came up from you have come to us at Yerushalayim, and are building the rebellious and evil city, and are completing its walls and repairing the foundations."}, {"pk": 2719949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Now let it now be known to the sovereign that, if this city is built and the walls completed, they are not going to pay tax, excise, or toll, and cause the revenue of the sovereign to suffer loss."}, {"pk": 2719950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Now, because we have eaten salt from the palace, it was not fitting for us to see the sovereign\u2019s shame. Therefore we have sent and informed the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2719951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "so that search be made in the book of the records of your fathers, and you find in the book of the records, and know, that this city is a rebellious city, and causing loss to sovereigns and provinces. And revolt was stirred up in it since days of old, for which cause this city was destroyed."}, {"pk": 2719952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "We inform the sovereign that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, then you have no portion beyond the River."}, {"pk": 2719953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "The sovereign sent a message: To Reh\u0323um the governor, and Shimshai the scribe, to the rest of their companions who dwell in Shomeron, and the rest beyond the River: Peace! And now,"}, {"pk": 2719954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "the letter you sent to us has been plainly read before me."}, {"pk": 2719955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And I made the decree, and a search has been made, and it was found that this city in days of old has lifted up itself against sovereigns, and that rebellion and revolt have been made in it."}, {"pk": 2719956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And mighty sovereigns have been over Yerushalayim, who have ruled over all beyond the River. And tax, excise, and toll were paid to them."}, {"pk": 2719957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Now, make a decree to make these men cease, and that this city be not built until the command is given by me."}, {"pk": 2719958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And beware of negligence to do this. Why should damage increase to the hurt of the sovereigns?"}, {"pk": 2719959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "Now when the copy of the letter of Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta was read before Reh\u0323um, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in a hurry to Yerushalayim against the Yehud\u0331im, and made them cease by might and power."}, {"pk": 2719960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "Then the work of the House of Elah which is at Yerushalayim ceased, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Dareyawesh sovereign of Persia."}, {"pk": 2719961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Then the prophets, H\u0323aggai the prophet and Zek\u0331aryah son of Iddo, prophesied to the Yehud\u0331im who were in Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, in the Name of the Elah of Yisra\u2019\u0115l upon them."}, {"pk": 2719962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Then Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l and Y\u0115shua son of Yotsad\u0331aq rose up and began to build the House of Elah which is in Yerushalayim. And the prophets of Elah were with them, helping them."}, {"pk": 2719963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "At that time Tattenai the governor beyond the River and Shethar-Bozenai and their companions came to them and said this to them, \u201cWho has made you a decree to build this House and to complete this wall?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "Then we told them what the names were of the men who were building this building."}, {"pk": 2719965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Yehud\u0331im, so that they could not make them cease until the matter went to Dareyawesh. And then they sent back a letter concerning this."}, {"pk": 2719966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor beyond the River, had sent, and Shethar-Bozenai, and his companions the officials beyond the River, to Dareyawesh the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "They sent a letter to him, and this was written in it: To Dareyawesh the sovereign: All peace."}, {"pk": 2719968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Let it be known to the sovereign that we went into the province of Yehud\u0331ah, to the House of the great Elah, which is being built with heavy stones, and timber is being laid in the walls. And this work goes on speedily and is blessed in their hands."}, {"pk": 2719969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Then we asked those elders, saying this to them, \u201cWho made you a decree to build this House and to complete these walls?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And we also asked them their names, in order to inform you, so we could write the names of the men at their head."}, {"pk": 2719971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And this is the answer they gave us, saying, \u201cWe are the servants of the Elah of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the House that was built many years ago, which a great sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l built and completed."}, {"pk": 2719972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut because our fathers provoked the Elah of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, the Kasdaia, who destroyed this House and exiled the people to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2719973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut in the first year of Koresh sovereign of Bab\u0331el, Koresh the sovereign made a decree to build this House of Elah."}, {"pk": 2719974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd also, the gold and silver utensils of the House of Elah, which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had taken from the H\u0115k\u0331al that was in Yerushalayim and brought to the h\u0115k\u0331al of Bab\u0331el, those Sovereign Koresh took from the h\u0115k\u0331al of Bab\u0331el and they were given to one named Sh\u0115shbatstsar, whom he had made governor,"}, {"pk": 2719975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "and said to him, \u2018Take these utensils, go, deposit them in the H\u0115k\u0331al in Yerushalayim, and let the House of Elah be built on its place.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2719976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThen the same Sh\u0115shbatstsar came, laid the foundation of the House of Elah which is in Yerushalayim, and since that time even until now it has been in building, and it is not completed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And now, if it seems good to the sovereign, let a search be made in the sovereign\u2019s treasure-house, which is there in Bab\u0331el, whether it is so that a decree was made by Sovereign Koresh to build this House of Elah at Yerushalayim, and let the sovereign send us his decision concerning this."}, {"pk": 2719978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Dareyawesh the sovereign made a decree, and a search was made in the house of the books wherein also the treasures of Bab\u0331el were kept."}, {"pk": 2719979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And at Ah\u0323metha, in the palace which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and this was written in it:"}, {"pk": 2719980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "In the first year of Sovereign Koresh, Sovereign Koresh made a decree concerning the House of Elah at Yerushalayim, \u201cLet the house be built in the place where they brought offerings, and its foundations strongly laid, its height sixty cubits, its width sixty cubits,"}, {"pk": 2719981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "three rows of heavy stones and one row of new timber. Let the expenses be paid from the sovereign\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2719982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd let the gold and silver utensils of the House of Elah, which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar took from the H\u0115k\u0331al which is in Yerushalayim and brought to Bab\u0331el, be returned and go to the H\u0115k\u0331al which is in Yerushalayim, to its place, and deposit them in the House of Elah,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Now, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, and Shethar-Bozenai, and your companions the officials beyond the River, stay away from there."}, {"pk": 2719984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Leave the work of this House of Elah alone. Let the governor of the Yehud\u0331im and the elders of the Yehud\u0331im build this House of Elah on its place."}, {"pk": 2719985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And I make a decree as to what you should do for the elders of these Yehud\u0331im, for the building of this House of Elah: Let the exact expense be paid to these men from the sovereign\u2019s resources, out of the taxes beyond the River, so that they are not stopped."}, {"pk": 2719986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And whatever they need \u2014 both young bulls and rams, and lambs for the ascending offerings of the Elah of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the request of the priests who are in Yerushalayim \u2014 let it be given them day by day without fail,"}, {"pk": 2719987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "so that they bring pleasing offerings to the Elah of heaven, and pray for the life of the sovereign and his sons."}, {"pk": 2719988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And I make a decree that whoever changes this word, let a timber be pulled from his house, and let him be impaled, hanged on it. And let his house be made a dunghill because of this."}, {"pk": 2719989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And Elah, who has caused His Name to dwell there does overthrow any sovereign or people who put their hand to change, to destroy this House of Elah which is in Yerushalayim! I Dareyawesh make the decree \u2014 let it be done promptly."}, {"pk": 2719990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Then Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and their companions promptly did according to what Dareyawesh the sovereign had sent."}, {"pk": 2719991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And the elders of the Yehud\u0331im were building, and they were blessed through the prophesying of H\u0323aggai the prophet and Zek\u0331aryah son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the decree of the Elah of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and according to the decree of Koresh, and Dareyawesh, and Artah\u0323shashta sovereign of Persia."}, {"pk": 2719992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And this House was completed on the third day of the month of Ad\u0331ar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Sovereign Dareyawesh."}, {"pk": 2719993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the priests and the L\u0115wites and the rest of the sons of the exile, did the dedication of this House of Elah with joy,"}, {"pk": 2719994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "and offered at the dedication of this House of Elah one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2719995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And they appointed the priests to their divisions and the L\u0115wites to their divisions, over the service of Elah in Yerushalayim, as it is written in the Book of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2719996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sons of the exile performed the P\u0115sah\u0323 on the fourteenth <i>day</i> of the first new <i>moon</i>,"}, {"pk": 2719997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "for the priests and the L\u0115wites had cleansed themselves \u2014 all of them were clean. And they slew the P\u0115sah\u0323 for all the sons of the exile, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves."}, {"pk": 2719998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who had returned from the exile ate together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land in order to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2719999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And they performed the Festival of Matzot seven days with joy, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 caused them to rejoice, and turned the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the House of Elohim, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2720000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And after these events, in the reign of Artah\u0323shashta sovereign of Persia, Ezra son of Serayah, son of Azaryah, son of H\u0323ilqiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "son of Shallum, son of Tsad\u0331oq, son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "son of Amaryah, son of Azaryah, son of Merayoth,"}, {"pk": 2720003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "son of Zerah\u0323yah, son of Uzzi, son of Buqqi,"}, {"pk": 2720004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "son of Ab\u0331ishua, son of Phineh\u0323as, son of El\u201bazar, son of Aharon the chief priest \u2014"}, {"pk": 2720005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "this Ezra came up from Bab\u0331el. And he was a scribe, skilled in the Torah of Mosheh, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had given. And the sovereign gave him all he asked, according to the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim upon him."}, {"pk": 2720006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And some of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the priests, and the L\u0115wites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Yerushalayim in the seventh year of Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta."}, {"pk": 2720007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And he came to Yerushalayim in the fifth new <i>moon</i>, which was in the seventh year of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2720008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "For on the first <i>day</i> of the first new <i>moon</i> he began to go up from Bab\u0331el, and on the first day of the fifth new <i>moon</i> he came to Yerushalayim, according to the good hand of his Elohim upon him."}, {"pk": 2720009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and to do it, and to teach laws and right-rulings in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And this is the copy of the letter that Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe in the words of the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and of His laws to Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2720011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "Artah\u0323shashta, sovereign of sovereigns, to Ezra the priest, a perfect scribe of the law of the Elah of heaven. And now,"}, {"pk": 2720012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "I make a decree that all those of the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the priests and L\u0115wites in my reign, who volunteer to go up to Yerushalayim, go with you."}, {"pk": 2720013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "Since you are being sent by the sovereign and his seven counsellors to inquire about Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, with regard to the law of your Elah which is in your hand;"}, {"pk": 2720014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "and to bring the silver and gold which the sovereign and his counsellors have voluntarily given to the Elah of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whose dwelling is in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2720015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "and all the silver and gold that you find in all the province of Bab\u0331el, along with the gift of the people and the priests, voluntarily given for the House of their Elah in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2720016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "therefore, with this silver promptly buy bulls, rams, lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the slaughter-place of the House of your Elah in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do it according to the desire of your Elah."}, {"pk": 2720018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And the utensils that are given to you for the service of the House of your Elah, put back before the Elah of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of the needs for the House of your Elah, which falls to you to give, give from the sovereign\u2019s treasure-house."}, {"pk": 2720020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And I, I Artah\u0323shashta the sovereign, do make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the Elah of heaven, does ask of you, let it be done promptly,"}, {"pk": 2720021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "up to one hundred talents of silver, and up to one hundred kors of wheat, and up to one hundred baths of wine, and up to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without reckoning."}, {"pk": 2720022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "Whatever is commanded by the Elah of heaven, let it be diligently done for the House of the Elah of heaven. For why should there be wrath against the reign of the sovereign and his sons?"}, {"pk": 2720023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "We further inform you that there is no authority to impose tax, excise, or toll on any of the priests and L\u0115wites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and servants of this House of Elah."}, {"pk": 2720024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your Elah that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your Elah. And teach those who do not know them."}, {"pk": 2720025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "And whoever does not do the law of your Elah and the law of the sovereign, let judgment be promptly executed on him, whether it be death, or banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment."}, {"pk": 2720026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of our fathers, who has put this in the sovereign\u2019s heart, to embellish the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which is in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2720027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "and has extended loving-commitment to me before the sovereign and his counsellors, and before all the sovereign\u2019s mighty princes. So I was strengthened, as the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim was upon me. And I gathered heads from Yisra\u2019\u0115l to go up with me."}, {"pk": 2720028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "These are the heads of their fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Bab\u0331el, in the reign of Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta:"}, {"pk": 2720029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "of the sons of Phineh\u0323as, G\u0115reshom; of the sons of Ithamar, Dani\u2019\u0115l; of the sons of Dawid\u0331, H\u0323attush;"}, {"pk": 2720030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "of the sons of Shek\u0331anyah, of the sons of Parosh, Zek\u0331aryah, and registered with him were one hundred and fifty males;"}, {"pk": 2720031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "of the sons of Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331, Elyeho\u201b\u0115ynai son of Zerah\u0323yah, and with him two hundred males;"}, {"pk": 2720032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "of the sons of Shek\u0331anyah, the son of Yah\u0323azi\u2019\u0115l, and with him three hundred males;"}, {"pk": 2720033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "and of the sons of Ad\u0331in, Eb\u0331ed\u0331 son of Yehonathan, and with him fifty males;"}, {"pk": 2720034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "and of the sons of \u011aylam, Yeshayah son of Athalyah, and with him seventy males;"}, {"pk": 2720035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "and of the sons of Shephatyah, Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah son of Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, and with him eighty males;"}, {"pk": 2720036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "of the sons of Yo\u2019ab\u0331, Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah son of Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and with him two hundred and eighteen males;"}, {"pk": 2720037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "and of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Yosiphyah, and with him one hundred and sixty males;"}, {"pk": 2720038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "and of the sons of B\u0115b\u0331ai, Zek\u0331aryah son of B\u0115b\u0331ai, and with him twenty-eight males;"}, {"pk": 2720039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "and of the sons of Azgad\u0331, Yoh\u0323anan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males;"}, {"pk": 2720040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "and of the last sons of Ad\u0331oniqam, whose names are these; Eliphelet, Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, and Shemayah, and with them sixty males;"}, {"pk": 2720041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "and of the sons of Bi\u1e21wai, Uthai and Zabbud\u0331, and with them seventy males."}, {"pk": 2720042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And I assembled them at the river that flows to Ahawa, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and did not find any of the sons of L\u0115wi there."}, {"pk": 2720043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "Then I sent for Eli\u201bezer, for Ari\u2019\u0115l, for Shemayah, and for Elnathan, and for Yarib\u0331, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zek\u0331aryah, and for Meshullam, leaders \u2014 also for Yoyarib\u0331 and Elnathan, men of understanding."}, {"pk": 2720044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Kasiphya, and put in their mouth words to speak to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Kasiphya, to bring us servants for the House of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "Then, by the good hand of our Elohim upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mah\u0323li son of L\u0115wi, son of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen;"}, {"pk": 2720046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "and H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, and with him Yeshayah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;"}, {"pk": 2720047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "and of the Nethinim, whom Dawid\u0331 and the leaders had appointed for the service of the L\u0115wites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them designated by name."}, {"pk": 2720048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "I then proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, to humble ourselves before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions,"}, {"pk": 2720049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "for I was ashamed to ask of the sovereign a group of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the sovereign, saying, \u201cThe hand of our Elohim is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "So we fasted and prayed to our Elohim for this, and He answered our prayer."}, {"pk": 2720051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests: Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, and ten of their brothers with them;"}, {"pk": 2720052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "and weighed out to them the silver, and the gold, and the utensils, the contribution for the House of our Elohim which the sovereign and his counsellors and his heads, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who were there, had presented."}, {"pk": 2720053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "Thus I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver objects of one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold,"}, {"pk": 2720054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "and twenty gold basins of a thousand drachmas, and two utensils of fine polished bronze, precious as gold."}, {"pk": 2720055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And I said to them, \u201cYou are set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the objects are set-apart. And the silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers."}, {"pk": 2720056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWatch and guard them until you weigh them before the leaders of the priests and the L\u0115wites and heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Yerushalayim, in the rooms of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "So the priests and the L\u0115wites took the weight of the silver and the gold and the utensils, to bring them to Yerushalayim to the House of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "Then we set out from the Ahawa River on the twelfth of the first new <i>moon</i>, to go to Yerushalayim. And the hand of our Elohim was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the way."}, {"pk": 2720059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And when we came to Yerushalayim, we dwelt there three days."}, {"pk": 2720060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed in the House of our Elohim by the hand of Mer\u0115moth son of Uriyah the priest, and with him was El\u201bazar son of Phineh\u0323as. And with them were the L\u0115wites, Yozab\u0331ad\u0331 son of Y\u0115shua and No\u201bad\u0331yah son of Binnui,"}, {"pk": 2720061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "with the number and weight of all. And all the weight was written down at that time."}, {"pk": 2720062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "The sons of the exile, who had come from the captivity, brought ascending offerings to the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: twelve bulls for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering \u2014 all as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2720063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "And they gave the sovereign\u2019s orders to the sovereign\u2019s viceroys and the governors beyond the River. And they lifted up the people and the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And when these <i>matters</i> had been done, the leaders came to me, saying, \u201cThe people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the priests and the L\u0115wites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, <i>those</i> of the Kena\u201banites, the H\u0323ittites, the Perizzites, the Yeb\u0331usites, the Ammonites, the Mo\u2019ab\u0331ites, the Mitsrites, and the Amorites,"}, {"pk": 2720065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the set-apart seed is intermingled with the peoples of those lands. And the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And when I heard this word, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished."}, {"pk": 2720067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "Then all those who trembled at the words of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathered to me, because of the trespass of the exiles, and I sat astonished until the evening offering."}, {"pk": 2720068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And at the evening offering I rose from my affliction. And having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2720069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "and said, \u201cO my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2720070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSince the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our crookednesses we, our sovereigns, and our priests have been given into the hand of the sovereigns of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2720071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut now, for a short while, favour has been shown from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His set-apart place, that our Elohim might enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage."}, {"pk": 2720072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended loving-commitment to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O our Elohim, what do we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commands,"}, {"pk": 2720074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, \u2018The land which you are going in to possess is a land unclean through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it, from one end to another, by their uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2720075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And now, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons. And do not seek their peace or wealth ever, so that you are strong, and shall eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2720076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our Elohim have held back the rod upon our crookednesses, and have given us such deliverance as this,"}, {"pk": 2720077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "should we turn back, to break Your commands, and join in marriage with the people of these abominations? Would You not be enraged with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?"}, {"pk": 2720078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. See, we are before You, in our guilt, for there is no one to stand before You concerning this!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the House of Elohim, a very large assembly \u2014 men and women and children \u2014 gathered unto him from Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the people wept very bitterly."}, {"pk": 2720080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And Shek\u0331anyah son of Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, one of the sons of Olam, spoke up and said to Ezra, \u201cWe have trespassed against our Elohim, and have taken foreign women from the peoples of the land. And now there is expectancy in Yisra\u2019\u0115l concerning this."}, {"pk": 2720081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cNow then, let us make a covenant with our Elohim to put away all these wives and those who have been born to them, according to the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and of those who tremble at the command of our Elohim. And let it be done according to the Torah."}, {"pk": 2720082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cArise, for the matter is upon you, but we are with you. Be strong and act.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ezra rose, and made the leaders of the priests, the L\u0115wites, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to swear to do according to this word. And they swore."}, {"pk": 2720084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Ezra rose up from before the House of Elohim, and went into the room of Yehoh\u0323anan son of Elyashib\u0331. And he went there \u2014 he ate no bread and drank no water for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles."}, {"pk": 2720085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And they passed a call throughout Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim to all the sons of the exile, to gather at Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2720086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, all his goods would be put under a ban, and himself separated from the assembly of the exiles."}, {"pk": 2720087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Then all the men of Yehud\u0331ah and Binyamin gathered at Yerushalayim within three days. It was the ninth new <i>moon</i>, on the twentieth of the new <i>moon</i>. And all the people sat in the open space of the House of Elohim, trembling because of the matter and because of showers of rain."}, {"pk": 2720088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, \u201cYou, you have trespassed and have taken foreign women, adding to the guilt of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd now, make confession to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of your fathers, and do His desire, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, \u201cRight! It is upon us to do according to your word."}, {"pk": 2720091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut the people are many, and it is the season of showers of rain, and we are not able to stand outside. And the work not of one or two days, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter."}, {"pk": 2720092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cPlease, let the leaders of all the assembly stand. And let all those in our cities who have taken foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of their cities, until the burning wrath of our Elohim is turned away from us in this matter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "Only Yonathan son of Asah\u2019\u0115l and Yah\u0323zeyah son of Tiqwah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the L\u0115wite gave them support."}, {"pk": 2720094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the sons of the exile did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, were separated by the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, each of them by name. And they sat down on the first day of the tenth new <i>moon</i> to examine the matter."}, {"pk": 2720095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And they finished with all the men who had taken foreign women by the first day of the first new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2720096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And among the sons of the priests who had taken foreign women were found of the sons of Y\u0115shua son of Yotsad\u0331aq, and his brothers: Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, and Eli\u201bezer, and Yarib\u0331, and Ged\u0331alyah."}, {"pk": 2720097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And they gave their hand <i>in pledge</i> to put away their wives. And being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock for their guilt."}, {"pk": 2720098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And of the sons of Imm\u0115r: H\u0323anani and Zeb\u0331ad\u0331yah;"}, {"pk": 2720099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "and of the sons of H\u0323arim: Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, and \u011aliyah, and Shemayah, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Uzziyah;"}, {"pk": 2720100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "and of the sons of Pashh\u0323ur: Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, Yishma\u201b\u0115l, Nethan\u2019\u0115l, Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, and El\u201basah."}, {"pk": 2720101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And of the L\u0115wites: Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, Shim\u201bi, Q\u0115layah \u2014 he is Qelita \u2014 Pethah\u0323yah, Yehud\u0331ah, and Eli\u201bezer."}, {"pk": 2720102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And of the singers: Elyashib\u0331. And of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri."}, {"pk": 2720103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And of Yisra\u2019\u0115l of the sons of Parosh: Ramyah, and Yizziyah, and Malkiyah, and Miyamin, and El\u201bazar, and Malkiyah, and Benayah;"}, {"pk": 2720104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "and of the sons of \u011aylam: Mattanyah, Zek\u0331aryah, and Yeh\u0323i\u2019\u0115l, and Ab\u0331di, and Yer\u0115moth, and \u011aliyah;"}, {"pk": 2720105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "and of the sons of Zattu: Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, Elyashib\u0331, Mattanyah, and Yer\u0115moth, and Zab\u0331ad\u0331, and Aziza;"}, {"pk": 2720106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "and of the sons of B\u0115b\u0331ai: Yehoh\u0323anan, H\u0323ananyah, Zabbai, and Athlai;"}, {"pk": 2720107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "and of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluk\u0331, and Ad\u0331ayah, Yashub\u0331, and She\u2019al, Ramoth;"}, {"pk": 2720108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "and of the sons of Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331: Ad\u0331na, and Kelal, Benayah, Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, Mattanyah, Betsal\u2019\u0115l, and Binnui, and Menashsheh;"}, {"pk": 2720109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "and of the sons of H\u0323arim: Eli\u201bezer, Yishshiyah, Malkiyah, Shemayah, Shim\u201bon,"}, {"pk": 2720110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "Binyamin, Malluk\u0331, and Shemaryah;"}, {"pk": 2720111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "of the sons of H\u0323ashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zab\u0331ad\u0331, Eliphelet, Yer\u0115mai, Menashsheh, and Shim\u201bi;"}, {"pk": 2720112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "of the sons of Bani: Ma\u201bad\u0331ai, Amram, and U\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2720113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "Benayah, B\u0115d\u0331eyah, Keluhu,"}, {"pk": 2720114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "Wanyah, Mer\u0115moth, Elyashib\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "Mattanyah, Mattenai, and Ya\u201basu,"}, {"pk": 2720116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "and Bani, and Binnui, Shim\u201bi,"}, {"pk": 2720117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "and Shelemyah, and Nathan, and Ad\u0331ayah,"}, {"pk": 2720118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "Mak\u0331nad\u0331eb\u0331ai, Shashai, Sharai,"}, {"pk": 2720119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "Azar\u2019\u0115l, and Shelemyahu, Shemaryah,"}, {"pk": 2720120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "Shallum, Amaryah, and Yos\u0115ph;"}, {"pk": 2720121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "text": "of the sons of Neb\u0331o: Ye\u201bi\u2019\u0115l, Mattithyah, Zab\u0331ad\u0331, Zeb\u0331ina, Yaddu, and Yo\u2019\u0115l, Benayah."}, {"pk": 2720122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 15, "chapter": 10, "verse": 44, "text": "All these had taken foreign women, and some of them had women who had borne children."}, {"pk": 2720123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of Neh\u0323emyah son of H\u0323ak\u0331alyah. And it came to be in the new <i>moon</i> of Kisl\u0115w, in the twentieth year, as I was in the citadel of Shushan,"}, {"pk": 2720124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "that H\u0323anani, one of my brothers, came with men from Yehud\u0331ah. And I asked them concerning the Yehud\u0331im who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said to me, \u201cThe remnant who are left of the captivity in the province are there in great evil and reproach. And the wall of Yerushalayim is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days. And I was fasting and praying before the Elohim of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2720127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "and I said, \u201cI pray, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the heavens, O great and awesome \u011al, guarding the covenant and loving-commitment with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands,"}, {"pk": 2720128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l which we have sinned against You. Both my father\u2019s house and I have sinned."}, {"pk": 2720129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWe have acted very corruptly against You, and have not guarded the commands, nor the laws, nor the right-rulings which You commanded Your servant Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2720130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cPlease remember the word that You commanded Your servant Mosheh, saying, \u2018If you trespass, I shall scatter you among the peoples,"}, {"pk": 2720131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "but if you shall turn back to Me, and guard My commands and do them, though you were cast out to the end of the heavens, I shall gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make My Name dwell there.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2720132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they are Your servants and Your people, whom You have ransomed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand."}, {"pk": 2720133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man.\u201d For I was cupbearer to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2720134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the new <i>moon</i> of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artah\u0323shashta the sovereign, when wine was before him, that I took the wine and gave it to the sovereign. And I had never been sad in his presence."}, {"pk": 2720135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign said to me, \u201cWhy is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is none else but sorrow of heart.\u201d Then I was very much afraid,"}, {"pk": 2720136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "and said to the sovereign, \u201cLet the sovereign live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers\u2019 burial-sites, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign said to me, \u201cWhat are you asking for?\u201d Then I prayed to the Elohim of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2720138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "and said to the sovereign, \u201cIf it seems good to the sovereign, and if your servant is pleasing before you, I ask that you send me to Yehud\u0331ah, to the city of my fathers\u2019 burial-sites, so that I build it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign, with the sovereigness sitting beside him, said to me, \u201cHow long would your journey take? And when do you return?\u201d So it seemed good before the sovereign to send me. And I set him a time."}, {"pk": 2720140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And I said to the sovereign, \u201cIf it seems good to the sovereign, let letters be given to me for the governors beyond the River, that they should let me to pass through till I come to Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2720141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the sovereign\u2019s forest, that he should give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace that belongs to the House, and for the city wall, and for the house I would enter.\u201d And the sovereign gave them to me according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me."}, {"pk": 2720142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave to them the letters of the sovereign. Now the sovereign had sent commanders of the army and horsemen with me."}, {"pk": 2720143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sanballat the H\u0323oronite and Tob\u0331iyah the Ammonite official heard of it, and to them it was evil, a great evil that a man had come to seek good for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Then I came to Yerushalayim and was there three days."}, {"pk": 2720145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And I rose up in the night, I and a few men with me, but informed no one what my Elohim had put in my heart to do at Yerushalayim, nor was there any beast with me, except the beast on which I rode."}, {"pk": 2720146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Jackals\u2019 Fountain and the Dung Gate, and examined the walls of Yerushalayim which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2720147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the Sovereign\u2019s Pool, but there was no room for the beast that was under me to pass."}, {"pk": 2720148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And I went up in the night by the wadi, and examined the wall, and turned back, and entered by the Valley Gate, and returned."}, {"pk": 2720149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And the deputy rulers did not know where I had gone nor what I had done. Nor had I yet informed the Yehud\u0331im, or the priests, or the nobles, or the deputy rulers, or the others who did the work."}, {"pk": 2720150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Then I said to them, \u201cYou see the evil which we are in, how Yerushalayim lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Yerushalayim, and let us no longer be a reproach.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And I informed them of the hand of my Elohim which had been good upon me, and also of the sovereign\u2019s words he had spoken to me. And they said, \u201cLet us rise up and we shall build.\u201d So they made their hands strong for good."}, {"pk": 2720152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "But when Sanballat the H\u0323oronite heard, and Tob\u0331iyah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab\u0331, they mocked us and despised us, and said, \u201cWhat is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the sovereign?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And I answered them, and said to them, \u201cThe Elohim of the heavens, He shall bless us and let us, His servants, rise and build, but you have no portion or right or remembrance in Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elyashib\u0331 the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate. They set it apart and set up its doors, even as far as the Tower of H\u0323anan\u2019\u0115l they set it apart, as far as the Tower of H\u0323anane\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And at his hand the men of Yerih\u0323o built. And at his hand Zakkur son of Imri built."}, {"pk": 2720156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sons of Hassena\u2019ah built the Fish Gate, who laid its beams and set up its doors, its bolts and bars."}, {"pk": 2720157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And at their hand Mer\u0115moth son of Uriyah, son of Qots, strengthened. And at their hand Meshullam son of Berek\u0331yah, son of Mesh\u0115yzab\u0331\u2019\u0115l, strengthened. And at their hand Tsad\u0331oq son of Ba\u201bana strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And at their hand the Teqowites strengthened, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work of their Master."}, {"pk": 2720159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yehoyad\u0331a son of Pas\u0115ah\u0323 and Meshullam son of Besod\u0331eyah strengthened the Old Gate. They laid its beams and set up its doors, and its bolts and its bars."}, {"pk": 2720160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And at their hand Melatyah the Gib\u0331\u201bonite, and Yad\u0331on the M\u0115ronothite, the men of Gib\u0331\u201bon and Mitspah, strengthened the official seat of the governor beyond the River."}, {"pk": 2720161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "At his hand Uzzi\u2019\u0115l son of H\u0323arhayah, one of the goldsmiths, strengthened. And at his hand H\u0323ananyah, one of the perfumers, strengthened. And they restored Yerushalayim as far as the Broad Wall."}, {"pk": 2720162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And at their hand Rephayah son of H\u0323ur, ruler of half the district of Yerushalayim, strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And at their hand Yed\u0331ayah son of H\u0323arumaph strengthened, even opposite his house. And at his hand H\u0323attush son of H\u0323ashab\u0331neyah strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Malkiyah son of H\u0323arim and H\u0323ashshub\u0331 son of Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331 strengthened another section, and the Tower of the Ovens."}, {"pk": 2720165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And at his hand Shallum son of Halloh\u0323\u0115sh ruler of half the district of Yerushalayim strengthened, he and his daughters."}, {"pk": 2720166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "H\u0323anun and the people of Zanowah\u0323 strengthened the Valley Gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts and bars \u2014 and a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate."}, {"pk": 2720167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Dung Gate was strengthened by Malkiyah son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, ruler of the district of B\u0115yth Hakkerem. He built it and set up its doors, its bolts and bars."}, {"pk": 2720168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Fountain Gate was strengthened by Shallun son of Kol-H\u0323ozeh, ruler of the district of Mitspah. He built it and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts and bars \u2014 also the wall of the Pool of Shelah\u0323 by the Sovereign\u2019s Garden, as far as the stairs going down from the City of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "After him Neh\u0323emyah son of Azbuq, ruler of half the district of B\u0115yth Tsur, strengthened as far as opposite the burial-sites of Dawid\u0331, and to the man-made pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men."}, {"pk": 2720170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "After him the L\u0115wites, Reh\u0323um son of Bani, strengthened. At his hand strengthened H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, ruler of half the district of Qe\u201bilah, for his district."}, {"pk": 2720171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "After him their brothers, Bawwai son of H\u0323\u0115nad\u0331ad\u0331, ruler of the other half of the district of Qe\u201bilah, strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And at his hand \u011azer son of Y\u0115shua, the ruler of Mitspah, strengthened another section before the going up to the armoury at the corner."}, {"pk": 2720173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "After him Baruk\u0331 son of Zabbai eagerly strengthened the other section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Elyashib\u0331 the high priest."}, {"pk": 2720174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "After him Mer\u0115moth son of Uriyah, son of Qots, strengthened another section, from the door of the house of Elyashib\u0331 to the end of the house of Elyashib\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And after him the priests, the men of the neighbourhood, strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "After him Binyamin and H\u0323ashshub\u0331 strengthened opposite their house. After them Azaryah son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, son of Ananyah, strengthened near his house."}, {"pk": 2720177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "After him Binnui son of H\u0323\u0115nad\u0331ad\u0331 strengthened another section, from the house of Azaryah to the angle, even as far as the corner."}, {"pk": 2720178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "Palal son of Uzai <i>strengthened</i> opposite the corner, and on the tower which projects from the sovereign\u2019s upper house that was by the courtyard of the prison. After him Ped\u0331ayah son of Parosh."}, {"pk": 2720179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel as far as opposite the Water Gate toward the east, and on the projecting tower."}, {"pk": 2720180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "After him the Teqowites strengthened another section, opposite the great projecting tower, and as far as the wall of Ophel."}, {"pk": 2720181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "Beyond the Horse Gate the priests strengthened, each opposite his own house."}, {"pk": 2720182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "After them Tsad\u0331oq son of Imm\u0115r strengthened opposite his own house. After him Shemayah son of Shek\u0331anyah, keeper of the East Gate, strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "After him H\u0323ananyah son of Shelemyah, and H\u0323anun, the sixth son of Tsalaph, strengthened another section. After him Meshullam son of Berek\u0331yah strengthened opposite his room."}, {"pk": 2720184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "After him Malkiyah, one of the goldsmiths, strengthened as far as the house of the Nethinim and of the merchants, opposite the Miphqad\u0331 Gate, and as far as the going up of the corner."}, {"pk": 2720185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "And between the going up of the corner to the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants strengthened."}, {"pk": 2720186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was wroth and highly offended, and mocked the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2720187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Shomeron, and said, \u201cWhat are these feeble Yehud\u0331im doing? Are they going to restore, slaughter, complete it in a day? Are they going to bring to life the stones from the heaps of rubbish which are burned?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And Tob\u0331iyah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, \u201cWhatever they build, if a fox should climb on it, he shall break down their stone wall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHear, O our Elohim, for we have become despised. And turn back their reproach on their own heads, and give them as a prey in a land of captivity!"}, {"pk": 2720190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd do not cover over their crookedness, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You, for they have provoked You before the builders.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to the half of it, for the people had a heart to work."}, {"pk": 2720192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when Sanballat and Tob\u0331iyah, and the Arab\u0331s, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdod\u0331ites heard that the walls of Yerushalayim were being repaired and the broken places began to be filled, that they became very wroth,"}, {"pk": 2720193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "and all of them conspired together to come to fight against Yerushalayim and to do harm to it."}, {"pk": 2720194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them."}, {"pk": 2720195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah said, \u201cThe strength of the burden bearers is weakening, and there is so much rubbish that we are unable to build the wall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And our adversaries said, \u201cLet them not know or see it until we come into their midst and shall kill them, and cause the work to cease.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And it came to be, when the Yehud\u0331im who dwelt near them came, that they said to us ten times, \u201cFrom whatever place you turn, <i>they are</i> against us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "So I set <i>men</i> behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings \u2014 I set the people according to their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows."}, {"pk": 2720199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And I looked, and rose up and said to the nobles, and to the deputy rulers, and to the rest of the people, \u201cDo not be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that Elohim had brought their counsel to naught, that all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work."}, {"pk": 2720201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, from that time on, that half of my servants were working in the work, while the other half were holding the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the breastplates. And the rulers were behind all the house of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2720202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "who were building on the wall, and those bearing burdens, those loading, working with one hand in the work, and with the other holding a weapon."}, {"pk": 2720203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "As for the builders, each one had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded with the shophar was beside me."}, {"pk": 2720204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And I said to the nobles, and to the deputy rulers, and to the rest of the people, \u201cThe work is great and large, and we are separated far from one another on the wall."}, {"pk": 2720205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cIn whatever place you hear the voice of the shophar, join us there. Our Elohim fights for us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "So we laboured in the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of day until the stars appeared."}, {"pk": 2720207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "At that time I also said to the people, \u201cLet each man and his servant spend the night in Yerushalayim, and they shall be our guard by night, and for the work by day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our garments, each one his weapon even at the water."}, {"pk": 2720209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2720210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And there were some who were saying, \u201cWe, our sons, and our daughters are many. Let us get grain for them, and eat, and live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And there were some who were saying, \u201cWe have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses. Let us buy grain because of the scarcity of food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And there were those who were saying, \u201cWe have borrowed silver for the sovereign\u2019s tax on our lands and vineyards."}, {"pk": 2720213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. And see, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have <i>already</i> been subjected, and there is no power in our hands, for other men have our lands and vineyards.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And it was very displeasing to me when I heard their outcry and these words."}, {"pk": 2720215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And my heart ruled over me, and I strove with the nobles and with the deputy rulers, and said to them, \u201cYou are exacting interest, each one from his brother.\u201d And I called a great assembly against them,"}, {"pk": 2720216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "and said to them, \u201cAccording to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Yehud\u0331im, who were sold to the nations. And you even sell your brothers! Or should they be sold to us?\u201d And they were silent and found not a word <i>to say</i>."}, {"pk": 2720217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "I also said, \u201cWhat you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our Elohim because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?"}, {"pk": 2720218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd also, I, my brothers and my servants, am lending them silver and grain. Please, let us leave off this interest!"}, {"pk": 2720219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cPlease, give back to them, even today, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-trees, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the silver and of the grain, and of the new wine, and of the oil, that you have taken from them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And they said, \u201cLet us give it back, and ask no more from them, we do as you say.\u201d Then I called the priests, and made them swear to do according to this word."}, {"pk": 2720221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, \u201cLet Elohim in this way shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not do this word, even to be thus shaken out and emptied.\u201d And all the assembly said, \u201cAm\u0115n!\u201d and praised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the people did according to this word."}, {"pk": 2720222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Also, from the day I was commanded to be their governor in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Sovereign Artah\u0323shashta, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the governor\u2019s food."}, {"pk": 2720223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And I also <i>worked</i> strongly in the work on this wall. We did not buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there for the work."}, {"pk": 2720225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And at my table were one hundred and fifty of the Yehud\u0331im and deputy rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us."}, {"pk": 2720226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep, and birds were prepared for me, and once every ten days plenty of all kinds of wine. And in spite of this I did not seek the governor\u2019s food, because the bondage was heavy on this people."}, {"pk": 2720227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "O my Elohim, remember me for the good \u2014 all that I have done for this people."}, {"pk": 2720228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be when Sanballat, and Tob\u0331iyah, and Geshem the Arab\u0331, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it \u2014 though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates \u2014"}, {"pk": 2720229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, \u201cCome, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.\u201d But they were planning to do evil to me."}, {"pk": 2720230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "So I sent messengers to them, saying, \u201cI am doing a great work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word."}, {"pk": 2720232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Sanballat sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand, the same word, the fifth time."}, {"pk": 2720233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "In it was written: Among the nations it has been heard, and Gashmu is saying, that you and the Yehud\u0331im are planning to rebel, therefore you are rebuilding the wall, and you are to be their sovereign \u2014 according to these words."}, {"pk": 2720234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Yerushalayim, saying, \u2018A sovereign is in Yehud\u0331ah!\u2019 And now these words are heard by the sovereign. Therefore come now, and let us take counsel together."}, {"pk": 2720235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Then I sent to him, saying, \u201cThere are no such matters done as you are saying, but you are inventing them in your own heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "For all of them were making us afraid, saying, \u201cLet their hands slacken for the work, and it not be done.\u201d But now, make my hands strong."}, {"pk": 2720237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And when I came to the house of Shemayah son of Delayah, son of Meh\u0115tab\u0331\u2019\u0115l, who was restrained, he said, \u201cLet us meet together in the House of Elohim, inside the H\u0115k\u0331al, and let us close the doors of the H\u0115k\u0331al, for they are coming to kill you \u2014 by night they are coming to kill you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And I said, \u201cShould a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the H\u0115k\u0331al to save his life? I do not go in!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And see, I perceived that Elohim had not sent him, but that he spoke this prophecy against me because Tob\u0331iyah and Sanballat had hired him \u2014"}, {"pk": 2720240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "because he was a hireling \u2014 that I should be afraid, and do so, and shall sin, and so they could give me an evil name, to reproach me."}, {"pk": 2720241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "My Elohim, remember Tob\u0331iyah and Sanballat, according to these works of theirs, and the prophetess No\u201bad\u0331yah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid."}, {"pk": 2720242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of <i>the month</i> of Elul, in fifty-two days."}, {"pk": 2720243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when all our enemies heard, and all the nations around us saw, that they fell greatly in their own eyes, and knew that this work was done by our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "In those days the nobles of Yehud\u0331ah also sent many letters to Tob\u0331iyah, while those of Tob\u0331iyah came to them."}, {"pk": 2720245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "For many in Yehud\u0331ah were sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shek\u0331anyah son of Arah\u0323, and his son Yehoh\u0323anan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berek\u0331yah."}, {"pk": 2720246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "They were also speaking about his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tob\u0331iyah sent letters to frighten me."}, {"pk": 2720247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when the wall was rebuilt, that I set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and the L\u0115wites were appointed."}, {"pk": 2720248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And I put my brother H\u0323anani in command of Yerushalayim, and H\u0323ananyah the head of the palace, for he was a trustworthy man and feared Elohim more than many."}, {"pk": 2720249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And I said to them, \u201cLet not the gates of Yerushalayim be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are standing by, let them shut the doors and bolt them. And appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, each at his post, and each in front of his own house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And the city was wide on both sides and great, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt."}, {"pk": 2720251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And my Elohim put it into my heart to gather the nobles, and the deputy rulers, and the people, in order to be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up at the beginning, and I found written in it:"}, {"pk": 2720252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "These are the sons of the province who came back from the captivity of the exiles whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had exiled, and who returned to Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah, each to his city,"}, {"pk": 2720253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "who came with Zerubbab\u0331el, Y\u0115shua, Neh\u0323emyah, Azaryah, Ra\u201bamyah, Nah\u0323amani, Mordek\u0331ai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bi\u1e21wai, Neh\u0323um, Ba\u201banah. The number of the men of the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2720254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;"}, {"pk": 2720255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "sons of Shephatyah, three hundred and seventy-two;"}, {"pk": 2720256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "sons of Arah\u0323, six hundred and fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "sons of Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331, of the sons of Y\u0115shua and Yo\u2019ab\u0331, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen;"}, {"pk": 2720258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "sons of \u011aylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;"}, {"pk": 2720259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "sons of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five;"}, {"pk": 2720260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "sons of Zakkai, seven hundred and sixty;"}, {"pk": 2720261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "sons of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "sons of B\u0115b\u0331ai, six hundred and twenty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "sons of Azgad\u0331, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "sons of Ad\u0331oniqam, six hundred and sixty-seven;"}, {"pk": 2720265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "sons of Bi\u1e21wai, two thousand and sixty-seven;"}, {"pk": 2720266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "sons of Ad\u0331in, six hundred and fifty-five;"}, {"pk": 2720267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "sons of At\u0115r of H\u0323izqiyah, ninety-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "sons of H\u0323ashum, three hundred and twenty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "sons of B\u0115tsai, three hundred and twenty-four;"}, {"pk": 2720270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "sons of H\u0323ariph, one hundred and twelve;"}, {"pk": 2720271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "sons of Gib\u0331\u201bon, ninety-five;"}, {"pk": 2720272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "men of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight;"}, {"pk": 2720274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "men of B\u0115yth Azmaweth, forty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "men of Qiryath Ye\u201barim, Kephirah, and Be\u2019\u0115roth, seven hundred and forty-three;"}, {"pk": 2720276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "men of Ramah and Geb\u0331a, six hundred and twenty-one;"}, {"pk": 2720277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "men of Mik\u0331mas, one hundred and twenty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "men of B\u0115yth \u011al and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three;"}, {"pk": 2720279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "men of the other Neb\u0331o, fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "sons of the other \u011aylam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;"}, {"pk": 2720281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "sons of H\u0323arim, three hundred and twenty;"}, {"pk": 2720282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "sons of Yerih\u0323o, three hundred and forty-five;"}, {"pk": 2720283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "sons of Lod\u0331, H\u0323ad\u0331id\u0331, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one;"}, {"pk": 2720284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "sons of Sena\u2019ah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty."}, {"pk": 2720285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "The priests: sons of Yed\u0331ayah, of the house of Y\u0115shua, nine hundred and seventy-three;"}, {"pk": 2720286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "sons of Imm\u0115r, one thousand and fifty-two;"}, {"pk": 2720287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "sons of Pashh\u0323ur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;"}, {"pk": 2720288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "sons of H\u0323arim, one thousand and seventeen."}, {"pk": 2720289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "The L\u0115wites: sons of Y\u0115shua, of Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l, of the sons of Hod\u0331ewah, seventy-four."}, {"pk": 2720290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "The singers: sons of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight."}, {"pk": 2720291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "The gatekeepers: sons of Shallum, sons of At\u0115r, sons of Talmon, sons of Aqqub\u0331, sons of H\u0323atita, sons of Shob\u0331ai, one hundred and thirty-eight."}, {"pk": 2720292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "The Nethinim: sons of Tsih\u0323a, sons of H\u0323asupha, sons of Tabba\u201both,"}, {"pk": 2720293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "sons of Q\u0115yros, sons of Si\u201ba, sons of Pad\u0331on,"}, {"pk": 2720294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "sons of Leb\u0331anah, sons of H\u0323a\u1e21ab\u0331a, sons of Salmai,"}, {"pk": 2720295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "sons of H\u0323anan, sons of Gidd\u0115l, sons of Gah\u0323ar,"}, {"pk": 2720296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "sons of Re\u2019ayah, sons of Retsin, sons of Neqod\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2720297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "text": "sons of Gazzam, sons of Uzza, sons of Pas\u0115ah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "text": "sons of B\u0115sai, sons of Me\u201bunim, sons of Nephishesim,"}, {"pk": 2720299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "text": "sons of Baqbuq, sons of H\u0323aqupha, sons of H\u0323arh\u0323ur,"}, {"pk": 2720300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 54, "text": "sons of Batslith, sons of Meh\u0323id\u0331a, sons of H\u0323arsha,"}, {"pk": 2720301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 55, "text": "sons of Barqos, sons of Sisera, sons of Temah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2720302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 56, "text": "sons of Netsiyah\u0323, and sons of H\u0323atipha."}, {"pk": 2720303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 57, "text": "The sons of Shelomoh\u2019s servants: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perid\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2720304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 58, "text": "sons of Ya\u201bala, sons of Darqon, sons of Gidd\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2720305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 59, "text": "sons of Shephatyah, sons of H\u0323attil, sons of Pok\u0331ereth of Tseb\u0331ayim, sons of Amon."}, {"pk": 2720306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 60, "text": "All the Nethinim, and the sons of Shelomoh\u2019s servants, were three hundred and ninety-two."}, {"pk": 2720307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 61, "text": "And these were the ones who came up from T\u0115l Melah\u0323, T\u0115l H\u0323arsha, Kerub\u0331, Addon, and Imm\u0115r, but they were unable to show their father\u2019s house, and their seed, whether they were of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2720308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 62, "text": "sons of Delayah, sons of Tob\u0331iyah, sons of Neqod\u0331a, six hundred and forty-two."}, {"pk": 2720309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 63, "text": "And of the priests: sons of H\u0323ab\u0331ayah, sons of Qots, sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gil\u201bad\u0331ite, and was called by their name."}, {"pk": 2720310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 64, "text": "These sought their register <i>among</i> those who were counted by genealogy, but it was not found, so they were <i>barred</i> from the priesthood as defiled."}, {"pk": 2720311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 65, "text": "And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most set-apart gifts until a priest stood up with the Urim and Tummim."}, {"pk": 2720312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 66, "text": "All the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,"}, {"pk": 2720313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 67, "text": "besides their male and female servants, these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers."}, {"pk": 2720314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 68, "text": "Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules two hundred and forty-five,"}, {"pk": 2720315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 69, "text": "camels four hundred and thirty-five, donkeys six thousand seven hundred and twenty."}, {"pk": 2720316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 70, "text": "And some of the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> contributed to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand gold drachmas, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly garments."}, {"pk": 2720317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 71, "text": "Some of the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> gave to the treasury of the work twenty thousand gold drachmas, and two thousand two hundred silver minas."}, {"pk": 2720318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 72, "text": "And the rest of the people gave twenty thousand gold drachmas, two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly garments."}, {"pk": 2720319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 7, "verse": 73, "text": "So the priests, and the L\u0115wites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in their cities."}, {"pk": 2720320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And when the seventh new <i>moon</i> came, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were in their cities. And all the people gathered together as one man in the open space that was in front of the Water Gate. And they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Torah of Mosheh, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And Ezra the priest brought the Torah before the assembly of both men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2720322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And he read from it in the open space in front of the Water Gate from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people <i>listened</i> to the Book of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2720323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose. And beside him on his right stood Mattithyah, and Shema, and Anayah, and Uriyah, and H\u0323ilqiyah, and Ma\u201bas\u0115yah. And on his left <i>stood</i> Ped\u0331ayah, and Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Malkiyah, and H\u0323ashum, and H\u0323ashbaddanah, Zek\u0331aryah, Meshullam."}, {"pk": 2720324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people. And when he opened it, all the people stood up."}, {"pk": 2720325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ezra blessed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the great Elohim. Then all the people answered, \u201cAm\u0115n, Am\u0115n!\u201d while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshipped \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with faces to the ground."}, {"pk": 2720326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Y\u0115shua, and Bani, and Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, Yamin, Aqqub\u0331, Shabbethai, Hod\u0331iyah, Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, Qelita, Azaryah, Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, H\u0323anan, Pelayah, and the L\u0115wites, caused the people to understand the Torah while the people were in their place."}, {"pk": 2720327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And they read in the Book of the Torah of Elohim, translating to give the sense, and caused <i>them</i> to understand the reading."}, {"pk": 2720328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And Neh\u0323emyah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the L\u0115wites who taught the people said to all the people, \u201cThis day is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Do not mourn or weep.\u201d For all the people wept when they heard the words of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2720329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "Then he said to them, \u201cGo, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom none is prepared. For this day is set-apart to our Master. Do not be sad, for the joy of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is your strength.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And the L\u0115wites were silencing all the people, saying, \u201cHush, for the day is set-apart, do not be sad.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And all the people went to eat and to drink, and to send portions and make a great rejoicing, because they understood the words that were made known to them."}, {"pk": 2720332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And on the second day the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> of all the people, with the priests and L\u0115wites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to study the words of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2720333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And they found written in the Torah, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded by Mosheh, that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l should dwell in booths in the festival of the seventh new <i>moon</i>,"}, {"pk": 2720334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Yerushalayim, saying, \u201cGo out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, and in their courtyards and in the courtyards of the House of Elohim, and in the open space of the Water Gate and in the open space of the Gate of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2720336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And the entire assembly of those who had come back from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths, for since the days of Y\u0115shua son of Nun until that day the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2720337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Torah of Elohim. And they performed the festival seven days. And on the eighth day there was an assembly, according to the right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2720338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And on the twenty-fourth day of this new <i>moon</i> the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were assembled with fasting, and in sackcloth, and with earth on them."}, {"pk": 2720339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And the descendants of Yisra\u2019\u0115l separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the crookednesses of their fathers,"}, {"pk": 2720340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "and they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim a fourth part of the day, and a fourth part they were confessing and worshipping \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "Then Y\u0115shua and Bani, Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l, Sheb\u0331anyah, Bunni, Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, Bani, Kenani stood on the stairs of the L\u0115wites and cried out with a loud voice to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the L\u0115wites, Y\u0115shua and Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l, Bani, H\u0323ashab\u0331neyah, Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, Hod\u0331iyah, Sheb\u0331anyah, Pethah\u0323yah, said, \u201cRise, bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim forever and ever! And let them bless Your esteemed Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!"}, {"pk": 2720343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You alone. You have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that are on it, the seas and all that are in them, and You give life to them all. And the host of the heavens are bowing themselves to You."}, {"pk": 2720344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYou are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim who chose Ab\u0331ram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Ab\u0331raham,"}, {"pk": 2720345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "and found his heart trustworthy before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Kena\u201banites, the H\u0323ittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Yeb\u0331usites, and the Girgashites \u2014 to give it to his seed. And You have established Your words, for You are righteous,"}, {"pk": 2720346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "and saw the affliction of our fathers in Mitsrayim, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds,"}, {"pk": 2720347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "and gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land. For You knew that they acted proudly against them. And You made a Name for Yourself, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2720348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd You split the sea before them, and they passed over into the midst of the sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep as a stone into the mighty waters."}, {"pk": 2720349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd You led them by day with a cloudy column, and by night with a column of fire, to give them light in the way they were to go."}, {"pk": 2720350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them straight right-rulings and Torot of truth, good laws and commands.", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah, teaching.<br>Traditionally rendered <em>laws of truth</em>, of which we also read in Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/2/6'>2:6</a>, while it is rendered in Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/20'>2:20</a> <em> as the truth in the law.</em>"}, {"pk": 2720351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd You made known to them Your set-apart Sabbath, and You commanded them commands and laws and Torot, by the hand of Mosheh Your servant."}, {"pk": 2720352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd You gave them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and brought them water out of the rock for their thirst, and said to them to go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them."}, {"pk": 2720353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBut they and our fathers acted proudly, and hardened their necks, and did not obey Your commands."}, {"pk": 2720354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd they refused to obey, and they remembered not Your wonders that You did among them, and hardened their necks, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a forgiving Eloah, showing favour, and compassionate, patient, and of great loving-commitment, and did not forsake them."}, {"pk": 2720355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cEven when they made a moulded calf for themselves, and said, \u2018This is your mighty one that brought you up out of Mitsrayim,\u2019 and worked great blasphemies,"}, {"pk": 2720356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "yet You, in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. The column of the cloud did not turn away from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the column of fire by night to give them light in the way they were to go."}, {"pk": 2720357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/1/23'>1:23</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/36/27'>36:27</a>; Zec. <a href='/TS2009/38/7/12'>7:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2720358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness \u2014 they lacked not. Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not swell."}, {"pk": 2720359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd You gave them reigns and peoples, and apportioned them their lot. So they took possession of the land of Sih\u0323on, and the land of the sovereign of H\u0323eshbon, and the land of O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan."}, {"pk": 2720360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd You increased their children as the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land which You had said to their fathers to go in and possess."}, {"pk": 2720361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSo the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled before them the people of the land, the Kena\u201banites, and gave them into their hands, with their sovereigns and the people of the land, to do with them as they desired."}, {"pk": 2720362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd they captured walled cities and a rich land, and possessed houses filled with all good, cisterns already dug, vineyards, and olive-trees, and fruit trees, in plenty. So they ate and were satisfied and grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness."}, {"pk": 2720363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs. And they kill Your prophets who had warned them, to bring them back to Yourself. And they worked great blasphemies."}, {"pk": 2720364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cTherefore You gave them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. And in the time of their distress, when they cried to You, You heard from the heavens. And according to Your great compassion You gave them saviours who saved them from the hand of their enemies."}, {"pk": 2720365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut after they had rest, they turned back to do evil before You. Then You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them. But when they turned back and cried out to You, You heard from the heavens, and delivered them according to Your compassion, many times,"}, {"pk": 2720366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "and warned them, to bring them back to Your Torah. But they acted proudly, and did not obey Your commands, and sinned against Your right-rulings, \u2018which if a man does, he shall live by them.\u2019 And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their necks, and would not hear.", "comment": "See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/5'>18:5</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/17'>19:17</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/10/28'>10:28</a> and John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/50'>12:50</a>"}, {"pk": 2720367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd You had patience with them for many years, and did warn them by Your Spirit, by the hand of Your prophets, yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands."}, {"pk": 2720368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cBut in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them nor forsake them, for You are an \u011al of favour and compassion."}, {"pk": 2720369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd now, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and awesome \u011al, guarding the covenant and the loving-commitment, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, our sovereigns and our heads, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, from the days of the sovereigns of Ashshur until this day, seem little before You."}, {"pk": 2720370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd in all that has come upon us You are righteous, for You have done truth, but we have done wrong."}, {"pk": 2720371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd our sovereigns, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Your Torah, nor heeded Your commands and Your witnesses, with which You witnessed against them."}, {"pk": 2720372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor they have not served You in their reign, or in Your great goodness that You gave them, or in the large and rich land which You set before them \u2014 neither turned back from their evil deeds."}, {"pk": 2720373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cSee, we are servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and the good of it, see, we are servants in it!"}, {"pk": 2720374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd its rich yield goes to the sovereigns You have set over us, because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress."}, {"pk": 2720375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd because of all this, we are making a trustworthy pledge, and write it. And our rulers, our L\u0115wites, our priests set their seal on it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And those who set their seal were: Neh\u0323emyah the governor, son of H\u0323ak\u0331alyah, and Tsid\u0331qiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Serayah, Azaryah, Yirmeyah,"}, {"pk": 2720378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "Pashh\u0323ur, Amaryah, Malkiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "H\u0323attush, Sheb\u0331anyah, Malluk\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "H\u0323arim, Mer\u0115moth, Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah,"}, {"pk": 2720381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Dani\u2019\u0115l, Ginnethon, Baruk\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "Meshullam, Ab\u0331iyah, Miyamin,"}, {"pk": 2720383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "Ma\u201bazyah, Bilgai, and Shemayah. These were the priests."}, {"pk": 2720384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And the L\u0115wites: both Y\u0115shua son of Atsanyah, Binnui of the sons of H\u0323\u0115nad\u0331ad\u0331, Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And their brothers: Sheb\u0331anyah, Hod\u0331iyah, Qelita, Pelayah, H\u0323anan,"}, {"pk": 2720386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Mik\u0331a, Reh\u0323ob\u0331, H\u0323ashab\u0331yah,"}, {"pk": 2720387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Zakkur, Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, Sheb\u0331anyah,"}, {"pk": 2720388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Hod\u0331iyah, Bani, and Beninu."}, {"pk": 2720389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "The leaders of the people: Parosh, Pah\u0323ath-Mo\u2019ab\u0331, \u011aylam, Zattu, Bani,"}, {"pk": 2720390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "Bunni, Azgad\u0331, B\u0115b\u0331ai,"}, {"pk": 2720391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Ad\u0331oniyah, Bi\u1e21wai, Ad\u0331in,"}, {"pk": 2720392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "At\u0115r, H\u0323izqiyah, Azzur,"}, {"pk": 2720393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "Hod\u0331iyah, H\u0323ashum, B\u0115tsai,"}, {"pk": 2720394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "H\u0323ariph, Anathoth, N\u0115b\u0331ai,"}, {"pk": 2720395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "Ma\u1e21pi\u201bash, Meshullam, H\u0323\u0115zir,"}, {"pk": 2720396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "Mesh\u0115yzab\u0331\u2019\u0115l, Tsad\u0331oq, Yaddua,"}, {"pk": 2720397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "Pelatyah, H\u0323anan, Anayah,"}, {"pk": 2720398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "Hosh\u0115a, H\u0323ananyah, H\u0323ashshub\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2720399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "Halloh\u0323\u0115sh, Pilh\u0323a, Shob\u0331\u0115q,"}, {"pk": 2720400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "Reh\u0323um, H\u0323ashab\u0331nah, Ma\u201bas\u0115yah,"}, {"pk": 2720401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "Ah\u0323iyah, H\u0323anan, Anan,"}, {"pk": 2720402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "Malluk\u0331, H\u0323arim, Ba\u201banah."}, {"pk": 2720403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And the rest of the people, the priests, the L\u0115wites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the Torah of Elohim, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all who had knowledge and understanding,"}, {"pk": 2720404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "were strengthening their brothers, their nobles, and were entering into a curse and into an oath to walk in the Torah of Elohim, which was given by Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and to guard and do all the commands of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Master, and His right-rulings and His laws,"}, {"pk": 2720405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "and that we would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons,"}, {"pk": 2720406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "and that if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a set-apart day, and we would forego the seventh year and the interest of every hand."}, {"pk": 2720407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "And we imposed commands on ourselves, to give from ourselves yearly one-third of a sheqel for the service of the House of our Elohim:"}, {"pk": 2720408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "for the showbread, and for the continual grain offering, and for the continual ascending offering of the Sabbaths, of the New <i>Moons</i>, for the appointed times, and for the set-apart offerings, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and all the work of the House of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "And we cast lots among the priests, and the L\u0115wites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the House of our Elohim, according to our fathers\u2019 houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim as it is written in the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2720410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "and to bring the first-fruits of our soil and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2720411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "also to bring the first-born of our sons and our livestock, as it is written in the Torah, and the firstlings of our herds and our flocks, to the House of our Elohim, to the priests attending in the House of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "And that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our contributions, and the fruit from all kinds of trees, of new wine and of oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the House of our Elohim; and the tithes of our land to the L\u0115wites, for the L\u0115wites should receive the tithes in all our rural towns."}, {"pk": 2720413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "And the priest, son of Aharon, shall be with the L\u0115wites when the L\u0115wites receive tithes, and the L\u0115wites bring up a tenth of the tithes to the House of our Elohim, to the rooms of the storehouse."}, {"pk": 2720414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "For the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the children of L\u0115wi bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the vessels of the set-apart place are, where the priests who attend and the gatekeepers and the singers are, and we should not neglect the House of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "Now the rulers of the people dwelt at Yerushalayim, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in Yerushalayim, the set-apart city, and nine-tenths were to dwell in other cities."}, {"pk": 2720416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to dwell at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And these are the heads of the province who dwelt in Yerushalayim, but in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah everyone dwelt in his own possession in their cities \u2014 Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the priests, and the L\u0115wites, and the Nethinim, and the sons of Shelomoh\u2019s servants."}, {"pk": 2720418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And in Yerushalayim dwelt certain of the children of Yehud\u0331ah and of the children of Binyamin. Of the children of Yehud\u0331ah: Athayah son of Uzziyah, son of Zek\u0331aryah, son of Amaryah, son of Shephatyah, son of Mahalal\u2019\u0115l, of the children of Perets;"}, {"pk": 2720419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "and Ma\u201bas\u0115yah son of Baruk\u0331, son of Kol-H\u0323ozeh, son of H\u0323azayah, son of Ad\u0331ayah, son of Yoyarib\u0331, son of Zek\u0331aryah, son of Shiloni."}, {"pk": 2720420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "All the sons of Perets who dwelt at Yerushalayim were four hundred and sixty-eight brave men."}, {"pk": 2720421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And these are the sons of Binyamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Yow\u201b\u0115d\u0331, son of Ped\u0331ayah, son of Qolayah, son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, son of Ithi\u2019\u0115l, son of Yeshayah;"}, {"pk": 2720422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "and after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight."}, {"pk": 2720423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And Yo\u2019\u0115l son of Zik\u0331ri was their overseer, and Yehud\u0331ah son of Senuah was second over the city."}, {"pk": 2720424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "Of the priests: Yed\u0331ayah son of Yoyarib\u0331, Yak\u0331in,"}, {"pk": 2720425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "Serayah son of H\u0323ilqiyah, son of Meshullam, son of Tsad\u0331oq, son of Merayoth, son of Ah\u0323itub\u0331, was the leader of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And their brothers who did the work of the House were eight hundred and twenty-two; and Ad\u0331ayah son of Yeroh\u0323am, son of Pelalyah, son of Amtsi, son of Zek\u0331aryah, son of Pashh\u0323ur, son of Malkiyah,"}, {"pk": 2720427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "and his brothers, heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, were two hundred and forty-two; and Amashai son of Azar\u2019\u0115l, son of Ah\u0323zai, son of Meshill\u0115moth, son of Imm\u0115r,"}, {"pk": 2720428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "and their brothers, mighty brave ones, were one hundred and twenty-eight. And their overseer was Zab\u0331di\u2019\u0115l, son of the great ones."}, {"pk": 2720429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "Also of the L\u0115wites: Shemayah son of H\u0323ashshub\u0331, son of Azriqam, son of H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, son of Bunni;"}, {"pk": 2720430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "and Shabbethai and Yozab\u0331ad\u0331, of the heads of the L\u0115wites, over the outside work of the House of Elohim;"}, {"pk": 2720431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "and Mattanyah son of Mik\u0331a, son of Zab\u0331di, son of Asaph, who was the leader who began the thanksgiving with prayer, and Baqbuqyah the second among his brothers, and Ab\u0331da son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Yed\u0331uthun."}, {"pk": 2720432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "All the L\u0115wites in the set-apart city were two hundred and eighty-four."}, {"pk": 2720433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And the gatekeepers, Aqqub\u0331, Talmon, and their brothers keeping guard at the gates, were one hundred and seventy-two."}, {"pk": 2720434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, of the priests, L\u0115wites, were in all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, each one in his inheritance."}, {"pk": 2720435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel. And Tsih\u0323a and Gishpa were over the Nethinim."}, {"pk": 2720436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And the overseer of the L\u0115wites at Yerushalayim was Uzzi son of Bani, son of H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, son of Mattanyah, son of Mik\u0331a. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the work of the House of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2720437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "for the sovereign\u2019s command was upon them \u2014 and support for the singers, a matter day by day."}, {"pk": 2720438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "And Pethah\u0323yah son of Mesh\u0115yzab\u0331\u2019\u0115l, of the children of Zerah\u0323 son of Yehud\u0331ah, was the sovereign\u2019s deputy in all matters concerning the people."}, {"pk": 2720439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And at the villages with their fields, some of the children of Yehud\u0331ah dwelt in Qiryath Arba and its villages, and in Dib\u0331on and its villages, and in Yeqab\u0331tse\u2019\u0115l and its villages,"}, {"pk": 2720440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "and in Y\u0115shua, and in Molad\u0331ah, and in B\u0115yth Pelet,"}, {"pk": 2720441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "and in H\u0323atsar Shu\u201bal, and in Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a and its villages,"}, {"pk": 2720442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "and in Tsiqla\u1e21, and in Mek\u0331onah and its villages,"}, {"pk": 2720443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "and in \u011an Rimmon, and in Tsorah, and in Yarmuth,"}, {"pk": 2720444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "Zanowah\u0323, Ad\u0331ullam, and their villages; in Lak\u0331ish and its fields; in Az\u0115qah and its villages. So they dwelt from Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a to the Valley of Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2720445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "And the children of Binyamin: from Geb\u0331a, Mik\u0331mash, and Ayyah, and B\u0115yth \u011al, and their villages;"}, {"pk": 2720446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "Anathoth, Nob\u0331, Ananyah;"}, {"pk": 2720447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "H\u0323atsor, Ramah, Gittayim;"}, {"pk": 2720448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "H\u0323ad\u0331id\u0331, Tseb\u0331o\u201bim, Neb\u0331allat;"}, {"pk": 2720449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "Lod\u0331, and Ono, and the Valley of Craftsmen."}, {"pk": 2720450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "And of the L\u0115wites, the divisions of Yehud\u0331ah were for Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2720451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And these were the priests and the L\u0115wites who came up with Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, and Y\u0115shua: Serayah, Yirmeyah, Ezra,"}, {"pk": 2720452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "Amaryah, Malluk\u0331, H\u0323attush,"}, {"pk": 2720453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "Shek\u0331anyah, Reh\u0323um, Mer\u0115moth,"}, {"pk": 2720454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "Iddo, Ginnethoi, Ab\u0331iyah,"}, {"pk": 2720455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Miyamin, Ma\u201bad\u0331yah, Bilgah,"}, {"pk": 2720456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Shemayah, and Yoyarib\u0331, Yed\u0331ayah,"}, {"pk": 2720457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "Sallu, Amoq, H\u0323ilqiyah, and Yed\u0331ayah. These were the heads of the priests and their brothers in the days of Y\u0115shua."}, {"pk": 2720458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And the L\u0115wites: Y\u0115shua, Binnui, Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l, Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, Yehud\u0331ah, Mattanyah over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers."}, {"pk": 2720459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And Baqbuqyah and Unni, their brothers, were opposite them for guard duties."}, {"pk": 2720460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And Y\u0115shua brought forth Yoyaqim, and Yoyaqim brought forth Elyashib\u0331, and Elyashib\u0331 brought forth Yoyad\u0331a,"}, {"pk": 2720461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "and Yoyad\u0331a brought forth Yonathan, and Yonathan brought forth Yaddua."}, {"pk": 2720462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And in the days of Yoyaqim, the priests, the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> were: of Serayah, Merayah; of Yirmeyah, H\u0323ananyah;"}, {"pk": 2720463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amaryah, Yehoh\u0323anan;"}, {"pk": 2720464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "of Melik\u0331u, Yonathan; of Sheb\u0331anyah, Yos\u0115ph;"}, {"pk": 2720465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "of H\u0323arim, Ad\u0331na; of Merayoth, H\u0323elqai;"}, {"pk": 2720466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "of Iddo, Zek\u0331aryah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;"}, {"pk": 2720467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "of Ab\u0331iyah, Zik\u0331ri, son of Minyamin; of Mo\u201bad\u0331yah, Piltai;"}, {"pk": 2720468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemayah, Yehonathan;"}, {"pk": 2720469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "of Yoyarib\u0331, Mattenai; of Yed\u0331ayah, Uzzi;"}, {"pk": 2720470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "of Sallai, Qallai; of Amoq, \u011ab\u0331er;"}, {"pk": 2720471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "of H\u0323ilqiyah, H\u0323ashab\u0331yah. And of Yed\u0331ayah, Nethan\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "The L\u0115wites and priests in the days of Elyashib\u0331, Yoyad\u0331a, Yoh\u0323anan, and Yaddua, were recorded heads of their fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i>, also the priests in the reign of Dareyawesh the Persian."}, {"pk": 2720473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "The sons of L\u0115wi, the heads of the fathers\u2019 <i>houses</i> until the days of Yoh\u0323anan son of Elyashib\u0331, were written in the book of the annals."}, {"pk": 2720474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "And the heads of the L\u0115wites were H\u0323ashab\u0331yah, Sh\u0115r\u0115b\u0331yah, and Y\u0115shua son of Qad\u0331mi\u2019\u0115l, with their brothers opposite them, to praise, to give thanks, watch opposite watch, according to the command of Dawid\u0331 the man of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "Mattanyah, and Baqbuqyah, Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah, Meshullam, Talmon, Aqqub\u0331 were gatekeepers guarding at the storerooms of the gates."}, {"pk": 2720476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "These were in the days of Yoyaqim son of Y\u0115shua, son of Yotsad\u0331aq, and in the days of Neh\u0323emyah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe."}, {"pk": 2720477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "And at the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim they sought out the L\u0115wites in all their places, to bring them to Yerushalayim to perform the dedication with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, cymbals, harps and lyres."}, {"pk": 2720478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "And the sons of the singers gathered together from the countryside around Yerushalayim, from the villages of the Netophathites,"}, {"pk": 2720479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "and from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geb\u0331a and Azmaweth \u2014 for the singers had built themselves villages all around Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "And the priests and L\u0115wites cleansed themselves, and they cleansed the people, and the gates, and the wall."}, {"pk": 2720481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "And I brought the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah up on the wall, and appointed two large thanksgiving choirs, to go to the right on the wall toward the Dung Gate,"}, {"pk": 2720482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "and after them went Hoshayah and half of the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2720483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "then Azaryah, Ezra, and Meshullam,"}, {"pk": 2720484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah, and Binyamin, and Shemayah, and Yirmeyah,"}, {"pk": 2720485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "and of the sons of the priests with trumpets: Zek\u0331aryah son of Yonathan, son of Shemayah, son of Mattanyah, son of Mik\u0331ayah, son of Zakkur, son of Asaph,"}, {"pk": 2720486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "and his brothers Shemayah and Azar\u2019\u0115l, Milalai, Gilalai, Ma\u201bai, Nethan\u2019\u0115l, and Yehud\u0331ah, H\u0323anani with instruments of songs of Dawid\u0331 the man of Elohim, with Ezra the scribe before them."}, {"pk": 2720487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "And at the Fountain Gate and straight ahead of them, they went up the stairs of the City of Dawid\u0331, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of Dawid\u0331, as far as the Water Gate eastward."}, {"pk": 2720488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "And the other thanksgiving choir went over against them, and I behind them with half of the people on the wall, going past the Tower of the Ovens as far as the Broad Wall,"}, {"pk": 2720489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "and above the Gate of Ephrayim, and above the Old Gate, and above the Fish Gate, and the Tower of H\u0323anan\u2019\u0115l, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stood still at the Gate of the Prison."}, {"pk": 2720490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "Then the two thanksgiving choirs took their stand in the House of Elohim, and I and half of the deputy rulers with me,"}, {"pk": 2720491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "and the priests, Elyaqim, Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, Minyamin, Mik\u0331ayah, Elyo\u201b\u0115ynai, Zek\u0331aryah, and H\u0323ananyah, with trumpets,"}, {"pk": 2720492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "and Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, and Shemayah, and El\u201bazar, and Uzzi, and Yehoh\u0323anan, and Malkiyah, and \u011aylam, and \u011azer. And the singers sang aloud, with Yizrah\u0323yah in charge."}, {"pk": 2720493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "And on that day they slaughtered great slaughterings and rejoiced, for Elohim had made them rejoice with great joy. And the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Yerushalayim was heard far away."}, {"pk": 2720494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "And on that day some were appointed over the rooms for the stores, for the contributions, for the first-fruits, and for tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions required by the Torah for the priests and for the L\u0115wites. For Yehud\u0331ah rejoiced over the priests and the L\u0115wites who stood up."}, {"pk": 2720495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "text": "Both the singers and the gatekeepers guarded the charge of their Elohim and the charge of the cleansing, according to the command of Dawid\u0331 and Shelomoh his son."}, {"pk": 2720496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "text": "For in the days of Dawid\u0331 and Asaph of old there were chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "text": "And in the days of Zerubbab\u0331el and in the days of Neh\u0323emyah all Yisra\u2019\u0115l gave the portions for the singers and the gatekeepers, a portion for each day. And they set apart what was for the L\u0115wites, and the L\u0115wites set apart what was for the children of Aharon."}, {"pk": 2720498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "On that day was read from the Book of Mosheh in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that an Ammonite and Mo\u2019ab\u0331ite should not come into the assembly of Elohim forever,"}, {"pk": 2720499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "because they had not met the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with bread and water, and hired Bil\u201bam against them to curse them, although our Elohim turned the curse into a blessing."}, {"pk": 2720500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, when they had heard the Torah, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2720501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And before this, Elyashib\u0331 the priest, having authority over the storerooms of the House of our Elohim, was a relative of Tob\u0331iyah,"}, {"pk": 2720502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "and he had prepared for him a large room, where previously they had stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, and the utensils, and the tithes of grain, the new wine and the oil, which were commanded <i>to be given to the L\u0115wites</i> and the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests."}, {"pk": 2720503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "But in all this I was not in Yerushalayim, for in the thirty-second year of Artah\u0323shashta sovereign of Bab\u0331el I came to the sovereign. And after some days I asked leave from the sovereign <i>to return</i>,"}, {"pk": 2720504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "and I came to Yerushalayim and learned of the evil which Elyashib\u0331 had done for Tob\u0331iyah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the House of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2720505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And it was very displeasing to me. Therefore I threw all the household goods of Tob\u0331iyah out of the room,"}, {"pk": 2720506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "and I commanded them to cleanse the rooms. And I put back into them the utensils of the House of Elohim, with the grain offering and the frankincense."}, {"pk": 2720507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And I learned that the portions for the L\u0115wites had not been given them, for each of the L\u0115wites and the singers who did the work had gone back to his field."}, {"pk": 2720508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "Then I contended with the deputy rulers, and said, \u201cWhy is the House of Elohim forsaken?\u201d And I gathered them together and set them in their place."}, {"pk": 2720509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And all Yehud\u0331ah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the storehouse."}, {"pk": 2720510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouse Shelemyah the priest and Tsad\u0331oq the scribe, and Ped\u0331ayah of the L\u0115wites. And at their hand was H\u0323anan son of Zakkur, son of Mattanyah. For they were reckoned trustworthy, and it was on them to distribute to their brothers."}, {"pk": 2720511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "Remember me, O my Elohim, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loving-commitments that I have done for the House of my Elohim, and for its charges!"}, {"pk": 2720512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "In those days I saw in Yehud\u0331ah those treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Yerushalayim on the Sabbath day. So I warned <i>them</i> on the day they sold food."}, {"pk": 2720513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And men of Tsor dwelt there, bringing in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath to the children of Yehud\u0331ah, and in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2720514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "Then I contended with the nobles of Yehud\u0331ah, and said to them, \u201cWhat evil matter is this that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?"}, {"pk": 2720515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDid not your fathers do the same so that our Elohim brought all this evil on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Yisra\u2019\u0115l by profaning the Sabbath.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "And it came to be, when the gates of Yerushalayim were shaded before the Sabbath, that I commanded the doors to be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day."}, {"pk": 2720517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares spent the night outside Yerushalayim once or twice,"}, {"pk": 2720518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "and I warned them, and said to them, \u201cWhy do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I lay hands on you!\u201d From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2720519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And I commanded the L\u0115wites that they should cleanse themselves, and they should come, guarding the gates, to set apart the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my Elohim, concerning this also, and pardon me according to the greatness of Your loving-commitment!"}, {"pk": 2720520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "In those days I also saw Yehud\u0331im who had married women of Ashdod\u0331, Ammon, Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2720521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod\u0331, and could not speak the language of Yehud\u0331ah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people."}, {"pk": 2720522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "Then I contended with them and cursed them, and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by Elohim, saying, \u201cYou do not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves."}, {"pk": 2720523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cDid not Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l sin because of them? Among the many nations there was no sovereign like him, who was beloved of his Elohim, and Elohim made him sovereign over all Yisra\u2019\u0115l. Even him foreign women caused to sin."}, {"pk": 2720524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cShould we then hear of your doing all this great evil, trespassing against our Elohim by marrying foreign wives?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2720525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "And one of the sons of Yoyad\u0331a, son of Elyashib\u0331 the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the H\u0323oronite. And I drove him from me."}, {"pk": 2720526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "Remember them, O my Elohim, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2720527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "Thus I cleansed them from all that is foreign. And I appointed duties to the priests and the L\u0115wites, each in his task,"}, {"pk": 2720528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 16, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "and for the wood offering and the first-fruits at appointed times. Remember me, O my Elohim, for good!"}, {"pk": 2719676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the days of Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh \u2014 he is the Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh who reigned from India to Kush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces \u2014"}, {"pk": 2719677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "in those days, when Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh sat on the throne of his reign, which was in the citadel of Shushan,"}, {"pk": 2719678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces were before him,"}, {"pk": 2719679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "when he showed the riches of his esteemed reign and the splendour of his excellent greatness for many days, a hundred and eighty days."}, {"pk": 2719680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And when these days were completed, the sovereign made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were present in the citadel of Shushan, from great to small, in the courtyard of the garden of the sovereign\u2019s palace."}, {"pk": 2719681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "White and blue tapestries were fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on silver rods and marble columns \u2014 the couches were of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and black marble."}, {"pk": 2719682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And they served drinks in golden vessels, the vessels being different from one another, with much royal wine, according to the hand of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And drinking was according to the law, no one was compelled, for so the sovereign had ordered all the officers of his house, that they should do according to each one\u2019s pleasure."}, {"pk": 2719684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Sovereigness Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh owned."}, {"pk": 2719685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "On the seventh day, when the heart of the sovereign was glad with wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, H\u0323arb\u0331ona, Bi\u1e21tha, and Ab\u0331a\u1e21tha, Z\u0115thar, and Karkas, the seven eunuchs who were in attendance in the presence of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh,"}, {"pk": 2719686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "to bring Sovereigness Vashti before the sovereign, with her royal crown, in order to show her loveliness to the people and the officials, for she was lovely to look upon."}, {"pk": 2719687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "But Sovereigness Vashti refused to come at the sovereign\u2019s command brought by his eunuchs. And the sovereign was very wroth, and his rage burned within him."}, {"pk": 2719688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "So the sovereign said to the wise men who understood the times (for in this way the sovereign\u2019s matter <i>came</i> before all who knew law and right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2719689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "and who were close to him: Karshena, Sh\u0115thar, Ad\u0331matha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memuk\u0331an, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the sovereign\u2019s face, who sat first in the reign):"}, {"pk": 2719690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAccording to law, what is to be done to Sovereigness Vashti, because she did not perform the command of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, through the eunuchs?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Memuk\u0331an answered before the sovereign and the princes, \u201cSovereigness Vashti has misbehaved not only toward the sovereign, but also toward all the princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh."}, {"pk": 2719692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor the matter of the sovereigness shall go forth to all women, to make their husbands despised in their eyes, when they say, \u2018Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh commanded Sovereigness Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2719693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd this day the princesses of Persia and Media shall say to all the sovereign\u2019s officials that they have heard of the matter of the sovereigness \u2014 with plenty of scorn and wrath."}, {"pk": 2719694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cIf it pleases the sovereign, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it does not pass away, that Vashti shall come no more before Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh. And let the sovereign give her royal position to another who is better than she."}, {"pk": 2719695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the sovereign\u2019s decree which he makes shall be proclaimed throughout all his rule, great as it is, and all the wives give esteem to their husbands, both great and small.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And the word was good in the eyes of the sovereign and the princes, and the sovereign did according to the word of Memuk\u0331an."}, {"pk": 2719697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "So he sent letters to all the sovereign\u2019s provinces, to each province in its own writing, and to every people in their own language, that each man should be master in his own house and speak in the language of his people."}, {"pk": 2719698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "After these events, when the wrath of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh had ceased, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against her."}, {"pk": 2719699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "Then the sovereign\u2019s servants who attended him said, \u201cLet lovely young maidens be sought for the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2719700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "and let the sovereign appoint officers in all the provinces of his reign, and let them gather all the lovely young maidens to the citadel of Shushan, into the women\u2019s quarters, under the hand of H\u0115\u1e21ai the sovereign\u2019s eunuch, guardian of the women, to give their preparations."}, {"pk": 2719701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd let the young woman who pleases the sovereign be sovereigness instead of Vashti.\u201d And the word pleased the sovereign, and he did so."}, {"pk": 2719702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "In the citadel of Shushan there was a certain man, a Yehud\u0331i whose name was Mordek\u0331ai son of Ya\u2019ir, son of Shim\u201bi, son of Qish, a Binyamite,"}, {"pk": 2719703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "who had been exiled from Yerushalayim with the captives who had been exiled with Yek\u0331onyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had exiled."}, {"pk": 2719704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be that he was raising Had\u0331assah, that is Est\u0115r, his uncle\u2019s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was beautiful and of good appearance. And when her father and mother died, Mordek\u0331ai took her as his own daughter."}, {"pk": 2719705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign\u2019s command and decree were heard, and when many young women were gathered at the citadel of Shushan, into the hand of H\u0115\u1e21ai, that Est\u0115r, too, was taken to the sovereign\u2019s palace, into the hand of H\u0115\u1e21ai, guardian of the women."}, {"pk": 2719706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And the young woman pleased him, and she received loving-commitment from him. So he hastened to give her preparations and her portions, and gave her seven choice female servants from the sovereign\u2019s palace. And he moved her and her female servants to the best <i>place</i> in the house of the women."}, {"pk": 2719707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Est\u0115r had not made known her people or her relatives, for Mordek\u0331ai had commanded her not to make it known."}, {"pk": 2719708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And every day Mordek\u0331ai walked about in front of the courtyard of the women\u2019s quarters, to learn of Est\u0115r\u2019s welfare and what is done to her."}, {"pk": 2719709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "Now when the turn of each young woman came to go in to Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh after she had completed twelve new <i>moons</i> according to the regulations for the women \u2014 for the days of their preparation were completed as follows: six new <i>moons</i> with oil of myrrh, and six new <i>moons</i> with perfumes and with the preparations of women \u2014"}, {"pk": 2719710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "thus prepared, the young woman went to the sovereign, and whatever she asked for was given to take with her from the house of the women to the sovereign\u2019s palace."}, {"pk": 2719711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, into the hand of Sha\u201bashgaz, the sovereign\u2019s eunuch, guardian of the concubines. She would not come in to the sovereign again unless the sovereign delighted in her and called for her by name."}, {"pk": 2719712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the turn came for Est\u0115r, the daughter of Ab\u0331ihayil the uncle of Mordek\u0331ai, who had taken her as his daughter, to come in to the sovereign, she sought no matter but what H\u0115\u1e21ai the sovereign\u2019s eunuch, guardian of the women, advised. And Est\u0115r found favour in the eyes of all who saw her."}, {"pk": 2719713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And Est\u0115r was taken to Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, into his royal palace, in the tenth new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of T\u0115b\u0331\u0115th, in the seventh year of his reign."}, {"pk": 2719714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the sovereign loved Est\u0115r more than all the women, and she found favour and loving-commitment in his eyes more than all the maidens. And he set the royal crown upon her head and made her sovereigness instead of Vashti."}, {"pk": 2719715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign made a great feast, the Feast of Est\u0115r, for all his officials and servants. And he proclaimed a release in the provinces and gave gifts according to the means of a sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And when maidens were assembled a second time, Mordek\u0331ai sat within the sovereign\u2019s gate."}, {"pk": 2719717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "Est\u0115r had not made known her relatives and her people <i>yet</i>, as Mordek\u0331ai commanded her, for Est\u0115r obeyed the command of Mordek\u0331ai as when she was being raised by him."}, {"pk": 2719718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "In those days, while Mordek\u0331ai sat within the sovereign\u2019s gate, two of the sovereign\u2019s eunuchs, Bi\u1e21than and Teresh, doorkeepers, were wroth and sought to lay hands on Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh."}, {"pk": 2719719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And the matter became known to Mordek\u0331ai, who informed Sovereigness Est\u0115r, and Est\u0115r spoke to the sovereign in Mordek\u0331ai\u2019s name."}, {"pk": 2719720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And when the matter was searched into, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a wooden structure. And it was written in the book of the annals in the presence of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "After these events Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh promoted Haman, son of Hammed\u0331atha the A\u1e21a\u1e21ite, and exalted him and seated him higher than all the princes with him."}, {"pk": 2719722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And all the sovereign\u2019s servants who were in the sovereign\u2019s gate bowed and did obeisance to Haman, for so the sovereign had commanded concerning him. But Mordek\u0331ai would not bow or do obeisance."}, {"pk": 2719723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign\u2019s servants who were in the sovereign\u2019s gate said to Mordek\u0331ai, \u201cWhy do you disobey the sovereign\u2019s command?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether the words of Mordek\u0331ai would stand \u2014 for he had told them that he was a Yehud\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2719725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Haman saw that Mordek\u0331ai did not bow or do obeisance, Haman was filled with wrath."}, {"pk": 2719726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "But it was despicable in his eyes to lay hands on Mordek\u0331ai alone, for they had informed him of the people of Mordek\u0331ai. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Yehud\u0331im who were throughout all the reign of Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, the people of Mordek\u0331ai."}, {"pk": 2719727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "In the first new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of Nisan, in the twelfth year of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, someone cast Pur \u2014 that is, the lot \u2014 before Haman from day to day, and from new <i>moon</i> to new <i>moon</i>, until it fell on the twelfth <i>month</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar."}, {"pk": 2719728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Haman then told Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, \u201cThere is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your reign, whose laws are different from all people, and they do not do the sovereign\u2019s laws. Therefore it is not in the sovereign\u2019s interest to let them remain."}, {"pk": 2719729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf it pleases the sovereign, let a decree be written to destroy them, and let me pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the sovereign\u2019s treasuries.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, son of Hammed\u0331atha the A\u1e21a\u1e21ite, the enemy of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2719731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And the sovereign said to Haman, \u201cThe silver and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sovereign\u2019s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first new <i>moon</i>, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded \u2014 to the viceroys of the sovereign, and to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of all people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, and sealed with the sovereign\u2019s signet ring."}, {"pk": 2719733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And the letters were sent by the runners into all the sovereign\u2019s provinces, to cut off, to kill, and to destroy all the Yehud\u0331im, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar, and to plunder their possessions."}, {"pk": 2719734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "A copy of the writing, to be made law in every province, was published for all people, to be ready for that day."}, {"pk": 2719735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "The runners went out, hastened by the sovereign\u2019s command, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan. The sovereign and Haman then sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was in confusion."}, {"pk": 2719736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai learned of all that had been done, and Mordek\u0331ai tore his garments and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried out with a loud and bitter cry."}, {"pk": 2719737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he went up to the front of the sovereign\u2019s gate, for no one might enter the sovereign\u2019s gate wearing sackcloth."}, {"pk": 2719738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And in every province where the sovereign\u2019s command and decree came, there was great mourning among the Yehud\u0331im, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing. And many lay in sackcloth and ashes."}, {"pk": 2719739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And Est\u0115r\u2019s young women and eunuchs came and told her, and the sovereigness was deeply pained, and sent garments to Mordek\u0331ai to wear, and to take away his sackcloth from him, but he refused."}, {"pk": 2719740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And Est\u0115r called Hathak\u0331, one of the sovereign\u2019s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordek\u0331ai, to learn what and why this was."}, {"pk": 2719741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And Hathak\u0331 went out to Mordek\u0331ai, to an open space of the city, in front of the sovereign\u2019s gate."}, {"pk": 2719742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai told him all that befell him, and all about the silver that Haman promised to pay into the sovereign\u2019s treasuries to destroy the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2719743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And he gave him a copy of the written decree to destroy them, which was given at Shushan, to show it to Est\u0115r and explain it to her, and to command her to go in to the sovereign to make supplication to him, and plead before him for her people."}, {"pk": 2719744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And Hathak\u0331 came and told Est\u0115r the words of Mordek\u0331ai."}, {"pk": 2719745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And Est\u0115r spoke to Hathak\u0331, and gave him a command for Mordek\u0331ai,"}, {"pk": 2719746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAll the sovereign\u2019s servants and the people of the sovereign\u2019s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the sovereign, who has not been called, he has but one law: to be put to death, except the one to whom the sovereign holds out the golden sceptre, who then shall live. But I have not been called to come in to the sovereign these thirty days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And they declared to Mordek\u0331ai the words of Est\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2719748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai commanded them to answer Est\u0115r, \u201cDo not think within yourself to escape in the sovereign\u2019s palace any more than all the other Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2719749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor if you keep entirely silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Yehud\u0331im from another place, while you and your father\u2019s house perish. And who knows whether you have come to the reign for such a time as this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And Est\u0115r commanded to reply to Mordek\u0331ai,"}, {"pk": 2719751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cGo, gather all the Yehud\u0331im who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I too, and my young women shall fast in the same way, then I shall go to the sovereign, which is against the law. And if I shall perish, I shall perish!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Mordek\u0331ai then went away and did according to all that Est\u0115r commanded him."}, {"pk": 2719753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be on the third day that Est\u0115r put on royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the sovereign\u2019s palace, in front of the sovereign\u2019s house, while the sovereign sat on his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house."}, {"pk": 2719754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, when the sovereign saw Sovereigness Est\u0115r standing in the court, that she found favour in his eyes, and the sovereign held out to Est\u0115r the golden sceptre which was in his hand. And Est\u0115r went near and touched the top of the sceptre."}, {"pk": 2719755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign said to her, \u201cWhat is it, Sovereigness Est\u0115r, and what is your request? Up to half my reign, and it is given to you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And Est\u0115r answered, \u201cIf it pleases the sovereign, let the sovereign and Haman come today to the feast which I have prepared for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cGet Haman at once, to do as Est\u0115r has said.\u201d Then the sovereign and Haman went to the feast which Est\u0115r had prepared."}, {"pk": 2719758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign said to Est\u0115r at the feast of wine, \u201cWhat is your petition? And it is given you. And what is your request? Up to half my reign, and it is done!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And Est\u0115r answered and said, \u201cMy petition and request is this:"}, {"pk": 2719760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIf I have found favour in the eyes of the sovereign, and if it pleases the sovereign to give my petition and perform my request, then let the sovereign and Haman come to the feast which I make for them, and tomorrow I shall do according to the word of the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And Haman went out that day rejoicing and with a glad heart. But when Haman saw Mordek\u0331ai in the sovereign\u2019s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordek\u0331ai."}, {"pk": 2719762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "But Haman held himself in, and came to his house, and he sent and called for his loved ones and Zeresh his wife."}, {"pk": 2719763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And Haman recounted to them the esteem of his wealth, and his many sons, and all in which the sovereign had promoted him, and how he had exalted him above the officials and servants of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And Haman said, \u201cBesides, Est\u0115r the sovereigness let no one but me come in with the sovereign to the feast which she prepared. And tomorrow too I am invited by her, along with the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut all this does not suit me, as long as I see Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i sitting at the sovereign\u2019s gate.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "So his wife Zeresh and all his loved ones said to him, \u201cLet a wooden structure be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordek\u0331ai be hanged on it. And go with the sovereign to the feast, rejoicing.\u201d And the word pleased Haman, and he had the wood<i>en structure</i> made."}, {"pk": 2719767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "On that night the sleep of the sovereign fled, and he commanded to bring the book of the records of the annals. And they were read before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And it was found written that Mordek\u0331ai had told of Bi\u1e21thana and Teresh, two of the sovereign\u2019s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh."}, {"pk": 2719769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Then the sovereign said, \u201cWhat has been done in value or in greatness to Mordek\u0331ai for this?\u201d And the sovereign\u2019s servants who attended him said, \u201cNaught has been done for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign said, \u201cWho is in the court?\u201d Now Haman had come into the outer court of the sovereign\u2019s palace to speak to the sovereign to hang Mordek\u0331ai on the wood<i>en structure</i> that he had prepared for him."}, {"pk": 2719771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign\u2019s servants said to him, \u201cLook, Haman is standing in the court.\u201d And the sovereign said, \u201cLet him come in.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And when Haman came in, the sovereign asked him, \u201cWhat is to be done for the man whom the sovereign delights to value?\u201d Now Haman thought in his heart, \u201cWhom would the sovereign delight to value more than me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And Haman answered the sovereign, \u201cFor the man whom the sovereign delights to value,"}, {"pk": 2719774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "let a royal robe be brought which the sovereign has worn, and a horse on which the sovereign has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head."}, {"pk": 2719775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd let this robe and horse be given into the hand of one of the sovereign\u2019s most noble princes. Let them dress the man whom the sovereign delights to value. And make him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, \u2018Thus it is done to the man whom the sovereign delights to value!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2719776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign said to Haman, \u201cHurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have spoken, and do so for Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i who sits in the sovereign\u2019s gate. Let no word fail of all that you have spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And Haman took the robe and the horse, and robed Mordek\u0331ai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, \u201cThus it is done to the man the sovereign delights to value.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Mordek\u0331ai went back to the sovereign\u2019s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with covered head."}, {"pk": 2719779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And when Haman related to his wife Zeresh and all his loved ones all that had befallen him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, \u201cIf Mordek\u0331ai, before whom you have begun to fall, is from the seed of the Yehud\u0331im, you are not going to prevail against him but certainly fall before him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "While they were still speaking with him, the sovereign\u2019s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the feast which Est\u0115r had prepared."}, {"pk": 2719781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the sovereign and Haman came in, to drink with Sovereigness Est\u0115r."}, {"pk": 2719782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And again on the second day, at the feast of wine, the sovereign said to Est\u0115r, \u201cWhat is your petition, Sovereigness Est\u0115r? And it is given to you. And what is your request? Up to half my reign, and it is done!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And Sovereigness Est\u0115r answered and said, \u201cIf I have found favour in your eyes, O sovereign, and if it pleases the sovereign, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request."}, {"pk": 2719784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor we have been sold, my people and I, to be cut off, to be killed, and to be destroyed. And if we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, although the adversary could not make up for the sovereign\u2019s loss.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh asked Sovereigness Est\u0115r, \u201cWho is he, and where is he, whose heart is set to do so?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And Est\u0115r said, \u201cThe adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!\u201d Then Haman was afraid before the sovereign and sovereigness."}, {"pk": 2719787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And the sovereign, arising in his wrath from the feast of wine, <i>went</i> into the palace garden. And Haman remained before Sovereigness Est\u0115r, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil had been decided against him by the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And when the sovereign returned from the palace garden to the place of the feast of wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Est\u0115r was. Then the sovereign said, \u201cAlso to ravish the sovereigness while I am in the house?\u201d As the word left the sovereign\u2019s mouth, they covered Haman\u2019s face."}, {"pk": 2719789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And H\u0323arb\u0331onah, one of the eunuchs, said to the sovereign, \u201cAlso, see the wood<i>en structure</i>, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordek\u0331ai, who spoke good on behalf of the sovereign, is standing at the house of Haman.\u201d And the sovereign said, \u201cImpale him on it!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And they hanged Haman on the wood<i>en structure</i> that he had prepared for Mordek\u0331ai, and the sovereign\u2019s wrath abated."}, {"pk": 2719791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "On that day Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh gave to Sovereigness Est\u0115r the house of Haman, the adversary of the Yehud\u0331im. And Mordek\u0331ai came before the sovereign, for Est\u0115r had explained what he was to her."}, {"pk": 2719792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordek\u0331ai. And Est\u0115r appointed Mordek\u0331ai over the house of Haman."}, {"pk": 2719793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And Est\u0115r spoke to the sovereign again, and fell down at his feet and begged him with tears to put an end to the evil of Haman the A\u1e21a\u1e21ite, and his plot which he had plotted against the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2719794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And the sovereign held out the golden sceptre toward Est\u0115r. And Est\u0115r arose and stood before the sovereign,"}, {"pk": 2719795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "and said, \u201cIf it pleases the sovereign, and if I have found favour in his sight and the matter is right before the sovereign and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters, the plot by Haman, son of Hammed\u0331atha the A\u1e21a\u1e21ite, which he wrote to destroy the Yehud\u0331im who are in all the sovereign\u2019s provinces."}, {"pk": 2719796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor how could I bear to see the evil coming to my people? Or how could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh said to Sovereigness Est\u0115r and Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i, \u201cLook, I have given Est\u0115r the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the wood<i>en structure</i> because he laid his hand on the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2719798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cNow you write on behalf of the Yehud\u0331im, as it pleases you, in the sovereign\u2019s name, and seal it with the sovereign\u2019s signet ring. For a letter which is written in the sovereign\u2019s name and sealed with the sovereign\u2019s signet ring no one turns back.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "So the sovereign\u2019s scribes were called at that time, in the third new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of Siwan, on the twenty-third day. And it was written, according to all that Mordek\u0331ai commanded to the Yehud\u0331im, and to the viceroys, and the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Kush, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province in its own writing, to every people in their own language, and to the Yehud\u0331im in their own writing, and in their own language."}, {"pk": 2719800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And he wrote in the name of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, and sealed it with the sovereign\u2019s signet ring, and sent letters by runners on horseback, riding on royal horses bred from speedy mares:"}, {"pk": 2719801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "That the sovereign has granted to the Yehud\u0331im who were in every city to be assembled and stand for their lives \u2014 to cut off, to kill, and to destroy all the power of the people or province that would distress them, little children and women, and to plunder their possessions,"}, {"pk": 2719802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "on one day in all the provinces of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar."}, {"pk": 2719803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "The copy of the writing to be made law in every province was announced to all the peoples, so that the Yehud\u0331im would be ready on that day to be avenged on their enemies."}, {"pk": 2719804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "The runners, riding on royal horses, went out, hastened and pressed on by the sovereign\u2019s command. And the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan."}, {"pk": 2719805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai went out from the presence of the sovereign wearing royal garments of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad."}, {"pk": 2719806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "For the Yehud\u0331im there was light and gladness and joy and value."}, {"pk": 2719807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And in every province and in every city where the sovereign\u2019s command and decree came, the Yehud\u0331im had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land were becoming Yehud\u0331im, for the fear of the Yehud\u0331im had fallen upon them."}, {"pk": 2719808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, that is, the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar, on the thirteenth day, when the sovereign\u2019s command and his decree came to be done, on the day that the enemies of the Yehud\u0331im had waited to overpower them, it turned around, so that the Yehud\u0331im overpowered those who hated them."}, {"pk": 2719809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im assembled in their cities, throughout all the provinces of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh to lay hands on those who sought their evil. And no one stood against them, because fear of them fell upon all people."}, {"pk": 2719810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the officials of the provinces, and the viceroys, and the governors, and all those doing the sovereign\u2019s work, helped the Yehud\u0331im, because the fear of Mordek\u0331ai fell upon them."}, {"pk": 2719811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "For Mordek\u0331ai was great in the palace of the sovereign, and his report spread into all the provinces, for this man Mordek\u0331ai became greater and greater."}, {"pk": 2719812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with killing and destruction, and did what they pleased to those who hated them."}, {"pk": 2719813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And in the citadel of Shushan the Yehud\u0331im killed and destroyed five hundred men."}, {"pk": 2719814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,"}, {"pk": 2719815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "and Poratha, and Ad\u0331alya, and Arid\u0331atha,"}, {"pk": 2719816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Arid\u0331ai, and Wayezatha,"}, {"pk": 2719817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "the ten sons of Haman son of Hammed\u0331atha, the enemy of the Yehud\u0331im, they killed. But they did not lay a hand on the plunder."}, {"pk": 2719818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "On that day the number of those who were killed in the citadel of Shushan came before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2719819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sovereign said to Sovereigness Est\u0115r, \u201cThe Yehud\u0331im have killed and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the sovereign\u2019s provinces? And what is your petition? And it is given to you. And what is your further request? And it is done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And Est\u0115r said, \u201cIf it pleases the sovereign, let it be given to the Yehud\u0331im who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow according to today\u2019s decree, and let Haman\u2019s ten sons be hanged on the wood<i>en structure</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And the sovereign commanded this to be done. And the decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged Haman\u2019s ten sons."}, {"pk": 2719822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im who were in Shushan also assembled on the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar and they killed three hundred men at Shushan. But they did not lay a hand on the plunder."}, {"pk": 2719823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And the rest of the Yehud\u0331im in the sovereign\u2019s provinces assembled and stood for their lives, and to get rest from their enemies, and to kill seventy-five thousand of their enemies. But they did not lay a hand on the plunder."}, {"pk": 2719824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>That was</i> on the thirteenth day of the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar, and on the fourteenth they rested in it and made it a day of feasting and gladness."}, {"pk": 2719825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "But the Yehud\u0331im who were at Shushan assembled on the thirteenth <i>day</i>, as well as on the fourteenth <i>day</i>. And on the fifteenth they rested in it, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."}, {"pk": 2719826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore the Yehud\u0331im of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns were making the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar a good day of gladness and feasting, and for sending portions to one another."}, {"pk": 2719827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai wrote these matters and sent letters to all the Yehud\u0331im who were in all the provinces of Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, both near and far,"}, {"pk": 2719828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "to establish among them, to perform the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the new <i>moon</i> of Ad\u0331ar, yearly,", "comment": "To memorialise."}, {"pk": 2719829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "as the days on which the Yehud\u0331im had rest from their enemies, as the new <i>moon</i> which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending portions to one another and gifts to the poor."}, {"pk": 2719830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordek\u0331ai had written to them,"}, {"pk": 2719831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "because Haman, son of Hammed\u0331atha the A\u1e21a\u1e21ite, the adversary of all the Yehud\u0331im, had plotted against the Yehud\u0331im to destroy them, and had cast Pur \u2014 that is, the lot \u2014 to crush them and to destroy them."}, {"pk": 2719832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "But when she came before the sovereign, he commanded by letter that his evil plot which Haman had plotted against the Yehud\u0331im should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the wood<i>en structure</i>."}, {"pk": 2719833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "Therefore they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had come upon them,"}, {"pk": 2719834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "the Yehud\u0331im established and imposed it upon themselves and upon their seed and all who should join them, that without fail they should <i>perform</i> these two days every year, according to their writing and at their appointed time,", "comment": "To memorialise."}, {"pk": 2719835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "and that these days should be remembered and performed throughout every generation, every clan, every province, and every city, and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Yehud\u0331im, and that the remembrance of them should not cease from their seed.", "comment": "To memorialise."}, {"pk": 2719836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And Sovereigness Est\u0115r, the daughter of Ab\u0331ih\u0323ayil, with Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter about Purim."}, {"pk": 2719837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And Mordek\u0331ai sent letters to all the Yehud\u0331im, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the reign of Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, words of peace and truth,"}, {"pk": 2719838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i and Sovereigness Est\u0115r had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and their seed concerning matters of their fastings and lamenting."}, {"pk": 2719839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "And the decree of Est\u0115r established these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book."}, {"pk": 2719840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh laid compulsory labour on the land and the islands of the sea."}, {"pk": 2719841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And all the acts of his power and his might, and the exact account of the greatness of Mordek\u0331ai, with which the sovereign made him great, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Media and Persia?"}, {"pk": 2719842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 17, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "For Mordek\u0331ai the Yehud\u0331i was second to Sovereign Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, and great among the Yehud\u0331im and pleasing to his many brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his seed."}, {"pk": 2718028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "There was a man in the land of Uts, whose name was Iyob\u0331. And that man was perfect and straight, and one who feared Elohim and turned aside from evil."}, {"pk": 2718029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And seven sons and three daughters were born to him."}, {"pk": 2718030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large body of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East."}, {"pk": 2718031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And his sons went and had a feast in the house of each on his day, and sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them."}, {"pk": 2718032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, when the days of feasting had gone round, that Iyob\u0331 would send and set them apart, and he would rise early in the morning and offer ascending offerings \u2014 the number of them all \u2014 for Iyob\u0331 said, \u201cIt might be that my sons have sinned and cursed Elohim in their hearts.\u201d This Iyob\u0331 always did."}, {"pk": 2718033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And the day came to be that the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and Satan also came among them."}, {"pk": 2718034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cFrom where do you come?\u201d And Satan answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cFrom diligently searching in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cHave you considered My servant Iyob\u0331, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and straight man, one who fears Elohim and turns aside from evil?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And Satan answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cIs Iyob\u0331 fearing Elohim for naught?"}, {"pk": 2718037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHave You not made a hedge around him, and around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land."}, {"pk": 2718038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "But stretch out Your hand, please, and strike all that he has \u2014 if he would not curse You to Your face!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cSee, all that he has is in your hand. Only do not lay a hand on himself.\u201d And Satan went out from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2718040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And the day came to be when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born."}, {"pk": 2718041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And a messenger came to Iyob\u0331 and said, \u201cThe oxen were ploughing and the donkeys feeding alongside them,"}, {"pk": 2718042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "when Sheb\u0331a fell upon them and took them away, and they struck the servants with the edge of the sword. And I alone have escaped to inform you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "While he was still speaking, another also came and said, \u201cThe fire of Elohim fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them. And I alone have escaped to inform you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "While he was still speaking, another also came and said, \u201cThe Kasdim formed three bands, and made a raid on the camels and took them away, and they struck the servants with the edge of the sword. And I alone have escaped to inform you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "While he was still speaking, another also came and said, \u201cYour sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born,"}, {"pk": 2718046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "and see, a great wind came from the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. And I alone have escaped to inform you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Then Iyob\u0331 rose up and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and did obeisance."}, {"pk": 2718048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And he said, \u201cNaked I came from my mother\u2019s womb, and naked I return there. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has taken away. Blessed be the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "In all this Iyob\u0331 did not sin nor ascribe wrong-doing unto Elohim."}, {"pk": 2718050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Again the day came to be that the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and Satan also came among them to present himself before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2718051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cFrom where do you come?\u201d And Satan answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cFrom diligently searching in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cHave you considered My servant Iyob\u0331, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and straight man, one who fears Elohim and turns aside from evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And Satan answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cSkin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life!"}, {"pk": 2718054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut stretch out Your hand, please, and strike his bone and his flesh \u2014 if he would not curse You to Your face!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201cSee, he is in your hand, only spare his life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And Satan went out from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and struck Iyob\u0331 with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head."}, {"pk": 2718057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes."}, {"pk": 2718058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And his wife said to him, \u201cDo you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse Elohim and die!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "But he said to her, \u201cYou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we accept <i>only</i> good from Elohim, and not accept evil?\u201d In all this Iyob\u0331 did not sin with his lips."}, {"pk": 2718060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And three of the friends of Iyob\u0331 heard of all this evil that came on him, and each one came from his own place \u2014 Eliphaz the T\u0115manite, and Bildad\u0331 the Shuh\u0323ite, and Tsophar the Na\u201bamathite \u2014 and they met together to come to sympathise with him and to comfort him."}, {"pk": 2718061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognise him, and they lifted their voices and wept. And each one tore his robe and sprinkled dust on his head toward the heavens."}, {"pk": 2718062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that the pain was very great."}, {"pk": 2718063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "After this Iyob\u0331 opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth."}, {"pk": 2718064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 spoke, and said,"}, {"pk": 2718065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLet the day perish on which I was born, and the night it was said, \u2018A male child has been conceived.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Let that day be darkness. Let not Eloah from above seek for it, nor let light shine upon it."}, {"pk": 2718067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Let darkness and the shadow of death buy it back, let a cloud dwell on it, let all that blackens the day frighten it."}, {"pk": 2718068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "That night \u2014 let darkness seize it. Let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months."}, {"pk": 2718069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Look, let that night be silent! Let no singing come into it!"}, {"pk": 2718070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Liwiathan."}, {"pk": 2718071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it wait for light, but have none. And let it not see the eyelashes of the dawn."}, {"pk": 2718072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "For it did not shut up the doors of my mother\u2019s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes."}, {"pk": 2718073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Why did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?"}, {"pk": 2718074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Why were there knees to receive me? Or breasts for me to suck?"}, {"pk": 2718075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "For now I would have been lying in peace. I would have slept \u2014 then I would have been at rest,"}, {"pk": 2718076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "with sovereigns and counsellors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves,"}, {"pk": 2718077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver,"}, {"pk": 2718078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?"}, {"pk": 2718079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "There the wrong cease raging, and there the weary are at rest,"}, {"pk": 2718080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "the prisoners rest together, they do not hear the voice of the oppressor."}, {"pk": 2718081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master."}, {"pk": 2718082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "Why does He give light to the sufferer, and life to the bitter of being,"}, {"pk": 2718083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "who are waiting for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than treasures;"}, {"pk": 2718084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "who rejoice exceedingly, they are glad when they find the burial-site?"}, {"pk": 2718085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "Why does He give light to a man whose way has been hidden, and whom Eloah has hedged in?"}, {"pk": 2718086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings pour out like water."}, {"pk": 2718087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "For that which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I dreaded has overtaken me."}, {"pk": 2718088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "I have not been at ease, nor have I been undisturbed, nor been at rest, yet trouble comes!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And Eliphaz the T\u0115manite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIf one tries a word with you, would you become impatient? But who is able to withhold himself from speaking?"}, {"pk": 2718091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "See, you have instructed many, and you have made weak hands strong."}, {"pk": 2718092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Your words have raised up him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak knees."}, {"pk": 2718093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it strikes you, and you are troubled."}, {"pk": 2718094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Is not your reverence your trust, the integrity of ways your expectancy?"}, {"pk": 2718095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Remember, please: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? And where have the straight ones ever been cut off?"}, {"pk": 2718096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "According to what I have seen, those who plough wickedness and sow suffering reap the same."}, {"pk": 2718097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Through the breath of Eloah they perish, and through the Spirit of His nostrils they are consumed."}, {"pk": 2718098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, but the teeth of the young lions shall be broken."}, {"pk": 2718099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "An old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered."}, {"pk": 2718100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And unto me a word was secretly brought, and my ear received a little of it."}, {"pk": 2718101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,"}, {"pk": 2718102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "fear came upon me, and trembling, causing my bones to shake greatly."}, {"pk": 2718103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Then a spirit passed before my face, the hair on my body stood up."}, {"pk": 2718104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes \u2014 silence, then a voice I heard,"}, {"pk": 2718105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Is mortal man more righteous than Eloah? Is man more clean than his Maker?"}, {"pk": 2718106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "Look, He puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His messengers with straying."}, {"pk": 2718107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?"}, {"pk": 2718108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "From morning till evening they are beaten down, they perish forever, with no one regarding."}, {"pk": 2718109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Are not the cords of their tents pulled up? They die, without wisdom!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cCall out, please, is there anyone to answer you? And to which of the set-apart ones would you turn?"}, {"pk": 2718111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple."}, {"pk": 2718112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly his home was cursed."}, {"pk": 2718113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver."}, {"pk": 2718114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the snare snaps up their wealth."}, {"pk": 2718115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground;"}, {"pk": 2718116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward."}, {"pk": 2718117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "But as for me, I would seek \u011al, and I would submit my case to Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2718118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "who is doing great and unsearchable deeds, innumerable wonders,"}, {"pk": 2718119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "who is giving rain on the earth\u2019s face, and is sending waters on the field\u2019s face;"}, {"pk": 2718120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "to set the lowly on high, and those who mourn shall be lifted to safety,"}, {"pk": 2718121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "thwarting the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands do not work effectively;"}, {"pk": 2718122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "catching the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of schemers are swept away."}, {"pk": 2718123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "By day they encounter darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night."}, {"pk": 2718124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the clutches of the strong."}, {"pk": 2718125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus the poor have expectancy, and unrighteousness shuts her mouth."}, {"pk": 2718126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Look, blessed is the man whom Eloah does reprove, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/12'>3:12</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/12/6-8'>12:6-8</a>"}, {"pk": 2718127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "For He bruises, but He binds up; He smites, but His hands heal.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/32/42'>32:42</a>; Lam. <a href='/TS2009/25/3/31'>3:31</a>, <a href='/TS2009/25/3/32'>32</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/6/1'>6:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2718128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "In six distresses He delivers you, and in seven no evil strikes you."}, {"pk": 2718129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "In scarcity of food He shall redeem you from death, and in battle from the power of the sword."}, {"pk": 2718130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "When the tongue scourges you are shielded, and you have no fear when destruction comes."}, {"pk": 2718131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "At destruction and at starvation you laugh, and you have no fear of the beasts of the earth."}, {"pk": 2718132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "For your covenant is with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you."}, {"pk": 2718133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And you shall know that your tent is in peace, and shall visit your tent and not sin,"}, {"pk": 2718134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "and shall know that your seed are many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth."}, {"pk": 2718135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "You shall come to the burial-site in ripe old age, like the stacking of grain in its season."}, {"pk": 2718136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "Look, this we have searched out, it is so. Hear it, and know for yourself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity be placed on the scales!"}, {"pk": 2718139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "For it would outweigh the sand of the sea, therefore my words have been rash."}, {"pk": 2718140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me."}, {"pk": 2718141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass, or does the ox bellow over its fodder?"}, {"pk": 2718142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there any flavour in the juice of mallows?"}, {"pk": 2718143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "I refuse to touch it, they are like food when I am sick."}, {"pk": 2718144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Oh that I might have my desire, that Eloah would grant me what I long for!"}, {"pk": 2718145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "That it would please Eloah to crush me, loose His hand and cut me off!"}, {"pk": 2718146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "Then I would still have comfort, and I would rejoice in pain, though not spared, for I have not hidden the words of the Set-apart One."}, {"pk": 2718147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "What strength do I have, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?"}, {"pk": 2718148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh of bronze?"}, {"pk": 2718149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Is my help not within me? And is ability driven from me?"}, {"pk": 2718150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "To him who is afflicted: loving-commitment, even the one leaving the fear of the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2718151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "My brothers are as undependable as a wadi, as a bed on which streams once ran,"}, {"pk": 2718152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "which are dark because of the ice, in which the snow is hidden."}, {"pk": 2718153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "When it is warm, they cease to flow; when it is hot, they vanish from their place."}, {"pk": 2718154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "The paths of their way turn aside, they enter wastes and perish."}, {"pk": 2718155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "Passengers of T\u0115ma looked expectantly, travellers of Sheb\u0331a waited for them."}, {"pk": 2718156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "They were ashamed because they had trusted, they came there and were disappointed."}, {"pk": 2718157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Indeed, you have now become the same! You see <i>my</i> downfall and are afraid."}, {"pk": 2718158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "Did I ever say, \u2018Give to me\u2019? or, \u2018Offer a bribe for me from your wealth\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "or, \u2018Rescue me from the hand of the enemy?\u2019 or, \u2018Redeem me from the hand of oppressors\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "Teach me, and I shall be silent. And show me where I have gone astray."}, {"pk": 2718161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "Words of uprightness are harsh! But what does your reproving reprove?"}, {"pk": 2718162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "Do you reckon to reprove my words, and the sayings of one in despair, which are as wind?"}, {"pk": 2718163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "You would cast lots over the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend!"}, {"pk": 2718164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "But now, please look at me \u2014 whether I would lie to your face."}, {"pk": 2718165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "Relent, please, let there be no unrighteousness. Relent! My righteousness is still in it."}, {"pk": 2718166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "Is there unrighteousness on my tongue? Does my taste not discern what is perverse?"}, {"pk": 2718167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDoes not man have to struggle on earth? For his days are like the days of a hired man."}, {"pk": 2718168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Like a servant who sighs for the shade, and like a hireling longing for his wages,"}, {"pk": 2718169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "so am I allotted months of futility. And nights of trouble have been appointed to me."}, {"pk": 2718170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "When I lie down, I say, \u2018When am I going to rise, and the night be ended?\u2019 For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn."}, {"pk": 2718171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "My body is covered with worms and dirt, my skin is cracked and it festers."}, {"pk": 2718172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "My days are swifter than a weaver\u2019s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy."}, {"pk": 2718173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "Remember that my life is a breath! My eye is never again to see good."}, {"pk": 2718174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "The eye of him who sees me sees me no longer. Your eyes are upon me, and I am no more."}, {"pk": 2718175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "The cloud fades and vanishes away, so he who goes down to She\u2019ol does not come up."}, {"pk": 2718176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "He returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more."}, {"pk": 2718177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "I also, I do not hold my mouth, I speak in the distress of my spirit, I complain in the bitterness of my being."}, {"pk": 2718178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that You set a guard over me?"}, {"pk": 2718179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "When I say, \u2018My bed does comfort me, my couch does ease my complaint,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "then You frighten me with dreams and make me afraid with visions,"}, {"pk": 2718181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "so that my being chooses strangling, death rather than my bones."}, {"pk": 2718182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath."}, {"pk": 2718183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "What is man, that You should make him great, that You should set Your heart on him,"}, {"pk": 2718184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "that You should visit him every morning, trying him every moment?"}, {"pk": 2718185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "How long do You not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my saliva?"}, {"pk": 2718186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O Watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, so that I am a burden to You?"}, {"pk": 2718187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my crookedness? For now I lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me, but I am not.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And Bildad\u0331 the Shuh\u0323ite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHow long are you going to speak like this, since the words of your mouth are a strong wind?"}, {"pk": 2718190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Does \u011al twist right-ruling? Or does the Almighty twist what is right?"}, {"pk": 2718191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "If your sons have sinned against Him, and He delivers them into the hand of their transgression,"}, {"pk": 2718192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "if you diligently seek \u011al and plead with the Almighty,"}, {"pk": 2718193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "if you were clear and straight, then indeed He would awake for you, and shall bless your righteous dwelling place."}, {"pk": 2718194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase."}, {"pk": 2718195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "Indeed, please ask the former generation, and prepare for the research of their fathers,"}, {"pk": 2718196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow."}, {"pk": 2718197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "Do they not teach you, speak to you, and bring forth words from their heart?"}, {"pk": 2718198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "Does papyrus grow without a marsh, a reed thrive without water?"}, {"pk": 2718199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "While it is yet green, not cut down, it dries out before any plant."}, {"pk": 2718200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "So are the paths of all who forget \u011al, and the expectancy of a defiled one does perish,"}, {"pk": 2718201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "whose refuge is cut off, and whose trust is a spider\u2019s web."}, {"pk": 2718202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not last."}, {"pk": 2718203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "He is moist before the sun, and his branches spread out in his garden."}, {"pk": 2718204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "His roots wrap around a heap, and look for a place in the stones."}, {"pk": 2718205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: \u2018I have not seen you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "See, this is the joy of His way, and out of the dust others grow."}, {"pk": 2718207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "See, \u011al does not cast away the perfect, neither hold the hand of evil-doers."}, {"pk": 2718208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "While He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing,"}, {"pk": 2718209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "those hating you put on shame, and the tent of the wrong is no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTruly I know it is so. But how is man right with Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2718212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "If one wished to dispute with Him, he would not answer Him one time out of a thousand."}, {"pk": 2718213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "Wise in heart and potent of power \u2014 who has hardened himself against Him and is at peace?"}, {"pk": 2718214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "He who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when He overturns them in His displeasure;"}, {"pk": 2718215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "who shakes the earth out of its place, and its columns tremble;"}, {"pk": 2718216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "who commands the sun, and it does not rise; and He seals up the stars,"}, {"pk": 2718217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "stretching out the heavens by Himself, and treading upon the waves of the sea;"}, {"pk": 2718218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "who made Ash, Kesil, and Kimah, and the rooms of the south;"}, {"pk": 2718219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "who performs great and unsearchable deeds, and innumerable wonders."}, {"pk": 2718220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "Look, He goes by me, and I do not see; and He moves past, but I do not discern Him."}, {"pk": 2718221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "Look, He snatches away, who brings it back? Who says to Him, \u2018What are You doing?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "Eloah does not turn back His displeasure, the helpers of pride stoop under Him."}, {"pk": 2718223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "How much less would I answer Him, choose my words with Him?"}, {"pk": 2718224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "For though I were righteous, I would not answer Him. I pray to Him for my right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "Though I had called and He answered me, I would not believe that He was listening to my voice."}, {"pk": 2718226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "For He crushes me with a storm, and has multiplied my wounds for no cause."}, {"pk": 2718227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "He does not allow me to recover my breath, but fills me with bitterness."}, {"pk": 2718228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "If <i>I speak</i> of power? Look, He is potent. And if of right-ruling? Who sets me a time?"}, {"pk": 2718229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse."}, {"pk": 2718230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Am I perfect? Do I not know my own being? I despise my life!"}, {"pk": 2718231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "It is all the same, therefore I say, \u2018He destroys the perfect and the wrong.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the trial of the innocent."}, {"pk": 2718233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "Earth has been given into the hand of the wrong. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?"}, {"pk": 2718234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "My days have become swifter than a runner \u2014 they have fled, they have not seen good."}, {"pk": 2718235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "They have passed by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey."}, {"pk": 2718236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "If I say, \u2018Let me forget my complaint, let me put off my sad face, and let me smile,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "I shall be afraid of all my sufferings. I know that You do not hold me innocent."}, {"pk": 2718238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "If I am wrong, why should I labour in vain?"}, {"pk": 2718239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "If I washed myself with snow water, and cleansed my hands with soap,"}, {"pk": 2718240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "then You would plunge me into a ditch, and my garments shall abhor me."}, {"pk": 2718241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "For <i>He is</i> not a man as I am that I answer Him, and we come together into right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both."}, {"pk": 2718243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His dread frighten me."}, {"pk": 2718244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "<i>Then</i> I would speak and not fear Him, for I am not so within myself."}, {"pk": 2718245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cMy being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being."}, {"pk": 2718246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "I say to Eloah, \u2018Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me."}, {"pk": 2718247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?"}, {"pk": 2718248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?"}, {"pk": 2718249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,"}, {"pk": 2718250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "that You should seek for my crookedness and search out my sin?"}, {"pk": 2718251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand."}, {"pk": 2718252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around, yet You destroy me."}, {"pk": 2718253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?"}, {"pk": 2718254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?"}, {"pk": 2718255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Skin and flesh you put on me, and wove me with bones and sinews."}, {"pk": 2718256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Life and loving-commitment You have bestowed on me, and Your visitation has preserved my spirit."}, {"pk": 2718257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And these You have laid up in Your heart, I know that this was with You:"}, {"pk": 2718258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "If I sin, then You watch me, and let no crookedness of mine go unpunished."}, {"pk": 2718259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I would not lift up my head \u2014 filled with shame and seeing my grief!"}, {"pk": 2718260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "If I lift it up high, you hunt me as a lion, and again You would show Yourself marvellous against me."}, {"pk": 2718261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your vexation toward me; changes and a host are with me."}, {"pk": 2718262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "So why have You brought me forth from the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!"}, {"pk": 2718263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "I should have been as though I had not been \u2014 brought from the womb to the burial-site."}, {"pk": 2718264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,"}, {"pk": 2718265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,"}, {"pk": 2718266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And Tsophar the Na\u201bamathite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cShould a multitude of words go unanswered? And should a man of lips be declared right?"}, {"pk": 2718269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "Should your babblings silence men? And should you mock, and no one make you ashamed?"}, {"pk": 2718270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "Since you have said, \u2018My discourse is flawless, and I have been clean in Your eyes.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "But if only Eloah would speak, and open His lips against you,"}, {"pk": 2718272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "and show you the secrets of wisdom, doubling your ability. Know then that Eloah forgets <i>some</i> of your crookedness for you."}, {"pk": 2718273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Would you find out Eloah by searching, or search out the end of the Almighty?"}, {"pk": 2718274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "It is higher than the heavens \u2014 what would you do? Deeper than She\u2019ol \u2014 what would you know?"}, {"pk": 2718275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "Their measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea."}, {"pk": 2718276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "If He passes through and shuts up, and gathers, then who does reverse it?"}, {"pk": 2718277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "For He knows false men. When He sees wickedness does He not consider it?"}, {"pk": 2718278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "But a senseless man takes heart when a wild donkey\u2019s colt is born a man!"}, {"pk": 2718279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "If you would prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him;"}, {"pk": 2718280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "if wickedness were in your hand, put it far away and do not let perverseness dwell in your tents;"}, {"pk": 2718281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "then indeed you shall lift up your face without spot; and you shall stand firm, and not be afraid,"}, {"pk": 2718282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "because you would forget sorrow, and remember it as waters that have passed away,"}, {"pk": 2718283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "and your life would be brighter than noon. You would soar upward, you would be like the morning."}, {"pk": 2718284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And you shall trust, because there is expectancy. And when you have searched you shall lie down in safety."}, {"pk": 2718285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And you shall rest, and no one would make you afraid, and many shall seek your favour."}, {"pk": 2718286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTruly you are the people, and wisdom would die with you!"}, {"pk": 2718289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "But I, like you, have a heart too; I am not less than you. And who does not know such as these?"}, {"pk": 2718290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "I have become a laughing-stock to my friends \u2014 one who has called on Eloah and He answered him! A laughing-stock is the righteous, the perfect one!"}, {"pk": 2718291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease \u2014 prepared for those whose feet slip."}, {"pk": 2718292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke \u011al are complacent, to him who brings Eloah into his hand!"}, {"pk": 2718293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "But now ask the beasts, and they teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they declare it to you;"}, {"pk": 2718294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "or speak to the earth, and it teaches you; and the fish of the sea inform you."}, {"pk": 2718295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Who among all these does not know that the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done this,"}, {"pk": 2718296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "in whose hand is the life of all that live, and the breath of all mankind?"}, {"pk": 2718297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "Does the ear not try words? And the mouth taste food for itself?"}, {"pk": 2718298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "With the aged is wisdom, and understanding with length of days."}, {"pk": 2718299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "With Him are wisdom and might, He has counsel and understanding."}, {"pk": 2718300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "Look, He breaks down, and it is not rebuilt. If He imprisons a man, there is no release."}, {"pk": 2718301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "Look, He withholds the waters, and they dry up. And He sends them out, and they overwhelm the earth."}, {"pk": 2718302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "With Him are strength and ability. The misled and the misleader are His."}, {"pk": 2718303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "He leads counsellors away stripped, and makes judges go mad."}, {"pk": 2718304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "He loosens the bonds of sovereigns, and binds a girdle on their loins;"}, {"pk": 2718305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "who leads away priests as a spoil, and overthrows the mighty;"}, {"pk": 2718306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "turning aside the lip of the trusted ones, and takes away the discernment of the elders;"}, {"pk": 2718307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "pouring scorn on nobles, and loosens the girdle of the strong;"}, {"pk": 2718308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "revealing deep <i>matters</i> out of darkness, and He brings the shadow of death to light;"}, {"pk": 2718309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "making nations great, and He destroys them; spreading out the nations, and He leads them out."}, {"pk": 2718310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "turning aside the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and He makes them wander in a pathless waste."}, {"pk": 2718311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "They grope in darkness, having no light, and He makes them stagger like a drunkard."}, {"pk": 2718312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cLook, my eye has seen it all, my ear has heard and understood it."}, {"pk": 2718313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "What you know, I know too; I am not less than you."}, {"pk": 2718314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "But I would speak to the Almighty, and I delight to reason with \u011al."}, {"pk": 2718315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "But you smear with falsehood, worthless healers, all of you!"}, {"pk": 2718316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "If you would only be silent, then it would be your wisdom!"}, {"pk": 2718317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "Please hear my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips."}, {"pk": 2718318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "Would you speak perversely for \u011al, and speak deceit for Him?"}, {"pk": 2718319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "Would you be partial towards Him? Would you plead for \u011al?"}, {"pk": 2718320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "Would it be well when He searches you out? Or could you deceive Him as one deceives a man?"}, {"pk": 2718321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "He would certainly reprove you if you secretly show partiality."}, {"pk": 2718322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "Should not His excellence make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?"}, {"pk": 2718323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "Your weighty sayings are proverbs of ashes, your shields are shields of clay."}, {"pk": 2718324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "Be silent before me, and let me speak, and let whatever come upon me!"}, {"pk": 2718325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hands?"}, {"pk": 2718326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Though, He kills me \u2014 in Him I expect! But I show my ways to be right before Him."}, {"pk": 2718327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "He also is my deliverance, for a defiled one does not come before Him."}, {"pk": 2718328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "Listen closely to my words, and with your ears to what I say."}, {"pk": 2718329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Look, please, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right."}, {"pk": 2718330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "Who is he who would strive with me? For then I would keep silent and die."}, {"pk": 2718331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "Only two <i>matters</i> do not do to me, then I am not hidden from Your face:"}, {"pk": 2718332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not dread of You make me afraid."}, {"pk": 2718333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "Then call, and let me answer; or let me speak, and You reply to me."}, {"pk": 2718334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "How many are my crookednesses and sins? Let me know my transgression and my sin."}, {"pk": 2718335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?"}, {"pk": 2718336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "Would You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And would You pursue dry stubble?"}, {"pk": 2718337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "For You write bitter <i>charges</i> against me, and make me inherit the crookednesses of my youth,"}, {"pk": 2718338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "and put my feet in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet."}, {"pk": 2718339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "And he, like that which is rotten, wastes away, as a garment that is moth-eaten."}, {"pk": 2718340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cMan born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled."}, {"pk": 2718341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue."}, {"pk": 2718342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "Yet on such a one You open Your eyes, and bring me to right-ruling with Yourself!"}, {"pk": 2718343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!"}, {"pk": 2718344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "Since his days are decided, the number of his new <i>moons</i> is with You, You have made his laws, and he does not pass over."}, {"pk": 2718345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "Look away from him and let him rest, till like a hired man he enjoys his day."}, {"pk": 2718346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "For there is expectancy for a tree, if it is cut down, that it does sprout again, and that its tender branch does not cease."}, {"pk": 2718347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,"}, {"pk": 2718348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "at the scent of water it buds and brings forth foliage like a plant."}, {"pk": 2718349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "But man dies and is powerless, and man expires, and where is he?"}, {"pk": 2718350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "Water disappears from the sea, and a river dries up and is parched,"}, {"pk": 2718351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "and man shall lie down and not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they awake not, nor are aroused from their sleep."}, {"pk": 2718352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "If only You would hide me in She\u2019ol, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set for me a law, and remember me!"}, {"pk": 2718353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "If a man dies, would he live again? All the days of my struggle I wait, till my change comes."}, {"pk": 2718354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "You would call, and I would answer You. You have yearned for the work of Your hands."}, {"pk": 2718355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "For now You count my steps \u2014 do You not watch over my sin?"}, {"pk": 2718356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my crookedness."}, {"pk": 2718357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "But a falling mountain crumbles away, and a rock is moved from its place,"}, {"pk": 2718358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "as water wears away stones, its outpouring washes away the soil of the earth \u2014 so You have destroyed the expectancy of man."}, {"pk": 2718359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "You overpower him, forever, and he is gone \u2014 his face changes and You send him away."}, {"pk": 2718360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "His sons come to esteem, and he does not know it. And they are brought low, and he does not perceive it."}, {"pk": 2718361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "He feels only the pain of his flesh, and he mourns over himself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And Eliphaz the T\u0115manite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWould a wise man answer with vain knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?"}, {"pk": 2718364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "Would he reason with useless talk, or by speeches with which do not profit?"}, {"pk": 2718365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before \u011al."}, {"pk": 2718366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "For your crookedness teaches your mouth <i>what to say</i>, and you choose the tongue of the crafty."}, {"pk": 2718367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "Not I, but your own mouth condemns you. And your own lips witness against you."}, {"pk": 2718368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "Were you the first one born? Or were you made before the hills?"}, {"pk": 2718369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "Have you heard the secret counsel of Eloah? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?"}, {"pk": 2718370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "What do you know that we do not know \u2014 understand, that is not within us?"}, {"pk": 2718371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "Both the grey-haired and the aged are among us, much older than your father."}, {"pk": 2718372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "Are the comforts of \u011al not enough for you \u2014 and a word that deals gently with you?"}, {"pk": 2718373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "What have you taken to heart? And why do your eyes flash?"}, {"pk": 2718374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "That you should turn your spirit against \u011al, and let <i>such</i> words go out of your mouth?"}, {"pk": 2718375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "What is man, that he should be clean? And one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"}, {"pk": 2718376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "Look, He puts no trust in His set-apart ones, and the heavens are not clean in His eyes,"}, {"pk": 2718377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!"}, {"pk": 2718378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "Let me show you \u2014 hear me \u2014 and this I have seen and declare,"}, {"pk": 2718379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "which the wise declare, and have not hidden from their fathers,"}, {"pk": 2718380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "to them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed over into their midst:"}, {"pk": 2718381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "All the days of the wrong one he is paining himself, and few years have been stored up for the ruthless."}, {"pk": 2718382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "A frightening sound is in his ears; in peace a destroyer comes to him."}, {"pk": 2718383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "He believes not to return from darkness, and he is reserved for the sword."}, {"pk": 2718384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "He wanders about for food \u2014 where is it? He knows that a day of darkness is prepared for him."}, {"pk": 2718385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "Distress and pain frighten him \u2014 they overwhelm him, like a sovereign ready for the attack."}, {"pk": 2718386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "Because he has stretched out his hand against \u011al, and acts mightily against the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2718387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "He runs against Him defiantly, with thick-bossed shields."}, {"pk": 2718388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "For he has covered his face with his fatness, and he has put layers of fat on his loins."}, {"pk": 2718389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "But he dwells in ruined cities, in houses which no one lives in, which have been ready to become heaps."}, {"pk": 2718390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise, and his possessions shall not overspread the earth."}, {"pk": 2718391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "He does not turn away from darkness. The flame dries up his branches, and he turns aside by the breath of His mouth."}, {"pk": 2718392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "Let him not trust in falsehood, deceiving himself, for falsehood is his reward."}, {"pk": 2718393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "Before his day it is accomplished, and his branch shall not be green."}, {"pk": 2718394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "He shakes off his unripe grape like a vine, and throws off his blossom like an olive tree."}, {"pk": 2718395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "For the company of the defiled ones is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery."}, {"pk": 2718396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "They conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness, even their womb prepares deception.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI have heard many <i>matters</i> like these; all of you are comforters of trouble!"}, {"pk": 2718399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?"}, {"pk": 2718400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "I might also speak like you, if you were in my place. I might heap up words against you, and shake my head at you."}, {"pk": 2718401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "I might strengthen you with my mouth, and my moving lips might bring relief."}, {"pk": 2718402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, does it leave me?"}, {"pk": 2718403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "But now He has wearied me. You have stunned all my company."}, {"pk": 2718404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And You have plucked me, and it is a witness. And my failure rises up against me, it bears witness to my face."}, {"pk": 2718405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "He has torn in His wrath, and He hates me. He has gnashed at me with His teeth; my adversary sharpens His eyes upon me."}, {"pk": 2718406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "They open wide their mouths at me, in scorn they have stricken my cheeks, they mass themselves together against me."}, {"pk": 2718407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "\u011al has handed me over to the perverse, and cast me into the hands of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2718408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "I was at ease, but He broke me. And He took me by my neck and shattered me, and He has set me up for His target."}, {"pk": 2718409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "His archers surround me, He splits my kidneys in two and does not spare, He pours out my bile on the ground."}, {"pk": 2718410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "He made a breach in me, breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a mighty man."}, {"pk": 2718411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "I sewed sackcloth over my skin, and laid my horn in the dust."}, {"pk": 2718412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"}, {"pk": 2718413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere."}, {"pk": 2718414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry have no resting place!"}, {"pk": 2718415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "See, even now my witness is in the heavens, and my defender is on high."}, {"pk": 2718416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "My friends are they that scorn me; my eyes pour out tears to Eloah."}, {"pk": 2718417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "O that one might plead for a man with Eloah, as a man with his neighbour!"}, {"pk": 2718418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "When a few years are past, then I shall go the way of no return."}, {"pk": 2718419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cMy spirit has been broken, my days have been extinguished, burial-sites are for me."}, {"pk": 2718420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!"}, {"pk": 2718421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "Please lay down a pledge for me with Yourself. Who would strike hands with me?"}, {"pk": 2718422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them."}, {"pk": 2718423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "He who denounces friends for a share, even the eyes of his children shall fail."}, {"pk": 2718424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "But He has made me a byword of the people, whereas in former times I was as a drum."}, {"pk": 2718425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And from sorrow my eye has grown dim, and all my members are like shadows."}, {"pk": 2718426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "Upright ones are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the defiled one."}, {"pk": 2718427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger."}, {"pk": 2718428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you."}, {"pk": 2718429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off \u2014 the desires of my heart."}, {"pk": 2718430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "They would turn night into day, <i>saying</i> that light is near, in the presence of darkness!"}, {"pk": 2718431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "If I wait \u2014 She\u2019ol is my house, I shall make my bed in darkness,"}, {"pk": 2718432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "I shall say to corruption, \u2018You are my father,\u2019 \u2014 to the worm, \u2018You are my mother and my sister.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?"}, {"pk": 2718434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "Would it sink down into She\u2019ol? Would we together go down into the dust?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And Bildad\u0331 the Shuh\u0323ite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen do you put an end to words? Understand, and let us then talk."}, {"pk": 2718437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "Why should we be reckoned as beasts, as stupid in your eyes?"}, {"pk": 2718438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "You who tear yourself to pieces in displeasure \u2014 would the earth be forsaken for your sake? Or the rock move from its place?"}, {"pk": 2718439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "Indeed, the light of the wrong goes out, and the flame of his fire does not shine."}, {"pk": 2718440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp beside him is put out."}, {"pk": 2718441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "The steps of his strength are impeded, and his own counsel overthrows him."}, {"pk": 2718442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "For he is sent into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pit-fall."}, {"pk": 2718443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "The net seizes his heel, a snare prevails over him."}, {"pk": 2718444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "A noose is hidden on the ground for him, and a trap for him in the path."}, {"pk": 2718445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Alarms frighten him on all sides, and chase him at his heels."}, {"pk": 2718446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "His strength is starved, and calamity is ready at his side."}, {"pk": 2718447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "It devours parts of his skin, the first-born of death devours his parts."}, {"pk": 2718448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "He is torn from the shelter of his tent, and they parade him before the sovereign of alarms."}, {"pk": 2718449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered on his house."}, {"pk": 2718450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "His roots below dry up, and his branch is cut off above."}, {"pk": 2718451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "Remembrance of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name on the street."}, {"pk": 2718452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world."}, {"pk": 2718453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "He leaves no offspring or descendant among his people, nor any survivor in his dwellings."}, {"pk": 2718454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "Those in the west are astonished at his day, as those in the east are frightened."}, {"pk": 2718455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "Indeed, such are the dwellings of the perverse, and this is the place of him who does not know \u011al.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHow long would you grieve my life, and crush me with words?"}, {"pk": 2718458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "These ten times you have insulted me, shamelessly you attack me."}, {"pk": 2718459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "Even if I have truly gone astray, my straying remains with me."}, {"pk": 2718460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me, and plead against me my reproach,"}, {"pk": 2718461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "know then that Eloah has overthrown me, and has surrounded me with His net."}, {"pk": 2718462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "See, I cry, \u2018Violence!\u2019 but I am not heard. I cry aloud, but there is no right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "He has fenced up my way, and I pass not over. And He has placed darkness in my paths."}, {"pk": 2718464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "He has stripped me of my esteem, and taken the crown from my head."}, {"pk": 2718465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; and uproots my expectancy like a tree."}, {"pk": 2718466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And He kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies."}, {"pk": 2718467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "His companies come together, and they cast up their way against me, and encamp all around my tent."}, {"pk": 2718468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "He has removed my brothers far away from me, and my friends are completely estranged from me."}, {"pk": 2718469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "My near ones have fallen away, and my close friends have forgotten me."}, {"pk": 2718470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "The guests in my house, and my female servants, reckon me for a stranger \u2014 I am a foreigner in their eyes."}, {"pk": 2718471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "I have called my servant, but he gives no answer \u2014 I have to beg him with my mouth."}, {"pk": 2718472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "My spirit is strange to my wife, and my loving-commitment to the children of my own body."}, {"pk": 2718473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "Even young children have scorned me. I rise, and they speak against me."}, {"pk": 2718474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "All my intimate friends loathe me, and those whom I love have turned against me."}, {"pk": 2718475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth."}, {"pk": 2718476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "Show favour to me, show favour to me, O you my friends, for the hand of Eloah has struck me!"}, {"pk": 2718477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "Why do you persecute me like \u011al <i>does</i>, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"}, {"pk": 2718478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "Oh, that my words were written down! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book,"}, {"pk": 2718479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead, forever!"}, {"pk": 2718480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and as the Last shall rise over the dust;"}, {"pk": 2718481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "and after my skin has been struck off, then in my flesh I shall see Eloah,"}, {"pk": 2718482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "whom I myself shall see on my side, and not a stranger. My kidneys have failed within me!"}, {"pk": 2718483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "If you say, \u2018Why do we persecute him?\u2019 Seeing the root of the matter has been found in me,"}, {"pk": 2718484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "fear the sword yourselves, for wrath <i>brings</i> the punishment of the sword, so that you know there is a judgment.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Tsophar the Na\u201bamathite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTruly, my thoughts make me respond, even because of my haste within me."}, {"pk": 2718487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "I have listened to the reproof which insults me, and the spirit of my understanding makes me answer."}, {"pk": 2718488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "You have known this of old, since man was placed on earth,"}, {"pk": 2718489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?"}, {"pk": 2718490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Although his pride mounts up to the heavens, and his head does reach to the clouds,"}, {"pk": 2718491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him say, \u2018Where is he?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "He flies away like a dream, and is not found. And he is driven away like a vision of the night."}, {"pk": 2718493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "Eyes that saw him do so no more, nor does his place see him any more."}, {"pk": 2718494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "His sons seek the favour of the poor, and his hands give back his wealth."}, {"pk": 2718495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "His bones shall be filled with his youth, but it lies down with him in the dust."}, {"pk": 2718496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "Though evil is sweet in his mouth, he hides it under his tongue,"}, {"pk": 2718497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>though</i> he fondles it and does not forsake it, but still keeps it in his mouth,"}, {"pk": 2718498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "his food is turned in his stomach, the bitterness of cobras is in him."}, {"pk": 2718499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "He has swallowed down riches, then vomits them up \u2014 \u011al drives it out of his stomach."}, {"pk": 2718500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "He sucks the poison of cobras; the tongue of the poisonous snake kills him."}, {"pk": 2718501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "He looks not on streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream."}, {"pk": 2718502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "He is giving back what he laboured for, and does not eat it \u2014 like wealth from his trade, but he does not enjoy."}, {"pk": 2718503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "For he has oppressed, he has forsaken the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build."}, {"pk": 2718504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "For he shall not know ease in his innermost, neither save what he desires."}, {"pk": 2718505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "There is no left-over after he has eaten, therefore his good does not last."}, {"pk": 2718506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "With all his plenty he is in distress; the hand of every labourer comes against him."}, {"pk": 2718507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "It shall be, at the filling of his stomach, that He casts on him His burning wrath, and rains it down on him while he is eating."}, {"pk": 2718508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, a bronze bow pierce him through."}, {"pk": 2718509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "It is drawn, and comes out of the body, and the gleaming point comes out of his gall. Fears come upon him."}, {"pk": 2718510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "All darkness waits for his treasures. A fire not blown consumes him, it destroys what remains in his tent."}, {"pk": 2718511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "The heavens reveal his crookedness, and the earth rises up against him."}, {"pk": 2718512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "The increase of his house departs, flowing away in the day of His wrath."}, {"pk": 2718513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "This is the portion from Elohim for a wrong man, and the heritage \u011al has decreed for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cListen closely to my word, and let this be your comfort."}, {"pk": 2718516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "Bear with me and let me speak, and after I have spoken, keep mocking."}, {"pk": 2718517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "As for me, is my complaint against man? And why should I not be impatient?"}, {"pk": 2718518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "Look at me and be appalled, then put your hand on your mouth."}, {"pk": 2718519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And when I consider it I am frightened, and my body shudders."}, {"pk": 2718520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "Why do the wrong live, become old, and become mighty in power?", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/73/3'>73:3</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/73/17'>73:17</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/12/1'>12:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/12/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2718521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Their seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2718522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "Their houses are peace without fear, neither is the rod of Eloah upon them."}, {"pk": 2718523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "Their bull breeds and does not fail, their cow calves without miscarriage."}, {"pk": 2718524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance."}, {"pk": 2718525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "They sing to the tambourine and lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the flute."}, {"pk": 2718526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "They spend their days in goodness, and in a moment go down to She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2718527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And they say to \u011al, \u2018Turn aside from us, for we have no desire to know Your ways."}, {"pk": 2718528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "See, is their good not in their own hand? (The counsel of the wrong has been far from me)."}, {"pk": 2718530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "How often is the lamp of the wrong put out, and does come upon them their calamity, sorrows He allots in His displeasure?"}, {"pk": 2718531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm steals away."}, {"pk": 2718532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>You say</i>, \u2018Eloah stores up one\u2019s wickedness for his children.\u2019 Let Him repay him, so that he knows it."}, {"pk": 2718533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "Let his eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2718534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "For what is his delight in his house after him, when the number of his new <i>moons</i> is cut off?"}, {"pk": 2718535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "Does anyone teach \u011al knowledge, since He judges those that are exalted?"}, {"pk": 2718536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "One dies in his perfect strength, completely at ease and satisfied;"}, {"pk": 2718537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "His pails are filled with milk, and his bones are juicy with marrow."}, {"pk": 2718538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "Another one dies in the bitterness of his being, and never eats with pleasure."}, {"pk": 2718539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them."}, {"pk": 2718540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "Look, I know your thoughts, and the plots with which you would wrong me."}, {"pk": 2718541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "For you say, \u2018Where is the house of the noble one? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wrong ones?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?"}, {"pk": 2718543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "That the wicked is kept for the day of calamity. They are brought to the day of wrath."}, {"pk": 2718544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "Who declares his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?"}, {"pk": 2718545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "As for him, he is brought to the burial-site, and a watch is kept over the heap."}, {"pk": 2718546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "The clods of the wadi shall be sweet to him, and all men follow him, innumerable are those before him."}, {"pk": 2718547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing that perverseness remains in your answers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And Eliphaz the T\u0115manite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWould a strong man be of use to \u011al? Even he who is wise be of use to Him?"}, {"pk": 2718550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "Is it a delight to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or gain, that you make your ways perfect?"}, {"pk": 2718551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "Is it because of your fear of Him that He reproves you, or enters into right-ruling with you?"}, {"pk": 2718552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "Is not your evil great? And is there no end to your crookednesses?"}, {"pk": 2718553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "For you take pledges from your brother for naught, and strip the naked of their garments."}, {"pk": 2718554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "You do not give the weary water to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry."}, {"pk": 2718555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "But the man of strength, he has the earth, and the highly respected man dwells in it."}, {"pk": 2718556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed."}, {"pk": 2718557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear alarms you,"}, {"pk": 2718558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "or darkness, so that you do not see, and a flood of water covers you."}, {"pk": 2718559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "Is not Eloah in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!"}, {"pk": 2718560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And you have said, \u2018What does \u011al know? Would He judge through the dark cloud?"}, {"pk": 2718561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "Clouds screen Him, so that He does not see, and He moves about the circuit of the heavens.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Do you observe the old way which wicked men have trod,"}, {"pk": 2718563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?"}, {"pk": 2718564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "They said to \u011al, \u2018Turn aside from us!\u2019 And what did the Almighty do to them?"}, {"pk": 2718565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "Yet He filled their houses with the good! (But the counsel of the wrong has been far from me)."}, {"pk": 2718566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent mock at them <i>and say</i>,"}, {"pk": 2718567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "Truly, our adversaries are cut off, and fire has consumed their excess.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "Be of service to Him, and be at peace; thereby blessing shall come to you."}, {"pk": 2718569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "Please accept the Torah from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart."}, {"pk": 2718570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "If you return to the Almighty, you are built up. If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,"}, {"pk": 2718571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "and lay <i>your</i> gold in the dust, and <i>the gold of</i> Ophir among the stones of the wadis,"}, {"pk": 2718572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "then the Almighty shall be your gold and your silver, strength to you."}, {"pk": 2718573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "Then you shall certainly delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to Eloah,"}, {"pk": 2718574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "make your prayer to Him. And He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows."}, {"pk": 2718575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "And whatever you decide on shall be established for you, and light shine on your ways."}, {"pk": 2718576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "For they have made low, and you say, \u2018Up!\u2019 And He saves the lowly of eyes."}, {"pk": 2718577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "Would He deliver one who is not innocent? So by the cleanness of your hands you shall be delivered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cEven today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning."}, {"pk": 2718580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "If only I knew where to find Him, I would come to His dwelling-place!"}, {"pk": 2718581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with proofs."}, {"pk": 2718582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me."}, {"pk": 2718583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Would He contend with me in great power? No! But He would pay attention to me."}, {"pk": 2718584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "There the upright might reason with Him, and I would go safe forever from my Judge."}, {"pk": 2718585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "See, I go forward, but He is not; and backward, but I do not perceive Him;"}, {"pk": 2718586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "to the left where He is working, but I do not see; He turns to the right, but I do not see."}, {"pk": 2718587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "For He knows the way that I take. When He has tried me, I would come forth as gold."}, {"pk": 2718588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "My foot has held fast to His steps. I have guarded His way, and did not turn aside."}, {"pk": 2718589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "I have not strayed from the command of His lips. I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my <i>own</i> law."}, {"pk": 2718590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "But He is One, and who does turn Him? And He does whatever His being has desired."}, {"pk": 2718591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "For He makes complete my law, and many like these are with Him."}, {"pk": 2718592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore I am troubled at His presence; I consider, and I am afraid of Him."}, {"pk": 2718593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "For \u011al has made me faint-hearted, and the Almighty has alarmed me;"}, {"pk": 2718594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "because I was not cut off before darkness, and from my face He has covered the thick darkness."}, {"pk": 2718595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cTimes are not hidden from the Almighty, and why have not those who know Him seen His days?"}, {"pk": 2718596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "They remove landmarks; they rob and feed on flocks;"}, {"pk": 2718597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "they drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow\u2019s ox as a pledge;"}, {"pk": 2718598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "they turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together."}, {"pk": 2718599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "See, as wild donkeys in the wilderness they go about their tasks, eager seekers for prey; the desert <i>gives</i> his bread, for the children."}, {"pk": 2718600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "They reap his fodder in a field and they glean the vineyard of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2718601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "They spend the night naked, without a garment, and without covering in the cold."}, {"pk": 2718602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "They are wet with the showers of the hills, and have embraced a rock for lack of shelter."}, {"pk": 2718603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "They snatch away the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor;"}, {"pk": 2718604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "naked, they shall go about without a garment; and hungry, they shall take away sheaves."}, {"pk": 2718605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "They press out oil within their walls; winepresses they shall tread, yet suffer thirst."}, {"pk": 2718606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "Men groan in the city, and the beings of the wounded cry out, and Eloah does not regard it as foolish."}, {"pk": 2718607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "They have become rebels against the light; they have not known His ways nor remained in His paths."}, {"pk": 2718608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "The murderer rises at daylight, he kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief."}, {"pk": 2718609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And the eye of the adulterer watches for dusk, saying, \u2018No eye sees me.\u2019 And he puts a covering on the face."}, {"pk": 2718610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "In the dark he has broken into houses; by day they shut themselves up; they have not known light."}, {"pk": 2718611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "For all of them morning is the same as the shadow of death, when he discerns the extreme fears of the shadow of death."}, {"pk": 2718612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not turn into the way of vineyards."}, {"pk": 2718613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "Drought and heat snatch away snow waters \u2014 She\u2019ol <i>those who</i> have sinned."}, {"pk": 2718614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "The womb forgets him, the worm feeds sweetly on him; he is remembered no more, and wickedness is broken like a tree;"}, {"pk": 2718615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "treating evil the barren who does not bear, and does no good for the widow."}, {"pk": 2718616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "But He draws the mighty away with His power \u2014 He rises up, and no one is certain of life."}, {"pk": 2718617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "He gives him safety, and he leans on it; yet His eyes are on their ways."}, {"pk": 2718618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "They are lifted up for a little while, then they are gone, then they shall be brought low. Like all <i>else</i> they are gathered up, and they are cut off like the heads of grain."}, {"pk": 2718619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And if it is not so, who does prove me a liar, and make my word worthless?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And Bildad\u0331 the Shuh\u0323ite answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cRule and fear belong to Him, making peace in His high places."}, {"pk": 2718622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "Is there any number to His armies? And on whom does His light not rise?"}, {"pk": 2718623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "So how could man be righteous before \u011al? Or how could he be flawless who is born of a woman?"}, {"pk": 2718624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "See, even the moon does not shine, and the stars have not been flawless in His eyes,"}, {"pk": 2718625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "how much less man, a maggot, and a son of man, a worm?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered and said,"}, {"pk": 2718627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHow have you helped the powerless, saved an arm not strong?"}, {"pk": 2718628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "How have you given counsel to the unwise, or declared sound advice to many?"}, {"pk": 2718629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "With whom have you spoken words? And whose spirit came from you?"}, {"pk": 2718630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "The dead wait \u2014 those under the waters and those inhabiting them."}, {"pk": 2718631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "She\u2019ol is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering."}, {"pk": 2718632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>He it was</i> who stretched out the north over emptiness, hanging the earth upon space,"}, {"pk": 2718633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "binding up waters in His thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn under them,"}, {"pk": 2718634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "covering the surface of His throne, spreading His cloud over it."}, {"pk": 2718635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "A law of encirclement on the face of the waters \u2014 until the end of light with darkness."}, {"pk": 2718636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "The columns of the heavens tremble, and are stunned at His reproof."}, {"pk": 2718637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "By His power He has calmed the sea, and by His understanding He struck down Rahab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2718638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "By His Spirit He adorned the heavens. His hand whirled the fleeing serpent."}, {"pk": 2718639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "See, these are the fringes of His ways, and how little a matter is heard of Him! And who understands the thunder of His power?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 again took up his discourse, and said,"}, {"pk": 2718641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAs \u011al lives, who has turned aside my right-ruling, and the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,"}, {"pk": 2718642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of Eloah in my nostrils,"}, {"pk": 2718643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "my lips do not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit."}, {"pk": 2718644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "Far be it from me that I grant that you are right. Until I die I would not turn aside my integrity from me."}, {"pk": 2718645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "My righteousness I hold fast, and I do not let it go. My heart does not reproach me as long as I live."}, {"pk": 2718646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "Let my enemy be like the wrongdoer, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous."}, {"pk": 2718647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "For what is the expectancy of the defiled one, when He does cut off, when Eloah takes away his life?"}, {"pk": 2718648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Would \u011al hear his cry when distress comes upon him?"}, {"pk": 2718649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "Would he delight himself in the Almighty \u2014 call on Eloah at all times?"}, {"pk": 2718650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "Let me teach you by the hand of \u011al, that which is with the Almighty I do not hide."}, {"pk": 2718651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "See, all of you have seen it. Why then are you altogether vain?"}, {"pk": 2718652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "This is the portion of a wrong man with \u011al, and the inheritance of cruel ones, which they receive from the Almighty:"}, {"pk": 2718653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have enough to eat."}, {"pk": 2718654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "Those who remain of him are buried in death, and their widows do not weep."}, {"pk": 2718655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "Though he heaps up silver like dust, and lays up garments like clay \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "he lays up, but the righteous puts it on, and the innocent divides the silver."}, {"pk": 2718657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "He built his house like a moth, like a booth which a watchman made."}, {"pk": 2718658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "He lies down, a rich man, but he is not gathered. When he opens his eyes, it is no more!"}, {"pk": 2718659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "Alarms overtake him like a flood; a storm wind shall steal him away in the night."}, {"pk": 2718660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "The east wind takes him away, and he is gone; for it sweeps him from his place."}, {"pk": 2718661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "And it hurls itself against him and does not spare; he swiftly flees from its power."}, {"pk": 2718662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "It claps its hands at him, and it hisses him out of his place."}, {"pk": 2718663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cIndeed, there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined."}, {"pk": 2718664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."}, {"pk": 2718665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "An end to darkness he has set, and to every limit he is searching, to rocks in deepest darkness."}, {"pk": 2718666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "He opens a shaft far away from people; they are forgotten by feet; they hang far away from men; they swing to and fro."}, {"pk": 2718667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Earth, out of which grows food, is turned underneath as by fire;"}, {"pk": 2718668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold."}, {"pk": 2718669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "No bird of prey knows the path, nor has the hawk\u2019s eye seen it."}, {"pk": 2718670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed over it."}, {"pk": 2718671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "He puts his hand on the flint; he shall overturn the mountains at the roots."}, {"pk": 2718672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious <i>gem</i>."}, {"pk": 2718673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "He dams up the sources of the rivers; and he brings to light what is hidden."}, {"pk": 2718674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And wisdom \u2014 where is it found? And where is the place of understanding?", "comment": "See verse <a href='/TS2009/18/28/28'>28</a>."}, {"pk": 2718675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "Man does not know its value, and it is not found in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2718676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "The deep has said, \u2018It is not in me,\u2019 and the sea has said, \u2018It is not with me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "Gold is not given for it, nor is silver weighed out as its price."}, {"pk": 2718678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "It is not valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious shoham or sapphire."}, {"pk": 2718679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "Gold or crystal are not to be compared with it, nor is it exchanged for a vessel of fine gold."}, {"pk": 2718680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "No mention is made of coral or crystal, for the price of wisdom is above rubies."}, {"pk": 2718681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "The topaz of Kush is not to be compared with it, nor is it valued in clean gold."}, {"pk": 2718682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And wisdom \u2014 from where does it come? And where is the place of understanding?", "comment": "See verse <a href='/TS2009/18/28/28'>28</a>."}, {"pk": 2718683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "It has been hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2718684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "Destruction and death have said, \u2018With our ears we have heard a report of it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "Elohim has understood its way, and He has known its place."}, {"pk": 2718686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "For He looks to the ends of the earth, sees under all the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2718687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "making a weight for the wind, and measuring out the waters by measure."}, {"pk": 2718688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "When He made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder,"}, {"pk": 2718689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it and also searched it out."}, {"pk": 2718690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "And He said to man, \u2018See, the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that is wisdom, and to turn from evil is understanding.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2718691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 again took up his discourse, and said,"}, {"pk": 2718692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when Eloah protected me;"}, {"pk": 2718693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "when His lamp shone on my head, when I walked in the dark by His light;"}, {"pk": 2718694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "as I was in the days of my autumn, when the intimacy of Eloah was on my tent;"}, {"pk": 2718695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me;"}, {"pk": 2718696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "when my steps were bathed with cream, and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me."}, {"pk": 2718697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "When I went out to the gate by the city, to take my seat in the open square,"}, {"pk": 2718698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "the young men saw me and hid, and the aged rose up, they stood;"}, {"pk": 2718699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "rulers held back their words, and laid a hand on their mouth;"}, {"pk": 2718700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "the voice of leaders was hushed, and their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth."}, {"pk": 2718701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "For when the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it gave witness of me;"}, {"pk": 2718702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "because I rescued the poor who cried out, and the fatherless who had no helper."}, {"pk": 2718703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "The blessing of the perishing one would come upon me, and I made the widow\u2019s heart sing for joy."}, {"pk": 2718704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "I put on righteousness, and it robed me; right-ruling was my cloak and turban."}, {"pk": 2718705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame."}, {"pk": 2718706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the case which I did not know."}, {"pk": 2718707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "And I broke the jaws of the perverse, and snatched the prey from his teeth."}, {"pk": 2718708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "Then I thought I would die in my nest, and increase my days as the sand,"}, {"pk": 2718709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "my root reaching out to the waters, and dew lying all night on my branch,"}, {"pk": 2718710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "my esteem fresh within me, and my bow renewed in my hand."}, {"pk": 2718711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "To me they listened, and they waited, and kept silence at my counsel."}, {"pk": 2718712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "After my words they did not speak again, and my speech settled on them."}, {"pk": 2718713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "And they waited for me like the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain."}, {"pk": 2718714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "I smiled at those who did not believe, and the light of my face they did not dim."}, {"pk": 2718715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "I chose the way for them, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a sovereign in the army, like one who comforts mourners."}, {"pk": 2718716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cBut now they laugh at me, those younger than I, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs."}, {"pk": 2718717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "Of what use to me is the strength of their hands, since their manhood power has perished?"}, {"pk": 2718718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "They are dried up from lack and hunger, they flee to a parched land, formerly a waste and ruin."}, {"pk": 2718719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "They pluck salt herbs by the bushes, and broom tree roots for their food."}, {"pk": 2718720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "They were driven out from among <i>men</i>, they shouted at them as at a thief,"}, {"pk": 2718721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "to dwell in the gullies of wadis, holes of the ground and clefts."}, {"pk": 2718722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "Among the bushes they cry out, under the nettles they huddled together \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "sons of fools, even sons without a name, they have been whipped out of the land."}, {"pk": 2718724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "And now I have become their song, and I am a byword to them."}, {"pk": 2718725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "They have loathed me, they have kept far from me, and did not refrain from spitting in my face."}, {"pk": 2718726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "Because He has loosed my bowstring and afflicted me, they have thrown off restraint in my presence."}, {"pk": 2718727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "At my right hand a brood rises; they pushed away my feet, and they raise up against me their destructive ways."}, {"pk": 2718728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "They have broken up my path, they gain by my ruin; no one restrains them."}, {"pk": 2718729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "They come as <i>through</i> a wide breach; rushing on me under the ruins."}, {"pk": 2718730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "Destructions are turned upon me; they pursue my life as the wind, and my welfare has passed like a cloud."}, {"pk": 2718731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "And now my life pours itself out; days of affliction seize me."}, {"pk": 2718732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "My bones have been pierced in me at night, and my gnawings never lie down."}, {"pk": 2718733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "By great exertion is my garment changed \u2014 it girds me as the collar of my coat,"}, {"pk": 2718734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "throwing me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes."}, {"pk": 2718735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You <i>only</i> look at me."}, {"pk": 2718736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "You have become cruel to me; with the power of Your hand You oppose me."}, {"pk": 2718737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "You lift me up to the wind, making me to ride it; and You melt me in a storm."}, {"pk": 2718738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house of appointment for all living."}, {"pk": 2718739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, or in calamity cry out for help?"}, {"pk": 2718740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was my being not grieved for the poor?"}, {"pk": 2718741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "When I looked for good, then evil came to me. And when I waited for light, darkness came."}, {"pk": 2718742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "My inward parts boiled and did not rest; days of affliction went before me."}, {"pk": 2718743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "I went about blackened, but not by the sun; I stood up in the assembly, I cried for help."}, {"pk": 2718744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "I became a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches."}, {"pk": 2718745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "My skin became black upon me, and my bones burned with heat."}, {"pk": 2718746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "So my lyre becomes mourning, and my flute the sound of weeping."}, {"pk": 2718747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cI have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze at a maiden?"}, {"pk": 2718748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "For what is the portion of Eloah from above, and the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?"}, {"pk": 2718749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "Is it not calamity to the perverse, and strangeness to the workers of wickedness?"}, {"pk": 2718750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "Does He not see my ways, and number all my steps?"}, {"pk": 2718751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "If I have walked with falsehood, or if my foot has hurried to deceit,"}, {"pk": 2718752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "let Him weigh me in a right scale, and let Eloah know my integrity."}, {"pk": 2718753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "If my step does turn from the way, or my heart has gone after my eyes, or if any spot has clung to my hands,"}, {"pk": 2718754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "let me sow, and another eat; and let my harvest be rooted out."}, {"pk": 2718755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbour\u2019s door,"}, {"pk": 2718756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down over her."}, {"pk": 2718757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "For that would be a wicked scheme, and a punishable crookedness."}, {"pk": 2718758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "For that would be a fire that burns to destruction, and take root among all my increase."}, {"pk": 2718759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "If I have refused the plea of my male servant or my female servant when they complained against me,"}, {"pk": 2718760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "then what should I do when \u011al rises up? And when He punishes, what should I answer Him?"}, {"pk": 2718761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?"}, {"pk": 2718762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "If I have withheld the poor from pleasure, or caused the widow\u2019s eyes to fail,"}, {"pk": 2718763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "or eaten my piece of bread by myself, and the fatherless did not eat of it \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "but from my youth he grew up with me as <i>with</i> a father, and from my mother\u2019s womb I guided her \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "if I have seen anyone perish for lack of garments, or a poor one without covering;"}, {"pk": 2718766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep;"}, {"pk": 2718767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;"}, {"pk": 2718768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "let my arm fall from my shoulder, and my arm be broken from the bone."}, {"pk": 2718769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "For I am in dread of destruction from \u011al, and from His excellence I could not escape."}, {"pk": 2718770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "If I have put my trust in gold, or called fine gold my refuge;"}, {"pk": 2718771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;"}, {"pk": 2718772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "if I have looked at the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in brightness,"}, {"pk": 2718773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "so that my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "that too is a punishable crookedness, for I would have denied \u011al above."}, {"pk": 2718775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "If I have rejoiced when he who hated me was ruined, or lifted myself up when evil found him \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "also I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for a curse on his life \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "text": "if the men of my tent did not say, \u2018Who is there that has not been satisfied with his meat?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "text": "The stranger did not have to spend the night in the street, for I have opened my doors to the way."}, {"pk": 2718779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "text": "If I have covered my transgressions like Ad\u0331am, by hiding my crookedness in my bosom,"}, {"pk": 2718780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "text": "then let me fear the great crowd, and dread the scorn of clans, then I would be silent, and go out of the door!"}, {"pk": 2718781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "text": "Who would give me a hearing? See, my signature, let the Almighty answer me, and let my accuser write a bill!"}, {"pk": 2718782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "text": "Would I not take it up on my shoulder, bind it on me for a crown?"}, {"pk": 2718783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "text": "I would declare to Him the number of my steps \u2014 I would approach Him like a prince."}, {"pk": 2718784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "text": "If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together;"}, {"pk": 2718785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "text": "if I have eaten its fruit without payment, or caused its owners to die;"}, {"pk": 2718786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "text": "let thistles grow instead of wheat, and useless weed instead of barley.\u201d The words of Iyob\u0331 are ended."}, {"pk": 2718787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "Then these three men ceased to answer Iyob\u0331, because he was righteous in his own eyes."}, {"pk": 2718788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "And the wrath of Elihu, son of Barak\u0331\u2019\u0115l the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, burned against Iyob\u0331. His wrath burned because he declared himself right rather than Elohim."}, {"pk": 2718789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "And against his three friends his wrath burned, because they had found no answer, and pronounced Elohim wrong."}, {"pk": 2718790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "And because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited to speak to Iyob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2718791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath burned."}, {"pk": 2718792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "And Elihu, son of Barak\u0331\u2019\u0115l the Buzite, responded and said, \u201cI am young in years, and you are aged. Therefore I was afraid to let you know my opinion."}, {"pk": 2718793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "I said, \u2018Days should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "But truly it is the spirit in man and the breath of the Almighty that gives him understanding."}, {"pk": 2718795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "The multitude are not wise, nor do the aged understand right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore I have said, \u2018Listen to me, let me also make my opinion known to you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "Look, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say."}, {"pk": 2718798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "And I paid close attention to you. But look, not one of you proved Iyob\u0331 wrong, nor answered his words."}, {"pk": 2718799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "Lest you say, \u2018We have found wisdom\u2019 \u2014 it is \u011al that drives him away, not man."}, {"pk": 2718800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "Now he has not ordered words against me, so I would not answer him with your words."}, {"pk": 2718801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "They have broken down; they have not answered again; words have departed from them."}, {"pk": 2718802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "And I have waited, but they do not speak, because they have stood still, they answered no more."}, {"pk": 2718803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "Let me answer on my part, let me also make my opinion known."}, {"pk": 2718804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "For I am filled with words; the spirit within me presses me."}, {"pk": 2718805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "See, within me it is like wine not opened; it shall burst like new wineskins."}, {"pk": 2718806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "Let me speak, so that I find relief; let me open my lips and answer."}, {"pk": 2718807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "Please, let me not show partiality to anyone, nor let me flatter any man."}, {"pk": 2718808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "For I do not know how to flatter, lest my Maker should soon take me away!"}, {"pk": 2718809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd yet, O Iyob\u0331, please hear my speech and listen to all my words."}, {"pk": 2718810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "See, please! I shall open my mouth, my tongue shall speak in my mouth."}, {"pk": 2718811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "My words are from the uprightness of my heart, my lips shall speak knowledge clearly."}, {"pk": 2718812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "The Spirit of \u011al has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life."}, {"pk": 2718813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "If you are able, answer me, set yourself in order before me, take your stand."}, {"pk": 2718814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "See, I am like you before \u011al, I too have been formed out of clay."}, {"pk": 2718815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "See, no fear of me should alarm you, nor should pressure by me be heavy on you."}, {"pk": 2718816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "But you have spoken in my hearing, and the sound of words I hear, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2718817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness."}, {"pk": 2718818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "See, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;"}, {"pk": 2718819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "See, in this you have not been righteous. Let me answer you: Eloah is greater than man!"}, {"pk": 2718821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "Why have you complained against Him? Because He does not answer all His matters?"}, {"pk": 2718822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "For \u011al does speak once, or twice \u2014 <i>though</i> one does not notice it \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on a bed,"}, {"pk": 2718824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,"}, {"pk": 2718825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "to turn man <i>from his</i> deed, and conceal pride from man."}, {"pk": 2718826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "He keeps back his being from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword."}, {"pk": 2718827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And he is reproved with pain on his bed, and with unceasing distress in his bones,"}, {"pk": 2718828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "so that his life loathes bread, and his being desirable food."}, {"pk": 2718829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "His flesh wastes away, and his bones which were not seen stick out."}, {"pk": 2718830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "And his being draws near the pit, and his life to the destroyers."}, {"pk": 2718831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "If there is a messenger for him, a mediator, one among a thousand, to show man His straightness,"}, {"pk": 2718832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "then He shows favour to him, and says, \u2018Release him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement."}, {"pk": 2718833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "Let his flesh become fresher than a child\u2019s, let him return to the days of his youth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "text": "He prays to Eloah, and He accepts him. And he sees His face with joy, and He restores to man his righteousness."}, {"pk": 2718835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "text": "He sings to men and says, \u2018I have sinned, and I have perverted what was right, and it did not profit me."}, {"pk": 2718836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "text": "He has redeemed my being from going down to the pit, and my life sees the light.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "text": "See, \u011al does all these \u2014 twice, three times with a man,"}, {"pk": 2718838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 30, "text": "to bring back his being from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."}, {"pk": 2718839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 31, "text": "Pay attention, Iyob\u0331, listen to me, keep silent, and let me speak."}, {"pk": 2718840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 32, "text": "If there are words, answer me; speak, for I desire to declare you right."}, {"pk": 2718841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 33, "verse": 33, "text": "If not, listen to me, keep silent, and let me teach you wisdom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Elihu responded and said,"}, {"pk": 2718843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHear my words, you wise men; give ear to me, you who have knowledge."}, {"pk": 2718844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food."}, {"pk": 2718845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "Let us choose what is right for us; let us know among us what is good."}, {"pk": 2718846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "For Iyob\u0331 has said, \u2018I am righteous, but \u011al has taken away my right."}, {"pk": 2718847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "Would I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable \u2014 without transgression.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "What man is like Iyob\u0331, who drinks mocking like water,"}, {"pk": 2718849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "who goes in company with the workers of wickedness, and walks with men of wrongness?"}, {"pk": 2718850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "For he has said, \u2018It does not profit a man that he takes delight in Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore, listen to me, you men of heart: far be it from \u011al to do wrong, and from the Almighty to commit unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2718852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "For He repays man\u2019s work to him, and makes man to find a reward according to his path."}, {"pk": 2718853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "The truth is, \u011al does not do wrong, and the Almighty does not twist right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "Who has assigned to Him the earth? And who has laid out all the world?"}, {"pk": 2718855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "If He sets His heart on him, should He gather to Himself his spirit and his breath,"}, {"pk": 2718856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "all flesh would expire together and man return to dust."}, {"pk": 2718857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "If <i>you have</i> understanding, hear this! Give ear to the sound of my words:"}, {"pk": 2718858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "Should the one who hates right-ruling govern? Or would you declare a most righteous one wrong?"}, {"pk": 2718859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "Who shall say to a sovereign: \u2018Beliya\u201bal,\u2019 to nobles: \u2018Wrong one\u2019? \u2014"}, {"pk": 2718860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "who is not partial to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? For they are all the work of His hands."}, {"pk": 2718861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "In a moment they die, in the middle of the night; the people are shaken and pass away; and the mighty are taken away without a hand."}, {"pk": 2718862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps."}, {"pk": 2718863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of wickedness hide themselves."}, {"pk": 2718864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "For He sets a man no stated time to appear before \u011al in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2718865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "He breaks in pieces the mighty, without inquiry, and puts others in their place."}, {"pk": 2718866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "Truly, He knows their works, and He shall overthrow in the night, and they are crushed."}, {"pk": 2718867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "As wrong ones He slaps them in the presence of onlookers,"}, {"pk": 2718868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "because they turned from following Him, and they regarded not all His ways,"}, {"pk": 2718869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him; for He hears the cry of the afflicted."}, {"pk": 2718870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "And when He is silent, who would then condemn? And when He hides His face, who then sees Him, whether it is against a nation or a man alone?"}, {"pk": 2718871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "text": "So that a defiled one should not reign, lest the people be ensnared."}, {"pk": 2718872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "text": "For has anyone said to \u011al, \u2018I have taken away, I do not act corruptly."}, {"pk": 2718873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 32, "text": "Teach me what I do not see. If I have done unrighteousness, I shall not do so again\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 33, "text": "Should He repay you because you have refused? For you choose, and not I, therefore speak what you know."}, {"pk": 2718875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 34, "text": "Let men of heart say to me, and a wise man who listens to me:"}, {"pk": 2718876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 35, "text": "Iyob\u0331 does not speak with knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 36, "text": "Would that Iyob\u0331 be tried to the end, since his answers are like those of wicked men!"}, {"pk": 2718878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 34, "verse": 37, "text": "For he adds rebellion to his sin \u2014 he claps <i>his hands</i> among us, and multiplies his words against \u011al.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And Elihu responded and said,"}, {"pk": 2718880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cDo you think this is right? Do you say, \u2018My righteousness is more than that of \u011al\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "For you say, \u2018Of what use is it to you? What do I gain more than if I had sinned?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "Let me answer you and your friends with you."}, {"pk": 2718883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "Look to the heavens, and see. And consider the clouds which are higher than you."}, {"pk": 2718884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "If you sin, what would you do against Him? If your transgressions are increased, what would you do to Him?"}, {"pk": 2718885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?"}, {"pk": 2718886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "Your wrong is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness for a son of man."}, {"pk": 2718887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out for help because of the arm of the many."}, {"pk": 2718888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "And no one says, \u2018Where is Eloah my Maker, who gives songs in the night,"}, {"pk": 2718889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "There they cry, but He answers not, because of the pride of evil ones."}, {"pk": 2718891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "Only, it is false that \u011al does not hear, and that the Almighty pays no attention to it."}, {"pk": 2718892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "Although you say you do not see Him, yet right-ruling is before Him, and you wait for Him."}, {"pk": 2718893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "And now, is it for naught that His displeasure has come? Yet He has not taken note of extreme arrogance,"}, {"pk": 2718894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "so Iyob\u0331 opens his mouth in vain, he increases words without knowledge.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "Then Elihu continued and said,"}, {"pk": 2718896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBear with me a little, and let me show you there is still more to say for Eloah."}, {"pk": 2718897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "I bring my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker."}, {"pk": 2718898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "For truly my words are not false; the One perfect in knowledge is with you."}, {"pk": 2718899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "See, \u011al is mighty, but rejects no one \u2014 mighty in power <i>and</i> heart."}, {"pk": 2718900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "He does not keep the wrongdoer alive, but <i>He</i> gives right-ruling to the oppressed ones."}, {"pk": 2718901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous, and sovereigns on the throne, and seats them forever, and they are exalted."}, {"pk": 2718902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "And if they are bound in shackles, caught in the cords of affliction,"}, {"pk": 2718903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "then He reveals to them their work, and their transgressions, that they behaved proudly."}, {"pk": 2718904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "And He opens their ear for discipline, and commands that they turn back from wickedness."}, {"pk": 2718905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "If they obey and serve, they complete their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasantness."}, {"pk": 2718906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "But if they do not obey, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge."}, {"pk": 2718907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "But the defiled ones in heart become enraged \u2014 let them not cry for help when He binds them."}, {"pk": 2718908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "Their being dies in youth, and their life among the male cult prostitutes."}, {"pk": 2718909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "He rescues the afflicted one in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression."}, {"pk": 2718910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "And He also would have brought you out of distress, into a broad place where there is no restraint. And what is set on your table would be filled with rich food."}, {"pk": 2718911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "But you are filled with the judgment of the wrong, judgment and right-ruling take hold of you."}, {"pk": 2718912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>Beware</i>, that rage does not entice you to scoffing. And do not let a large bribe turn you aside."}, {"pk": 2718913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "Would He value your riches? No, not precious ore, nor all your strength!"}, {"pk": 2718914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "Do not long for the night, when people go up in their place."}, {"pk": 2718915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "Beware, do not turn to wickedness, for you have chosen this rather than affliction."}, {"pk": 2718916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "See, \u011al is exalted by His power; who is a Teacher like Him?"}, {"pk": 2718917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "Who has appointed Him His way, or who has said, \u2018You have worked unrighteousness\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "text": "Remember to extol His work, of which men have sung."}, {"pk": 2718919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "text": "All men have seen it, man looks on it from afar."}, {"pk": 2718920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "text": "See, \u011al is great, beyond our understanding, and we do not know the number of His years."}, {"pk": 2718921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "text": "For He draws up drops of water, which distil as rain from the mist,"}, {"pk": 2718922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "text": "which the clouds drop down \u2014 pour down in showers on man."}, {"pk": 2718923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "text": "Also, who understands the spreading of clouds, the crashing from His booth?"}, {"pk": 2718924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "text": "See, He has spread his light upon it, and He has covered the depths of the sea."}, {"pk": 2718925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "text": "For by these He judges the peoples; He gives plenty of food."}, {"pk": 2718926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "text": "He has covered His hands with lightning, and commands it to strike."}, {"pk": 2718927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "text": "Its noise declares concerning Him, also the cattle, as to what is coming up."}, {"pk": 2718928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAt this too my heart trembles, and leaps from its place."}, {"pk": 2718929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "Listen, listen to the trembling of His voice, and the sound that comes from His mouth."}, {"pk": 2718930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "He lets it loose under all the heavens, and His lightning to the ends of the earth."}, {"pk": 2718931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of His excellency, and He does not hold them back when His voice is heard."}, {"pk": 2718932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "\u011al thunders wondrously with His voice; doing great deeds, which we do not understand."}, {"pk": 2718933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "For He says to the snow, \u2018Be on the earth,\u2019 also to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength."}, {"pk": 2718934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "He seals up the hand of every man, for all men to know His work."}, {"pk": 2718935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "Then the beast goes into its lair, and they stay in their dens."}, {"pk": 2718936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "From the room of the south comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds of the north."}, {"pk": 2718937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "By the breath of \u011al ice is given, and the expanse of water becomes solid."}, {"pk": 2718938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "He also loads the thick clouds with moisture; He scatters His bright clouds."}, {"pk": 2718939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "And they swirl about, being turned by His guidance, to do whatever He commands them on the face of the earthly world."}, {"pk": 2718940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "He causes it to come, whether as a rod, or for His land, or for loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2718941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "Listen to this, O Iyob\u0331, stand still and consider the wonders of \u011al."}, {"pk": 2718942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "Do you know when Eloah placed them, and caused the lightning of His cloud to shine?"}, {"pk": 2718943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonders of the One perfect in knowledge?"}, {"pk": 2718944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "Why are your garments hot, when the earth is stilled from the south?"}, {"pk": 2718945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "Did you, with Him, spread out the clouds, strong as a hard mirror?"}, {"pk": 2718946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "Teach us what we should say to Him; we do not set in order because of darkness."}, {"pk": 2718947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "Should He be told that I would speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?"}, {"pk": 2718948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "And now, they shall not look on the light that is bright behind the clouds, when the wind has passed and cleared them."}, {"pk": 2718949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "From the golden north it comes \u2014 with Eloah is awesome excellency."}, {"pk": 2718950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "The Almighty, we have not found Him out, He is exalted in power and right-ruling and great in righteousness \u2014 He does not oppress."}, {"pk": 2718951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore men fear Him. He does not regard any who are wise of heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered Iyob\u0331 out of the whirlwind, and said,"}, {"pk": 2718953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWho is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?"}, {"pk": 2718954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "Now gird up your loins like a man, and I ask you, and you answer Me."}, {"pk": 2718955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding."}, {"pk": 2718956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "Who set its measurements, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it?"}, {"pk": 2718957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "Upon what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its corner-stone,"}, {"pk": 2718958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?"}, {"pk": 2718959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "Or <i>who</i> enclosed the sea with doors, when it burst forth and came from the womb;"}, {"pk": 2718960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band;"}, {"pk": 2718961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "and assigned for it My law, and set bars and doors;"}, {"pk": 2718962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "and said, \u2018This far you have come, but no farther, and here your proud waves stop?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2718963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "Have you ever commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place,"}, {"pk": 2718964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "to take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wrong be shaken out of it?"}, {"pk": 2718965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "It is changed like clay under a seal, and they stand out like a garment."}, {"pk": 2718966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "And their light is withheld from the wrong, and the arm lifted up is broken."}, {"pk": 2718967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "Have you come to the sources of the sea? Or have you walked about in the recesses of the deep?"}, {"pk": 2718968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "Were the gates of death revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?"}, {"pk": 2718969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "Have you understood the breadth of the earth? Declare, if you know it all."}, {"pk": 2718970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,"}, {"pk": 2718971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "that you should take it to its boundary, and know the paths to its home?"}, {"pk": 2718972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "Do you know? For you would have been born then, and the number of your days been many!"}, {"pk": 2718973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "Have you entered into the storehouses of snow, or have you seen the storehouses of hail,"}, {"pk": 2718974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "text": "which I have kept for the time of distress, for the day of fighting and battle?"}, {"pk": 2718975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "text": "Where is the way that light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?"}, {"pk": 2718976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "text": "Who has cleft a channel for the overflowing water, or a way for the thunderclaps,"}, {"pk": 2718977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "text": "to make rain fall on land where no one is, a wilderness in which there is no man;"}, {"pk": 2718978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "text": "to satisfy the wild and waste places, and to make the seeds of grass to sprout?"}, {"pk": 2718979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "text": "Does the rain have a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?"}, {"pk": 2718980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 29, "text": "From whose belly comes the ice? And who gave birth to the frost of the heavens?"}, {"pk": 2718981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 30, "text": "The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen."}, {"pk": 2718982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 31, "text": "Do you bind the bands of Kimah, or loosen the cords of Kesil?"}, {"pk": 2718983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 32, "text": "Do you bring out the constellations in its season? Or do you lead the Bear with its sons?"}, {"pk": 2718984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 33, "text": "Do you know the laws of the heavens? Or do you set their rule over the earth?"}, {"pk": 2718985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 34, "text": "Do you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of water cover you?"}, {"pk": 2718986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 35, "text": "Do you send out lightnings, and they go and say to you, \u2018Here we are!\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2718987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 36, "text": "Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the heart?"}, {"pk": 2718988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 37, "text": "Who has wisdom to count the clouds, or to tip over the bottles of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2718989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 38, "text": "when the dust hardens in clumps, and the clods cling together?"}, {"pk": 2718990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 39, "text": "Do you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,"}, {"pk": 2718991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 40, "text": "when they crouch in dens, sit in the cover of their hiding place?"}, {"pk": 2718992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 38, "verse": 41, "text": "Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to \u011al, <i>and</i> wander about without food?"}, {"pk": 2718993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDo you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or do you observe when the deer gives birth?"}, {"pk": 2718994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "Do you number the months they complete? Or do you know the time when they bear young?"}, {"pk": 2718995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "They bow down, they bring forth their young, their labour pains are ended."}, {"pk": 2718996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "Their young ones are thriving, they grow up in the field. They shall leave and shall not return to them."}, {"pk": 2718997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the wild donkey,"}, {"pk": 2718998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "whose home I have made the desert, and the salt land his dwelling?"}, {"pk": 2718999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "He laughs at the commotion of the city; he does not hear the shouts of the driver."}, {"pk": 2719000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches for all that is green."}, {"pk": 2719001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "Would the wild ox be pleased to serve you? Or spend the night by your feeding trough?"}, {"pk": 2719002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "If you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes, would he plough the valleys behind you?"}, {"pk": 2719003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "Would you rely on his great strength? Or would you leave your labour to him?"}, {"pk": 2719004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "Would you trust him to bring home your grain, and gather it to your threshing-floor?"}, {"pk": 2719005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but they are not the pinions and plumage of a stork!", "comment": "Hebrew: H\u0323acidah."}, {"pk": 2719006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "text": "She leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust;"}, {"pk": 2719007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "text": "and she forgets that a foot might crush them, or a wild beast tread on them."}, {"pk": 2719008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "text": "She treats her young harshly, as if not hers; her toil is in vain, without fear,"}, {"pk": 2719009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "text": "because Eloah has made her forget wisdom, and did not endow her with understanding."}, {"pk": 2719010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "text": "When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider."}, {"pk": 2719011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "text": "Have you given the horse strength? Have you covered his neck with a mane?"}, {"pk": 2719012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "text": "Would you make him leap like a locust? His splendid snorting is frightening."}, {"pk": 2719013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "text": "He paws in the valley, and rejoices in strength. He gallops into the clash of arms."}, {"pk": 2719014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "text": "He laughs at fear, and is not frightened; nor does he turn back from the sword."}, {"pk": 2719015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "text": "The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and lance."}, {"pk": 2719016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 24, "text": "He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, and he does not stand still because of a voice of a shophar."}, {"pk": 2719017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 25, "text": "At the blast of the shophar he says, \u2018Aha!\u2019 And from afar he smells the battle, the thunder of commanders and shouting."}, {"pk": 2719018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 26, "text": "Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, spreading its wings toward the south?"}, {"pk": 2719019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 27, "text": "Does the eagle mount up at your mouth, and make its nest on high?"}, {"pk": 2719020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 28, "text": "It dwells on the rock, and lodges on the crag of the rock and the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2719021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 29, "text": "From there it searches out the prey, its eyes see it from afar."}, {"pk": 2719022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 39, "verse": 30, "text": "And its young ones suck up blood. And where the slain are, there it is!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered Iyob\u0331, and said,"}, {"pk": 2719024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cShould a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said,"}, {"pk": 2719026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, I am insignificant, what would I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth."}, {"pk": 2719027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "Once I have spoken, but I have no answer \u2014 and twice, but I say no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered Iyob\u0331 out of the whirlwind, and said,"}, {"pk": 2719029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNow gird up your loins like a man; I ask you, and you answer Me."}, {"pk": 2719030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?"}, {"pk": 2719031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "Or do you have an arm like \u011al? Or do you thunder with a voice like His?"}, {"pk": 2719032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "Deck yourself, please, with excellency and grandeur, and put on esteem and splendour."}, {"pk": 2719033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "Scatter abroad the rage of your wrath, and look on everyone who is proud and bring him low."}, {"pk": 2719034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "Look on everyone who is proud, humble him. And tread down the wrong-doers in their place."}, {"pk": 2719035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "Hide them in the dust together, bind their faces in obscurity."}, {"pk": 2719036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "Then even I would confess to you that your own right hand does save you."}, {"pk": 2719037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "See now, Beh\u0115moth, which I made along with you \u2014 he eats grass like an ox."}, {"pk": 2719038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "See now, his strength is in his loins, and his power is in his stomach muscles."}, {"pk": 2719039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "He bends his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together."}, {"pk": 2719040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "text": "His bones are like tubes of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron."}, {"pk": 2719041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "text": "He is the beginning of the ways of \u011al. His Maker brings near His sword."}, {"pk": 2719042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "text": "For the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there."}, {"pk": 2719043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "text": "He lies under the slender trees, under cover of reed and swamp."}, {"pk": 2719044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "text": "The slender trees cover him with their shade; the willows by the stream surround him."}, {"pk": 2719045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "text": "See, if a river rages, he is not alarmed; he feels safe, even if the Yard\u0115n gushes into his mouth,"}, {"pk": 2719046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "text": "Before his eyes, shall he be caught, with snares? Or <i>his</i> nose pierced?"}, {"pk": 2719047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWould you draw out Liwiathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?"}, {"pk": 2719048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "Would you put a cord through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?"}, {"pk": 2719049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "Would he keep on pleading with you? Would he speak softly to you?"}, {"pk": 2719050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "Would he make a covenant with you to be taken as a servant forever?"}, {"pk": 2719051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "Would you play with him as with a bird? Or leash him for your young girls?"}, {"pk": 2719052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "Would <i>trading</i> partners bargain over him? Would they divide him among the merchants?"}, {"pk": 2719053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "Fill his skin with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?"}, {"pk": 2719054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "Put your hand on him \u2014 think of the struggle! Do not do it again!"}, {"pk": 2719055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "See, any expectation of him is disappointed \u2014 he is laid low even at the sight of him!"}, {"pk": 2719056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "No one is so foolhardy to wake him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?"}, {"pk": 2719057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "Who has given to Me first, that I should repay him \u2014 under all the heavens that is Mine?"}, {"pk": 2719058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "I would not keep silent concerning his limbs, or his mighty power, or his fair frame."}, {"pk": 2719059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "Who shall take off the surface of his skin? Who approaches him with a double bridle?"}, {"pk": 2719060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "text": "Who shall open the doors of his face, with his frightening teeth all around?"}, {"pk": 2719061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "text": "Rows of scales are <i>his</i> pride \u2014 closed up, a binding seal."}, {"pk": 2719062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "text": "One to the other they fit closely, not even a breath enters between them."}, {"pk": 2719063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "text": "They are joined one to another, they stick together and are not separated."}, {"pk": 2719064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "text": "His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning."}, {"pk": 2719065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "text": "Out of his mouth go firebrands \u2014 sparks of fire shoot out."}, {"pk": 2719066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "text": "Out of his nostrils comes smoke, like a boiling pot or kettle."}, {"pk": 2719067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "text": "His breath sets coals on fire, and a flame goes out of his mouth."}, {"pk": 2719068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "text": "Strength dwells in his neck, and fear leaps before him."}, {"pk": 2719069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "text": "The folds of his flesh cleave together. They are firm on him, immovable."}, {"pk": 2719070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "text": "His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone."}, {"pk": 2719071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "text": "When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. Because of his crashings they are bewildered."}, {"pk": 2719072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "text": "No sword that reaches him does prevail, <i>neither</i> spear, dart, or lance."}, {"pk": 2719073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 27, "text": "He reckons iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood."}, {"pk": 2719074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 28, "text": "The arrow does not make him flee, sling-stones become like stubble to him."}, {"pk": 2719075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 29, "text": "Clubs are reckoned as straw, he laughs at the rattle of a lance."}, {"pk": 2719076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 30, "text": "His undersides are like sharp potsherds. He sprawls on the mud like a threshing-sledge."}, {"pk": 2719077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 31, "text": "He makes the deep boil like a pot, he makes the sea like a pot of ointment."}, {"pk": 2719078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 32, "text": "He leaves a shining path behind him. One would think the deep to be grey-haired."}, {"pk": 2719079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 33, "text": "No one on earth is like him \u2014 one made without fear."}, {"pk": 2719080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 41, "verse": 34, "text": "He sees all that is haughty. He is sovereign over all the sons of pride.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said,"}, {"pk": 2719082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cYou know that You are able to do all, and that no purpose is withheld from You."}, {"pk": 2719083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I declared but I did not understand, <i>matters</i> too marvellous for me, which I did not know."}, {"pk": 2719084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "Listen, please, and let me speak. I ask You, then would You make it known to me?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2719085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You."}, {"pk": 2719086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore I despise <i>myself</i>, and repent in dust and ashes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, after \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had spoken these words to Iyob\u0331, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Eliphaz the T\u0115manite, \u201cMy wrath has burned against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyob\u0331, and offer up an ascending offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyob\u0331 pray for you \u2014 for I accept him \u2014 lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyob\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "So Eliphaz the T\u0115manite and Bildad\u0331 the Shuh\u0323ite, Tsophar the Na\u201bamathite went and did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded them. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 accepted the face of Iyob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turned the captivity of Iyob\u0331 when he prayed for his friends. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave Iyob\u0331 twice as much as he had before."}, {"pk": 2719091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "And all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been his friends before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. And they sympathised with him and comforted him for all the evil that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had brought upon him. And they each gave him a qesitah and each one a ring of gold.", "comment": "A monetary unit of uncertain value, perhaps in the form of a lamb."}, {"pk": 2719092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blessed the latter days of Iyob\u0331 more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys."}, {"pk": 2719093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "text": "And he had seven sons and three daughters."}, {"pk": 2719094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "text": "And he called the name of the first Yemimah, and the name of the second Qetsi\u201bah, and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "text": "And in all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Iyob\u0331. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers."}, {"pk": 2719096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "text": "And after this Iyob\u0331 lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations."}, {"pk": 2719097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 18, "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "text": "And Iyob\u0331 died, old and satisfied with days."}, {"pk": 2714652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,"}, {"pk": 2714653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "But his delight is in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And he meditates in His Torah day and night."}, {"pk": 2714654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "For he shall be as a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That yields its fruit in its season, And whose leaf does not wither, And whatever he does prospers."}, {"pk": 2714655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "The wrong are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind blows away."}, {"pk": 2714656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore the wrong shall not rise in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2714657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wrong comes to naught."}, {"pk": 2714658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate emptiness?", "comment": "Quoted in Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/4/25'>4:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/4/26'>26</a>. See also Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/14'>14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/15'>15</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/16'>16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/17'>17</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/18'>18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/19'>19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/20'>20</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/21'>21</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/22'>22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/23'>23</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/24'>24</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/25'>25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/26'>26</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/27'>27</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/28'>28</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/22'>2:22</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/9'>14:9</a> and Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2714659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "The sovereigns of the earth take their stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and against His Messiah, <i>and say</i>,"}, {"pk": 2714660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Let us tear apart Their bonds, And throw away Their ropes from us."}, {"pk": 2714661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 mocks at them."}, {"pk": 2714662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Then He speaks to them in His wrath, And troubles them in His rage, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2714663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "But I, I have set My Sovereign on Tsiyon, My set-apart mountain."}, {"pk": 2714664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI inscribe for a law: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to Me, \u2018You are My Son, Today I have brought You forth."}, {"pk": 2714665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "Ask of Me, and I make the nations Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth Your possession."}, {"pk": 2714666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Break them with a rod of iron, Dash them to pieces like a potter\u2019s vessel.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And now, be wise, O sovereigns; Be instructed, you rulers of the earth."}, {"pk": 2714668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with fear, And rejoice with trembling."}, {"pk": 2714669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "Kiss the Chosen, lest He be enraged, And you perish in the way, For soon His wrath is to be kindled. Blessed are all those taking refuge in Him.", "comment": "Hebrew, Nashqu b\u0331ar. B\u0331ar - Chosen in Hebrew but Son in Aramaic."}, {"pk": 2714670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how my adversaries have increased! Many rising up against me."}, {"pk": 2714671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Many are saying of me, \u201cThere is no deliverance for him in Elohim.\u201d Selah."}, {"pk": 2714672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are a shield for me, My esteem, and the One lifting up my head."}, {"pk": 2714673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "I cried to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with my voice, And He heard me from His set-apart mountain. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "I, I laid down and slept; I awoke, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sustained me."}, {"pk": 2714675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "I am not afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me all around."}, {"pk": 2714676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have stricken all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2714677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Deliverance belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Your blessing is on Your people. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Answer me when I call, O Elohim of my righteousness! You gave relief to me when I was in distress; Show favour to me, and hear my prayer."}, {"pk": 2714679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Till when, O you sons of men, Would you turn my esteem to shame, Would you love emptiness, seek falsehood? Selah."}, {"pk": 2714680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "But know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has separated a lovingly-committed one for Himself; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 hears when I call to Him."}, {"pk": 2714681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Tremble, and do not sin. Speak within your heart on your bed, and be still. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Slaughter slaughterings of righteousness, And trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Many are saying, \u201cWho would show us good?\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, lift up the light of Your face upon us."}, {"pk": 2714684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "You have put more gladness in my heart, Than in the season that their grain and wine increased."}, {"pk": 2714685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "I lie down in peace altogether, and sleep; For You alone, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, make me dwell in safety."}, {"pk": 2714686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Give ear to my words, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Consider my meditation."}, {"pk": 2714687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Attend to the voice of my cry, My Sovereign and my Elohim, For unto You I pray."}, {"pk": 2714688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the morning You hear my voice; I present myself to You in the morning, And I look up."}, {"pk": 2714689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "For You are not an \u011al taking delight in wrong, Nor does evil dwell with You."}, {"pk": 2714690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "The boasters do not stand before Your eyes; You hate all workers of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2714691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "You destroy those speaking falsehood; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loathes a man of blood and deceit."}, {"pk": 2714692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "But I, I enter Your house In the greatness of Your loving-commitment; I bow myself toward Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al in Your fear."}, {"pk": 2714693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, lead me in Your righteousness because of those watching me; Make Your way straight before my face."}, {"pk": 2714694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "For there is no stability in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open burial-site; They flatter with their tongue."}, {"pk": 2714695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Declare them guilty, O Elohim! Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them away for their many transgressions, Because they have rebelled against You."}, {"pk": 2714696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; Let them ever shout for joy, because You shelter them; And let those who love Your Name exult in You."}, {"pk": 2714697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For You bless the righteous, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; You surround him with favour as with a shield."}, {"pk": 2714698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not rebuke me in Your displeasure, Nor discipline me in Your wrath."}, {"pk": 2714699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Show favour to me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for I am fading away; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, heal me, for my bones have been troubled."}, {"pk": 2714700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And my being has been greatly troubled; And You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 till when?"}, {"pk": 2714701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "Return, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, rescue my life! Oh, save me for Your loving-commitment\u2019 sake!"}, {"pk": 2714702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "For in death there is no remembrance of You; Who gives You thanks in She\u2019ol?"}, {"pk": 2714703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "I have grown weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears."}, {"pk": 2714704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "My eye has grown dim because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries."}, {"pk": 2714705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Depart from me, all you workers of wickedness; For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has heard the voice of my weeping."}, {"pk": 2714706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has heard my pleading; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 receives my prayer."}, {"pk": 2714707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled; They turn back suddenly, ashamed."}, {"pk": 2714708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, in You I have taken refuge; Save me from all my pursuers; And deliver me,"}, {"pk": 2714709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Lest they tear at my throat like a lion, Rending in pieces, with no one to deliver."}, {"pk": 2714710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, if I have done this: If there is unrighteousness in my hands,"}, {"pk": 2714711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "If I have done evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,"}, {"pk": 2714712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Let the enemy pursue me and overtake my being, And trample my life to the ground, And lay my esteem in the dust. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in Your displeasure; Lift Yourself up against the rage of my adversaries, And awake for me! You shall command judgment!"}, {"pk": 2714714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And let the congregation of the peoples gather about You; And over them return on high."}, {"pk": 2714715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 judges the peoples; Judge me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me."}, {"pk": 2714716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "Please let the evil of the wrong be ended, And establish the righteous; For the righteous Elohim is a trier of hearts and kidneys."}, {"pk": 2714717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "My shield is upon Elohim, Who saves the upright in heart."}, {"pk": 2714718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "Elohim is a righteous judge. And \u011al is enraged every day,"}, {"pk": 2714719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "If one does not repent! He sharpens His sword, He bends His bow and makes it ready,"}, {"pk": 2714720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And He has prepared for Himself instruments of death, He makes His arrows hot for pursuers."}, {"pk": 2714721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "See, he who is bound with wickedness, And has conceived trouble and brought forth falsehood,"}, {"pk": 2714722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "He has made a pit and dug it out, And falls into the ditch he made!"}, {"pk": 2714723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "His trouble turns back upon his own head, And his wrongdoing comes down on the top of his head."}, {"pk": 2714724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "I give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 according to His righteousness, And praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Most High."}, {"pk": 2714725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, our Master, how excellent is Your Name in all the earth, You who set Your splendour above the heavens!"}, {"pk": 2714726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "Out of the mouth of babes and infants You have founded strength, Because of Your adversaries, To put an end to enemy and avenger."}, {"pk": 2714727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "For I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established."}, {"pk": 2714728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "What is man that You remember him? And the son of man that You visit him?"}, {"pk": 2714729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "Yet You have made him a little less than Elohim, And have crowned him with esteem and splendour.", "comment": "Or - elohim."}, {"pk": 2714730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all under his feet,"}, {"pk": 2714731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field,"}, {"pk": 2714732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "The birds of the heavens, And the fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas."}, {"pk": 2714733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, our Master, How excellent is Your Name in all the earth!"}, {"pk": 2714734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> I praise You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, with all my heart; I declare all Your wonders."}, {"pk": 2714735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "I rejoice and exult in You; I sing praise to Your Name, O Most High."}, {"pk": 2714736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>B\u0115t</i> When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You."}, {"pk": 2714737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "For You executed my right and my cause, You sat on the throne judging in righteousness."}, {"pk": 2714738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wrong, You have wiped out their name forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2714739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> The enemy is no more \u2014 ruins everlasting! And You have uprooted the cities; Even their remembrance has perished."}, {"pk": 2714740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 abides forever, He is preparing His throne for judgment."}, {"pk": 2714741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And He judges the world in righteousness, He judges the peoples in straightness."}, {"pk": 2714742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>Waw</i> And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a refuge for the crushed one, A refuge in times of distress."}, {"pk": 2714743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And those who know Your Name trust in You, For You have not forsaken those who seek You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> Sing praises to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who dwells in Tsiyon! Declare His deeds among the peoples."}, {"pk": 2714745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "For He remembers the seekers of bloodshed, He does not forget the cry of the afflicted."}, {"pk": 2714746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>H\u0323et</i> Show favour to me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! See my affliction by those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,"}, {"pk": 2714747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "So that I declare all Your praise In the gates of the daughter of Tsiyon. I rejoice in Your deliverance."}, {"pk": 2714748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>Tet</i> The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught."}, {"pk": 2714749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made Himself known, He has done right-ruling; The wrong is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Yod</i> The wrong return to She\u2019ol, All the nations that forget Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> For the needy is not always forgotten; Neither the expectancy of the poor lost forever."}, {"pk": 2714752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged before Your face."}, {"pk": 2714753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "Put them in fear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Let the nations know they are <i>but</i> men. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Lamed</i> Why do You stand afar off, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hiding in times of distress?"}, {"pk": 2714755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "In arrogance the wrongdoer hotly pursues the poor; They are caught by the schemes which they devised."}, {"pk": 2714756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "For the wrongdoer boasted of his cravings; And the greedy one cursed and despised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "In the pride of his face The wrongdoer does not seek <i>Him</i>, In all his thoughts there is no Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2714758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "His ways are always prosperous! Your right-rulings are on high, out of his sight! He snorts at all his adversaries!"}, {"pk": 2714759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "He has said in his heart, \u201cI shall not be moved; From generation to generation, never be in evil!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and wickedness."}, {"pk": 2714761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "He sits in the hiding places of the villages; In the secret places he kills the innocent; <i>Ayin</i> His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless."}, {"pk": 2714762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor, drawing him into his net."}, {"pk": 2714763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And he crouches, he lies low, And the helpless fall under his strength."}, {"pk": 2714764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "He has said in his heart, \u201c\u011al has forgotten, He has hidden His face, He shall never see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>Qoph</i> Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! O \u011al, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the lowly ones."}, {"pk": 2714766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Why do the wrong scorn Elohim? He has said in his heart, \u201cIt is not required.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> You have seen it, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless."}, {"pk": 2714768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>Shin</i> Break the arm of the wrong one and the evil one; Search out his wrongness that would not be found out."}, {"pk": 2714769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is Sovereign forever and ever; The nations shall perish from His land."}, {"pk": 2714770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Taw</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have heard the desire of the lowly ones; You prepare their heart; You incline Your ear,"}, {"pk": 2714771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "To defend the fatherless and the downtrodden; So that man who is of the earth no longer oppresses!"}, {"pk": 2714772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "In \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 I have taken refuge; Why do you say to me, \u201cFlee to your mountain like a bird\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2714773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "For look! The wrong bend a bow, They set their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart."}, {"pk": 2714774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "When the foundations are destroyed, What shall the righteous do?"}, {"pk": 2714775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in His set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al, The throne of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in the heavens. His eyes see, His eyelids examine the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2714776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 tries the righteous, But His being shall hate the wrong And the one who loves violence."}, {"pk": 2714777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "Upon the wrong He rains snares, Fire and sulphur and a scorching wind Are the portion of their cup."}, {"pk": 2714778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous, He has loved righteousness; The upright shall see His face."}, {"pk": 2714779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Save, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for the lovingly-committed one is no more! For the trustworthy have ceased from among the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2714780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "They speak falsehood with each other; They speak <i>with</i> flattering lips, a double heart."}, {"pk": 2714781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does cut off all flattering lips, A tongue that speaks swelling words,"}, {"pk": 2714782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "Who have said, \u201cWith our tongue we do mightily; Our lips are our own; Who is master over us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, I now arise, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI set in safety \u2014 he pants for it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "The Words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are clean Words, Silver tried in a furnace of earth, Refined seven times.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/18/30'>18:30</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/140'>119:140</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/30/5'>30:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2714785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "You guard them, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You preserve them from this generation forever."}, {"pk": 2714786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "The wrong walk around on every side, When worthlessness is exalted among the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2714787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "How long would You forget me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Forever? How long would You hide Your face from me?"}, {"pk": 2714788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "How long would I take counsel in my being, Grief in my heart day by day? How long would my enemy be exalted over me?"}, {"pk": 2714789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "Look! Answer me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep in death;"}, {"pk": 2714790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Lest my enemy say, \u201cI have prevailed against him,\u201d <i>Lest</i> my adversaries rejoice when I am moved."}, {"pk": 2714791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "But I have trusted in Your loving-commitment; My heart rejoices in Your deliverance."}, {"pk": 2714792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "I sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Because He has been good to me."}, {"pk": 2714793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "The fool has said in his heart, \u201cThere is no \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d They have done corruptly, They have done an abominable deed, There is no one who does good."}, {"pk": 2714794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 looked down from the heavens on the sons of mankind, To see if there is a wise one, seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "They have all turned aside, They have together become filthy; No one is doing good, not even one."}, {"pk": 2714796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2714797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "There they are in great fear, For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with the generation of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2714798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "You would put to shame the counsel of the poor, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is his refuge."}, {"pk": 2714799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "O that the deliverance of Yisra\u2019\u0115l Would be given out of Tsiyon! When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turns back the captivity of His people, Let Ya\u201baqob\u0331 rejoice, let Yisra\u2019\u0115l be glad."}, {"pk": 2714800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who does sojourn in Your Tent? Who does dwell in Your set-apart mountain?"}, {"pk": 2714801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "He who walks blamelessly, And does righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart."}, {"pk": 2714802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "He has not slandered with his tongue, He has not done evil to his neighbour, Nor lifted up a reproach against his friend;"}, {"pk": 2714803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "In whose eyes a reprobate one is despised, But he esteems those who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;"}, {"pk": 2714804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "He has not put out his silver at interest, And has not taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these is never moved."}, {"pk": 2714805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "Guard me, O \u011al, for I have taken refuge in You."}, {"pk": 2714806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "I have said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have no good beside You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "As for the set-apart ones who are on the earth, They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight."}, {"pk": 2714808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "The sorrows of those who run after another one are increased; I would not pour out their drink offerings of blood, Nor take up their names on my lips."}, {"pk": 2714809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You uphold my lot."}, {"pk": 2714810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Boundary</i> lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, a good inheritance is mine."}, {"pk": 2714811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "I bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who has given me counsel; My kidneys also instruct me in the nights."}, {"pk": 2714812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "I have set \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 always before me; Because <i>He</i> is at my right hand I am not shaken."}, {"pk": 2714813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore my heart was glad, and my esteem rejoices; My flesh also dwells in safety."}, {"pk": 2714814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "For You do not leave my being in She\u2019ol, Neither let Your Lovingly-committed One see corruption."}, {"pk": 2714815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "You show me the path of life; In Your presence is joy to satisfaction; At Your right hand are pleasures forever."}, {"pk": 2714816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear righteousness, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, From lips without deceit."}, {"pk": 2714817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "Let my right-ruling go out from Your presence; Let Your eyes see what is straight."}, {"pk": 2714818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "You have examined my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me \u2014 You find I have not schemed; My mouth would not transgress."}, {"pk": 2714819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "As for the deeds of men \u2014 By the word of Your lips, I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer."}, {"pk": 2714820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "My steps have held fast to Your paths, My feet have not slipped."}, {"pk": 2714821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "I have called upon You, for You answer me, O \u011al; Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech."}, {"pk": 2714822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "Let Your loving-commitment be distinguished, You who save by Your right hand those who take refuge From those who rise up."}, {"pk": 2714823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "Guard me as the apple of Your eye. Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,"}, {"pk": 2714824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "From the face of the wrong who ravage me, From my deadly enemies who surround me."}, {"pk": 2714825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "They are enclosed in their own fat, They speak proudly with their mouths,"}, {"pk": 2714826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "They have now surrounded us in our steps, They set their eyes to cast <i>us</i> to the ground,"}, {"pk": 2714827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Like a lion who is eager to tear his prey, And as a young lion crouching in cover."}, {"pk": 2714828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Confront him, cause him to bend; Deliver my being from the wrong by Your sword,"}, {"pk": 2714829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "From men by Your hand, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, From men of the world whose portion is in <i>this</i> life, And You fill their bellies with Your treasure, They are satisfied with children, And shall leave their riches to their babes."}, {"pk": 2714830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "As for me, let Me see Your face in righteousness; I am satisfied <i>to see</i> Your appearance when I awake."}, {"pk": 2714831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "I love You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, My strength."}, {"pk": 2714832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer; My \u011al is my rock, I take refuge in Him; My shield and the horn of my deliverance, my high tower."}, {"pk": 2714833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "I call upon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the One to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies."}, {"pk": 2714834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "The cords of death surrounded me, And the floods of Beliya\u201bal made me afraid."}, {"pk": 2714835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "The cords of She\u2019ol were all around me; The snares of death were before me."}, {"pk": 2714836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "In my distress I called upon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And to my Elohim I cried; He heard my voice from His H\u0115k\u0331al, And my cry went before Him, into His ears."}, {"pk": 2714837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And the earth shook and trembled; Even the foundations of the mountains were troubled And they shook, because He was wroth."}, {"pk": 2714838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "Smoke went up from His nostrils, And consuming fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it."}, {"pk": 2714839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And He bowed the heavens and came down, And thick darkness was under His feet."}, {"pk": 2714840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "And He rode upon a kerub\u0331, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind."}, {"pk": 2714841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "He made darkness His covering; Around Him His booth, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies."}, {"pk": 2714842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed, hail and coals of fire."}, {"pk": 2714843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 thundered in the heavens, And the Most High sent forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire."}, {"pk": 2714844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And He sent out His arrows and scattered them, And much lightning, and confused them."}, {"pk": 2714845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And the channels of waters were seen, And the foundations of the world were uncovered At Your rebuke, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils."}, {"pk": 2714846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters."}, {"pk": 2714847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they were stronger than I."}, {"pk": 2714848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was my support."}, {"pk": 2714849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And He brought me out into a large place; He delivered me for He delighted in me."}, {"pk": 2714850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He repaid me."}, {"pk": 2714851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "For I have guarded the ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And have not acted wrongly against my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "For all His right-rulings are before me, And I did not turn from His laws."}, {"pk": 2714853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "And I am perfect before Him, And I guard myself from my crookedness."}, {"pk": 2714854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 repays me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes."}, {"pk": 2714855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "With the lovingly-committed You show Yourself lovingly-committed; With the perfect one You show Yourself perfect;"}, {"pk": 2714856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "With the clean You show Yourself clean; And with the crooked You show Yourself twisted."}, {"pk": 2714857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "For You save the afflicted people, But bring down those whose eyes are haughty."}, {"pk": 2714858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "For You Yourself light my lamp; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim makes my darkness light."}, {"pk": 2714859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "For with You I run against a band, And with my Elohim I leap over a wall."}, {"pk": 2714860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "The \u011al \u2014 His way is perfect; The Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is proven; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/12/6'>12:6</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/140'>119:140</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/30/5'>30:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2714861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "For who is Eloah, besides \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And who is a rock, except our Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2714862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "It is \u011al who girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect,"}, {"pk": 2714863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "Making my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places,"}, {"pk": 2714864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "Teaching my hands for battle, So that my arms shall bend a bow of bronze."}, {"pk": 2714865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "And You give me the shield of Your deliverance; And Your right hand supports me, And Your lowliness makes me great."}, {"pk": 2714866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "text": "You enlarge my step under me; And my feet shall not slip."}, {"pk": 2714867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "text": "I pursue my enemies and overtake them; And do not turn back till they are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2714868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "text": "I crush them, and they are unable to rise; They fall under my feet."}, {"pk": 2714869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "text": "And You gird me with strength for battle; Cause my adversaries to bow under me."}, {"pk": 2714870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "text": "And You have made my enemies turn their backs, As for those hating me, I cut them off."}, {"pk": 2714871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 41, "text": "They cry \u2014 but no one is there to save, To \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 but He answers them not."}, {"pk": 2714872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 42, "text": "And I beat them as dust before the wind; I empty them out like dirt in the streets."}, {"pk": 2714873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 43, "text": "You deliver me from the strivings of the people, You set me at the head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me."}, {"pk": 2714874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 44, "text": "As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreigners submit to me."}, {"pk": 2714875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 45, "text": "The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their strongholds."}, {"pk": 2714876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 46, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives! And blessed is my Rock! And exalted is the Elohim of my deliverance,"}, {"pk": 2714877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 47, "text": "The \u011al who avenges me, And He humbles the peoples under me;"}, {"pk": 2714878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 48, "text": "My deliverer from my enemies. You lift me up above those who rise against me; You deliver me from a man of violence."}, {"pk": 2714879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 49, "text": "Therefore I give thanks to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, among nations, And I sing praise to Your Name,"}, {"pk": 2714880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 18, "verse": 50, "text": "Making great the deliverance of His sovereign, And showing loving-commitment to His anointed, To Dawid\u0331 and his seed, forever."}, {"pk": 2714881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "The heavens are proclaiming the esteem of \u011al; And the expanse is declaring the work of His hand."}, {"pk": 2714882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge."}, {"pk": 2714883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "There is no speech, and there are no words, Their voice is not heard."}, {"pk": 2714884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He set up a tent for the sun,"}, {"pk": 2714885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And it is like a bridegroom coming out of his room, It rejoices like a strong man to run the path."}, {"pk": 2714886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end; And naught is hidden from its heat."}, {"pk": 2714887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "The Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is trustworthy, making wise the simple;"}, {"pk": 2714888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "The orders of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are straight, rejoicing the heart; The command of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is clear, enlightening the eyes;"}, {"pk": 2714889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is clean, standing forever; The right-rulings of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are true, They are righteous altogether,"}, {"pk": 2714890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "More desirable than gold, Than much fine gold; And sweeter than honey and the honeycomb."}, {"pk": 2714891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "Also, Your servant is warned by them, In guarding them there is great reward."}, {"pk": 2714892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,"}, {"pk": 2714893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "Also keep Your servant back from presumptuous ones, Do not let them rule over me. Then shall I be perfect, and innocent of great transgression."}, {"pk": 2714894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be pleasing before You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my rock and my redeemer."}, {"pk": 2714895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does answer you in the day of distress! The Name of the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 does set you on high!"}, {"pk": 2714896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "He does send you help from the set-apart place, And does uphold you from Tsiyon!"}, {"pk": 2714897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "He does remember all your offerings, And does accept your ascending offering! Selah."}, {"pk": 2714898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "He does give you according to your heart, And fills all your plans!"}, {"pk": 2714899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "We sing of Your deliverance, And in the Name of our Elohim we set up a banner! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does fill all your requests!"}, {"pk": 2714900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Now I know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall save His Anointed; He answers him from His set-apart heavens With the saving might of His right hand."}, {"pk": 2714901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "Some <i>trust</i> in chariots, and some in horses, But we remember the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "They, they have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and are established."}, {"pk": 2714903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "Save, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Let the Sovereign answer us in the day we call."}, {"pk": 2714904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "The sovereign rejoices in Your strength, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; And how greatly he exults in Your deliverance!"}, {"pk": 2714905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "You have given him the desire of his heart, And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "For You put before him the blessings of goodness; You set a crown of fine gold on his head."}, {"pk": 2714907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "He asked life from You, and You gave it to him \u2014 Length of days forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2714908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "Through Your deliverance his esteem is great; You have laid excellency and splendour on him."}, {"pk": 2714909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "For You have made him most blessed forever; You have made him glad with the joy of Your presence."}, {"pk": 2714910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "For the sovereign is trusting in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And through the loving-commitment of the Most High he is not moved."}, {"pk": 2714911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Your hand reaches all Your enemies; Your right hand reaches those who hate You."}, {"pk": 2714912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "You make them as a furnace of fire in the time of Your presence; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does swallow them up in His wrath, And fire does consume them."}, {"pk": 2714913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "You destroy their fruit from the earth, And their seed from among the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2714914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "For they held out evil against You; They devised a plot; they do not prevail."}, {"pk": 2714915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "For You make them turn their back, When You aim with Your bowstring toward their faces."}, {"pk": 2714916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "Be exalted, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in Your strength! We sing and we praise Your might."}, {"pk": 2714917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "My \u011al, My \u011al, why have You forsaken Me \u2014 Far from saving Me, <i>far from</i> the words of My groaning?"}, {"pk": 2714918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "O My Elohim, I call by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I find no rest."}, {"pk": 2714919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "Yet You are set-apart, Enthroned on the praises of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2714920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them."}, {"pk": 2714921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed."}, {"pk": 2714922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people."}, {"pk": 2714923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "All those who see Me mock Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2714924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "He trusted in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, seeing He has delighted in Him!"}, {"pk": 2714925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "For You are the One who took Me out of the womb; Causing Me to trust <i>while</i> on My mother\u2019s breasts."}, {"pk": 2714926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother\u2019s belly You have been My \u011al."}, {"pk": 2714927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "Do not be far from Me, For distress is near; For there is none to help."}, {"pk": 2714928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong ones of Bashan have encircled Me."}, {"pk": 2714929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "They have opened their mouths against Me, As a raging and roaring lion."}, {"pk": 2714930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "I have been poured out like water, And all My bones have been spread apart; My heart has become like wax; It has melted in the midst of My inward parts."}, {"pk": 2714931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "My strength is dried like a potsherd, And My tongue is cleaving to My jaws; And to the dust of death You are appointing Me."}, {"pk": 2714932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "For dogs have surrounded Me; A crowd of evil ones have encircled Me, Piercing My hands and My feet;", "comment": "Some MSS have <em>\u2018like a lion, my hands and my feet.\u2019</em>, or <em>\u2018they dug my hands and my feet.\u2019</em>"}, {"pk": 2714933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "I count all My bones. They look, they stare at Me."}, {"pk": 2714934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "They divide My garments among them, And for My raiment they cast lots."}, {"pk": 2714935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not be far off; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!"}, {"pk": 2714936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "Deliver My life from the sword, My only <i>life</i> from the power of the dog."}, {"pk": 2714937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "Save Me from the mouth of the lion, And from the horns of the wild beasts! You have answered Me."}, {"pk": 2714938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "I make known Your Name to My brothers; In the midst of the assembly I praise You."}, {"pk": 2714939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "You who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, praise Him! All you seed of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, esteem Him, And fear Him, all you seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2714940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "For He has not despised Nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard."}, {"pk": 2714941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "From You is My praise in the great assembly; I pay My vows before those who fear Him."}, {"pk": 2714942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "The meek ones do eat and are satisfied; Let those who seek Him praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Let your heart live forever!"}, {"pk": 2714943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "Let all the ends of the earth Remember and turn to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And all clans of the nations Bow themselves before You."}, {"pk": 2714944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "For the reign belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And He is ruling over the nations."}, {"pk": 2714945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "All the fat ones of the earth Shall eat and bow themselves; All who go down to the dust bow before Him, Even he who did not keep alive his own life."}, {"pk": 2714946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "A seed shall serve Him. It is declared of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the <i>coming</i> generation."}, {"pk": 2714947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "They shall come and declare His righteousness To a people <i>yet</i> to be born, For He shall do it!"}, {"pk": 2714948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my shepherd; I do not lack."}, {"pk": 2714949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters."}, {"pk": 2714950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "He turns back my being; He leads me in paths of righteousness For His Name\u2019s sake.", "comment": "Or <em>He converts</em>."}, {"pk": 2714951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me."}, {"pk": 2714952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "You spread before me a table in the face of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup runs over."}, {"pk": 2714953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Only goodness and loving-commitment follow me All the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, To the length of days!"}, {"pk": 2714954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "The earth belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And all that fills it \u2014 The world and those who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2714955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "For He has founded it upon the seas, And upon the waters He does establish it."}, {"pk": 2714956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "Who does go up into the mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And who does stand in His set-apart place?"}, {"pk": 2714957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly."}, {"pk": 2714958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "He receives a blessing from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And righteousness from the Elohim of his deliverance."}, {"pk": 2714959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "This is the generation of those who seek Him; Ya\u201baqob\u0331, who seek Your face. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And let the Sovereign of esteem come in."}, {"pk": 2714961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "Who is this Sovereign of esteem? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 strong and mighty, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 mighty in battle."}, {"pk": 2714962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "Lift up your heads, O you gates! Even lift up, you everlasting doors! And let the Sovereign of esteem come in."}, {"pk": 2714963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "Who is this Sovereign of esteem? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, He is the Sovereign of esteem! Selah."}, {"pk": 2714964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> To You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I lift up my being."}, {"pk": 2714965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>B\u0115t</i> O my Elohim, in You I have put my trust; Let me not be ashamed; Let not my enemies exult over me."}, {"pk": 2714966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those who are treacherous without cause be ashamed."}, {"pk": 2714967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>Dalet</i> Show me Your ways, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Teach me Your paths."}, {"pk": 2714968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> Lead me in Your truth <i>(Waw)</i> and teach me, For You are the Elohim of my deliverance; On You I wait all the day."}, {"pk": 2714969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> Remember, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your compassion and Your loving-commitments, For they are from everlasting."}, {"pk": 2714970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>H\u0323et</i> Do not remember the sins of my youth, and my transgressions; According to Your loving-commitment remember me, For Your goodness\u2019 sake, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>Tet</i> Good and straight is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way."}, {"pk": 2714972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>Yod</i> He guides the meek ones in right-ruling, And He teaches the meek ones His way."}, {"pk": 2714973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> All the paths of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are loving-commitment and truth, To those who guard His covenant and His witnesses."}, {"pk": 2714974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>Lamed</i> For Your Name\u2019s sake, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You shall pardon my crookedness, though it is great."}, {"pk": 2714975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>Mem</i> Who, then, is the man that fears \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? He teaches him in the way he should choose."}, {"pk": 2714976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>Nun</i> His life dwells in good, And his seed inherits the earth."}, {"pk": 2714977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> The secret of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with those who fear Him, And He makes His covenant known to them."}, {"pk": 2714978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>Ayin</i> My eyes are ever toward \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He brings my feet out of the net."}, {"pk": 2714979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> Turn Your face to me, and show me favour, For I am lonely and afflicted."}, {"pk": 2714980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Tsadi</i> The distresses of my heart have enlarged; Oh, bring me out of my distresses!"}, {"pk": 2714981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> Look on my affliction and my toil, And forgive all my sins.", "comment": "Not a Qoph in the Hebrew text, but a R\u0115sh."}, {"pk": 2714982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> See how many my enemies have become; And they hate me with a violent hatred."}, {"pk": 2714983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>Shin</i> Oh, guard my life, and deliver me; Let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in You."}, {"pk": 2714984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>Taw</i> Let integrity and straightness guard me, For I have waited for You."}, {"pk": 2714985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "Redeem Yisra\u2019\u0115l, O Elohim, Out of all his distresses!"}, {"pk": 2714986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "Rule me rightly, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For I have walked in my integrity. And I have trusted in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, without wavering."}, {"pk": 2714987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "Examine me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and prove me; Try my kidneys and my heart."}, {"pk": 2714988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "For Your loving-commitment is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth."}, {"pk": 2714989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "I have not sat with men of falsehood, Nor do I enter with pretenders."}, {"pk": 2714990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "I have hated the assembly of evil-doers, And I do not sit with the wrong."}, {"pk": 2714991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "I wash my hands in innocence; And I walk around Your slaughter-place, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2714992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "To raise a voice of thanksgiving, And to declare all Your wonders."}, {"pk": 2714993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have loved the abode of Your house, And the place where Your esteem dwells."}, {"pk": 2714994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not gather my being together with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,"}, {"pk": 2714995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "In whose hands is a plot, And their right hand is filled with bribes."}, {"pk": 2714996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "But as for me, I walk in my integrity; Redeem me and show me favour."}, {"pk": 2714997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "My foot shall stand on a level place; In the assemblies I bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my light and my deliverance; Whom should I fear? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the refuge of my life; Whom should I dread?"}, {"pk": 2714999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "When evil-doers come against me To eat up my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, They shall stumble and fall."}, {"pk": 2715000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "Though an army encamps against me, My heart does not fear; Though battle comes up against me, Even then I would be trusting."}, {"pk": 2715001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "One <i>matter</i> I asked of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 this I seek: To dwell in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And to inquire in His H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2715002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "For in the day of evil He hides me in His booth; In the covering of His Tent He hides me; On a rock He raises me up."}, {"pk": 2715003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And now my head is lifted up above my enemies all around me; And I slaughter in His Tent with slaughters of sounding; I sing, yes, I sing praises to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "Hear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I cry with my voice! And show me favour, and answer me."}, {"pk": 2715005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "To my heart You have said, \u201cSeek My face.\u201d Your face, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I seek."}, {"pk": 2715006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in displeasure; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "When my father and my mother have forsaken me, Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does take me in."}, {"pk": 2715008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "Teach me Your way, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies."}, {"pk": 2715009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And they breathe out cruelty to me."}, {"pk": 2715010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "What if I had not believed To see the goodness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 In the land of the living!"}, {"pk": 2715011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "Wait on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, be strong, And let Him strengthen your heart! Wait, I say, on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2715012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "I cry to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Rock: Do not be deaf to me! For if You are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2715013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to You, When I lift up my hands Toward Your Set-apart Speaking Place."}, {"pk": 2715014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "Do not draw me away with the wrong And with the workers of wickedness, Who speak peace to their neighbours, But evil is in their hearts."}, {"pk": 2715015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "Give to them according to their deeds, And according to the evil of their practices; Give to them according to the work of their hands; Bring back to them what they deserve."}, {"pk": 2715016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Because they do not heed the works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Nor the works of His hands, He throws them down, And does not build them up."}, {"pk": 2715017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Because He has heard the voice of my prayers!"}, {"pk": 2715018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him."}, {"pk": 2715019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the strength of His people, And He is the stronghold of deliverance of His anointed."}, {"pk": 2715020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; And be their Shepherd, and bear them up forever."}, {"pk": 2715021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O you sons of the mighty, Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 esteem and strength."}, {"pk": 2715022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the esteem of His Name; Bow yourselves to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the splendour of set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2715023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is over the waters; The \u011al of esteem thunders; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is over many waters."}, {"pk": 2715024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with power, The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with greatness."}, {"pk": 2715025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is breaking the cedars, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is breaking the cedars of Leb\u0331anon in pieces."}, {"pk": 2715026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "And He makes them skip like a calf, Leb\u0331anon and Siryon like a young wild ox."}, {"pk": 2715027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 cuts through the flames of fire."}, {"pk": 2715028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shakes the wilderness; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shakes the Wilderness of Qad\u0331\u0115sh."}, {"pk": 2715029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes the deer give birth, And strips the forests bare; And in His H\u0115k\u0331al everyone says, \u201cEsteem!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sat enthroned at the Flood, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sits as Sovereign forever."}, {"pk": 2715031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives strength to His people; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 blesses His people with peace."}, {"pk": 2715032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "I exalt You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for You have drawn me up, And have not let my enemies rejoice over me."}, {"pk": 2715033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, I have cried to You, And You have healed me."}, {"pk": 2715034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You brought me up from She\u2019ol; You have kept me alive, from going down into the pit."}, {"pk": 2715035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "Sing praise to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You lovingly-committed ones of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His Set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2715036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "For His displeasure is for a moment, His delight is for life; Weeping might last for the night, But joy comes in the morning."}, {"pk": 2715037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "As for me, I have said in my ease, \u201cNever would I be shaken!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in Your good pleasure You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled."}, {"pk": 2715039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "I cried out to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; And to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 I prayed:"}, {"pk": 2715040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhat gain is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Would dust praise You? Would it declare Your truth?"}, {"pk": 2715041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and show me favour; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, be my helper!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have torn off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,"}, {"pk": 2715043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "So that esteem might praise You and not be silent. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, I thank You forever."}, {"pk": 2715044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "In You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed; Deliver me in Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2715045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "Incline Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily; Be a rock of refuge to me, A house of defence to save me."}, {"pk": 2715046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "For You are my rock and my stronghold; For Your Name\u2019s sake lead me and guide me."}, {"pk": 2715047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "Bring me out of the net which they have hidden for me, For You are my stronghold."}, {"pk": 2715048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al of truth."}, {"pk": 2715049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "I have hated those who observe lying vanities; But I trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "I exult and rejoice in Your loving-commitment, For You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses of my life,"}, {"pk": 2715051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "And You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place."}, {"pk": 2715052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "Show me favour, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for I am in distress; My eye, my being and my body have become old with grief!"}, {"pk": 2715053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "For my life is consumed in sorrow, And my years in sighing; My strength fails because of my crookedness, And my bones have become old."}, {"pk": 2715054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "I am a reproach among all my adversaries, But most of all among my neighbours, And a dread to my friends; Those who see me outside flee from me."}, {"pk": 2715055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "I have been forgotten like someone dead from the heart; I have been like a missing vessel."}, {"pk": 2715056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "For I hear the evil report of many; Fear is from all around; When they take counsel together against me, They plot to take away my life."}, {"pk": 2715057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "But I, I have put my trust in You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I have said, \u201cYou are my Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from those who pursue me."}, {"pk": 2715059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2715060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not let me be ashamed, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For I have called upon You; Let the wrong be ashamed; Let them be silenced in She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2715061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "Let lips of falsehood be stilled, Which speak recklessly against the righteous, With pride and scorn."}, {"pk": 2715062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "How great is Your goodness, Which You have laid up for those fearing You, Which You have prepared for those taking refuge in You In the sight of the sons of men!"}, {"pk": 2715063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from the plots of man; You shelter them in a booth from the strife of tongues."}, {"pk": 2715064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He has made marvellous His loving-commitment to me in a strong city!"}, {"pk": 2715065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "And I, I have said in my haste, \u201cI am cut off from before Your eyes,\u201d Yet You heard the voice of my prayers When I cried out to You."}, {"pk": 2715066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "Love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you His lovingly-committed ones! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 guards the trustworthy ones, And exceedingly repays the doer of pride."}, {"pk": 2715067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "Be strong, and let Him fortify your heart, All you who are waiting for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered."}, {"pk": 2715069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "Blessed is the man to whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 imputes no crookedness, And in whose spirit there is no deceit."}, {"pk": 2715070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "When I kept silent, my bones became old Through my groaning all the day."}, {"pk": 2715071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "I acknowledged my sin to You, And my crookedness I did not hide. I have said, \u201cI confess my transgressions to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u201d And You forgave the crookedness of my sin. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore, let every lovingly-committed one pray to You While <i>You</i> might be found; Even in a flood of great waters They would not reach him."}, {"pk": 2715074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "You are my hiding place; You preserve me from distress; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cLet Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you."}, {"pk": 2715076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not be like the horse, like the mule, With no understanding, with bit and bridle, Else they do not come near you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "Many are the sorrows of the wrong; But as for the one trusting in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Loving-commitment surrounds him."}, {"pk": 2715078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "Be glad in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and exult, you righteous; And shout for joy, all you upright in heart!"}, {"pk": 2715079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "Shout for joy in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the straight!"}, {"pk": 2715080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with the lyre; Sing to Him with an instrument of ten strings."}, {"pk": 2715081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "Sing to Him a new song; Play sweetly with a shout of joy."}, {"pk": 2715082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "For the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is straight, And all His works are in truth,"}, {"pk": 2715083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "Loving righteousness and right-ruling; The earth is filled with the loving-commitment of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "By the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the heavens were made, And all their host by the Spirit of His mouth,"}, {"pk": 2715085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "Gathering the waters of the sea together as a heap; Laying up the deep in storehouses."}, {"pk": 2715086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "Let all the earth fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him."}, {"pk": 2715087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood fast."}, {"pk": 2715088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings the counsel of the nations to naught; He thwarts the plans of the peoples."}, {"pk": 2715089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "The counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations."}, {"pk": 2715090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "Blessed is the nation whose Elohim is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, The people whom He has chosen as His own inheritance."}, {"pk": 2715091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has looked from the heavens; He has seen all the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2715092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "He looked from His dwelling place On all the inhabitants of the earth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2715093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works."}, {"pk": 2715094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "The sovereign is not saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength."}, {"pk": 2715095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "A horse is a vain means of safety; Neither does it rescue any by its great power."}, {"pk": 2715096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "See, the eye of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is on those fearing Him, On those waiting for His loving-commitment,"}, {"pk": 2715097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "To deliver their being from death, And to keep them alive during scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2715098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "Our being has longed for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Our help and our shield is He."}, {"pk": 2715099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "For our heart does rejoice in Him, For we have put our trust in His set-apart Name."}, {"pk": 2715100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "Let Your loving-commitment, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, be upon us, Even as we wait for You."}, {"pk": 2715101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> I bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at all times; His praise is continually in my mouth."}, {"pk": 2715102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>B\u0115t</i> My being makes its boast in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Let the humble hear and be glad."}, {"pk": 2715103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Oh, make \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 great with me, And let us exalt His Name together."}, {"pk": 2715104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>Dalet</i> I sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears."}, {"pk": 2715105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> They looked to Him and were lightened, <i>Waw</i> And their faces were not ashamed."}, {"pk": 2715106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> This poor one cried out and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard him, And saved him out of all his distresses."}, {"pk": 2715107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>H\u0323et</i> The messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 encamps all around those who fear Him, And rescues them."}, {"pk": 2715108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>Tet</i> Oh, taste and see that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good; Blessed is the man that takes refuge in Him!"}, {"pk": 2715109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>Yod</i> Fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you His set-apart ones, For there is no lack to them who fear Him!"}, {"pk": 2715110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> Young lions have lacked and been hungry; But those who seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lack not any good <i>matter</i>."}, {"pk": 2715111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>Lamed</i> Come, you children, listen to me; Let me teach you the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>Mem</i> Who is the man who desires life, Who loves many days, in order to see good?"}, {"pk": 2715113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>Nun</i> Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit."}, {"pk": 2715114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it."}, {"pk": 2715115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>Ayin</i> The eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are on the righteous, And His ears unto their cry."}, {"pk": 2715116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> The face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is against evil-doers, To cut off their remembrance from the earth."}, {"pk": 2715117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Tsadi</i> <i>The righteous</i> cried out, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard, And delivered them out of all their distresses."}, {"pk": 2715118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>Qoph</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near to the broken-hearted, And saves those whose spirit is crushed."}, {"pk": 2715119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> Many are the evils of the righteous, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 delivers him out of them all.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/71/20'>71:20</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/3/11'>3:11</a>, <a href='/TS2009/55/3/12'>12</a>"}, {"pk": 2715120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>Shin</i> He is guarding all his bones; Not one of them is broken."}, {"pk": 2715121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>Taw</i> Evil does slay the wrong, And those who hate the righteous are guilty."}, {"pk": 2715122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 redeems the lives of His servants, And none of those taking refuge in Him are guilty."}, {"pk": 2715123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, strive with those who strive with me; Fight against those who fight against me."}, {"pk": 2715124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "Take hold of shield and armour, And rise for my help."}, {"pk": 2715125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "And draw out spear and lance, To meet those who pursue me. Say to my life, \u201cI am your deliverance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "Let those be ashamed and blush Who seek my life; Let those be turned back and abashed Who plot evil to me."}, {"pk": 2715127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "Let them be as chaff before the wind, With a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 driving on."}, {"pk": 2715128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "Let their way be dark and slippery, With a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pursuing them."}, {"pk": 2715129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "For without cause they hid their net for me; Without cause they dug <i>a pit</i> for my life."}, {"pk": 2715130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "Let ruin come upon him unawares, And let his net that he hid catch himself; Let him fall in it, into ruin."}, {"pk": 2715131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "But let my own being exult in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Let it rejoice in His deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "Let all my bones say, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who is like You, Delivering the poor from one stronger than he, And the poor and the needy from him who robs him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "Ruthless witnesses rise up; They ask me that which I knew not."}, {"pk": 2715134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "They reward me evil for good, bereaving my life."}, {"pk": 2715135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; And my prayer would return to my own bosom."}, {"pk": 2715136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "I walked about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one mourning for a mother."}, {"pk": 2715137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "But they rejoiced at my stumbling And gathered together; The smiters gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore in pieces without ceasing,"}, {"pk": 2715138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "With unclean ones, mockers at feasts, Gnashing at me with their teeth."}, {"pk": 2715139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how long would You look on? Rescue my being from their destructions, My only <i>life</i> from the lions."}, {"pk": 2715140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "I give You thanks in the great assembly; I praise You among a mighty people."}, {"pk": 2715141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "Let not my lying enemies rejoice over me; Or those who hate me without cause wink their eyes."}, {"pk": 2715142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 20, "text": "For they do not speak peace, But they devise words of deceit Against the peaceable ones of the land."}, {"pk": 2715143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 21, "text": "And they open their mouth wide against me, They said, \u201cAha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 22, "text": "This You have seen, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Do not be silent. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not be far from me."}, {"pk": 2715145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 23, "text": "Stir up Yourself and awake to my right-ruling \u2014 To my cause, my Elohim and my Master."}, {"pk": 2715146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 24, "text": "Rule me rightly, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, According to Your righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me."}, {"pk": 2715147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 25, "text": "Let them not say in their hearts, \u201cAha, our desire!\u201d Let them not say, \u201cWe have swallowed him up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 26, "text": "Let those who are rejoicing at my evil Be ashamed and abashed altogether; Let those who are exalting themselves over me Be clad in shame and humiliation."}, {"pk": 2715149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 27, "text": "Let those who delight in my righteous cause Shout for joy and be glad, And let them always say, \u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be made great, Who is desiring the peace of His servant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 35, "verse": 28, "text": "And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness, Your praise, All day long."}, {"pk": 2715151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "Transgression speaks to the wrong within his heart; Fear of Elohim is not before his eyes."}, {"pk": 2715152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "For he flatters himself in his own eyes, To find his crookedness to be hated."}, {"pk": 2715153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise, to do good."}, {"pk": 2715154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "He plots wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does not despise evil."}, {"pk": 2715155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your loving-commitment is in the heavens, And Your trustworthiness reaches to the clouds."}, {"pk": 2715156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; Your right-rulings are a great deep; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You save man and beast."}, {"pk": 2715157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "How precious is Your loving-commitment, O Elohim! And the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings."}, {"pk": 2715158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "They are filled from the fatness of Your house, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures."}, {"pk": 2715159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light."}, {"pk": 2715160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "Draw out Your loving-commitment to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart."}, {"pk": 2715161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "Let not the foot of pride come against me, And the hand of the wrong drive me away."}, {"pk": 2715162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "There the workers of wickedness have fallen; They have been overthrown And have been unable to rise."}, {"pk": 2715163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> Do not fret because of evil-doers, Do not be envious of the workers of unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2715164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "For they soon wither like grass, And fade like green plants."}, {"pk": 2715165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>B\u0115t</i> Trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and do good; Dwell in the earth, and feed on steadfastness."}, {"pk": 2715166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "And delight yourself in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let Him give you the desires of your heart."}, {"pk": 2715167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Commit your way to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And trust in Him, and He does it."}, {"pk": 2715168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "And He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your right-ruling as midday."}, {"pk": 2715169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>Dalet</i> Rest in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices."}, {"pk": 2715170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> Abstain from displeasure, and forsake wrath; Do not fret, also to do evil."}, {"pk": 2715171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "For evil-doers are cut off; But those who wait on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, They shall inherit the earth.", "comment": "See also Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/11'>37:11</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/22'>37:22</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/29'>37:29</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/34'>37:34</a> and Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/5'>5:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2715172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>Waw</i> Yet a little while and the wrong is no more; And you shall look on his place, But it is not."}, {"pk": 2715173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "But the meek ones shall inherit the earth, And delight themselves in plenty of peace."}, {"pk": 2715174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> The wrong plots against the righteous, And gnashes his teeth at him."}, {"pk": 2715175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming."}, {"pk": 2715176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "<i>H\u0323et</i> The wrong have drawn the sword And have bent their bow, To cause the poor and needy to fall, To slay those who walk straightly."}, {"pk": 2715177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "Their sword does enter into their own heart, And their bows are broken."}, {"pk": 2715178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>Tet</i> Better is the little of the righteous one, Than the riches of many wrongdoers."}, {"pk": 2715179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "For the arms of the wrongdoers are broken, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sustains the righteous."}, {"pk": 2715180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>Yod</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows the days of the perfect, And their inheritance is forever."}, {"pk": 2715181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in the days of scarcity of food they are satisfied."}, {"pk": 2715182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> But the wrongdoers shall perish; And the enemies of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Like the splendour of the meadows they vanish, Like smoke they vanish away."}, {"pk": 2715183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>Lamed</i> The wrongdoer is borrowing and does not repay, But the righteous one shows favour and gives."}, {"pk": 2715184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "For His blessed ones inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him are cut off."}, {"pk": 2715185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "<i>Mem</i> The steps of a man are ordered by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And He delights in his way."}, {"pk": 2715186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "Though he falls, he is not cast down, For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is supporting his hand."}, {"pk": 2715187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "text": "<i>Nun</i> I have been young, and now I am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Or his seed begging bread."}, {"pk": 2715188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "text": "All day long he is showing favour and lending; And his seed is for a blessing."}, {"pk": 2715189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> Turn away from evil, and do good; And dwell forever."}, {"pk": 2715190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves right-ruling, And does not forsake His lovingly-committed ones; They shall be guarded forever, But the seed of the wrongdoers is cut off."}, {"pk": 2715191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "text": "The righteous shall inherit the earth, And dwell in it forever."}, {"pk": 2715192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2715193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "text": "The Torah of his Elohim is in his heart; His steps do not slide.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/6'>6:6</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/40/8'>40:8</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/11'>119:11</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/51/7'>51:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2715194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "text": "<i>Tsadi</i> The wrong one is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to slay him."}, {"pk": 2715195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not leave him in his hand, Or let him be declared wrong when he is judged."}, {"pk": 2715196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "text": "<i>Qoph</i> Wait on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and guard His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the earth \u2014 When the wrongdoers are cut off, you shall see it."}, {"pk": 2715197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> I have seen the wrongdoer in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree."}, {"pk": 2715198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "text": "Yet he passed away, and see, he was not; And I sought him, but he was not found."}, {"pk": 2715199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 37, "text": "<i>Shin</i> Watch the perfect, and observe the straight; For the latter end of each is peace."}, {"pk": 2715200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 38, "text": "But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The latter end of the wrong shall be cut off."}, {"pk": 2715201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 39, "text": "<i>Taw</i> But the deliverance of the righteous is from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Their strength in time of distress."}, {"pk": 2715202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 37, "verse": 40, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does help them and deliver them; He delivers them from the wrongdoers and saves them, Because they took refuge in Him."}, {"pk": 2715203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chastise me in Your hot displeasure!"}, {"pk": 2715204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "For Your arrows have pierced me, And Your hand comes down on me."}, {"pk": 2715205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your rage, Nor peace in my bones because of my sin."}, {"pk": 2715206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "For my crookednesses have passed over my head; Like a heavy burden, too heavy for me."}, {"pk": 2715207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "My wounds have become stinky, festering Because of my folly."}, {"pk": 2715208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "I have been bent down; I have been bowed down very much; All day long I have gone mourning."}, {"pk": 2715209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "For my loins have become filled with burning, And there is no soundness in my flesh."}, {"pk": 2715210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "I have become weak and greatly crushed; I howled from the groaning of my heart."}, {"pk": 2715211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all my desire is before You; And my sighing has not been hid from You."}, {"pk": 2715212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "My heart is throbbing, my strength has forsaken me; And the light of my eyes also is not with me."}, {"pk": 2715213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "My loved ones and my friends stand back from my plague, And my neighbours stand far away."}, {"pk": 2715214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "And those seeking my life lay a snare; And those seeking my evil have spoken of destruction, And utter deceit all day long."}, {"pk": 2715215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "But I, as one deaf, do not hear; And as a dumb one who does not open his mouth."}, {"pk": 2715216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "I am like a man who does not hear, And who has no rebukes in his mouth."}, {"pk": 2715217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "For on You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have waited; You do answer, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "For I said, \u201cOtherwise they would rejoice over me, When my foot slips they would exalt themselves over me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "For I am ready to fall, And my pain is always with me."}, {"pk": 2715220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "For I confess my crookedness; I am sorry over my sin."}, {"pk": 2715221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "But my enemies are alive; They have become strong; And those hating me falsely are many."}, {"pk": 2715222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "And those who repay evil for good, They oppose me, because I follow what is good."}, {"pk": 2715223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "Do not forsake me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; O my Elohim, be not far from me!"}, {"pk": 2715224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "Hasten to help me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my deliverance!"}, {"pk": 2715225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "I have said,\u201dLet me guard my ways Against sinning with my tongue; Let me guard my mouth with a muzzle, While the wrongdoer is before me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "I became dumb, keeping still; I was silent, from good; And my pain was stirred."}, {"pk": 2715227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "My heart was hot within me; While I was meditating, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:"}, {"pk": 2715228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, let me know my end, And the measure of my days, what it is, Let me know how short-lived I am."}, {"pk": 2715229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "As but a shadow each one walks; They busy themselves, only in vain; He heaps up <i>wealth</i>, But knows not who gathers them."}, {"pk": 2715231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what do I wait for? My expectancy is in You."}, {"pk": 2715232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI was dumb, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it."}, {"pk": 2715234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "Turn aside Your stroke from me; I am overcome by the blow of Your hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWhen You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "Hear my prayer, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more."}, {"pk": 2715238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "I waited, waited for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry."}, {"pk": 2715239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "And He drew me Out of the pit of destruction, Out of the muddy clay, And He set my feet upon a rock, He is establishing my steps."}, {"pk": 2715240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "Then He put a new song in my mouth; Praise to our Elohim; Many do see it and fear, And trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "Blessed is that man who has made \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his trust, And has not turned to the proud, And those turning aside to falsehood."}, {"pk": 2715242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, many are the wonders Which You have done, and Your purposes toward us; There is no one to compare with You; I declare and speak: They are too many to be numbered."}, {"pk": 2715243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire; You have opened my ears; Ascending offering and sin offering You did not ask for.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/5'>10:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/10/6'>6</a>"}, {"pk": 2715244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "Then I said, \u201cSee, I have come; In the scroll of the Book it is prescribed for me."}, {"pk": 2715245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart.\u201d", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/31'>37:31</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/11'>119:11</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/51/7'>51:7</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/7-9'>10:7-9</a>"}, {"pk": 2715246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness, In the great assembly; See, I do not restrain my lips, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You know."}, {"pk": 2715247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "I did not conceal Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your trustworthiness and Your deliverance; I did not hide Your loving-commitment and Your truth From the great assembly."}, {"pk": 2715248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Let Your loving-commitment and Your truth always watch over me."}, {"pk": 2715249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me."}, {"pk": 2715250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "Be pleased, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to deliver me; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hasten to help me!"}, {"pk": 2715251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "Let those who seek to destroy my life Be ashamed and abashed altogether; Let those who are desiring my evil Be driven back and put to shame."}, {"pk": 2715252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "Let those who say to me, \u201cAha, aha!\u201d Be appalled at their own shame."}, {"pk": 2715253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "Let all those who seek You Rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your deliverance always say, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be exalted!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "But I am poor and needy; Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 think upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my Elohim, do not delay!"}, {"pk": 2715255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "Blessed is he who considers the poor; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does deliver him in a day of evil."}, {"pk": 2715256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does guard him and keep him alive; He is blessed on the earth, And You do not hand him over To the desire of his enemies."}, {"pk": 2715257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sustains him on his sickbed; In his weakness on his bed You bring a change."}, {"pk": 2715258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "As for me, I said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, show me favour; Heal me, for I have sinned against You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "My enemies speak evil of me, \u201cWhen he dies his name shall perish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "And when one comes to visit, he speaks falsely; His heart gathers wickedness to itself; He goes out, he speaks of it."}, {"pk": 2715261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "All who hate me whisper together against me; They plot evil to me, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2715262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "A matter of Beliya\u201bal is poured out on him, That when he lies down, he would not rise again."}, {"pk": 2715263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "Even my own friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me."}, {"pk": 2715264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "But You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, show me favour and raise me up, And let me repay them."}, {"pk": 2715265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "By this I know that You did delight in me, Because my enemy does not shout for joy over me."}, {"pk": 2715266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "And I, You uphold me in my integrity, And set me before Your face forever."}, {"pk": 2715267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l From everlasting to everlasting! Am\u0115n and Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2715268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "As a deer longs for the water streams, So my being longs for You, O Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "My being thirsts for Elohim, for the living \u011al. When shall I enter in to appear before Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2715270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day, \u201cWhere is your Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "These I remember, and pour out my being within me. For I used to pass along with the throng; I went with them to the House of Elohim, With the voice of joy and praise, A multitude celebrating a festival!"}, {"pk": 2715272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "Why are you depressed, O my being? And <i>why</i> are you restless within me? Wait for Elohim: for I shall yet thank Him, <i>For</i> the deliverance of His face!"}, {"pk": 2715273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "O my Elohim, my being is depressed within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Yard\u0115n, And from the heights of H\u0323ermon, From Mount Mits\u201bar."}, {"pk": 2715274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and breakers passed over me."}, {"pk": 2715275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "By day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commands His loving-commitment, And by night His song is with me; A prayer to the \u011al of my life."}, {"pk": 2715276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "I say to \u011al my Rock, \u201cWhy have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "With murder in my bones, My enemies have reproached me, While they say to me all day long, \u201cWhere is your Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "Why are you depressed, O my being? And why are you restless within me? Wait for Elohim: for I shall yet thank Him, the deliverance of my face, And my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "text": "Rule me rightly, O Elohim, And plead my cause against a nation without loving-commitment. Oh, deliver me from a man of deceit and unrighteousness!"}, {"pk": 2715280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "text": "For You are the Elohim of my strength. Why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"}, {"pk": 2715281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "text": "Send forth Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me, Let them bring me to Your set-apart mountain And to Your dwelling places."}, {"pk": 2715282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "text": "That I might come to the slaughter-place of Elohim, To \u011al, the joy of my delight, And praise You with the lyre, O Elohim, my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "text": "Why are you depressed, O my being? And why are you restless within me? Wait for Elohim: for I shall yet thank Him, the deliverance of my face, And my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have related to us, The work You did in their days, In the days of old."}, {"pk": 2715285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "text": "You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted. You afflicted peoples, and sent them out."}, {"pk": 2715286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "text": "For not by their own sword did they possess the land, Neither did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand and Your arm, And the light of Your face, Because You delighted in them."}, {"pk": 2715287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "text": "You Yourself are my Sovereign, O Elohim; Command deliverances for Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2715288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "text": "Through You we push our enemies; Through Your Name we tread down those who rise up against us."}, {"pk": 2715289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "text": "For I do not trust in my bow, And my sword does not save me."}, {"pk": 2715290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "text": "For You have saved us from our enemies, And have put to shame those who hated us."}, {"pk": 2715291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "text": "In Elohim we shall boast all day long, And praise Your Name forever. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "text": "Yet You have rejected us and put us to shame, And You do not go with our armies."}, {"pk": 2715293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "text": "You make us turn back from the adversary, And those who hate us have plundered us."}, {"pk": 2715294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "text": "You do give us as sheep to be eaten, And You have scattered us among the nations."}, {"pk": 2715295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "text": "You sell Your people for no value, And have set no high price on them."}, {"pk": 2715296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "text": "You make us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those round about us."}, {"pk": 2715297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "text": "You make us a proverb among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples."}, {"pk": 2715298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "text": "My reproach is always before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,"}, {"pk": 2715299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "text": "Because of the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, Because of the enemy and avenger."}, {"pk": 2715300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "text": "All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Neither have we been false to Your covenant."}, {"pk": 2715301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "text": "Our heart has not turned back, Neither has our step swerved from Your way,"}, {"pk": 2715302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "text": "Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death."}, {"pk": 2715303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "text": "If we have forgotten the Name of our Elohim, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign mighty one,"}, {"pk": 2715304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "text": "Would Elohim not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart."}, {"pk": 2715305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "text": "But for Your sake we are killed all day long; Reckoned as sheep for the slaughter."}, {"pk": 2715306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "text": "Awake! Why do You sleep, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Arise! Do not reject us forever."}, {"pk": 2715307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "text": "Why do You hide Your face, Ignoring our affliction and our oppression?"}, {"pk": 2715308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "text": "For our being is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth."}, {"pk": 2715309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "text": "Arise, be our help, And redeem us for Your loving-commitment\u2019 sake."}, {"pk": 2715310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "text": "My heart is overflowing with a goodly word; I address my works to the Sovereign; My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer."}, {"pk": 2715311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "text": "You are more handsome than the sons of men; Favour has been poured upon Your lips; Therefore Elohim has blessed You forever."}, {"pk": 2715312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "text": "Gird Your sword upon <i>Your</i> thigh, O Mighty One, Your excellency and Your splendour."}, {"pk": 2715313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "text": "And ride prosperously in Your splendour, On the matter of truth and humility, righteousness; And let Your right hand lead You to awesome <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2715314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "text": "Your arrows are sharp In the heart of the Sovereign\u2019s enemies \u2014 Peoples fall under You."}, {"pk": 2715315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "text": "Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; The sceptre of Your reign Is a sceptre of straightness."}, {"pk": 2715316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "text": "You have loved righteousness and hated wrongness; Therefore Elohim, Your Elohim, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.", "comment": "Quoted in Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/1/8'>1:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/1/9'>9</a> where the Greek text has <em>lawlessness</em> instead of <em>wrongness</em>."}, {"pk": 2715317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "text": "All Your garments are myrrh and aloes, cassia; Out of the palaces of ivory, Stringed instruments have made You glad."}, {"pk": 2715318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "text": "Daughters of sovereigns are among Your precious ones; At Your right hand stands the sovereigness in gold from Ophir."}, {"pk": 2715319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "text": "Listen, O daughter, and see, And incline your ear, And forget your own people and your father\u2019s house;"}, {"pk": 2715320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "text": "And let the Sovereign delight in your loveliness; Because He is your Master \u2014 bow yourself to Him."}, {"pk": 2715321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "text": "And the daughter of Tsor with a gift, The rich among the people seek your favour."}, {"pk": 2715322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "text": "The daughter of the Sovereign Is all esteemed within <i>the palace</i>; Her dress is embroidered with gold."}, {"pk": 2715323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "text": "She is brought to the Sovereign in embroidered work; Maidens, her companions following her, Are brought to You."}, {"pk": 2715324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "text": "They are brought with gladness and rejoicing; They enter the Sovereign\u2019s palace."}, {"pk": 2715325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "text": "Instead of Your fathers are Your sons, Whom You appoint princes in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2715326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "text": "I cause Your Name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the people praise You forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2715327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim is our refuge and strength, A help in distress, soon found."}, {"pk": 2715328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore we do not fear, Though the earth reels And mountains topple into the heart of the seas."}, {"pk": 2715329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "text": "Let its waters rage, foam; Let mountains shake with its swelling. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "text": "A river whose streams Make glad the city of Elohim, The set-apart dwelling of the Most High."}, {"pk": 2715331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "text": "Elohim is in her midst, she does not topple; Elohim does help her when morning turns."}, {"pk": 2715332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "text": "The nations shall rage, Reigns shall topple; He shall give forth His voice, The earth melts."}, {"pk": 2715333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is with us; The Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is our refuge. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "text": "Come, see the works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, The ruins He has wrought on the earth,"}, {"pk": 2715335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "text": "Causing <i>all</i> fighting to cease, Unto the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the chariot with fire."}, {"pk": 2715336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "text": "Be still, and know that I am Elohim; I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth!"}, {"pk": 2715337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is with us; The Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is our refuge. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "text": "Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to Elohim with a voice of singing!"}, {"pk": 2715339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Most High is awesome; A great Sovereign over all the earth."}, {"pk": 2715340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "text": "He subdues peoples under us, And nations under our feet."}, {"pk": 2715341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "text": "He chooses our inheritance for us, The excellence of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 whom He loves. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "text": "Elohim shall go up with a shout, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with a voice of a shophar."}, {"pk": 2715343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "text": "Sing praises to Elohim, sing praises! Sing praises to our Sovereign, sing praises!"}, {"pk": 2715344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "text": "For Elohim is Sovereign of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding."}, {"pk": 2715345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "text": "Elohim shall reign over the nations; Elohim shall sit on His set-apart throne."}, {"pk": 2715346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "text": "Nobles of peoples shall be gathered together, The people of the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham. For the shields of the earth belong to Elohim; He shall be greatly exalted."}, {"pk": 2715347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "text": "Great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and greatly to be praised In the city of our Elohim, His set-apart mountain."}, {"pk": 2715348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "text": "Beautiful on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign."}, {"pk": 2715349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "text": "Elohim is in her citadels; He is known as her refuge."}, {"pk": 2715350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "text": "For look, the sovereigns met, They passed by together."}, {"pk": 2715351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "text": "They saw, so they marvelled; They were alarmed, they hastened away."}, {"pk": 2715352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "text": "Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in labour,"}, {"pk": 2715353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "text": "With an east wind You break the ships of Tarshish."}, {"pk": 2715354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "text": "As we have heard, so we have seen In the city of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, In the city of our Elohim, Elohim establishes her forever. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "text": "We have thought, O Elohim, of Your loving-commitment, In the midst of Your H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2715356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "text": "According to Your Name, O Elohim, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is filled with righteousness."}, {"pk": 2715357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "text": "Let Mount Tsiyon rejoice, Let the daughters of Yehud\u0331ah exult, Because of Your right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2715358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "text": "Walk about Tsiyon, And go all around her. Count her towers;"}, {"pk": 2715359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "text": "Set your heart upon her rampart; Go through her citadels; So that you report it to the coming generation."}, {"pk": 2715360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "text": "For this Elohim is our Elohim, Forever and ever; He Himself leads us, Even to death."}, {"pk": 2715361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear this, all you peoples; Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,"}, {"pk": 2715362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "text": "Both sons of mankind and sons of man, Rich and poor together."}, {"pk": 2715363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "text": "My mouth speaks wisdom, And the meditation of my heart brings understanding."}, {"pk": 2715364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "text": "I incline my ear to a parable; I expound my riddle on the lyre."}, {"pk": 2715365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "text": "Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the crookedness of my supplanters surrounds me?"}, {"pk": 2715366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "text": "Those who are trusting in their riches And who are boasting in their great wealth?"}, {"pk": 2715367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "text": "A brother does not redeem anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom for him;"}, {"pk": 2715368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "text": "For the redemption of their lives is costly, And it shall cease forever;"}, {"pk": 2715369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "text": "That he should still live forever, <i>And</i> not see the pit."}, {"pk": 2715370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "text": "For he sees wise men die, The foolish and the ignorant both perish, And shall leave their wealth to others."}, {"pk": 2715371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "text": "Their inner thoughts are their houses, forever; Their dwelling places, to all generations; They call <i>their</i> lands after their own names.", "comment": "<em>Inner thoughts</em>; some manuscripts have it as <em>graves</em>"}, {"pk": 2715372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "text": "But man does not remain in esteem, He is like the beasts that perish."}, {"pk": 2715373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "text": "This way of theirs is folly to them, Yet their followers are pleased with their words. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "text": "Like sheep they shall be laid in She\u2019ol; Death shall shepherd them; And the upright rule over them in the morning; And their form is consumed in She\u2019ol, Far from their dwelling."}, {"pk": 2715375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "text": "But Elohim does redeem my being From the power of She\u2019ol, For He does receive me. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "text": "Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich, When the wealth of his house increases;"}, {"pk": 2715377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "text": "For when he dies he takes none of it; His wealth does not go down after him."}, {"pk": 2715378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "text": "Though while he lived he blessed himself, And though they praise you when you do well for yourself,"}, {"pk": 2715379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "text": "He has to go to the generation of his fathers; They never see the light."}, {"pk": 2715380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "text": "Man, who is rich, Yet does not understand, Shall be like the beasts, They shall perish."}, {"pk": 2715381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "text": "\u011al Elohim \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall speak, And He shall call the earth From the rising of the sun to its going down."}, {"pk": 2715382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "text": "From Tsiyon, the perfection of loveliness, Elohim shall shine forth."}, {"pk": 2715383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "text": "Our Elohim comes, and is not silent \u2014 A fire consumes before Him, And it shall be very stormy all around Him."}, {"pk": 2715384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "text": "He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to rightly rule His people:"}, {"pk": 2715385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "text": "Gather My lovingly-committed ones together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2715386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the heavens declared His righteousness, For Elohim Himself is Judge. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHear, O My people, and I speak, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and I witness against you: I am Elohim, your Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2715388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "text": "I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your ascending offerings are continually before Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI do not take a bull from your house, Nor goats out of your pens."}, {"pk": 2715390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "text": "For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI know all the birds of the mountains, And all moving in My field are Mine."}, {"pk": 2715392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 12, "text": "If I were hungry, I would not speak to you; For the world is Mine, and all that fills it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cDo I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?"}, {"pk": 2715394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 14, "text": "Slaughter thanksgiving to Elohim, And pay your vows to the Most High.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 15, "text": "And call upon Me in the day of distress \u2014 Let Me rescue you, and you esteem Me."}, {"pk": 2715396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 16, "text": "But to the wrong Elohim said, \u201cWhat right have you to recite My laws, Or take My covenant in your mouth,"}, {"pk": 2715397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cWhile you hated instruction And cast My Words behind you?"}, {"pk": 2715398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 18, "text": "When you saw a thief, you were pleased with him, And you take part with adulterers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cYou let your mouth loose to evil, And your tongue frames deceit."}, {"pk": 2715400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 20, "text": "You sit, speak against your brother; You slander your own mother\u2019s son.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYou have done this, and I kept silent; You have thought that I was altogether like you \u2014 I rebuke you, and set it in order before your eyes."}, {"pk": 2715402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 22, "text": "Understand this please, you who forget Eloah, Lest I tear you in pieces, With no one to deliver:\""}, {"pk": 2715403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 50, "verse": 23, "text": "Whoever slaughters praise esteems Me; And to him who prepares a way, I show the deliverance of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 1, "text": "Show me favour, O Elohim, According to Your loving-commitment; According to the greatness of Your compassion, Blot out my transgressions."}, {"pk": 2715405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 2, "text": "Wash me completely from my guilt, And cleanse me from my sin."}, {"pk": 2715406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 3, "text": "For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me."}, {"pk": 2715407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 4, "text": "Against You, You alone, have I sinned, And done evil in Your eyes; That You might be proven right in Your words; Be clear when You judge."}, {"pk": 2715408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 5, "text": "See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me."}, {"pk": 2715409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 6, "text": "See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom."}, {"pk": 2715410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 7, "text": "Cleanse me with hyssop, and I am clean; Wash me, and I am whiter than snow."}, {"pk": 2715411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 8, "text": "Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have crushed rejoice."}, {"pk": 2715412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 9, "text": "Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2715413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 10, "text": "Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me."}, {"pk": 2715414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 11, "text": "Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Set-apart Spirit from me."}, {"pk": 2715415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 12, "text": "Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, And uphold me, Noble Spirit!"}, {"pk": 2715416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 13, "text": "Let me teach transgressors Your ways, So that sinners turn back to You."}, {"pk": 2715417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 14, "text": "Deliver me from blood-guilt, O Elohim, Elohim of my deliverance, Let my tongue sing aloud of Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2715418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 15, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, open my lips, And that my mouth declare Your praise."}, {"pk": 2715419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 16, "text": "For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2715420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 17, "text": "The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise."}, {"pk": 2715421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 18, "text": "Do good in Your good pleasure to Tsiyon; Build the walls of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2715422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 51, "verse": 19, "text": "Then You would delight in slaughterings of righteousness, In ascending offering and complete ascending offering; Then young bulls would be offered on Your slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2715423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 1, "text": "Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The loving-commitment of \u011al is all day long!"}, {"pk": 2715424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 2, "text": "Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceit."}, {"pk": 2715425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 3, "text": "You loved evil more than good, Lying more than speaking righteousness. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 4, "text": "You loved all devouring words, O tongue of deceit."}, {"pk": 2715427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 5, "text": "Let \u011al also break you down forever, Take you and pluck you out of your tent. And He shall uproot you From the land of the living. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 6, "text": "And let the righteous see and fear, And laugh at him, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2715429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 7, "text": "See the man who did not make Elohim his strength, But trusted in his many riches, Being strong in his destruction."}, {"pk": 2715430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 8, "text": "But I am like a green olive tree In the House of Elohim, I have trusted in the loving-commitment of Elohim Forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2715431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 52, "verse": 9, "text": "I thank You forever, Because You have done it; And in the presence of Your lovingly-committed ones I wait on Your Name, for it is good."}, {"pk": 2715432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 1, "text": "The fool has said in his heart, \u201cThere is no Elohim.\u201d They have done corruptly, And they have done abominable unrighteousness; No one does good."}, {"pk": 2715433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 2, "text": "Elohim looked down from the heavens on the children of men, To see if there is a wise one, seeking Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 3, "text": "They have all turned aside; They have together become filthy; No one is doing good, not even one."}, {"pk": 2715435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 4, "text": "Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call on Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2715436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 5, "text": "There they are in great fear, Where no fear was, For Elohim shall scatter the bones Of him who encamps against you. You shall put them to shame, For Elohim has rejected them."}, {"pk": 2715437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 53, "verse": 6, "text": "O that the deliverance of Yisra\u2019\u0115l Would be given out of Tsiyon! When Elohim turns back the captivity of His people, Let Ya\u201baqob\u0331 rejoice, let Yisra\u2019\u0115l be glad."}, {"pk": 2715438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, save me by Your Name, And rightly rule me by Your might."}, {"pk": 2715439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 2, "text": "Hear my prayer, O Elohim; Give ear to the words of my mouth."}, {"pk": 2715440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 3, "text": "For strangers have risen up against me, And cruel men have sought after my life; They have not set Elohim before them. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 4, "text": "See, Elohim is my helper; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with those who sustain my life."}, {"pk": 2715442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 5, "text": "He repays evil to my enemies. Cut them off in Your truth."}, {"pk": 2715443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 6, "text": "Voluntarily I slaughter to You; I praise Your Name, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for it is good."}, {"pk": 2715444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 54, "verse": 7, "text": "For He has delivered me out of all distress; And my eye has looked upon my enemies."}, {"pk": 2715445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 1, "text": "Give ear to my prayer, O Elohim, And do not hide Yourself from my plea."}, {"pk": 2715446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 2, "text": "Give heed to me, and answer me; I wander and moan in my complaint,"}, {"pk": 2715447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 3, "text": "Because of the noise of the enemy, Because of the outcry of the wrong; For they bring down wickedness upon me, And in wrath they hate me."}, {"pk": 2715448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 4, "text": "My heart is pained within me, And the frights of death have fallen upon me."}, {"pk": 2715449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 5, "text": "Fear and trembling have come upon me, And shuddering covers me."}, {"pk": 2715450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 6, "text": "And I said, \u201cWho would give me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest."}, {"pk": 2715451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSee, I would wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI would hasten my escape From the raging wind and storm.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 9, "text": "Confuse, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, divide their tongues, For I saw violence and strife in the city."}, {"pk": 2715454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 10, "text": "Day and night they go around it on its walls; Wickedness and trouble are also in the midst of it."}, {"pk": 2715455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 11, "text": "Covetings are in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not vanish from its streets."}, {"pk": 2715456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 12, "text": "It is not an enemy who reproaches me \u2014 That I could bear; Nor one who hates me who is making himself great against me \u2014 Then I could hide from him."}, {"pk": 2715457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 13, "text": "But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my friend."}, {"pk": 2715458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 14, "text": "We took sweet counsel together, We walked to the House of Elohim in the throng."}, {"pk": 2715459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 15, "text": "Let death come upon them; Let them go down into She\u2019ol alive, For evil is in their dwellings, in their midst."}, {"pk": 2715460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 16, "text": "I, I call upon Elohim, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saves me."}, {"pk": 2715461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 17, "text": "Evening and morning and at noon I complain and moan, And He hears my voice."}, {"pk": 2715462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 18, "text": "He has redeemed my life in peace From the battle against me, For there were many against me."}, {"pk": 2715463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 19, "text": "\u011al, even He who sits <i>enthroned</i> from of old, Does hear and afflict them \u2014 Selah \u2014 Those with whom there are no changes, Those who do not fear Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 20, "text": "He has put forth his hands against those Who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant."}, {"pk": 2715465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 21, "text": "His mouth was smoother than curds, Yet in his heart is fighting; His words were softer than oil, But they are drawn swords."}, {"pk": 2715466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 22, "text": "Cast your burden on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let Him sustain you; He never allows the righteous to be shaken."}, {"pk": 2715467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 55, "verse": 23, "text": "For You, O Elohim, do bring them down To the pit of destruction; Men of blood and deceit do not reach half their days; But I, I trust in You."}, {"pk": 2715468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 1, "text": "Show me favour, O Elohim, For man would swallow me up; Fighting all day long, he oppresses me."}, {"pk": 2715469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 2, "text": "My enemies would swallow me up all day long, For many are fighting against me, O <i>Most</i> High."}, {"pk": 2715470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 3, "text": "In the day I am afraid, I trust in You."}, {"pk": 2715471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 4, "text": "In Elohim, whose Word I praise, In Elohim I have trusted; I do not fear; What could flesh do to me?"}, {"pk": 2715472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 5, "text": "All day long they twist my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil."}, {"pk": 2715473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 6, "text": "They stir up strife, they hide, They watch my steps, As they lie in wait for my life."}, {"pk": 2715474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 7, "text": "Because of wickedness, cast them out. Put down the peoples in displeasure, O Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2715475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 8, "text": "You have counted my wanderings; You put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?"}, {"pk": 2715476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 9, "text": "My enemies turn back in the day I call; This I know, because Elohim is for me."}, {"pk": 2715477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 10, "text": "In Elohim, whose Word I praise, In \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, whose Word I praise,"}, {"pk": 2715478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 11, "text": "In Elohim I have trusted; I do not fear; What could man do to me?"}, {"pk": 2715479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 12, "text": "On me, O Elohim, are Your vows; I render praises to You,"}, {"pk": 2715480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 56, "verse": 13, "text": "For You have delivered my life from death, My feet from stumbling, That I might walk before Elohim, In the light of the living!"}, {"pk": 2715481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 1, "text": "Show me favour, O Elohim, show me favour! For in You my being is taking refuge; And in the shadow of Your wings I take refuge, Until destruction passes by."}, {"pk": 2715482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 2, "text": "I cry out to the Most High Elohim, To \u011al who is perfecting <i>all matters</i> for me."}, {"pk": 2715483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 3, "text": "He sends from the heavens and saves me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah. Elohim sends forth His loving-commitment and His truth."}, {"pk": 2715484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 4, "text": "My being is in the midst of lions; I lie <i>among</i> those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword."}, {"pk": 2715485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 5, "text": "Be exalted, O Elohim, above the heavens; Let Your esteem be above all the earth."}, {"pk": 2715486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 6, "text": "They have prepared a net for my footsteps; My being was bowed down; They have dug a pit before me; They fell into the midst of it! Selah."}, {"pk": 2715487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 7, "text": "My heart is firm, O Elohim, My heart is firm; I sing and praise."}, {"pk": 2715488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 8, "text": "Awake, my esteem! Awake, harp and lyre! I awake the dawn."}, {"pk": 2715489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 9, "text": "I praise You among the peoples, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I sing to You among the nations."}, {"pk": 2715490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 10, "text": "For Your loving-commitment is great up to the heavens, And Your truth unto the clouds."}, {"pk": 2715491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 57, "verse": 11, "text": "Be exalted above the heavens, O Elohim; Let Your esteem be above all the earth."}, {"pk": 2715492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 1, "text": "Would you indeed speak righteousness, in silence? Do you judge straightly, you sons of men?"}, {"pk": 2715493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 2, "text": "No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands."}, {"pk": 2715494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 3, "text": "The wrong have been estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth."}, {"pk": 2715495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 4, "text": "Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,"}, {"pk": 2715496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 5, "text": "So as not to hear the voice of whisperers, Or a skilled caster of spells."}, {"pk": 2715497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 6, "text": "O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2715498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 7, "text": "Let them melt, let them vanish as water; Let Him aim His arrows that they be cut down;"}, {"pk": 2715499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 8, "text": "Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman\u2019s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!"}, {"pk": 2715500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 9, "text": "Before your pots feel the thorns, Whether green or ablaze, He sweeps them away."}, {"pk": 2715501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 10, "text": "The righteous rejoices when he has seen the vengeance, He washes his feet in the blood of the wrong,"}, {"pk": 2715502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 58, "verse": 11, "text": "And man says, \u201cTruly, the righteous are rewarded; Truly, there is an Elohim judging in the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 1, "text": "Deliver me from my enemies, O my Elohim; Set me on high from those who rise up against me."}, {"pk": 2715504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 2, "text": "Deliver me from the workers of wickedness, And save me from men of blood."}, {"pk": 2715505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 3, "text": "For look, they have lain in wait for my life; Mighty men assemble against me, For no transgression or sin of mine, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2715506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 4, "text": "For no guilt <i>of mine</i>! They run and prepare themselves. Awake to help me, and see!"}, {"pk": 2715507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 5, "text": "And You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Awake to punish all the nations; Show no favour to any wicked traitors. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 6, "text": "They return at evening, They howl like a dog, And go around the city."}, {"pk": 2715509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 7, "text": "See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?"}, {"pk": 2715510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 8, "text": "But You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, laugh at them, You mock all the nations."}, {"pk": 2715511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 9, "text": "O my Strength, I wait for You; For Elohim is my strong tower."}, {"pk": 2715512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 10, "text": "My Elohim of loving-commitment, Elohim does go before me. He lets me look upon my enemies."}, {"pk": 2715513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 11, "text": "Do not kill them, lest my people forget; Scatter them by Your power, And bring them down, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our shield."}, {"pk": 2715514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 12, "text": "The sin of their mouth is the words of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And for the cursing and lying they utter."}, {"pk": 2715515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 13, "text": "Bring <i>them</i> to an end in wrath, Bring <i>them</i> to an end, That they be no more; And let them know That Elohim is ruling in Ya\u201baqob\u0331 To the ends of the earth. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 14, "text": "And at evening they return, They howl like a dog, And go around the city."}, {"pk": 2715517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 15, "text": "They wander up and down for food, And whine if they are not satisfied."}, {"pk": 2715518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 16, "text": "And I, I sing of Your power; And in the morning I sing aloud of Your loving-commitment; For You have been my strong tower And a refuge in the day of my distress."}, {"pk": 2715519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 59, "verse": 17, "text": "O my Strength, to You I sing praises; For Elohim is my strong tower, My Elohim of loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2715520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, You have rejected us; You have broken us; You have been displeased; Turn back to us!"}, {"pk": 2715521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 2, "text": "You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it; Heal its breaches, for it is shaken."}, {"pk": 2715522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 3, "text": "You have let Your people see hardship; You have made us drink the wine of trembling."}, {"pk": 2715523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 4, "text": "You have given a banner to those who fear You, That it might be lifted up Because of the truth. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 5, "text": "That those You love might be rescued, Save with Your right hand and answer me."}, {"pk": 2715525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 6, "text": "Elohim has spoken in His set-apartness, \u201cI exult, I portion out Shek\u0331em And measure out the Valley of Sukkoth."}, {"pk": 2715526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 7, "text": "Gil\u201bad\u0331 is Mine and Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is the defence of My head, Yehud\u0331ah is My inscriber.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/49/10'>49:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2715527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 8, "text": "Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is My wash-pot, Over Ed\u0331om I cast My shoe, Shout loud, O Philistia, because of Me."}, {"pk": 2715528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 9, "text": "Who would bring me to the strong city? Who shall lead me to Ed\u0331om?"}, {"pk": 2715529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 10, "text": "Have not You, O Elohim, rejected us? And You do not go out, O Elohim, With our armies!"}, {"pk": 2715530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 11, "text": "Give us help from distress, For the help of man is naught."}, {"pk": 2715531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 60, "verse": 12, "text": "In Elohim we do mightily, And He treads down our adversaries!"}, {"pk": 2715532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear my cry, O Elohim, Listen to my prayer."}, {"pk": 2715533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 2, "text": "From the end of the earth I call unto You, When my heart is faint; Lead me to the rock that is higher than I."}, {"pk": 2715534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 3, "text": "For You have been my refuge, A strong tower in the face of the enemy."}, {"pk": 2715535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 4, "text": "Let me dwell in Your Tent forever, Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 5, "text": "For You, O Elohim, have heard my vows; You have given me the inheritance Of those who fear Your Name."}, {"pk": 2715537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 6, "text": "You add days to the days of the sovereign, His years as many generations."}, {"pk": 2715538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 7, "text": "Let him dwell forever before Elohim. Prepare loving-commitment and truth to preserve him!"}, {"pk": 2715539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 61, "verse": 8, "text": "So I sing praise to Your Name forever, When I pay my vows day by day."}, {"pk": 2715540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 1, "text": "My being finds rest in Elohim alone; From Him is my deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 2, "text": "He alone is my rock and my deliverance, my strong tower; I am not greatly shaken."}, {"pk": 2715542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 3, "text": "How long would you shout at a man? \u2014 Murder! \u2014 Like a leaning wall, a tottering fence."}, {"pk": 2715543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 4, "text": "They plotted to topple him from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But in their heart they curse. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 5, "text": "My being, find rest in Elohim alone, Because my expectation is from Him."}, {"pk": 2715545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 6, "text": "He alone is my rock and my deliverance, my strong tower; I am not shaken."}, {"pk": 2715546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 7, "text": "My deliverance and my esteem <i>depend</i> on Elohim; The rock of my strength, my refuge is in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 8, "text": "Trust in Him at all times, you people; Pour out your heart before Him; Elohim is a refuge for us. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 9, "text": "Sons of Ad\u0331am are but a breath, Sons of men are a lie; If weighed in the scales, They are altogether lighter than breath."}, {"pk": 2715549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not trust in oppression. And do not become vain in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them."}, {"pk": 2715550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 11, "text": "Elohim has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That strength belongs to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 62, "verse": 12, "text": "And loving-commitment is Yours, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; For You reward each one according to his work."}, {"pk": 2715552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, You are my \u011al; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water."}, {"pk": 2715553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore I have had a vision of You In the set-apart place, To see Your power and Your esteem."}, {"pk": 2715554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 3, "text": "Because Your loving-commitment is better than life, My lips do praise You."}, {"pk": 2715555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 4, "text": "Therefore I bless You while I live; In Your Name I lift up my hands."}, {"pk": 2715556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 5, "text": "My being is satisfied as with marrow and fat, And my mouth praises You with singing lips."}, {"pk": 2715557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 6, "text": "When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches."}, {"pk": 2715558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 7, "text": "For You have been my help, And in the shadow of Your wings I sing."}, {"pk": 2715559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 8, "text": "My being has closely followed You; Your right hand did uphold me."}, {"pk": 2715560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 9, "text": "But those who seek to destroy my life, Go into the lower parts of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 10, "text": "They are handed over To the power of the sword; They become a portion for jackals."}, {"pk": 2715562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 63, "verse": 11, "text": "But let the sovereign rejoice in Elohim; Let everyone who swears by Him exult; For the mouth of those speaking lies is stopped."}, {"pk": 2715563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear my voice, O Elohim, in my meditation; Guard my life from the threats of the enemy."}, {"pk": 2715564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 2, "text": "Hide me from the secret plans of the evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of wickedness,"}, {"pk": 2715565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 3, "text": "Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,"}, {"pk": 2715566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 4, "text": "To shoot in ambush at someone blameless, They shoot at him suddenly and do not fear."}, {"pk": 2715567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 5, "text": "They arm themselves with an evil word; They talk of hiding snares; They have said, \u201cWho sees them?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 6, "text": "They search out unrighteousnesses, \u201cWe have perfected a well searched out plan.\u201d For the inward part of man, and heart, are deep."}, {"pk": 2715569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 7, "text": "But Elohim does shoot at them with an arrow; Their wounds shall be sudden."}, {"pk": 2715570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 8, "text": "And they cause one to stumble, Their own tongue is against them; All who see them flee away."}, {"pk": 2715571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 9, "text": "And all men fear, And declare the work of Elohim. And they shall wisely consider What He has done."}, {"pk": 2715572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 64, "verse": 10, "text": "The righteous rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And shall take refuge in <i>Him</i>, And all the upright in heart praise Him."}, {"pk": 2715573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 1, "text": "To You, stillness, praise, in Tsiyon, O Elohim; And to You a vow is paid."}, {"pk": 2715574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 2, "text": "To You who hears all prayer, all flesh comes."}, {"pk": 2715575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 3, "text": "Crooked matters were mightier than I; As for our transgressions, You do cover them."}, {"pk": 2715576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 4, "text": "Blessed is the one You choose, And bring near to dwell in Your courts. We are satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2715577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 5, "text": "By awesome deeds in righteousness You answer us, O Elohim of our deliverance, The Trust of all the ends of the earth, And the distant seas;"}, {"pk": 2715578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 6, "text": "Who established the mountains by His strength, Being girded with might;"}, {"pk": 2715579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 7, "text": "Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the uproar of the peoples."}, {"pk": 2715580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 8, "text": "And they who dwell in the farthest parts, Are afraid of Your signs; You make the outgoings of the morning and evening rejoice."}, {"pk": 2715581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 9, "text": "You have visited the earth and watered it, You greatly enrich it; The river of Elohim is filled with water; You provide their grain, For so You have prepared it."}, {"pk": 2715582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 10, "text": "Its ridges have been filled, Its furrows have been deepened, You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth."}, {"pk": 2715583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 11, "text": "You have crowned the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with fatness."}, {"pk": 2715584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 12, "text": "The pastures of the wilderness drip, And the hills are girded with rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2715585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 65, "verse": 13, "text": "The meadows are dressed in flocks, And valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy and sing."}, {"pk": 2715586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 1, "text": "Shout with joy to Elohim, All the earth!"}, {"pk": 2715587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 2, "text": "Sing out the splendour of His Name; Make His praise esteemed."}, {"pk": 2715588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 3, "text": "Say to Elohim, \u201cHow awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies pretend obedience to You."}, {"pk": 2715589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 4, "text": "All the earth bow to You, They sing praises to You, They praise Your Name. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 5, "text": "Come and see the works of Elohim, Awesome acts toward the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2715591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 6, "text": "He has turned the sea into dry land, They went through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in Him,"}, {"pk": 2715592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 7, "text": "Who rules by His power forever; His eyes keeping watch on the nations; Let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 8, "text": "Bless our Elohim, you peoples! And sound His praise abroad,"}, {"pk": 2715594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 9, "text": "Who keeps us in life, And does not allow our feet to be moved."}, {"pk": 2715595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 10, "text": "For You, O Elohim, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined."}, {"pk": 2715596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 11, "text": "You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our loins."}, {"pk": 2715597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 12, "text": "You have let men ride at our head; We went through fire and through water; But You brought us out to plenty."}, {"pk": 2715598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 13, "text": "I enter Your house with ascending offerings; I complete my vows to You,"}, {"pk": 2715599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 14, "text": "That which my lips have uttered And my mouth spoke in my distress."}, {"pk": 2715600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 15, "text": "Ascending offerings of fatlings I offer to You, With the incense of rams; I offer bulls with goats. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 16, "text": "Come, hear, all you who fear Elohim, And I relate what He has done for my being."}, {"pk": 2715602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 17, "text": "I called to Him with my mouth, And praise was in my tongue."}, {"pk": 2715603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 18, "text": "If I have seen wickedness in my heart, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would not hear."}, {"pk": 2715604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 19, "text": "Truly, Elohim has heard me; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer."}, {"pk": 2715605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 66, "verse": 20, "text": "Blessed be Elohim, Who has not turned away my prayer, Nor His loving-commitment from me!"}, {"pk": 2715606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim does favour us and bless us, Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 2, "text": "For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations."}, {"pk": 2715608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 3, "text": "Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, Let all the peoples praise You."}, {"pk": 2715609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 4, "text": "Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, And lead the nations on earth. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 5, "text": "Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; Let all the peoples praise You."}, {"pk": 2715611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 6, "text": "The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us!"}, {"pk": 2715612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 67, "verse": 7, "text": "Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him!"}, {"pk": 2715613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim arises, His enemies are scattered. And those who hate Him flee before Him!"}, {"pk": 2715614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 2, "text": "As smoke is driven away, You drive <i>them</i> away; As wax melts before the fire, The wrong perish before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 3, "text": "But the righteous are glad, They exult before Elohim. And they rejoice with gladness."}, {"pk": 2715616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 4, "text": "Sing to Elohim, sing praises to His Name. Raise up a highway for Him Who rides through the deserts, By His Name Yah, And exult before Him."}, {"pk": 2715617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 5, "text": "Father of the fatherless, And Right-ruler of widows, Is Elohim in His set-apart dwelling."}, {"pk": 2715618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 6, "text": "Elohim makes a home for the lonely; He brings out into prosperity Those who are bound with chains; Only the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land."}, {"pk": 2715619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 7, "text": "O Elohim, when You went out before Your people, When You stepped through the wilderness, Selah."}, {"pk": 2715620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 8, "text": "The earth shook and the heavens dropped before Elohim, This Sinai, shook before Elohim, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 9, "text": "You, O Elohim, sent a shower of plenty, You confirmed Your inheritance, When it was weary."}, {"pk": 2715622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 10, "text": "Your flock dwelt in it; You provided from Your goodness for the poor, O Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave the word; The women who proclaimed it was a great company:"}, {"pk": 2715624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 12, "text": "Sovereigns of armies flee in haste! And she who remains at home divides the spoil."}, {"pk": 2715625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 13, "text": "If you lie down among the sheepfolds, The wings of a dove are covered with silver, And her feathers with yellow gold."}, {"pk": 2715626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 14, "text": "When the Almighty scattered sovereigns in it, It did snow in Tsalmon."}, {"pk": 2715627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 15, "text": "A mountain of Elohim is the mountain of Bashan; A mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan."}, {"pk": 2715628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 16, "text": "O mountain of peaks, why do you gaze in envy At the mountain which Elohim desired to dwell in; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 even dwells <i>there</i> forever."}, {"pk": 2715629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 17, "text": "The chariots of Elohim are twenty thousand, Thousands of thousands; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came from Sinai Into the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2715630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 18, "text": "You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, And even the rebellious, That Yah Elohim might dwell <i>there</i>."}, {"pk": 2715631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 19, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Day by day He bears our burden, The \u011al of our deliverance! Selah."}, {"pk": 2715632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 20, "text": "Our \u011al is the \u011al of deliverance; And to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Master, belong escapes from death."}, {"pk": 2715633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 21, "text": "Indeed, Elohim smites the head of His enemies, The hairy scalp of him who walks about in His guilt."}, {"pk": 2715634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 22, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cI bring back from Bashan, I bring back from the depths of the sea,"}, {"pk": 2715635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 23, "text": "So that you plunge your foot in blood; That the tongues of your dogs Have their portion from the enemies."}, {"pk": 2715636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 24, "text": "They have seen Your goings, O Elohim, The goings of my \u011al, my Sovereign, Into the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2715637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 25, "text": "The singers went in front, The players on instruments after them; Among them were the young women playing tambourines.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Maiden\""}, {"pk": 2715638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 26, "text": "Bless Elohim in the assemblies, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the fountain of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 27, "text": "There is Binyamin, the smallest, their ruler, The leaders of Yehud\u0331ah, their company, The leader of Zeb\u0331ulun, the leader of Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2715640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 28, "text": "Your Elohim has commanded your strength, be strong! O Elohim, this You have worked out for us!"}, {"pk": 2715641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 29, "text": "Because of Your H\u0115k\u0331al at Yerushalayim, Sovereigns bring presents to You."}, {"pk": 2715642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 30, "text": "Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, The herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples, Each one humbling himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples who delight in conflicts!"}, {"pk": 2715643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 31, "text": "Ambassadors come out of Mitsrayim; Kush stretches out her hands to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 32, "text": "Sing to Elohim, you reigns of the earth, Praises to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Selah."}, {"pk": 2715645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 33, "text": "To Him who rides on the ancient highest heavens! See, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice."}, {"pk": 2715646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 34, "text": "Ascribe strength to Elohim; His excellence is over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, And His strength is in the clouds."}, {"pk": 2715647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 68, "verse": 35, "text": "O Elohim, awesome from Your set-apart places, The \u011al of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is He Who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2715648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 1, "text": "Save me, O Elohim! For waters have come up to my neck."}, {"pk": 2715649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 2, "text": "I have sunk in deep mud, And there is no place to stand; I have come into deep waters, And the floods overflow me."}, {"pk": 2715650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 3, "text": "I am worn out from my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes grow dim As I wait for my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 4, "text": "Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, My lying enemies; What I did not steal, I restored."}, {"pk": 2715652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 5, "text": "O Elohim, You Yourself know my foolishness; And my guilt has not been hidden from You."}, {"pk": 2715653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 6, "text": "Let not those who wait for You, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You Be humbled because of me, O Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 7, "text": "Because I have borne reproach for Your sake; Shame has covered my face."}, {"pk": 2715655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 8, "text": "I have become a stranger to my brothers, And a foreigner to my mother\u2019s children;"}, {"pk": 2715656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 9, "text": "Because ardour for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me."}, {"pk": 2715657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 10, "text": "And I wept in my being with fasting, And it became my reproach."}, {"pk": 2715658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 11, "text": "And when I put on sackcloth, I became a proverb to them."}, {"pk": 2715659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 12, "text": "They who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards."}, {"pk": 2715660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 13, "text": "But as for me, my prayer is to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, At an acceptable time, O Elohim. In the greatness of Your loving-commitment, Answer me in the truth of Your deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 14, "text": "Rescue me out of the mire, And let me not sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters."}, {"pk": 2715662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 15, "text": "Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut its mouth on me."}, {"pk": 2715663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 16, "text": "Answer me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for Your loving-commitment is good. According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me."}, {"pk": 2715664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 17, "text": "And do not hide Your face from Your servant, For I am in distress; Answer me speedily."}, {"pk": 2715665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 18, "text": "Draw near to my being, redeem it; Ransom me because of my enemies."}, {"pk": 2715666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 19, "text": "You Yourself know my reproach, And my shame and my confusion; My adversaries are all before You."}, {"pk": 2715667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 20, "text": "Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none."}, {"pk": 2715668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 21, "text": "And they gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."}, {"pk": 2715669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 22, "text": "Let their table before them become a snare, And a trap to those at ease."}, {"pk": 2715670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 23, "text": "Let their eyes be darkened, so as not to see; And make their loins shake continually."}, {"pk": 2715671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 24, "text": "Pour out Your wrath upon them, And let Your burning displeasure overtake them."}, {"pk": 2715672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 25, "text": "Let their encampments be deserted; Let no one dwell in their tents."}, {"pk": 2715673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 26, "text": "For they persecute him whom You have stricken, And talk about the pain of those You have wounded."}, {"pk": 2715674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 27, "text": "Add crookedness to their crookedness, And let them not enter into Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2715675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 28, "text": "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous."}, {"pk": 2715676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 29, "text": "But I am poor and in pain; Let Your deliverance, O Elohim, set me up on high."}, {"pk": 2715677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 30, "text": "I praise the Name of Elohim with a song, And I make Him great with thanksgiving."}, {"pk": 2715678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 31, "text": "And this pleases \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 more than an ox, A bull with horns <i>and</i> hooves."}, {"pk": 2715679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 32, "text": "The humble shall see, they rejoice, You who seek Elohim, and your hearts live."}, {"pk": 2715680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 33, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 hears the poor, And He shall not despise His captives."}, {"pk": 2715681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 34, "text": "Let the heavens and earth praise Him, The seas and all that moves in them."}, {"pk": 2715682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 35, "text": "For Elohim shall save Tsiyon And build the cities of Yehud\u0331ah. And they shall dwell there and possess it,"}, {"pk": 2715683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 69, "verse": 36, "text": "And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those who love His Name dwell in it.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/5/11'>5:11</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/132'>119:132</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/6'>56:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2715684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 70, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, deliver me! Hasten to my help, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2715685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 70, "verse": 2, "text": "Let those who seek my life Be ashamed and abashed, Let those who are desiring my evil Be turned back and humiliated."}, {"pk": 2715686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 70, "verse": 3, "text": "Let those who say, \u201cAha, aha!\u201d Be turned back because of their shame."}, {"pk": 2715687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 70, "verse": 4, "text": "Let all those who seek You Rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your deliverance always say, \u201cLet Elohim be made great!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 70, "verse": 5, "text": "But I am poor and needy; Hasten to me, O Elohim! You are my help and my deliverer; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not delay."}, {"pk": 2715689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 1, "text": "In You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed."}, {"pk": 2715690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 2, "text": "In Your righteousness deliver and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me, and save me."}, {"pk": 2715691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 3, "text": "Be to me a rock to dwell in, To go into continually. You have given the command to save me, For You are my rock and my stronghold."}, {"pk": 2715692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 4, "text": "Rescue me, O my Elohim, Out of the hand of the wrong, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel."}, {"pk": 2715693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 5, "text": "For You are my expectation, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my Trust from my youth."}, {"pk": 2715694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 6, "text": "Upon You I have leaned from my birth; You took me out of my mother\u2019s womb. My praise is continually of You."}, {"pk": 2715695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 7, "text": "I have become as a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge."}, {"pk": 2715696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 8, "text": "My mouth is filled <i>with</i> Your praise, Your splendour, all the day."}, {"pk": 2715697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not cast me off in the time of old age, When my strength fails, do not forsake me."}, {"pk": 2715698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 10, "text": "For my enemies have spoken against me. And those who watch for my life Have taken counsel together,"}, {"pk": 2715699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 11, "text": "Saying, \u201cElohim has forsaken him; Pursue and take him, for there is no one to deliver.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 12, "text": "O Elohim, do not be far from me; My Elohim, hasten to my help!"}, {"pk": 2715701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 13, "text": "Let those who are adversaries of my life Be ashamed, consumed, Let those who seek my evil Be covered with reproach and confusion."}, {"pk": 2715702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 14, "text": "But I continually wait, And shall praise You more and more."}, {"pk": 2715703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 15, "text": "My mouth recounts Your righteousness Your deliverance all the day, Though I do not know <i>their</i> numbers."}, {"pk": 2715704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 16, "text": "I come in the might of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone."}, {"pk": 2715705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 17, "text": "Elohim, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wonders."}, {"pk": 2715706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 18, "text": "And also when I am old and grey, O Elohim, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to a generation, Your might to all those who are to come."}, {"pk": 2715707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 19, "text": "For Your righteousness, O Elohim, is very high, You who have done great <i>deeds</i>. O Elohim, who is like You?"}, {"pk": 2715708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 20, "text": "You who have shown me great and evil distresses, Revive me again and bring me up again From the depths of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 21, "text": "You increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side."}, {"pk": 2715710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 22, "text": "Also with the lyre I praise You For Your trustworthiness, O my Elohim! I sing to You with the lyre, O Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 23, "text": "My lips shout for joy when I sing to You, Even my being, which You have redeemed."}, {"pk": 2715712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 71, "verse": 24, "text": "My tongue, too, utters Your righteousness all day long; For those who have been seeking my evil Have been put to shame, Have become abashed."}, {"pk": 2715713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, give the sovereign Your right-rulings, And Your righteousness to the Son of a sovereign."}, {"pk": 2715714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 2, "text": "Let Him rule Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2715715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 3, "text": "Let the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills, by righteousness."}, {"pk": 2715716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 4, "text": "Let Him rightly rule the poor of the people, Save the children of the needy, And crush the oppressor."}, {"pk": 2715717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 5, "text": "Let them fear You with the sun, <i>shining</i> And before the moon, in all generations."}, {"pk": 2715718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 6, "text": "Let Him come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers, watering the earth."}, {"pk": 2715719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 7, "text": "Let the righteous flourish in His days, With plenty of peace, Till the moon is no more."}, {"pk": 2715720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 8, "text": "And let Him rule from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 9, "text": "Let those dwelling in the desert bow before Him, And His enemies lick the dust."}, {"pk": 2715722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 10, "text": "Let the sovereigns of Tarshish and of the isles bring presents; The sovereigns of Sheb\u0331a and Seb\u0331a offer gifts."}, {"pk": 2715723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 11, "text": "And let all sovereigns bow down before Him, All nations serve Him."}, {"pk": 2715724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 12, "text": "For He delivers the needy when he cries, And the poor, who has no helper."}, {"pk": 2715725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 13, "text": "He spares the poor and needy, And He saves the lives of the needy."}, {"pk": 2715726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 14, "text": "He redeems their life from oppression and from violence; And their blood is precious in His eyes."}, {"pk": 2715727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 15, "text": "And He shall live, And the gold of Sheb\u0331a be given to Him, And prayer be made for Him continually; Let Him be blessed all day long."}, {"pk": 2715728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 16, "text": "Let there be plenty of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains, Let its fruit wave like Leb\u0331anon, And those of the city flourish like grass of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 17, "text": "Let His Name be forever, His Name continue before the sun; And let them bless themselves in Him; Let all nations call Him blessed."}, {"pk": 2715730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 18, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, He alone is doing wonders!"}, {"pk": 2715731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 19, "text": "And blessed be His esteemed Name forever! And let all the earth Be filled with His esteem. Am\u0115n and Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2715732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 72, "verse": 20, "text": "The prayers of Dawid\u0331 the son of Yishai are ended."}, {"pk": 2715733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim is truly good to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, To those whose heart is clean."}, {"pk": 2715734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 2, "text": "But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, My steps had nearly slipped."}, {"pk": 2715735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 3, "text": "For I was envious of the boasters, When I saw the peace of the wrong-doers.", "comment": "See Job <a href='/TS2009/18/21/7'>21:7</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/12/1'>12:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/12/2'>2</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/73/17'>73:17</a> and Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/92/6'>92:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/92/7'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2715736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 4, "text": "For death has no pangs for them, And their strength is firm."}, {"pk": 2715737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 5, "text": "They are not in trouble as other men, And they are not plagued like other men."}, {"pk": 2715738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 6, "text": "So pride is their necklace, The garment of violence covers them."}, {"pk": 2715739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 7, "text": "Their eyes bulge from fatness; Their heart overflows with imaginations."}, {"pk": 2715740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 8, "text": "They mock and speak in the evil of oppression; They speak loftily."}, {"pk": 2715741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 9, "text": "They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth, <i>saying</i>:"}, {"pk": 2715742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore His people return here, And waters of a filled <i>cup</i> are drained by them!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 11, "text": "And they have said, \u201cHow could \u011al know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 12, "text": "See, these are the wrong, And always at ease, They have amassed wealth!"}, {"pk": 2715745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 13, "text": "Indeed, in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence."}, {"pk": 2715746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 14, "text": "For I am plagued all day long, And my reproof is every morning."}, {"pk": 2715747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 15, "text": "If I had said, \u201cLet me speak thus,\u201d See, I would have deceived A generation of Your children."}, {"pk": 2715748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 16, "text": "Yet, when I tried to understand this, It was labour to my eyes \u2014"}, {"pk": 2715749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Until</i> I went into the set-apart place of \u011al; Then I perceived their end."}, {"pk": 2715750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 18, "text": "Indeed, You set them in slippery places; You make them fall to ruins."}, {"pk": 2715751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 19, "text": "How suddenly they are ruined! Completely swept away through destructions."}, {"pk": 2715752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 20, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when You awake You despise their image, As one does a dream after waking."}, {"pk": 2715753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 21, "text": "For my heart was in a ferment, And I was pierced in my kidneys."}, {"pk": 2715754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 22, "text": "I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward You."}, {"pk": 2715755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 23, "text": "Yet I am always with You, You took hold of my right hand."}, {"pk": 2715756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 24, "text": "You lead me by Your counsel, And afterward receive me unto esteem."}, {"pk": 2715757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 25, "text": "Whom do I have in the heavens? And I have desired no one besides You on earth."}, {"pk": 2715758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 26, "text": "My flesh and my heart shall waste away, <i>But</i> Elohim is the rock of my heart And my portion forever."}, {"pk": 2715759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 27, "text": "For look, those who are far from You perish; You shall cut off all those Who go whoring away from You."}, {"pk": 2715760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 73, "verse": 28, "text": "But as for me, it is good to be near Elohim. I have made my refuge in the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, To declare all Your works."}, {"pk": 2715761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, why do You forever reject us? Why does Your displeasure smoke Against the sheep of Your pasture?"}, {"pk": 2715762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 2, "text": "Remember Your congregation. You did purchase of old, The tribe of Your inheritance. You did redeem, This Mount Tsiyon where You have dwelt."}, {"pk": 2715763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 3, "text": "Lift up Your steps to the endless ruins; The enemy has done all evil in the set-apart place.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/1'>79</a>"}, {"pk": 2715764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 4, "text": "Your adversaries have roared In the midst of Your appointments; They have set up their own signs as signs."}, {"pk": 2715765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 5, "text": "It seems as if one had lifted up Axes among the thick trees."}, {"pk": 2715766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 6, "text": "And now all its carved work, They have broken down with axe and hammer."}, {"pk": 2715767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 7, "text": "They have set fire to Your set-apart place, They have profaned the dwelling place of Your Name to the ground."}, {"pk": 2715768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 8, "text": "They said in their hearts, \u201cLet us suppress them altogether.\u201d They burned all the Appointment <i>Places</i> of \u011al in the land."}, {"pk": 2715769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 9, "text": "We do not see our signs, There is no longer a prophet, Nor any among us who knows how long."}, {"pk": 2715770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 10, "text": "O Elohim, how long would the adversary reproach? Would the enemy despise Your Name forever?", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/18'>74:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2715771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 11, "text": "Why do You hold back Your hand, even Your right hand? From the midst of Your bosom \u2014 end it!"}, {"pk": 2715772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 12, "text": "For Elohim is my Sovereign from of old, Working deliverance in the midst of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 13, "text": "You divided the sea by Your might; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters."}, {"pk": 2715774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 14, "text": "You broke the heads of Liwiathan in pieces, You made him food for the people Living in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2715775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 15, "text": "You did cleave open the fountain and the flood, You did dry up mighty rivers."}, {"pk": 2715776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 16, "text": "The day is Yours, the night is Yours too, You have established the light and the sun."}, {"pk": 2715777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 17, "text": "You have set all the borders of the earth, You have made summer and winter."}, {"pk": 2715778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 18, "text": "Remember this: the enemy has reproached \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And a foolish people has despised Your Name."}, {"pk": 2715779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 19, "text": "Do not give the being of Your turtledove to the wild beast! Do not forget the life of Your afflicted ones forever."}, {"pk": 2715780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 20, "text": "Look to the covenant, For the dark places of the earth are filled With haunts of violence."}, {"pk": 2715781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 21, "text": "Let not the crushed one return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your Name."}, {"pk": 2715782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 22, "text": "Arise, O Elohim, plead Your own cause, Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily."}, {"pk": 2715783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 74, "verse": 23, "text": "Do not forget the voice of Your enemies, The uproar of those rising up against You increases continually."}, {"pk": 2715784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 1, "text": "We shall give thanks to You, O Elohim, we shall give thanks! And Your Name is near! Your wonders shall be declared!"}, {"pk": 2715785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen I seize the appointed time, It is I who judge in uprightness."}, {"pk": 2715786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 3, "text": "The earth and all its inhabitants are melted; It is I who set its columns firm. Selah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI said to the boasters, \u2018Do not boast,\u2019 And to the wrong, \u2018Do not lift up the horn."}, {"pk": 2715788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cDo not lift up your horn on high (You speak with a stiff neck).\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2715789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 6, "text": "For exaltations are neither from the east, Nor from the west nor from the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2715790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 7, "text": "But Elohim is the Judge \u2014 He puts down one, And exalts another."}, {"pk": 2715791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 8, "text": "For a cup is in the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And the wine shall foam; It is filled with a mixture, And He pours it out. All the wrong of the earth drink, Draining it to the dregs."}, {"pk": 2715792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 9, "text": "But I, I declare forever, I sing praises to the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2715793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 75, "verse": 10, "text": "And all the horns of the wrong I cut off; The horns of the righteous are lifted up."}, {"pk": 2715794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 1, "text": "In Yehud\u0331ah Elohim is known; His Name is great in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 2, "text": "And His booth is in Shal\u0115m, And His dwelling place in Tsiyon.", "comment": "A previous name of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2715796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 3, "text": "There He broke the arrows of the bow, The shield and the sword and the battle-axe. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 4, "text": "You are resplendent, More excellent than mountains of prey."}, {"pk": 2715798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 5, "text": "The stout-hearted have been stripped; They slept their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found their hands."}, {"pk": 2715799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 6, "text": "At Your rebuke, O Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, Both the rider and horse lay stunned."}, {"pk": 2715800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 7, "text": "You, You are to be feared; And who would stand in Your presence When You are displeased?"}, {"pk": 2715801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 8, "text": "From heaven You shall cause judgment to be heard; The earth shall fear, and shall be still,"}, {"pk": 2715802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 9, "text": "When Elohim arises to right-ruling, To save all the meek of the earth. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 10, "text": "For the wrath of mankind praises You, With the remainder of wrath You gird Yourself!"}, {"pk": 2715804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 11, "text": "Make vows to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and pay them. Let all who are around Him bring presents To the One to be feared."}, {"pk": 2715805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 76, "verse": 12, "text": "He cuts off the spirit of leaders, He is awesome to the sovereigns of the earth!"}, {"pk": 2715806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 1, "text": "My voice is to Elohim, and I cry; My voice is to Elohim, and He listened to me."}, {"pk": 2715807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 2, "text": "In the day of my distress I sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; My hand was stretched out in the night And it did not cease, My being refused to be comforted."}, {"pk": 2715808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 3, "text": "I remembered Elohim, and groaned; I complained, and my spirit grew faint. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 4, "text": "You ceased the watches of my eyes, I was too troubled to speak."}, {"pk": 2715810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 5, "text": "I have thought about the days of old, The years long past."}, {"pk": 2715811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 6, "text": "I remember my song in the night, I meditate within my heart, And my spirit searches diligently."}, {"pk": 2715812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 7, "text": "Would \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 reject forever, And never again be pleased?"}, {"pk": 2715813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 8, "text": "Has His loving-commitment ceased forever, Has the promise failed for all generations?"}, {"pk": 2715814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 9, "text": "Has \u011al forgotten to show favour? Has He shut up His compassions in displeasure? Selah."}, {"pk": 2715815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 10, "text": "And I said, \u201cThis is my grief: That the right hand of the Most High has changed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 11, "text": "I remember the deeds of Yah, For I remember Your wonders of old."}, {"pk": 2715817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 12, "text": "And I shall meditate on all Your work, And talk of Your deeds."}, {"pk": 2715818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 13, "text": "Your way, O Elohim, is in Set-apartness; Who is a great \u011al like Elohim?", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/35/8'>35:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2715819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 14, "text": "You are the \u011al who does wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples."}, {"pk": 2715820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 15, "text": "By Your arm You have redeemed Your people, The sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yos\u0115ph. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 16, "text": "The waters saw You, O Elohim; The waters saw You, they were afraid; The depths also trembled."}, {"pk": 2715822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 17, "text": "The clouds poured out water; The heavens rumbled; Also, Your arrows flashed back and forth."}, {"pk": 2715823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 18, "text": "The voice of Your thunder rolled along; Lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook."}, {"pk": 2715824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 19, "text": "Your way was in the sea, And Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known."}, {"pk": 2715825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 77, "verse": 20, "text": "You did lead Your people like a flock By the hand of Mosheh and Aharon."}, {"pk": 2715826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 1, "text": "My people, give ear to my Torah, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth."}, {"pk": 2715827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 2, "text": "I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of old,"}, {"pk": 2715828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 3, "text": "Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have related <i>them</i> to us."}, {"pk": 2715829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 4, "text": "We do not hide <i>them</i> from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And His strength and His wonders which He has done."}, {"pk": 2715830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 5, "text": "For He raised a witness in Ya\u201baqob\u0331, And set a Torah in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their children;"}, {"pk": 2715831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 6, "text": "That it might be known to a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate <i>them</i> to their children,"}, {"pk": 2715832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 7, "text": "And place their trust in Elohim, And not forget the works of \u011al, But watch over His commands,"}, {"pk": 2715833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 8, "text": "And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to \u011al."}, {"pk": 2715834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 9, "text": "The children of Ephrayim, armed bowmen, Turned back in the day of battle."}, {"pk": 2715835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 10, "text": "They did not guard the covenant of Elohim, And they refused to walk in His Torah,"}, {"pk": 2715836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 11, "text": "And they forgot His deeds And His wonders which He had shown them."}, {"pk": 2715837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 12, "text": "He did wonders in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Mitsrayim, in the field of Tso\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2715838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 13, "text": "He split the sea and caused them to pass through, And He made the waters stand up like a heap,"}, {"pk": 2715839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 14, "text": "And led them with the cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire."}, {"pk": 2715840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 15, "text": "He split the rocks in the wilderness, And made them drink, as from the great depths,"}, {"pk": 2715841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 16, "text": "And brought forth streams from the rock, And caused waters to come down as rivers."}, {"pk": 2715842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 17, "text": "Yet they sinned still more against Him To rebel against the Most High in the desert."}, {"pk": 2715843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 18, "text": "And they tried \u011al in their heart By asking food according to their desire."}, {"pk": 2715844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 19, "text": "And they spoke against Elohim. They said, \u201cIs \u011al able to set a table in the wilderness?"}, {"pk": 2715845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 20, "text": "Look, He struck the rock, So that the waters gushed out, And the streams overflowed. Is He able to give bread also? Would He provide meat for His people?"}, {"pk": 2715846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 heard, and He was wroth; So a fire was kindled against Ya\u201baqob\u0331, And displeasure also came up against Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2715847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 22, "text": "Because they did not believe in Elohim, Neither did they trust in His deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 23, "text": "Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2715849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 24, "text": "And He rained down manna on them to eat, And He gave them the grain of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2715850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 25, "text": "Men ate bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to satisfaction."}, {"pk": 2715851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 26, "text": "He made an east wind blow in the heavens; And by His power He brought in the south wind."}, {"pk": 2715852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 27, "text": "And He rained meat on them like the dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas,"}, {"pk": 2715853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 28, "text": "And let them fall in the midst of His camp, All around His Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2715854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 29, "text": "So they ate and were completely satisfied, For He brought them what they desired."}, {"pk": 2715855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 30, "text": "They had not turned away from their desire, Their food was still in their mouths,"}, {"pk": 2715856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 31, "text": "When the wrath of Elohim came against them, And He killed among their fat ones, And He struck down the choice ones of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 32, "text": "In spite of all this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wonders."}, {"pk": 2715858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 33, "text": "So He ended their days in a breath, And their years in trouble."}, {"pk": 2715859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 34, "text": "When He killed them, then they sought Him, And they returned and did earnestly seek \u011al."}, {"pk": 2715860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 35, "text": "And they remembered that Elohim was their rock, And the Most High \u011al their redeemer."}, {"pk": 2715861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 36, "text": "But they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue,"}, {"pk": 2715862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 37, "text": "For their heart was not steadfast with Him, And they were not true to His covenant."}, {"pk": 2715863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 38, "text": "But He, the Compassionate One, Pardoned crookedness, And did not destroy them. And many a time He turned His displeasure away, And did not stir up all His wrath."}, {"pk": 2715864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 39, "text": "For He remembered that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return."}, {"pk": 2715865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 40, "text": "How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!"}, {"pk": 2715866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 41, "text": "And again and again they tried \u011al, And provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2715867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 42, "text": "They did not remember His hand, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,"}, {"pk": 2715868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 43, "text": "How He worked His signs in Mitsrayim, And His wonders in the field of Tso\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2715869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 44, "text": "He turned their rivers into blood, And they could not drink their streams."}, {"pk": 2715870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 45, "text": "He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them,"}, {"pk": 2715871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 46, "text": "And gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labour to the locust."}, {"pk": 2715872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 47, "text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost,"}, {"pk": 2715873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 48, "text": "And gave their beasts over to the hail, And their livestock to bolts of fire."}, {"pk": 2715874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 49, "text": "He sent on them the burning of His displeasure, Wrath, and rage, and distress, A deputation of messengers of evils."}, {"pk": 2715875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 50, "text": "He made a path for His displeasure; He did not spare their being from death, But gave their life over to the plague."}, {"pk": 2715876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 51, "text": "And He struck all the first-born in Mitsrayim, The first-fruits of strength in the tents of H\u0323am,"}, {"pk": 2715877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 52, "text": "Then made His own people go forth like sheep, And led them in the wilderness like a flock."}, {"pk": 2715878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 53, "text": "And He led them on safely, And they did not fear, But the sea covered their enemies."}, {"pk": 2715879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 54, "text": "And He brought them to the border of His set-apart place, This mountain which His right hand had gained,"}, {"pk": 2715880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 55, "text": "And drove out nations before them, And allotted them a measured inheritance, And made the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwell in their tents."}, {"pk": 2715881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 56, "text": "Yet they tried and rebelled Against the Most High Elohim, And did not guard His witnesses,"}, {"pk": 2715882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 57, "text": "But they turned back And acted treacherously like their fathers; They twisted like a treacherous bow."}, {"pk": 2715883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 58, "text": "For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images."}, {"pk": 2715884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 59, "text": "When Elohim heard this, He was wroth, And greatly despised Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2715885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 60, "text": "And He left the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, The Tent which He had set up among men."}, {"pk": 2715886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 61, "text": "And He gave His strength into captivity, And His comeliness into the hand of the adversary."}, {"pk": 2715887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 62, "text": "And He gave His people over to the sword, And He was wroth with His inheritance."}, {"pk": 2715888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 63, "text": "His young men were consumed by fire, And His maidens were not praised."}, {"pk": 2715889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 64, "text": "His priests fell by the sword, And their widows could not weep."}, {"pk": 2715890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 65, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 awoke as one asleep, As a mighty man who shouts because of wine."}, {"pk": 2715891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 66, "text": "And He struck His adversaries backward, He put them to an everlasting reproach."}, {"pk": 2715892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 67, "text": "Then He rejected the tent of Yos\u0115ph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephrayim,"}, {"pk": 2715893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 68, "text": "But chose the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, Mount Tsiyon, which He loved."}, {"pk": 2715894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 69, "text": "And He built His set-apart place like the heights, Like the earth He founded it forever."}, {"pk": 2715895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 70, "text": "And He chose Dawid\u0331 His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;"}, {"pk": 2715896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 71, "text": "He brought him in from tending the ewes, To shepherd Ya\u201baqob\u0331 His people, And Yisra\u2019\u0115l His inheritance."}, {"pk": 2715897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 78, "verse": 72, "text": "And he shepherded them According to the integrity of his heart, And led them by the skill of his hands."}, {"pk": 2715898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, the nations have come into Your inheritance; They have defiled Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al; They turned Yerushalayim into ruins.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/6'>79:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/79/7'>7</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/1'>74</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/18'>63:18</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/51'>51:51</a>; Lam. <a href='/TS2009/25/1/10'>1:10</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/8/13'>8:13</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/11/31'>11:31</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2715899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 2, "text": "They have given the dead bodies of Your servants As food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of Your lovingly-committed ones to the wild beast of the earth."}, {"pk": 2715900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 3, "text": "They have poured out their blood Like water all around Yerushalayim, With no one to bury <i>them</i>."}, {"pk": 2715901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 4, "text": "We have become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those who are around us."}, {"pk": 2715902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 5, "text": "How long, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Would You be enraged forever? Would Your jealousy burn like fire?"}, {"pk": 2715903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 6, "text": "Pour out Your wrath on the nations Who have not known You, And on reigns that have not called on Your Name."}, {"pk": 2715904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 7, "text": "For they have devoured Ya\u201baqob\u0331, And laid waste his pasture."}, {"pk": 2715905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not remember against us The crookednesses of the fathers! Let Your compassion speedily meet us, For we have been greatly weakened."}, {"pk": 2715906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 9, "text": "Help us, O Elohim of our deliverance, For the sake of the esteem of Your Name. And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Your Name\u2019s sake!"}, {"pk": 2715907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 10, "text": "Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere is their Elohim?\u201d Let the vengeance of the outpoured blood of Your servants Be known among the nations, Before our eyes."}, {"pk": 2715908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 11, "text": "Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You. According to the greatness of Your arm Preserve those appointed to death."}, {"pk": 2715909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 12, "text": "And repay to our neighbours sevenfold Their reproach, into their bosom, With which they have reproached You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2715910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 79, "verse": 13, "text": "And we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, We give thanks to You forever; From generation to generation we show forth Your praise."}, {"pk": 2715911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 1, "text": "Give ear, O Shepherd of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Who leads Yos\u0115ph like a flock; Who dwells between the kerub\u0331im, shine forth!"}, {"pk": 2715912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 2, "text": "Before Ephrayim, Binyamin, and Menashsheh, Stir up Your might, And come and save us!"}, {"pk": 2715913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 3, "text": "Cause us to turn back, O Elohim, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved!"}, {"pk": 2715914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 4, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, How long shall You be wroth Against the prayer of Your people?"}, {"pk": 2715915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 5, "text": "You have caused them to eat the bread of tears, And have caused them to drink With tears, a third time."}, {"pk": 2715916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 6, "text": "You have made us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies laugh among themselves."}, {"pk": 2715917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 7, "text": "Turn us back, O Elohim of hosts, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved!"}, {"pk": 2715918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 8, "text": "You brought a vine out of Mitsrayim; You drove out the nations, and planted it."}, {"pk": 2715919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 9, "text": "You cleared a place for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land."}, {"pk": 2715920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 10, "text": "Hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its twigs."}, {"pk": 2715921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 11, "text": "She spread her branches to the Sea, And her shoots to the River."}, {"pk": 2715922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 12, "text": "Why have You broken down her hedges, So that every passer-by plucked her fruit?"}, {"pk": 2715923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 13, "text": "The boar out of the forest ravages it, And the wild beast of the field devours it."}, {"pk": 2715924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 14, "text": "Return, we beg You, O Elohim of hosts; Look down from heaven, and see, And visit this vine,"}, {"pk": 2715925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 15, "text": "And the stock which Your right hand has planted, And the Son whom You made strong for Yourself."}, {"pk": 2715926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 16, "text": "It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your face."}, {"pk": 2715927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 17, "text": "Let Your hand be upon the One at Your right hand, Upon the Son of Ad\u0331am whom You made strong for Yourself,"}, {"pk": 2715928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 18, "text": "And we shall not backslide from You. Revive us, and let us call upon Your Name."}, {"pk": 2715929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 80, "verse": 19, "text": "Turn us back, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved!"}, {"pk": 2715930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 1, "text": "Shout for joy to Elohim our strength; Raise a shout to the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2715931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 2, "text": "Lift up a song and beat the tambourine, The pleasant lyre and with the harp."}, {"pk": 2715932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 3, "text": "Blow a shophar in the New <i>Moon</i>, in the covering for the day of our festival."}, {"pk": 2715933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 4, "text": "For this is a law for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, And a right-ruling of the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.", "comment": "See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/23/24'>23:24</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/10/10'>10:10</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/29/1'>29:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2715934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 5, "text": "He appointed it in Yehos\u0115ph for a witness, When He went throughout the land of Mitsrayim; I heard a language that I did not know."}, {"pk": 2715935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>He says</i>, \u201cI removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets."}, {"pk": 2715936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYou called in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you in the covering of thunder; I proved you at the waters of Merib\u0331ah. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 8, "text": "Hear, O My people, and let Me warn you, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, if you would listen to Me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cLet there be no strange mighty one among you, And do not bow down to a foreign mighty one."}, {"pk": 2715939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 10, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, Who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim; Open your mouth wide, and I fill it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut My people did not listen to My voice, And Yisra\u2019\u0115l would not submit to Me."}, {"pk": 2715941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 12, "text": "So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cO, if My people had listened to Me, Yisra\u2019\u0115l would walk in My ways,"}, {"pk": 2715943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 14, "text": "I would subdue their enemies at once, And turn My hand against their adversaries!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 15, "text": "Those who hate \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would cringe before Him; And their time <i>of punishment</i> be forever."}, {"pk": 2715945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 81, "verse": 16, "text": "He would feed them with the finest of wheat; And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."}, {"pk": 2715946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim stands in the congregation of \u011al; He judges in the midst of the elohim."}, {"pk": 2715947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 2, "text": "How long would you judge perversely, And show partiality to the wrong? Selah."}, {"pk": 2715948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 3, "text": "Give right-ruling to the poor and fatherless, Do right to the afflicted and needy."}, {"pk": 2715949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 4, "text": "Rescue the poor and needy; Deliver them from the hand of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2715950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 5, "text": "They do not know, nor do they understand, They walk about in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken."}, {"pk": 2715951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 6, "text": "I, I said, \u201cYou are elohim, And all of you are sons of the Most High."}, {"pk": 2715952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 7, "text": "But as men you die, And fall as one of the heads."}, {"pk": 2715953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 82, "verse": 8, "text": "Arise, O Elohim, judge the earth, For You shall possess all the nations."}, {"pk": 2715954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, do not remain silent! Do not be speechless, And do not be still, O \u011al!"}, {"pk": 2715955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 2, "text": "For look, Your enemies make an uproar, And those hating You have lifted up their head."}, {"pk": 2715956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 3, "text": "They craftily plot against Your people, And conspire against Your treasured ones."}, {"pk": 2715957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 4, "text": "They have said, \u201cCome, And let us wipe them out as a nation, And let the name of Yisra\u2019\u0115l be remembered no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 5, "text": "For they have conspired together with one heart; They have made a covenant against You \u2014"}, {"pk": 2715959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 6, "text": "The tents of Ed\u0331om and the Yishma\u201b\u0115lites, Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and the Ha\u1e21arites,"}, {"pk": 2715960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 7, "text": "Geb\u0331al, and Ammon, and Amal\u0115q, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tsor,"}, {"pk": 2715961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 8, "text": "Ashshur also has joined with them, They have helped the children of Lot. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 9, "text": "Do to them as to Mid\u0331yan, As to Sisera, As to Yab\u0331in at the wadi Qishon,"}, {"pk": 2715963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 10, "text": "Who perished at \u011andor, Who became as dung for the ground."}, {"pk": 2715964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 11, "text": "Make their nobles like Or\u0115b\u0331 and like Ze\u2019\u0115b\u0331, And all their princes like Zeb\u0331ah\u0323 and Tsalmunna,"}, {"pk": 2715965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 12, "text": "Who have said, \u201cLet us take possession of the pastures of Elohim For ourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2715966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 13, "text": "O my Elohim, make them as whirling dust, As stubble before the wind!"}, {"pk": 2715967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 14, "text": "As a fire consumes a forest, And as a flame sets mountains on fire,"}, {"pk": 2715968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 15, "text": "So pursue them with Your whirlwind, And frighten them with Your storm."}, {"pk": 2715969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 16, "text": "Fill their faces with shame, And let them seek Your Name, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/44/21'>44:21</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/44/22'>22</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/18'>74:18</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/5'>52:5</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/26'>23:26</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/23/27'>27</a>"}, {"pk": 2715970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 17, "text": "Let them be ashamed and alarmed forever; And let them become abashed and perish,"}, {"pk": 2715971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 83, "verse": 18, "text": "And let them know that You, Whose Name is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."}, {"pk": 2715972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 1, "text": "How lovely are Your dwelling places, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts!"}, {"pk": 2715973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 2, "text": "My being has longed, and even fainted, For the courts of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living \u011al."}, {"pk": 2715974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 3, "text": "Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where she has put her young ones \u2014 Your slaughter-places, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, My Sovereign and my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2715975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 4, "text": "Blessed are those who dwell in Your house, They are ever praising You. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 5, "text": "Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, <i>Your</i> Highways are in their heart."}, {"pk": 2715977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 6, "text": "Passing through the valley of weeping, They make it a fountain; The Teacher also covers it with blessings."}, {"pk": 2715978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 7, "text": "They go from strength to strength, Appearing before Elohim in Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2715979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 8, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331! Selah."}, {"pk": 2715980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 9, "text": "O Elohim, see our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed."}, {"pk": 2715981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 10, "text": "For a day in Your courts Is better than a thousand <i>days</i>. I have chosen rather to be a doorkeeper In the House of my Elohim, Than to dwell in the tents of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2715982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 11, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim is a sun and a shield; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives favour and esteem; He withholds no good <i>matter</i> From those who walk blamelessly."}, {"pk": 2715983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 84, "verse": 12, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!"}, {"pk": 2715984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You shall take pleasure in Your land; You shall turn back the captivity of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2715985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 2, "text": "You shall take away the crookedness of Your people; You shall cover all their sin. Selah."}, {"pk": 2715986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 3, "text": "You shall withdraw all Your wrath; You shall turn from Your fierce displeasure."}, {"pk": 2715987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 4, "text": "Turn back to us, O Elohim of our deliverance, And cause Your vexation toward us to cease."}, {"pk": 2715988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 5, "text": "Would You be enraged with us forever? Would You draw out Your displeasure From generation to generation?"}, {"pk": 2715989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 6, "text": "Would You not revive us again, For Your people to rejoice in You?"}, {"pk": 2715990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 7, "text": "Show us Your loving-commitment, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And give us Your deliverance."}, {"pk": 2715991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 8, "text": "Let me hear what \u011al \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speaks, For He speaks peace to His people And to His lovingly-committed ones; And let them not turn again to folly."}, {"pk": 2715992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 9, "text": "Truly, His deliverance is near to those who fear Him, For esteem to dwell in our land."}, {"pk": 2715993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 10, "text": "Loving-commitment and truth shall meet, Righteousness and peace shall kiss."}, {"pk": 2715994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 11, "text": "Truth sprouts forth from the earth, And righteousness looks down from heaven,"}, {"pk": 2715995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 12, "text": "Indeed, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives what is good, And our land yields its increase."}, {"pk": 2715996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 85, "verse": 13, "text": "Righteousness goes before Him, And prepares a way for His footsteps."}, {"pk": 2715997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 1, "text": "Incline Your ear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Answer me, for I am poor and needy."}, {"pk": 2715998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 2, "text": "Guard my being, for I am lovingly-committed; You are my Elohim; Save Your servant who is trusting in You!"}, {"pk": 2715999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 3, "text": "Show favour to me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For I cry to You all day long."}, {"pk": 2716000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 4, "text": "Bring joy to the being of Your servant, For to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I lift up my being."}, {"pk": 2716001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 5, "text": "For You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are good, and ready to forgive, And great in loving-commitment to all those who call upon You."}, {"pk": 2716002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 6, "text": "Give ear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to my prayer; And listen to the voice of my pleadings."}, {"pk": 2716003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 7, "text": "In the day of my distress I call upon You, For You answer me."}, {"pk": 2716004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 8, "text": "There is none like You among the mighty ones, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; And like Your works there are none."}, {"pk": 2716005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 9, "text": "Let all nations You have made Come and bow themselves before You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And give esteem to Your Name."}, {"pk": 2716006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 10, "text": "For You are great, and are doing wonders; You are Elohim, You alone."}, {"pk": 2716007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 11, "text": "Teach me Your way, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Let me walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your Name."}, {"pk": 2716008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 12, "text": "I praise You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, with all my heart, And I esteem Your Name forever."}, {"pk": 2716009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 13, "text": "For Your loving-commitment is great toward me, And You have delivered my being From the depths of She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2716010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 14, "text": "O Elohim, the proud have risen against me, And a band of dreaded men have sought my life, And have not set You before them."}, {"pk": 2716011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 15, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Are a compassionate \u011al and showing favour, Patient and great in loving-commitment and truth."}, {"pk": 2716012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 16, "text": "Turn to me, and show favour to me! Give Your strength to Your servant, And save the son of Your female servant."}, {"pk": 2716013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 86, "verse": 17, "text": "Show me a sign for good, And let those hating me see it and be ashamed, For You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have helped me and comforted me."}, {"pk": 2716014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 1, "text": "His foundation is In the set-apart mountains."}, {"pk": 2716015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves the gates of Tsiyon More than all the dwellings of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2716016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 3, "text": "Esteemed <i>matters</i> are spoken of you, O city of Elohim: Selah."}, {"pk": 2716017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 4, "text": "I mention Rahab\u0331 and Bab\u0331el to those who know Me; See, O Philistia and Tsor, with Kush, \u2018This and that one was born there.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2716018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 5, "text": "And of Tsiyon it is said, \u201cEach one was born in her; For the Most High Himself does establish her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does write, In the register of the peoples, \u201cThis one was born there.\u201d Selah."}, {"pk": 2716020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 87, "verse": 7, "text": "And the singers and the players on instruments \u2014 All my fountains, are in you."}, {"pk": 2716021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Elohim of my deliverance, By day I have cried out, In the night <i>also</i> before You,"}, {"pk": 2716022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 2, "text": "Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry."}, {"pk": 2716023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 3, "text": "For my being is filled with evils, And my life draws near to She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2716024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 4, "text": "I have been reckoned among those Who go down to the pit; I have become like a man Who has no strength,"}, {"pk": 2716025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 5, "text": "Released among the dead, Like slain ones lying in the burial-site, Whom You have remembered no more, And who have been cut off from Your hand."}, {"pk": 2716026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 6, "text": "You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths."}, {"pk": 2716027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 7, "text": "Your wrath has rested heavily upon me, And You have afflicted me with all Your breakers. Selah."}, {"pk": 2716028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 8, "text": "You have put away my friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and do not go out;"}, {"pk": 2716029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 9, "text": "My eye grows dim because of affliction. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have called upon You, all day long; I have stretched out my hands to You."}, {"pk": 2716030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 10, "text": "Would You work wonders for the dead? Would the dead rise to praise You? Selah."}, {"pk": 2716031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 11, "text": "Is Your loving-commitment declared in the burial-site? Your trustworthiness in the place of destruction?"}, {"pk": 2716032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 12, "text": "Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance?"}, {"pk": 2716033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 13, "text": "But I, unto You I have cried, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And in the morning my prayer comes before You."}, {"pk": 2716034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?"}, {"pk": 2716035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 15, "text": "I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening <i>matters</i> from You; I am in despair."}, {"pk": 2716036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 16, "text": "Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your onslaughts have cut me off."}, {"pk": 2716037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 17, "text": "They surrounded me like water all day long; They close in upon me altogether."}, {"pk": 2716038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 88, "verse": 18, "text": "You have put loved one and companion far from me, Darkness is my close friend!"}, {"pk": 2716039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 1, "text": "I sing of the loving-commitment of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forever; With my mouth I make known Your trustworthiness To all generations."}, {"pk": 2716040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 2, "text": "For I said, \u201cLoving-commitment is built up forever; You establish Your trustworthiness in the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>You said</i>, \u201cI have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn to My servant Dawid\u0331:"}, {"pk": 2716042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 4, "text": "I establish your seed forever, And shall build up your throne to all generations.\u2019 \u201d Selah."}, {"pk": 2716043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 5, "text": "And the heavens praise Your wonders, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your trustworthiness, too, In the assembly of the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2716044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 6, "text": "For who in the heavens is comparable to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Who among the sons of the mighty is like \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2716045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 7, "text": "\u011al is greatly feared In the company of the set-apart ones, And awesome above all those around Him."}, {"pk": 2716046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 8, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Yah? And Your trustworthiness is all around You."}, {"pk": 2716047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 9, "text": "You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them."}, {"pk": 2716048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 10, "text": "You have broken Rahab\u0331 in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scattered Your enemies With the arm of Your strength."}, {"pk": 2716049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 11, "text": "The heavens are Yours, The earth also is Yours; The world and all that fills it. You have founded them."}, {"pk": 2716050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 12, "text": "North and south \u2014 You have created them; Tab\u0331or and H\u0323ermon rejoice in Your Name."}, {"pk": 2716051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 13, "text": "You have a mighty arm, Your hand is strong, Your right hand exalted."}, {"pk": 2716052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 14, "text": "Righteousness and right-ruling Are the foundation of Your throne; Loving-commitment and truth go before Your face."}, {"pk": 2716053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 15, "text": "Blessed are the people Who know the sounding! They walk, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the light of Your face."}, {"pk": 2716054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 16, "text": "In Your Name they rejoice all day long, And they are exalted in Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2716055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 17, "text": "For You are the comeliness of their strength, And by Your good pleasure our horn is exalted."}, {"pk": 2716056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 18, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is our shield, And the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is our Sovereign."}, {"pk": 2716057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 19, "text": "Then You spoke in a vision to Your lovingly-committed one, And You said, \u201cI have given help to one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people."}, {"pk": 2716058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cI have found My servant Dawid\u0331; With My set-apart oil I anointed him,"}, {"pk": 2716059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 21, "text": "With whom My hand is established; My arm also strengthens him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cNo enemy subjects him to tribute, And no son of wickedness afflicts him."}, {"pk": 2716061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 23, "text": "And I shall beat down His adversaries before his face, And plague those who hate him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut My trustworthiness And My loving-commitment are with him, And in My Name his horn is exalted."}, {"pk": 2716063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 25, "text": "And I shall set his hand on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cHe calls out to Me, \u2018You are my Father, My \u011al, and the rock of my deliverance.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2716065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 27, "text": "I also appoint him first-born, Highest of the sovereigns of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cI guard My loving-commitment for him forever, And My covenant is steadfast with him."}, {"pk": 2716067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 29, "text": "And I shall establish his seed forever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIf his sons forsake My Torah And do not walk in My right-rulings,"}, {"pk": 2716069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 31, "text": "If they profane My laws And do not guard My commands,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThen I shall visit their transgression with the rod, And their crookedness with flogging."}, {"pk": 2716071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 33, "text": "But My loving-commitment I do not take away from him, Nor be false to My trustworthiness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cI shall not profane My covenant, Neither would I change what has gone out from My lips."}, {"pk": 2716073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 35, "text": "Once I have sworn by My set-apartness, I do not lie to Dawid\u0331:\""}, {"pk": 2716074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cHis seed shall be forever, And his throne as the sun before Me;"}, {"pk": 2716075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cLike the moon, it is established forever, And the witness in the heaven is steadfast.\u201d Selah."}, {"pk": 2716076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 38, "text": "Yet You have rejected and spurned, You have been wroth with Your anointed."}, {"pk": 2716077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 39, "text": "You have disowned the covenant of Your servant, You have defiled his diadem in the dust."}, {"pk": 2716078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 40, "text": "You have broken down all his hedges, You have brought his strongholds to ruin."}, {"pk": 2716079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 41, "text": "All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbours."}, {"pk": 2716080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 42, "text": "You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries, You have made all his enemies rejoice."}, {"pk": 2716081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 43, "text": "Moreover You have turned back the edge of his sword, And have not made him stand in battle."}, {"pk": 2716082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 44, "text": "You have brought an end to his splendour, And have hurled his throne to the ground."}, {"pk": 2716083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 45, "text": "You have shortened the days of his youth, You have covered him with shame. Selah."}, {"pk": 2716084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 46, "text": "How long, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, would You be hidden? Would Your wrath burn like fire forever?"}, {"pk": 2716085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 47, "text": "Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?"}, {"pk": 2716086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 48, "text": "What man would live and not see death? Who rescues his life from the power of She\u2019ol? Selah."}, {"pk": 2716087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 49, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, where are Your former loving-commitments, Which You swore to Dawid\u0331 in Your trustworthiness?"}, {"pk": 2716088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 50, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, remember the reproach of Your servants, That I have borne in my bosom \u2014 Of all the many peoples,"}, {"pk": 2716089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 51, "text": "With which Your enemies have reproached, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed."}, {"pk": 2716090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 89, "verse": 52, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forever! Am\u0115n and Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2716091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have been our refuge In all generations."}, {"pk": 2716092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 2, "text": "Before the mountains were born, Or You had brought forth the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting You are \u011al."}, {"pk": 2716093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 3, "text": "You turn man back to dust, And say, \u201cReturn, O children of men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 4, "text": "For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like yesterday that has past, Or like a watch in the night."}, {"pk": 2716095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 5, "text": "You have swept them away, They are as a sleep, Like grass that springs up in the morning."}, {"pk": 2716096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 6, "text": "In the morning it flourishes and springs up, At evening it is cut down and withered."}, {"pk": 2716097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 7, "text": "For we have been consumed by Your displeasure, And by Your wrath we are alarmed."}, {"pk": 2716098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 8, "text": "You have set our crookednesses before You, Our secret <i>sin</i> in the light of Your face."}, {"pk": 2716099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 9, "text": "For all our days have passed away in Your wrath, We spend our years like a whisper."}, {"pk": 2716100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 10, "text": "The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away."}, {"pk": 2716101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 11, "text": "Who knows the power of Your displeasure? And your wrath, according to the fear of You?"}, {"pk": 2716102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 12, "text": "Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom."}, {"pk": 2716103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 13, "text": "Return, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! How long? And be sorry for Your servants."}, {"pk": 2716104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 14, "text": "Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving-commitment, And let us sing for joy all our days!"}, {"pk": 2716105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 15, "text": "Give us joy according to The days You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil."}, {"pk": 2716106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 16, "text": "Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendour to their children."}, {"pk": 2716107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 90, "verse": 17, "text": "And let the pleasantness Of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim be upon us, And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!"}, {"pk": 2716108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 1, "text": "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, Who abides under the shadow of the Almighty,"}, {"pk": 2716109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 2, "text": "He is saying of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cMy refuge and my stronghold, My Elohim, in whom I trust!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 3, "text": "For He delivers you from the snare of a trapper, From the destructive pestilence."}, {"pk": 2716111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 4, "text": "He covers you with His feathers, And under His wings you take refuge; His truth is a shield and armour."}, {"pk": 2716112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 5, "text": "You are not afraid of the dread by night, Of the arrow that flies by day,"}, {"pk": 2716113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 6, "text": "Of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Of destruction that ravages at midday."}, {"pk": 2716114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 7, "text": "A thousand fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it does not come near you."}, {"pk": 2716115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 8, "text": "Only with your eyes you look on, And see the reward of the wrong ones."}, {"pk": 2716116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 9, "text": "Because you have made \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 My refuge, the Most High \u2014 your dwelling place,"}, {"pk": 2716117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 10, "text": "No evil befalls you, And a plague does not come near your tent;"}, {"pk": 2716118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 11, "text": "For He commands His messengers concerning you, To guard you in all your ways."}, {"pk": 2716119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 12, "text": "They bear you up in their hands, Lest you dash your foot against a stone."}, {"pk": 2716120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 13, "text": "You tread upon lion and cobra, Young lion and serpent you trample under foot."}, {"pk": 2716121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBecause he cleaves to Me in love, Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, Because he has known My Name."}, {"pk": 2716122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 15, "text": "When he calls on Me, I answer him; I am with him in distress; I deliver him and esteem him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 91, "verse": 16, "text": "With long life I satisfy him, And show him My deliverance."}, {"pk": 2716124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 1, "text": "It is good to give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And to sing praises to Your Name, O Most High;"}, {"pk": 2716125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 2, "text": "To declare Your loving-commitment in the morning, And Your trustworthiness each night,"}, {"pk": 2716126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 3, "text": "On ten strings, and on the harp, To the sounding chords of the lyre."}, {"pk": 2716127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 4, "text": "For You have made me rejoice with Your work, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I shout for joy at the works of Your hands."}, {"pk": 2716128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 5, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep!"}, {"pk": 2716129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 6, "text": "A senseless man does not know, And a fool does not understand this."}, {"pk": 2716130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 7, "text": "When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever."}, {"pk": 2716131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 8, "text": "But You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are on high forever."}, {"pk": 2716132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 9, "text": "For look, Your enemies, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For look, Your enemies do perish; All the workers of wickedness are scattered."}, {"pk": 2716133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 10, "text": "But You lift up my horn like a wild ox; I have been anointed with fresh oil."}, {"pk": 2716134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 11, "text": "And my eye looks upon my enemies; My ears hear the evil-doers Who rise up against me."}, {"pk": 2716135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 12, "text": "The righteous one flourishes like a palm tree, He grows like a cedar in Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2716136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 13, "text": "Those who are planted in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Flourish in the courts of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2716137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 14, "text": "They still bear fruit in old age; They are fresh and green,"}, {"pk": 2716138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 92, "verse": 15, "text": "To declare that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is straight, My rock, and in Him is no unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2716139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 93, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign, He shall put on excellency; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall put on strength; He shall gird Himself. Indeed, the world is established, immovable."}, {"pk": 2716140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 93, "verse": 2, "text": "Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 93, "verse": 3, "text": "Rivers shall lift up, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Rivers shall lift up their voice; Rivers lift up their breakers."}, {"pk": 2716142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 93, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on high is mightier Than the noise of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea."}, {"pk": 2716143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 93, "verse": 5, "text": "Your witnesses have been very trustworthy. Set-apartness befits Your house, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, forever."}, {"pk": 2716144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u011al of vengeance; O \u011al of vengeance, shine forth!"}, {"pk": 2716145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 2, "text": "Raise Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud."}, {"pk": 2716146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how long are the wrong, How long are the wrong going to exult?"}, {"pk": 2716147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 4, "text": "They pour forth <i>words</i>, They speak arrogantly; All the workers of wickedness boast in themselves."}, {"pk": 2716148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 5, "text": "They crush Your people, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And they afflict Your inheritance."}, {"pk": 2716149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 6, "text": "They kill the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless."}, {"pk": 2716150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 7, "text": "Yet they say, \u201cYah does not see, And the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 pays no heed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 8, "text": "Take heed, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when would you become wise?"}, {"pk": 2716152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 9, "text": "He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?"}, {"pk": 2716153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 10, "text": "He who disciplines the nations, Does He not reprove \u2014 The One teaching man knowledge?"}, {"pk": 2716154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows the thoughts of man, That they are <i>but</i> a breath."}, {"pk": 2716155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 12, "text": "Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah, And instruct out of Your Torah,"}, {"pk": 2716156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 13, "text": "To give him rest from the days of evil, Until the pit is dug for the wrong."}, {"pk": 2716157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 14, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not leave His people, Nor does He forsake His inheritance."}, {"pk": 2716158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 15, "text": "For right-ruling returns <i>man</i> to righteousness, And all the upright in heart follow it."}, {"pk": 2716159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 16, "text": "Who would rise up for me against evil-doers? Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?"}, {"pk": 2716160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 17, "text": "If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had not been my help, My being would soon have settled in silence."}, {"pk": 2716161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 18, "text": "When I said, \u201cMy foot has slipped,\u201d Your loving-commitment, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, supported me."}, {"pk": 2716162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 19, "text": "When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being."}, {"pk": 2716163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 20, "text": "Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by law, Be joined with You?"}, {"pk": 2716164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 21, "text": "They band together against the life of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wrong."}, {"pk": 2716165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 22, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my defence, And my Elohim the rock of my refuge,"}, {"pk": 2716166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 94, "verse": 23, "text": "And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim does cut them off."}, {"pk": 2716167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 1, "text": "Come, let us sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Let us raise a shout to the Rock of our deliverance."}, {"pk": 2716168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 2, "text": "Let us come before His face with thanksgiving; Let us raise a shout to Him in song."}, {"pk": 2716169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 3, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a great \u011al, And a great Sovereign above all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2716170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 4, "text": "In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The mountain peaks are His also."}, {"pk": 2716171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 5, "text": "His is the sea, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land."}, {"pk": 2716172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 6, "text": "Come, let us bow down and bend low, Let us kneel before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Maker."}, {"pk": 2716173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 7, "text": "For He is our Elohim, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice:"}, {"pk": 2716174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cDo not harden your hearts as in Merib\u0331ah, And as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,"}, {"pk": 2716175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 9, "text": "When your fathers tried Me, Have proved Me, though they saw My work.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 10, "text": "For forty years I was grieved with <i>that</i> generation, And said, \u2018They are a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2716177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 95, "verse": 11, "text": "As I swore in My wrath, \u2018If they enter into My rest...\u2019"}, {"pk": 2716178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 1, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a new song, Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all the earth!"}, {"pk": 2716179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 2, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bless His Name, Proclaim His deliverance from day to day."}, {"pk": 2716180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 3, "text": "Declare His esteem among the nations, His wonders among all peoples."}, {"pk": 2716181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 4, "text": "For great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and greatly to be praised, He is to be feared above all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2716182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 5, "text": "For all the mighty ones of the peoples are matters of naught, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made the heavens."}, {"pk": 2716183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 6, "text": "Excellency and splendour are before Him, Strength and comeliness are in His set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2716184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 7, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O clans of the peoples, Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 esteem and strength."}, {"pk": 2716185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 8, "text": "Ascribe to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the esteem of His Name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts."}, {"pk": 2716186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 9, "text": "Bow yourselves to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, In the splendour of set-apartness! Tremble before Him, all the earth."}, {"pk": 2716187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 10, "text": "Say among nations, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign. The world also is established, immovable. He judges the peoples in straightness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 11, "text": "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;"}, {"pk": 2716189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 12, "text": "Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Let all the trees of the forest then shout for joy,"}, {"pk": 2716190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 96, "verse": 13, "text": "At the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For He shall come, For He shall come to judge the earth. He judges the world in righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/98/9'>98:9</a>; Acts<a href='/TS2009/19/17/31'>17:31</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/19/11'>19:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2716191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign. The earth rejoices. Many isles are glad!"}, {"pk": 2716192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 2, "text": "Clouds and darkness all around Him, Righteousness and right-ruling are the foundation of His throne."}, {"pk": 2716193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 3, "text": "Fire goes before Him, And burns up His adversaries round about."}, {"pk": 2716194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 4, "text": "His lightnings shall light the world, The earth shall see and tremble."}, {"pk": 2716195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 5, "text": "The mountains shall melt like wax before the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Before the face of the Master of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2716196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 6, "text": "The heavens shall declare His righteousness, And all the peoples shall see His esteem."}, {"pk": 2716197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 7, "text": "All are put to shame who serve carved images, Those boasting of matters of naught. Bow yourselves to Him, all you mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2716198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 8, "text": "Tsiyon shall hear and be glad, And the daughters of Yehud\u0331ah rejoice Because of Your right-rulings, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 9, "text": "For You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are the Most High over all the earth, You shall be greatly exalted, over all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2716200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 10, "text": "You who love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hate evil! He guards the lives of His lovingly-committed ones, He delivers them out of the hand of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2716201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 11, "text": "Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart."}, {"pk": 2716202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 97, "verse": 12, "text": "Rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you righteous, And give thanks at the remembrance of His Set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2716203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 1, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a new song! For He has done wonders; His right hand and His set-apart arm Have brought Him deliverance."}, {"pk": 2716204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made known His deliverance; His righteousness He has openly shown Before the eyes of the nations."}, {"pk": 2716205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 3, "text": "He has remembered His loving-commitment And His trustworthiness to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l; All the ends of the earth have seen The deliverance of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2716206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 4, "text": "Raise a shout to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all the earth; Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises."}, {"pk": 2716207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 5, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with the lyre, With the lyre and the voice of a song,"}, {"pk": 2716208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 6, "text": "With trumpets and a voice of a shophar; Raise a shout before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Sovereign."}, {"pk": 2716209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 7, "text": "Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, The world and those who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2716210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 8, "text": "Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2716211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 98, "verse": 9, "text": "For He shall come to judge the earth. He judges the world in righteousness, And the people in straightness."}, {"pk": 2716212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign; Peoples tremble! He is enthroned on the kerub\u0331im; The earth shakes!"}, {"pk": 2716213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is great in Tsiyon, And He is high above all the peoples."}, {"pk": 2716214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 3, "text": "They praise Your Name, great and awesome, It is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2716215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 4, "text": "And the strength of the Sovereign Shall love right-ruling; You Yourself shall establish straightness; You shall execute right-ruling And righteousness in Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2716216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 5, "text": "Exalt \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, And bow yourselves at His footstool, He is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2716217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 6, "text": "Mosheh and Aharon were among His priests, And Shemu\u2019\u0115l was among those calling upon His Name. They called upon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He answered them."}, {"pk": 2716218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 7, "text": "He spoke to them in the column of cloud; They guarded His witnesses And the law He gave them."}, {"pk": 2716219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 8, "text": "You answered them, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim. You were a forgiving \u011al to them, Though You took vengeance on their deeds."}, {"pk": 2716220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 99, "verse": 9, "text": "Exalt \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, And bow down towards His set-apart mountain; For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2716221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 100, "verse": 1, "text": "Raise a shout for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, All the earth!"}, {"pk": 2716222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 100, "verse": 2, "text": "Serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with gladness; Come before His presence with singing."}, {"pk": 2716223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 100, "verse": 3, "text": "Know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He is Elohim; He has made us, and we are His \u2014 His people and the sheep of His pasture."}, {"pk": 2716224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 100, "verse": 4, "text": "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His Name."}, {"pk": 2716225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 100, "verse": 5, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good; His loving-commitment is everlasting, And His truth, to all generations."}, {"pk": 2716226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 1, "text": "I sing of loving-commitment and right-ruling; To You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I sing praises."}, {"pk": 2716227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 2, "text": "I act wisely in a perfect way. When do You come to me? I walk in the midst of my house with a perfect heart."}, {"pk": 2716228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 3, "text": "I set no matter of Beliya\u201bal before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It does not cleave to me."}, {"pk": 2716229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 4, "text": "A perverse heart turns away from me; I do not know evil."}, {"pk": 2716230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 5, "text": "Him who secretly slanders his neighbour I cut off; I do not tolerate one Who has a haughty look and a proud heart."}, {"pk": 2716231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 6, "text": "My eyes are on the trustworthy of the land, To dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He serves me."}, {"pk": 2716232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 7, "text": "He who practises deceit Does not dwell in my house; He who speaks lies Does not stand in my presence."}, {"pk": 2716233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 101, "verse": 8, "text": "Each morning I uproot all the wrong of the land, To cut off all the workers of wickedness From the city of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hear my prayer, And let my cry come to You."}, {"pk": 2716235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 2, "text": "Do not hide Your face from me In the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; In the day I call, answer me speedily."}, {"pk": 2716236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 3, "text": "For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth."}, {"pk": 2716237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 4, "text": "My heart is stricken and withered like grass, For I have forgotten to eat my bread."}, {"pk": 2716238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 5, "text": "Because of the sound of my sighing My bones have cleaved to my flesh."}, {"pk": 2716239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 6, "text": "I have been like a pelican of the wilderness, I have been like an owl of the desert."}, {"pk": 2716240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 7, "text": "I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the house-top."}, {"pk": 2716241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 8, "text": "My enemies reproached me all day long, Those who rave against me have sworn against me."}, {"pk": 2716242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 9, "text": "For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,"}, {"pk": 2716243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 10, "text": "Because of Your displeasure and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up And thrown me down."}, {"pk": 2716244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 11, "text": "My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass."}, {"pk": 2716245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 12, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations."}, {"pk": 2716246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 13, "text": "You Yourself shall arise And have compassion on Tsiyon, For the time to favour her, The appointed time, has come."}, {"pk": 2716247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 14, "text": "For Your servants have been pleased with her stones, And they favour her dust."}, {"pk": 2716248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 15, "text": "And the nations shall fear the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And all the sovereigns of the earth Your esteem,"}, {"pk": 2716249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 16, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall build up Tsiyon, He shall appear in His esteem."}, {"pk": 2716250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 17, "text": "He shall turn unto the prayer of the destitute, And He shall not despise their prayer."}, {"pk": 2716251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 18, "text": "This is written for a generation to come, So that a people to be created praise Yah.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/31'>22:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2716252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 19, "text": "For He looked down From the height of His set-apart place; From heaven \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 viewed the earth,"}, {"pk": 2716253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 20, "text": "To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,"}, {"pk": 2716254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 21, "text": "To declare the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in Tsiyon, And His praise in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2716255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 22, "text": "When peoples gather together, And reigns, to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 23, "text": "He has humbled my strength in the way; He has shortened my days."}, {"pk": 2716257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 24, "text": "I said, \u201cO my \u011al, Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are throughout all generations."}, {"pk": 2716258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYou did found the earth of old, And the heavens are the work of Your hands."}, {"pk": 2716259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 26, "text": "They shall perish, but You remain; And all of them grow old like a garment; You change them like a coat, And they are changed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut You are the same, And Your years have no end."}, {"pk": 2716261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 102, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThe sons of Your servants continue, And their seed is established before You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 1, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being, And all that is within me, <i>Bless</i> His set-apart Name!"}, {"pk": 2716263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 2, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being, And do not forget all His dealings,"}, {"pk": 2716264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 3, "text": "Who forgives all your crookednesses, Who heals all your diseases,"}, {"pk": 2716265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 4, "text": "Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving-commitment and compassion,"}, {"pk": 2716266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 5, "text": "Who satisfies your desire with the good, Your youth is renewed like the eagle\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2716267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is doing righteousness And right-ruling for all the oppressed."}, {"pk": 2716268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 7, "text": "He made known His ways to Mosheh, His acts to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2716269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is compassionate and showing favour, Patient, and great in loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2716270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 9, "text": "He does not always strive, nor maintain it forever."}, {"pk": 2716271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 10, "text": "He has not done to us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2716272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 11, "text": "For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His loving-commitment toward those who fear Him;"}, {"pk": 2716273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 12, "text": "As far as east is from west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us."}, {"pk": 2716274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 13, "text": "As a father has compassion for his children, So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has compassion for those who fear Him."}, {"pk": 2716275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 14, "text": "For He knows how we are made; He remembers that we are dust."}, {"pk": 2716276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 15, "text": "A man\u2019s days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes."}, {"pk": 2716277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 16, "text": "For the wind blows over it, and it is no more, And its place no longer remembers it."}, {"pk": 2716278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 17, "text": "But the loving-commitment of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Is from everlasting to everlasting Upon those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children\u2019s children,"}, {"pk": 2716279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 18, "text": "To those who guard His covenant, And to those who remember His orders to do them."}, {"pk": 2716280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 19, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has established His throne in the heavens, And His reign shall rule over all."}, {"pk": 2716281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 20, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you His messengers, Mighty in power, who do His Word, Listening to the voice of His Word."}, {"pk": 2716282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 21, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you His hosts, You His servants, who do His pleasure."}, {"pk": 2716283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 103, "verse": 22, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all His works, In all places of His rule. Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being!"}, {"pk": 2716284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 1, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being! O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, You have been very great: You have put on excellency and splendour,"}, {"pk": 2716285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 2, "text": "Covering Yourself with light as with a garment, Stretching out the heavens like a curtain,"}, {"pk": 2716286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 3, "text": "Who is laying the beams of His upper rooms in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on the wings of the wind,"}, {"pk": 2716287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 4, "text": "Making His messengers the winds, His servants a flame of fire."}, {"pk": 2716288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 5, "text": "He established the earth on its foundations, So that it would not totter forever,"}, {"pk": 2716289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 6, "text": "You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains."}, {"pk": 2716290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 7, "text": "At Your rebuke they flee; At the voice of Your thunder they hurry away."}, {"pk": 2716291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 8, "text": "They go up the mountains; They go down the valleys, To the place which You founded for them."}, {"pk": 2716292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 9, "text": "You did set a boundary, they do not pass over, They do not return to cover the earth."}, {"pk": 2716293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 10, "text": "Who is sending the springs into the valleys, They flow among the hills."}, {"pk": 2716294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 11, "text": "They give drink to every beast of the field; Wild donkeys break their thirst."}, {"pk": 2716295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 12, "text": "The birds of the heavens dwell beside them; They sing from between the branches."}, {"pk": 2716296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 13, "text": "Watering the hills from His upper rooms; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works."}, {"pk": 2716297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 14, "text": "Causing the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for the service of mankind, To bring forth food from the earth,"}, {"pk": 2716298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 15, "text": "And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make the face shine, And bread which sustains man\u2019s heart."}, {"pk": 2716299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 16, "text": "The trees of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are satisfied, The cedars of Leb\u0331anon which He planted,"}, {"pk": 2716300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 17, "text": "Where the birds do make nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees."}, {"pk": 2716301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 18, "text": "The high hills are for wild goats; Rocks a refuge for rock badgers."}, {"pk": 2716302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 19, "text": "He made the moon for appointed times; The sun knows its going down."}, {"pk": 2716303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 20, "text": "You put darkness, and it is night, In it all the beasts of the forest creep."}, {"pk": 2716304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 21, "text": "The young lions are roaring for prey, And seeking their food from \u011al."}, {"pk": 2716305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 22, "text": "The sun arises \u2014 they withdraw And lie down in their dens."}, {"pk": 2716306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 23, "text": "Man goes out to his work, And to his labour, till evening."}, {"pk": 2716307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 24, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how many have been Your works! You have made all of them in wisdom. The earth is filled with Your possessions."}, {"pk": 2716308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 25, "text": "There is the sea, great and wide, In which are innumerable swarms, Living creatures, small with great."}, {"pk": 2716309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 26, "text": "There do ships go; That Liwiathan which You made, to play there."}, {"pk": 2716310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 27, "text": "All of them wait for You, To give their food in due season."}, {"pk": 2716311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 28, "text": "You give to them, they gather in; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good."}, {"pk": 2716312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 29, "text": "You hide Your face, they are alarmed; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust;"}, {"pk": 2716313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 30, "text": "You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2716314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 31, "text": "The esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is forever, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rejoices in His works,"}, {"pk": 2716315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 32, "text": "Who looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke."}, {"pk": 2716316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 33, "text": "I sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as long as I live, I sing praise to my Elohim while I exist."}, {"pk": 2716317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 34, "text": "My meditation on Him is sweet; I rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 104, "verse": 35, "text": "Let sinners be consumed from the earth, And let the wrong be no more. Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being! Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 1, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Call upon His Name, Make known His deeds among the peoples."}, {"pk": 2716320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 2, "text": "Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; Speak of all His wonders."}, {"pk": 2716321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 3, "text": "Make your boast in His set-apart Name; Let the hearts rejoice of those seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 4, "text": "Seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His strength; Seek His face always."}, {"pk": 2716323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 5, "text": "Remember His wonders which He has done, His miracles, and the right-rulings of His mouth,"}, {"pk": 2716324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 6, "text": "O seed of Ab\u0331raham His servant, Children of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, His chosen ones!"}, {"pk": 2716325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 7, "text": "He is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim; His right-rulings are in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2716326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 8, "text": "He has remembered His covenant forever, The Word He commanded, for a thousand generations,"}, {"pk": 2716327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>The covenant</i> He made with Ab\u0331raham, And His oath to Yitsh\u0323aq,"}, {"pk": 2716328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 10, "text": "And established it to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for a law, To Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 an everlasting covenant,"}, {"pk": 2716329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 11, "text": "Saying, \u201cTo you I give the land of Kena\u201ban, The portion of your inheritance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 12, "text": "When they were few in number, Few indeed, and sojourners in it,"}, {"pk": 2716331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 13, "text": "And they went about from one nation to another, From one reign to another people,"}, {"pk": 2716332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 14, "text": "He allowed no one to oppress them, And He reproved sovereigns for their sakes,"}, {"pk": 2716333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>Saying</i>, \u201cDo not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 16, "text": "And He called for a scarcity of food in the land; He cut off all the supply of bread."}, {"pk": 2716335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 17, "text": "He sent ahead of them a man, Yos\u0115ph, sold as a slave."}, {"pk": 2716336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 18, "text": "They afflicted his feet with shackles, His neck was put in irons."}, {"pk": 2716337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 19, "text": "Until the time that His Word came, The Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 tried him."}, {"pk": 2716338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 20, "text": "The sovereign sent and released him, The ruler of the people let him loose."}, {"pk": 2716339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 21, "text": "He made him master of his house, And ruler over all his possessions,"}, {"pk": 2716340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 22, "text": "To bind his chiefs at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom."}, {"pk": 2716341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 23, "text": "Then Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to Mitsrayim, And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 sojourned in the land of H\u0323am."}, {"pk": 2716342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 24, "text": "And He increased His people greatly, And made them stronger than their enemies."}, {"pk": 2716343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 25, "text": "He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants."}, {"pk": 2716344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 26, "text": "He sent Mosheh His servant, Aharon whom He had chosen."}, {"pk": 2716345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 27, "text": "They set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of H\u0323am."}, {"pk": 2716346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 28, "text": "He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they did not rebel against His word."}, {"pk": 2716347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 29, "text": "He turned their waters into blood, And killed their fish."}, {"pk": 2716348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 30, "text": "Their land teemed with frogs, In the rooms of their sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2716349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 31, "text": "He spoke, and swarms of flies came, Gnats in all their borders."}, {"pk": 2716350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 32, "text": "He gave them hail for rain, A flaming fire in their land."}, {"pk": 2716351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 33, "text": "And He struck their vines and their fig trees, And broke the trees of their borders."}, {"pk": 2716352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 34, "text": "He spoke, and locusts came, And larvae, innumerable,"}, {"pk": 2716353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 35, "text": "And they devoured all the plants in their land, And they devoured the fruit of their ground."}, {"pk": 2716354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 36, "text": "Then He struck all the first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength,"}, {"pk": 2716355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 37, "text": "And brought them out with silver and gold, And among His tribes no one faltered."}, {"pk": 2716356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 38, "text": "Mitsrayim was glad when they left, For the fear of them had fallen upon them."}, {"pk": 2716357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 39, "text": "He spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to give light in the night."}, {"pk": 2716358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 40, "text": "They asked, and He brought quail, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven."}, {"pk": 2716359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 41, "text": "He opened the rock, and water gushed out; It ran in the dry places, a river."}, {"pk": 2716360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 42, "text": "For He remembered His set-apart word, To Ab\u0331raham His servant."}, {"pk": 2716361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 43, "text": "So He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing."}, {"pk": 2716362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 44, "text": "And He gave to them the lands of the nations, And they inherited the labour of peoples,"}, {"pk": 2716363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 105, "verse": 45, "text": "In order that they might guard His laws, And watch over His Torot. Praise Yah!", "comment": "Torot - plural of Torah - teaching."}, {"pk": 2716364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Oh, give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He is good! For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 2, "text": "Who does relate the mighty acts of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Or declare all His praise?"}, {"pk": 2716366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 3, "text": "Blessed are those who guard right-ruling, Who do righteousness at all times!"}, {"pk": 2716367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 4, "text": "Remember me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the acceptance of Your people; Visit me with Your deliverance,"}, {"pk": 2716368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 5, "text": "To see the good of Your chosen ones, To rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, To make my boast with Your inheritance."}, {"pk": 2716369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 6, "text": "We have sinned with our fathers, We have acted perversely, We have done wrong."}, {"pk": 2716370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 7, "text": "Our fathers in Mitsrayim did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember Your many loving-commitments, But rebelled by the sea, the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2716371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 8, "text": "But He saved them for His Name\u2019s sake, To make known His might."}, {"pk": 2716372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 9, "text": "And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; And He led them through the depths, Through a wilderness."}, {"pk": 2716373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 10, "text": "And He saved them from the hand of the hater, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy."}, {"pk": 2716374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 11, "text": "And waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left."}, {"pk": 2716375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 12, "text": "Then they believed His words; They sang His praise."}, {"pk": 2716376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 13, "text": "They soon forgot His works; They did not wait for His counsel,"}, {"pk": 2716377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 14, "text": "But greedily lusted in the wilderness, And tried \u011al in the desert."}, {"pk": 2716378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 15, "text": "And He gave them their request, But sent leanness within their being."}, {"pk": 2716379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 16, "text": "And they were jealous of Mosheh in the camp, Of Aharon, the set-apart one of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2716380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Then</i> the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan, And covered the company of Ab\u0331iram."}, {"pk": 2716381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 18, "text": "And a fire burned in their company; A flame consumed the wrong."}, {"pk": 2716382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 19, "text": "They made a calf in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331, And bowed down to a moulded image."}, {"pk": 2716383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 20, "text": "Thus they changed My esteem Into the form of an ox that eats grass."}, {"pk": 2716384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 21, "text": "They forgot \u011al their Saviour, The Doer of great <i>deeds</i> in Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2716385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 22, "text": "Of wonders in the land of H\u0323am, Of awesome <i>deeds</i> by the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2716386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 23, "text": "Then He said that He would destroy them, Had not Mosheh His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, To turn away His wrath from destroying <i>them</i>."}, {"pk": 2716387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 24, "text": "They then despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,"}, {"pk": 2716388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 25, "text": "And they grumbled in their tents, They did not listen to the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 26, "text": "So He lifted up His hand <i>in an oath</i> against them, To make them fall in the wilderness,"}, {"pk": 2716390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 27, "text": "And to make their seed fall among the nations, And to scatter them in the lands."}, {"pk": 2716391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 28, "text": "And they joined themselves to Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor, And ate slaughterings made to the dead."}, {"pk": 2716392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 29, "text": "Thus they provoked Him with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them."}, {"pk": 2716393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 30, "text": "Then Pineh\u0323as stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped."}, {"pk": 2716394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 31, "text": "And that was reckoned to him for righteousness To all generations forever."}, {"pk": 2716395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 32, "text": "And they provoked wrath at the waters of Merib\u0331ah, And Mosheh suffered on account of them;"}, {"pk": 2716396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 33, "text": "Because they embittered his spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips."}, {"pk": 2716397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 34, "text": "They did not destroy the peoples, As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded them,"}, {"pk": 2716398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 35, "text": "But mixed with the nations And learned their works,"}, {"pk": 2716399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 36, "text": "And served their idols, And they became a snare to them."}, {"pk": 2716400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 37, "text": "And they slaughtered their sons And their daughters to demons,"}, {"pk": 2716401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 38, "text": "And they shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they slaughtered to the idols of Kena\u201ban; And the land was defiled with blood."}, {"pk": 2716402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 39, "text": "So they became unclean by their own works, And went whoring by their own deeds."}, {"pk": 2716403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 40, "text": "And the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burned against His people, And He loathed His own inheritance."}, {"pk": 2716404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 41, "text": "Then He gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them."}, {"pk": 2716405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 42, "text": "And their enemies oppressed them, And they were humbled under their hand."}, {"pk": 2716406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 43, "text": "Many times He delivered them; But they rebelled in their plans, So they were brought low for their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2716407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 44, "text": "But He would look on their distress, When He heard their cry,"}, {"pk": 2716408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 45, "text": "And remember His covenant for their sake, And relent according to the greatness of His loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2716409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 46, "text": "And He would let them find compassion, Before all those holding them captive."}, {"pk": 2716410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 47, "text": "Save us, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks to Your set-apart Name, To exult in Your praise."}, {"pk": 2716411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 106, "verse": 48, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l From everlasting to everlasting! And all the people shall say, \u201cAm\u0115n!\u201d Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 1, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! For <i>He is</i> good, For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 2, "text": "Let the redeemed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 say <i>so</i>, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,"}, {"pk": 2716414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 3, "text": "And gathered out of the lands, From east and from west, From north and from south."}, {"pk": 2716415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 4, "text": "They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert way; They found no city to dwell in."}, {"pk": 2716416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 5, "text": "Hungry and thirsty, Their being in them grew faint."}, {"pk": 2716417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 6, "text": "Then they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in their distress, He delivered them out of their troubles."}, {"pk": 2716418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 7, "text": "And He guided them by the right way, To go to a city to settle."}, {"pk": 2716419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 8, "text": "Let them give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for His loving-commitment, And His wonders to the children of men!"}, {"pk": 2716420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 9, "text": "For He has satisfied a longing being, And has filled the hungry being with goodness."}, {"pk": 2716421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 10, "text": "Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons,"}, {"pk": 2716422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 11, "text": "Because they rebelled against the words of \u011al, And despised the counsel of the Most High."}, {"pk": 2716423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 12, "text": "And He humbled their heart by toil; They stumbled, and there was no one to help."}, {"pk": 2716424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 13, "text": "And they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in their distress, And He saved them out of their troubles."}, {"pk": 2716425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 14, "text": "He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke their chains in pieces."}, {"pk": 2716426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 15, "text": "Let them give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for His loving-commitment, And His wonders to the children of men!"}, {"pk": 2716427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 16, "text": "For He has broken the gates of bronze, And He cut the bars of iron in two."}, {"pk": 2716428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 17, "text": "Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their crookednesses, were afflicted."}, {"pk": 2716429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 18, "text": "Their being loathed all food, And they drew near to the gates of death,"}, {"pk": 2716430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 19, "text": "And cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in their distress, He saved them out of their troubles."}, {"pk": 2716431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 20, "text": "He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions."}, {"pk": 2716432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 21, "text": "Let them give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for His loving-commitment, And His wonders to the children of men!"}, {"pk": 2716433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 22, "text": "And let them slaughter slaughterings of thanksgiving, And relate His works with rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2716434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 23, "text": "Those who go down to the sea in ships, Doing work in many waters,"}, {"pk": 2716435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 24, "text": "They see the works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And His wonders in the deep."}, {"pk": 2716436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 25, "text": "For He commands and raises the stormy wind, Which lifts up the waves of the sea."}, {"pk": 2716437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 26, "text": "They go up to the heavens, They go down to the depths; Their being is melted because of evil."}, {"pk": 2716438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 27, "text": "They celebrate and stagger like a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up."}, {"pk": 2716439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 28, "text": "Then they cry out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in their distress, And He brings them out of their troubles."}, {"pk": 2716440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 29, "text": "He caused the storm to be still, So that its waves were silent."}, {"pk": 2716441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 30, "text": "And they rejoice because they are hushed; And He leads them to the haven of their delight."}, {"pk": 2716442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 31, "text": "Let them give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for His loving-commitment, And His wonders to the children of men!"}, {"pk": 2716443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 32, "text": "And let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people, And praise Him in the seat of the elders."}, {"pk": 2716444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 33, "text": "He makes rivers become a wilderness, And the fountains of water become a dry ground;"}, {"pk": 2716445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 34, "text": "A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2716446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 35, "text": "He makes a wilderness become a pool of water, And dry land become fountains of waters."}, {"pk": 2716447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 36, "text": "And He causes the hungry to dwell there, And they build a city to settle in,"}, {"pk": 2716448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 37, "text": "And they sow fields and plant vineyards, And they make fruits of increase."}, {"pk": 2716449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 38, "text": "And He blesses them, And they increase greatly; And He lets not their cattle diminish."}, {"pk": 2716450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 39, "text": "But when they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, evil and sorrow,"}, {"pk": 2716451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 40, "text": "He pours scorn on nobles, And causes them to wander in a pathless waste;"}, {"pk": 2716452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 41, "text": "But He raises the poor up from affliction, And makes <i>their</i> clans like a flock."}, {"pk": 2716453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 42, "text": "The straight ones see, and rejoice, And all unrighteousness shuts its mouth."}, {"pk": 2716454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 107, "verse": 43, "text": "Who is wise? Then let him observe these <i>matters</i>! Let them understand the loving-commitments of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 1, "text": "O Elohim, my heart is steadfast; I sing and give praise \u2014 even my esteem."}, {"pk": 2716456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 2, "text": "Awake, harp and lyre! I awake the dawn."}, {"pk": 2716457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 3, "text": "I praise You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, among peoples, And I sing praises to You among the nations."}, {"pk": 2716458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 4, "text": "For Your loving-commitment is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds."}, {"pk": 2716459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 5, "text": "Exalt Yourself above the heavens, O Elohim, And Your esteem above all the earth;"}, {"pk": 2716460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 6, "text": "In order that those You love Might be delivered. Save with Your right hand, And answer me."}, {"pk": 2716461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 7, "text": "Elohim has spoken in His set-apartness, \u201cI exult, I portion out Shek\u0331em, And I measure out the Valley of Sukkoth."}, {"pk": 2716462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 8, "text": "Gil\u201bad\u0331 is Mine, Menashsheh is Mine, And Ephrayim is My chief defence, Yehud\u0331ah is My inscriber.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/49/10'>49:10</a> and Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/60/7'>60:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2716463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 9, "text": "Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is My wash-pot, Over Ed\u0331om I cast My shoe, Over Philistia I raise a shout."}, {"pk": 2716464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 10, "text": "Who would bring me into the strong city? Who shall lead me to Ed\u0331om?"}, {"pk": 2716465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 11, "text": "Have You not rejected us, O Elohim? And You do not go out with our armies, O Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2716466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 12, "text": "Give us help from distress, For the help of man is naught."}, {"pk": 2716467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 108, "verse": 13, "text": "In Elohim we do mightily, For it is He who treads down our adversaries."}, {"pk": 2716468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 1, "text": "Do not be silent, O Elohim of my praise!"}, {"pk": 2716469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 2, "text": "For the mouth of the wrong And the mouth of the deceiver Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a false tongue."}, {"pk": 2716470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 3, "text": "They have surrounded me with words of hatred, And they attack me without a cause."}, {"pk": 2716471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 4, "text": "In return for my love they accuse me, While I am <i>in</i> prayer."}, {"pk": 2716472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 5, "text": "And they repay me evil for good, And hatred for my love."}, {"pk": 2716473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 6, "text": "Appoint over him one who is wrong, And let an accuser stand at his right hand."}, {"pk": 2716474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 7, "text": "When he is judged, let him be found wrong, And let his prayer become sin."}, {"pk": 2716475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 8, "text": "Let his days be few, Let another take his office."}, {"pk": 2716476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 9, "text": "Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow."}, {"pk": 2716477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 10, "text": "And let his children always wander and beg, And seek <i>food</i> out of their ruins."}, {"pk": 2716478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 11, "text": "Let the creditor lay a snare for all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labour."}, {"pk": 2716479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 12, "text": "Let him have no one to extend loving-commitment, Nor any to show favour to his fatherless children."}, {"pk": 2716480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 13, "text": "Let his descendants be cut off, Their name be blotted out in the next generation."}, {"pk": 2716481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 14, "text": "Let the crookedness of his fathers Be remembered before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out."}, {"pk": 2716482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 15, "text": "Let them always be before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let Him cut off their remembrance from the earth;"}, {"pk": 2716483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 16, "text": "Because he did not remember to show loving-commitment, But persecuted the poor and needy man; And the broken-hearted, to put to death."}, {"pk": 2716484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 17, "text": "He also loved cursing, so let it come to him; And he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him."}, {"pk": 2716485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 18, "text": "And he put cursing on as with his garment, So let it enter his inward parts like water, Into his bones and like oil."}, {"pk": 2716486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 19, "text": "Let it be to him like a cloak he wraps around him, And as a girdle that he always girds on."}, {"pk": 2716487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 20, "text": "This is the reward of my accusers from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And to those speaking evil against my being."}, {"pk": 2716488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 21, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Master, Deal with me for Your Name\u2019s sake; Because Your loving-commitment is good, deliver me."}, {"pk": 2716489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 22, "text": "For I am poor and needy, And my heart is pierced within me."}, {"pk": 2716490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 23, "text": "I have gone like a lengthening shadow, I have been driven away like a locust."}, {"pk": 2716491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 24, "text": "My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh grows lean from fatness."}, {"pk": 2716492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 25, "text": "And I, I have become a reproach to them; They see me, they shake their heads."}, {"pk": 2716493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 26, "text": "Help me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim! Save me according to Your loving-commitment,"}, {"pk": 2716494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 27, "text": "And let them know that this is Your hand. You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have done it!"}, {"pk": 2716495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 28, "text": "Let them curse, but You bless. They shall arise, but be ashamed, And let Your servant rejoice."}, {"pk": 2716496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 29, "text": "Let my accusers put on shame, And be wrapped in their own confusion as in a cloak."}, {"pk": 2716497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 30, "text": "I greatly thank \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with my mouth, And I praise Him in the midst of the throng."}, {"pk": 2716498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 109, "verse": 31, "text": "For He stands at the right hand of the poor, To save from those judging his being."}, {"pk": 2716499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my Master, \u201cSit at My right hand, Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sends Your mighty sceptre out of Tsiyon. Rule in the midst of Your enemies!"}, {"pk": 2716501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 3, "text": "Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!"}, {"pk": 2716502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn and does not relent, \u201cYou are a priest forever According to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at Your right hand Shall smite sovereigns in the day of His wrath."}, {"pk": 2716504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 6, "text": "He judges among the nations, He shall fill <i>the nations</i> with dead bodies, He shall crush the Head over the mighty earth!"}, {"pk": 2716505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 110, "verse": 7, "text": "He drinks of the stream by the wayside, Therefore He does lift up the head!"}, {"pk": 2716506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> Praise Yah! I thank \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all my heart, <i>B\u0115t</i> In the company of the straight, and of the congregation."}, {"pk": 2716507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Great are the works of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>Dalet</i> Searched for by all who delight in them."}, {"pk": 2716508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> Splendour and greatness are His work, <i>Waw</i> And His righteousness stands forever."}, {"pk": 2716509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> He has made His wonders to be remembered; <i>H\u0323et</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shows favour and is compassionate."}, {"pk": 2716510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>Tet</i> He has given food to those who fear Him; <i>Yod</i> He remembers His covenant forever."}, {"pk": 2716511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> He has shown His people the power of His works, <i>Lamed</i> To give to them the inheritance of the nations."}, {"pk": 2716512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>Mem</i> The works of His hands are truth and right-ruling, <i>Nun</i> All His orders are trustworthy,"}, {"pk": 2716513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> They are upheld forever and ever, <i>Ayin</i> Performed in truth and straightness."}, {"pk": 2716514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> He sent redemption to His people, <i>Tsadi</i> He has commanded His covenant forever. <i>Qoph</i> Set-apart and awesome is His Name."}, {"pk": 2716515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 111, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the beginning of wisdom, <i>Shin</i> All those doing them have a good understanding. <i>Taw</i> His praise is standing forever."}, {"pk": 2716516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> Praise Yah! Blessed is the man, Who fears \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>B\u0115t</i> Who has greatly delighted in His commands."}, {"pk": 2716517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Mighty in the earth shall be his seed, <i>Dalet</i> The generation of the straight ones shall be blessed."}, {"pk": 2716518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> Wealth and riches are in his house, <i>Waw</i> And his righteousness is standing forever."}, {"pk": 2716519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> Light has risen in the darkness to the straight ones, <i>Those</i> showing favour, <i>H\u0323et</i> The compassionate, And the righteous."}, {"pk": 2716520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>Tet</i> Good is a man showing favour and lending, <i>Yod</i> He sustains his matters in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2716521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> For he is never shaken; <i>Lamed</i> The righteous is remembered forever."}, {"pk": 2716522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>Mem</i> He is not afraid of an evil report. <i>Nun</i> His heart is steadfast, trusting in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> His heart is upheld, he is not afraid, <i>Ayin</i> While he looks on his adversaries."}, {"pk": 2716524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> He scattered abroad, He gave to the poor, <i>Tsadi</i> His righteousness is standing forever. <i>Qoph</i> His horn is exalted with esteem."}, {"pk": 2716525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 112, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> The wrong one sees it and shall be vexed; <i>Shin</i> He gnashes his teeth and shall melt. <i>Taw</i> The desire of the wrong ones does perish."}, {"pk": 2716526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Praise, O servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2716527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 2, "text": "Blessed be the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Now and forever!"}, {"pk": 2716528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 3, "text": "From the rising of the sun to its going down, The Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is praised."}, {"pk": 2716529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is high above all nations, His esteem above the heavens."}, {"pk": 2716530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 5, "text": "Who is like \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, Who is enthroned on high?"}, {"pk": 2716531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 6, "text": "He looks down on the heavens and in the earth;"}, {"pk": 2716532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 7, "text": "He raises the poor out of the dust, Lifts the needy from a dunghill,"}, {"pk": 2716533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 8, "text": "To make him sit with the nobles, With the nobles of His people,"}, {"pk": 2716534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 113, "verse": 9, "text": "Causing the barren <i>woman</i> to dwell in a house, A rejoicing mother of children. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 1, "text": "When Yisra\u2019\u0115l went out of Mitsrayim, The house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 from a people of strange language,"}, {"pk": 2716536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 2, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah became His set-apart place, And Yisra\u2019\u0115l His rule."}, {"pk": 2716537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 3, "text": "The sea saw it and fled; The Yard\u0115n turned back."}, {"pk": 2716538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 4, "text": "The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs."}, {"pk": 2716539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 5, "text": "Why was it, O sea, that you fled? O Yard\u0115n, that you turned back?"}, {"pk": 2716540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 6, "text": "O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs?"}, {"pk": 2716541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 7, "text": "Tremble, O earth, from the face of the Master, From the face of the Eloah of Ya\u201baqob\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2716542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 114, "verse": 8, "text": "Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of water."}, {"pk": 2716543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 1, "text": "Not to us, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, not to us, But to Your Name give esteem, For Your loving-commitment, For Your truth."}, {"pk": 2716544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 2, "text": "Why should the nations say, \u201cWhere now is their Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 3, "text": "But our Elohim is in the heavens; Whatever pleased Him, He has done."}, {"pk": 2716546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 4, "text": "Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men\u2019s hands."}, {"pk": 2716547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 5, "text": "They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see;"}, {"pk": 2716548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 6, "text": "They have ears, but they do not hear; They have noses, but they do not smell;"}, {"pk": 2716549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 7, "text": "They have hands, but they do not handle; They have feet, but they do not walk; They make no sound through their throat."}, {"pk": 2716550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 8, "text": "The ones who make them, shall become like them \u2014 All who trust in them."}, {"pk": 2716551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 9, "text": "O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; He is their help and their shield."}, {"pk": 2716552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 10, "text": "O house of Aharon, trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; He is their help and their shield."}, {"pk": 2716553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 11, "text": "You who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; He is their help and their shield."}, {"pk": 2716554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 12, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has remembered us; He blesses us; He blesses the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l; He blesses the house of Aharon."}, {"pk": 2716555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 13, "text": "He blesses those who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, The small and the great."}, {"pk": 2716556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives you increase more and more, You and your children."}, {"pk": 2716557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 15, "text": "You are blessed by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Who made the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2716558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 16, "text": "The heavens are the heavens of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; But He has given the earth to the children of men."}, {"pk": 2716559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 17, "text": "The dead do not praise Yah, Nor any going down to silence."}, {"pk": 2716560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 115, "verse": 18, "text": "But we, we bless Yah Now and forever. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 1, "text": "I love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because He has heard my voice, my pleas."}, {"pk": 2716562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 2, "text": "Because He has inclined His ear to me, And I shall call throughout my days."}, {"pk": 2716563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 3, "text": "The cords of death were around me, And the pains of She\u2019ol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow."}, {"pk": 2716564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 4, "text": "Then I called upon the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I pray to You, deliver my being!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shows favour and is righteous; And our Elohim is compassionate."}, {"pk": 2716566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 guards the simple; I was brought low, but He saved me."}, {"pk": 2716567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 7, "text": "Return to your rest, O my being, For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has treated you well."}, {"pk": 2716568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 8, "text": "For You have delivered my being from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from falling."}, {"pk": 2716569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 9, "text": "I shall walk before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2716570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 10, "text": "I have believed, for I speak; I have been greatly afflicted."}, {"pk": 2716571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 11, "text": "I said in my haste, \u201cAll men are liars.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 12, "text": "What shall I return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? All His bounties are upon me."}, {"pk": 2716573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 13, "text": "I lift up the cup of deliverance, And call upon the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 14, "text": "I pay my vows to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Now in the presence of all His people."}, {"pk": 2716575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 15, "text": "Precious in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Is the death of His lovingly-committed ones."}, {"pk": 2716576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 16, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I am truly Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; You have loosed my bonds."}, {"pk": 2716577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 17, "text": "I slaughter You a slaughtering of thanksgiving, And call upon the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 18, "text": "I pay my vows to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 In the presence of all His people,"}, {"pk": 2716579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 116, "verse": 19, "text": "In the courts of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, In your midst, O Yerushalayim. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 117, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!"}, {"pk": 2716581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 117, "verse": 2, "text": "For His loving-commitment is mighty over us, And the truth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is everlasting. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2716582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 1, "text": "Oh, give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is good! Because His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 2, "text": "Let Yisra\u2019\u0115l now say, \u201cHis loving-commitment is everlasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 3, "text": "Let the house of Aharon now say, \u201cHis loving-commitment is everlasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 4, "text": "Let those who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 now say, \u201cHis loving-commitment is everlasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 5, "text": "I called on Yah in distress; Yah answered me in a broad place."}, {"pk": 2716587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is on my side; I do not fear what man does to me!"}, {"pk": 2716588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is for me among those helping me; Therefore I look on those hating me."}, {"pk": 2716589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 8, "text": "It is better to take refuge in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Than to trust in man."}, {"pk": 2716590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 9, "text": "It is better to take refuge in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Than to trust in princes."}, {"pk": 2716591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 10, "text": "All the nations surrounded me, In the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 I shall cut them off."}, {"pk": 2716592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 11, "text": "They surrounded me, Yes, they surrounded me; In the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall I cut them off."}, {"pk": 2716593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 12, "text": "They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished like burning thorns; In the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 I shall cut them off."}, {"pk": 2716594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 13, "text": "Pushing, <i>the enemy</i> pushed me to fall, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 helped me."}, {"pk": 2716595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 14, "text": "Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my deliverance.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@20 15:2>note</a> at Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/15/2'>15:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2716596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 15, "text": "The voice of rejoicing and deliverance Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is doing mightily."}, {"pk": 2716597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 16, "text": "The right hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is exalted, The right hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 acts mightily."}, {"pk": 2716598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 17, "text": "Let me not die, but live, And declare the works of Yah."}, {"pk": 2716599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 18, "text": "Yah has punished me severely, But did not give me over to death."}, {"pk": 2716600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 19, "text": "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I enter through them, I thank Yah."}, {"pk": 2716601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 20, "text": "This is the gate of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, The righteous enter through it."}, {"pk": 2716602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 21, "text": "I thank You, For You have answered me, And have become my deliverance."}, {"pk": 2716603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 22, "text": "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner-stone.", "comment": "See also Acts. <a href='/TS2009/44/4/11'>4:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2716604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 23, "text": "This was from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, It is marvellous in our eyes."}, {"pk": 2716605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 24, "text": "This is the day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it."}, {"pk": 2716606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 25, "text": "I pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please save <i>us</i> now; I pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please send prosperity.", "comment": "Hebrew: Hoshianah."}, {"pk": 2716607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 26, "text": "Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! We shall bless you from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/21/9'>21:9</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/13'>12:13</a> and Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/18'>18:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/18/19'>19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/18/20'>20</a>"}, {"pk": 2716608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 27, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is \u011al, and He gave us light; Bind the festival <i>offering</i> With cords to the horns of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2716609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 28, "text": "You are my \u011al, and I praise You; You are my Elohim, I exalt You."}, {"pk": 2716610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 118, "verse": 29, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is good! For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Aleph</i> Blessed are the perfect in the way, Who walk in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2716612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 2, "text": "Blessed are those who observe His witnesses, Who seek Him with all the heart!"}, {"pk": 2716613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 3, "text": "Yes, they shall do no unrighteousness; They shall walk in His ways."}, {"pk": 2716614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 4, "text": "You have commanded us To guard Your orders diligently."}, {"pk": 2716615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 5, "text": "Oh, that my ways were established To guard Your laws!"}, {"pk": 2716616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 6, "text": "Then I would not be ashamed, When I look into all Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 7, "text": "I thank You with uprightness of heart, When I learn the right-rulings of Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2716618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 8, "text": "I guard Your laws; Oh, do not leave me entirely!"}, {"pk": 2716619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>B\u0115t</i> How would a young man cleanse his path? To guard it according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 10, "text": "I have sought You with all my heart; Let me not stray from Your commands!"}, {"pk": 2716621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 11, "text": "I have treasured up Your word in my heart, That I might not sin against You."}, {"pk": 2716622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 12, "text": "Blessed are You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 13, "text": "With my lips I have recounted All the right-rulings of Your mouth."}, {"pk": 2716624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 14, "text": "I have rejoiced in the way of Your witnesses, As over all riches."}, {"pk": 2716625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 15, "text": "I meditate on Your orders, And regard Your ways."}, {"pk": 2716626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 16, "text": "I delight myself in Your laws; I do not forget Your word.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/24'>119:24</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/35'>119:35</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/47'>119:47</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/70'>119:70</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/77'>119:77</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/92'>119:92</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/143'>119:143</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/174'>119:174</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/7/22'>7:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2716627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Gimel</i> Do good to Your servant, Let me live and I guard Your word."}, {"pk": 2716628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 18, "text": "Open my eyes, that I might see Wonders from Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 19, "text": "I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me."}, {"pk": 2716630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 20, "text": "My being is crushed with longing For Your right-rulings at all times."}, {"pk": 2716631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 21, "text": "You rebuked the proud, cursed ones, Who are straying from Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 22, "text": "Remove from me reproach and scorn, For I have observed Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 23, "text": "Though princes sat, speaking against me, Your servant meditates on Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 24, "text": "Your witnesses also are my delight, My counsellors."}, {"pk": 2716635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 25, "text": "<i>Dalet</i> My being has been clinging to the dust; Revive me according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 26, "text": "I have recounted my ways and You answered me; Teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 27, "text": "Make me understand the way of Your orders; That I might meditate on Your wonders."}, {"pk": 2716638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 28, "text": "My being has wept from grief; Strengthen me according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 29, "text": "Remove from me the way of falsehood, And favour me with Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 30, "text": "I have chosen the way of truth; Your right-rulings I have held level."}, {"pk": 2716641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 31, "text": "I have clung to Your witnesses; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do not put me to shame!"}, {"pk": 2716642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 32, "text": "I run the way of Your commands, For You enlarge my heart."}, {"pk": 2716643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 33, "text": "<i>H\u0115</i> Teach me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the way of Your laws, And I observe it to the end."}, {"pk": 2716644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 34, "text": "Make me understand, that I might observe Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart."}, {"pk": 2716645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 35, "text": "Make me walk in the path of Your commands, For I have delighted in it."}, {"pk": 2716646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 36, "text": "Incline my heart to Your witnesses, And not to own gain."}, {"pk": 2716647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 37, "text": "Turn away my eyes from looking at falsehood, And revive me in Your way."}, {"pk": 2716648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 38, "text": "Establish Your word to Your servant, Which leads to the fear of You."}, {"pk": 2716649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 39, "text": "Turn away my reproach which I dread, For Your right-rulings are good."}, {"pk": 2716650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 40, "text": "See, I have longed for Your orders; Revive me in Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2716651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 41, "text": "<i>Waw</i> And let Your loving-commitments come to me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Your deliverance, according to Your word,"}, {"pk": 2716652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 42, "text": "So that I answer my reprover, For I have trusted in Your word."}, {"pk": 2716653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 43, "text": "And do not take away from my mouth The word of truth entirely, For I have waited for Your right-rulings;"}, {"pk": 2716654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 44, "text": "That I might guard Your Torah continually, Forever and ever;"}, {"pk": 2716655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 45, "text": "That I might walk in a broad place, For I have sought Your orders;"}, {"pk": 2716656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 46, "text": "That I might speak of Your witnesses before sovereigns, And not be ashamed;"}, {"pk": 2716657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 47, "text": "That I might delight myself in Your commands, Which I have loved;"}, {"pk": 2716658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 48, "text": "That I might lift up my hands to Your commands, Which I have loved; While I meditate on Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 49, "text": "<i>Zayin</i> Remember the word to Your servant, On which You have caused me to wait."}, {"pk": 2716660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 50, "text": "This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life."}, {"pk": 2716661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 51, "text": "The proud have utterly scorned me, I did not turn aside from Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 52, "text": "I remembered Your right-rulings of old, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And I comfort myself."}, {"pk": 2716663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 53, "text": "Rage has seized me because of the wrong Who forsake Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 54, "text": "Your laws have been my songs In the place of my sojournings."}, {"pk": 2716665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 55, "text": "I have remembered Your Name in the night, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And I guard Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 56, "text": "This has become mine, Because I have observed Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 57, "text": "<i>H\u0323et</i> You are my portion, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I have promised to guard Your words."}, {"pk": 2716668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 58, "text": "I have sought Your face with all my heart; Show me favour according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 59, "text": "I have thought upon my ways, And turned my feet to Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 60, "text": "I have hurried, and did not delay To guard Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 61, "text": "The cords of the wrong have surrounded me, Your Torah I have not forgotten."}, {"pk": 2716672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 62, "text": "At midnight I rise to give thanks to You, For Your righteous right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 63, "text": "I am a companion of all who fear You, And of those guarding Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 64, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your loving-commitment has filled the earth; Teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 65, "text": "<i>Tet</i> You have done good to Your servant, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, According to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 66, "text": "Teach me good sense and knowledge, For I have trusted in Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 67, "text": "Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word."}, {"pk": 2716678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 68, "text": "You are good, and do good; Teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 69, "text": "The proud have forged a lie against me, With all <i>my</i> heart I observe Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 70, "text": "Their heart has become like fat, Without feeling; I have delighted in Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 71, "text": "It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 72, "text": "The Torah of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces."}, {"pk": 2716683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 73, "text": "<i>Yod</i> Your hands have made me and formed me; Make me understand, that I might learn Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 74, "text": "Those who fear You see me and rejoice, For I have waited for Your Word."}, {"pk": 2716685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 75, "text": "I know, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, That Your right-rulings are righteous, And in trustworthiness You have afflicted me."}, {"pk": 2716686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 76, "text": "Please let Your loving-commitment be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant."}, {"pk": 2716687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 77, "text": "Let Your compassions come to me, That I might live, For Your Torah is my delight."}, {"pk": 2716688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 78, "text": "Let the proud be put to shame, For with lies they perverted me; <i>But</i> I study Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 79, "text": "Let those who fear You turn to me, And those who know Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 80, "text": "Let my heart be perfect in Your laws, So that I am not put to shame."}, {"pk": 2716691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 81, "text": "<i>Kaph</i> For Your deliverance my being has pined away, For I have waited for Your word."}, {"pk": 2716692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 82, "text": "My eyes have pined away for Your word, Saying, \u201cWhen would it comfort me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 83, "text": "For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, Your laws I have not forgotten."}, {"pk": 2716694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 84, "text": "How many are the days of Your servant? When do You execute right-ruling On those who persecute me?"}, {"pk": 2716695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 85, "text": "The proud have dug pits for me, Which is not according to Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 86, "text": "All Your commands are trustworthy; They have persecuted me with lies; Help me!"}, {"pk": 2716697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 87, "text": "They almost made an end of me on earth, But I, I did not forsake Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 88, "text": "Revive me according to Your loving-commitment, That I might guard the witness of Your mouth."}, {"pk": 2716699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 89, "text": "<i>Lamed</i> Forever, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your word stands firm in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2716700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 90, "text": "Your trustworthiness is to all generations; You established the earth, and it stands."}, {"pk": 2716701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 91, "text": "According to Your right-rulings They have stood to this day, For all are Your servants."}, {"pk": 2716702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 92, "text": "If Your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction."}, {"pk": 2716703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 93, "text": "Let me never forget Your orders, For by them You have given me life."}, {"pk": 2716704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 94, "text": "I am Yours, save me; For I have sought Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 95, "text": "The wrong have waited for me to destroy me; I understand Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 96, "text": "I have seen an end of all perfection; Your command is exceedingly broad."}, {"pk": 2716707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 97, "text": "<i>Mem</i> O how I love Your Torah! It is my study all day long.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/113'>119:113</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/119'>119:119</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/127'>119:127</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/163'>119:163</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/165'>119:165</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/167'>119:167</a>"}, {"pk": 2716708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 98, "text": "Your commands make me wiser than my enemies; For it is ever before me."}, {"pk": 2716709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 99, "text": "I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your witnesses are my study."}, {"pk": 2716710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 100, "text": "I understand more than the aged, For I have observed Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 101, "text": "I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I might guard Your word."}, {"pk": 2716712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 102, "text": "I have not turned aside from Your right-rulings, For You Yourself have taught me."}, {"pk": 2716713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 103, "text": "How sweet to my taste has Your word been, More than honey to my mouth!"}, {"pk": 2716714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 104, "text": "From Your orders I get understanding; Therefore I have hated every false way."}, {"pk": 2716715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 105, "text": "<i>Nun</i> Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path."}, {"pk": 2716716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 106, "text": "I have sworn, and I confirm, To guard Your righteous right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 107, "text": "I have been afflicted very much; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, revive me according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 108, "text": "Please accept the voluntary offerings Of my mouth, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And teach me Your right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 109, "text": "My life is in my hand continually, And Your Torah I have not forgotten."}, {"pk": 2716720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 110, "text": "The wrong have laid a snare for me, But I have not strayed from Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 111, "text": "Your witnesses are my inheritance forever, For they are the joy of my heart."}, {"pk": 2716722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 112, "text": "I have inclined my heart to do Your laws Forever, to the end."}, {"pk": 2716723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 113, "text": "<i>Samek\u0331</i> I have hated doubting thoughts, But I have loved Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 114, "text": "You are my hiding place and my shield; I have waited for Your word."}, {"pk": 2716725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 115, "text": "Turn away from me, you evil-doers, For I observe the commands of my Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2716726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 116, "text": "Support me according to Your word, That I might live; And put me not to shame Because of my expectation."}, {"pk": 2716727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 117, "text": "Sustain me, that I might be saved, And always look to Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 118, "text": "You have made light of all those Who stray from Your laws, For falsehood is their deceit."}, {"pk": 2716729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 119, "text": "You have made to cease All the wrong of the earth, like dross; Therefore I have loved Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 120, "text": "My flesh has trembled for fear of You, And I am in awe of Your right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 121, "text": "<i>Ayin</i> I have done right-ruling and righteousness; Leave me not to my oppressors."}, {"pk": 2716732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 122, "text": "Guarantee Your servant\u2019s well-being; Let not the proud oppress me."}, {"pk": 2716733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 123, "text": "My eyes have pined away for Your deliverance, And for the word of Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2716734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 124, "text": "Do with Your servant according to Your loving-commitment, And teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 125, "text": "I am Your servant \u2014 make me understand, That I might know Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 126, "text": "It is time for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to act! For they have broken Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 127, "text": "Therefore I have loved Your commands More than gold, even fine gold!"}, {"pk": 2716738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 128, "text": "Therefore all <i>Your</i> orders I count as right; I have hated every false way."}, {"pk": 2716739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 129, "text": "<i>P\u0115</i> Your witnesses are wonders; So my being observes them."}, {"pk": 2716740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 130, "text": "The opening up of Your words gives light, Giving understanding to the simple."}, {"pk": 2716741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 131, "text": "I have opened my mouth and panted, For I have longed for Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 132, "text": "Turn to me and show me favour, According to Your right-ruling, toward those who love Your Name."}, {"pk": 2716743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 133, "text": "Establish my footsteps by Your word, And let no wickedness have rule over me."}, {"pk": 2716744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 134, "text": "Redeem me from the oppression of man, That I might guard Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 135, "text": "Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 136, "text": "Streams of water have run down from my eyes, Because they did not guard Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 137, "text": "<i>Tsadi</i> Righteous are You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And Your right-rulings are straight."}, {"pk": 2716748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 138, "text": "You have commanded Your witnesses In righteousness and truth, exceedingly."}, {"pk": 2716749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 139, "text": "My ardour has consumed me, For my adversaries have forgotten Your words."}, {"pk": 2716750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 140, "text": "Your word is tried, exceedingly; And Your servant has loved it."}, {"pk": 2716751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 141, "text": "I am small and despised; I have not forgotten Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 142, "text": "Your righteousness is righteousness forever, And Your Torah is truth."}, {"pk": 2716753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 143, "text": "Distress and anguish have found me; Your commands are my delight."}, {"pk": 2716754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 144, "text": "The righteousness of Your witnesses is forever; Make me understand, that I might live."}, {"pk": 2716755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 145, "text": "<i>Qoph</i> I have called with all my heart; Answer me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! I observe Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 146, "text": "I have called upon You; Save me, that I might guard Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 147, "text": "I rise before dawn, and cry for help; I have waited for Your word."}, {"pk": 2716758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 148, "text": "My eyes have gone before the night watches, To study Your word."}, {"pk": 2716759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 149, "text": "Hear my voice according to Your loving-commitment; O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, revive me according to Your right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2716760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 150, "text": "Those who pursue mischief have drawn near; They have been far from Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 151, "text": "You are near, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And all Your commands are truth."}, {"pk": 2716762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 152, "text": "Of old I have known Your witnesses, That You have founded them forever."}, {"pk": 2716763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 153, "text": "<i>R\u0115sh</i> See my affliction and deliver me, For I have not forgotten Your Torah."}, {"pk": 2716764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 154, "text": "Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 155, "text": "Deliverance is far from the wrong ones, For they have not sought Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 156, "text": "Your compassions are many, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Revive me according to Your right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 157, "text": "My persecutors and adversaries are many; I have not turned aside from Your witnesses."}, {"pk": 2716768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 158, "text": "I saw traitors and was grieved, Because they did not guard Your word."}, {"pk": 2716769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 159, "text": "See how I have loved Your orders, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, revive me according to Your loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2716770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 160, "text": "The sum of Your word is truth, And all Your righteous right-rulings are forever."}, {"pk": 2716771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 161, "text": "<i>Shin</i> Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, But at Your word my heart stood in awe."}, {"pk": 2716772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 162, "text": "I rejoice at Your word As one who finds great treasure."}, {"pk": 2716773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 163, "text": "I have hated falsehood and loathe it, Your Torah I have loved."}, {"pk": 2716774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 164, "text": "I have praised You seven times a day, Because of Your righteous right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2716775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 165, "text": "Great peace have those loving Your Torah, And for them there is no stumbling-block."}, {"pk": 2716776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 166, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have waited for Your deliverance, And I have done Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 167, "text": "My being has guarded Your witnesses, And I love them exceedingly."}, {"pk": 2716778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 168, "text": "I have guarded Your orders and Your witnesses, For all my ways are before You."}, {"pk": 2716779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 169, "text": "<i>Taw</i> My cry comes before You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Make me understand according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 170, "text": "Let my prayer come before You; Deliver me according to Your word."}, {"pk": 2716781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 171, "text": "My lips pour forth praise, For You teach me Your laws."}, {"pk": 2716782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 172, "text": "My tongue sings of Your word, For all Your commands are righteousness."}, {"pk": 2716783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 173, "text": "Your hand is a help to me, For I have chosen Your orders."}, {"pk": 2716784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 174, "text": "I have longed for Your deliverance, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And Your Torah is my delight."}, {"pk": 2716785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 175, "text": "My being lives, and it praises You; And Your right-rulings help me."}, {"pk": 2716786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 119, "verse": 176, "text": "I have strayed like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I have not forgotten Your commands."}, {"pk": 2716787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 1, "text": "In my distress I cried to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And He answered me."}, {"pk": 2716788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, deliver my being from false lips, From a treacherous tongue."}, {"pk": 2716789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 3, "text": "What would one give to you, Or what would one do to you, O treacherous tongue?"}, {"pk": 2716790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 4, "text": "Sharp arrows of a mighty man, With coals of the broom-wood!"}, {"pk": 2716791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 5, "text": "Woe to me for I have sojourned in Meshek\u0331, I have dwelt among the tents of Q\u0115d\u0331ar!"}, {"pk": 2716792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 6, "text": "My being has dwelt too long With him who hates peace."}, {"pk": 2716793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 120, "verse": 7, "text": "I am <i>for</i> peace; But when I speak, they are for fighting."}, {"pk": 2716794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 1, "text": "I lift up my eyes to the hills; Where does my help come from?"}, {"pk": 2716795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 2, "text": "My help comes from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Maker of the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2716796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 3, "text": "He does not allow your foot to be moved; He who watches over you does not slumber."}, {"pk": 2716797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 4, "text": "See, He who is guarding Yisra\u2019\u0115l Neither slumbers nor sleeps."}, {"pk": 2716798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is your guard; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is your shade at your right hand."}, {"pk": 2716799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 6, "text": "The sun does not strike you by day, Nor the moon by night."}, {"pk": 2716800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 guards you from all evil; He guards your being."}, {"pk": 2716801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 121, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 guards your going out and your coming in Now and forever."}, {"pk": 2716802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 1, "text": "I was glad when they said to me, \u201cLet us go into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 2, "text": "Our feet have been standing Within your gates, O Yerushalayim!"}, {"pk": 2716804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 3, "text": "Yerushalayim is built As a city that is bound together,"}, {"pk": 2716805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 4, "text": "Where the tribes have come up, The tribes of Yah, A witness to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, To give thanks to the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 5, "text": "For there the thrones of right-ruling were set, The thrones of the house of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2716807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 6, "text": "Pray for the peace of Yerushalayim, Let those who love You be at rest."}, {"pk": 2716808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 7, "text": "Peace be within your walls, Rest in your citadels."}, {"pk": 2716809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 8, "text": "For the sake of my brothers and companions, I say, \u201cPeace be within you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 122, "verse": 9, "text": "For the sake of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim I seek your good."}, {"pk": 2716811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 123, "verse": 1, "text": "I shall lift up my eyes Unto You who dwell in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2716812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 123, "verse": 2, "text": "See, as the eyes of servants Are toward the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a female servant Are toward the hand of her mistress, So are our eyes toward \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, Until He shows favour to us."}, {"pk": 2716813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 123, "verse": 3, "text": "Show favour to us, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, show favour to us! For we are exceedingly filled with mockery."}, {"pk": 2716814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 123, "verse": 4, "text": "Our being is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the mockery of the proud."}, {"pk": 2716815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 1, "text": "If it had not been \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who was on our side, Let Yisra\u2019\u0115l now say;"}, {"pk": 2716816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIf it had not been \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who was on our side, When men rose up against us,"}, {"pk": 2716817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 3, "text": "Then they would have swallowed us alive, In their burning rage against us;\""}, {"pk": 2716818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThen the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our being;"}, {"pk": 2716819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThen the proud waters Would have gone over our being.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 6, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Who did not give us as prey to their teeth."}, {"pk": 2716821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 7, "text": "Our being has escaped like a bird From the snare of the trappers; The snare was broken, and we have escaped."}, {"pk": 2716822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 124, "verse": 8, "text": "Our help is in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Maker of the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2716823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 125, "verse": 1, "text": "Those who trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Are like Mount Tsiyon \u2014 It is not shaken, it remains forever."}, {"pk": 2716824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 125, "verse": 2, "text": "As the mountains surround Yerushalayim, So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 surrounds His people, Now and forever."}, {"pk": 2716825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 125, "verse": 3, "text": "For the sceptre of wrongness shall not rest On the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous stretch forth their hands to unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2716826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 125, "verse": 4, "text": "Do good, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to those who are good, And to those who are upright in their hearts."}, {"pk": 2716827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 125, "verse": 5, "text": "But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall lead them away With the workers of wickedness. Peace be upon Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2716828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 1, "text": "When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 turns back the captivity of Tsiyon, We shall be like dreamers."}, {"pk": 2716829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 2, "text": "Then our mouth shall be filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing, Then shall they say among the nations, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done great <i>deeds</i> for them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall do great <i>deeds</i> for us, We shall be glad."}, {"pk": 2716831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 4, "text": "Turn back our captivity, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Like the streams in the South."}, {"pk": 2716832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 5, "text": "Those sowing in tears, shall reap with songs of joy."}, {"pk": 2716833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 126, "verse": 6, "text": "He who goes on and weeps, Bearing seed for sowing, Shall indeed come in with rejoicing, Bearing his sheaves."}, {"pk": 2716834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 127, "verse": 1, "text": "If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not build the house, Its builders have laboured in vain. If \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not guard the city, The watchman has stayed awake in vain."}, {"pk": 2716835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 127, "verse": 2, "text": "In vain do you rise up early, To sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; So He gives His beloved sleep."}, {"pk": 2716836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 127, "verse": 3, "text": "Look, children are an inheritance from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, The fruit of the womb is the reward."}, {"pk": 2716837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 127, "verse": 4, "text": "As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of one\u2019s youth."}, {"pk": 2716838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 127, "verse": 5, "text": "Blessed is the man Who has filled his quiver with them. They are not ashamed, When they speak with their enemies in the gate."}, {"pk": 2716839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 1, "text": "Blessed are all who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Who walk in His ways."}, {"pk": 2716840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 2, "text": "You shall eat the labour of your hands. Be blessed, and let it be well with you."}, {"pk": 2716841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 3, "text": "Let your wife be As a fruit-bearing vine within your house, Your sons like olive plants all around your table."}, {"pk": 2716842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 4, "text": "Look, so shall the man be blessed Who fears \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall bless you out of Tsiyon, And let you see the good of Yerushalayim All the days of your life,"}, {"pk": 2716844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 128, "verse": 6, "text": "And let you see your children\u2019s children! Peace be upon Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2716845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 1, "text": "Often they have distressed me from my youth. Let Yisra\u2019\u0115l now say,"}, {"pk": 2716846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOften they have distressed me from my youth, But they have not overcome me."}, {"pk": 2716847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe ploughers ploughed on my back, They made their furrows long.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous, He has cut the cords of the wrong in two."}, {"pk": 2716849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 5, "text": "Let all those who hate Tsiyon Be put to shame and turned back."}, {"pk": 2716850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 6, "text": "Let them be as the grass on the house-tops, Which withers before it grows up,"}, {"pk": 2716851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 7, "text": "That shall not fill the reaper\u2019s hand, Nor the sheaves <i>fill</i> the binder\u2019s bosom."}, {"pk": 2716852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 129, "verse": 8, "text": "And those who pass by shall not say, \u201cThe blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be upon you; We have blessed you in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 1, "text": "Out of the depths I have cried to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 2, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my prayers."}, {"pk": 2716855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 3, "text": "O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who would stand?"}, {"pk": 2716856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 4, "text": "But with You there is forgiveness, That You might be feared."}, {"pk": 2716857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 5, "text": "I looked to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, My being has looked, And for His word I have waited."}, {"pk": 2716858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 6, "text": "My being <i>looks</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 More than those watching for morning, watching for morning."}, {"pk": 2716859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 7, "text": "O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, wait for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; For with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 there is loving-commitment. And with Him is much redemption,"}, {"pk": 2716860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 130, "verse": 8, "text": "For He shall redeem Yisra\u2019\u0115l From all his crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2716861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 131, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my heart has not been proud, Nor have my eyes been haughty. Neither have I concerned myself with great matters, Nor with those too wondrous for me."}, {"pk": 2716862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 131, "verse": 2, "text": "Have I not calmed, and kept my being silent, Like one weaned by its mother? My being is like one weaned."}, {"pk": 2716863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 131, "verse": 3, "text": "O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, wait for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Now and forever."}, {"pk": 2716864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, remember Dawid\u0331, All his afflictions;"}, {"pk": 2716865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 2, "text": "How he swore to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Vowed to the Mighty One of Ya\u201baqob\u0331:"}, {"pk": 2716866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cNot to enter into my dwelling-house, Not to get into my bed,"}, {"pk": 2716867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 4, "text": "Not to give sleep to my eyes, Or slumber to my eyelids,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 5, "text": "Until I find a place for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2716869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 6, "text": "See, we heard of it in Ephrathah; We found it in the fields of the forest."}, {"pk": 2716870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 7, "text": "Let us go into His dwelling places; Let us bow ourselves at His footstool."}, {"pk": 2716871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 8, "text": "Arise, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to Your place of rest, You and the ark of Your strength."}, {"pk": 2716872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 9, "text": "Let Your priests put on righteousness, And Your lovingly-committed ones shout for joy."}, {"pk": 2716873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 10, "text": "For the sake of Your servant Dawid\u0331, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed One."}, {"pk": 2716874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn in truth to Dawid\u0331; He does not turn from it, \u201cOf the fruit of your body I set upon your throne."}, {"pk": 2716875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 12, "text": "If your sons guard My covenant And My witnesses that I teach them, Their sons shall sit upon your throne forever."}, {"pk": 2716876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 13, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen Tsiyon, He has desired it for His dwelling:"}, {"pk": 2716877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThis is My place of rest forever; Here I dwell, for I have desired it."}, {"pk": 2716878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 15, "text": "I greatly bless her provision, I satisfy her poor with bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I put deliverance on her priests, And her lovingly-committed ones sing for joy."}, {"pk": 2716880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 17, "text": "There I make the horn of Dawid\u0331 grow; I shall set up a lamp for My Anointed One.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 132, "verse": 18, "text": "I put shame on his enemies, While on Him His diadem shall shine."}, {"pk": 2716882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 133, "verse": 1, "text": "See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity \u2014"}, {"pk": 2716883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 133, "verse": 2, "text": "Like the precious oil on the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aharon, Running down on the collar of his robes \u2014"}, {"pk": 2716884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 133, "verse": 3, "text": "Like the dew of H\u0323ermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon. For there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded the blessing, Life forever!"}, {"pk": 2716885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 134, "verse": 1, "text": "Come, bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, All you servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Who are standing in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 by night!"}, {"pk": 2716886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 134, "verse": 2, "text": "Lift up your hands in the set-apart place, And bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 134, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Maker of the heavens and earth, Does bless you from Tsiyon!"}, {"pk": 2716888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Praise, you servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2716889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 2, "text": "Who are standing in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, In the courts of the House of our Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2716890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 3, "text": "Praise Yah, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good; Sing praises to His Name, for it is pleasant."}, {"pk": 2716891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 4, "text": "For Yah has chosen Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for Himself, Yisra\u2019\u0115l for His treasured possession."}, {"pk": 2716892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 5, "text": "For I know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is great, And our Master is above all mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2716893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done whatever pleased Him, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and in all the depths,"}, {"pk": 2716894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 7, "text": "Causing vapours to go up From the ends of the earth; He made lightning for the rain, Bringing forth wind from His treasuries;"}, {"pk": 2716895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 8, "text": "Who struck the first-born of Mitsrayim, From man to beast."}, {"pk": 2716896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 9, "text": "He sent signs and wonders Into your midst, O Mitsrayim, On Pharaoh and on all his servants;"}, {"pk": 2716897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 10, "text": "Who struck many nations, And killed mighty sovereigns,"}, {"pk": 2716898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 11, "text": "Even Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, And O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, And all the reigns of Kena\u201ban."}, {"pk": 2716899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 12, "text": "And He gave their land as an inheritance, An inheritance to Yisra\u2019\u0115l His people."}, {"pk": 2716900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 13, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your Name is forever, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your remembrance to all generations,"}, {"pk": 2716901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 14, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rightly rules His people, And has compassion on His servants."}, {"pk": 2716902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 15, "text": "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men\u2019s hands."}, {"pk": 2716903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 16, "text": "They have mouths, but they do not speak; They have eyes, but they do not see;"}, {"pk": 2716904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 17, "text": "They have ears, but they do not hear; Also there is no breath in their mouth."}, {"pk": 2716905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 18, "text": "Those making them become like them, Everyone who is trusting in them."}, {"pk": 2716906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 19, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O house of Aharon!"}, {"pk": 2716907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 20, "text": "Bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O house of L\u0115wi! You who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2716908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 135, "verse": 21, "text": "Blessed from Tsiyon, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be, Who dwells in Yerushalayim! Praise Yah."}, {"pk": 2716909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 1, "text": "Give thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He is good! For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 2, "text": "Give thanks to the Elohim of mighty ones! For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 3, "text": "Give thanks to the Master of masters! For His loving-commitment is everlasting:"}, {"pk": 2716912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 4, "text": "To Him who alone does great wonders, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 5, "text": "To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 6, "text": "To Him who spread the earth on the waters, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 7, "text": "To Him who made great lights, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 8, "text": "The sun to rule by day, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 9, "text": "The moon and stars to rule by night, For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 10, "text": "To Him who struck Mitsrayim in their first-born, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 11, "text": "And brought out Yisra\u2019\u0115l from their midst, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 12, "text": "With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 13, "text": "To Him who split apart the Sea of Reeds, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 14, "text": "And made Yisra\u2019\u0115l pass through the midst of it, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 15, "text": "But shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Reeds, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 16, "text": "To Him who led His people through the wilderness, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 17, "text": "To Him who struck great sovereigns, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 18, "text": "And killed mighty sovereigns, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 19, "text": "Even Sih\u0323on sovereign of the Amorites, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 20, "text": "And O\u1e21 sovereign of Bashan, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 21, "text": "And gave their land as an inheritance, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 22, "text": "An inheritance to Yisra\u2019\u0115l His servant, For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 23, "text": "Who remembered us in our humiliation, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 24, "text": "And rescued us from our adversaries, For His loving-commitment is everlasting;"}, {"pk": 2716933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 25, "text": "Who gives food to all flesh, For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 136, "verse": 26, "text": "Give thanks to the \u011al of the heavens! For His loving-commitment is everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 1, "text": "By the rivers of Bab\u0331el, There we sat down and we wept As we remembered Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2716936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 2, "text": "We hung our lyres Upon the willows in the midst of it."}, {"pk": 2716937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 3, "text": "For there our captors Asked us for the words of a song, And our plunderers for rejoicing, <i>saying</i>, \u201cSing to us a song of Tsiyon!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 4, "text": "How could we sing the song of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 On foreign soil?"}, {"pk": 2716939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 5, "text": "If I forget you, O Yerushalayim, Let my right hand forget."}, {"pk": 2716940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 6, "text": "Let my tongue cleave to my palate, If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Yerushalayim Above my chief joy."}, {"pk": 2716941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 7, "text": "Remember, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, against the sons of Ed\u0331om The day of Yerushalayim, Who said, \u201cLay it bare, lay it bare, To its foundation!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 8, "text": "O daughter of Bab\u0331el, who are to be destroyed, Blessed is he who repays you your deed, What you did to us!"}, {"pk": 2716943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 137, "verse": 9, "text": "Blessed is he who shall take And dash your little ones against the rock."}, {"pk": 2716944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 1, "text": "I give You thanks with all my heart; Before the mighty ones I sing praises to You."}, {"pk": 2716945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 2, "text": "I bow myself toward Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al, And give thanks to Your Name For Your loving-commitment and for Your truth; For You have made great Your Word, Your Name, above all."}, {"pk": 2716946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 3, "text": "On the day I called You did answer me, You made me bold with strength in my being."}, {"pk": 2716947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 4, "text": "Let all the sovereigns of the earth Give thanks to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, When they shall hear the words of Your mouth."}, {"pk": 2716948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 5, "text": "And let them sing of the ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For great is the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 6, "text": "Though \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance."}, {"pk": 2716950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 7, "text": "Though I walk in the midst of distress, You revive me; You stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand saves me."}, {"pk": 2716951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 138, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does perfect for me. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your loving-commitment is everlasting. Do not forsake the works of Your hands."}, {"pk": 2716952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have searched me And know me."}, {"pk": 2716953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 2, "text": "You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar."}, {"pk": 2716954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 3, "text": "You sift my path and my lying down, And know well all my ways."}, {"pk": 2716955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 4, "text": "For there is not a word on my tongue, But see, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You know it all!"}, {"pk": 2716956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 5, "text": "You have closed me in, behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me \u2014"}, {"pk": 2716957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 6, "text": "Knowledge too wondrous for me, It is high, I am unable to <i>reach</i> it."}, {"pk": 2716958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 7, "text": "Where would I go from Your Spirit? Or where would I flee from Your face?"}, {"pk": 2716959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 8, "text": "If I go up into the heavens, You are there; If I make my bed in She\u2019ol, see, You are there."}, {"pk": 2716960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 9, "text": "I take the wings of the morning, I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,"}, {"pk": 2716961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 10, "text": "There, too, Your hand would lead me, And Your right hand hold me."}, {"pk": 2716962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 11, "text": "If I say, \u201cDarkness shall cover me,\u201d Then night would be light to me;"}, {"pk": 2716963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 12, "text": "Even darkness is not dark for You, But night shines as the day \u2014 As is darkness, so is light."}, {"pk": 2716964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 13, "text": "For You, You possessed my kidneys, You have covered me in my mother\u2019s womb."}, {"pk": 2716965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 14, "text": "I give thanks to You, For I am awesomely and wondrously made! Wondrous are Your works, And my being knows it well."}, {"pk": 2716966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 15, "text": "My bones were not concealed from You, When I was shaped in a hidden place, Knit together in the depths of the earth."}, {"pk": 2716967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 16, "text": "Your eyes saw my unformed body. And in Your book all of them were written, The days they were formed, While none was among them."}, {"pk": 2716968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 17, "text": "And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O \u011al! How great has been the sum of them!"}, {"pk": 2716969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 18, "text": "If I should count them, They would be more than the sand; When I wake up, I am still with You."}, {"pk": 2716970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 19, "text": "Oh, that You would kill the wrong, O Eloah! Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed!"}, {"pk": 2716971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 20, "text": "They speak against You wickedly. Bring Your enemies to naught!"}, {"pk": 2716972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 21, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do I not hate them, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?"}, {"pk": 2716973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 22, "text": "With a complete hatred I hate them; They have become my enemies."}, {"pk": 2716974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 23, "text": "Search me, O \u011al, and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts;"}, {"pk": 2716975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 139, "verse": 24, "text": "And see if an idolatrous way is in me, And lead me in the way everlasting."}, {"pk": 2716976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 1, "text": "Rescue me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from men of evil; Preserve me from men of violence,"}, {"pk": 2716977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 2, "text": "Who have devised evils in their hearts; They stir up conflicts all day long."}, {"pk": 2716978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 3, "text": "They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah."}, {"pk": 2716979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 4, "text": "Guard me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the hands of the wrong; Guard me from a man of violence, Who has schemed to trip up my steps."}, {"pk": 2716980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 5, "text": "The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah."}, {"pk": 2716981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 6, "text": "I said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou are my \u011al; Hear the voice of my prayers, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2716982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cO Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my saving strength, You have screened my head in the day of battle."}, {"pk": 2716983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not grant the desires of the wrong, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Do not promote his scheme. Selah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThose who surround me lift up their head; The trouble of their lips covers them;"}, {"pk": 2716985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 10, "text": "Let burning coals fall on them; Let them be made to fall into the fire, Into deep pits, let them not rise again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2716986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 11, "text": "Let not a slanderer be established in the earth; Let evil hunt the man of violence speedily."}, {"pk": 2716987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 12, "text": "I have known that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 maintains The cause of the afflicted, The right-ruling of the poor."}, {"pk": 2716988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 140, "verse": 13, "text": "Only, let the righteous give thanks to Your Name, Let the straight ones dwell in Your presence."}, {"pk": 2716989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have cried out to You; Hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You."}, {"pk": 2716990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 2, "text": "Let my prayer be prepared before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering."}, {"pk": 2716991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 3, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, set a guard for my mouth; Watch over the door of my lips."}, {"pk": 2716992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 4, "text": "Let not my heart be inclined to evil, To practise deeds of wrongness With men working wickedness, And let me not eat of their delicacies."}, {"pk": 2716993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 5, "text": "Let the righteous one smite me Or reprove me in loving-commitment \u2014 It is oil on my head. Let my head not refuse it. My prayer is still against their evil deeds."}, {"pk": 2716994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 6, "text": "Their judges have been thrown down By the sides of the rock, But they have heard my words, For they have been pleasant."}, {"pk": 2716995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 7, "text": "Our bones are scattered at the mouth of She\u2019ol, As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth."}, {"pk": 2716996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 8, "text": "But my eyes are upon You, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. In You I take refuge; Do not pour out my life."}, {"pk": 2716997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 9, "text": "Guard me from the clutches Of the trap they have laid for me, And from the snares Of the workers of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2716998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 141, "verse": 10, "text": "Let the wrong fall into their own nets, While I pass by."}, {"pk": 2716999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 1, "text": "I cry out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with my voice; I pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with my voice."}, {"pk": 2717000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 2, "text": "I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my distress."}, {"pk": 2717001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 3, "text": "When my spirit grew faint within me, Then You know my path. In the way in which I walk They have hidden a trap for me."}, {"pk": 2717002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 4, "text": "Look to the right hand and see, And no one is concerned for me; No refuge remains to me; No one inquires after my being."}, {"pk": 2717003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 5, "text": "I cried out to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: I said, \u201cYou are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2717004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cListen to my cry, For I am brought very low; Deliver me from my persecutors, For they are too strong for me."}, {"pk": 2717005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 142, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBring my being out of prison, To give thanks to Your Name. Let the righteous gather around me, Because You deal kindly with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear my prayer, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Give ear to my pleadings In Your trustworthiness. Answer me in Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 2, "text": "And do not enter into right-ruling with Your servant, For before You no one living is in the right."}, {"pk": 2717008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 3, "text": "For the enemy has pursued my being; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, Like the dead of old."}, {"pk": 2717009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 4, "text": "Therefore my spirit grew faint within me, My heart within me is stunned."}, {"pk": 2717010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 5, "text": "I remembered the days of old; I meditated on all Your works; I ponder on the work of Your hands."}, {"pk": 2717011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 6, "text": "I have spread out my hands to You; My being is like a thirsty land for You. Selah."}, {"pk": 2717012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 7, "text": "Hasten, answer me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; My spirit fails! Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like those going down into the pit."}, {"pk": 2717013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 8, "text": "Let me hear Your loving-commitment in the morning, For in You I have put my trust; Let me know the way in which I should walk, For I have lifted up my being to You."}, {"pk": 2717014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 9, "text": "Deliver me from my enemies, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I take refuge in You."}, {"pk": 2717015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 10, "text": "Teach me to do Your good pleasure, For You are my Elohim. Let Your good Spirit lead me In the land of straightness."}, {"pk": 2717016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 11, "text": "For the sake of Your Name, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, revive me! In Your righteousness, Bring my being out of distress."}, {"pk": 2717017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 143, "verse": 12, "text": "And in Your loving-commitment, Cut off my enemies. And destroy all the adversaries of my life, For I am Your servant!"}, {"pk": 2717018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 1, "text": "Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Rock, Who is teaching my hands for fighting, My fingers for battle;"}, {"pk": 2717019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 2, "text": "My loving-commitment and my stronghold, My tower and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I take refuge, Who is subduing peoples under me."}, {"pk": 2717020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what is man, that You should know him? Son of man, that You should think of him?"}, {"pk": 2717021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 4, "text": "Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow."}, {"pk": 2717022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 5, "text": "Incline Your heavens, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and come down; Touch the mountains that they smoke."}, {"pk": 2717023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 6, "text": "Send forth lightning and scatter them, Send forth Your arrows and confuse them."}, {"pk": 2717024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 7, "text": "Send forth Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,"}, {"pk": 2717025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 8, "text": "Whose mouth has spoken falsehood, And whose right hand is a right hand of lies."}, {"pk": 2717026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 9, "text": "O Elohim, a new song I sing to You; On a harp of ten strings I sing praises to You,"}, {"pk": 2717027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 10, "text": "Who gives deliverance to sovereigns, Who rescues Dawid\u0331 His servant From the evil sword."}, {"pk": 2717028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 11, "text": "Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth has spoken falsehood, And whose right hand is a right hand of lies;"}, {"pk": 2717029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 12, "text": "Because our sons are like plants Grown up in their youth; Our daughters like hewn stones, Polished, like a palace building;"}, {"pk": 2717030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 13, "text": "Let our storehouses be filled, Supplying all kinds; Let our sheep bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields;"}, {"pk": 2717031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 14, "text": "Our cattle well-laden; No breaking in, no going out; And no crying in our streets."}, {"pk": 2717032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 144, "verse": 15, "text": "Blessed are the people who have it so; Blessed are the people whose Elohim is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2717033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 1, "text": "I exalt You, my Elohim, O Sovereign; And bless Your Name forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2717034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 2, "text": "All day long I bless You, And praise Your Name forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2717035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 3, "text": "Great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable."}, {"pk": 2717036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 4, "text": "Generation after generation praises Your works, And they declare Your mighty acts."}, {"pk": 2717037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 5, "text": "I declare the esteemed splendour of Your excellency, And the matters of Your wondrous works."}, {"pk": 2717038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 6, "text": "And they speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I recount Your greatness."}, {"pk": 2717039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 7, "text": "They send forth the remembrance of Your great goodness, And they sing of Your righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shows favour and is compassionate, Patient and great in loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2717041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good to all, And He has compassion on all His works."}, {"pk": 2717042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 10, "text": "All Your works give thanks to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And Your lovingly-committed ones bless You."}, {"pk": 2717043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 11, "text": "They speak of the esteem of Your reign, And talk of Your might,"}, {"pk": 2717044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 12, "text": "To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, And the esteemed splendour of His reign."}, {"pk": 2717045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 13, "text": "Your reign is an everlasting reign, And Your rule is throughout all generations."}, {"pk": 2717046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down."}, {"pk": 2717047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 15, "text": "The eyes of all look to You expectantly, And You are giving them their food in its season,"}, {"pk": 2717048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 16, "text": "Opening Your hand and satisfying The desire of all that live."}, {"pk": 2717049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 17, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous in all His ways, And lovingly-committed in all His works."}, {"pk": 2717050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 18, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth."}, {"pk": 2717051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 19, "text": "He does the desire of those who fear Him; And He hears their cry and saves them."}, {"pk": 2717052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 20, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 preserves all those loving Him, But all the wrong ones He destroys."}, {"pk": 2717053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 145, "verse": 21, "text": "My mouth speaks the praise of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let all flesh bless His set-apart Name, Forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2717054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O my being!"}, {"pk": 2717055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 2, "text": "While I live I praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; I sing praises to my Elohim while I exist."}, {"pk": 2717056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 3, "text": "Do not put your trust in princes, In a son of man, in whom is no deliverance."}, {"pk": 2717057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 4, "text": "His spirit goes out, he returns to his earth; In that day his plans perish."}, {"pk": 2717058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 5, "text": "Blessed is he who has the \u011al of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for his help, Whose expectancy is in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2717059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 6, "text": "Maker of the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, Who is guarding truth forever,"}, {"pk": 2717060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 7, "text": "Doing right-ruling for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 releases those who are bound,"}, {"pk": 2717061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opens <i>the eyes</i> of the blind, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 raises those who are bowed down, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves the righteous."}, {"pk": 2717062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 guards the strangers, He lifts up the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wrong ones He turns upside down."}, {"pk": 2717063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 146, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 reigns forever, O Tsiyon, Your Elohim to all generations. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2717064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! For it is good to sing praises to our Elohim. For it is pleasant \u2014 praise is fitting."}, {"pk": 2717065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 builds up Yerushalayim, He gathers the outcasts of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>He</i> heals the broken-hearted And binds up their wounds."}, {"pk": 2717067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 4, "text": "<i>He</i> appoints the number of the stars, He gives names to all of them."}, {"pk": 2717068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 5, "text": "Great is our Master and mighty in power, There is no limit to His understanding."}, {"pk": 2717069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lifts up the meek ones, He throws the wrong ones down to the ground."}, {"pk": 2717070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 7, "text": "Respond to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with thanksgiving; Sing praises on a lyre to our Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2717071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 8, "text": "Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to sprout on the mountains,"}, {"pk": 2717072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 9, "text": "Giving to the beast its food, To the young ravens that cry."}, {"pk": 2717073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 10, "text": "He does not delight in the strength of the horse, He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man."}, {"pk": 2717074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who wait for His loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2717075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 12, "text": "Extol \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O Yerushalayim! Praise your Elohim, O Tsiyon!"}, {"pk": 2717076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 13, "text": "For He has strengthened the bars of your gates, He has blessed your children in your midst,"}, {"pk": 2717077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 14, "text": "Who makes peace in your borders, He satisfies you with the finest wheat;"}, {"pk": 2717078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 15, "text": "Who sends out His command to the earth, His word runs very speedily;"}, {"pk": 2717079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 16, "text": "Who gives snow like wool, He scatters the frost like ashes;"}, {"pk": 2717080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 17, "text": "Throwing out His hail like pieces; Who does stand before His cold?"}, {"pk": 2717081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 18, "text": "He sends out His word and melts them, He causes His wind to blow \u2014 the waters flow;"}, {"pk": 2717082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 19, "text": "Declaring His Word to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, His laws and His right-rulings to Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/20'>2:20</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/3/2'>3:2</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/4'>9:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2717083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 147, "verse": 20, "text": "He has not done so with any nation; And they have not known <i>His</i> right-rulings! Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2717084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the heavens, Praise Him in the heights!"}, {"pk": 2717085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 2, "text": "Praise Him, all His messengers; Praise Him, all His hosts!"}, {"pk": 2717086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 3, "text": "Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!"}, {"pk": 2717087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 4, "text": "Praise Him, heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!"}, {"pk": 2717088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 5, "text": "Let them praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He commanded and they were created."}, {"pk": 2717089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 6, "text": "And He established them forever and ever, He gave a law and they pass not beyond."}, {"pk": 2717090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 7, "text": "Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths,"}, {"pk": 2717091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 8, "text": "Fire and hail, snow and clouds, Stormy wind that does His word,"}, {"pk": 2717092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 9, "text": "The mountains and all hills, Fruit tree and all cedars,"}, {"pk": 2717093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 10, "text": "Wild beasts and all cattle, Creeping creatures and flying birds,"}, {"pk": 2717094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 11, "text": "Sovereigns of the earth and all peoples, Rulers and all judges of the earth,"}, {"pk": 2717095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 12, "text": "Both young men and maidens, Old men and children."}, {"pk": 2717096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 13, "text": "Let them praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For His Name alone is exalted, His splendour is above the earth and heavens."}, {"pk": 2717097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 148, "verse": 14, "text": "He also lifts up the horn of His people, The praise of all His lovingly-committed ones; Of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, A people near to Him. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2717098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a new song, His praise in an assembly of lovingly-committed ones."}, {"pk": 2717099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 2, "text": "Let Yisra\u2019\u0115l rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Tsiyon exult in their Sovereign."}, {"pk": 2717100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 3, "text": "Let them praise His Name in a dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the tambourine and lyre."}, {"pk": 2717101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 4, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes pleasure in His people; He embellishes the meek ones with deliverance."}, {"pk": 2717102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 5, "text": "Let the lovingly-committed ones exult in esteem; Let them sing aloud on their beds."}, {"pk": 2717103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 6, "text": "Let the exaltation of \u011al be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand,"}, {"pk": 2717104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 7, "text": "To execute vengeance on the nations, Punishments on the peoples;"}, {"pk": 2717105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 8, "text": "To bind their sovereigns with chains, And their nobles with iron bands;"}, {"pk": 2717106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 149, "verse": 9, "text": "To execute on them the written right-ruling; A splendour it is for all His lovingly-committed ones. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2717107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 1, "text": "Praise Yah! Praise \u011al in His set-apart place; Praise Him in His mighty expanse!"}, {"pk": 2717108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 2, "text": "Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness!"}, {"pk": 2717109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 3, "text": "Praise Him with the blowing of a shophar; Praise Him with the harp and lyre!"}, {"pk": 2717110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 4, "text": "Praise Him with tambourine and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!"}, {"pk": 2717111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 5, "text": "Praise Him with sounding cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals!"}, {"pk": 2717112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 19, "chapter": 150, "verse": 6, "text": "Let all that has breath praise Yah. Praise Yah!"}, {"pk": 2717113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The proverbs of Shelomoh son of Dawid\u0331, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2717114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "For knowing wisdom and discipline, For understanding the words of understanding,"}, {"pk": 2717115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "For receiving the discipline of wisdom, Righteousness, right-ruling, and straightness;"}, {"pk": 2717116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "For giving insight to the simple, Knowledge and discretion to the young."}, {"pk": 2717117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "The wise one hears and increases learning, And the understanding one gets wise counsel,"}, {"pk": 2717118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "For understanding a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles."}, {"pk": 2717119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and discipline.", "comment": "See Prov. <a href='/TS2009/20/9/10'>9:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/111/10'>111:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2717120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "My son, heed the discipline of your father, And do not forsake the Torah of your mother;"}, {"pk": 2717121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "For they are a fair wreath on your head, And chains about your neck."}, {"pk": 2717122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in."}, {"pk": 2717123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "If they say, \u201cCome with us, let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause."}, {"pk": 2717124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cLet us swallow them alive like She\u2019ol, And entirely, like those going down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2717125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cLet us find all precious goods, Let us fill our houses with spoil."}, {"pk": 2717126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cCast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;"}, {"pk": 2717128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "For their feet run to evil, And they hurry to shed blood."}, {"pk": 2717129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "For in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird."}, {"pk": 2717130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives."}, {"pk": 2717131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners."}, {"pk": 2717132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the broad places."}, {"pk": 2717133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "At the head of the noisy streets she cries out, At the openings of the gates, In the city she speaks her words:"}, {"pk": 2717134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cHow long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?"}, {"pk": 2717135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cTurn at my reproof. See, I pour out my spirit on you, I make my words known to you."}, {"pk": 2717136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBecause I called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one inclined,"}, {"pk": 2717137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd you spurned all my counsel, And would not yield to my reproof,"}, {"pk": 2717138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cLet me also laugh at your calamity, Mock when your dread comes,"}, {"pk": 2717139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWhen your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you."}, {"pk": 2717140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cLet them then call on me, but I answer not; Let them seek me, but not find me."}, {"pk": 2717141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cBecause they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2717142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThey did not accept my counsel, They despised all my reproof,"}, {"pk": 2717143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cTherefore let them eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own counsels."}, {"pk": 2717144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor the turning away of the simple kills them, And the complacency of fools destroys them."}, {"pk": 2717145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cBut whoever listens to me dwells safely, And is at ease from the dread of evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "My son, if you accept my words, And treasure up my commands with you,"}, {"pk": 2717147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;"}, {"pk": 2717148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding,"}, {"pk": 2717149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures,"}, {"pk": 2717150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Then you would understand the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And find the knowledge of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2717151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives wisdom; Out of His mouth <i>come</i> knowledge and understanding."}, {"pk": 2717152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And He treasures up stability for the straight, A shield to those walking blamelessly,"}, {"pk": 2717153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "To watch over the paths of right-ruling, And the way of His lovingly-commited ones He guards."}, {"pk": 2717154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Then you would understand righteousness And right-ruling, and straightness \u2014 Every good path."}, {"pk": 2717155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "For wisdom would enter your heart, And knowledge be pleasant to your being,"}, {"pk": 2717156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Discretion would guard you; Understanding would watch over you,"}, {"pk": 2717157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "To deliver you from the evil way, From the man who speaks perversities,"}, {"pk": 2717158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Those who leave the paths of straightness To walk in the ways of darkness;"}, {"pk": 2717159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Who rejoice to do evil; They delight in the perversities of evil;"}, {"pk": 2717160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Whose paths are crooked, And they are perverted in their ways;"}, {"pk": 2717161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words,"}, {"pk": 2717162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And has forgotten the covenant of her Elohim."}, {"pk": 2717163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "For her house has sunk down to death, And her paths to the dead;"}, {"pk": 2717164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "None going in to her does return, Nor do they reach the paths of life \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "So walk in the way of goodness, And guard the paths of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "For the straight shall dwell in the earth, And the perfect be left in it;"}, {"pk": 2717167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "But the wrong shall be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous ones plucked out of it."}, {"pk": 2717168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "My son, do not forget my Torah, And let your heart watch over my commands;"}, {"pk": 2717169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "For length of days and long life And peace they add to you."}, {"pk": 2717170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Let not loving-commitment and truth forsake you \u2014 Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,"}, {"pk": 2717171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus finding favour and good insight In the eyes of Elohim and man."}, {"pk": 2717172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;"}, {"pk": 2717173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight."}, {"pk": 2717174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and turn away from evil.", "comment": "Job <a href='/TS2009/18/28/28'>28:28</a><br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/5/21'>5:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2717175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "It is healing to your navel, And moistening to your bones."}, {"pk": 2717176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Esteem \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with your goods, And with the first-fruits of all your increase;"}, {"pk": 2717177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "Then your storehouses shall be filled with plenty, And your vats overflow with new wine."}, {"pk": 2717178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "My son, do not despise the discipline of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And do not loathe His reproof;"}, {"pk": 2717179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "For whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves He reproves, As a father the son whom he delights in.", "comment": "Verses <a href='/TS2009/20/3/11-12'>11-12</a> are quoted in Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/12/5'>12:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/12/6'>6</a>"}, {"pk": 2717180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, And the man who gets understanding;"}, {"pk": 2717181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "For the gain from it is better Than gain from silver, And its increase than fine gold."}, {"pk": 2717182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "She is more precious than rubies, And all your delights are not comparable to her."}, {"pk": 2717183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Length of days is in her right hand, Riches and esteem in her left hand."}, {"pk": 2717184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Her ways are pleasant ways, And all her paths are peace."}, {"pk": 2717185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "She is a tree of life to those taking hold of her, And blessed are all who retain her."}, {"pk": 2717186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 founded the earth by wisdom; He established the heavens by understanding;"}, {"pk": 2717187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And clouds drop down dew."}, {"pk": 2717188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "My son, let them not depart from your eyes; Watch over sound wisdom and discretion;"}, {"pk": 2717189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "Then they become life to your being And an adorning to your neck."}, {"pk": 2717190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "Then you would walk safely in your way, And your foot would not stumble."}, {"pk": 2717191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "When you lie down, you need not be afraid. And you shall lie down and your sleep shall be sweet."}, {"pk": 2717192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "Do not be afraid of sudden dread, Nor of the ruin of the wrong when it comes;"}, {"pk": 2717193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is at your side, And He shall guard your foot from being caught."}, {"pk": 2717194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, When it is in the power of your hand to do so."}, {"pk": 2717195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "Do not say to your neighbour, \u201cGo, and come back, and tomorrow I give it,\u201d When you have it with you."}, {"pk": 2717196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "Do not plan evil against your neighbour, Seeing he dwells safely beside you."}, {"pk": 2717197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no evil."}, {"pk": 2717198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "Do not envy a cruel man, And choose none of his ways;"}, {"pk": 2717199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "For the perverse one is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And His secret counsel is with the straight."}, {"pk": 2717200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "The curse of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is on the house of the wrong, But He blesses the home of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2717201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "He certainly scoffs the scoffers, But gives favour to the humble."}, {"pk": 2717202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "The wise do inherit esteem, But fools are bearing away shame!"}, {"pk": 2717203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Children, listen to the discipline of a father, And give attention to know understanding;"}, {"pk": 2717204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "For I gave you good instruction: Do not forsake my Torah."}, {"pk": 2717205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For I was my father\u2019s son, Tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother,"}, {"pk": 2717206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Then he taught me and said to me, \u201cLet your heart hold fast my words; Guard my commands, and live."}, {"pk": 2717207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cGet wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, and do not turn away From the words of my mouth."}, {"pk": 2717208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo not leave her, and let her guard you; Love her, and let her watch over you."}, {"pk": 2717209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThe beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom! And with all your getting, get understanding."}, {"pk": 2717210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cExalt her, and let her uplift you; She brings you esteem when you embrace her."}, {"pk": 2717211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cShe gives your head a fair wreath, She shields you with an adorning crown.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Hear, my son, and accept my words, And let the years of your life be many."}, {"pk": 2717213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "I have taught you in the way of wisdom, I have led you in straight paths."}, {"pk": 2717214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "When you walk your steps shall not be hindered, And if you run you shall not stumble."}, {"pk": 2717215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Become strong in discipline, do not let go; Watch over her, for she is your life."}, {"pk": 2717216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Do not enter the path of the wrong, And do not walk in the way of evil-doers."}, {"pk": 2717217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on."}, {"pk": 2717218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "For they do not sleep unless they have done evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall."}, {"pk": 2717219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "For they have eaten the bread of wrongdoing, And they drink the wine of violence."}, {"pk": 2717220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."}, {"pk": 2717221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "The way of the wrong is like darkness; They do not know at what they stumble."}, {"pk": 2717222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "My son, listen to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings."}, {"pk": 2717223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Let them not depart from your eyes; Guard them in the midst of your heart;"}, {"pk": 2717224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their flesh."}, {"pk": 2717225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life."}, {"pk": 2717226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "Turn away from you a crooked mouth, And put perverse lips far from you."}, {"pk": 2717227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "Let your eyes look forward, And your eyelids look straight before you."}, {"pk": 2717228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "Consider the path of your feet, And all your ways are established."}, {"pk": 2717229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "Do not turn to the right or the left; Turn your foot away from evil."}, {"pk": 2717230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "My son, listen to my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding,"}, {"pk": 2717231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "So as to watch over discretion, And your lips guard knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;"}, {"pk": 2717233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword."}, {"pk": 2717234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2717235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "She does not consider the path of life; Her ways are unstable \u2014 you do not know it."}, {"pk": 2717236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "So now, listen to me, you children, And do not turn away from the words of my mouth."}, {"pk": 2717237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Keep your way far from her, And do not come near the door of her house,"}, {"pk": 2717238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Lest you give your splendour to others, And your years to one who is cruel;"}, {"pk": 2717239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Lest strangers be filled with your strength, And your labours go to the house of a foreigner."}, {"pk": 2717240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Then you shall howl in your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,"}, {"pk": 2717241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And shall say, \u201cHow I have hated discipline, And my heart has despised reproof!"}, {"pk": 2717242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I have not heeded the voice of my teachers, And I have not inclined my ear to those who instructed me!"}, {"pk": 2717243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIn a little while I was in all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well."}, {"pk": 2717245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Should your springs be scattered abroad, Rivers of water in the streets?"}, {"pk": 2717246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you."}, {"pk": 2717247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "A loving deer and a pleasant doe! Let her nipples satisfy you at all times. And be captivated by her love always."}, {"pk": 2717249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "For why should you, my son, Be captivated by a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?"}, {"pk": 2717250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "For the ways of man Are before the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And He considers all his paths."}, {"pk": 2717251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin."}, {"pk": 2717252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "He dies for lack of discipline, And in the greatness of his folly He goes astray."}, {"pk": 2717253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "My son, if you: Have become guarantor for your friend, Have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,"}, {"pk": 2717254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Have been snared by the words of your own mouth, Have been caught by the words of your mouth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Do this at once, my son, and deliver yourself, For you have come into the hand of your friend: Go, humble yourself, and urge your friend."}, {"pk": 2717256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids."}, {"pk": 2717257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Deliver yourself like a gazelle from <i>the hunter\u2019s</i> hand, And like a bird from the hand of the trapper."}, {"pk": 2717258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Go to the ant, you lazy one! See her ways and be wise,"}, {"pk": 2717259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Which, having no commander, overseer or ruler,"}, {"pk": 2717260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Provides her supplies in the summer, Gathers her food in the harvest."}, {"pk": 2717261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "How long would you lie down, O lazy one? When do you arise from your sleep?"}, {"pk": 2717262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to lie down;"}, {"pk": 2717263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And your poverty shall come like a prowler, And your need as an armed man."}, {"pk": 2717264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "A man of Beliya\u201bal, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth,"}, {"pk": 2717265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Winks with his eyes, shuffles his feet, Points with his fingers;"}, {"pk": 2717266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Perverseness is in his heart, Plotting evil at all times, He sends out strife."}, {"pk": 2717267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing."}, {"pk": 2717268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "These six <i>matters</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 hates, And seven are an abomination to Him:"}, {"pk": 2717269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "A proud look, A lying tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood,"}, {"pk": 2717270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "A heart devising wicked schemes, Feet quick to run to evil,"}, {"pk": 2717271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "A false witness breathing out lies, And one who causes strife among brothers."}, {"pk": 2717272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "My son, watch over your father\u2019s command, And do not forsake the Torah of your mother."}, {"pk": 2717273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Bind them on your heart always; Tie them around your neck."}, {"pk": 2717274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "When you are walking about, it leads you; When you lie down, it guards you. And when you have woken up, It talks to you."}, {"pk": 2717275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light, And reproofs of discipline a way of life,", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/105'>119:105</a>"}, {"pk": 2717276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman."}, {"pk": 2717277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "Do not desire her prettiness in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids."}, {"pk": 2717278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "For because of a whore <i>One is brought</i> to a crust of bread. And an adulteress hunts a precious life."}, {"pk": 2717279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "Would a man take fire to his bosom, And his garments not be burned?"}, {"pk": 2717280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "Would a man walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?"}, {"pk": 2717281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "So is he who goes in to his neighbour\u2019s wife; None who touches her goes unpunished."}, {"pk": 2717282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "They do not despise a thief If he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is starving."}, {"pk": 2717283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "Yet if he is caught he repays sevenfold; He gives all the wealth of his house."}, {"pk": 2717284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; He who does it destroys his own life."}, {"pk": 2717285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "He finds smiting and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away."}, {"pk": 2717286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "For jealousy enrages a man, And he does not spare in the day of vengeance."}, {"pk": 2717287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "He does not regard any ransom, Nor accept your bribe, however great!"}, {"pk": 2717288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "My son, guard my words, And treasure up my commands with you."}, {"pk": 2717289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye."}, {"pk": 2717290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart."}, {"pk": 2717291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "Say to wisdom, \u201cYou are my sister,\u201d And call understanding a close friend,"}, {"pk": 2717292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words."}, {"pk": 2717293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,"}, {"pk": 2717294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And I saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man lacking heart,"}, {"pk": 2717295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house"}, {"pk": 2717296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night."}, {"pk": 2717297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And look, a woman met him, Dressed like a whore, With a hidden heart."}, {"pk": 2717298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "She was boisterous and stubborn, Her feet did not stay at her own house."}, {"pk": 2717299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "Now in the street, Now in the square, And at every corner she lurks."}, {"pk": 2717300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And she took hold of him and kissed him; She hardened her face and said to him:"}, {"pk": 2717301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSlaughterings of peace <i>offerings</i> are with me; Today I have paid my vows."}, {"pk": 2717302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cTherefore I came out to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I found you."}, {"pk": 2717303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cI have spread my bed with coverings, Coloured linens of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2717304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cI have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."}, {"pk": 2717305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cCome, let us take our fill of <i>carnal</i>-love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with love."}, {"pk": 2717306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;"}, {"pk": 2717307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cHe took a bag of silver with him; He comes home on the day of the covering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "With her many words she leads him astray, With her smooth lips she seduces him."}, {"pk": 2717309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "He goes after her immediately, Like an ox he goes to the slaughter, And as in chains, a fool to the punishment,"}, {"pk": 2717310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "Till an arrow strikes through his liver; Like a bird rushing into a snare, And did not know it would take his life."}, {"pk": 2717311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And now, listen to me, you children; Pay attention to the words of my mouth:"}, {"pk": 2717312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not go astray in her paths."}, {"pk": 2717313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, And numerous all her killed ones."}, {"pk": 2717314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "Her house is the way to She\u2019ol, Going down to the rooms of death."}, {"pk": 2717315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?"}, {"pk": 2717316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "On the top of the heights along the way, Between the paths she has taken her stand."}, {"pk": 2717317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Beside the gates, leading to the city, At the entrances, she shouts:"}, {"pk": 2717318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cO men, I call, to you, And my voice is to the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2717319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cYou simple ones, understand insight, And you fools, be of an understanding heart."}, {"pk": 2717320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cListen, for I speak noble words, And the opening of my lips is about straightness;"}, {"pk": 2717321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor my mouth speaks truth; And wrongness is an abomination to my lips."}, {"pk": 2717322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAll the words of my mouth are in righteousness, None of them twisted or crooked,"}, {"pk": 2717323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAll of them plain to him who understands, And straight to those who find knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAccept my discipline, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold;"}, {"pk": 2717325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor wisdom is better than rubies, And all delights are not comparable to her."}, {"pk": 2717326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI, wisdom, have dwelt with insight, And I find knowledge, foresight."}, {"pk": 2717327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth."}, {"pk": 2717328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cCounsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, mightiness is mine."}, {"pk": 2717329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBy me sovereigns reign, And rulers make righteous inscriptions."}, {"pk": 2717330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBy me princes rule, and nobles, All the judges of the earth."}, {"pk": 2717331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cI love those who love me, And those who earnestly seek me do find me."}, {"pk": 2717332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cRiches and esteem are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cMy fruit is better than gold and fine gold, And my increase than choice silver."}, {"pk": 2717334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cI walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2717335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cTo bestow substance on those who love me, And to fill their treasuries."}, {"pk": 2717336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 possessed me, The beginning of His way, As the first of His works of old."}, {"pk": 2717337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cI was set up ages ago, at the first, Before the earth ever was."}, {"pk": 2717338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cWhen there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs heavy with water."}, {"pk": 2717339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBefore mountains were sunk, Before the hills, I was brought forth,"}, {"pk": 2717340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBefore He had made the earth and the fields, Or the first dust of the world."}, {"pk": 2717341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWhen He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,"}, {"pk": 2717342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cWhen He set the clouds above, When He made the fountains of the deep strong,"}, {"pk": 2717343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWhen He gave to the sea its law, So that the waters would not transgress His mouth, When He inscribed the foundations of the earth,"}, {"pk": 2717344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThen I was beside Him, a master workman, And I was <i>his</i> delight, day by day Rejoicing before Him all the time,"}, {"pk": 2717345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cRejoicing in the world, His earth; And my delights were with the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2717346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd now, listen to me, you children, For blessed are they who guard my ways."}, {"pk": 2717347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cListen to discipline and become wise, And do not refuse it."}, {"pk": 2717348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cBlessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors."}, {"pk": 2717349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor whoever finds me shall find life, And obtain favour from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2717350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cBut he who sins against me injures himself; All who hate me love death!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out its seven columns,"}, {"pk": 2717352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also prepared her table."}, {"pk": 2717353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "She has sent out her young women, She cries out from the highest places of the city:"}, {"pk": 2717354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWho is simple? Let him turn in here!\u201d As for him who lacks heart, she says to him,"}, {"pk": 2717355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cCome, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "Leave the simple ones and live, And walk in the way of understanding."}, {"pk": 2717357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "He who reproves a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wrong one gets himself a blemish."}, {"pk": 2717358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you; Reprove a wise one, and he loves you."}, {"pk": 2717359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "Give <i>instruction</i> to a wise one, and he is wiser still; Teach a righteous one, and he increases in learning."}, {"pk": 2717360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Set-apart One is understanding.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/1/7'>1:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2717361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "For by me your days become many, And years of life are added to you."}, {"pk": 2717362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "If you have become wise, You have become wise for yourself, And if you have scoffed, You alone bear it."}, {"pk": 2717363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "A foolish woman is loud, Simple, and without knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "For she has seated herself At the door of her house, On a seat by the highest places of the city,"}, {"pk": 2717365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their way:"}, {"pk": 2717366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWho is simple? Let him turn in here.\u201d And as for him who lacks heart, she says to him,"}, {"pk": 2717367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cStolen waters are sweet, And bread <i>eaten</i> in secret is pleasant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "But he does not know that the dead are there, Her guests are in the depths of She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2717369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Proverbs of Shelomoh: A wise son makes a father rejoice, But a foolish son is his mother\u2019s sorrow."}, {"pk": 2717370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Treasures of wrongness are of no value, But righteousness delivers from death."}, {"pk": 2717371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not let the being of the righteous go hungry, But He thrusts away the desire of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2717372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "Poor is he who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the hard worker makes rich."}, {"pk": 2717373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "He who gathers in summer is a wise son, He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame."}, {"pk": 2717374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2717375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "The remembrance of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wrong ones rot."}, {"pk": 2717376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "The wise in heart accepts commands, But one with foolish lips falls.", "comment": "See Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/14/9'>14:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2717377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "He who walks in integrity walks safely, But he who perverts his ways becomes known."}, {"pk": 2717378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "He who winks with the eye causes sorrow, And one with foolish lips falls."}, {"pk": 2717379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2717380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all transgressions."}, {"pk": 2717381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, But a rod is for the back of him who lacks heart."}, {"pk": 2717382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "The wise treasure up knowledge, But the mouth of a fool is near ruin."}, {"pk": 2717383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "The rich man\u2019s wealth is his strong city; The ruin of the poor is their poverty."}, {"pk": 2717384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wrong is for sin."}, {"pk": 2717385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "He who heeds discipline is in the way of life, But he who refuses reproof goes astray."}, {"pk": 2717386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "He who hides hatred has lying lips, And he who sends out a slander is a fool."}, {"pk": 2717387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "When words are many, Transgression is not absent, But he who restrains his lips is wise."}, {"pk": 2717388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; The heart of the wrong is of little <i>value</i>."}, {"pk": 2717389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "The lips of the righteous shepherd many, But fools die for lack of heart."}, {"pk": 2717390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "The blessing of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 makes one rich, And He adds no pain with it."}, {"pk": 2717391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "To work out wicked schemes Is like sport to a fool, But wisdom is for a man of understanding."}, {"pk": 2717392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "What the wrong one fears comes upon him, But the desire of the righteous is granted."}, {"pk": 2717393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "As the whirlwind passes by, The wrong one is no more, But the righteous <i>has</i> an everlasting foundation."}, {"pk": 2717394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy one to those who send him."}, {"pk": 2717395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 prolongs days, But the years of the wrong ones are shortened."}, {"pk": 2717396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "The righteous look forward to joy, But the expectancy of the wrong ones perish."}, {"pk": 2717397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "The way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a stronghold for the perfect, But ruin to the workers of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2717398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "The righteous is never shaken, While the wrong shall not dwell in the earth."}, {"pk": 2717399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the tongue of perverseness is cut out."}, {"pk": 2717400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong <i>speaks</i> perverseness."}, {"pk": 2717401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "A false scale is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But a perfect weight is His delight."}, {"pk": 2717402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "Pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom."}, {"pk": 2717403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "The integrity of the straight ones guides them, But the slipperiness of the treacherous destroys them."}, {"pk": 2717404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death."}, {"pk": 2717405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "The righteousness of the perfect Makes his way straight, But by his own wrongness the wrong one falls."}, {"pk": 2717406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "The righteousness of the straight ones delivers them, But the treacherous are caught by greed."}, {"pk": 2717407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "When a wrong man dies, expectancy perishes, And the ambition of the wicked shall be lost."}, {"pk": 2717408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "The righteous is delivered from distress, And the wrong one takes his place."}, {"pk": 2717409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "The defiled one destroys his neighbour with his mouth, But the righteous is delivered by knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices. And when the wrong perish, there is shouting."}, {"pk": 2717411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "By the blessing of the straight the city is exalted, But by the mouth of the wrong it is overthrown."}, {"pk": 2717412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "He who lacks heart despises his neighbour, But a man of understanding keeps silence."}, {"pk": 2717413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "A slanderer is a revealer of secrets, But one with a trustworthy spirit conceals a matter."}, {"pk": 2717414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "Without guidance the people fall, But in a great counsellor there is safety."}, {"pk": 2717415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "He who is guarantor for a stranger suffers harm, But one who hates shaking hands in pledge is safe."}, {"pk": 2717416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "A woman showing favour obtains esteem, But ruthless men obtain riches."}, {"pk": 2717417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "A lovingly-commited man is rewarding his being, But he who is cruel troubles his own flesh."}, {"pk": 2717418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "The wrong one earns false wages, But the one sowing righteousness, a true reward."}, {"pk": 2717419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "Thus righteousness <i>leads</i> to life, And one pursuing evil, to his own death."}, {"pk": 2717420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "The perverse of heart are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But the perfect in the Way are His delight."}, {"pk": 2717421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Hand to hand, the evil one does not go unpunished, But the seed of the righteous shall escape."}, {"pk": 2717422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Like a ring of gold in a pig\u2019s snout, Is a beautiful woman who lacks good sense."}, {"pk": 2717423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "The desire of the righteous is only good, The expectancy of the wrong is wrath."}, {"pk": 2717424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "There is one who scatters, yet increases more. And one who withholds more than is right, But it <i>comes</i> to poverty."}, {"pk": 2717425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "The generous being is enriched, And he who waters is also watered himself."}, {"pk": 2717426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "The people curse him who withholds grain, But blessing is on the head of him who sells it."}, {"pk": 2717427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "He who earnestly seeks good, Seeks what is pleasing; But to him who seeks evil, It comes to him."}, {"pk": 2717428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "He who trusts in his riches falls, But the righteous flourish like a leaf."}, {"pk": 2717429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "He who troubles his own house inherits wind, And the fool is servant to the wise of heart."}, {"pk": 2717430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is winning lives is wise."}, {"pk": 2717431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "See, the righteous in the earth shall be rewarded, How much more the wrong and the sinner!"}, {"pk": 2717432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid."}, {"pk": 2717433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "The good obtains favour from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But the man of wicked devices He declares wrong."}, {"pk": 2717434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved."}, {"pk": 2717435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "A capable wife is the crown of her husband, But one causing shame is like rottenness in his bones."}, {"pk": 2717436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "The thoughts of the righteous are right-ruling, The counsels of the wrong are deceit."}, {"pk": 2717437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "The words of the wrong are, \u201cLie in wait for blood,\u201d But the mouth of the straight delivers them."}, {"pk": 2717438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "The wrong are overthrown, And are no more, But the house of the righteous stands."}, {"pk": 2717439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "A man is praised according to his wisdom, But the perverted of heart becomes despised."}, {"pk": 2717440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Better to be lightly esteemed and have a servant, Than the highly esteemed who lacks bread."}, {"pk": 2717441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "The righteous regards the life of his beast, But the compassion of the wrong is cruelty."}, {"pk": 2717442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "He who tills his land is satisfied with bread, But he who pursues vanities is lacking heart."}, {"pk": 2717443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "The wrong shall covet the catch of evil-doers, But the root of the righteous yields fruit."}, {"pk": 2717444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare, But the righteous gets out of distress."}, {"pk": 2717445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "From the fruit of his mouth one is filled with good, And the work of a man\u2019s hands is given back to him."}, {"pk": 2717446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who listens to advice is wise."}, {"pk": 2717447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "A fool\u2019s wrath is known at once, But a clever one covers shame."}, {"pk": 2717448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "He who speaks truth declares righteousness, But a false witness, deceit."}, {"pk": 2717449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "Rash speaking is like piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise is healing."}, {"pk": 2717450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "The lip of truth is established forever, But a lying tongue is but for a moment."}, {"pk": 2717451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, But counsellors of peace have joy."}, {"pk": 2717452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "No harm befalls the righteous, But the wrong shall be filled with evil."}, {"pk": 2717453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "Lying lips are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But those who deal truly are His delight."}, {"pk": 2717454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "A clever man is concealing knowledge, But the heart of fools proclaims folly."}, {"pk": 2717455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "The hand of the hard worker rules, But the lazy is put to compulsory labour."}, {"pk": 2717456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes him glad."}, {"pk": 2717457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "The righteous is a guide to his neighbour, But the way of the wrong leads them astray."}, {"pk": 2717458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "The lazy one has no game to roast, But the hard worker prizes his possessions."}, {"pk": 2717459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death."}, {"pk": 2717460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "A wise son <i>accepts</i> his father\u2019s discipline, But a scoffer shall not listen to rebuke."}, {"pk": 2717461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "From the fruit of the mouth a man eats the good, But the desire of the treacherous is for violence."}, {"pk": 2717462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "He who watches over his mouth guards his being, But he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin."}, {"pk": 2717463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "The being of the lazy one craves, but has not; While the being of the hard workers are enriched."}, {"pk": 2717464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "A righteous one hates a lying word, But a wrong man is loathsome and comes to shame."}, {"pk": 2717465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "Righteousness watches over him who is perfect in the way, But wrongness overthrows the sinner."}, {"pk": 2717466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "There is one who makes himself rich, Yet <i>has</i> none at all. And one who makes himself poor, Yet has great riches."}, {"pk": 2717467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "The ransom of a man\u2019s life is his riches, But the poor does not hear rebuke."}, {"pk": 2717468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wrong is put out."}, {"pk": 2717469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "By pride comes only strife, But wisdom is with those who take advice."}, {"pk": 2717470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "Wealth from vanity diminishes, But he who gathers by hand increases."}, {"pk": 2717471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "Expectancy drawn out makes the heart sick, But a longing come true is a tree of life."}, {"pk": 2717472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "He who despises the Word is destroyed, But he who fears the command is rewarded."}, {"pk": 2717473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "The Torah of the wise is a fountain of life, Turning one away from the snares of death."}, {"pk": 2717474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Good understanding gains favour, But the way of the treacherous is hard."}, {"pk": 2717475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "Every one with insight acts with knowledge, But a fool spreads folly."}, {"pk": 2717476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "A messenger that is wrong falls into evil, But a trustworthy envoy is a healing."}, {"pk": 2717477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Poverty and shame are for him Who ignores discipline, But he who heeds reproof is esteemed."}, {"pk": 2717478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "A desire accomplished is sweet to the being, But to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools."}, {"pk": 2717479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "He who walks with the wise, shall be wise, But the companion of fools suffers evil."}, {"pk": 2717480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "Evil pursues sinners, But good is repaid to the righteous."}, {"pk": 2717481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children\u2019s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous."}, {"pk": 2717482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "Much food is in the tillable ground of the poor, But lack of right-ruling sweeps it away."}, {"pk": 2717483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him, seeks him with discipline."}, {"pk": 2717484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "The righteous eats to the satisfying of his being, But the stomach of the wrong is lacking."}, {"pk": 2717485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Every wise woman has built her house, But the foolish breaks it down with her hands."}, {"pk": 2717486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "He who walks in his straightness fears \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But he whose ways are crooked despises Him."}, {"pk": 2717487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, But the lips of the wise guard them."}, {"pk": 2717488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "Where there are no oxen, the crib is clean; But from the strength of an ox comes much increase."}, {"pk": 2717489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "A trustworthy witness does not lie, But a false witness breathes out lies."}, {"pk": 2717490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "A scoffer shall seek wisdom but <i>find</i> none, But knowledge is swift to him who has understanding."}, {"pk": 2717491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "Leave the presence of a foolish man, For you shall not perceive the lips of knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "The wisdom of the clever is to understand His way, But the folly of fools is deceit."}, {"pk": 2717493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "Fools scoff at guilt, But among the straight there is delight."}, {"pk": 2717494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "The heart knows its own bitterness, And no stranger shares its joy."}, {"pk": 2717495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "The house of the wrong is destroyed, But the tent of the straight flourishes."}, {"pk": 2717496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/16/25'>16:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2717497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "Even in laughter the heart is in pain, And the end of that joy is heaviness."}, {"pk": 2717498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "The backslider in heart <i>is satisfied</i> with his own ways, But a good man is satisfied from his."}, {"pk": 2717499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "The simple believes every word, But the clever one watches his step."}, {"pk": 2717500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "The wise fears and turns away from evil, But a fool rushes on and is reckless."}, {"pk": 2717501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "He who is impatient acts foolishly, And a man who plans wickedness is hated."}, {"pk": 2717502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "The simple shall inherit folly, But the clever are crowned with knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "The evil ones shall bow before the good, And the wrong ones at the gates of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2717504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "The poor is hated even by his own neighbour, But the rich has many friends."}, {"pk": 2717505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "He who despises his neighbour sins; But he who shows favour to the poor, O blessed is he."}, {"pk": 2717506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not those who plan evil go astray? But loving-commitment and truth are to those who plan good."}, {"pk": 2717507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "In all labour there is profit, But talk of the lips <i>leads</i> only to poverty."}, {"pk": 2717508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "The crown of the wise is their wealth, The folly of fools is folly."}, {"pk": 2717509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "A true witness saves lives, But he who breathes out lies is a betrayer."}, {"pk": 2717510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "In the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is strong trust, And His children have a place of refuge."}, {"pk": 2717511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a fountain of life, To turn away from the snares of death."}, {"pk": 2717512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "In a multitude of people Is a sovereign\u2019s splendour, But in the lack of people Is the ruin of a prince."}, {"pk": 2717513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "He who is patient has great understanding, But he who is short of spirit exalts folly."}, {"pk": 2717514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "A healthy heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones."}, {"pk": 2717515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, But he who esteems Him shows favour to the needy."}, {"pk": 2717516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death."}, {"pk": 2717517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, And <i>even</i> among fools it becomes known."}, {"pk": 2717518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "Righteousness exalts a nation; And loving-commitment, To the peoples is sin."}, {"pk": 2717519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "The sovereign\u2019s delight is toward a wise servant, But his wrath is towards him who causes shame."}, {"pk": 2717520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up displeasure."}, {"pk": 2717521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "The tongue of the wise makes knowledge good, But the mouth of fools pours out foolishness."}, {"pk": 2717522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "The eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are in every place, Watching the evil and the good."}, {"pk": 2717523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "A healing tongue is a tree of life, But perverseness in it crushes the spirit."}, {"pk": 2717524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "A fool despises his father\u2019s discipline, But he who heeds reproof is clever."}, {"pk": 2717525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "The household of the righteous is a great treasure, But in the income of the wrong is trouble."}, {"pk": 2717526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, But the heart of fools is not so."}, {"pk": 2717527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But the prayer of the straight is His delight."}, {"pk": 2717528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "The way of the wrong one Is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But He loves him who pursues righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "Discipline is grievous to him who forsakes the way; He who hates reproof dies."}, {"pk": 2717530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "She\u2019ol and destruction are before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, How much more the hearts of the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2717531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "A scoffer does not love his reprover, Nor does he go to the wise."}, {"pk": 2717532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "A glad heart makes good a face, But by sorrow of heart the spirit is stricken."}, {"pk": 2717533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "The heart of the understanding one seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly."}, {"pk": 2717534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "All the days of the afflicted are evil, But gladness of heart is a continual feast."}, {"pk": 2717535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "Better is a little with the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Than great treasure with trouble."}, {"pk": 2717536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "Better is a meal of vegetables where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred."}, {"pk": 2717537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "A man of wrath stirs up strife, But he who is patient appeases strife."}, {"pk": 2717538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "The way of a lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the straight is a highway."}, {"pk": 2717539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother."}, {"pk": 2717540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "Folly is joy to one lacking heart, But a man of understanding walks straight."}, {"pk": 2717541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "Without counsel, plans go wrong, But by great counsellors they are established."}, {"pk": 2717542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And how good is a word <i>spoken</i> in its season!"}, {"pk": 2717543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "The path of life is upward for the wise, To turn away from She\u2019ol below."}, {"pk": 2717544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 tears down the house of the proud, And He sets up the boundary of the widow."}, {"pk": 2717545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "Evil thoughts are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, But pleasant words are clean."}, {"pk": 2717546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "He who is greedy for gain, troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes lives."}, {"pk": 2717547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, But the mouth of the wrong pours out evil."}, {"pk": 2717548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is far from the wrong ones, But He hears the prayer of the righteous.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/28/9'>28:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2717549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, A good report gives marrow to the bones."}, {"pk": 2717550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "An ear that hears the reproof of life Does dwell among the wise."}, {"pk": 2717551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "He who ignores discipline hates himself, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding."}, {"pk": 2717552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the discipline of wisdom, And before esteem is humility."}, {"pk": 2717553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "To man belongs the preparations of the heart, But from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the answer of the tongue."}, {"pk": 2717554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 weighs the spirits."}, {"pk": 2717555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "Commit your works to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And your plans shall be established."}, {"pk": 2717556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil."}, {"pk": 2717557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; Hand to hand: he goes not unpunished."}, {"pk": 2717558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "By loving-commitment and truth crookedness is pardoned. And in the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 one turns away from evil."}, {"pk": 2717559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "When a man\u2019s ways please \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him."}, {"pk": 2717560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "Better is a little with righteousness, Than a large income without right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2717561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "A man\u2019s heart plans his way, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 establishes his steps."}, {"pk": 2717562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "An oath is on the lips of the sovereign, In right-ruling his mouth trespasses not."}, {"pk": 2717563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "A right scale and balances are of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; All the weights in the bag are His work."}, {"pk": 2717564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "It is an abomination for sovereigns To commit wrongness, For a throne is established by righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "Righteous lips are the delight of sovereigns, And they love him who speaks what is straight."}, {"pk": 2717566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "The sovereign\u2019s wrath is a messenger of death, But a wise man appeases it."}, {"pk": 2717567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "In the light of a sovereign\u2019s face is life, And his delight is like a cloud of the latter rain."}, {"pk": 2717568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is preferable to silver."}, {"pk": 2717569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "The highway of the straight Is to turn away from evil; He who guards his life watches over His way."}, {"pk": 2717570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "Before destruction <i>comes</i> pride, And before a fall a haughty spirit!"}, {"pk": 2717571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "Better to be lowly in spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud."}, {"pk": 2717572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "He who acts wisely concerning the Word finds good, And blessed is he who trusts in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "The wise-hearted is called discerning, And sweetness of lips increases learning."}, {"pk": 2717574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "Understanding is a fountain of life to him who has it, But the disciplining of fools is folly."}, {"pk": 2717575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "The heart of the wise gives discretion to his mouth, And he increases learning to his lips."}, {"pk": 2717576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweet to the being, and healing to the bones."}, {"pk": 2717577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/14/12'>14:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2717578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "He who labours, labours for himself, For his mouth drives him on."}, {"pk": 2717579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "A man of Beliya\u201bal plots evil, And on his lips it is like a burning fire."}, {"pk": 2717580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "A perverse man sends forth strife, And a whisperer separates intimate friends."}, {"pk": 2717581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "A ruthless man entices his neighbour, And leads him in a way that is not good,"}, {"pk": 2717582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "Winking with his eye to plot perversity, Moving his lips he shall bring about evil."}, {"pk": 2717583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "Grey hair is a crown of adorning, It is found in the way of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "He who is patient is better than the mighty, And he who rules over his spirit than he who takes a city."}, {"pk": 2717585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "The lot is cast into the lap, But every decision by it is from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "Better is a dry piece of bread and rest with it, Than a house filled with slaughters of strife."}, {"pk": 2717587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "A wise servant rules over a son who causes shame, And shares an inheritance among the brothers."}, {"pk": 2717588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 tries the hearts."}, {"pk": 2717589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips; A liar gives ear to a tongue of desire."}, {"pk": 2717590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; He who rejoices at calamity does not go unpunished."}, {"pk": 2717591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "Children\u2019s children are the crown of old men, And the adornment of children is their fathers."}, {"pk": 2717592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool, Much less lying lips for a noble."}, {"pk": 2717593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "A bribe is a stone of favour in the eyes of its owner; Wherever he turns, he prospers."}, {"pk": 2717594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends."}, {"pk": 2717595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "Reproof enters deeper into a wise man Than a hundred strikes on a fool."}, {"pk": 2717596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "An evil one seeks only rebellion, So a cruel messenger is sent against him."}, {"pk": 2717597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Let a bereaved bear meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly."}, {"pk": 2717598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "Whoever rewards evil for good, Evil does not leave his house."}, {"pk": 2717599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop fighting before it breaks out."}, {"pk": 2717600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "He who declares the wrong right, And he who condemns the righteous, Both of them are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "Why is this \u2014 a price in the hand Of a fool to buy wisdom, When there is no heart?"}, {"pk": 2717602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity."}, {"pk": 2717603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "A man lacking heart shakes hands in a pledge, He becomes a guarantor for his friend."}, {"pk": 2717604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "He who loves transgression loves strife, He who exalts his door seeks destruction."}, {"pk": 2717605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "He who has a crooked heart finds no good, And he who has a perverse tongue falls into evil."}, {"pk": 2717606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "He who brings forth a fool has sorrow for it, And the father of a fool has no joy."}, {"pk": 2717607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "A rejoicing heart causes good healing, But a stricken spirit dries the bones."}, {"pk": 2717608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "One who is wrong accepts a bribe behind the back To pervert the paths of right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2717609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "Wisdom is before the face of the understanding one, But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth."}, {"pk": 2717610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him."}, {"pk": 2717611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "It is also not good to punish the righteous one, To strike noble ones for straightness."}, {"pk": 2717612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of understanding is cool of spirit."}, {"pk": 2717613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "Even a fool keeping silence is regarded as wise, As understanding, when he closes his lips."}, {"pk": 2717614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "The separatist seeks <i>his</i> own desire; He breaks out against all sound wisdom."}, {"pk": 2717615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "A fool does not delight in understanding, But in uncovering his own heart."}, {"pk": 2717616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "When a wrong one comes, scorn comes too. And with shame <i>comes</i> reproach."}, {"pk": 2717617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "The words of a man\u2019s mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a flowing stream."}, {"pk": 2717618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "It is not good to show partiality to the wrong, Or to turn aside the righteous in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2717619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "A fool\u2019s lips enter into strife, And his mouth calls for blows."}, {"pk": 2717620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "A fool\u2019s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life."}, {"pk": 2717621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "The words of a slanderer are like delicacies, And they go down into the inner parts of the heart."}, {"pk": 2717622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "Also, he who is slack in his work Is a brother of a master destroyer."}, {"pk": 2717623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "The Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a strong tower; The righteous run into it and are safe."}, {"pk": 2717624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "The rich man\u2019s wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination."}, {"pk": 2717625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before esteem is humility."}, {"pk": 2717626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him."}, {"pk": 2717627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness, But who does bear a broken spirit?"}, {"pk": 2717628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "The heart of the understanding one gets knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "A man\u2019s gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men."}, {"pk": 2717630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "The first to state his own case, seems right, <i>Until</i> another comes and examines him."}, {"pk": 2717631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "The lot settles disputes, And separates between the mighty."}, {"pk": 2717632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "A brother transgressed against is a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a citadel."}, {"pk": 2717633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "A man\u2019s stomach is satisfied From the fruit of his mouth; He is satisfied <i>with</i> the increase of his lips."}, {"pk": 2717634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit."}, {"pk": 2717635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "He who has found a wife has found good, And receives favour from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "The poor speaks beseechingly, But the rich answers fiercely."}, {"pk": 2717637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "A man of <i>many</i> friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!"}, {"pk": 2717638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "Better is the poor walking in his integrity Than one of perverse lips, who is a fool."}, {"pk": 2717639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "Also, desire without knowledge is not good; And he who hurries with his feet sins."}, {"pk": 2717640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "The foolishness of a man perverts his way, And his heart is wroth against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "Wealth adds many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend."}, {"pk": 2717642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "A false witness does not go unpunished, And he who breaths out lies does not escape."}, {"pk": 2717643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "Many entreat the favour of the noble. And all are friends to him who gives gifts."}, {"pk": 2717644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "All the brothers of the poor shall hate him; How much more shall his friends go far from him! He pursues promises \u2014 they are gone!"}, {"pk": 2717645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "He who gets heart loves his own life; He who guards understanding finds good."}, {"pk": 2717646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "A false witness does not go unpunished, And he who breathes out lies perishes."}, {"pk": 2717647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes."}, {"pk": 2717648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "A man\u2019s discretion makes him patient, And his adorning is to pass over a transgression."}, {"pk": 2717649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "The sovereign\u2019s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his delight is like dew on the grass."}, {"pk": 2717650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "A foolish son is a calamity to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping."}, {"pk": 2717651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "Houses and riches are the inheritance from fathers, But an understanding wife is from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "Laziness makes one fall into a deep sleep, And an idle being suffers hunger."}, {"pk": 2717653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "He who guards the command guards his life, He who despises His ways dies."}, {"pk": 2717654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "He who shows favour to the poor lends to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And He repays his deed."}, {"pk": 2717655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "Discipline your son because there is expectation, And do not set your being on his destruction."}, {"pk": 2717656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "One of great wrath bears punishment; For if you rescue <i>him</i>, You only have to do it again."}, {"pk": 2717657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "Listen to counsel and accept discipline, So that you are wise in your latter end."}, {"pk": 2717658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "Many are the plans in a man\u2019s heart, But it is the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that stands."}, {"pk": 2717659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "What is desirable in a man is his loving-commitment, And a poor man is better than a liar."}, {"pk": 2717660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 <i>leads</i> to life, And he remains satisfied, He is not visited by evil."}, {"pk": 2717661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "A lazy one buries his hand in a dish, And does not bring it back to his mouth."}, {"pk": 2717662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "Strike a scoffer, and the simple is made wise; And reprove one who has understanding, And he discerns knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "He who plunders a father, Chases away his mother, Is a son causing shame and bringing reproach."}, {"pk": 2717664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "Cease, my son, to hear discipline, <i>And you shall</i> stray from the words of knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "A witness of Beliya\u201bal scorns right-ruling, And the mouth of the wrong ones Devours wickedness."}, {"pk": 2717666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "Judgments are in store for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools."}, {"pk": 2717667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "Wine is a scoffer, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise."}, {"pk": 2717668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "The dread of a sovereign is like the roaring of a lion; Whoever provokes him sins against his own life."}, {"pk": 2717669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "For a man to cease from strife is esteem, But every fool bursts out."}, {"pk": 2717670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "The lazy one does not plough after the autumn; At harvest time he inquires \u2014 there is none!"}, {"pk": 2717671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it up."}, {"pk": 2717672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Most men proclaim each his own loving-commitment, But who finds a trustworthy man?"}, {"pk": 2717673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him."}, {"pk": 2717674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "A sovereign who sits on the throne of judgment Is scattering all evil with his eyes."}, {"pk": 2717675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "Who says, \u201cI have cleansed my heart, I am purged of my sin\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2717676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "Even a child is known by his deeds, Whether his work is clear and right."}, {"pk": 2717678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "The hearing ear and the seeing eye, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made both of them."}, {"pk": 2717679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; Open your eyes, be satisfied with bread."}, {"pk": 2717680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cEvil! Evil!\u201d cries the buyer; But when he has gone his way, then he boasts."}, {"pk": 2717681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "There is gold and a multitude of rubies, But the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel."}, {"pk": 2717682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "Take the garment of one who is guarantor for a stranger, And hold it as a pledge when it is for foreigners."}, {"pk": 2717683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "Bread gained by deceit might be sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth is filled with gravel."}, {"pk": 2717684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "By counsel plans are established; And by wise guidance wage a battle."}, {"pk": 2717685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets; Therefore do not associate with him Who speaks smoothly with his lips."}, {"pk": 2717686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp is put out in deep darkness."}, {"pk": 2717687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "An inheritance obtained with greed at the beginning Is not blessed at the end."}, {"pk": 2717688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not say, \u201cI repay evil.\u201d Wait for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He saves you."}, {"pk": 2717689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "Differing weights are an abomination to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And a false scale is not good."}, {"pk": 2717690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "The steps of a man are from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; What does a man know about his own way?"}, {"pk": 2717691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "It is a snare for a man to say rashly, \u201cIt is set-apart,\u201d And only later to reconsider his vows."}, {"pk": 2717692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "A wise sovereign winnows out the wrong, And turns the wheel over them."}, {"pk": 2717693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "The spirit of a man is the lamp of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Searching all his inmost parts."}, {"pk": 2717694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "Loving-commitment and truth watch over the sovereign, And he shall support his throne by loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2717695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "The comeliness of young men is their strength, And the splendour of old men is their grey hair."}, {"pk": 2717696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "The blows that wound cleanse away evil, And strokes the inner parts of the heart."}, {"pk": 2717697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "The sovereign\u2019s heart is as channels of water In the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; He turns it wherever He wishes."}, {"pk": 2717698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "All a man\u2019s ways are right in his own eyes, But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 weighs the hearts."}, {"pk": 2717699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "To do righteousness and right-ruling Is more acceptable to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 than a slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2717700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "A haughty look, a proud heart, The lamp of the wrong, are sin."}, {"pk": 2717701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "The plans of the hard worker <i>lead</i> only to plenty, But all rash haste only to poverty."}, {"pk": 2717702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "Gaining treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapour, heading for death."}, {"pk": 2717703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "The spoil of the wrong catches them, Because they refused to do right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2717704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "The way of a guilty man is perverse; But as for the innocent, his work is right."}, {"pk": 2717705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman."}, {"pk": 2717706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "The desire of the wrong is set upon evil; His neighbour finds no favour in his eyes."}, {"pk": 2717707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "The righteous one understands the house of the wrong; He overthrows the wrong for their evil."}, {"pk": 2717709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard."}, {"pk": 2717710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "A gift in secret subdues displeasure, And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath."}, {"pk": 2717711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "To do right-ruling is joy to the righteous, But ruin to the workers of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2717712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "A man who strays from the way of understanding, Rests in the assembly of the dead."}, {"pk": 2717713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "He who loves pleasure is a poor man; He who loves wine and oil does not become rich."}, {"pk": 2717714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "The wrong is a ransom for the righteous, And the treacherous for the straight."}, {"pk": 2717715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "It is better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and vexed woman."}, {"pk": 2717716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "Desirable treasure and oil, Are in the dwelling of the wise, But a foolish man swallows it up."}, {"pk": 2717717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "He who pursues righteousness and loving-commitment Finds life, righteousness and esteem."}, {"pk": 2717718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "A wise one scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the trusted stronghold."}, {"pk": 2717719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "Whoever guards his mouth and tongue Guards his life from distresses."}, {"pk": 2717720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "Proud, haughty, \u201cScoffer\u201d is his name; He acts with arrogant pride."}, {"pk": 2717721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "The desire of the lazy man slays him, For his hands refused to work."}, {"pk": 2717722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "He covets greedily all day long, But the righteous gives and does not withhold."}, {"pk": 2717723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!"}, {"pk": 2717724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "A false witness perishes, But the man who obeys speaks forever."}, {"pk": 2717725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "A wrong man hardens his face, But as for the straight, he establishes his way."}, {"pk": 2717726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "There is no wisdom or understanding Or counsel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But the deliverance is of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "A <i>good</i> name is preferable to great riches. Favour is better than silver and gold."}, {"pk": 2717729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "The rich and the poor meet together \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the Maker of them all."}, {"pk": 2717730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "A clever one foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple go on and are punished."}, {"pk": 2717731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "The reward of humility is the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Riches, and esteem and life."}, {"pk": 2717732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "Thorns, snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his life keeps far away from them."}, {"pk": 2717733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it."}, {"pk": 2717734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender."}, {"pk": 2717735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes."}, {"pk": 2717736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "He who has a good eye is blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor."}, {"pk": 2717737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "Cast out the scoffer and strife goes out, And contention and shame cease."}, {"pk": 2717738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "He who loves cleanness of heart, Whose speech is pleasant, A sovereign is his friend."}, {"pk": 2717739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "The eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall watch over knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous."}, {"pk": 2717740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "The lazy one says: \u201cThere is a lion outside!\u201d \u201cI am going to be murdered in the streets!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 falls in there."}, {"pk": 2717742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline drives it far from him."}, {"pk": 2717743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "One oppresses the poor to increase his <i>wealth</i>, Another gives to the rich, only to come to poverty."}, {"pk": 2717744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;"}, {"pk": 2717745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "For they are pleasant If you guard them within you; Let all of them be ready on your lips."}, {"pk": 2717746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "That your trust might be in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I caused you to know today, even you:"}, {"pk": 2717747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "Have I not previously written to you Of counsels and knowledge,"}, {"pk": 2717748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "To cause you to know The certainty of the words of truth, To return words of truth to those who send to you?"}, {"pk": 2717749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not rob the poor because he is poor, And oppress not the afflicted at the gate."}, {"pk": 2717750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pleads their cause, And shall plunder those who plunder them."}, {"pk": 2717751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "Make no friendship with one given to wrath, And do not go with a man of rage,"}, {"pk": 2717752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "Lest you learn his ways, And find yourself ensnared."}, {"pk": 2717753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who are guarantors for debts."}, {"pk": 2717754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "If you do not have the means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?"}, {"pk": 2717755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "Do not move the ancient boundary Which your fathers have set."}, {"pk": 2717756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "Do you see a man who is skilled in his work? He does stand before sovereigns, He does not stand before obscure ones."}, {"pk": 2717757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Look well what is before you;"}, {"pk": 2717758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite."}, {"pk": 2717759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive."}, {"pk": 2717760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!"}, {"pk": 2717761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "Do you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle to the heavens."}, {"pk": 2717762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not eat the bread of <i>one having</i> an evil eye, Nor desire his delicacies;"}, {"pk": 2717763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "For as he reckons in his life, so is he. \u201cEat and drink!\u201d he says to you, But his heart is not with you."}, {"pk": 2717764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "You vomit the piece you have eaten, And lose your sweet words."}, {"pk": 2717765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words."}, {"pk": 2717766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not move the ancient boundary, And do not enter the fields of the fatherless;"}, {"pk": 2717767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "For their Redeemer is strong; He shall plead their cause against you."}, {"pk": 2717768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "Do not withhold discipline from a child; If you strike him with a rod, he does not die."}, {"pk": 2717770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "Strike him with a rod And deliver his being from She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2717771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "My son, if your heart shall be wise, My heart rejoices, even I,"}, {"pk": 2717772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And my kidneys exult When your lips speak what is straight."}, {"pk": 2717773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be in the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all day long;"}, {"pk": 2717774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "For certain, there is a hereafter, And let your expectancy not be cut off."}, {"pk": 2717775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "Hear, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the way."}, {"pk": 2717776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "Be not among heavy drinkers of wine Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;"}, {"pk": 2717777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "For the drunkard and the glutton become poor, And slumber puts rags on <i>a man</i>."}, {"pk": 2717778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "Listen to your father who brought you forth, And do not despise your mother when she is old."}, {"pk": 2717779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "Buy the truth and do not sell it \u2014 Wisdom and discipline and understanding."}, {"pk": 2717780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "The father of the righteous greatly rejoices, And he who brings forth a wise one delights in him."}, {"pk": 2717781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "Let your father and your mother rejoice, And let her who bore you exult."}, {"pk": 2717782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes watch my ways."}, {"pk": 2717783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "For a whore is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well."}, {"pk": 2717784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "She too lies in wait as for a prey, And increases the treacherous among men."}, {"pk": 2717785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who feels hurt without cause? Who has redness of eyes?"}, {"pk": 2717786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "Those staying long at the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine."}, {"pk": 2717787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it gives its colour in the cup, As it flows smoothly;"}, {"pk": 2717788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "In the end it bites like a snake, And stings like an adder \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities."}, {"pk": 2717790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "And you shall be as one Lying down in the midst of the sea, And as one lying at the top of the mast, saying,"}, {"pk": 2717791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThey struck me, I was not sick! They beat me, I did not know! When shall I wake up? Let me seek it again!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "Do not envy evil men, Nor desire to be with them;"}, {"pk": 2717793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "For their heart plots to ravage, And their lips talk of trouble."}, {"pk": 2717794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established;"}, {"pk": 2717795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And by knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches."}, {"pk": 2717796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge strengthens power;"}, {"pk": 2717797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "For by wise guidance you wage your own battle, And delivery is by a great counsellor."}, {"pk": 2717798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "Wisdom is high for a fool; He does not open his mouth in the gate."}, {"pk": 2717799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "He who plots to do evil Is called a master of evil plots."}, {"pk": 2717800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "The purpose of folly is sin, And the scoffer is an abomination to men."}, {"pk": 2717801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "If you falter in the day of distress, Your strength is small!"}, {"pk": 2717802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "Deliver those taken to death, And hold back those stumbling to the kill,"}, {"pk": 2717803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "If you say, \u201cSee, we did not know this,\u201d Would not He who weighs the hearts discern it? He who watches over your life, Would He not know it? And shall He not repay man according to his work?"}, {"pk": 2717804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "My son, eat honey, for it is good, And the honeycomb, sweet to your taste;"}, {"pk": 2717805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "Know that wisdom is thus to your being; If you have found it, there is a future, And your expectancy is not cut off."}, {"pk": 2717806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "Do not lie in wait, O wrong one, Against the dwelling of the righteous; Do not ravage his resting place;"}, {"pk": 2717807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "For seven times a righteous man falls and rises, But the wrong one stumbles into evil."}, {"pk": 2717808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not exult when your enemy falls, And let not your heart rejoice when he stumbles;"}, {"pk": 2717809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "Lest \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 see and it be evil in His eyes, And He turn away His wrath from him."}, {"pk": 2717810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "Do not fret because of evil-doers, And do not envy the wrong;"}, {"pk": 2717811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "For there is no future for the evil-doer; The lamp of the wrongdoers is put out."}, {"pk": 2717812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "My son, fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the sovereign; Do not mingle with those who change;"}, {"pk": 2717813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "For their calamity arises suddenly, And who knows the ruin of both of them?"}, {"pk": 2717814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "These also are for the wise: It is not good to show partiality in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2717815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "He who says to the wrong, \u201cYou are righteous\u201d \u2014 peoples curse him, Nations despise him."}, {"pk": 2717816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "But those who rebuke <i>the wrong</i>, It is pleasant, and a good blessing comes on them."}, {"pk": 2717817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "He who gives a right answer kisses the lips."}, {"pk": 2717818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "Prepare your outside work, And make it fit for yourself in the field; Then you shall build your house."}, {"pk": 2717819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "Do not witness against your neighbour without cause, And do not deceive with your lips."}, {"pk": 2717820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "Do not say, \u201cLet me do to him as he did to me; I repay each according to his work.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "I passed by the field of the lazy, And by the vineyard of the man lacking heart;"}, {"pk": 2717822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "And see, it was all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; And its stone wall was broken down."}, {"pk": 2717823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "text": "When I saw it, I set my heart on it; I looked and received discipline:"}, {"pk": 2717824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "text": "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest;"}, {"pk": 2717825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "text": "And your poverty shall come, a prowler, And your need like an armed man."}, {"pk": 2717826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "These too are proverbs of Shelomoh which the men of H\u0323izqiyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah copied:"}, {"pk": 2717827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "It is the esteem of Elohim to hide a matter, And the esteem of sovereigns to search out a matter."}, {"pk": 2717828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "The heavens for height and the earth for depth, But the heart of sovereigns is unsearchable."}, {"pk": 2717829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "Take away the dross from silver, And a vessel comes forth for the refiner."}, {"pk": 2717830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "Take away the wrong from before the sovereign, And his throne is established in righteousness."}, {"pk": 2717831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not exalt yourself before a sovereign, And do not stand in the place of great men;"}, {"pk": 2717832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "For it is better for him to say to you, \u201cCome up here,\u201d Than that you should be put lower Before a noble whom your eyes have seen."}, {"pk": 2717833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not go forth to strive in haste, For what would you do in the end, When your neighbour has put you to shame?"}, {"pk": 2717834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "Plead your case with your neighbour himself, And do not disclose the secret of another;"}, {"pk": 2717835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "Lest he who hears it put you to shame, And your evil report turn not back."}, {"pk": 2717836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "A word spoken at the right time Is like apples of gold in settings of silver."}, {"pk": 2717837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "A ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, Is a wise one\u2019s reproof to an ear that hears."}, {"pk": 2717838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "Like the cold of snow in time of harvest Is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him, For he refreshes the life of his masters."}, {"pk": 2717839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "He who boasts of his gifts falsely <i>Is like</i> clouds and wind without rain."}, {"pk": 2717840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "Through patience a ruler is persuaded, And a soft tongue shatters a bone."}, {"pk": 2717841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, Lest you be satisfied with it and vomit."}, {"pk": 2717842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "Make your foot rare in your neighbour\u2019s house, Lest he gets enough of you and hate you."}, {"pk": 2717843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "A man bearing false witness against his neighbour <i>Is like</i> a club and a sword and a sharp arrow."}, {"pk": 2717844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "Trust in a treacherous man in time of distress <i>Is like</i> a broken tooth or a foot out of joint."}, {"pk": 2717845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "One who takes away a garment in cold weather, <i>Is like</i> vinegar on soda, And a singer of songs on an evil heart."}, {"pk": 2717846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "If your enemy is hungry give him bread to eat, And if he is thirsty give him water to drink,"}, {"pk": 2717847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "For you are heaping coals of fire on his head, And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rewards you."}, {"pk": 2717848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "The north wind brings rain, And a secret tongue an enraged face."}, {"pk": 2717849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman."}, {"pk": 2717850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "<i>Like</i> cold water to a parched throat, Is good news from a distant land."}, {"pk": 2717851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "A righteous man who gives way before the wrong, <i>Is like</i> a muddied spring and a ruined fountain."}, {"pk": 2717852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "It is not good to eat much honey. Is it esteem to seek one\u2019s own esteem?"}, {"pk": 2717853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "A man who has no control over his spirit <i>Is like</i> a broken-down city without a wall."}, {"pk": 2717854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "Like snow in summer, and rain in harvest, So esteem is not fitting for a fool."}, {"pk": 2717855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "As a bird wanders, as a swallow flies about, So a curse without cause does not come."}, {"pk": 2717856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, And a rod for the fool\u2019s back."}, {"pk": 2717857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also become like him."}, {"pk": 2717858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he become wise in his own eyes."}, {"pk": 2717859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "He who sends a message by the hand of a fool Cuts off feet, drinks damage."}, {"pk": 2717860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "The legs of the lame hang limp So is a proverb in the mouth of fools."}, {"pk": 2717861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "Like one binding a stone in a sling, So is he who gives esteem to a fool."}, {"pk": 2717862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "A thorn goes into the hand of a drunkard So is a proverb in the mouth of fools."}, {"pk": 2717863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "An archer who wounds anyone, Is he who hires a fool or any passer-by."}, {"pk": 2717864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly."}, {"pk": 2717865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "Have you seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more expectancy for a fool than for him."}, {"pk": 2717866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "The lazy one says, \u201cThere is a lion in the way! A fierce lion is in the streets!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "As a door turns on its hinges, So does the lazy one turn on his bed."}, {"pk": 2717868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "The lazy one buries his hand in a dish; It tires him to bring it back to his mouth."}, {"pk": 2717869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "The lazy one is wiser in his own eyes Than seven rendering advice."}, {"pk": 2717870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "A passer-by meddling in a strife not his own <i>Is like</i> one who takes hold of a dog by the ears."}, {"pk": 2717871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "Like a madman who throws sparks, arrows, and death,"}, {"pk": 2717872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "So is a man who deceived his neighbour, And says, \u201cI was only joking!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "For lack of wood, the fire goes out. And without a slanderer, strife ceases."}, {"pk": 2717874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>As</i> charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife."}, {"pk": 2717875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "The words of a slanderer are as dainty morsels, Which go down into the inner parts of the heart."}, {"pk": 2717876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "Burning lips with an evil heart <i>Are like</i> earthenware covered with silver dross."}, {"pk": 2717877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "He who hates, pretends with his lips, And lays up deceit within him;"}, {"pk": 2717878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "Though he speaks kindly, do not believe him, For there are seven abominations in his heart."}, {"pk": 2717879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "Hatred is covered by deceit. His evil is disclosed in the assembly."}, {"pk": 2717880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "Whoever digs a pit falls into it, And whoever rolls a stone, it turns back on him."}, {"pk": 2717881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "A lying tongue hates its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth works ruin."}, {"pk": 2717882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "Do not boast of tomorrow, For you do not know what a day brings forth."}, {"pk": 2717883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth \u2014 A stranger, and not your own lips."}, {"pk": 2717884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, But a fool\u2019s wrath is heavier than both."}, {"pk": 2717885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "Wrath is cruel and displeasure overwhelming, But who is able to stand before jealousy?"}, {"pk": 2717886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "Open reproof is better than hidden love."}, {"pk": 2717887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "The wounds of a loved one are true, But the kisses of an enemy are profuse."}, {"pk": 2717888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "One satisfied loathes the honeycomb, But to a hungry one any bitter <i>food</i> is sweet."}, {"pk": 2717889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "Like a bird that wanders from its nest, So is a man who wanders from his place."}, {"pk": 2717890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Ointment and perfume gladden the heart, So one\u2019s counsel is sweet to his friend."}, {"pk": 2717891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not forsake your own friend or your father\u2019s friend, And do not go into your brother\u2019s house In the day of your calamity \u2014 Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away."}, {"pk": 2717892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "My son, be wise, and gladden my heart, That I might have a word for him who reproaches me."}, {"pk": 2717893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished."}, {"pk": 2717894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "Take the garment of him who is guarantor for a stranger, And for a strange woman pledge it."}, {"pk": 2717895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "He who greets his friend loudly early in the morning, Shall have it reckoned to him as a curse."}, {"pk": 2717896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "Drops that never cease on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;"}, {"pk": 2717897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "Whoever represses her represses the wind, And his right hand encounters oil."}, {"pk": 2717898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "Iron is sharpened by iron, And a man sharpens the face of his friend."}, {"pk": 2717899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "He who tends the fig tree eats its fruit; And he who guards his master is esteemed."}, {"pk": 2717900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "As in water face <i>reflects</i> face, So a man\u2019s heart <i>reflects</i> a man."}, {"pk": 2717901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "She\u2019ol and destruction are not satisfied; So the eyes of man are not satisfied."}, {"pk": 2717902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "A refining pot is for silver and a furnace for gold, So a man <i>is tried</i> by his praise."}, {"pk": 2717903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "Even if you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle Along with crushed grain, His folly shall not leave him."}, {"pk": 2717904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "Know well the state of your flocks; Set your heart to your herds;"}, {"pk": 2717905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "For riches are not forever, Nor a diadem to all generations."}, {"pk": 2717906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "Grass vanishes, and new grass appears, And the vegetation of the mountains is gathered in."}, {"pk": 2717907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "The lambs are for your garments, And the goats for the price of a field;"}, {"pk": 2717908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "And goats\u2019 milk enough for your food, For the food of your household, And sustenance for your girls."}, {"pk": 2717909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "The wrong shall flee though no one pursues, But the righteous are as bold as a lion."}, {"pk": 2717910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "Because of transgression of a land, Many are its rulers; But by a man of understanding and knowledge, Right is maintained."}, {"pk": 2717911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "A poor man who oppresses the poor <i>Is like</i> a sweeping rain that leaves no food."}, {"pk": 2717912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "Those who forsake the Torah praise the wrong, Those who guard the Torah strive with them."}, {"pk": 2717913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Evil men do not understand right-ruling, But those who seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 understand all."}, {"pk": 2717914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than one perverse in his ways, who is rich."}, {"pk": 2717915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "He who watches over the Torah is a discerning son, But a companion of gluttons shames his father."}, {"pk": 2717916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "He who increases his possessions by interest and profit Gathers it for him who shows favour to the poor."}, {"pk": 2717917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/15/29'>15:29</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/1'>59:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/59/2'>2</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/9/31'>9:31</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/22'>3:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2717918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "He who causes the straight to go astray in an evil way, Falls into his own pit; But the perfect inherit the good."}, {"pk": 2717919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "A rich man is wise in his own eyes, But the poor who has understanding searches him out."}, {"pk": 2717920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "When the righteous exult, there is great comeliness; But when the wrong arise, a man is searched for."}, {"pk": 2717921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "He who hides his transgressions does not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them finds compassion."}, {"pk": 2717922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "Blessed is the man who always fears <i>Elohim</i>, But he who hardens his heart falls into evil."}, {"pk": 2717923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "A roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wrongdoing ruler over poor people."}, {"pk": 2717924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "A leader who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But the hater of greed prolongs his days."}, {"pk": 2717925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "A man oppressed by blood-guilt flees into a pit; Let no one help him."}, {"pk": 2717926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "He who walks blamelessly is saved, But the perverted of ways falls at once."}, {"pk": 2717927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "He who tills his land is satisfied with bread, But he who pursues vanities is filled with poverty."}, {"pk": 2717928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "A man of truth has many blessings, But one in a hurry to be rich does not go unpunished."}, {"pk": 2717929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man would transgress."}, {"pk": 2717930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "A man with an evil eye runs after wealth, And does not know that poverty awaits him."}, {"pk": 2717931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "He who reproves a man finds more favour afterward Than he who flatters with the tongue."}, {"pk": 2717932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "He who robs his father or his mother, And says, \u201cIt is no transgression,\u201d He is a companion to a destroyer."}, {"pk": 2717933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "He who is greedy stirs up strife, But he who trusts in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 prospers."}, {"pk": 2717934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered."}, {"pk": 2717935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "He who gives to the poor does not lack, But he who hides his eyes does have many curses."}, {"pk": 2717936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "When the wrong rise up, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase."}, {"pk": 2717937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "One often reproved, hardening his neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing."}, {"pk": 2717938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; But when a wrong one rules, the people sigh."}, {"pk": 2717939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "He who loves wisdom gladdens his father, But a companion of whores destroys wealth."}, {"pk": 2717940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "A sovereign establishes a land by right-ruling, But one who receives bribes throws it down."}, {"pk": 2717941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "A man who flatters his neighbour Spreads a net for his own feet."}, {"pk": 2717942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "An evil man is ensnared by transgression, But the righteous sings and rejoices."}, {"pk": 2717943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "The righteous knows the plea of the poor, The wrong does not understand <i>such</i> knowledge."}, {"pk": 2717944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "Scoffers ensnare a city, But the wise turn away wrath."}, {"pk": 2717945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "When a wise man disputes with a foolish man, Whether he rages or laughs, there is no peace."}, {"pk": 2717946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "Bloodthirsty men hate the perfect, And seek the life of the straight."}, {"pk": 2717947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "A fool lets out all his breath, But the wise keeping it back calms it down."}, {"pk": 2717948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "If a ruler listens to lying words, All his servants become wrong."}, {"pk": 2717949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives light to the eyes of both."}, {"pk": 2717950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "The sovereign who rightly rules the poor with truth, His throne is established forever."}, {"pk": 2717951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "A rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child unrestrained brings shame to his mother."}, {"pk": 2717952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "When the wrong become many, transgression increases; But the righteous look on their fall."}, {"pk": 2717953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "Discipline your son, And he brings you rest and delight to your life."}, {"pk": 2717954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "Where there is no vision, the people are let loose, But blessed is he who guards the Torah."}, {"pk": 2717955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "A servant is not disciplined by words; Though he understands, he does not respond."}, {"pk": 2717956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "Have you seen a man hasty in his words? There is more expectancy for a fool than for him."}, {"pk": 2717957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "He who deals tenderly With his servant from youth, Has him as a son in the end."}, {"pk": 2717958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "A man of displeasure stirs up strife, And a master of rage has many a transgression."}, {"pk": 2717959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "The pride of man brings him low, But the humble in spirit obtains esteem."}, {"pk": 2717960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report."}, {"pk": 2717961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is set on high."}, {"pk": 2717962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "Many seek the face of a ruler, But right-ruling for man comes from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2717963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "An unrighteous man Is an abomination to the righteous, And he who is straight in the way Is an abomination to the wrong."}, {"pk": 2717964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of A\u1e21ur son of Yaqeh, a message. This man declared to Ithi\u2019\u0115l, to Ithi\u2019\u0115l and Uk\u0331al:"}, {"pk": 2717965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "For I am more stupid than anyone, And do not have the understanding of a man."}, {"pk": 2717966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "And I have not learned wisdom That I should know the knowledge of the Set-apart One."}, {"pk": 2717967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "Who has gone up to the heavens and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who established all the ends of the earth? What is His Name, And what is His Son\u2019s Name, If you know it?"}, {"pk": 2717968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "Every Word of Eloah is tried; He is a shield to those taking refuge in Him.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/12/6'>12:6</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/18/30'>18:30</a>"}, {"pk": 2717969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not add to His Words, Lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/2'>4:2</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/32'>12:32</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/18'>22:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/22/19'>19</a>"}, {"pk": 2717970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "Two matters I have asked of You \u2014 Deny them not to me before I die:"}, {"pk": 2717971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "Remove falsehood and a lying word far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me my lawfull bread;"}, {"pk": 2717972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "Lest I become satisfied and deny <i>You</i>, And say, \u201cWho is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d And lest I be poor, and steal, And seize the Name of my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2717973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not slander a servant to his master, Lest he curse you, And you be found guilty."}, {"pk": 2717974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother \u2014"}, {"pk": 2717975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "There is a generation, clean in its own eyes, But not washed from its own filth."}, {"pk": 2717976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "There is a generation; Oh, how haughty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up."}, {"pk": 2717977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from <i>among</i> men."}, {"pk": 2717978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "The leech has two daughters: \u201cGive! Give!\u201d Three are not satisfied, Four that never say, \u201cEnough\u201d:"}, {"pk": 2717979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "She\u2019ol, and the barren womb, Soil not satisfied with water, And fire which never says, \u201cEnough.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "An eye that mocks his father, And scorns to obey his mother \u2014 Ravens of the wadi dig it out, And young eagles eat it!"}, {"pk": 2717981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "Three <i>matters</i> are too marvellous for me, And four which I do not understand:"}, {"pk": 2717982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "The way of an eagle in the heavens, The way of a snake on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man with a young woman.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Maiden\""}, {"pk": 2717983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "This is the way of an adulterous woman: She shall eat and wipe her mouth, and say, \u201cI have not done wickedness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2717984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "Under three <i>matters</i> the earth trembles, And under four, it is unable to bear:"}, {"pk": 2717985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "Under a servant when he reigns, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,"}, {"pk": 2717986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "Under a hated <i>woman</i> who marries, And a female servant who supplants her mistress."}, {"pk": 2717987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "There are four <i>matters</i> Which are little on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:"}, {"pk": 2717988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "The ants are a people not strong, Yet they prepare their food in the summer;"}, {"pk": 2717989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "The rock badgers are a weak folk, Yet they make their homes in the crags;"}, {"pk": 2717990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "The locusts have no sovereign, Yet they all go out in formation;"}, {"pk": 2717991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "A spider takes hold with two hands, And is in sovereigns\u2019 palaces."}, {"pk": 2717992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "There are three <i>matters</i> That are going well, And four are good in walking:"}, {"pk": 2717993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "A lion, which is mighty among beasts And does not turn away from facing all;"}, {"pk": 2717994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "A greyhound, and a male goat, And a sovereign whose army is with him."}, {"pk": 2717995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "text": "If you have been foolish in lifting up yourself, Or if you have plotted evil, Put your hand on your mouth."}, {"pk": 2717996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "text": "For as milk under pressure brings forth curds, And as a nose under pressure brings forth blood, So wrath under pressure brings forth strife."}, {"pk": 2717997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of Sovereign Lemu\u2019\u0115l, a message which his mother taught him:"}, {"pk": 2717998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "What, my chosen? And what, chosen of my womb? And what, chosen of my vows?"}, {"pk": 2717999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "Do not give your strength to women, Nor your ways to wiping away sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2718000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "Not for sovereigns, O Lemu\u2019\u0115l, Not for sovereigns to drink wine, Nor for princes to desire strong drink;"}, {"pk": 2718001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "Lest they drink and forget <i>what is</i> inscribed, And pervert the right of all the afflicted."}, {"pk": 2718002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to those embittered in being."}, {"pk": 2718003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his trouble no more."}, {"pk": 2718004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "Open your mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all the sons of the departed."}, {"pk": 2718005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy."}, {"pk": 2718006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "Who does find a capable wife? For she is worth far more than rubies."}, {"pk": 2718007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "The heart of her husband shall trust her, And he has no lack of gain."}, {"pk": 2718008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "She shall do him good, and not evil, All the days of her life."}, {"pk": 2718009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "She shall seek wool and flax, And with delight she works with her hands."}, {"pk": 2718010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "She shall be as the ships of Tarshish, She brings in her food from afar."}, {"pk": 2718011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "She also rises while it is still night, And provides food for her household, And what is law<i>full</i> for her girls."}, {"pk": 2718012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "She shall consider a field and buy it; From her profits she shall plant a vineyard."}, {"pk": 2718013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "She shall gird herself with strength, And strengthen her arms."}, {"pk": 2718014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "She shall taste when her gain is good; Her lamp does not go out by night."}, {"pk": 2718015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "She shall stretch out her hands to the distaff, And her hand shall hold the spindle."}, {"pk": 2718016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "She shall extend her hand to the poor, And she shall reach out her hands to the needy."}, {"pk": 2718017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "She is not afraid of snow for her household, For all her household is dressed in scarlet."}, {"pk": 2718018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "She shall make tapestry for herself; She is dressed in fine linen and purple."}, {"pk": 2718019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land."}, {"pk": 2718020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "She shall make fine linen and sell them, And shall give girdles for the merchants."}, {"pk": 2718021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "Strength and splendour are her garments, And she rejoices in time to come."}, {"pk": 2718022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "She shall open her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the Torah of loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2718023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness."}, {"pk": 2718024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "Her children shall rise up and call her blessed; Her husband <i>too</i>, and he praises her:"}, {"pk": 2718025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cMany daughters have done nobly, But you have risen over them all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2718026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "Loveliness is deceptive And prettiness is vain, A woman who fears \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to be praised."}, {"pk": 2718027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 20, "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "text": "Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her works praise her in the gates."}, {"pk": 2719454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of Qoheleth, son of Dawid\u0331, sovereign in Yerushalayim.", "comment": "This Hebrew word means Assembler or Convener, an appellative. The author could have been Shelomoh, or else some post-exilic writer."}, {"pk": 2719455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFutility! Futility!\u201d says Qoheleth. \u201cFutility, futility, all is futile!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "What does man gain from all his labour in which he toils under the sun?"}, {"pk": 2719457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "A generation passes away, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever."}, {"pk": 2719458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "The sun also rises, and the sun sets, and hurries back to the place where it arose."}, {"pk": 2719459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Going to the south, and turning round to the north, turning, turning, and on its rounds the wind returns."}, {"pk": 2719460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea never overflows. To the place from which the rivers come, there they return again."}, {"pk": 2719461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "All matters are wearisome, no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."}, {"pk": 2719462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "What has been is what shall be, what has been done is what shall be done, and there is no new <i>matter</i> under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Is there a matter of which it is said, \u201cSee, this is new\u201d? It was here already, long ago."}, {"pk": 2719464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "There is no remembrance of former ones, nor is there any remembrance of those that are to come by those who come later on."}, {"pk": 2719465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "I, Qoheleth, was sovereign over Yisra\u2019\u0115l in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done under the heavens; this evil task Elohim has given to the sons of man, to be humbled by it."}, {"pk": 2719467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "The crooked could not be straightened, and what is lacking could not be counted."}, {"pk": 2719469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "So I spoke to my heart, saying, \u201cSee, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Yerushalayim. And my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And I set my heart to know wisdom \u2014 and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases suffering."}, {"pk": 2719472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "I said in my heart, \u201cCome now, let me try you with rejoicing and find out what is good.\u201d But see, that too was futile."}, {"pk": 2719473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "I said of laughter, \u201cIt is madness,\u201d and of rejoicing, \u201cWhat does it do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "I searched in my heart how to stimulate my body with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, until I could see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their lives."}, {"pk": 2719475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "I made my works great, I built myself houses, I planted vineyards for myself."}, {"pk": 2719476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "I made gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them."}, {"pk": 2719477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "I made pools of water for myself, to water from them a plantation of growing trees."}, {"pk": 2719478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "I bought male and female servants, and I came to have sons of the household. Also, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were before me in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of sovereigns and of the provinces. I provided male and female singers for myself, and the pleasures of men \u2014 a woman and women."}, {"pk": 2719480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus I became great and increased more than all who were before me in Yerushalayim. Also my wisdom remained with me."}, {"pk": 2719481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And all that my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart rejoiced in all my labour. And this was my portion from all my labour."}, {"pk": 2719482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And I turned myself to look at wisdom, and madness, and folly. For what would the man do who comes after the sovereign <i>except</i> what already has been done?"}, {"pk": 2719484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Then I saw that wisdom is better than folly, as light is better than darkness."}, {"pk": 2719485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "The wise one\u2019s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all."}, {"pk": 2719486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And I said in my heart, \u201cAs the event of the fool, even so it befalls me, and why was I then more wise?\u201d Then I said in my heart, \u201cThis also is futile.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "For there is no more lasting remembrance of the wise than of the fool, since in the days to come all is forgotten. And how does a wise man die? With the fool!"}, {"pk": 2719488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And I hated all my labour in which I had toiled under the sun, because I leave it to a man who would come after me."}, {"pk": 2719490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And who knows whether he is wise or foolish? Yet he shall rule over all my labour in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. That too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "So I turned my heart and despaired of all the labour in which I had toiled under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "For a man might labour with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he leaves his heritage to a man who has not laboured for it. That too is futile and a great evil."}, {"pk": 2719493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "For what does a man get for all his labour and strain of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?"}, {"pk": 2719494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "For all his days are sufferings, and his work grievous; even in the night his heart takes no rest. That too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "A man could do no better but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself in his labour! That too, I saw, was from the hand of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "For who eats or who finds enjoyment without Him?"}, {"pk": 2719497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give <i>to him</i> who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "For every <i>matter</i> there is an appointed time, even a time for every pursuit under the heavens:"}, {"pk": 2719499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot;"}, {"pk": 2719500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;"}, {"pk": 2719501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"}, {"pk": 2719502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;"}, {"pk": 2719503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;"}, {"pk": 2719504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;"}, {"pk": 2719505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for battle, and a time for peace."}, {"pk": 2719506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "What does the worker gain from his toil?"}, {"pk": 2719507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "I have seen the task Elohim has given to the sons of men to be humbled by it."}, {"pk": 2719508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "He has made it all, beautiful in its time. Even the ages He has put in their hearts, except that no one finds out the work that Elohim does from beginning to end."}, {"pk": 2719509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "I know that there is no good for them but to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,"}, {"pk": 2719510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is a gift of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "I know that whatever Elohim does is forever. There is no adding to it, and there is no taking from it. Elohim does it, that men should fear before Him."}, {"pk": 2719512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "Whatever is has already been, and what shall be has been before. But Elohim seeks out what has been pursued."}, {"pk": 2719513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Then again I saw under the sun: In the place of right-ruling, wrongness was there. And in the place of righteousness, wrongness was there."}, {"pk": 2719514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "I said in my heart, \u201cElohim judges the righteous and the wrong, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "I said in my heart, \u201cConcerning the matter of the sons of men, Elohim selects them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts \u2014 one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath \u2014 man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile."}, {"pk": 2719517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "All are going to one place \u2014 all came from the dust, and all return to dust."}, {"pk": 2719518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth?"}, {"pk": 2719519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "So I saw that man could do no better but to rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion. For who would bring him to see what shall be after him?"}, {"pk": 2719520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Then I looked again at all the oppression that is done under the sun: And see! The tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter; and power on the side of their oppressors, but they have no comforter."}, {"pk": 2719521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive."}, {"pk": 2719522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh."}, {"pk": 2719525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Then I looked again at futility under the sun:"}, {"pk": 2719527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. \u201cAnd for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?\u201d That too is futility, and an evil task."}, {"pk": 2719528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour."}, {"pk": 2719529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "For if they fall, one lifts his companion up. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up."}, {"pk": 2719530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Also, if two lie down together, they keep warm; but how does one keep warm <i>by himself</i>?"}, {"pk": 2719531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Although one might be overpowered, two withstand him. And a threefold cord is not readily broken."}, {"pk": 2719532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "A poor and wise youth is better than an old and foolish sovereign who no longer knows how to take warning."}, {"pk": 2719533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "For he comes out of prison to be sovereign, although in his reign he was born poor."}, {"pk": 2719534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "I have seen all the living who walk under the sun; they were with the second youth who stands in his place."}, {"pk": 2719535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "There was no end of all the people; all of whom he headed. But the ones who come afterward do not rejoice in him. For that too is futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Guard your steps when you go to the House of Elohim. And draw near to listen rather than to give the slaughtering of fools, for they do not know that they do evil."}, {"pk": 2719537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Do not be hasty with your mouth, and let not your heart hurry to bring forth a word before Elohim. For Elohim is in the heavens, and you on earth, therefore let your words be few."}, {"pk": 2719538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For a dream comes through the greatness of the task, and a fool\u2019s voice is known by his many words."}, {"pk": 2719539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "When you make a vow to Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for <i>He takes</i> no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed."}, {"pk": 2719540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay."}, {"pk": 2719541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of Elohim that it was a mistake. Why should Elohim be wroth at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?"}, {"pk": 2719542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "For in much dreaming and many words there is futility. But fear Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "If you see the oppression of the poor, and denial of right-ruling and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter. For a higher than the high is guarding, and there are higher ones over them."}, {"pk": 2719544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And the increase of the land is for all. The sovereign himself is served from the field."}, {"pk": 2719545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, <i>and</i> increase. That too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "With the increase of goods, there is an increase of those consuming them. What advantage then is there to their owners, but to look on?"}, {"pk": 2719547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Sweet is the sleep of a labourer whether he eats little or much, but the plenty of the rich does not let him sleep."}, {"pk": 2719548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "There is a sickly evil I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner, for his evil."}, {"pk": 2719549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "But those riches perish through evil use. And he brings forth a son, and there is naught in his hand."}, {"pk": 2719550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "As he came naked from his mother\u2019s womb, so he returns, to go as he came. And from his labour which goes into his hand he takes none whatsoever."}, {"pk": 2719551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And this too is a grievous evil \u2014 exactly as he came, so he goes. And what gain has he since he toiled for the wind?"}, {"pk": 2719552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "All his days he also eats in darkness, and with much sorrow and sickness and wrath."}, {"pk": 2719553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "See what I have seen: It is good and beautiful for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which Elohim gives him, for it is his portion."}, {"pk": 2719554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "Further, when Elohim has given any man riches and wealth, and permitted him to enjoy them, and to receive his portion and rejoice in his labour, this is a gift of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Though it not be much, let him remember the days of his life, because Elohim bears witness by the gladness of his heart."}, {"pk": 2719556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is great among men:"}, {"pk": 2719557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "A man to whom Elohim has given riches and wealth and esteem, so that his being lacks none at all of what he desires, but Elohim does not permit him to eat of it, and a foreigner consumes it. This is futile, and it is an evil disease."}, {"pk": 2719558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "If a man brings forth a hundred <i>children</i> and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial-place, I say that a premature birth is better than he,"}, {"pk": 2719559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "for it comes in futility and goes away in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;"}, {"pk": 2719560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "even the sun it has not seen \u2014 it has more rest than that man."}, {"pk": 2719561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he shall not see goodness. Do not all go to one place?"}, {"pk": 2719562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not satisfied."}, {"pk": 2719563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "For what advantage has the wise over the fool? What <i>advantage</i> does the poor have who knows how to walk before the living?"}, {"pk": 2719564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "What the eyes see is better than what the desire goes after. That too is futile and feeding on wind."}, {"pk": 2719565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "Whatever shall be, has already been named, and it is known that he is son of Ad\u0331am. And he is unable to contend with Him who is mightier than he."}, {"pk": 2719566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "The more words, the more futility \u2014 what is to man the advantage?"}, {"pk": 2719567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?"}, {"pk": 2719568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "A <i>good</i> name is better than precious oil, and the day of death than the day of one\u2019s birth."}, {"pk": 2719569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men. And the living take it to heart."}, {"pk": 2719570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart becomes better."}, {"pk": 2719571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2719572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for man to hear the song of fools."}, {"pk": 2719573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. That too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "For oppression makes a wise one mad, and a bribe destroys the heart."}, {"pk": 2719575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "The end of a matter is better than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."}, {"pk": 2719576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of fools."}, {"pk": 2719577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not say, \u201cWhy were the former days better than these?\u201d For it is not wise of you to have asked about this."}, {"pk": 2719578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and an advantage to those who see the sun."}, {"pk": 2719579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "For wisdom protects as silver protects, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it."}, {"pk": 2719580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "See the work of Elohim: For who is able to make straight what He has made crooked?"}, {"pk": 2719581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "Be glad in the day of prosperity, but in the evil day take note that Elohim has also appointed the one as well as the other, so that man should not uncover whatever <i>shall be</i> after him."}, {"pk": 2719582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "I have seen it all in my days of futility: There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong one living long in his evil."}, {"pk": 2719583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise \u2014 why destroy yourself?"}, {"pk": 2719584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not be wrong overmuch, and do not be a fool \u2014 why die before your time?"}, {"pk": 2719585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "It is good that you should take hold of this, and also not withhold your hand from the other. For he who fears Elohim comes forth with all of them."}, {"pk": 2719586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "Wisdom makes the wise strong, more than ten rulers that are in the city."}, {"pk": 2719587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "For there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and does not sin."}, {"pk": 2719588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "Also do not take to heart all the words they speak, lest you hear your servant cursing you."}, {"pk": 2719589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "For you know in your heart that many times you have cursed others."}, {"pk": 2719590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "All this I have proved by wisdom. I said, \u201cI am wise,\u201d but it was far from me."}, {"pk": 2719591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep \u2014 who does find it?"}, {"pk": 2719592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness."}, {"pk": 2719593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her."}, {"pk": 2719594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSee, this I have found,\u201d says Qoheleth, \u201c<i>Counting</i> one by one, to find a conclusion,"}, {"pk": 2719595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "which my being still seeks but have not found: I have found one man among a thousand, but a woman among all these I have not found."}, {"pk": 2719596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "Truly, this only I have found: that Elohim made man straight, but they have sought out many devices.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Who is like a wise one? And who knows the meaning of a matter? A man\u2019s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed."}, {"pk": 2719598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "I <i>say</i>, \u201cGuard the sovereign\u2019s command because of the oath before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Do not be in a hurry to go from his presence. Do not take a stand in an evil matter, for he does whatever he pleases.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "Where the word of a sovereign is, there is power. And who says to him, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "He who guards the command knows no evil matter. And the heart of the wise discerns both time and right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2719602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "Because for every matter there is a time and right-ruling, though the trouble of man is heavy upon him."}, {"pk": 2719603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "For he does not know what shall be; so who declares to him when it shall be?"}, {"pk": 2719604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it."}, {"pk": 2719605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil."}, {"pk": 2719606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And so I saw the wrong ones buried, and they came and went from the place of set-apartness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. That too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is filled in them to do evil."}, {"pk": 2719608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "Although a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and his <i>life</i> is prolonged, yet I know that there is good to those who fear Elohim, who fear before Him."}, {"pk": 2719609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2719610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "There is a futility which has been done on earth, that there are righteous ones who get according to the deeds of the wrong. And there are wrong ones who get according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this too is futile."}, {"pk": 2719611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore I praised enjoyment, because there is no good to man except to eat, and to drink, and to rejoice \u2014 and it remains with him in his labour for the days of his life which Elohim has given him under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,"}, {"pk": 2719613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "then I saw all the work of Elohim, that man is unable to find out the work that has been done under the sun. For though a man labours to seek, yet he does not find it. And even though a wise one claims to know, he is unable to find it."}, {"pk": 2719614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "For all this I took to heart, even to search out all this: that the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of Elohim. No man knows whether love or hatred awaits him."}, {"pk": 2719615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "It is the same for all: One event to the righteous and to the wrong; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; and to the one slaughtering and to the one not slaughtering. As is the good one, so is the sinner; the one swearing as the one fearing an oath."}, {"pk": 2719616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then \u2014 to the dead!"}, {"pk": 2719617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "But for him who is joined to all the living there is trust, for a living dog is better than a dead lion."}, {"pk": 2719618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know naught, nor do they have any more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten."}, {"pk": 2719619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy have now perished; and they no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a glad heart; for Elohim has already approved your works."}, {"pk": 2719621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "Let your garments be white at all times, and let your head lack no oil."}, {"pk": 2719622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all your days of futility. For that is your share in life, and in your toil which you have laboured under the sun."}, {"pk": 2719623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in She\u2019ol where you are going."}, {"pk": 2719624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge \u2014 for time and chance meets with them all."}, {"pk": 2719625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "For even man does not know his time. Like fish taken in an evil net, and like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it comes down on them suddenly."}, {"pk": 2719626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "Also this I saw as wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me:"}, {"pk": 2719627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "A little city, and few men in it, and a great sovereign came against it, and besieged it, and built huge siege-works against it."}, {"pk": 2719628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And there was found in it a poor wise man, and by his wisdom he delivered the city, yet no one remembered that poor man."}, {"pk": 2719629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And I said, \u201cWisdom is better than might. But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heard.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "The words of the wise, spoken calmly, should be heard rather than the shout of a ruler of fools."}, {"pk": 2719631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "Wisdom is better than weapons of conflict, but one sinner destroys much good."}, {"pk": 2719632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Dead flies make the perfumer\u2019s ointment stink, ferment; a little folly outweighs wisdom, esteem."}, {"pk": 2719633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "A wise man\u2019s heart is at his right hand, but a fool\u2019s heart at his left."}, {"pk": 2719634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And also, when a fool walks along the way, his heart fails, and he shows everyone that he is a fool."}, {"pk": 2719635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness lays to rest great faults."}, {"pk": 2719636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "There is an evil I have seen under the sun, as a mistake coming from the ruler:"}, {"pk": 2719637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "Folly is set in many high <i>positions</i>, while the rich sit in a humble place."}, {"pk": 2719638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "I have seen servants on horses \u2014 and rulers walking on the ground like servants."}, {"pk": 2719639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake."}, {"pk": 2719640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "He who quarries stones is hurt by them. He who splits wood is endangered by it."}, {"pk": 2719641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "If an iron tool is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, then he needs more strength, and wisdom is advantageous to make right."}, {"pk": 2719642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "If the snake bites without enchantment, then \u2018the master of the tongue\u2019 is no better!"}, {"pk": 2719643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Words of a wise man\u2019s mouth show favour, but the lips of a fool swallow him up;"}, {"pk": 2719644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "the beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness."}, {"pk": 2719645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And a fool increases words; a man knows not what shall come to be; and who declares to him what shall be after him?"}, {"pk": 2719646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "The labour of fools wearies them, because not one knows how to go to the city!"}, {"pk": 2719647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Woe to you, O land, when your sovereign is a youth, and your rulers feast in the morning!"}, {"pk": 2719648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "Blessed are you, O land, when your sovereign is the son of nobles, and your rulers feast in due season \u2014 for strength and not for drunkenness!"}, {"pk": 2719649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "Because of laziness the framework tumbles, and through idleness of hands the house leaks."}, {"pk": 2719650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "A feast is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life; and the silver answers all."}, {"pk": 2719651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "Do not curse the sovereign, even in your thought; do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; for a bird of the heavens conveys the voice, and a bird in flight makes the matter known."}, {"pk": 2719652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "Send out your bread on the face of the waters, for after many days you shall find it."}, {"pk": 2719653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "Give a portion to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil might be on the earth."}, {"pk": 2719654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "If the clouds are filled with rain, they empty themselves upon the earth. And if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it is."}, {"pk": 2719655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "He who watches the wind does not sow, and he who looks at the clouds does not reap."}, {"pk": 2719656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of Elohim who makes all."}, {"pk": 2719657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "Sow your seed in the morning, and until evening do not let your hand rest; since you do not know which prosper, this or that, or whether both alike are good."}, {"pk": 2719658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Sweet also is the light, and good for the eyes to see the sun;"}, {"pk": 2719659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "But if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they are many. All that is coming is futility."}, {"pk": 2719660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart gladden you in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these Elohim brings you into right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2719661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for youth and dawn of life are futility."}, {"pk": 2719662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near when you say, \u201cI have no pleasure in them\u201d:"}, {"pk": 2719663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "Before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;"}, {"pk": 2719664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men shall bow down; when the grinders shall cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows shall become dim;"}, {"pk": 2719665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "and the doors shall be shut in the streets, and the sound of grinding is low; and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are bowed down;"}, {"pk": 2719666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "furthermore, they are afraid of what is high, and of low places in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden, and desire perishes. For man is going to his everlasting home, and the mourners shall go about the streets."}, {"pk": 2719667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>Remember Him</i> before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the jar shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the well,"}, {"pk": 2719668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it."}, {"pk": 2719669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFutility! Futility!\u201d said the Qoheleth, \u201cAll is futile.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And besides being wise, Qoheleth also taught the people knowledge, and he listened and sought out \u2014 set in order many proverbs."}, {"pk": 2719671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "Qoheleth sought to find out words of delight, and words of truth, rightly written."}, {"pk": 2719672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "The words of the wise are like goads, and as nails driven by the masters of collections \u2014 they were given by one Shepherd."}, {"pk": 2719673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And besides these, my son, be warned \u2014 the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh."}, {"pk": 2719674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this <i>applies to</i> all mankind!"}, {"pk": 2719675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 21, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "For Elohim shall bring every work into right-ruling, including all that is hidden, whether good or whether evil."}, {"pk": 2719098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The song of songs, which is Shelomoh\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2719099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, For your <i>carnal</i>-love are better than wine."}, {"pk": 2719100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "For fragrance your oils are good. Your name is oil poured forth, Therefore the young women love you.", "comment": "See Eccl. <a href='/TS2009/21/7/1'>7:1</a><br>See Explanatory Notes \"Maiden\""}, {"pk": 2719101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Draw me! We run after you. The sovereign has brought me into his inner rooms. We exult and rejoice in you. We praise your <i>carnal</i>-love more than wine. Rightly do they love you."}, {"pk": 2719102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Yerushalayim, Like the tents of Q\u0115d\u0331ar, Like the curtains of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2719103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not look upon me, because I am dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother\u2019s sons were displeased with me. They made me the keeper of the vineyards, My own vineyard I have not kept."}, {"pk": 2719104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Make known to me, O you whom my being loves, Where you feed <i>your flock</i>, Where you make it rest at noon. For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions?"}, {"pk": 2719105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "If you do not know, O beautiful among women, Go in the footsteps of the flock, And feed your little goats beside the shepherds\u2019 dwellings."}, {"pk": 2719106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "I have compared you, my love, To my filly among Pharaoh\u2019s chariots."}, {"pk": 2719107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Your cheeks are pretty with ornaments, Your neck with strings of beads."}, {"pk": 2719108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Let us make you ornaments of gold with studs of silver."}, {"pk": 2719109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "While the sovereign is at his table, My nard shall give its fragrance."}, {"pk": 2719110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "My beloved is a bundle of myrrh to me, Lying between my breasts."}, {"pk": 2719111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms In the vineyards of \u011an Ged\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2719112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "See, you are beautiful, my love! See, you are beautiful! Your eyes are as doves."}, {"pk": 2719113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "See, you are handsome, my beloved! Yes, pleasant! Also our bed is green."}, {"pk": 2719114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "The beams of our houses are cedar, our rafters are of fir."}, {"pk": 2719115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys."}, {"pk": 2719116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "Like a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters."}, {"pk": 2719117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the sons. I delighted in his shade and sat down, And his fruit was sweet to my taste."}, {"pk": 2719118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "He brought me to the house of wine, And his banner over me was love."}, {"pk": 2719119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cStrengthen me with raisin cakes, Refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me."}, {"pk": 2719121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "I have put you under oath, O daughters of Yerushalayim, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases."}, {"pk": 2719122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "The voice of my beloved! See, he is coming, Leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills."}, {"pk": 2719123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "My beloved is like a gazelle or like a young stag. See, he is standing behind our wall, Looking through the windows, Peering through the lattice."}, {"pk": 2719124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "My beloved responded and said to me, \u201cRise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away."}, {"pk": 2719125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor look, the winter is past, the rain is over, gone."}, {"pk": 2719126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThe flowers have appeared in the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land."}, {"pk": 2719127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe fig tree has ripened her figs, And the vines with the tender grapes have given a good fragrance. Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away!"}, {"pk": 2719128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cO my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covering of the cliff, Let me see your appearance, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your appearance is lovely.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that spoil the vines, And our vines are all blossom."}, {"pk": 2719130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "My beloved is mine, and I am his. <i>He feeds</i> his flock among the lilies."}, {"pk": 2719131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Until the day breaks and the shadows have fled, Turn, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of Bether."}, {"pk": 2719132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "On my bed at night I sought the beloved of my being; I sought him, but I did not find him."}, {"pk": 2719133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cCome, let me arise, and go about the city, In the streets and in the broad places I seek the beloved of my being.\u201d I sought him, but I did not find him."}, {"pk": 2719134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "The watchmen who go about the city found me, to whom I said, \u201cHave you seen the beloved of my being?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Scarcely had I passed by them, When I found the beloved of my being. I held him and would not let him go, Until I had brought him to the house of my mother, And into the room of her who conceived me."}, {"pk": 2719136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "I have put you under oath, O daughters of Yerushalayim, By the gazelles or by the does of the field, Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases."}, {"pk": 2719137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Who is this coming out of the wilderness Like columns of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, From all the merchant\u2019s fragrant powders?"}, {"pk": 2719138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "See, it is Shelomoh\u2019s couch \u2014 Sixty mighty men are around it, Of the mighty men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2719139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "All of them holding swords, Skilled in battle, Each one has his sword on his thigh Because of fear in the night."}, {"pk": 2719140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Sovereign Shelomoh made himself A litter of the wood of Leb\u0331anon;"}, {"pk": 2719141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "He made its posts of silver, Its support of gold, its seat of purple, Within it was decked with love By the daughters of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Go forth, O daughters of Tsiyon, And see Sovereign Shelomoh with the crown With which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, And on the day of his gladness of heart."}, {"pk": 2719143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "See, you are beautiful, my love! See, you are beautiful! Your eyes are as doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, Going down from Mount Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Your teeth are like a flock of shorn <i>sheep</i> Which have come up from the washing, All of them bear twins, and not one loses her young."}, {"pk": 2719145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "Your lips are like a cord of scarlet, And your speech is lovely. Your cheeks behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate."}, {"pk": 2719146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Your neck is like the tower of Dawid\u0331, Built for an armoury, On which hang a thousand shields, All the armour of mighty men."}, {"pk": 2719147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle, pasturing among the lilies."}, {"pk": 2719148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Until the day breaks and the shadows have fled, I shall go my way to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill of frankincense."}, {"pk": 2719149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "You are all beautiful, my love, and not a blemish is on you."}, {"pk": 2719150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Come with me from Leb\u0331anon, My bride, with me from Leb\u0331anon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Shenir and H\u0323ermon, From the dens of lions, From the mountains of the leopards."}, {"pk": 2719151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "You have put heart into me, My sister, my bride; You have put heart into me With one <i>glance</i> of your eyes, With one bead of your necklace."}, {"pk": 2719152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "How beautiful have been your <i>carnal</i>-love, My sister, my bride! How much better than wine is your <i>carnal</i>-love, And the fragrance of your perfumes than all spices!"}, {"pk": 2719153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Your lips, O my bride, drip as the honeycomb; Honey and milk are under your tongue. And the fragrance of your garments Is like the fragrance of Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2719154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "A garden locked is my sister, my bride, A fountain locked, a spring sealed up."}, {"pk": 2719155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits, With henna, nard,"}, {"pk": 2719156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Nard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices;"}, {"pk": 2719157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "A garden spring, A well of living waters, And streams from Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2719158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow out. Let my beloved come to his garden And eat its pleasant fruits."}, {"pk": 2719159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "I have come to my garden, My sister, my bride; I have plucked my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends! Drink, and drink deeply, O beloved ones!"}, {"pk": 2719160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "I was sleeping, But my heart was awake \u2014 the voice of my beloved! He knocks, \u201cOpen for me, my sister, My love, my dove, my perfect one; For my head is drenched with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "I have taken off my robe, should I put it on? I have washed my feet, should I dirty them?"}, {"pk": 2719162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "My beloved put his hand by the latch, And my feelings were deeply moved for him."}, {"pk": 2719163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "I rose to open for my beloved, And my hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with flowing myrrh, On the handles of the lock."}, {"pk": 2719164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "I opened for my beloved, But my beloved had turned away, had gone. My being went out when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer."}, {"pk": 2719165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they bruised me; The keepers of the walls lifted my veil from me."}, {"pk": 2719166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "I have put you under oath, O daughters of Yerushalayim, If you find my beloved, That you inform him that I am faint with love!"}, {"pk": 2719167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "What kind of a beloved is your beloved, O beautiful among women? What kind of a beloved is your beloved, That you have put us under oath?"}, {"pk": 2719168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "My beloved is dazzling and ruddy, Chief among ten thousand."}, {"pk": 2719169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "His head is refined gold; His locks are wavy, black as a raven."}, {"pk": 2719170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "His eyes are like doves by streams of waters, Washed with milk, and fitly set."}, {"pk": 2719171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "His cheeks are like a bed of spices, Raised bed of scented plants. His lips are lilies, dripping flowing myrrh."}, {"pk": 2719172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "His hands are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is carved ivory, covered with sapphires."}, {"pk": 2719173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "His legs are columns of marble Founded on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Leb\u0331anon, Choice as the cedars."}, {"pk": 2719174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "His mouth is most sweet, And he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Yerushalayim!"}, {"pk": 2719175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhere has your beloved gone, O beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned aside? Let us seek him with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed <i>his flock</i> in the gardens, And to gather lilies."}, {"pk": 2719177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "I am my beloved\u2019s, and my beloved is mine. He feeds <i>his flock</i> among the lilies."}, {"pk": 2719178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirtsah, Lovely as Yerushalayim, Awesome as an army with banners!"}, {"pk": 2719179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Turn your eyes away from me, Because they overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats That have hopped down from Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2719180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Your teeth are like a flock of sheep That have come up from the washing; All of them bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young."}, {"pk": 2719181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Your cheeks behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate."}, {"pk": 2719182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "There are sixty sovereignesses and eighty concubines, And innumerable young women."}, {"pk": 2719183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, the only one of her mother, The choice of the one who bore her. The daughters saw, and called her blessed, Sovereignesses and concubines, And they praised her."}, {"pk": 2719184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "Who is she who shines forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?"}, {"pk": 2719185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "I went down to the garden of nuts To see the budding of the wadi, To see whether the vine had budded and the pomegranates had bloomed."}, {"pk": 2719186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "I did not know, my desire made me as the chariots of my noble people."}, {"pk": 2719187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Return, return, O Shulammith; Return, return, and let us look upon you! Why should you look upon the Shulammith, As it were the dance of two armies?"}, {"pk": 2719188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O daughter of a noble! The curves of your thighs are like ornaments, The work of a craftsman\u2019s hands."}, {"pk": 2719189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Your navel is a rounded bowl Let it not lack mixed wine. Your body is a heap of wheat, Hedged about with lilies."}, {"pk": 2719190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle."}, {"pk": 2719191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "Your neck is like an ivory tower, Your eyes pools in H\u0323eshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Leb\u0331anon looking to Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2719192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Your head upon you is like Mount Karmel, And the hair of your head like purple; The sovereign is held captive by the ringlets."}, {"pk": 2719193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "How beautiful and how pleasant you are, O love, in delights!"}, {"pk": 2719194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "This stature of yours compares to a palm tree, And your breasts to clusters."}, {"pk": 2719195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "I said, \u201cLet me go up to the palm tree, Let me take hold of its tips.\u201d And please, let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of your breath like apples,"}, {"pk": 2719196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And your palate like the best wine, Going down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently, slumbering lips."}, {"pk": 2719197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "I am my beloved\u2019s, and his desire is toward me."}, {"pk": 2719198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field; Let us stay in the villages."}, {"pk": 2719199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded, The grape blossoms have opened, The pomegranates have bloomed. There I give you my <i>carnal</i>-loves."}, {"pk": 2719200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "The love-apples have given fragrance, And at our gates are all pleasant <i>fruit</i>, New and old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved."}, {"pk": 2719201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Who would make you a brother to me, Who nursed at my mother\u2019s breasts! Should I find you outside, I would kiss you; I would not be despised."}, {"pk": 2719202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "I would lead you, I would bring you into the house of my mother, She who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, Of the juice of my pomegranate."}, {"pk": 2719203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "His left hand is under my head, And his right hand embraces me."}, {"pk": 2719204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "I have put you under oath, O daughters of Yerushalayim, Do not stir up or awake love until it pleases."}, {"pk": 2719205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labour with you; There she was in labour, gave birth to you."}, {"pk": 2719206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as She\u2019ol; Its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah!"}, {"pk": 2719207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "Many waters are unable to extinguish love, And floods do not wash it away. If one would give all the wealth of his house for love, It would be utterly scorned."}, {"pk": 2719208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What do we do for our sister in the day when she is spoken for?"}, {"pk": 2719209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "If she is a wall, we build upon her a battlement of silver. And if she is a door, we would enclose her with boards of cedar."}, {"pk": 2719210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; So I became in his eyes as one who found peace."}, {"pk": 2719211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "Shelomoh had a vineyard in Ba\u201bal Hamon; He let out the vineyard to keepers; Each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver."}, {"pk": 2719212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "My own vineyard is before me. O Shelomoh, a thousand belongs to you, And two hundred to those who keep its fruit."}, {"pk": 2719213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "You who sit in the gardens, The companions listen for your voice; Let me hear it!"}, {"pk": 2719214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 22, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "Hurry, my beloved, And be like a gazelle or a young stag On the mountains of spices."}, {"pk": 2709316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziyahu, Yotham, Ah\u0323az, H\u0323izqiyahu \u2014 sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2709317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken, \u201cI have reared and brought up children, but they have transgressed against Me."}, {"pk": 2709318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master\u2019s crib \u2014 Yisra\u2019\u0115l does not know, My people have not understood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness, a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they have provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, they went backward."}, {"pk": 2709320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Why should you be stricken any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints."}, {"pk": 2709321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it \u2014 wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment."}, {"pk": 2709322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers."}, {"pk": 2709323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city."}, {"pk": 2709324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Unless \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Sed\u0331om, we would have been made like Amorah."}, {"pk": 2709325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you rulers of Sed\u0331om; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah!", "comment": "\u201cWord\u201d and \u201cTorah\u201d (teaching) are used as synonyms.<br>\u201cWord\u201d and \u201cTorah\u201d (teaching) are used as synonyms."}, {"pk": 2709326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cOf what use to Me are your many slaughterings?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cI have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats."}, {"pk": 2709327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards?"}, {"pk": 2709328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cStop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New <i>Moons</i>, Sabbaths, the calling of gatherings \u2014 I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly."}, {"pk": 2709329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cMy being hates your New <i>Moons</i> and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them."}, {"pk": 2709330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood."}, {"pk": 2709331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!"}, {"pk": 2709332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cLearn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow."}, {"pk": 2709333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cCome now, and let us reason together,\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cThough your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool."}, {"pk": 2709334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cIf you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land;"}, {"pk": 2709335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,\u201d for the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2709336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers."}, {"pk": 2709337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water."}, {"pk": 2709338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them."}, {"pk": 2709339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore the Master declares, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Mighty One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cAh, I shall be eased of My adversaries, and I shall be avenged of My enemies."}, {"pk": 2709340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall turn My hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove all your alloy."}, {"pk": 2709341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give back your judges as at the first, and your counsellors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "Tsiyon shall be ransomed with right-ruling, and her returning ones with righteousness."}, {"pk": 2709343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And the destruction of transgressors and of sinners is together, and those who forsake \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be consumed."}, {"pk": 2709344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired. And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen."}, {"pk": 2709345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water."}, {"pk": 2709346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish."}, {"pk": 2709347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that Yeshayahu the son of Amots saw concerning Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim:"}, {"pk": 2709348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it."}, {"pk": 2709349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And many peoples shall come and say, \u201cCome, and let us go up to the mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the House of the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And He shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither teach battle any more."}, {"pk": 2709351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "O house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, come and let us walk in the light of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, because they have been filled from the East, and practise magic like the Philistines, and they are pleased with the children of foreigners."}, {"pk": 2709353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures. And their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots."}, {"pk": 2709354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And their land is filled with idols; they bow themselves to the work of their own hands, to what their own fingers have made."}, {"pk": 2709355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And the lowly bows down, and the high is humbled; therefore You do not forgive them."}, {"pk": 2709356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, because of the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the splendour of His excellency."}, {"pk": 2709357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the pride of men shall be bowed down, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 alone shall be exalted in that day."}, {"pk": 2709358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up, so that it is brought low;"}, {"pk": 2709359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "and against all the cedars of Leb\u0331anon that are high and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan;"}, {"pk": 2709360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "and against all the high mountains, and against all the hills that are lifted up;"}, {"pk": 2709361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "and against every lofty tower, and against every strong wall;"}, {"pk": 2709362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the desirable craft."}, {"pk": 2709363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the pride of men shall be brought low. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 alone shall be exalted in that day,"}, {"pk": 2709364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "and the idols completely pass away."}, {"pk": 2709365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from dread of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the splendour of His excellency, when He arises to shake the earth mightily."}, {"pk": 2709366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "In that day man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and bats,"}, {"pk": 2709367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crags of the rugged rocks, because of the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the splendour of His excellency, when He arises to shake the earth mightily."}, {"pk": 2709368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he to be reckoned upon?"}, {"pk": 2709369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "For look, the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, is turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehud\u0331ah the stock and the store, all the supply of bread and all the supply of water;"}, {"pk": 2709370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "the mighty man and the man of battle, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder;"}, {"pk": 2709371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "the commander of fifty and the highly respected man, and the counsellor and the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter."}, {"pk": 2709372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make youths their heads, and children shall rule over them."}, {"pk": 2709373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And the people shall exert pressure, man on man, man on his neighbour; the young rise up against the older, and the lightly esteemed against the highly esteemed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "When a man takes hold of his brother in the house of his father, by the garment, <i>and says</i>, \u201cCome, be a chief over us, and let this ruin be under your hand,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "he shall swear in that day, saying, \u201cI am not a healer, for in my house is neither bread nor garment; do not make me a chief of the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehud\u0331ah has fallen, because their tongue and their doings are against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to provoke the eyes of His esteem."}, {"pk": 2709377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "The look on their faces witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sed\u0331om; they do not hide it. Woe to their being! For they have brought evil upon themselves."}, {"pk": 2709378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSay to the righteous it is well, for they eat the fruit of their doings."}, {"pk": 2709379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWoe to the wrong \u2014 evil! For the reward of his hand is done to him."}, {"pk": 2709380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cMy people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead <i>you</i> astray, and swallow the way of your paths.\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/9/16'>9:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2709381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall stand up to plead, and is standing to judge the peoples."}, {"pk": 2709382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, \u201cIt is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses."}, {"pk": 2709383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhat do you mean by crushing My people and grinding the faces of the poor?\u201d declares the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 says, \u201cBecause the daughters of Tsiyon are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,"}, {"pk": 2709385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Tsiyon, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 expose their nakedness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "In that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes away the finery of the anklets, and the headbands, and the crescents,"}, {"pk": 2709387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "the pendants, the bracelets and the veils,"}, {"pk": 2709388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "the headdresses, and the leg ornaments, and the sashes, and the perfume bottles, and the amulets,"}, {"pk": 2709389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "the rings, and the nose jewels,"}, {"pk": 2709390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "the costly robes, and the cloaks, and the shawls, and the purses,"}, {"pk": 2709391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "the mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the large veils."}, {"pk": 2709392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And it shall be: Instead of a sweet fragrance, a smell of decay; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of loveliness."}, {"pk": 2709393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "Your men shall fall by the sword, and your strength in battle."}, {"pk": 2709394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, deserted, shall sit on the ground."}, {"pk": 2709395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, \u201cWe shall eat our own food and wear our own clothes; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "In that day the Branch of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be splendid and esteemed. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for the escaped ones of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/32'>2:32</a>; Obad. <a href='/TS2009/31/1/17'>1:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2709397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And it shall be that he who is left in Tsiyon and he who remains in Yerushalayim is called set-apart, everyone who is written among the living in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has washed away the filth of the daughters of Tsiyon, and rinsed away the blood of Yerushalayim from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,"}, {"pk": 2709399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall create above every dwelling place of Mount Tsiyon, and above her gatherings, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the esteem shall be a covering,"}, {"pk": 2709400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "and a booth for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain."}, {"pk": 2709401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Please let me sing to the One I love, a song for my loved One regarding His vineyard: my loved One has a vineyard on a fertile hill."}, {"pk": 2709402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And He dug it up and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a watchtower in its midst, and also made a winepress in it. And He waited for the yielding of grapes, but it yielded rotten ones."}, {"pk": 2709403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O inhabitant of Yerushalayim and man of Yehud\u0331ah, please judge between Me and My vineyard."}, {"pk": 2709404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhat more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?"}, {"pk": 2709405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now, please let Me inform you what I am doing to My vineyard: To take away its hedge and it shall be burned; to break down its wall and it shall be trampled down;"}, {"pk": 2709406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "and I lay it waste; it is not pruned or dug and thornbushes and weeds shall come up; and I command the clouds not to rain on it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "For the vineyard of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and the man of Yehud\u0331ah is His pleasant plant. He looked for right-ruling, but see, oppression; for righteousness, but see, weeping."}, {"pk": 2709408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!"}, {"pk": 2709409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "In my hearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts <i>said</i>, \u201cTruly, many houses shall be a waste \u2014 big and fine ones, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2709410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, and a h\u0323omer of seed yields one \u0115phah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Woe to those who rise early in the morning pursuing strong drink, who stay up late at night \u2014 wine inflames them!"}, {"pk": 2709412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And the lyre and the harp, the tambourine and flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor see the work of His hands."}, {"pk": 2709413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore my people have gone into exile, because they have no knowledge. And their esteemed men are starved, and their crowd dried up with thirst."}, {"pk": 2709414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore She\u2019ol has made itself wide and opened its mouth without law. Their splendour and their crowd and their uproar, and he who is exulting within her, shall go down into it."}, {"pk": 2709415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And man is bowed down, and mortal man humbled, and the eyes of the proud are humbled."}, {"pk": 2709416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is exalted in judgment, and the set-apart \u011al is set-apart in righteousness."}, {"pk": 2709417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and strangers shall eat in the waste places of the fat ones."}, {"pk": 2709418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "Woe to those who draw crookedness with cords of falsehood, and sin as with wagon ropes,"}, {"pk": 2709419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "who are saying, \u201cLet Him hurry! Let Him hasten His work, so that we see it! And let the counsel of the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l draw near and come, so that we know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"}, {"pk": 2709421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight!", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/7'>3:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2709422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "Woe to the mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink,"}, {"pk": 2709423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "who declare right the wrong for a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him!"}, {"pk": 2709424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, their root is as rottenness, and their blossom goes up like dust \u2014 because they have rejected the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, and despised the Word of the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "Therefore the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has burned against His people, and He stretches out His hand against them and strikes them, and the mountains tremble. And their carcass is as filth in the middle of the streets. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out!"}, {"pk": 2709426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "And He shall lift up a banner to the nations from afar, and shall whistle to them from the end of the earth. And see, they come with speed, swiftly!"}, {"pk": 2709427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "Not one of them is weary or stumbling, not one slumbers or sleeps. Not a belt shall be loosened on their loins, nor the thong of their sandals be broken."}, {"pk": 2709428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses\u2019 hooves shall seem like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind."}, {"pk": 2709429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "Their roar is like that of a lion, they roar like young lions. And they growl and seize prey, and slip away, with no one to rescue."}, {"pk": 2709430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "And in that day they shall growl over it as with the growling of the sea. And one shall look at the earth, and see, darkness and distress! And light shall be darkened by the clouds."}, {"pk": 2709431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "In the year that Sovereign Uzziyahu died, I saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2709432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Above it stood seraphim. Each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew."}, {"pk": 2709433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And one cried to another and said, \u201cSet-apart, set-apart, set-apart is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts; all the earth is filled with His esteem!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke."}, {"pk": 2709435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And I said, \u201cWoe to me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips \u2014 for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2709437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And he touched my mouth with it, and said, \u201cSee, this has touched your lips; your crookedness is taken away, and your sin is covered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And I heard the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201cWhom do I send, and who would go for Us?\u201d And I said, \u201cHere am I! Send me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said, \u201cGo, and you shall say to this people, \u2018Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cMake the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Then I said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, until when?\u201d And He answered, \u201cUntil the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land is laid waste, a ruin,"}, {"pk": 2709442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land."}, {"pk": 2709443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The set-apart seed is its stump!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the days of Ah\u0323az son of Yotham, son of Uzziyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, that Retsin sovereign of Aram and Peqah\u0323 son of Remalyahu, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, went up to Yerushalayim to fight against it, but could not prevail against it."}, {"pk": 2709445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And it was reported to the house of Dawid\u0331, saying, \u201cAram has set up camp in Ephrayim.\u201d And his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind."}, {"pk": 2709446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Yeshayahu, \u201cGo out now to meet Ah\u0323az, you and She\u2019ar-Yashub\u0331 your son, at the end of the channel of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer\u2019s Field,"}, {"pk": 2709447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "and say to him, \u2018Take heed, and be calm; do not fear or be faint-hearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce displeasure of Retsin and Aram, and the son of Remalyahu."}, {"pk": 2709448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Because Aram, Ephrayim, and the son of Remalyahu have plotted evil against you, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLet us go up against Yehud\u0331ah and tear it apart, and break it open for ourselves, and set a sovereign over them, the son of Tab\u0331e\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIt is not going to stand, nor shall it take place."}, {"pk": 2709451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor the head of Aram is Dammeseq, and the head of Dammeseq is Retsin. And within sixty-five years Ephrayim is to be broken as a people."}, {"pk": 2709452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the head of Ephrayim is Shomeron, and the head of Shomeron is the son of Remalyahu. If you do not believe, you are not steadfast.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke again to Ah\u0323az, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAsk a sign for yourself from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim; make deep the request or make it high.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "But Ah\u0323az said, \u201cI do not ask nor try \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said, \u201cHear now, O house of Dawid\u0331! Is it not enough that you weary men, that you weary my Elohim also?"}, {"pk": 2709457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Himself gives you a sign: Look, the \u2018almah\u2019 conceives and gives birth to a son, and shall call His Name Immanu\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "Virgin/young woman. See Explanatory Notes \"Maiden\"<br>\u011al with us."}, {"pk": 2709458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cHe eats curds and honey when He knows to refuse evil and choose the good."}, {"pk": 2709459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor before the child knows to refuse evil and choose the good, the land that you dread is to be forsaken by both her sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2709460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings on you and your people and your father\u2019s house days that have not come since the day that Ephrayim turned away from Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And it shall be in that day that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 whistles for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Mitsrayim, and for the bee that is in the land of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And they shall come, and all of them shall rest in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all weeds and in all pastures."}, {"pk": 2709463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "In that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall shave with a razor hired beyond the River \u2014 with the sovereign of Ashshur \u2014 the head and the hair of the legs, and also remove the beard."}, {"pk": 2709464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And it shall be in that day that a man keeps alive a young cow and two sheep."}, {"pk": 2709465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And it shall be, that he shall eat curds because of the plenty milk he gets, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds."}, {"pk": 2709466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand sheqels of silver, let it be for thornbushes and weeds."}, {"pk": 2709467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "With arrows and bows one shall go there, because all the land shall be thornbushes and weeds."}, {"pk": 2709468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And to all the hills which were tilled with the hoe, you do not go for fear of thornbushes and weeds; but it shall be for sending oxen to, and a place for sheep to roam."}, {"pk": 2709469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cTake a large tablet, and write on it with a man\u2019s pen concerning Mah\u0115r-Shalal-H\u0323ash-Baz."}, {"pk": 2709470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd let Me take reliable witnesses to record, Uriyah the priest and Zek\u0331aryahu son of Yeb\u0331erek\u0331yahu.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cCall his name Mah\u0115r-Shalal-H\u0323ash-Baz;"}, {"pk": 2709472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "for before the child knows to cry \u2018My father\u2019 and \u2018My mother,\u2019 the riches of Dammeseq and the spoil of Shomeron is taken away before the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to me again, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cInasmuch as these people refused the waters of Shiloah\u0323 that flow softly, and rejoice in Retsin and in Remalyahu\u2019s son;"}, {"pk": 2709475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "now therefore, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brings up over them the waters of the River, strong and mighty \u2014 the sovereign of Ashshur and all his esteem. And he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks."}, {"pk": 2709476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall pass through Yehud\u0331ah, he shall overflow and pass over, reaching up to the neck. And the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBe shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Give ear, all you from the far places of the earth. Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces."}, {"pk": 2709478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTake counsel, and it comes to naught; speak a word, and it does not stand, for \u011al is with us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2709480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cDo not say, \u2018A conspiracy,\u2019 concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, nor be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled."}, {"pk": 2709481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Him you shall set apart. Let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread."}, {"pk": 2709482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall be for a set-apart place, but a stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling to both the houses of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and snared and taken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "Bind up the witness, seal the Torah among my taught ones."}, {"pk": 2709485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And I shall wait on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who hides His face from the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331. And I shall look for Him."}, {"pk": 2709486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "Look, I and the children whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given me \u2014 for signs and wonders in Yisra\u2019\u0115l from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, who dwells in Mount Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2709487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "And when they say to you, \u201cSeek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,\u201d should not a people seek their Elohim? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?"}, {"pk": 2709488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "To the Torah and to the witness! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no daybreak.", "comment": "Or <em>light</em>."}, {"pk": 2709489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And they shall pass through it hard pressed and hungry. And it shall be, when they are hungry, that they shall be wroth and curse their sovereign and their Elohim, looking upward."}, {"pk": 2709490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And they shall look to the earth and see distress and darkness, gloom of hard times, and be driven into thick darkness."}, {"pk": 2709491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "But there is no gloom upon her who is distressed, as when at first He humbled the land of Zeb\u0331ulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yard\u0115n, in Galil of the nations."}, {"pk": 2709492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "The people who were walking in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has shone."}, {"pk": 2709493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "You shall increase the nation; You shall make its joy great. They shall rejoice before You, as in the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil."}, {"pk": 2709494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "For You shall break the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Mid\u0331yan."}, {"pk": 2709495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "For every boot of one trampling in tumult, and coat rolled in blood, shall be used for burning and fuel of fire."}, {"pk": 2709496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "For a Child is born unto us, a Son is given unto us, and the rule is on His shoulder. And His Name is called Wonder, Counsellor, Strong \u011al, Father of Continuity, Prince of Peace."}, {"pk": 2709497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Of the increase of His rule and peace there is no end, upon the throne of Dawid\u0331 and over His reign, to establish it and sustain it with right-ruling and with righteousness from now on, even forever. The ardour of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts does this.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/16/5'>16:5</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/1'>2</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/45/6'>45:6</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/5/2'>5:2</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/1/32'>1:32</a>, <a href='/TS2009/42/1/33'>33</a>"}, {"pk": 2709498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent a word against Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and it has fallen on Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And the people shall know, all of them, Ephrayim and the inhabitant of Shomeron, who say in pride and greatness of heart:"}, {"pk": 2709500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThe bricks have fallen down, but we rebuild with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we replace them with cedars.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set up the adversaries of Retsin against him, and stirred up his enemies,"}, {"pk": 2709502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "the Arameans before and the Philistines behind. And they devour Yisra\u2019\u0115l with an open mouth. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out."}, {"pk": 2709503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And the people have not turned back to Him who strikes them, nor have they sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 cuts off head and tail from Yisra\u2019\u0115l, palm branch and reed in one day."}, {"pk": 2709505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "Elder and highly respected, he is the head; the prophet who teaches falsehood, he is the tail."}, {"pk": 2709506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "For the leaders of this people lead <i>them</i> astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/3/12'>3:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2709507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out."}, {"pk": 2709508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "For wrongness burns as the fire; it consumes thornbushes and weeds, and sets the bushes of the forest ablaze, and they roll up like rising smoke."}, {"pk": 2709509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "The land shall be burned up by the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, and the people be as fuel for the fire. A man shall not spare his brother,"}, {"pk": 2709510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "and cut down on the right hand, but shall be hungry; and he devours on the left hand, but shall not be satisfied; each one devouring the flesh of his own arm:"}, {"pk": 2709511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Menashsheh Ephrayim, and Ephrayim Menashsheh; together they are against Yehud\u0331ah. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out."}, {"pk": 2709512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWoe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil,"}, {"pk": 2709513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder."}, {"pk": 2709514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cWhat shall you do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which comes from afar? To whom would you run for help? And where would you leave your wealth?"}, {"pk": 2709515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWithout Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, and fall among the killed.\u201d With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out."}, {"pk": 2709516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWoe to Ashshur, the rod of My displeasure and the staff in whose hand is My displeasure."}, {"pk": 2709517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAgainst a defiled nation I send him, and against the people of My wrath I command him to seize the spoil, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mud of the streets."}, {"pk": 2709518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut he does not intend so, nor does his heart think so, for it is in his heart to destroy, and cut off not a few nations."}, {"pk": 2709519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor he says, \u2018Are not my princes sovereigns?"}, {"pk": 2709520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Is not Kalno like Karkemish? Is not H\u0323amath like Arpad\u0331? Is not Shomeron like Dammeseq?"}, {"pk": 2709521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "As my hand has found the reigns of the idols, whose carved images excelled those of Yerushalayim and Shomeron,"}, {"pk": 2709522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "as I have done to Shomeron and her idols, do I not do also to Yerushalayim and her idols?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has performed all His work on Mount Tsiyon and on Yerushalayim, that I shall punish the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur, and the boasting of his haughty looks."}, {"pk": 2709524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor he has said, \u2018By the power of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have been clever. And I remove the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasuries. And I put down the inhabitants like a strong one."}, {"pk": 2709525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And my hand finds the riches of the people like a nest. And I have gathered all the earth like forsaken eggs are gathered. And there was no one who moved his wing, nor opened his mouth with even a peep.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!"}, {"pk": 2709527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, sends leanness among his fat ones. And under his esteem he kindles a burning like the burning of a fire."}, {"pk": 2709528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Light of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be for a fire, and his Set-apart One for a flame. And it shall burn and devour his weeds and his thornbushes in one day,"}, {"pk": 2709529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "and consume the esteem of his forest and of his fertile field, both life and flesh. And they shall be as when a sick man wastes away,"}, {"pk": 2709530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "and the remaining trees of his forest shall be so few in number that a child records them."}, {"pk": 2709531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And in that day it shall be that the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and those who have escaped of the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, never again lean upon him who struck them, but shall lean upon \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in truth."}, {"pk": 2709532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "A remnant shall return, the remnant of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to the Mighty \u011al."}, {"pk": 2709533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "For though your people, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return \u2014 a decisive end, overflowing with righteousness."}, {"pk": 2709534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "For the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is making a complete end, as decided, in the midst of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2709535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cMy people, who dwell in Tsiyon, be not afraid of Ashshur, who struck you with a rod and lifts up his staff against you, in the way of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2709536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor yet a little while and the displeasure shall be completed, and My displeasure be to their destruction.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts stirs up a lash for him as the smiting of Mid\u0331yan at the rock of Or\u0115b\u0331. And as His rod was on the sea, so shall He lift it up in the way of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2709538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And in that day it shall be that his burden is removed from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil."}, {"pk": 2709539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "He has come upon Ayath, he has passed Mi\u1e21ron. At Mik\u0331mash he stored his supplies."}, {"pk": 2709540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "They have gone through the pass, they have taken up lodging at Geb\u0331a. Ramah is afraid, Gib\u0331\u201bah of Sha\u2019ul has fled."}, {"pk": 2709541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "Lift up your voice, O daughter of Galliym! Listen, Layishah \u2014 O poor Anathoth!"}, {"pk": 2709542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "Mad\u0331m\u0115nah has fled, the inhabitants of G\u0115b\u0331im sought refuge."}, {"pk": 2709543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "Yet he remains at Nob\u0331 that day; he shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Tsiyon, the hill of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "Look, the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, is lopping off a branch with an awesome crash, and the tall ones are cut down, and the lofty ones are laid low."}, {"pk": 2709545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Leb\u0331anon shall fall as a mighty one!"}, {"pk": 2709546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a Sprout from his roots shall be fruitful."}, {"pk": 2709547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "The Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall rest upon Him \u2014 the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2709548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall make Him breathe in the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears."}, {"pk": 2709549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and shall decide with straightness for the meek ones of the earth, and shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and slay the wrong with the breath of His lips."}, {"pk": 2709550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and trustworthiness the girdle of His waist."}, {"pk": 2709551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And a wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and a leopard lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child leads them."}, {"pk": 2709552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And cow and bear shall feed, their young ones lie down together, and a lion eat straw like an ox."}, {"pk": 2709553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And the nursing child shall play by the cobra\u2019s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the adder\u2019s den."}, {"pk": 2709554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "They do no evil nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain, for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 as the waters cover the sea.", "comment": "See Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2709555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And in that day there shall be a Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him the nations shall seek, and His rest shall be esteem."}, {"pk": 2709556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And it shall be in that day that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from \u011aylam and from Shin\u201bar, from H\u0323amath and from the islands of the sea."}, {"pk": 2709557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and assemble the dispersed of Yehud\u0331ah from the four corners of the earth."}, {"pk": 2709558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehud\u0331ah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehud\u0331ah, and Yehud\u0331ah not trouble Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2709559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Ed\u0331om and Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the children of Ammon shall be subject to them."}, {"pk": 2709560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall put under the ban the tongue of the Sea of Mitsrayim, and He shall wave His hand over the River with the might of His Spirit, and shall strike it in the seven streams, and shall cause <i>men</i> to tread it in sandals."}, {"pk": 2709561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was for Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2709562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And in that day you shall say, \u201cI thank You \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, though You were enraged with me, Your displeasure has turned back, and You have comforted me."}, {"pk": 2709563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSee, \u011al is my deliverance, I trust and am not afraid. For Yah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, is my strength and my song; and He has become my deliverance.\u201d", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/15/2'>15:2</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/14'>118:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2709564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And you shall draw water with joy from the fountains of deliverance."}, {"pk": 2709565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And in that day you shall say, \u201cPraise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, call upon His Name; make known His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His Name is exalted."}, {"pk": 2709566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, For He has done excellently; this is known in all the earth."}, {"pk": 2709567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cCry aloud and shout, O inhabitant of Tsiyon, for great is the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in your midst!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Bab\u0331el which Yeshayahu son of Amots saw."}, {"pk": 2709569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cLift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, let them enter the gates of the nobles."}, {"pk": 2709570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "The noise of an uproar in the mountains, like that of many people! A noise of uproar of the reigns of nations gathered together! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is gathering an army for battle."}, {"pk": 2709572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.", "comment": "See also chapters Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/1'>24</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/1'>34</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/1'>63</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/1'>66</a>"}, {"pk": 2709573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "Howl, for the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near! It comes as a destruction from the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2709574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore all hands go limp, every man\u2019s heart melts,"}, {"pk": 2709575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!"}, {"pk": 2709576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "See, the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is coming, fierce, with wrath and heat of displeasure, to lay the earth waste, and destroy its sinners from it."}, {"pk": 2709577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "For the stars of the heavens and their constellations do not give off their light. The sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light."}, {"pk": 2709578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless."}, {"pk": 2709579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind <i>scarcer</i> than the gold of Ophir."}, {"pk": 2709580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSo I shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall shake from her place, in the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts and in the day of the heat of His displeasure."}, {"pk": 2709581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up \u2014 every man turns to his own people, and everyone flees to his own land."}, {"pk": 2709582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhoever is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword."}, {"pk": 2709583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd their children are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered and their wives ravished."}, {"pk": 2709584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSee, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they do not delight in it."}, {"pk": 2709585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spares no children."}, {"pk": 2709586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd Bab\u0331el, the splendour of reigns, the comeliness of the pride of the Kasdim, shall be as when Elohim overthrew Sed\u0331om and Amorah."}, {"pk": 2709587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cShe shall never be inhabited, nor be settled from generation to generation; nor shall the Arab\u0331ian pitch tents there, nor shepherds rest their flocks there."}, {"pk": 2709588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be filled with owls. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats frolic there."}, {"pk": 2709589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd hyenas shall cry in their citadels, and jackals in their pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come, and her days are not drawn out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has compassion on Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and shall again choose Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and give them rest in their own land. And the strangers shall join them, and they shall cling to the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/6-8'>56:6-8</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/3'>60:3</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/9/12'>9:12</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/11'>2:11</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/8/23'>8:23</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/11/17-24'>11:17-24</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/24'>21:24</a><br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/45/17'>45:17</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/46/28'>46:28</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/9/8'>9:8</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/1/16'>1:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/38/1/17'>17</a>; Zec. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/10-12'>2:10-12</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/16'>3:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2709591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And peoples shall take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall possess them for servants and female servants in the land of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they shall make captives of their captors, and rule over their oppressors."}, {"pk": 2709592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And it shall be, in the day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble and the hard service in which you were made to serve,"}, {"pk": 2709593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "that you shall take up this proverb against the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and say, \u201cHow the oppressor has ceased, the gold-gatherer ceased!"}, {"pk": 2709594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has broken the staff of the wrong, the sceptre of the rulers,"}, {"pk": 2709595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "he who struck the people in wrath with ceaseless blows, he who ruled the nations in displeasure, is persecuted and no one restrains."}, {"pk": 2709596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll the earth is at rest and at peace, they shall break forth into singing."}, {"pk": 2709597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cEven the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Leb\u0331anon, saying, \u2018Since you were cut down, no woodcutter has come up against us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cShe\u2019ol from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the sovereigns of the nations."}, {"pk": 2709599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAll of them respond and say to you, \u2018Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?"}, {"pk": 2709600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "Your arrogance has been brought down to She\u2019ol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cHow you have fallen from the heavens, O H\u0115l\u0115l, son of the morning! You have been cut down to the ground, you who laid low the nations!", "comment": "The Shining One."}, {"pk": 2709602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor you have said in your heart, \u2018Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of \u011al, and let me sit in the mount of appointment on the sides of the north;"}, {"pk": 2709603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut you are brought down to She\u2019ol, to the sides of the pit."}, {"pk": 2709605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThose who see you stare at you, and ponder over you, saying, \u2018Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook reigns,"}, {"pk": 2709606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who would not open the house of his prisoners?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2709607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAll the sovereigns of the nations, all of them, were laid in esteem, everyone in his own house;"}, {"pk": 2709608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "but you have been thrown from your burial-site like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are killed, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled corpse."}, {"pk": 2709609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou are not joined with them in the burial-place, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. Let the seed of evil-doers never be mentioned."}, {"pk": 2709610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cPrepare his children for slaughter, because of the crookedness of their fathers, lest they rise up and possess the land, and fill the face of the world with cities.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall rise up against them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand shall cut off from Bab\u0331el the name and remnant, and offspring and descendant,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; and shall sweep it with the broom of destruction,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sworn, saying, \u201cTruly, as I have planned, so shall it be; and as I have purposed, so it stands:"}, {"pk": 2709614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cTo break Ashshur in My land, and tread him down on My mountains. And his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders."}, {"pk": 2709615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThis is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations."}, {"pk": 2709616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has counselled, and who annuls it? And His hand that is stretched out, who turns it back?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "This is the message which came in the year that Sovereign Ah\u0323az died:"}, {"pk": 2709618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cDo not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent\u2019s roots comes forth an adder, and its offspring is a fiery flying serpent."}, {"pk": 2709619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy lie down in safety. And I shall kill your roots with scarcity of food, and it shall kill your remnant."}, {"pk": 2709620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cHowl, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke shall come from the north, and there is no stranger in his ranks.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "And what does one answer the messengers of a nation? \u201cThat \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has founded Tsiyon, and the poor of His people take refuge in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Mo\u2019ab\u0331. Because in the night Ar of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was laid waste, was silenced! Because in the night Qir of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 was laid waste, was silenced!"}, {"pk": 2709623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "He has gone up to the house and Dib\u0331on, to the high places to weep. Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is wailing over Neb\u0331o and over M\u0115yd\u0331eb\u0331a; on all their heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off."}, {"pk": 2709624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "In their streets they shall put on sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets everyone wails, weeping bitterly."}, {"pk": 2709625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And H\u0323eshbon and El\u201bal\u0115h cry out, their voice shall be heard as far as Yahats. Therefore the armed ones of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shout; his being shall tremble within him."}, {"pk": 2709626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "My own heart is toward Mo\u2019ab\u0331; her fugitives cry unto Tso\u201bar, like a three-year-old heifer. For by the ascent of Luh\u0323ith they go up with weeping; for in the way of H\u0323oronayim they raise a cry of destruction."}, {"pk": 2709627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "For the waters of Nimrim are wastes, for the green grass has withered away; the grass fails, there is no greenness."}, {"pk": 2709628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore the wealth, acquired and stored up, they take away to the wadi of the Willows."}, {"pk": 2709629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "For the cry has gone all around the borders of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, its wailing to E\u1e21layim and its wailing to Be\u2019\u0115r \u011alim."}, {"pk": 2709630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor the waters of Dimon shall be filled with blood; for I shall bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him who escapes from Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and on the remnant of the land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "Send a lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2709632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And it shall be, like a wandering bird, a nest thrown out, so are the daughters of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 at the fords of Arnon."}, {"pk": 2709633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBring counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; hide the outcasts, do not betray him who escapes."}, {"pk": 2709634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cLet My outcasts dwell with you, O Mo\u2019ab\u0331; be a shelter to them from the face of the ravager. For the oppressor has met his end, destruction has ceased, those trampling down have perished from the land."}, {"pk": 2709635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd in loving-commitment the throne shall be established. And One shall sit on it in truth, in the Tent of Dawid\u0331, judging and seeking right-ruling, and speeding righteousness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "We have heard of the pride of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 \u2014 very proud \u2014 of his pride, his arrogance and his rage. His boastings are not true."}, {"pk": 2709637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "So Mo\u2019ab\u0331 wails for Mo\u2019ab\u0331, everyone wails. For the raisin-cakes of Qir H\u0323areseth they moan. They are utterly smitten."}, {"pk": 2709638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "For the fields of H\u0323eshbon languish \u2014 the vine of Sib\u0331mah. The masters of the nations have broken down its choice plants, which have reached to Ya\u201bz\u0115r and wandered through the wilderness. Her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea."}, {"pk": 2709639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore I bewail the vine of Sib\u0331mah, with the weeping of Ya\u201bz\u0115r. I water you with my tears, O H\u0323eshbon and El\u201bal\u0115h, for acclamation has fallen over your summer fruit and your harvest."}, {"pk": 2709640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "Gladness is taken away, and joy from the orchard; in the vineyards there is no singing, nor shouting; No treaders tread out wine in their presses; I have made their acclamation cease."}, {"pk": 2709641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore my inward parts sound like a lyre for Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and my inner being for Qir H\u0323eres."}, {"pk": 2709642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And it shall be, when it is seen that Mo\u2019ab\u0331 has wearied herself on the high place, that she shall come to her set-apart place to pray, but not be able."}, {"pk": 2709643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "This is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken concerning Mo\u2019ab\u0331 since that time."}, {"pk": 2709644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "But now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken, saying, \u201cWithin three years, as the years of a hired man, the esteem of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is to be despised with all its great throng, and the remnant be few, small and weak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Dammeseq. \u201cSee, Dammeseq ceases to be a city, and shall become a heap of ruins."}, {"pk": 2709646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThe cities of Aro\u201b\u0115r are forsaken, they are for flocks which shall lie down, with no one to frighten."}, {"pk": 2709647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the stronghold shall cease from Ephrayim, and the reign from Dammeseq, and the remnant of Aram be as the esteem of the sons of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day it shall be that the esteem of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 wanes, and the fatness of his flesh grows lean."}, {"pk": 2709649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, and reaps the heads with his arm. And it shall be as he who gathers heads of grain in the Valley of Repha\u2019im."}, {"pk": 2709650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd gleaning grapes shall be left in it, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives at the top of the uppermost branch, four or five in its most fruit-bearing branches,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "In that day man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes turn to the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And he shall not look to the slaughter-places, the work of his hands; and he shall not see that which his own fingers made, nor the Ash\u0115rim nor the sun-pillars."}, {"pk": 2709653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "In that day his strong cities become like a forsaken forest and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And it shall become a ruin."}, {"pk": 2709654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "Because you have forgotten the Elohim of your deliverance, and have not remembered the Rock of your stronghold, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and set out foreign seedlings,"}, {"pk": 2709655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "by day make your plant to grow, and in the morning make your seed to flourish \u2014 <i>but</i> the harvest is a heap in the day of grief and incurable pain."}, {"pk": 2709656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Woe to the uproar of many people who make a noise like the roar of the seas, and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters \u2014"}, {"pk": 2709657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "nations rushing like the rushing of many waters. But He shall rebuke them and they shall flee far away, and be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like whirling dust before the whirlwind."}, {"pk": 2709658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "At eventide, look! Alarm! Before morning, it is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us."}, {"pk": 2709659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to the land shadowed with whirring wings, which is beyond the rivers of Kush,"}, {"pk": 2709660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "which sends envoys by sea, even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying, \u201cGo, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and trampling, whose land the rivers divide.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "All inhabitants of the world, and you that dwell on the earth: When a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! And when a shophar is blown, hear!"}, {"pk": 2709662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "For thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cI am still, and I watch in My dwelling place like dazzling heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "For before harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, then He shall cut off the twigs with pruning hooks, and shall cut down and take away the spreading branches."}, {"pk": 2709664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "They are left together for the mountain birds of prey and for the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey shall summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth winter on them."}, {"pk": 2709665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "In that time a present shall be brought to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, and from a people awesome from their beginning onward \u2014 a nation mighty and trampling, whose land the rivers have divided \u2014 to the place of the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, to Mount Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2709666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Mitsrayim. See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is riding on a swift cloud, and He shall come into Mitsrayim. And the idols of Mitsrayim shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of Mitsrayim melt in its midst."}, {"pk": 2709667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall stir up Mitsrites against Mitsrites, and they shall fight, each one against his brother, and each one against his neighbour, city against city, reign against reign."}, {"pk": 2709668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the spirit of Mitsrayim shall vanish within them, and I destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols and the mutterers, the mediums and the sorcerers."}, {"pk": 2709669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall deliver the Mitsrites into the hand of a cruel master, and a fierce sovereign to rule over them,\u201d declares the Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And waters shall fail from the sea, and the river wasted and dried up."}, {"pk": 2709671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And the rivers shall stink, and the streams shall be weak and dried up. Reeds and rushes shall wither."}, {"pk": 2709672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "Bare places by the River, by the mouth of the River, and every sown field by the River shall wither. It shall be driven away, and be no more."}, {"pk": 2709673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And the fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast hooks into the River shall mourn, and they who spread nets on the waters shall pine away."}, {"pk": 2709674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And those who work in fine flax, and those who weave fine fabric shall become ashamed."}, {"pk": 2709675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And its foundations shall be crushed, all the wage workers grieved in being."}, {"pk": 2709676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "The princes of Tso\u201ban are only fools; the counsel of Pharaoh\u2019s wise ones has become senseless. How do you say to Pharaoh, \u201cI am the son of the wise, the son of ancient sovereigns?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them show you, and let them know what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has counselled against Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2709678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "The princes of Tso\u201ban have become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived. They, the corner-stone of her tribes, have led Mitsrayim astray."}, {"pk": 2709679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has mixed a perverse spirit in her midst. And they have led Mitsrayim astray in all her work, as a drunkard strays in his vomit."}, {"pk": 2709680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And there is no work for Mitsrayim, by either head or tail, palm branch or bulrush."}, {"pk": 2709681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "In that day Mitsrayim shall become like women, and tremble and fear because of the waving of the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, which He waves over it."}, {"pk": 2709682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And the land of Yehud\u0331ah shall be a fear to Mitsrayim, everyone who mentions it fears for himself, because of the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts which He has counselled against it."}, {"pk": 2709683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "In that day five cities in the land of Mitsrayim shall speak the language of Kena\u201ban and swear by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts; one is called the City of Destruction."}, {"pk": 2709684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "In that day a slaughter-place to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be in the midst of the land of Mitsrayim, and a standing column to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at its border."}, {"pk": 2709685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts in the land of Mitsrayim. When they cry to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 because of the oppressors, He sends them a Saviour and a great one, and shall deliver them.", "comment": "Hebrew <em>rab\u0331</em> from the root <em>rab\u0331ab\u0331</em> or <em>rib\u0331</em>."}, {"pk": 2709686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be known to Mitsrayim, and the Mitsrites shall know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in that day, and make slaughtering and meal offering, and shall make a vow to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and pay it."}, {"pk": 2709687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall smite Mitsrayim, smite it and heal it. And they shall turn to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He shall hear them and heal them."}, {"pk": 2709688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "In that day there shall be a highway from Mitsrayim to Ashshur, and Ashshur shall come into Mitsrayim and Mitsrayim into Ashshur, and Mitsrayim shall serve with Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2709689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "In that day Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be one of three with Mitsrayim and Ashshur, even a blessing in the midst of the earth,"}, {"pk": 2709690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall bless, saying, \u201cBlessed is Mitsrayim My people, and Ashshur the work of My hands, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l My inheritance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod\u0331, when Sargon the sovereign of Ashshur sent him, and he fought against Ashdod\u0331 and took it,"}, {"pk": 2709692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "at that same time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke by means of Yeshayahu son of Amots, saying, \u201cGo, and remove the sackcloth from your body, and take your sandals off your feet.\u201d And he did so, walking naked and barefoot."}, {"pk": 2709693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cAs My servant Yeshayahu has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Mitsrayim and Kush,"}, {"pk": 2709694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "so does the sovereign of Ashshur lead away the captives of Mitsrayim and the exiles of Kush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered \u2014 the shame of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2709695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be afraid and ashamed of Kush, their expectation, and of Mitsrayim, their boast."}, {"pk": 2709696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the inhabitant of this coastland shall say in that day, \u2018See, such is our expectation, wherever we flee for help to be delivered from the sovereign of Ashshur. And how do we escape?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning the Wilderness of the Sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep on, so it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land."}, {"pk": 2709698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "A distressing vision is revealed to me: the treacherous betrays, and the ravager ravages. Go up, O \u011aylam! Besiege, O Media! All the groaning I bring to an end."}, {"pk": 2709699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labour. I was distressed when I heard it; I was troubled when I saw it."}, {"pk": 2709700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "My heart reeled, horror overwhelmed me; the night for which I longed He turned into fear for me."}, {"pk": 2709701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "Prepare the table, spread the mat, eat and drink. Arise, you princes, anoint the shield!"}, {"pk": 2709702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said this to me, \u201cGo, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen, a chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels, and he listened attentively, very attentively."}, {"pk": 2709704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "Then he cried, \u201cA lion, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I have sat at my post every night."}, {"pk": 2709705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd see this, a chariot of men coming with a pair of horsemen!\u201d And he spoke up and said, \u201cBab\u0331el is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her mighty ones He has broken to the ground.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, I have declared to you."}, {"pk": 2709707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "The message concerning Dumah. He calls to me out of S\u0115\u201bir, \u201cWatchman, how much of the night is passed? Watchman, how much of the night has passed?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "The watchman said, \u201cMorning came, and also the night. If you inquire, inquire. Come again!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "The message concerning Arab\u0331ia. In the forest in Arab\u0331ia you stay, O you travelling companies of Ded\u0331anites."}, {"pk": 2709710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "You who dwell in the land of T\u0115ma, bring water to him who is thirsty, meet the fugitive with bread."}, {"pk": 2709711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle."}, {"pk": 2709712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "For thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to me, \u201cWithin a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the esteem of Q\u0115d\u0331ar shall come to an end,"}, {"pk": 2709713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "and the rest of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Q\u0115d\u0331ar, shall be few. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning the Valley of Vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the house-tops,"}, {"pk": 2709715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "you who are filled with turmoils, a noisy city, a city of revelry? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor the dead in battle."}, {"pk": 2709716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "All your rulers have fled together; without a bow they were taken captive. All who are found in you are bound together, who have fled from afar."}, {"pk": 2709717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "Therefore I said, \u201cLook away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts in the Valley of Vision \u2014 breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain."}, {"pk": 2709719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u011aylam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Qir bared the shield."}, {"pk": 2709720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And it shall be that your choicest valleys shall be filled with chariots, and the horsemen shall take up positions at the gate."}, {"pk": 2709721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "Then He removed the covering of Yehud\u0331ah. And you looked in that day to the weapons of the House of the Forest."}, {"pk": 2709722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And you saw the breaches of the city of Dawid\u0331, that it was great. And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool."}, {"pk": 2709723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And you counted the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses you broke down to strengthen the wall."}, {"pk": 2709724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And you dug a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you have not looked to its Maker, nor have you seen Him who fashioned it long ago."}, {"pk": 2709725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And in that day the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth."}, {"pk": 2709726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "Then see! Joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaying sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, \u201cLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And it was revealed in my hearing by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cFor this crookedness shall certainly not be pardoned until you die,\u201d said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2709728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cGo, come to this steward, to Sheb\u0331nah, who is over the house, and say,"}, {"pk": 2709729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "What have you here, and whom have you here, that you have hewn a burial-site here, as he who hews himself a burial-site on high, inscribing a resting place for himself in a rock?", "comment": "Engraving."}, {"pk": 2709730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is hurling you away, O man, and is firmly grasping you,"}, {"pk": 2709731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "rolling you up tightly like a ball, into a wide land. There you are to die, and there your esteemed chariots are to be the shame of your master\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2709732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "And I shall drive you from your office, and you shall be ousted from your position."}, {"pk": 2709733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And it shall be in that day, that I shall call My servant Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyahu."}, {"pk": 2709734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "And I shall put your robe on him, and strengthen him with your girdle, and give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2709735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "And I shall place the key of the house of Dawid\u0331 on his shoulder. And he shall open, and no one shuts; and shall shut, and no one opens."}, {"pk": 2709736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "And I shall fasten him like a peg in a steadfast place, and he shall become a throne of esteem to his father\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2709737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "And they shall hang on him all the weight of his father\u2019s house, the offspring and the offshoots, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the jars."}, {"pk": 2709738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "In that day,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018the peg that is fastened in the steadfast place shall be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it shall be cut off. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2709739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Tsor. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it has been destroyed, without house, without harbour. From the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them."}, {"pk": 2709740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Tsid\u0331on, who passed over the sea, they filled you."}, {"pk": 2709741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And on great waters the grain of Shih\u0323or, the harvest of the River, was her increase. And she was a market-place for the nations."}, {"pk": 2709742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "Be ashamed, O Tsid\u0331on, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, \u201cI have not laboured, nor brought forth children; neither have I reared young men, brought up maidens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "Like the report of Mitsrayim, they too are grieved at the report of Tsor."}, {"pk": 2709744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Pass over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!"}, {"pk": 2709745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "Is this your city of revelry, whose antiquity is from days of old, whose feet carried her far off to sojourn?"}, {"pk": 2709746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "Who has counselled this against Tsor, the crowning city, whose merchants are chiefs, whose traders are the esteemed of the earth?"}, {"pk": 2709747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has counselled it, to defile the pride of all splendour, and to shame all the esteemed of the earth."}, {"pk": 2709748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "Overflow through your land like the River, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more strength."}, {"pk": 2709749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "He has stretched out His hand over the sea, He shook the reigns; \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given a command against Kena\u201ban to destroy its strongholds."}, {"pk": 2709750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And He said, \u201cNever again shall you exult, O you oppressed maiden daughter of Tsid\u0331on. Arise, pass over to Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "See the land of the Kasdim \u2014 this people did not exist. Ashshur founded it for wild beasts of the desert. They set up their siege-towers, they demolished her palaces, and made her a ruin."}, {"pk": 2709752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!"}, {"pk": 2709753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "And in that day it shall be that Tsor is forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one sovereign. At the end of seventy years it shall be to Tsor as in the song of the whore:"}, {"pk": 2709754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTake a lyre, go about the city, you forgotten whore; make sweet playing, sing many songs, so that you might be remembered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And at the end of seventy years it shall be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 visits Tsor. And she shall return to her harlot-fee and commit whoring with all the reigns of the earth on the face of the soil."}, {"pk": 2709756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And her goods and her harlot-fee shall be set apart for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, not treasured nor laid up, for her gain is for those who dwell before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to eat sufficiently, and for a choice covering."}, {"pk": 2709757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants."}, {"pk": 2709758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And it shall be \u2014 as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor;"}, {"pk": 2709759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken this word."}, {"pk": 2709760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish."}, {"pk": 2709761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot, changed the law, broken the everlasting covenant.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/36'>23:36</a><br>Torot - plural of Torah - teaching.<br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/9'>13:9</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/11'>13:11</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/21'>26:21</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/24'>66:24</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/5/15'>5:15</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/1/2-18'>1:2-18</a>"}, {"pk": 2709762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left."}, {"pk": 2709763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "The new wine shall fail, the vine shall languish, all those glad at heart shall sigh."}, {"pk": 2709764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "The joy of the tambourine shall cease, the noise of those who rejoice shall end, the joy of the lyre shall cease."}, {"pk": 2709765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "No more do they drink wine with a song, strong drink is bitter to those who drink it."}, {"pk": 2709766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "The deserted city shall be broken down, every house shall be shut, no one enters."}, {"pk": 2709767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy shall be darkened, the gladness of the earth shall be gone."}, {"pk": 2709768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "The city is left in ruins, and the gate is stricken with destruction."}, {"pk": 2709769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "For thus it is to be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive tree, like the gleaning of grapes when the grape harvest is done."}, {"pk": 2709770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "They lift up their voice, they sing of the excellency of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they shall cry aloud from the sea."}, {"pk": 2709771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the east, the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the coastlands of the sea."}, {"pk": 2709772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "From the ends of the earth we shall hear songs, \u201cSplendour to the Righteous One!\u201d But I say, \u201cI waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray, with treachery the treacherous betray.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth."}, {"pk": 2709774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And it shall be that he who flees from the noise of the fear falls into the pit, and he who comes up from the midst of the pit is caught in the snare. For the windows from on high shall be opened, and the foundations of the earth be shaken."}, {"pk": 2709775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "The earth shall be utterly broken, the earth shall be completely shattered, the earth shall be fiercely shaken."}, {"pk": 2709776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "The earth shall stagger like a drunkard. And it shall totter like a hut, and its transgression shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again."}, {"pk": 2709777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "And in that day it shall be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 punishes on high the host of exalted ones, and on the earth the sovereigns of the earth."}, {"pk": 2709778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and be punished after many days."}, {"pk": 2709779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall reign on Mount Tsiyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before His elders, in esteem!", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/12/6'>12:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/16/5'>16:5</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/46/13'>46:13</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/8'>52:8</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/20'>59:20</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/102/16'>102:16</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/43/7-9'>43:7-9</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/17'>3:17</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/21'>3:21</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/4/7-9'>4:7-9</a>; Zep. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/14'>3:14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/36/3/15'>15</a>, <a href='/TS2009/36/3/16'>16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/36/3/17'>17</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/1/16'>1:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/38/1/17'>17</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/10'>2:10</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/8/3-8'>8:3-8</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/1-11'>14:1- 11</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/1/6'>1:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/1/7'>7</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/1'>21</a>"}, {"pk": 2709780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are my Elohim. I exalt You, I praise Your Name, for You shall do a wonder \u2014 counsels of long ago, trustworthiness, truth."}, {"pk": 2709781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "For You shall make a city a heap, a walled city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more \u2014 never to be rebuilt."}, {"pk": 2709782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore a strong people praise You, the city of the ruthless nations fear You."}, {"pk": 2709783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "For You shall be a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the spirit of the ruthless is like a storm <i>against</i> a wall."}, {"pk": 2709784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "You subdue the noise of foreigners, as heat in a dry place; as heat in the shadow of a cloud, the singing of the ruthless is subdued."}, {"pk": 2709785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And in this mountain \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of old wines, of choice pieces with marrow, of old wines, well-refined."}, {"pk": 2709786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And He shall swallow up on this mountain the surface of the covering which covers all people, and the veil which is spread over all nations."}, {"pk": 2709787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "He shall swallow up death forever, and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall wipe away tears from all faces, and take away the reproach of His people from all the earth. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2709788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "And it shall be said in that day, \u201cSee, this is our Elohim. We have waited for Him, and He saves us. This is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we have waited for Him, let us be glad and rejoice in His deliverance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "For the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rests on this mountain, and Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is trodden down under Him, as straw is trodden down in the water of a dunghill."}, {"pk": 2709790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "And He shall spread out His hands in their midst as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim, and He shall bring down their pride together, with the skill of His hands."}, {"pk": 2709791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "And the high stronghold of your walls He shall bring down, lay it low, levelled to the ground, down to the dust."}, {"pk": 2709792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "In that day this song is sung in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cWe have a strong city \u2014 He sets up deliverance, walls and ramparts."}, {"pk": 2709793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOpen the gates, let the righteous nation which guards the truth enter in."}, {"pk": 2709794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe one steadfast of mind You guard in perfect peace, for he trusts in You."}, {"pk": 2709795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cTrust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 forever, for in Yah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, is a rock of ages."}, {"pk": 2709796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor He shall bring down those who dwell on high. He lays the exalted city low, He lays it low to the earth, He brings it down to the dust."}, {"pk": 2709797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cA foot tramples it down \u2014 feet of the poor, footsteps of the needy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2709799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "Also, in the path of Your right-rulings, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we have waited for You; the longing of <i>our</i> being is for Your Name and for the remembrance of You."}, {"pk": 2709800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "My being longs for You in the night, also, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly. For when Your right-rulings are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness."}, {"pk": 2709801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "The wrong finds favour, <i>yet</i> he shall not learn righteousness; in the land of straightforwardness he acts perversely, and does not see the excellency of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Your hand is high, they do not see. They see the ardour of the people and are ashamed; also, let the fire for Your adversaries consume them."}, {"pk": 2709803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us."}, {"pk": 2709804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, other masters besides You have had rule over us; only in You do we make mention of Your Name."}, {"pk": 2709805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "The dead do not live; the departed spirits do not rise. Therefore You have visited and destroyed them, and made all their remembrance to perish.", "comment": "Departed spirits - the <em>Repha\u2019im</em>."}, {"pk": 2709806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "You shall increase the nation, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You shall increase the nation; You are esteemed; You shall expand all the borders of the land."}, {"pk": 2709807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them."}, {"pk": 2709808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so shall we be before Your face, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2709809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "We have conceived, we writhed in pain; we have given birth to wind. We have not accomplished deliverance in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen."}, {"pk": 2709810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "Let Your dead live, <i>together with my</i> dead body, let them arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for Your dew is a dew of light, and let the earth give birth to the departed spirits.", "comment": "Departed spirits - the <em>Repha\u2019im</em>."}, {"pk": 2709811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little while, until the displeasure is past."}, {"pk": 2709812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "For look, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is coming out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their crookedness. And the earth shall disclose her blood, and no longer cover her killed <i>ones</i>."}, {"pk": 2709813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "In that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with His severe sword, great and strong, punishes Liwiathan the fleeing serpent, Liwiathan that twisted serpent. And He shall kill the monster that is in the sea."}, {"pk": 2709814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "In that day sing to her, \u201cA vineyard of red wine!"}, {"pk": 2709815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do guard it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I guard it night and day."}, {"pk": 2709816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWrath is not in Me. Who would set thornbushes and weeds against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together."}, {"pk": 2709817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cOr let him take hold of My strength and make peace with Me. Let him make peace with Me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "Those who come He causes to take root in Ya\u201baqob\u0331, Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit."}, {"pk": 2709819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "Has He smitten him as he struck the <i>ones</i> who were striking him? Or as a killer \u2014 was he killed <i>as</i> he was killing?"}, {"pk": 2709820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "In measure, by sending her away, You contended with her. He shall take away by His rough wind in the day of the east wind."}, {"pk": 2709821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is covered. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the slaughter-place like chalkstones that are beaten to dust \u2014 Ash\u0115rim and sun-pillars rise no more."}, {"pk": 2709822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "For the city of defence is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness \u2014 there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches."}, {"pk": 2709823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "When its twigs are dry, they are broken off, women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding, therefore He who made them has no compassion on them, and He who formed them shows them no favour."}, {"pk": 2709824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And in that day it shall be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 threshes, from the channel of the River to the wadi of Mitsrayim. And you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/3/14'>3:14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/3/15'>15</a>"}, {"pk": 2709825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "And in that day it shall be that a great shophar is blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Ashshur and the outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim shall come, and shall worship \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the set-apart mountain, in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, and to the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, to those who are overcome with wine!"}, {"pk": 2709827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has one who is strong and potent, like a downpour of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who casts down to the earth with the hand."}, {"pk": 2709828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephrayim, is trampled under foot;"}, {"pk": 2709829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "and the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, like the first fruit before the summer, which, when one sees it, he eats it up while it is still in his hand."}, {"pk": 2709830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "In that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is for a crown of splendour and a head-dress of comeliness to the remnant of His people,"}, {"pk": 2709831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "and a spirit of right-ruling to him who sits in right-ruling, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate."}, {"pk": 2709832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "And these too have gone astray through wine, and through strong drink wandered about. Priest and prophet have gone astray through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they wander about through strong drink, they go astray in vision, they stumble in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2709833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "For all tables shall be covered with vomit, no place without filth."}, {"pk": 2709834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "Whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts!"}, {"pk": 2709835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."}, {"pk": 2709836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "For with a jabbering lip and a foreign tongue He speaks to this people,"}, {"pk": 2709837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "to whom He said, \u201cThis is the rest, give rest to the weary,\u201d and, \u201cThis is the refreshing.\u201d But they would not hear."}, {"pk": 2709838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "But the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was to them, \u201cCommand upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,\u201d so that they go and shall stumble backward, and be broken and snared and taken captive."}, {"pk": 2709839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore hear the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you men of scorn, who rule this people who are in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2709840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "because you have said, \u201cWe have made a covenant with death, and with She\u2019ol we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am laying in Tsiyon a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a settled foundation. He who trusts shall not hasten away."}, {"pk": 2709842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And I shall make right-ruling the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lying, and the waters overflow the hiding place."}, {"pk": 2709843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision with She\u2019ol not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it."}, {"pk": 2709844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "As often as it passes through it shall take you, for it shall pass through every morning, and by day and by night. And it shall be only trembling to understand the message.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "For the bed shall be too short for a man to stretch out on, and the covering shall be too narrow to wrap himself in it."}, {"pk": 2709846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rises up as at Mount Peratsim, and He is wroth as at the Valley of Gib\u0331\u201bon, to do His work, His strange work, and to do His deed, His strange deed."}, {"pk": 2709847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "And now, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, a destruction decreed upon all the earth."}, {"pk": 2709848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my Word."}, {"pk": 2709849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "Does the ploughman keep ploughing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?"}, {"pk": 2709850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "When he has levelled its surface, does he not sow the caraway and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?"}, {"pk": 2709851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "For He instructs him for right-ruling, his Elohim teaches him."}, {"pk": 2709852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "For caraway is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wagon wheel rolled over cummin, but caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod."}, {"pk": 2709853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "Grain is crushed, so one does not go on threshing it forever, nor break it with his wagon wheel, nor crush it with his horsemen."}, {"pk": 2709854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "text": "Even this has come from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, who did wonders in counsel, who made wisdom great."}, {"pk": 2709855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to Ari\u2019\u0115l, to Ari\u2019\u0115l, the city where Dawid\u0331 dwelt! Add year to year, let festivals come around."}, {"pk": 2709856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall distress Ari\u2019\u0115l, and there shall be mourning and sorrow, and it shall be to Me as Ari\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall encamp against you all around, I shall lay siege against you with a mound, and I shall raise siege-works against you."}, {"pk": 2709858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be brought low and speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low, out of the dust. And your voice shall be like a medium\u2019s, out of the ground, and your speech whisper out of the dust."}, {"pk": 2709859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut the crowd of those strange to you shall be like fine dust, and the crowd of the ruthless ones as chaff blowing away. And it shall be in an instant, suddenly!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "You shall be visited by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and flame of devouring fire."}, {"pk": 2709861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the crowd of all the nations who fight against Ari\u2019\u0115l, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision."}, {"pk": 2709862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and see, he eats; but he awakes, and his being is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and see, he drinks; but he awakes, and see, he is faint, and his being is longing. Thus shall the crowd of all the nations be who fight against Mount Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2709863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink."}, {"pk": 2709864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets. And He has covered your heads, the seers."}, {"pk": 2709865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "And the entire vision is to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men give to one who knows books, saying, \u201cRead this, please.\u201d And he said, \u201cI am unable, for it is sealed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "And the book is given to one who does not know books, saying, \u201cRead this, please.\u201d And he said, \u201cI have not known books.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 says, \u201cBecause this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/8'>15:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/15/9'>9</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/7/6'>7:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/41/7/7'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2709868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore, see, I am again doing a marvellous work among this people, a marvellous work and a wonder. And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their clever men shall be hidden.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their works are in the dark; they say, \u201cWho sees us?\u201d and, \u201cWho knows us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "How perverse of you! Should the potter be reckoned as the clay? Should what is made say of its Maker, \u201cHe did not make me\u201d? And what is formed say of Him who formed it, \u201cHe did not understand\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2709871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "Is it not yet a little while, and Leb\u0331anon shall be turned into garden land, and garden land be reckoned as a forest?"}, {"pk": 2709872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom, and out of darkness."}, {"pk": 2709873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "And the meek ones shall increase their joy in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the poor among men rejoice in the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "For the ruthless one is brought to naught, the scorner is consumed, and all who watch for evil shall be cut off,"}, {"pk": 2709875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "those who make a man to sin in word, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the righteous with empty <i>reasoning</i>."}, {"pk": 2709876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who ransomed Ab\u0331raham, concerning the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cYa\u201baqob\u0331 is no longer put to shame, no longer does his face grow pale."}, {"pk": 2709877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they shall set apart My Name, and set apart the Set-apart One of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and fear the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd those who went astray in spirit shall come to understanding, and the grumblers accept instruction.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWoe to the stubborn children,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cto make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;"}, {"pk": 2709880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "who are setting out to go down to Mitsrayim, and have not asked My mouth, to be strengthened in the strength of Pharaoh, and to seek refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim!"}, {"pk": 2709881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the strength of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Mitsrayim your confusion."}, {"pk": 2709882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor his princes were at Tso\u201ban, and his messengers came to H\u0323anes."}, {"pk": 2709883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThey were all ashamed of a people who do not profit them, not for help or profit, but a shame and also a reproach.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,"}, {"pk": 2709885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "even Mitsrayim, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore I have called her Rahab\u0331-H\u0115m-Sheb\u0331eth."}, {"pk": 2709886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "And go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it is for a latter day, a witness forever:"}, {"pk": 2709887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2709888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "who say to the seers, \u201cDo not see,\u201d and to the prophets, \u201cDo not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us what is smooth, prophesy deceits."}, {"pk": 2709889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cTurn aside from the way, swerve from the path, cause the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to cease from before us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore thus said the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cBecause you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,"}, {"pk": 2709891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "therefore this crookedness is to you like a breach ready to fall, a bulge in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, swiftly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter\u2019s vessel, which is broken in pieces, without sparing, so that there is not found among its fragments a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern."}, {"pk": 2709893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cIn returning and rest you are saved, in stillness and trust is your strength.\u201d But you would not,"}, {"pk": 2709894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "and you said, \u201cNo, for we flee upon horses,\u201d therefore you flee! And, \u201cWe ride on swift horses,\u201d therefore those who pursue you are swift!"}, {"pk": 2709895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "One thousand <i>flee</i> at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you shall flee until you are left as a pole on top of a mountain and as a sign on a hill."}, {"pk": 2709896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "And therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall wait, to show you favour. And therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is an Elohim of right-ruling. Blessed are all those who wait for Him."}, {"pk": 2709897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "For the people shall dwell in Tsiyon at Yerushalayim, you shall weep no more. He shall show much favour to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He shall answer you."}, {"pk": 2709898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "Though \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave you bread of adversity and water of affliction, your Teacher shall no longer be hidden. But your eyes shall see your Teacher,", "comment": "Or <em>teachers</em>. See also Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/23'>2:23</a><br>Or <em>teachers.</em>"}, {"pk": 2709899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "and your ears hear a word behind you, saying, \u201cThis is the Way, walk in it,\u201d whenever you turn to the right, or whenever you turn to the left."}, {"pk": 2709900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And you shall defile the covering of your graven images of silver, and the plating of your moulded images of gold. You shall throw them away as a menstrual cloth and say to them, \u201cBe gone!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "And He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be fat and rich, your cattle grazing in an enlarged pasture in that day,"}, {"pk": 2709902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "and the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground eat seasoned fodder winnowed with shovel and fan."}, {"pk": 2709903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "And on every high mountain and on every high hill there shall be rivers and streams of waters, in the day of great killing, when the towers fall."}, {"pk": 2709904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 binds up the breach of His people, and heals the wound of His blows."}, {"pk": 2709905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 27, "text": "See, the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is coming from afar, burning with His wrath, and heavy smoke. His lips shall be filled with rage, and His tongue be as a devouring fire;"}, {"pk": 2709906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 28, "text": "and His breath shall be as an overflowing stream, which reaches up to the neck, to sift the nations with a sieve of falsehood, and a misleading bridle on the jaws of the peoples.", "comment": "See Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/9/9'>9:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2709907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 29, "text": "Let the song be to you as in a night set apart for a festival, and gladness of heart as he who is going with a flute, to come into the mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the Rock of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2709908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall cause His excellent voice to be heard, and show the coming down of His arm, with raging wrath and the flame of a consuming fire, with scattering, downpour and hailstones."}, {"pk": 2709909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 31, "text": "For through the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Ashshur is broken down, with a rod He strikes."}, {"pk": 2709910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 32, "text": "And every passage of the ordained staff which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lays on him, shall be with tambourines and lyres, when He shall fight with it, battling with a brandishing arm."}, {"pk": 2709911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 30, "verse": 33, "text": "For Topheth was ordained of old, even for the sovereign it has been prepared. He has made it deep and large, its fire pit with much wood; the breath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as a stream of burning sulphur, is burning in it!"}, {"pk": 2709912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to those who go down to Mitsrayim for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but who do not look to the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, nor seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2709913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "And He also is wise, and has brought evil, and has not turned aside His words. And He shall rise up against the house of evil-doers, and against the help of workers of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2709914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "And the Mitsrites are men, and not \u011al. And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stretches out His hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall. And they shall all fall, together."}, {"pk": 2709915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "For this is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to me, \u201cAs a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey, though a band of shepherds is called out against him, he is not afraid of their voice nor disturbed by their noise, so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall come down to fight upon Mount Tsiyon and upon its hill."}, {"pk": 2709916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cLike hovering birds, so does \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts protect Yerushalayim \u2014 protecting and delivering, passing over and rescuing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "Turn back to Him from whom the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have deeply fallen away."}, {"pk": 2709918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "For in that day, let each man reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made for yourselves, as a sin."}, {"pk": 2709919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd Ashshur shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword not of mankind shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become slave labour,"}, {"pk": 2709920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "and his strength pass away because of fear, and his commanders shall be afraid of the banner,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, whose light is in Tsiyon and whose furnace is in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2709921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "See, a sovereign shall reign in righteousness, and rulers rule in right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2709922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "And each one shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the downpour, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."}, {"pk": 2709923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "And the eyes of those who see are not dim, and the ears of those who hear listen."}, {"pk": 2709924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "And the heart of the rash understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers hurries to speak plainly."}, {"pk": 2709925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "A fool is no longer called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be respectable;"}, {"pk": 2709926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty."}, {"pk": 2709927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "And the methods of the scoundrel are evil \u2014 he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2709928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "But the generous one devises what is generous, and by generous deeds he rises up."}, {"pk": 2709929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; <i>rise up</i> you complacent daughters, listen to my speech."}, {"pk": 2709930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "In little more than a year you shall be troubled, you complacent women; for the grape harvest shall fail, the ingathering shall not come."}, {"pk": 2709931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists."}, {"pk": 2709932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "Lament upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruit-bearing vine."}, {"pk": 2709933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "Weeds and thornbushes come up over the ground of My people, indeed, over all the houses of joy, the city of revelry;"}, {"pk": 2709934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;"}, {"pk": 2709935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall become garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest."}, {"pk": 2709936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "Then right-ruling shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the garden-land."}, {"pk": 2709937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the service of righteousness be rest and safety forever."}, {"pk": 2709938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "And My people shall dwell in a home of peace, and in safe dwellings, and in undisturbed resting places,"}, {"pk": 2709939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation."}, {"pk": 2709940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the donkey."}, {"pk": 2709941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to you ravager, while you have not been ravaged, and you treacherous, while they have not betrayed you! When you have ceased ravaging, you shall be ravaged. And when you stop betraying, they shall betray you."}, {"pk": 2709942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, show us favour, for we have waited for You. Be their arm every morning, our deliverance also in time of distress."}, {"pk": 2709943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "At the noise of the rumbling the people shall flee. When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered."}, {"pk": 2709944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "And Your plunder shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts rush about, they rush upon them."}, {"pk": 2709945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Tsiyon with right-ruling and righteousness."}, {"pk": 2709946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "And He shall be the trustworthiness of your times, a wealth of deliverance, wisdom and knowledge. The fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 that is His treasure."}, {"pk": 2709947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "See, their brave ones shall cry outside, the messengers of peace weep bitterly."}, {"pk": 2709948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "The highways shall be deserted, the wayfaring man shall have ceased. He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he respected no man."}, {"pk": 2709949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "The earth shall mourn and languish, Leb\u0331anon shall be ashamed. Sharon shall be withered like a desert, and Bashan and Karmel be shaking."}, {"pk": 2709950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNow I rise up,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cNow I am exalted, now I am lifted up."}, {"pk": 2709951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cYou conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble, your spirit devours you like fire."}, {"pk": 2709952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd peoples shall be like the burnings of lime, like thorns cut up they are burned in the fire."}, {"pk": 2709953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou who are afar off, hear what I shall do; and you who are near, know My might.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "Sinners in Tsiyon shall be afraid; trembling shall grip the defiled ones, \u201cWho of us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who of us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "He who walks righteously and speaks what is straight, he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil \u2014"}, {"pk": 2709956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "he shall inhabit the heights; strongholds of rocks be his refuge. His bread shall be given him, his water be steadfast."}, {"pk": 2709957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "Your eyes shall see the Sovereign in His comeliness, see a land that is far off."}, {"pk": 2709958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "Your heart ponders fear, \u201cWhere is the scribe? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "No longer shall you see a fierce people, a people of too deep a lip to hear, of a jabbering tongue no one understands."}, {"pk": 2709960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "See Tsiyon, the city of our appointed time; your eyes shall see Yerushalayim, an undisturbed home, a tent not taken down. Its stakes are never removed, nor any of its cords broken."}, {"pk": 2709961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "But there, great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for us; a place of broad rivers, streams, in which no boat with oars sails, nor big ships pass by \u2014"}, {"pk": 2709962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is our Judge, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is our Inscriber, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is our Sovereign, He saves us \u2014"}, {"pk": 2709963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "your ropes shall be slack, they do not strengthen their mast, they shall not spread the sail. Then the prey of great plunder shall be divided, the lame shall take the prey."}, {"pk": 2709964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "Neither shall the inhabitant say, \u201cI am sick.\u201d The people who dwell in it is forgiven their crookedness!"}, {"pk": 2709965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "Come near, you nations, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring."}, {"pk": 2709966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "For the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is against all the nations, and His wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the slaughter,", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 30:11>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2709967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "and their slain be thrown out, and their stench rise from their corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood."}, {"pk": 2709968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "And all the host of the heavens shall rot away. And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade like a leaf fading on the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree."}, {"pk": 2709969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. Look, it comes down on Ed\u0331om, and on the people of My curse, for judgment."}, {"pk": 2709970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThe sword of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be filled with blood, it shall be made overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has a slaughtering in Botsrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2709971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd wild oxen shall come down with them, and young bulls with bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "For it is the day of the vengeance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the year of recompense for the cause of Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2709973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "And its streams shall be turned into tar, and its dust into sulphur, and its land shall become burning tar,"}, {"pk": 2709974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "that is not quenched night or day, its smoke going up forever. From generation to generation it lies waste, no one passes through it forever and ever,"}, {"pk": 2709975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "so that the pelican and the porcupine possess it, also the owl and the raven dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of formlessness and stones of emptiness."}, {"pk": 2709976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "Its caves, with no one in them, is called a reign, but all its rulers have vanished."}, {"pk": 2709977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for jackals, a courtyard for ostriches."}, {"pk": 2709978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "And the wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, and the shaggy goat call to its companion. The night creature shall also settle there, and shall find for herself a place of rest."}, {"pk": 2709979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "The arrow snake shall nest there, and lay eggs and hatch, and gather them under her shadow. There too the vultures shall gather, each with its mate."}, {"pk": 2709980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "Search from the book of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and read: not one of these shall be missing, not one shall be without a mate, for He has commanded my mouth. And His Spirit shall gather them."}, {"pk": 2709981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "And He shall cast the lot for them, and His hand shall divide it among them with a measuring line \u2014 they possess it forever, from generation to generation they dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2709982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "Let the wilderness and the dry place be glad for them, and let the desert rejoice, and blossom as the rose."}, {"pk": 2709983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "It blossoms much and rejoices, even with joy and singing. The esteem of Leb\u0331anon shall be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They shall see the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the excellency of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2709984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the weak knees."}, {"pk": 2709985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "Say to those with anxious heart, \u201cBe strong, do not fear! See, your Elohim comes with vengeance, with the recompense of Elohim. He is coming to save you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2709986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be opened."}, {"pk": 2709987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing, because waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert."}, {"pk": 2709988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water \u2014 in the home for jackals, where each lay, grass with reeds and rushes."}, {"pk": 2709989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "And there shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called \u201cThe Way of Set-apartness.\u201d The unclean does not pass over it, but it is for those who walk the way, and no fools wander <i>on it</i>.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/77/13'>77:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2709990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "No lion is there, nor any ravenous beast go up on it, it is not found there. But the redeemed shall walk there."}, {"pk": 2709991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "And the ransomed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall return and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."}, {"pk": 2709992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the fourteenth year of Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu that Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur came up against all the walled cities of Yehud\u0331ah and took them."}, {"pk": 2709993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign of Ashshur sent the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h with a great army from Lak\u0331ish to Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu at Yerushalayim. And he stood by the channel of the upper pool, on the highway to the Launderer\u2019s Field."}, {"pk": 2709994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "And there came to him Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyahu, who was over the household, and Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Asaph, the recorder."}, {"pk": 2709995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "The Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h then said to them, \u201cPlease say to H\u0323izqiyahu, \u2018Thus said the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur, \u201cWhat trust is this in which you trust?"}, {"pk": 2709996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cI say: You speak of having counsel and strength for battle, but they are vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?"}, {"pk": 2709997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLook! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him."}, {"pk": 2709998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut if you say to me, \u2018We trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim,\u2019 is it not He whose high places and whose slaughter-places H\u0323izqiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehud\u0331ah and to Yerushalayim, \u2018Bow yourselves before this slaughter-place\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2709999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now, I urge you, please give a pledge to my master the sovereign of Ashshur, and I give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!"}, {"pk": 2710000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd how do you refuse one officer of the least of my master\u2019s servants, and put your trust in Mitsrayim for chariots and horsemen?"}, {"pk": 2710001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now, have I come up without \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against this land to destroy it? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Go up against this land, and destroy it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elyaqim, Sheb\u0331nah, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 said to the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h, \u201cPlease speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in the language of Yehud\u0331ah in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "But the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h said, \u201cHas my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h stood and called out with a loud voice in the language of Yehud\u0331ah, and said, \u201cHear the words of the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur!"}, {"pk": 2710005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThus said the sovereign, \u2018Do not let H\u0323izqiyahu deceive you, for he is unable to deliver you,"}, {"pk": 2710006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "and do not let H\u0323izqiyahu make you trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2710007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cDo not listen to H\u0323izqiyahu, for thus said the sovereign of Ashshur, \u2018Make peace with me by a present and come out to me. And let each of you eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree, and each of you drink the waters of his own cistern,"}, {"pk": 2710008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "until I come. Then I shall take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards."}, {"pk": 2710009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "Beware lest H\u0323izqiyahu mislead you, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall deliver us.\u201d Has any one of the mighty ones of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur?"}, {"pk": 2710010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "Where are the mighty ones of H\u0323amath and Arpad\u0331? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim? And when have they delivered Shomeron from my hand?"}, {"pk": 2710011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "Who among all the mighty ones of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 should deliver Yerushalayim from my hand?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the command of the sovereign was, \u201cDo not answer him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "And Elyaqim son of H\u0323ilqiyahu, who was over the household, Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and Yo\u2019ah\u0323 son of Asaph, the recorder, came to H\u0323izqiyahu with their garments torn, and they reported to him the words of the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h."}, {"pk": 2710014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2710015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "and sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Sheb\u0331nah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amots."}, {"pk": 2710016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cThus said H\u0323izqiyahu, \u2018This day is a day of distress and rebuke and scorn, for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring forth."}, {"pk": 2710017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "It could be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim does hear the words of the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "So the servants of Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu came to Yeshayahu,"}, {"pk": 2710019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "and Yeshayahu said to them, \u201cSay this to your master, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshur have reviled Me."}, {"pk": 2710020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSee, I am putting a spirit in him, and he shall hear a report and return to his own land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Rab\u0331shaq\u0115h returned and found the sovereign of Ashshur fighting against Lib\u0331nah, for he had heard that he had left Lak\u0331ish."}, {"pk": 2710022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "And he heard concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kush, \u201cHe has come out to fight with you.\u201d And when he heard it, he sent messengers to H\u0323izqiyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSpeak to H\u0323izqiyahu the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u2018Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, \u201cYerushalayim is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "See, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashshur have done to all lands by putting them under the ban. And are you going to be delivered?"}, {"pk": 2710025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and H\u0323aran and Retseph, and the sons of \u011ad\u0331en who were in Telassar?"}, {"pk": 2710026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "Where is the sovereign of H\u0323amath, and the sovereign of Arpad\u0331, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharwayim, H\u0115na, and Iwwah?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And H\u0323izqiyahu went up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and spread it before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the One who dwells between the kerub\u0331im, You are Elohim, You alone, of all the reigns of the earth. You have made the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2710030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cIncline Your ear, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and hear. Open Your eyes, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and see. And hear all the words of Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331, who has sent to reproach the living Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTruly, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the sovereigns of Ashshur have laid waste all the lands, and their land,"}, {"pk": 2710032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men\u2019s hands, wood and stone. And they destroyed them."}, {"pk": 2710033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You alone.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Yeshayahu son of Amots sent to H\u0323izqiyahu, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Because you have prayed to Me against Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 sovereign of Ashshur,"}, {"pk": 2710035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "this is the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken concerning him, \u201cThe maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!"}, {"pk": 2710036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cWhom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2710037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBy the hand of your servants you have reproached \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u2018With my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Leb\u0331anon. And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. And I enter its farthest height, its thickest forest."}, {"pk": 2710038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "text": "I have dug and drunk water, and with the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of defence.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cHave you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins."}, {"pk": 2710040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame. They were as the grass of the field and as the green plant, as the grass on the house-tops and as grain blighted before it is grown."}, {"pk": 2710041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me."}, {"pk": 2710042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cBecause your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came."}, {"pk": 2710043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd this shall be the sign for you: This year you eat such as grows of itself, and the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them."}, {"pk": 2710044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehud\u0331ah shall again take root downward, and be fruitful upward."}, {"pk": 2710045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon \u2014 the ardour of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts does this."}, {"pk": 2710046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, \u2018He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it."}, {"pk": 2710047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 34, "text": "By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And into this city he does not come,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 35, "text": "And I shall defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant Dawid\u0331.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 36, "text": "And a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went out, and struck in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose early in the morning, and saw all of them, dead bodies."}, {"pk": 2710050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 37, "text": "And Sanh\u0323\u0115rib\u0331 the sovereign of Ashshur broke camp and went away, and turned back, and remained at Ninew\u0115h."}, {"pk": 2710051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 37, "verse": 38, "text": "And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisrok\u0331 his mighty one, that his sons Ad\u0331rammelek\u0331 and Shar\u2019etser struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son \u011asarh\u0323addon reigned in his place."}, {"pk": 2710052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "In those days H\u0323izqiyahu was sick and near death. And Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amots, came to him, and said to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Command your house, for you are going to die and not live.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2710054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "and said, \u201cI pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu wept bitterly."}, {"pk": 2710055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yeshayahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cGo and say to H\u0323izqiyahu, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Dawid\u0331 your father, \u201cI have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am adding fifteen years to your days."}, {"pk": 2710057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd out of the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur I shall deliver you and this city, and protect this city.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2710058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the sign to you from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does this word which He has spoken:"}, {"pk": 2710059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, I am bringing the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ah\u0323az, ten degrees backward.\u201d And the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down."}, {"pk": 2710060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "This is the writing of H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:"}, {"pk": 2710061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "I said, \u201cAm I to go into the gates of She\u2019ol in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "I said, \u201cI shall not see Yah \u2014 Yah in the land of the living! I shall no longer look on man with the inhabitants of the world!"}, {"pk": 2710063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cMy dwelling is plucked up, taken from me like a shepherd\u2019s tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day to night You make an end of me."}, {"pk": 2710064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me."}, {"pk": 2710065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cLike a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I am oppressed, undertake for me!"}, {"pk": 2710066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhat do I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted. Softly I go, all my years, because of the bitterness of my being."}, {"pk": 2710067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by these do <i>men</i> live, and my spirit finds life in all of them. Restore me and make me live."}, {"pk": 2710068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSee, for peace I had what was bitter, bitter. But You have lovingly delivered my being from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back."}, {"pk": 2710069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor She\u2019ol does not thank You, nor death praise You; those who go down to the pit do not watch for Your truth."}, {"pk": 2710070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThe living, the living \u2014 he is praising You, as I do this day. A father makes known Your truth to his children."}, {"pk": 2710071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>come</i> to save me! And let us sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "For Yeshayahu had said, \u201cLet them take a cake of figs, and apply it on the boil, so that he lives.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu asked, \u201cWhat is the sign that I go up to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "At that time Merod\u0331ak\u0331-Balad\u0331an son of Balad\u0331an, sovereign of Bab\u0331el, sent letters and a present to H\u0323izqiyahu, for he heard that he had been sick and had become strong."}, {"pk": 2710075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures, the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armoury, and all that was found among his treasures. There was not an object in his house or in all his rule that H\u0323izqiyahu did not show them."}, {"pk": 2710076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yeshayahu the prophet went to Sovereign H\u0323izqiyahu, and said to him, \u201cWhat did these men say, and from where did they come to you?\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu said, \u201cThey came to me from a distant land, from Bab\u0331el.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "And he said, \u201cWhat have they seen in your house?\u201d And H\u0323izqiyahu said, \u201cThey have seen all that is in my house; there is not an object among my treasures that I did not show them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "So Yeshayahu said to H\u0323izqiyahu, \u201cHear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts:"}, {"pk": 2710079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "See, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have stored up until this day, shall be taken away to Bab\u0331el; not a matter shall be left,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "And they shall take some of your sons who are born to you, whom you bring forth. And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu said to Yeshayahu, \u201cThe word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which you have spoken is good!\u201d And he said, \u201cBecause there is peace and truth in my days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cComfort, comfort My people!\u201d says your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak to the heart of Yerushalayim, and cry out to her, that her hard service is completed, that her crookedness is pardoned, that she has received from the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 double for all her sins.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, \u201cPrepare the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; make straight in the desert a highway for our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cLet every valley be raised, and every mountain and hill made low. And the steep ground shall become level, and the rough places smooth."}, {"pk": 2710086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it. For the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "The voice said, \u201cCry out!\u201d and he said, \u201cWhat do I cry?\u201d \u201cAll flesh is grass, and all its loving-commitment is like the flower of the field."}, {"pk": 2710088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cGrass shall wither, the flower shall fade, when the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blown on it! Truly the people is grass!"}, {"pk": 2710089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cGrass shall wither, the flower shall fade, but the Word of our Elohim stands forever.\u201d", "comment": "See 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/1/24'>1:24</a>, <a href='/TS2009/60/1/25'>25</a>"}, {"pk": 2710090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "You who bring good news to Tsiyon, get up into the high mountain. You who bring good news to Yerushalayim, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up, be not afraid. Say to the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cSee your Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "See, the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes with strength, and His arm rules for Him. See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him."}, {"pk": 2710092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "He feeds His flock like a shepherd, He gathers the lambs with His arm, and carries them in His bosom, gently leading those who are with young."}, {"pk": 2710093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured the heavens with a span, and contained the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?"}, {"pk": 2710094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "Who has meted out the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, or as His counsellor taught Him?"}, {"pk": 2710095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of right-ruling? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?"}, {"pk": 2710096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "See, nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the balance. See, He lifts up isles as fine dust."}, {"pk": 2710097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "And Leb\u0331anon is not enough to burn, nor its beasts enough for an ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2710098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness."}, {"pk": 2710099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "text": "And to whom would you liken \u011al? And what likeness would you compare to Him?"}, {"pk": 2710100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "text": "The workman moulds a graven image, and the goldsmith overspreads it with gold, and the silversmith casts silver chains."}, {"pk": 2710101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "text": "He who is too poor for such an offering chooses a tree that does not rot. He seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to prepare a carved image that does not totter."}, {"pk": 2710102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "text": "Did you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?"}, {"pk": 2710103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "text": "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,"}, {"pk": 2710104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "text": "who brings princes to naught, shall make the rulers of the earth as emptiness."}, {"pk": 2710105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "text": "Hardly have they been planted, hardly have they been sown, hardly has their stock taken root in the earth, when He shall blow on them and they wither, and a whirlwind take them away like stubble."}, {"pk": 2710106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd to whom then do you liken Me, or <i>to whom</i> am I compared?\u201d says the Set-apart One."}, {"pk": 2710107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 26, "text": "Lift up your eyes on high and see. Who has created these? He is bringing out their host by number, He calls them all by name, by the greatness of ability and potent of power, a man is not lacking."}, {"pk": 2710108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 27, "text": "Why do you say, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and speak, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cMy way is hidden from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and my rights are overlooked by my Elohim\u201d?"}, {"pk": 2710109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 28, "text": "Did you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable."}, {"pk": 2710110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 29, "text": "He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength."}, {"pk": 2710111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 30, "text": "Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall,"}, {"pk": 2710112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 40, "verse": 31, "text": "but those who wait on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint."}, {"pk": 2710113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cBe silent before Me, you coastlands, and let peoples renew their power! Let them come near, then let them speak. Let us come together for right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2710114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWho raised up the righteous one from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made sovereigns submit to him? He gave them as the dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow."}, {"pk": 2710115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cHe pursued them, passed over in safety, by a path that he had not gone with his feet."}, {"pk": 2710116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWho has performed and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? \u2018I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, am the first, and with the last I am He.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "Coastlands see it and fear, the ends of the earth are afraid \u2014 they draw near and come."}, {"pk": 2710118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "Everyone helps his neighbour, and says to his brother, \u201cBe strong!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "And the craftsman strengthens the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer inspires him who strikes the anvil, saying of the joining, \u201cIt is good.\u201d And he strengthens it with nails, so it does not totter."}, {"pk": 2710120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut you, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, are My servant, Ya\u201baqob\u0331, whom I have chosen, the descendants of Ab\u0331raham who loved Me,"}, {"pk": 2710121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "whom I have strengthened from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest parts, and said to You, \u2018You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not rejected you."}, {"pk": 2710122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall fortify you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSee, all those who raged against you are ashamed and blush, they are as non-existent. And the men who strive with you perish."}, {"pk": 2710124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cYou seek them but do not find them, those who struggle with you. Those who fight you are as non-existent, as naught."}, {"pk": 2710125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, am strengthening your right hand, saying to you, \u2018Do not fear, I shall help you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDo not fear, you worm Ya\u201baqob\u0331, you men of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! I shall help you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSee, I shall make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth, let you thresh mountains and beat them small, and make hills like chaff."}, {"pk": 2710128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cYou winnow them, the wind lifts them up, and the whirlwind scatters them; but you, you rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and boast in the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cWhen the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongues have failed for thirst, I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do answer them; I, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, do not forsake them."}, {"pk": 2710130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI open rivers on bare hills, and fountains in the midst of valleys; I make a wilderness become a pool of water, and a dry land springs of water."}, {"pk": 2710131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cI set in the wilderness cedar, acacia and myrtle and oil tree; I place in the desert cypress, pine and box tree together."}, {"pk": 2710132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSo that they see and know, and consider and understand together, that the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done this, and the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has created it."}, {"pk": 2710133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cPresent your case,\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cLet your strong <i>ones</i> come near,\u201d says the Sovereign of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2710134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cLet them draw near and declare to us what is going to take place; let them declare the former events, what they were, and we consider them, and know the latter end of them; or announce to us what is coming."}, {"pk": 2710135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cDeclare the <i>events</i> that are going to come hereafter, and we know that you are mighty ones; yes, do good or do evil, and let us be amazed and see it together."}, {"pk": 2710136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSee, you are of naught, and your work a breath; he who chooses you is an abomination."}, {"pk": 2710137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cI have stirred up one from the north, and he comes; from the rising of the sun he calls on My Name. And he comes against princes as though mortar, as the potter treads clay."}, {"pk": 2710138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cWho has declared from the beginning, and we know? and former times, and we say, \u2018He is righteous\u2019? No, no one is declaring; no, no one is proclaiming; no, no one is hearing your words."}, {"pk": 2710139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cHe who is First <i>said</i> to Tsiyon, \u2018See, see them!\u2019 And to Yerushalayim I give one who brings good news."}, {"pk": 2710140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd I see that there is no man, and of these, there is no counsellor, who, when I ask of them, answers a word."}, {"pk": 2710141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 41, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSee, all of them are useless, their works are naught, their moulded images are wind and confusion."}, {"pk": 2710142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cSee, My Servant whom I uphold, My Chosen One My being has delighted in! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He brings forth right-ruling to the nations."}, {"pk": 2710143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHe does not cry out, nor lifts up <i>His voice</i>, nor causes His voice to be heard in the street."}, {"pk": 2710144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cA crushed reed He does not break, and smoking flax He does not quench. He brings forth right-ruling in accordance with truth."}, {"pk": 2710145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHe does not become weak or crushed, until He has established right-ruling in the earth. And the coastlands wait for His Torah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus said the \u011al, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it:"}, {"pk": 2710147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have called You in righteousness, and I strengthen Your hand and guard You, and give You for a covenant to a people, for a light to the nations,", "comment": "Commonly understood as \u201ctake hold of.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house."}, {"pk": 2710149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor My praise to idols."}, {"pk": 2710150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSee, the former <i>predictions</i> have come, and new ones I am declaring; before they spring forth I let you hear them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 a new song; His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands and you inhabitants of them!"}, {"pk": 2710152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Q\u0115d\u0331ar dwells. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains."}, {"pk": 2710153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "text": "Let them give esteem to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and declare His praise in the coastlands."}, {"pk": 2710154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 goes forth like a mighty man. He stirs up ardour like a fighter. He cries out, yes, shout aloud. Over His enemies He shows Himself mighty."}, {"pk": 2710155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI have kept silent from of old, I have been still and held Myself back. Like a woman in labour I <i>now</i> cry out, I pant and gasp at once."}, {"pk": 2710156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI lay waste mountains and hills, and I dry up all their plants. And I shall make rivers become coastlands, and I dry up pools."}, {"pk": 2710157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall lead the blind by a way they have not known \u2014 in paths they have not known I lead them. I make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for them, and I shall not forsake them."}, {"pk": 2710158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThose who trust in idols, who say to the moulded images, \u2018You are our mighty ones,\u2019 shall be turned back, utterly ashamed."}, {"pk": 2710159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHear, you deaf! And look, you blind, and see."}, {"pk": 2710160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWho is blind but My servant, or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2710161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou see much, but do not guard; ears are open, but do not hear.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 21, "text": "It has delighted \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed."}, {"pk": 2710163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 22, "text": "But this is a people robbed and plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver \u2014 for plunder, and no one to say, \u201cRestore!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 23, "text": "Who among you gives ear to this, pays attention and hears for the time to come?"}, {"pk": 2710165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 24, "text": "Who gave Ya\u201baqob\u0331 for plunder, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l to the robbers? Was it not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah!"}, {"pk": 2710166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 42, "verse": 25, "text": "So He has poured on him His burning displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not take it to heart!"}, {"pk": 2710167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "text": "But now, thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Creator, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and He who formed you, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cDo not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, you are Mine."}, {"pk": 2710168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen you pass through the waters, I am with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you."}, {"pk": 2710169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, your Saviour; I gave Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seb\u0331a in your place."}, {"pk": 2710170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSince you were precious in My eyes, you have been esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and peoples for your life."}, {"pk": 2710171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cDo not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west."}, {"pk": 2710172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI shall say to the north, \u2018Give them up!\u2019 And to the south, \u2018Do not keep them back!\u2019 Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 7, "text": "all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 8, "text": "He shall bring out a blind people who have eyes, and deaf ones who have ears."}, {"pk": 2710175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 9, "text": "All the nations shall be assembled, and the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show us former <i>events</i>? Let them give their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say, \u201cIt is truth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou are My witnesses,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAnd My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no \u011al formed, nor after Me there is none."}, {"pk": 2710177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI, I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and besides Me there is no saviour."}, {"pk": 2710178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI, I have declared and saved, and made known, and there was no foreign mighty one among you. And you are My witnesses,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I am \u011al."}, {"pk": 2710179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cEven from the day I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it back?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cFor your sake I shall send to Bab\u0331el, and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Kasdim, who rejoice in their ships."}, {"pk": 2710181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Set-apart One, Creator of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, your Sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,"}, {"pk": 2710183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 17, "text": "who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power (they lie down together, they do not rise, they have been extinguished, they have been quenched like a wick):"}, {"pk": 2710184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDo not remember the former <i>events</i>, nor consider the <i>events</i> of old."}, {"pk": 2710185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSee, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."}, {"pk": 2710186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe beast of the field esteems Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen,"}, {"pk": 2710187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 21, "text": "this people I have formed for Myself, let them relate My praise."}, {"pk": 2710188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut you have not called on Me, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, for you have been weary of Me, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cYou have not brought Me the sheep for your ascending offerings, nor have you esteemed Me with your slaughterings. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense."}, {"pk": 2710190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cYou have not bought Me sweet cane with silver, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your slaughterings. You have only burdened Me with your sins, you have wearied Me with your crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2710191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cI, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no more."}, {"pk": 2710192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cRemind Me, let us enter into judgment, together; relate, that you might be declared right."}, {"pk": 2710193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cYour first father sinned, and your interpreters have transgressed against Me."}, {"pk": 2710194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 43, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSo I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Ya\u201baqob\u0331 to the curse, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l to scorn."}, {"pk": 2710195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cBut now hear, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l whom I have chosen."}, {"pk": 2710196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who made you and formed you from the womb, who helps you, \u2018Do not fear, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant, and Yeshurun, whom I have chosen.", "comment": "A poetical title for Yisra\u2019\u0115l, meaning the <em>Straight One</em> or the <em>Upright One</em>. This poetical title is also found in Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/15'>32:15</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/33/5'>33:5</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/33/26'>33:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2710197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "text": "For I pour water on the thirsty, and floods on the dry ground. I pour My Spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring,"}, {"pk": 2710198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "text": "and they shall spring up among the grass like willows by streams of water.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cOne says, \u2018I belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4; another calls himself by the name of Ya\u201baqob\u0331; another writes with his hand, \u2018Unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 and names himself by the name of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and his Redeemer, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018I am the First and I am the Last, besides Me there is no Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "text": "And who is like Me? Let him call and declare it, and lay it before Me, since I appointed the everlasting people. And the events that are coming and those that do come, let them declare these to them."}, {"pk": 2710202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not fear, nor be afraid. Have I not since made you hear, and declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there an Eloah besides Me? There is no other Rock, I know not one.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "text": "Those who make an idol, all of them are emptiness, and their delights do not profit. And they are their own witnesses; they neither see nor know, so that they are put to shame."}, {"pk": 2710204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "text": "Who would form a mighty one or cast an idol that is of no value?"}, {"pk": 2710205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "text": "See, all his companions are ashamed, and the workmen, they are but men. Let them all be gathered together, let them stand up, let them fear, let them be put to shame, altogether."}, {"pk": 2710206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "text": "The craftsman in iron with the tools works one in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Even so, he shall be hungry, and has no strength; he drinks no water and is weary."}, {"pk": 2710207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "text": "The carpenter stretches out his rule, he outlines it with chalk; he fashions it with a plane, and he outlines it with the compass, and makes it like the figure of a man, according to the comeliness of a man, to remain in the house."}, {"pk": 2710208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "text": "He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes cypress and oak, which he raised among the trees of the forest. He has planted a pine, and the rain nourishes it."}, {"pk": 2710209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "text": "And it shall be for a man to burn, for he takes some of it and warms himself. He also kindles it and shall bake bread. He also makes a mighty one and bows himself to it \u2014 has made it a carved image and falls down before it."}, {"pk": 2710210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "text": "Half of it he shall burn in the fire; with this half he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, \u201cAha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "text": "And the rest of it he makes into a mighty one, his carved image. He falls down before it and worships, prays to it and says, \u201cDeliver me, for you are my mighty one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "text": "They do not know nor understand, for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, and their hearts from understanding."}, {"pk": 2710213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "text": "And no one recalls it to his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, \u201cI have burned half of it in the fire, and I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I fall down before a log of wood?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "text": "Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his being, nor says, \u201cIs there not a lie in my right hand?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cRemember these <i>matters</i>, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for you are My servant! I have formed you, you are My servant, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, do not forget Me!"}, {"pk": 2710216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cI shall wipe out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I shall redeem you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "text": "Sing, O heavens, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall do it! Shout, O depths of the earth! Break forth into singing, O mountains, forest, and every tree in it! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall redeem Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and make Himself clear in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, doing all, stretching out the heavens all alone, spreading out the earth, with none beside Me,"}, {"pk": 2710219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "text": "frustrating the signs of the babblers, and driving diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making their knowledge foolish,"}, {"pk": 2710220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "text": "confirming the word of His servant, and completing the counsel of His messengers, who says of Yerushalayim, \u2018Be inhabited,\u2019 and of the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, \u2018They shall be built, and her ruins raised up by Me,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 27, "text": "who is saying to the deep, \u2018Be dry, and your rivers I dry up,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 44, "verse": 28, "text": "who is saying of Koresh, \u2018He is My shepherd, and he completes all My pleasure, even saying to Yerushalayim, \u201cLet her be built,\u201d and to the H\u0115k\u0331al, \u201cLet her foundation be laid.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2710223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to His anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have strengthened, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of sovereigns, to open before him the double doors, so that gates are not shut:"}, {"pk": 2710224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "text": "I go before you and make the crooked places straight; I shatter the gates of bronze and cut down the bars of iron."}, {"pk": 2710225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "text": "And I shall give you the treasures of darkness and hoarded wealth of secret places, so that you know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who are calling you by your name, am the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "text": "For the sake of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant, and of Yisra\u2019\u0115l My chosen, I also call you by your name, I give you a title, though you have not known Me."}, {"pk": 2710227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there is none else \u2014 there is no Elohim besides Me. I gird you, though you have not known Me,"}, {"pk": 2710228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "text": "so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none but Me. I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there is none else,"}, {"pk": 2710229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "text": "forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, do all these.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cRain down, O heavens, from above, and let clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, let them bring forth deliverance, and let righteousness spring up together. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have created it."}, {"pk": 2710231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, \u2018What are you making?\u2019 Or your handiwork say, \u2018He has no hands\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2710232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who says to his father, \u2018What are you bringing forth?\u2019 Or to the woman, \u2018What are you labouring over?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and his Maker, \u201cDo you ask Me about My sons what is to come? And about the work of My hands do you command Me?"}, {"pk": 2710234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI have made the earth, and created man on it. I, My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded."}, {"pk": 2710235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI have stirred him up in righteousness, and all his ways I make straight. He builds My city and lets My exiles go, not for price nor reward,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2710236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe labour of Mitsrayim and merchandise of Kush and of the Seb\u0331aites, men of size, come over to you and they are yours. They walk behind you, they come over in chains, and they bow down to you. They make supplication to you, saying, \u2018Indeed, \u011al is in you, and there is none else, no mighty one.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "text": "Truly You are \u011al, who hide Yourself, O Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Saviour!"}, {"pk": 2710238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "text": "They shall be put to shame, and even be humiliated, all of them \u2014 the makers of idols shall go away together in humiliation."}, {"pk": 2710239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "text": "Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be saved by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with an everlasting deliverance. You are not to be ashamed nor hurt, forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2710240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 18, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Creator of the heavens, He is Elohim, Former of earth and its Maker, He established it, He did not create it to be empty, He formed it to be inhabited: \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and there is none else."}, {"pk": 2710241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u2018Seek Me in vain.\u2019 I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, speaking righteousness, declaring matters that are straight."}, {"pk": 2710242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cGather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save."}, {"pk": 2710243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDeclare and bring near, let them even take counsel together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has declared it from that time? Is it not I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And there is no mighty one besides Me, a righteous \u011al and a Saviour, there is none besides Me."}, {"pk": 2710244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTurn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am \u011al, and there is none else."}, {"pk": 2710245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cI have sworn by Myself, a word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, so that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue swear."}, {"pk": 2710246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cOne shall say, \u2018Only in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do I have righteousness and strength\u2019 \u2014 he comes to Him. And all those displeased with Him shall be put to shame."}, {"pk": 2710247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 45, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIn \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 all the seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be declared right and boast.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "text": "B\u0115l has bowed down, Neb\u0331o is stooping, their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. That which is carried is burdensome, a burden to the weary."}, {"pk": 2710249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "text": "They have stooped, they have bowed down together, they were unable to deliver the burden, but they themselves went into captivity."}, {"pk": 2710250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, O house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who are borne from the belly, who are carried from the womb:"}, {"pk": 2710251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "text": "even to your old age, I am He, and even to grey hairs I carry! I have made and I bear, and I carry and rescue."}, {"pk": 2710252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cTo whom do you liken Me, and compare Me and make Me similar, that we should be alike?"}, {"pk": 2710253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThey pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scale. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a mighty one. They fall down, they also bow themselves."}, {"pk": 2710254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThey bear it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands \u2014 from its place it does not move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer, nor save him from his distress."}, {"pk": 2710255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cRemember this, and show yourselves men; turn it back, you transgressors."}, {"pk": 2710256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cRemember the former <i>events</i> of old, for I am \u011al, and there is no one else \u2014 Elohim, and there is no one like Me,"}, {"pk": 2710257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "text": "declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yet been done, saying, \u2018My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "text": "calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a distant land. Indeed I have spoken it, I also bring it to pass. I have planned it, I also do it."}, {"pk": 2710259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:"}, {"pk": 2710260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 46, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI shall bring My righteousness near, it is not far off, and My deliverance, it is not delayed. And I shall give deliverance in Tsiyon, My esteem to Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cCome down and sit in the dust, O maiden daughter of Bab\u0331el. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Kasdim! For no more do they call you tender and delicate."}, {"pk": 2710262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, pass through rivers."}, {"pk": 2710263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLet your nakedness be uncovered, let your shame also be exposed. I take vengeance, and meet no man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "text": "Our Redeemer, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of Kasdim! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns."}, {"pk": 2710266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI was wroth with My people, I have profaned My inheritance and I gave them into your hand. You showed them no compassion, you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly."}, {"pk": 2710267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you said, \u2018I am mistress forever,\u2019 so that you did not take these <i>matters</i> to heart, and did not remember the latter end of them."}, {"pk": 2710268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd now, hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who dwells complacently, who says in your heart, \u2018I am, and there is none but me. I do not sit as a widow, nor do I know the loss of children.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBoth of these come to you suddenly, in one day: the loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in completeness, because of your many witchcrafts, for your numerous great potent spells."}, {"pk": 2710270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you have trusted in your evil, you have said, \u2018No one sees me.\u2019 Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, \u2018I am, and there is none but me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut evil shall come upon you, you not knowing from where it arises, and trouble fall upon you, you being unable to put it off, and ruin come upon you suddenly, which you know not."}, {"pk": 2710272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cStand now with your potent spells and your many witchcrafts, in which you have laboured from your youth, if so be you are able to profit, if so be you find strength."}, {"pk": 2710273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou are exhausted by your many counsels; let the astrologers, the stargazers, and those who prognosticate by the new <i>moons</i> stand up and save you from what is coming upon you."}, {"pk": 2710274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSee, they shall be as stubble, fire shall burn them, they do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, there is not a coal to be warmed by, nor a fire to sit before it!"}, {"pk": 2710275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 47, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSo they shall be to you with whom you have laboured, your merchants from your youth. They shall wander, each one his own way, there is none to save you."}, {"pk": 2710276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cHear this, O house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, who are called by the name of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and have come from the waters of Yehud\u0331ah, who swear by the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and profess the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 <i>though</i> not in truth or in righteousness \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "text": "for they call themselves after the set-apart city, and lean on the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name:"}, {"pk": 2710278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI have declared the former <i>events</i> from the beginning, and they went forth from My mouth, and I made you hear them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to be."}, {"pk": 2710279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBecause I knew that you were hard, and your neck was an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze,"}, {"pk": 2710280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "text": "therefore I declared it to you long ago. Before it came I made you hear, lest you should say, \u2018My idol has done them, and my carved image and my moulded image commanded them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou have heard, look at them all. And do you not declare it? From now on I shall make you hear new ones, even hidden ones, which you have not known."}, {"pk": 2710282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNow they shall be created and not long ago. And before this day you have not heard them, lest you should say, \u2018Look, I knew them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cNo, you have not heard; no, you have not known; no, from of old your ear has not been open. Because I knew that you are indeed treacherous, and are called \u2018a transgressor from the womb.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor My Name\u2019s sake I postponed My displeasure, and for My praise I held it back from you, so as not to cut you off."}, {"pk": 2710285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.", "comment": "See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/8/2-16'>8:2-16</a>"}, {"pk": 2710286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor My own sake, for My own sake, I do it. For how is it profaned? And My esteem I do not give to another."}, {"pk": 2710287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last."}, {"pk": 2710288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAlso, My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I call to them, let them stand together."}, {"pk": 2710289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAll of you, gather yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these? \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has loved him. Let him do His pleasure on Bab\u0331el, and His arm be on the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2710290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI, I have spoken, I have also called him, I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous."}, {"pk": 2710291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cCome near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, I was there. And now the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent Me, and His Spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 17, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, teaching you what is best, leading you by the way you should go."}, {"pk": 2710293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cIf only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea."}, {"pk": 2710294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd your seed would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your inward parts like the grains of sand. His name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me."}, {"pk": 2710295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cCome out of Bab\u0331el! Flee from the Kasdim! Declare this with a voice of singing, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth! Say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has redeemed His servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 21, "text": "And they did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He caused waters from a rock to flow for them; He split the rock, and waters gushed out."}, {"pk": 2710297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 48, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThere is no peace for the wrong,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "text": "Listen to Me, O coastlands, and hear, you peoples from afar! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has called Me from the womb, from My mother\u2019s belly He has caused My Name to be remembered."}, {"pk": 2710299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "text": "And He made My mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand He hid Me, and made Me a polished shaft. In His quiver He hid Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to Me, \u2018You are My servant, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in whom I am adorned.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "text": "And I said, \u2018I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for emptiness, and in vain. But my right-ruling is with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and my work with my Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "text": "And now said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Ya\u201baqob\u0331 back to Him, though Yisra\u2019\u0115l is not gathered to Him, yet I am esteemed in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and My Elohim has been My strength \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "text": "and He says, \u201cShall it be a small <i>matter</i> for You to be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and to bring back the preserved ones of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? And I shall give You as a light to the nations, to be My deliverance to the ends of the earth!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Redeemer of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, their Set-apart One, to the despised, to the loathed One of the nation, to the Servant of rulers, \u201cSovereigns shall see and arise, rulers also shall bow themselves, because of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is steadfast, the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And He has chosen You!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIn a favourable time I shall answer You, and in the day of deliverance I shall help You \u2014 and I guard You and give You for a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the ruined inheritances,"}, {"pk": 2710306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "text": "to say to the prisoners, \u2018Go out,\u2019 to those who are in darkness, \u2018Show yourselves.\u2019 Let them feed on the ways, and let their pasture be on all bare hills."}, {"pk": 2710307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThey shall not hunger nor thirst, neither heat or sun strike them, for He who has compassion on them shall lead them, even by fountains of water guide them."}, {"pk": 2710308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make all My mountains a way, and My highways raised up."}, {"pk": 2710309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSee, these come from far away, and see, those from the north and the west, and these from the land of Sinim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "text": "Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall comfort His people and have compassion on His afflicted ones."}, {"pk": 2710311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "text": "But Tsiyon says, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has forsaken me, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has forgotten me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWould a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Though they forget, I never forget you."}, {"pk": 2710313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSee, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are always before Me."}, {"pk": 2710314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYour sons shall hurry, your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart from you."}, {"pk": 2710315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cLift up your eyes round about and see, all of them gather together and come to you. As I live,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cyou shall put on all of them as an ornament, and bind them on you as a bride does."}, {"pk": 2710316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor your wastes, and your deserted places, and the land of your destruction, shall soon be too narrow for the inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up are far away."}, {"pk": 2710317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, \u2018The place is too narrow for me, make room for me to live.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say in your heart, \u2018Who has brought forth these for me, since I am bereaved and barren, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who reared them? See, I was left alone \u2014 from where did these come?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I lift My hand up to the nations, and set up My banner for the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters carried on their shoulders;"}, {"pk": 2710320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd sovereigns shall be your foster fathers, and their sovereignesses your nursing mothers. They bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 24, "text": "Is prey taken from the mighty, and the captives of the righteous delivered?"}, {"pk": 2710322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 25, "text": "Yet thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cEven the captives of the mighty are taken away, and the prey of the ruthless is delivered; and I strive with him who strives with you, and I save your children."}, {"pk": 2710323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 49, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and let them drink their own blood as sweet wine. All flesh shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Mighty <i>One</i> of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhere is the certificate of your mother\u2019s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions."}, {"pk": 2710325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhen I came, why was there no man? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was My hand too short to ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? See, by My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for there is not water, and die of thirst."}, {"pk": 2710326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make sackcloth their covering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to hear as taught ones."}, {"pk": 2710328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away."}, {"pk": 2710329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "text": "I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out <i>the beard</i>, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting."}, {"pk": 2710330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "text": "And the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 helps Me, therefore I shall not be humiliated. So I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I am not put to shame."}, {"pk": 2710331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "text": "Near is He who declares Me right. Who would contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me."}, {"pk": 2710332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "text": "See, the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 helps Me. Who would declare Me wrong? See, all of them wear out like a garment, a moth eats them."}, {"pk": 2710333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "text": "Who among you is fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, obeying the voice of His Servant, that has walked in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and lean upon his Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2710334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "text": "See, all you who light a fire, girding on burning arrows: walk in the light of your fire and in the burning arrows you have lit. From My hand you shall have this: you shall lie down in grief!"}, {"pk": 2710335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: Look to the rock you were hewn from, and to the hole of the pit you were dug from."}, {"pk": 2710336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cLook to Ab\u0331raham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For he was alone when I called him, and I blessed him and increased him."}, {"pk": 2710337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall comfort Tsiyon, He shall comfort all her waste places. For He makes her wilderness like \u011ad\u0331en, and her desert like the garden of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Joy and gladness are found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of song."}, {"pk": 2710338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, My people, and give ear to Me, O My nation, for the Torah goes forth from Me, and My right-ruling I set as a light to peoples."}, {"pk": 2710339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cMy righteousness is near, My deliverance shall go forth, and My arms judge peoples. Coastlands wait upon Me, and for My arm they wait expectantly."}, {"pk": 2710340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath, for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth wear out like a garment, and those who dwell in it die as gnats. But My deliverance is forever, and My righteousness is not broken."}, {"pk": 2710341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cListen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings."}, {"pk": 2710342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor a moth eats them like a garment, and a worm eats them like wool; but My righteousness is forever, and My deliverance to all generations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 9, "text": "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Awake as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You who cut Rahab\u0331 apart, and pierced the Crocodile?"}, {"pk": 2710344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 10, "text": "Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?"}, {"pk": 2710345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 11, "text": "And let the ransomed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 return. And they shall come to Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. Let them attain joy and gladness; sorrow and sighing shall flee away."}, {"pk": 2710346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI, I am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid of man that dies, and of the son of man who is made like grass?"}, {"pk": 2710347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you have forgotten \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Maker who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you continually fear, all the day, because of the rage of the oppressor, as he has prepared to destroy. And where is the rage of the oppressor?"}, {"pk": 2710348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBowed, he hastens to be loosened, that he should not die in the pit, and that his bread should not fail."}, {"pk": 2710349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, stirring up the sea, and its waves roar. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name."}, {"pk": 2710350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I have put My Words in your mouth, and with the shadow of My hand I have covered you, to plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Tsiyon, \u2018You are My people.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 17, "text": "Awake, awake yourself! Rise up, O Yerushalayim, you who have drunk at the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the cup of His wrath. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of reeling, and drained it out."}, {"pk": 2710352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 18, "text": "Of all the sons she bore, she has none to guide her. And of all the sons she has brought up, none is strengthening her hand."}, {"pk": 2710353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 19, "text": "Both these are coming upon you \u2014 who is sorry for you?: Ruin and destruction, scarcity of food and sword. How shall I comfort you?"}, {"pk": 2710354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 20, "text": "Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a gazelle in a net. They are filled with the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the rebuke of your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore please hear this, you afflicted and drunk, but not with wine."}, {"pk": 2710356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus said your Master, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and your Elohim, who pleads the cause of His people, \u201cSee, I shall take out of your hand the cup of reeling, the dregs of the cup of My wrath \u2014 never again shall you drink it."}, {"pk": 2710357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 51, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your being, \u2018Bow down, and we pass over you.\u2019 And you made your back like the ground, and as the street, to walk over.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 1, "text": "Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Tsiyon, put on your garments of splendour, O Yerushalayim, the set-apart city! For no more do the uncircumcised and the unclean come into you."}, {"pk": 2710359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 2, "text": "Shake yourself from the dust, arise, and sit down, O Yerushalayim. Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Tsiyon!"}, {"pk": 2710360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 3, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou have been sold for naught, and you are redeemed not with silver.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 4, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAt first My people went down into Mitsrayim to sojourn there, and Ashshur oppressed them without cause."}, {"pk": 2710362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now, what have I here,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat My people are taken away for naught? Those who rule over them make them wail,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand My Name is despised all day continually.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/10'>74:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/18'>74:18</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/7'>20:7</a> and Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/11'>5:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2710363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore My people shall know My Name, in that day, for I am the One who is speaking. See, it is I.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 7, "text": "How pleasant upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news, who proclaims deliverance, who says to Tsiyon, \u201cYour Elohim reigns!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 8, "text": "The voice of your watchmen! They shall lift up their voices, together they shout for joy, because eye to eye they see the return of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2710366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 9, "text": "Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Yerushalayim! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall comfort His people, He shall redeem Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2710367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall lay bare His set-apart arm in the eyes of all the nations. And all the ends of the earth shall see the deliverance of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 11, "text": "Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 12, "text": "For you shall not come out in haste, nor go in flight. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is going before you, and the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is your rear guard."}, {"pk": 2710370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 13, "text": "See, My Servant shall work wisely, He shall be exalted and lifted up and very high."}, {"pk": 2710371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 14, "text": "As many were astonished at You \u2014 so the disfigurement beyond any man\u2019s and His form beyond the sons of men \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 52, "verse": 15, "text": "He shall likewise startle many nations. Sovereigns shut their mouths at Him, for what had not been recounted to them they shall see, and what they had not heard they shall understand."}, {"pk": 2710373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 1, "text": "Who has believed our report? And to whom was the arm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 revealed?"}, {"pk": 2710374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 2, "text": "For He grew up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or splendour that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should desire Him \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 3, "text": "despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and knowing sickness. And as one from whom the face is hidden, being despised, and we did not consider Him."}, {"pk": 2710376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 4, "text": "Truly, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned Him smitten, stricken by Elohim, and afflicted."}, {"pk": 2710377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 5, "text": "But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed."}, {"pk": 2710378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 6, "text": "We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has laid on Him the crookedness of us all."}, {"pk": 2710379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 7, "text": "He was oppressed and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, but He did not open His mouth."}, {"pk": 2710380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 8, "text": "He was taken from prison and from judgment. And as for His generation, who considered that He shall be cut off from the land of the living? For the transgression of My people He was stricken."}, {"pk": 2710381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 9, "text": "And He was appointed a burial-site with the wrong, and with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was deceit in His mouth.", "comment": "See 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/22'>2:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2710382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 10, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was pleased to crush Him, He laid sickness on Him, that when He made Himself an offering for guilt, He would see a seed, He would prolong His days and the pleasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 prosper in His hand."}, {"pk": 2710383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 11, "text": "He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2710384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 53, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore I give Him a portion among the great, and He divides the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His being unto death, and He was counted with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."}, {"pk": 2710385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cSing, O barren one, you who did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the deserted one are more than the children of the married woman,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cEnlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not. Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes."}, {"pk": 2710387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor you shall break forth to the right and to the left, and your seed inherit the nations, and make the deserted cities inhabited."}, {"pk": 2710388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not fear, for you shall not be put to shame, nor hurt, you shall not be humiliated. For the shame of your youth you shall forget, and not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more."}, {"pk": 2710389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor your Maker is your husband, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name, and the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2710390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when you were refused,\u201d declares your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor a little while I have forsaken you, but with great compassion I shall gather you."}, {"pk": 2710392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIn an overflow of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving-commitment I shall have compassion on you,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Redeemer."}, {"pk": 2710393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor this is the waters of Noah\u0323 to Me, in that I have sworn that the waters of Noah\u0323 would never again cover the earth, so have I sworn not to be wroth with you, nor to rebuke you."}, {"pk": 2710394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor though the mountains be removed and the hills be shaken, My loving-commitment is not removed from you, nor is My covenant of peace shaken,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has compassion on you."}, {"pk": 2710395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cO you afflicted one, tossed with storm, and not comforted, see, I am setting your stones in antimony, and shall lay your foundations with sapphires,"}, {"pk": 2710396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 12, "text": "and shall make your battlements of rubies, your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones,"}, {"pk": 2710397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 13, "text": "and all your children taught by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the peace of your children great."}, {"pk": 2710398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIn righteousness you shall be established \u2014 far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and <i>far</i> from ruin, for it does not come near you."}, {"pk": 2710399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSee, they shall indeed assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever shall assemble against you falls for your sake!"}, {"pk": 2710400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSee, I Myself have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work. And I have created the waster to destroy."}, {"pk": 2710401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 54, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cNo weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall prove wrong. This is the inheritance of the servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their righteousness from Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cOh everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And you who have no silver, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without silver and without price."}, {"pk": 2710403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhy do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and your labour for what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to Me, and eat what is good, and let your being delight itself in fatness."}, {"pk": 2710404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cIncline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, so that your being lives. And let Me make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loving-commitments of Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2710405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, I have given Him as a witness to the people, a Leader and a Commander for the people."}, {"pk": 2710406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, a nation you do not know you shall call, and a nation who does not know you run to you, because of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for He has adorned you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 6, "text": "Seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near."}, {"pk": 2710408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 7, "text": "Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much."}, {"pk": 2710409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."}, {"pk": 2710411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,"}, {"pk": 2710412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 11, "text": "so is My Word that goes forth from My mouth \u2014 it does not return to Me empty, but shall do what I please, and shall certainly accomplish what I sent it for."}, {"pk": 2710413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor with joy you go out, and with peace you are brought in \u2014 the mountains and the hills break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field clap the hands."}, {"pk": 2710414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 55, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cInstead of the thorn the cypress comes up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle comes up. And it shall be to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for a name, for an everlasting sign which is not cut off.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cGuard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed."}, {"pk": 2710416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBlessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who becomes strong in it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and guarding his hand from doing any evil."}, {"pk": 2710417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speak, saying, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has certainly separated me from His people,\u2019 nor let the eunuch say, \u2018Look I am a dry tree.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 4, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cTo the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths, and have chosen what pleases Me, and are holding onto My covenant:"}, {"pk": 2710419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 5, "text": "to them I shall give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters \u2014 I give them an everlasting name that is not cut off."}, {"pk": 2710420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAlso the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to serve Him, and to love the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and are holding onto My covenant \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 7, "text": "them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their ascending offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My slaughter-place, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 8, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who gathers the outcasts of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, declares, \u201cI gather still <i>others</i> to him besides those who are gathered to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 9, "text": "All you beasts of the field, come to devour, all you beasts in the forest."}, {"pk": 2710424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 10, "text": "His watchmen are blind, all of them, they have not known. All of them are dumb dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber."}, {"pk": 2710425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 11, "text": "And the dogs have a strong appetite, they never have enough. And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding. All of them look to their own way, every one for his own gain, from his own end, <i>saying</i>,"}, {"pk": 2710426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 56, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cCome, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 1, "text": "The righteous one has perished, and no one takes it to heart. And committed men are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous one is taken away from the presence of evil,"}, {"pk": 2710428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 2, "text": "he enters into peace. They who walk in integrity rest on their beds."}, {"pk": 2710429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBut come here, you sons of the sorceress, you offspring of the adulterer and the whore!"}, {"pk": 2710430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 4, "text": "Against whom are you sporting? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood,"}, {"pk": 2710431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 5, "text": "being inflamed with mighty ones under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?"}, {"pk": 2710432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAmong the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they, are your lot! Also to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Am I comforted in these?"}, {"pk": 2710433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cOn a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. There, too, you went up to slaughter a slaughtering."}, {"pk": 2710434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAlso behind the doors and their posts you have set up your remembrance. For you have departed from Me, and have gone up to them. You have made your bed wide and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their hand."}, {"pk": 2710435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you went to the sovereign with ointment, and increased your perfumes. And you sent your messengers far off, and lowered yourself even to She\u2019ol."}, {"pk": 2710436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou have wearied yourselves with your many wanderings, yet you did not say, \u2018I give up!\u2019 You have found the life of your hand, therefore you were not grieved."}, {"pk": 2710437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd of whom have you been afraid, or feared, that you have lied and not remembered Me, nor taken it to your heart? Have I not been silent, even from of old, and you have not feared Me?"}, {"pk": 2710438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cLet Me declare your righteousness and your works, for they do not profit you."}, {"pk": 2710439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWhen you cry out, let your collection <i>of idols</i> deliver you. But the wind shall bear them all away, a breath take them. But he who takes refuge in Me shall inherit the land, and possess My set-apart mountain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 14, "text": "And one shall say, \u201cHeap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, take the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 15, "text": "For thus declares the high and exalted One who dwells forever, whose Name is set-apart, \u201cI dwell in the high and set-apart place, with him who has a bruised and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of bruised ones."}, {"pk": 2710442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor I would not strive forever, nor am I wroth forever, for the spirit would grow faint before Me, even the beings I have made."}, {"pk": 2710443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor the crookedness of his unfair gain I was wroth and I struck him. I hid Myself and was wroth, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart."}, {"pk": 2710444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI have seen his ways, but <i>now</i> I heal him, and I lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners,"}, {"pk": 2710445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 19, "text": "creating the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand I shall heal him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 20, "text": "But the wrong are like the troubled sea, for it is unable to rest, and its waters cast up mud and dirt."}, {"pk": 2710447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 57, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThere is no peace,\u201d said my Elohim, \u201cfor the wrong.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cCry aloud, do not spare. Lift up your voice like the shophar. Declare to My people their transgression, and the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 their sins."}, {"pk": 2710449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cYet they seek Me day by day, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the right-ruling of their Elohim. They ask of Me rulings of righteousness, they delight in drawing near to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>They say</i>, \u2018Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?\u2019 \u201dLook, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers."}, {"pk": 2710451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cLook, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high."}, {"pk": 2710452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIs it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2710453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIs this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?"}, {"pk": 2710454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIs it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?"}, {"pk": 2710455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThen your light would break forth like the morning, your healing spring forth speedily. And your righteousness shall go before you, the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would be your rear guard."}, {"pk": 2710456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThen, when you call, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would answer; when you cry, He would say, \u2018Here I am.\u2019 \u201dIf you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and the speaking of unrighteousness,"}, {"pk": 2710457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 10, "text": "if you extend your being to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted being, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness be as noon."}, {"pk": 2710458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 would guide you continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and strengthen your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail."}, {"pk": 2710459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. And you would be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In."}, {"pk": 2710460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIf you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart <i>day</i>, and shall call the Sabbath \u2018a delight,\u2019 the set-apart day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2018esteemed,\u2019 and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,"}, {"pk": 2710461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 58, "verse": 14, "text": "then you shall delight yourself in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 your father. For the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 1, "text": "Look, the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not become too short to save, nor His ear too heavy to hear."}, {"pk": 2710463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 2, "text": "But your crookednesses have separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing."}, {"pk": 2710464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 3, "text": "For your hands have been defiled with blood, and your fingers with crookedness; your lips have spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2710465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 4, "text": "No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness."}, {"pk": 2710466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 5, "text": "They have hatched adders\u2019 eggs and they weave the spider\u2019s web. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is broken an adder is hatched."}, {"pk": 2710467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 6, "text": "Their webs do not become garments, nor do they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of wickedness, and a deed of violence is in their hands."}, {"pk": 2710468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 7, "text": "Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness, wasting and ruin are in their highways."}, {"pk": 2710469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 8, "text": "The way of peace they have not known, and there is no right-ruling in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves, whoever treads in them shall not know peace."}, {"pk": 2710470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore right-ruling has been far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness!"}, {"pk": 2710471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 10, "text": "We feel for the wall like the blind, and we feel as without eyes. At noon we stumble as at twilight, in deserted places, like the dead."}, {"pk": 2710472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 11, "text": "All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us."}, {"pk": 2710473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 12, "text": "For our transgressions have increased before You, and our sins witnessed against us. For our transgressions are with us, and as for our crookednesses, we know them:"}, {"pk": 2710474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 13, "text": "transgressing, and being untrue to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and turning away from our Elohim, speaking oppression and apostasy, conceiving and pondering words of falsehood from the heart."}, {"pk": 2710475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 14, "text": "And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.", "comment": "See Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/5/7'>5:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2710476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 15, "text": "And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2710477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 16, "text": "And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld him."}, {"pk": 2710478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 17, "text": "And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of deliverance on His head. And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped Himself with ardour as a mantle."}, {"pk": 2710479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 18, "text": "According to their deeds, so He repays, wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies. He repays recompense to the coastlands."}, {"pk": 2710480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 19, "text": "And they shall fear the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the west, and His esteem from the rising of the sun, when distress comes like a flood, the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 drives at it.", "comment": "Lit. \u201cin\u201d it."}, {"pk": 2710481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the Redeemer shall come to Tsiyon, and to those turning from transgression in Ya\u201baqob\u0331,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@290 24:23>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/23'>24:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2710482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 59, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAs for Me, this is My covenant with them,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: \u201cMy Spirit that is upon you, and My Words that I have put in your mouth, shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants\u2019 descendants,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cfrom this time and forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cArise, shine, for your light has come! And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has risen upon you."}, {"pk": 2710484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFor look, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness the peoples. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 arises over you, and His esteem is seen upon you."}, {"pk": 2710485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the nations shall come to your light, and sovereigns to the brightness of your rising.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/19'>60:19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/60/20'>20</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/23'>21:23</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/21/24'>24</a>"}, {"pk": 2710486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cLift up your eyes all around and see: all of them have gathered, they have come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are supported on the side."}, {"pk": 2710487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThen you shall see and be bright, and your heart shall throb and swell, for the wealth of the sea is turned to you, the riches of the nations come to you."}, {"pk": 2710488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cA stream of camels cover your land, the dromedaries of Mid\u0331yan and \u011aphah; all those from Sheb\u0331a come, bearing gold and incense, and proclaiming the praises of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll the flocks of Q\u0115d\u0331ar are gathered to you, the rams of Neb\u0331ayoth serve you; they come up for acceptance on My slaughter-place, and I embellish My esteemed House."}, {"pk": 2710490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWho are these who fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?"}, {"pk": 2710491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBecause the coastlands wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, to the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and to the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because He has adorned you."}, {"pk": 2710492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have stricken you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you."}, {"pk": 2710493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd your gates shall be open continually, they are not shut day or night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their sovereigns in procession."}, {"pk": 2710494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor the nation and the reign that do not serve you shall perish, and those nations shall be utterly laid waste."}, {"pk": 2710495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe esteem of Leb\u0331anon shall come to you, cypress, pine, and the box tree together, to embellish the place of My set-apart place. And I shall make the place of My feet esteemed."}, {"pk": 2710496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the sons of those who afflicted you come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall bow themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you: City of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Tsiyon of the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cInstead of you being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through you, I shall make you an everlasting excellence, a joy of many generations."}, {"pk": 2710498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall suck the milk of the nations, and shall suckle the breast of sovereigns. And you shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, your Saviour and your Redeemer, am the Mighty <i>One</i> of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2710499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cInstead of bronze I bring gold, and instead of iron I bring silver, and bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. And I shall make your officers peace, and your magistrates righteousness."}, {"pk": 2710500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cViolence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor ruin within your borders. And you shall call your walls Deliverance, and your gates Praise."}, {"pk": 2710501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cNo longer is the sun your light by day, nor does the moon give light to you for brightness, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be to you an everlasting light, and your Elohim your comeliness."}, {"pk": 2710502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cNo longer does your sun go down, nor your moon withdraw itself, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended."}, {"pk": 2710503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd your people, all of them righteous, shall inherit the earth forever \u2014 a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to be adorned."}, {"pk": 2710504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 60, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThe little shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, shall hasten it in its time.\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/41/14'>41:14</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/34-44'>2:34-44</a>"}, {"pk": 2710505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 1, "text": "The Spirit of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon Me, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,"}, {"pk": 2710506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 2, "text": "to proclaim the acceptable year of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn,"}, {"pk": 2710507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 3, "text": "to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to be adorned."}, {"pk": 2710508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 4, "text": "And they shall rebuild the old ruins, raise up the former wastes. And they shall restore the ruined cities, the wastes of many generations."}, {"pk": 2710509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 5, "text": "And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner be your ploughmen and your vinedressers."}, {"pk": 2710510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 6, "text": "But you shall be called, \u2018Priests of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 \u2018Servants of our Elohim\u2019 shall be said of you. You shall consume the strength of the nations, and boast in their esteem."}, {"pk": 2710511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 7, "text": "Instead of your shame and reproach, they rejoice a second time in their portion. Therefore they take possession a second time in their land, everlasting joy is theirs."}, {"pk": 2710512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, love right-ruling; I hate robbery for ascending offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them."}, {"pk": 2710513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has blessed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 10, "text": "I greatly rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels."}, {"pk": 2710515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 61, "verse": 11, "text": "For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the seed to shoot up, so the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 causes righteousness and praise to shoot up before all the nations!"}, {"pk": 2710516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 1, "text": "For Tsiyon\u2019s sake I am not silent, and for Yerushalayim\u2019s sake I do not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her deliverance as a lamp that burns."}, {"pk": 2710517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 2, "text": "And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all sovereigns your esteem. And you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 designates."}, {"pk": 2710518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 3, "text": "And you shall be a crown of comeliness in the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and a royal head-dress in the hand of your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 4, "text": "No longer are you called \u201cForsaken,\u201d and no longer is your land called \u201cDeserted.\u201d But you shall be called \u201cH\u0323ephtsib\u0331ah,\u201d and your land \u201cMarried,\u201d for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall delight in you, and your land be married."}, {"pk": 2710520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 5, "text": "For as a young man marries a maiden, so shall your sons marry you. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your Elohim rejoice over you."}, {"pk": 2710521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 6, "text": "I have set watchmen on your walls, O Yerushalayim, all the day and all the night, continually, who are not silent. You who remember \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, give yourselves no rest,"}, {"pk": 2710522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 7, "text": "and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Yerushalayim a praise in the earth."}, {"pk": 2710523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn by His right hand and by the arm of His strength, \u201cNo more do I give your grain to be food for your enemies, nor do sons of the foreigner drink your new wine, for which you have laboured;"}, {"pk": 2710524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 9, "text": "but those gathering it shall eat it, and praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And those collecting it shall drink it in My set-apart courts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 10, "text": "Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Lift up a banner for the peoples!"}, {"pk": 2710526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 11, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has proclaimed to the end of the earth: \u201cSay to the daughter of Tsiyon, \u2018See, your deliverance has come; see, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 62, "verse": 12, "text": "And they shall be called, \u201cThe Set-apart People, the Redeemed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d And you shall be called, \u201cSought Out, a City Not Forsaken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 1, "text": "Who is this coming from Ed\u0331om, with garments of glowing colours from Botsrah, who is robed in splendour, striding forward in the greatness of His strength? \u201cIt is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 2, "text": "Why is there red on Your raiment, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?"}, {"pk": 2710530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with Me. And I trod them down in My displeasure, and I trampled them in My wrath. Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have defiled all My raiment."}, {"pk": 2710531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor a day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come."}, {"pk": 2710532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I looked, but there was none helping, and I was astonished that there was none upholding. So My own arm saved for Me, and My wrath upheld Me."}, {"pk": 2710533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I trod down peoples in My displeasure, and made them drunk in My wrath, and brought down their strength to earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 7, "text": "Let me recount the loving-commitments of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and the praises of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which He has done for them according to His compassion, and according to His many loving-commitments."}, {"pk": 2710535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 8, "text": "And He said, \u201cThey are My people, children who do not act falsely.\u201d And He became their Saviour."}, {"pk": 2710536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 9, "text": "In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old."}, {"pk": 2710537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 10, "text": "But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them."}, {"pk": 2710538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 11, "text": "Then He remembered the days of old, Mosheh, His people, \u201cWhere is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Set-apart Spirit within him,"}, {"pk": 2710539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 12, "text": "who led them by the right hand of Mosheh, with His comely arm, dividing the water before them to make for Himself an everlasting Name,"}, {"pk": 2710540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 13, "text": "who led them through the deep? Like a horse in the wilderness they did not stumble.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 14, "text": "As a beast goes down into the valley, and the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 causes him to rest, so You led Your people, to make Yourself a comely Name."}, {"pk": 2710542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 15, "text": "Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling. Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld?"}, {"pk": 2710543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 16, "text": "For You are our Father, though Ab\u0331raham does not know us, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l does not recognise us. You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are our Father, our Redeemer \u2014 Your Name is from of old."}, {"pk": 2710544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 17, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our heart from Your fear? Turn back, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your inheritance."}, {"pk": 2710545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 18, "text": "For a little while Your set-apart people possessed it \u2014 our adversaries have trodden down Your set-apart place.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/74/1'>74</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/1'>79</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/51'>51:51</a>; Lam. <a href='/TS2009/25/1/10'>1:10</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/8/13'>8:13</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/11/31'>11:31</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2710546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 63, "verse": 19, "text": "We have become like those over whom You never ruled \u2014 Your Name is not called on them!"}, {"pk": 2710547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 1, "text": "Oh, that You would tear the heavens open, come down, that mountains shall shake before You \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 2, "text": "as when fire burns twigs, as fire makes water boil \u2014 to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that nations tremble before You."}, {"pk": 2710549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 3, "text": "When You did awesome <i>matters</i>, which we did not expect, You came down, mountains did shake before You!"}, {"pk": 2710550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 4, "text": "Since the beginning of the ages they have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any Elohim besides You, who acts for those who wait for Him."}, {"pk": 2710551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 5, "text": "You shall meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways. See, You were wroth when we sinned in them a long time. And should we be saved?"}, {"pk": 2710552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 6, "text": "And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away."}, {"pk": 2710553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 7, "text": "And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to be strengthened in You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.", "comment": "Commonly understood as \u201cTake hold of.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 8, "text": "And now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand."}, {"pk": 2710555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not be wroth, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor remember crookedness forever. See, please look, all of us are Your people!"}, {"pk": 2710556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 10, "text": "Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste."}, {"pk": 2710557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 11, "text": "Our set-apart and comely House, where our fathers praised You, has been burned up with fire. And all that we treasured has become a ruin."}, {"pk": 2710558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 64, "verse": 12, "text": "In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?"}, {"pk": 2710559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cI have let Myself be inquired of, not by those who asked; I was found, not by those who sought Me. I said, \u2018Here I am, here I am,\u2019 to a nation not calling on My Name."}, {"pk": 2710560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI have held out My hands all day long to a stubborn people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;"}, {"pk": 2710561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 3, "text": "the people who provoke Me continually to My face, who slaughter in gardens, and burn incense on slaughter-places of brick;"}, {"pk": 2710562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 4, "text": "who sit among the burial-sites, and spend the night in secret places, who eat flesh of pigs, and the broth of unclean <i>meat</i> is in their pots,", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/17'>66:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2710563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 5, "text": "who say, \u2018Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set-apart to you!\u2019 These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day."}, {"pk": 2710564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSee, it is written before Me: I am not silent, but shall repay, and I shall repay into their bosom,"}, {"pk": 2710565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 7, "text": "your crookednesses and the crookednesses of your fathers together,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwho burned incense on the mountains and reproached Me on the hills. And I shall measure their former work into their bosom.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 8, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs the new wine is found in the cluster, and one shall say, \u2018Do not destroy it, for there is blessing in it,\u2019 so I do for My servants\u2019 sake, not to destroy them all."}, {"pk": 2710567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring forth a seed from Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and from Yehud\u0331ah an heir of My mountains. And My chosen ones shall inherit it, and My servants dwell there."}, {"pk": 2710568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Ak\u0331or a place for herds to lie down, for My people who have sought Me."}, {"pk": 2710569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut you are those who forsake \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who forget My set-apart mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni."}, {"pk": 2710570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall allot you to the sword, and let you all bow down to the slaughter, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not hear, and you did evil before My eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, My servants eat, but you hunger; see, My servants drink, but you thirst; see, My servants rejoice, but you are put to shame;"}, {"pk": 2710572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 14, "text": "see, My servants sing for joy of heart, but you cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for breaking of spirit."}, {"pk": 2710573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen, for the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall put you to death, and call His servants by another name,"}, {"pk": 2710574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 16, "text": "so that he who blesses himself in the earth does bless himself in the Elohim of truth. And he who swears in the earth does swear by the Elohim of truth. Because the former distresses shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from My eyes."}, {"pk": 2710575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am creating new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to heart."}, {"pk": 2710576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for look, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy."}, {"pk": 2710577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall rejoice in Yerushalayim, and shall joy in My people, and let the voice of weeping no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying."}, {"pk": 2710578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cNo more is an infant from there going to live but a few days, nor an old man who does not complete his days, for the youth dies one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be lightly esteemed."}, {"pk": 2710579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall build houses and inhabit them, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit."}, {"pk": 2710580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThey shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of My people are going to be as the days of a tree, and My chosen ones outlive the work of their hands."}, {"pk": 2710581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThey shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble. For they are the seed of the blessed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their offspring with them."}, {"pk": 2710582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that before they call, I answer. And while they are still speaking, I hear."}, {"pk": 2710583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 65, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cWolf and lamb feed together, a lion eats straw as an ox, and dust is the snake\u2019s food. They shall do no evil, nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?"}, {"pk": 2710585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd all these My hand has made, and all these that exist,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cYet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word."}, {"pk": 2710586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 3, "text": "\"<i>But</i> whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog\u2019s neck; whoever brings a grain offering \u2014 pig\u2019s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations."}, {"pk": 2710587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 5, "text": "Hear the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you who tremble at His Word, \u201cYour brothers who hate you, who cast you out for My Name\u2019s sake, said, \u2018Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be esteemed, so that we see your joy.\u2019 But they are put to shame.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cA roaring sound from the city, a voice from the H\u0115k\u0331al, the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, repaying His enemies!"}, {"pk": 2710590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBefore she laboured, she gave birth; before a pain came to her, she was delivered of a male child."}, {"pk": 2710591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWho has heard the like of this? Who has seen the like of these? Is a land brought forth in one day? Is a nation born at once? For as soon as Tsiyon laboured, she gave birth to her children."}, {"pk": 2710592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cShall I bring to birth, and not give delivery?\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cShall I who give delivery restrain birth?\u201d said your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cRejoice with Yerushalayim, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn for her;"}, {"pk": 2710594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 11, "text": "so that you feed, and shall be satisfied with the breast of her comforts, so that you drink deeply, and shall delight yourselves in her overflowing esteem.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 12, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am extending peace to her like a river, and the esteem of the nations like a flowing stream. And you shall feed; you shall be carried on the side, and be fondled on her knees."}, {"pk": 2710596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAs one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones flourish as tender grass. And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be known to His servants, and His displeasure to His enemies."}, {"pk": 2710598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor look, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His displeasure with burning, and His rebuke with flames of fire."}, {"pk": 2710599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor by fire and by His sword \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall judge all flesh, and the slain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be many \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 17, "text": "those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after \u2018one\u2019 in the midst, eating flesh of pigs and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/4'>65:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2710601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I, because of their works and their imaginations, am coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My esteem."}, {"pk": 2710602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations \u2014 Tarshish and Pul and Lud\u0331, who draw the bow, and Tub\u0331al and Yawan, the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem. And they shall declare My esteem among the nations."}, {"pk": 2710603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 out of all the nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cas the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd from them too I shall take for priests \u2014 for L\u0115wites,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cso your seed and your name shall stand."}, {"pk": 2710606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that from New <i>Moon</i> to New <i>Moon</i>, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Possible meaning: <em>Every week on the Sabbath</em>."}, {"pk": 2710607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 23, "chapter": 66, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/6'>24:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/2'>34:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/34/3'>3</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/6'>110:6</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/25/33'>25:33</a>"}, {"pk": 2710608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of Yirmeyahu the son of H\u0323ilqiyahu, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Binyamin,"}, {"pk": 2710609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "to whom the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came in the days of Yoshiyahu son of Amon, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the thirteenth year of his reign."}, {"pk": 2710610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came in the days of Yehoyaqim, son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, until the end of the eleventh year of Tsid\u0331qiyahu, son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, until the exile of Yerushalayim in the fifth new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2710611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Now the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBefore I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I did set you apart \u2014 I appointed you a prophet to nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And said I, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! See, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cDo not say, \u2018I am a youth,\u2019 but go to all to whom I send you, and speak whatever I command you."}, {"pk": 2710615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cDo not fear their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cSee, I have put My words in your mouth."}, {"pk": 2710617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee, I have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying, \u201cWhat do you see, Yirmeyahu?\u201d And I said, \u201cI see a branch of an almond tree.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cYou have seen well, for I am watching over My word to do it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me a second time, saying, \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d And I said, \u201cI see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cOut of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land."}, {"pk": 2710622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am calling all the clans of the reigns of the north,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd they shall come and each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Yerushalayim, against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2710623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall pronounce My judgments against them concerning all their evil, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense to other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to the works of their own hands."}, {"pk": 2710624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cNow, gird up your loins and arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not break down before their faces, lest I break you before them."}, {"pk": 2710625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor look, I have made you this day a walled city and an iron column, and bronze walls against all the land, against the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, against her heads, against her priests, and against the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2710626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall fight against you, but not prevail against you. For I am with you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cto deliver you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cGo, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI remember you, the loving-commitment of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown."}, {"pk": 2710629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l was set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the first-fruits of His increase. All who ate of it became guilty \u2014 evil came upon them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and all the clans of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhat unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?"}, {"pk": 2710632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd did not they say, \u2018Where is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, a land that no one passed through and where no one dwelt?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThen I brought you into a garden land, to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination."}, {"pk": 2710634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe priests did not say, \u2018Where is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u2019 And those who handle the Torah did not know Me, and the shepherds transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba\u201bal, and walked after <i>matters</i> that did not profit.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/21'>10:21</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/24/12/10'>12:10</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/12/11'>11</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/50/6'>50:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/50/7'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2710635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore I still contend with you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand with your children\u2019s children I contend."}, {"pk": 2710636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor, pass beyond the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Q\u0115d\u0331ar and observe well, and see if there has been any like this."}, {"pk": 2710637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHas a nation changed its mighty ones, which are not mighty ones? But My people have changed My esteem for that which does not profit.", "comment": "Symbolic name for His Ark."}, {"pk": 2710638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBe amazed, O heavens, at this, and be frightened, be utterly dried up,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not hold water.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/17/13'>17:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2710640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIs Yisra\u2019\u0115l a servant? Was he born in the house? Why is he given to plunder?"}, {"pk": 2710641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe young lions roared at him, they growled, and made his land waste; his cities have been burned, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2710642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cEven the sons of Noph and of Tah\u0323panh\u0323es have shaven the crown of your head."}, {"pk": 2710643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cHave you not done this to yourself, by forsaking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim when He led you in the way?"}, {"pk": 2710644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd now why take the way to Mitsrayim, to drink the waters of Shih\u0323or? Or why take the way to Ashshur, to drink the waters of the River?"}, {"pk": 2710645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cYour own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2710646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor of old I have broken your yoke and torn off your chastisements. And you said, \u2018I am not serving <i>You</i>,\u2019 when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.", "comment": "Heb. Or \u201ctransgressing\"."}, {"pk": 2710647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?"}, {"pk": 2710648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAlthough you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cHow do you say, \u2018I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba\u201bals\u2019? See your way in the valley, know what you have done: a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,"}, {"pk": 2710650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "a wild donkey used to the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the desire of her being \u2014 in her time of mating, who turns her away? All those who seek her need not weary themselves; in her month they find her.", "comment": "On heat.<br>Hebrew: Chodesh - New <em>moon</em>."}, {"pk": 2710651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cKeep your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, \u2018It is useless, because I love strangers, and after them I go.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAs the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so is the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l ashamed \u2014 they and their sovereigns and their heads, and their priests and their prophets,"}, {"pk": 2710653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "saying to a tree, \u2018You are my father,\u2019 and to a stone, \u2018You gave birth to me.\u2019 For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their calamity they say, \u2018Arise and save us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut where are your mighty ones that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, <i>see</i> if they save you in the time of your calamity. Because your mighty ones have become as many as your cities, O Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2710655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWhy do you complain to Me? You all have transgressed against Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIn vain have I stricken your children \u2014 they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion."}, {"pk": 2710657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cO generation, see the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Have I been a wilderness to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, Or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, \u2018We have broken loose; we come to You no more\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2710658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cWould a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her headband? Yet My people have forgotten Me, days without number."}, {"pk": 2710659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cWhy do you embellish your way to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the evil women your ways."}, {"pk": 2710660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cEven on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. You did not find them breaking in, but in spite of all these,"}, {"pk": 2710661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "you say, \u2018Because I am innocent, certainly His displeasure shall turn from me.\u2019 See, I shall bring judgment on you, because you say, \u2018I have not sinned.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cWhy do you go about so much to change your way? Even of Mitsrayim you are to be ashamed, as you were ashamed of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2710663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cEven from this one you shall go forth, with your hands on your head. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has rejected those you trust, and you shall not prosper by them."}, {"pk": 2710664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "<i>Elohim</i> said, \u201cIf a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man\u2019s, does he return to her again? Would not that land be made greatly unclean? But you have committed whoring with many lovers. And would you return to Me?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cLift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Arab\u0331ian in the wilderness. And you made the land unclean with your whorings and your evil."}, {"pk": 2710666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore\u2019s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed."}, {"pk": 2710667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cShall you not from now on cry to Me, \u2018My father, You are the guide of my youth?"}, {"pk": 2710668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Does one bear a grudge forever? Does one keep it to the end?\u2019 See, you have spoken and done the evils that you could.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, \u201cHave you seen what backsliding Yisra\u2019\u0115l has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there committed whoring."}, {"pk": 2710670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd after she had done all these, I said \u2018Return to Me.\u2019 But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Yehud\u0331ah saw it."}, {"pk": 2710671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra\u2019\u0115l had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Yehud\u0331ah did not fear, but went and committed whoring too."}, {"pk": 2710672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood."}, {"pk": 2710673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd yet for all this her treacherous sister Yehud\u0331ah has not turned to Me with all her heart, but falsely,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cBacksliding Yisra\u2019\u0115l has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2710675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cGo and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, \u2018Return, O backsliding Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018I shall not look on you in displeasure, for I am lovingly-committed,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and I do not bear a grudge forever."}, {"pk": 2710676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cReturn, O backsliding children,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cfor I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and shall bring you to Tsiyon.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/27/12'>27:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2710678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."}, {"pk": 2710679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you have increased, and shall be fruitful in the land in those days,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat they no longer say, \u2018The ark of the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 Neither would it come to heart, nor would they remember it, nor would they visit it, nor would it be made again."}, {"pk": 2710680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAt that time Yerushalayim shall be called the throne of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to Yerushalayim, and no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart."}, {"pk": 2710681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cIn those days the house of Yehud\u0331ah shall go to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers."}, {"pk": 2710682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut I said, \u2018How would I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a splendid inheritance of the hosts of nations?\u2019 \u201dAnd I said, \u2018Call Me, \u201cMy Father,\u201d and do not turn away from Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut indeed as a wife betrays her husband, so have you betrayed Me, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "A voice was heard on the bare heights, weeping supplications of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cReturn, O backsliding children, I shall make your backslidings cease.\u201d \u201cSee, we have come to You, for You are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cTruly, delusion comes from the high hills, the noisy throng <i>on</i> the mountains. Truly, in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is the deliverance of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters."}, {"pk": 2710688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cWe shall lie down in our shame, while our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cIf you do return, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201creturn to Me. And if you remove your abominations from My presence, and cease straying,"}, {"pk": 2710690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall swear, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives,\u2019 in truth, in right-ruling, and in righteousness \u2014 then nations shall bless themselves in Him, and they shall boast in Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For this is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to the men of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, \u201cBreak up your tillable ground, and do not sow among thorns."}, {"pk": 2710692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cCircumcise yourselves unto \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of Yehud\u0331ah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim, lest My wrath come forth like fire and burn, with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Declare in Yehud\u0331ah and let it be heard in Yerushalayim, and say, \u201cBlow a shophar in the land. Cry aloud and say, \u2018Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled city.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cLift up the banner toward Tsiyon. Be strong, do not stand still! For I am bringing evil from the north, and great destruction.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cA lion has come up from his bush, and the destroyer of nations is on his way. He has set out from his place to make your land a ruin. Your cities are laid waste, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2710696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor this, gird yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail. For the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not turned back from us."}, {"pk": 2710697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day it shall be,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat the heart of the sovereign shall perish, and the heart of the heads. And the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets wonder.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Then I said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Truly, You have greatly deceived this people and Yerushalayim, saying, \u2018Peace is for you,\u2019 whereas the sword reaches to the heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "At that time it shall be said to this people and to Yerushalayim, \u201cA scorching wind of the bare heights blows in the wilderness toward the daughter of My people, not to fan or to cleanse."}, {"pk": 2710700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cA wind too strong for this shall come for Me. Now it is I who speak judgments against them."}, {"pk": 2710701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses shall be swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we shall be ravaged!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts remain within you?"}, {"pk": 2710703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming trouble from Mount Ephrayim:"}, {"pk": 2710704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnnounce to the nations, look, proclaim against Yerushalayim, that besiegers are coming from a distant land and raise their voice against the cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2710705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cLike keepers of a field they are against her all around, because she has rebelled against Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cYour ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your evil, because it is bitter, because it has reached into your heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "O my inward parts, my inward parts! I am in pain! O the walls of my heart! My heart pounds in me, I am not silent. For you have heard, O my being, a voice of a shophar, a shout of battle!"}, {"pk": 2710708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "Destruction upon destruction is cried, for all the land is ravaged. Suddenly my tents are ravaged \u2014 my curtains in a moment."}, {"pk": 2710709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "How long shall I see a banner, and hear a voice of a shophar?"}, {"pk": 2710710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "I looked at the earth, and saw it was formless and empty. And the heavens, they had no light."}, {"pk": 2710712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "I looked at the mountains, and saw they shook, and all the hills were swaying."}, {"pk": 2710713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "I looked, and saw there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled."}, {"pk": 2710714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "I looked, and saw the garden land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, by His burning displeasure."}, {"pk": 2710715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAll the earth shall be a ruin, but I shall not make a complete end."}, {"pk": 2710716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cOn account of this, let the earth mourn and the heavens above be dark, because I have spoken, because I have purposed and shall not relent, nor do I turn back from it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "All the city is fleeing from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into bushes and climb up on the rocks. All the city is forsaken, and no one is dwelling in it."}, {"pk": 2710718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And when you are ravaged, what would you do? Though you put on crimson, though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, you beautify yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you, they seek your life."}, {"pk": 2710719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, \u201cWoe to me, for my being faints because of killers!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDiligently search the streets of Yerushalayim, and please look, and know and seek in her open places if you find a man, if there is anyone doing right-ruling, seeking the truth, then I shall pardon her."}, {"pk": 2710721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cEven when they say, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives,\u2019 they swear falsely, for certain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are Your eyes not on truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces stronger than rock, they refused to turn back."}, {"pk": 2710723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "Then I said, \u201cThese are only the poor. They have been foolish, for they have not known the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the right-ruling of their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2710724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cLet me go to the great men and speak to them, for they have known the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the right-ruling of their Elohim.\u201d But these have altogether broken the yoke and torn off the bonds."}, {"pk": 2710725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them, a wolf of the deserts ravage them. A leopard is watching over their cities, whoever comes out of them is torn in pieces. For their transgressions have been many, their backslidings have been numerous."}, {"pk": 2710726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhy should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are not mighty ones. When I had filled them up, they then committed adultery and they thronged to the house of a whore."}, {"pk": 2710727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThey were like well-fed horses, every one neighed after his neighbour\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2710728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWould I not punish them for this?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?"}, {"pk": 2710729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cGo up on her walls and destroy, but do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, for they do not belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the house of Yehud\u0331ah have utterly betrayed Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "They have been untrue to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said, \u201cIt is not He. No evil comes upon us, nor do we see sword or scarcity of food.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And the prophets have become wind, and the Word is not in them. Thus shall be done to them:"}, {"pk": 2710733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, \u201cBecause you speak this word, see, I am making My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them."}, {"pk": 2710734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSee, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cIt is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor do you understand what they say."}, {"pk": 2710735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTheir quiver is like an open burial-site, all of them are mighty men."}, {"pk": 2710736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds, they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. With the sword they shall demolish your walled cities, in which you are trusting."}, {"pk": 2710737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut even in those days,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall not make a complete end of you."}, {"pk": 2710738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when they say, \u2018Why does \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim do all this to us?\u2019 then you shall answer them, \u2018As you have forsaken Me and served foreign mighty ones in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cDeclare this in the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and proclaim it in Yehud\u0331ah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "Hear this now, O foolish people without heart, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not:"}, {"pk": 2710741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "Do you not fear Me?\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018Do you not tremble at My presence, who have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by an everlasting law, and it does not pass over it? Though its waves toss to and fro, they are not able; though they roar, they do not pass over it."}, {"pk": 2710742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "But this people has a backsliding and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and gone away."}, {"pk": 2710743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And they do not say in their heart, \u201cLet us now fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He guards for us, the <i>required-by</i>-law, weeks of the harvest.\u201d", "comment": "Lit. Shab\u0331u\u201both."}, {"pk": 2710744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "Your crookednesses have turned these away, and your sins have kept the good from you."}, {"pk": 2710745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "For among My people are found wrong men who lie in wait as one who sets snares. They have set up a trap, they catch men."}, {"pk": 2710746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "As a cage is filled with birds, so their houses are filled with deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich."}, {"pk": 2710747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule."}, {"pk": 2710748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "Would I not punish them for this?\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018Would I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAn astounding and horrible matter has come to be in the land:"}, {"pk": 2710750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "The prophets have prophesied falsely, and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have loved it so. And what are you going to do at the end of it?", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/30/10'>30:10</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/4/3'>4:3</a><br>See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/27/14'>27:14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/27/15'>15</a>"}, {"pk": 2710751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cO children of Binyamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Yerushalayim! Blow a shophar in Teqowa, and set up a signal-fire in B\u0115yth Hakkerem, for evil has been seen from the north, and great destruction."}, {"pk": 2710752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI shall cut off the lovely and delicate one, the daughter of Tsiyon."}, {"pk": 2710753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe shepherds with their flocks shall come to her, they shall pitch their tents against her all around. They shall pasture, each one in his own place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSet apart battle against her. Arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are lengthening."}, {"pk": 2710755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cArise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cCut down her trees, and cast up a siege mound against Yerushalayim. She is the city to be punished, in whose midst there is only oppression."}, {"pk": 2710757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAs a well flows with water, so she flows with her evil. Violence and destruction are heard in her. Before Me continually are suffering and smiting."}, {"pk": 2710758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBe instructed, O Yerushalayim, lest My being be torn from you, lest I make you a waste, a land not inhabited.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cLet them thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l; pass your hand again over the branches like a grape-gatherer.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "To whom shall I speak and give warning, so that they hear? See, their ear is uncircumcised, and they are unable to listen. See, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a reproach to them, they do not delight in it."}, {"pk": 2710761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore I am filled with the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. I have become weary of containing it. \u201cPour it out on the children outside, and on the company of young men together, for even husband and wife shall be taken, the aged and the very old."}, {"pk": 2710762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd their houses shall be turned over to others, fields and wives together. For I shall stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely."}, {"pk": 2710764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd they heal the breach of My people slightly, saying, \u2018Peace, peace,\u2019 when there is no peace."}, {"pk": 2710765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble at the time I visit them,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cStand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest for yourselves. But they said, \u2018We do not walk <i>in it</i>.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I raised up watchmen over you, <i>and said</i>, \u2018Listen to a voice of a shophar!\u2019 But they said, \u2018We do not listen.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTherefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is upon them!"}, {"pk": 2710769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cHear, O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor My Torah \u2014 and they rejected it."}, {"pk": 2710770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cWhat need have I of frankincense from Sheb\u0331a, and sweet cane from a distant land? Your ascending offerings are not acceptable, and your slaughterings have not been sweet to Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am laying stumbling-blocks before this people. And the fathers and the sons together shall stumble on them, the neighbour and his friend shall perish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, a people shall come from the land of the north, and a great nation is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth,"}, {"pk": 2710773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "they strengthen <i>their</i> bow and spear, they are cruel and have no compassion, their voice roars like the sea. And they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Tsiyon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "We have heard the report of it, our hands grow weak. Distress has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labour."}, {"pk": 2710775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "Do not go out into the field, nor walk by the way. Because of the sword of the enemy, fear is on every side."}, {"pk": 2710776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation because suddenly the ravager shall come upon us."}, {"pk": 2710777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cI have made you a trier and a stronghold among My people, so that you know, and shall try their way."}, {"pk": 2710778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAll of them are rebels of rebels, walking as slanderers. They are bronze and iron, all of them are corrupters."}, {"pk": 2710779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe bellows have burned, the lead has been consumed by fire. The refiner has refined in vain, for those who are evil have not been separated."}, {"pk": 2710780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThey shall call them rejected silver, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has rejected them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cStand in the gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and you shall proclaim there this word, and shall say, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you of Yehud\u0331ah who enter in at these gates to bow before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cMake your ways and your deeds good, then I let you dwell in this place."}, {"pk": 2710784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not trust in these false words, saying, \u2018This is the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbour,"}, {"pk": 2710786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,"}, {"pk": 2710787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2710788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Ba\u201bal, and walking after other mighty ones you have not known."}, {"pk": 2710790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you came and stood before Me in this house which is called by My Name, and said, \u2018We have been delivered\u2019 \u2014 in order to do all these abominations!"}, {"pk": 2710791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHas this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I Myself have seen it,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut go now to My place at Shiloh, where I set My Name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now, because you have done all these works,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer,"}, {"pk": 2710794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI shall also do to this house, which is called by My Name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh."}, {"pk": 2710795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cast you out of My presence, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the seed of Ephrayim."}, {"pk": 2710796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you."}, {"pk": 2710797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDo you not see what they are doing in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim?"}, {"pk": 2710798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThe children are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, and the women are kneading their dough, to make cakes for the sovereigness of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to other mighty ones, to provoke Me."}, {"pk": 2710799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cIs it Me they are provoking?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cIs it not themselves \u2014 unto the shame of their own faces?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, My displeasure and My wrath is poured out on this place, on man and on beast, and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. And it shall burn and not be quenched.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cAdd your ascending offerings to your slaughterings and eat meat."}, {"pk": 2710802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, about matters of ascending offerings or slaughterings."}, {"pk": 2710803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut this word I did command them, saying, \u2018Obey My voice, and I shall be your Elohim, and you be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it be well with you.\u2019", "comment": "See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/26/5'>26:5</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/5'>19:5</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/16'>6:16</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/4/11'>4:11</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/5/9'>5:9</a> and Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2710804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward."}, {"pk": 2710805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFrom the day that your fathers came out of the land of Mitsrayim until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them."}, {"pk": 2710806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers."}, {"pk": 2710807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall speak all these words to them, though they do not listen to you. And you shall also call to them, though they do not answer you."}, {"pk": 2710808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut you shall say to them, \u2018This is a nation that did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth."}, {"pk": 2710809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "Cut off your hair and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor the children of Yehud\u0331ah have done what is evil in My eyes,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cThey have set their abominations in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it."}, {"pk": 2710811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart."}, {"pk": 2710812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen it shall no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they shall bury in Topheth until no room is left."}, {"pk": 2710813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd the corpses of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them away."}, {"pk": 2710814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim I shall make to cease the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall become a waste!"}, {"pk": 2710815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAt that time,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthey shall bring the bones of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, and the bones of its heads, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, out of their burial-sites,"}, {"pk": 2710816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried, they shall be for dung on the face of the earth."}, {"pk": 2710817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2710818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWould they fall, and not rise? Does one turn away and not return?"}, {"pk": 2710819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhy then has this people, Yerushalayim, turned away in a continual backsliding? They are strengthened in deceit, they refuse to turn back."}, {"pk": 2710820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI have listened and heard \u2014 they do not speak right. No man has repented of his evil, saying, \u2018What have I done?\u2019 They all turned to their own course, like a horse rushing into battle."}, {"pk": 2710821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cEven a stork in the heavens knows her appointed times. And a turtledove, and a swallow, and a thrush guard the time of their coming. But My people do not know the right-ruling of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cHow do you say, \u2018We are wise, and the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with us\u2019? But look, the false pen of the scribe has worked falsehood."}, {"pk": 2710823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe wise shall be put to shame, they shall be broken down and caught. See, they have rejected the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so what wisdom do they have?"}, {"pk": 2710824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTherefore I give their wives to others, and their fields to possessing ones. For from the least even to the greatest, they are all greedy for gain. From the prophet to the priest, all act falsely."}, {"pk": 2710825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, \u2018Peace, peace!\u2019 when there is no peace."}, {"pk": 2710826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWere they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. They shall stumble in the time of their visitation,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI shall snatch them away,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cThere are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf has faded. And what I gave them shall pass away from them.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "We looked for peace, but there was no good; <i>and</i> for a time of healing, but see \u2014 fear!"}, {"pk": 2710830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan. All the land shook at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones. They came and devoured the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2710831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "When in grief I would seek comfort; my heart is sick within me."}, {"pk": 2710833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "Observe! The voice, the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land, \u201cIs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 not in Tsiyon? Is her Sovereign not in her?\u201d \u201cWhy have they provoked Me with their carved images, and with foreign worthlessnesses?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we have not been saved!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been broken. I have grown sad; astonishment has taken hold of me."}, {"pk": 2710836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "Is there no balm in Gil\u201bad\u0331, is there no healer there? Why has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?"}, {"pk": 2710837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!"}, {"pk": 2710838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for wayfaring men, and I would leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."}, {"pk": 2710839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd they bend their tongue like a bow. Falsehood, and not truth, prevails on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they have not known Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cLet everyone beware of his neighbour and not trust any brother. For every brother catches by the heel, and every neighbour walks with slanderers."}, {"pk": 2710841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd everyone deceives his neighbour, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and have wearied themselves to crook."}, {"pk": 2710842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cSee, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people?"}, {"pk": 2710844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTheir tongue is a slaying arrow. It speaks deceit \u2014 speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he sets his ambush."}, {"pk": 2710845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWould I not punish them for this?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cWould I not revenge Myself on such a nation as this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI shall take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they have been burned up, without any passing over, nor has the voice of cattle been heard. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they have gone."}, {"pk": 2710847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehud\u0331ah I shall make a waste, without an inhabitant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?"}, {"pk": 2710849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 says, \u201cBecause they have forsaken My Torah which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it,", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 7:23>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/23'>7:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2710850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "but they have walked according to the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Ba\u201bals, which their fathers had taught them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am making this people eat wormwood, and I shall make them drink poisoned water."}, {"pk": 2710852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I shall send a sword after them until I have consumed them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cDiscern! And call for the mourning women, that they come. And send for the wise women, that they come."}, {"pk": 2710854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd let them hasten and take up a wailing for us, and let our eyes run with tears and our eyelids gush with water."}, {"pk": 2710855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor a voice of wailing is heard from Tsiyon, \u2018How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because we have been thrown out of our dwellings.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "But hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth. And teach your daughters wailing, and each one her neighbour a lamentation."}, {"pk": 2710857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "For death has come through our windows, has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets, and the young men from the squares."}, {"pk": 2710858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "Speak, \u201cThus declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018The corpses of men shall fall as dung on the face of the field, like cuttings after the reaper, with none to gather them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cLet not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches,"}, {"pk": 2710860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, doing loving-commitment, right-ruling, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall punish all circumcised with the uncircumcised \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cMitsrayim, and Yehud\u0331ah, and Ed\u0331om, and the children of Ammon, and Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and all those trimmed on the edges, who dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are uncircumcised in heart!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speaks to you, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2710864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not learn the way of the nations, and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are awed by them.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/19'>4:19</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/3'>17:3</a><br>See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/3'>18:3</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/30'>12:30</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/9'>18:9</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/11/12'>11:12</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/20/32'>20:32</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/17'>4:17</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/4/3'>4:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2710865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor the laws of these peoples are worthless, for one cuts a tree from the forest, work for the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool."}, {"pk": 2710866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThey beautify it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers so that it does not topple."}, {"pk": 2710867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThey are like a rounded post, and they do not speak. They have to be carried, because they do not walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they do no evil, nor is it in them to do any good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "There is none like You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. You are great, and great is Your Name in might."}, {"pk": 2710869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "Who would not fear You, O Sovereign of the nations? For this is Your due, for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their reigns, there is none like You."}, {"pk": 2710870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree."}, {"pk": 2710871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "Silver is beaten into plates; it is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the smith; draped in blue and purple; all of them are the work of skilled ones."}, {"pk": 2710872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is truly Elohim. He is the living Elohim and the everlasting Sovereign. At His wrath the earth shakes, and nations are unable to stand His displeasure."}, {"pk": 2710873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Say to them this, \u201cThe elah that did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.\u201d", "comment": "Elah - Aramaic for mighty one - See Explanatory Notes \"El\""}, {"pk": 2710874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding."}, {"pk": 2710875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "When He makes His voice heard, there is a roaring of waters in the heavens. And He makes vapours rise from the ends of the earth. The lightnings for rain He has made, and brings wind from His treasuries."}, {"pk": 2710876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "Everyone is brutish in knowledge; every smith is put to shame by his idol. For his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them."}, {"pk": 2710877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish."}, {"pk": 2710878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "The Portion of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is not like these, for He is the Maker of all, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l is the tribe of His inheritance \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name."}, {"pk": 2710879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "Gather up your bundle from the ground, you who live under siege!"}, {"pk": 2710880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, at this time I am hurling out the inhabitants of the land, and shall distress them, so that they feel it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "Woe to me for my breaking! My wound is grievous, but I say, \u201cThis is my sickness, and I bear it."}, {"pk": 2710882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cMy tent has been ravaged, and all my cords have been broken. My children have gone from me, and they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent any more, or to set up my curtains."}, {"pk": 2710883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "For the shepherds have become brutish, and they have not sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Therefore they did not understand, and all their flock scattered.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/2/8'>2:8</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/12/10'>12:10</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/12/11'>11</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/6'>50:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/50/7'>7</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/1-23'>34:1-23</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/4/3'>4:3</a>, <a href='/TS2009/55/4/4'>4</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/1'>2:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/61/2/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2710884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "See, it has come, the voice of a report, and a great shaking out of the land of the north, to make the cities of Yehud\u0331ah a waste, a habitation of jackals."}, {"pk": 2710885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not for man who walks to direct his own steps."}, {"pk": 2710886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, chastise me, but with right-ruling \u2014 not in Your displeasure, lest You bring me to naught."}, {"pk": 2710887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "Pour out Your wrath on the nations who do not know You, and on the tribes who do not call on Your Name. For they have eaten up Ya\u201baqob\u0331, devoured him and consumed him, and laid waste his home.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/6'>79:6</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/4/5'>4:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2710888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Yehud\u0331ah and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2710890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cCursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,"}, {"pk": 2710891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "which I commanded your fathers in the day when I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the iron furnace, saying, \u2018Obey My voice, and you shall do according to all that I command you, and you shall be My people, and I be your Elohim,\u2019", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 7:23>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/23'>7:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2710892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "in order to establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.\u201d \u2019 \u201d And I answered and said, \u201cAm\u0115n, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cProclaim all these words in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim, saying, \u2018Hear the words of this covenant and do them."}, {"pk": 2710894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "For I earnestly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, until this day, rising early and warning, saying, \u201cObey My voice.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "But they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, and they did not do.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cThere is a conspiracy among the men of Yehud\u0331ah and among the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2710897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThey have turned back to the crookednesses of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other mighty ones to serve them. The house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the house of Yehud\u0331ah have broken My covenant I made with their fathers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am bringing evil on them which they are unable to escape. Then they shall cry out to Me, but I shall not listen to them."}, {"pk": 2710899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim shall go and cry out to the mighty ones to whom they burn incense, but they shall bring no deliverance to them at all in the time of their evil."}, {"pk": 2710900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor your mighty ones have become as many as your cities, O Yehud\u0331ah. And you have set up as many slaughter-places to shame as there are streets in Yerushalayim \u2014 slaughter-places to burn incense to Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2710901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I do not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their evil."}, {"pk": 2710902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhy should My beloved be in My house \u2014 she has done wickedness with many. And does the set-apart flesh remove your evil from you? Then you rejoice?"}, {"pk": 2710903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has named you, \u2018Green Olive Tree, Beautiful, of Goodly Fruit.\u2019 With the noise of a great sound He has set it on fire, and its branches shall be broken."}, {"pk": 2710904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you for the evil of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and of the house of Yehud\u0331ah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me, by burning incense to Ba\u201bal.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 made it known to me, and I know it. Then You showed me their deeds."}, {"pk": 2710906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "But I was like a gentle lamb brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted against me, saying, \u201cLet us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "But, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, who judges righteously, who tries kidneys and heart, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for unto You I have revealed my cause."}, {"pk": 2710908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the men of Anathoth who are seeking your life, saying, \u2018Do not prophesy in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, lest you die by our hand\u2019 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2710909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018See, I am punishing them, the young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2710910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And there shall be no remnant of them, for I bring evil on the men of Anathoth \u2014 the year of their punishment.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Righteous are You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@230 73:3>note</a> at Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/73/3'>73:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2710912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "You have planted them and they have taken root, they grow and they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their kidneys."}, {"pk": 2710913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "But You have known me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. You see me, and You have tried my heart toward You. Draw them away like sheep for slaughter, and separate them for the day of slaughter."}, {"pk": 2710914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "How long shall the land mourn, and the plants of every field wither? The beasts and birds are consumed, for the evil of those who dwell there, because they said, \u201cHe does not see our latter ending.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIf you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how do you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, you feel safe, then how do you manage in the Yard\u0115n jungle?"}, {"pk": 2710916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor even your brothers, the house of your father, even they have betrayed you, even they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them, even though they speak smooth words to you."}, {"pk": 2710917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI have forsaken My house, I have left My inheritance, I have given the beloved of My being into the hand of her enemies."}, {"pk": 2710918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cMy inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. It cries out against Me, therefore I have hated it."}, {"pk": 2710919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cMy inheritance is to Me like a speckled bird of prey, the birds of prey all around are against her. Go, gather all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour!"}, {"pk": 2710920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cMany shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion become a deserted wilderness.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 10:21>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/21'>10:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2710921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThey have laid it waste \u2014 a waste, it mourns to Me. All the land is laid waste, because no one takes it to heart."}, {"pk": 2710922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThe ravagers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness, for the sword of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is devouring from one end of the land to the other end of the land. There is no peace to any flesh."}, {"pk": 2710923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThey have sown wheat but reaped thorns, they have exhausted themselves \u2014 they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs for all My evil neighbours who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l to inherit; see, I am plucking them out of their land, and I shall pluck out the house of Yehud\u0331ah from their midst."}, {"pk": 2710925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, after My plucking them out, I shall return, and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his inheritance and everyone to his land."}, {"pk": 2710926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if they learn well the ways of My people, to swear by My Name, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives,\u2019 as they taught My people to swear by Ba\u201bal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people."}, {"pk": 2710927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut if they do not obey, I shall pluck up, pluck up and destroy that nation,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cGo and get yourself a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, but do not put it in water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "So I bought a girdle according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and put it on my loins."}, {"pk": 2710930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me the second time, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cTake the girdle that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole in the rock.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded me."}, {"pk": 2710933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be after many days that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cArise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the girdle which I commanded you to hide there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "So I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the girdle from the place where I had hidden it. And there was the girdle, ruined. It was completely useless."}, {"pk": 2710935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Thus I ruin the pride of Yehud\u0331ah and the great pride of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2710937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "This evil people, who refuse to hear My Words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and walk after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow themselves to them, is like this girdle which is completely useless."}, {"pk": 2710938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "For as the girdle clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and all the house of Yehud\u0331ah to cling to Me,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018to become Mine \u2014 for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for an adorning. But they did not listen.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall speak to them this word, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cEvery bottle is to be filled with wine.\u201d \u2019 And when they say to you, \u2018Do we not know that every bottle should be filled with wine?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThen say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, and the sovereigns who sit on the throne of Dawid\u0331, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim with drunkenness!"}, {"pk": 2710941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cI do not spare nor pardon nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Listen and give ear, do not be proud, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2710943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "Give esteem to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness."}, {"pk": 2710944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And if you do not listen, my being shall weep in secret for your pride, and my eyes bitterly weep and run down with tears, because the flock of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be taken captive."}, {"pk": 2710945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Say to the sovereign and to the sovereigness mother, \u201cHumble yourselves. Sit down, for your rule, the crown of your comeliness, has come down.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "The cities of the South shall be shut up, with no one to open them. Yehud\u0331ah shall be taken into exile, all of it. She shall be taken into exile, completely."}, {"pk": 2710947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your fair sheep?"}, {"pk": 2710948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?"}, {"pk": 2710949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And when you say in your heart, \u201cWhy has this come upon me?\u201d It is because of your great crookedness that your skirts have been uncovered, your heels made bare."}, {"pk": 2710950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!"}, {"pk": 2710951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSo I shall scatter them like stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2710952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThis is your lot, your measured portion from Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cbecause you have forgotten Me, and trust in falsehood."}, {"pk": 2710953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cI shall even draw your skirts over your face, and your shame shall be seen,"}, {"pk": 2710954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "your adulteries and your neighings, the wickedness of your whoring! I have seen your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Yerushalayim! How long before you would be made clean?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the matter of droughts."}, {"pk": 2710956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cYehud\u0331ah has mourned, and her gates have languished. They have mourned on the ground, and the cry of Yerushalayim has gone up."}, {"pk": 2710957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd their nobles have sent their little ones for water, they went to the cisterns and found no water, they returned with their vessels empty. They were put to shame, and blushed and covered their heads."}, {"pk": 2710958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBecause the ground became cracked, for there has been no rain in the land. The ploughmen were put to shame, they covered their heads."}, {"pk": 2710959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cEven the deer gave birth in the field, but left because there was no grass."}, {"pk": 2710960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd wild donkeys stood in the bare heights, they sniffed at the wind like jackals. Their eyes have failed because there was no grass.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, though our crookednesses witness against us, act, for Your Name\u2019s sake. For our backslidings have been many, we have sinned against You."}, {"pk": 2710962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "O Expectation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, its Saviour in time of distress, why should You be like a stranger in the land, or like a traveller who turns aside to lodge?"}, {"pk": 2710963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "Why should You be as one who is stunned, as a mighty man that is unable to save? Yet You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are in our midst, and Your Name has been called on us. Do not leave us!"}, {"pk": 2710964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to this people, \u201cSo they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet. Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not accepted them. Now He does remember their crookedness and punish their sins.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cDo not pray for this people for their good."}, {"pk": 2710966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen they fast, I do not hear their cry. And when they offer ascending offering and grain offering, I do not accept them. Instead, I am consuming them by sword, and by scarcity of food, and by pestilence.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "But I said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! See, the prophets say to them, \u2018You are not to see a sword, nor have scarcity of food, for I give you true peace in this place.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cThe prophets prophesy falsehood in My Name. I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own heart.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/11-36'>23:11-36</a>"}, {"pk": 2710969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the prophets who prophesy in My Name, whom I did not send, and who say, \u2018Sword and scarcity of food shall not be in this land.\u2019 \u2018By sword and scarcity of food those prophets shall be consumed!"}, {"pk": 2710970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And the people to whom they are prophesying shall be thrown out in the streets of Yerushalayim because of the scarcity of food and the sword, with no one to bury them \u2014 them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters. For I shall pour their evil on them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2710971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say this word to them, \u2018Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the maiden daughter of my people has been crushed with a mighty blow, with a very severe wound."}, {"pk": 2710972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "If I go out to the field, then see those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, then see those sick from scarcity of food! For both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2710973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "Have You completely rejected Yehud\u0331ah? Has Your being loathed Tsiyon? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for the time of healing, but see \u2014 fear!"}, {"pk": 2710974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we know our wrong and the crookedness of our fathers, for we have sinned against You."}, {"pk": 2710975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "Do not scorn us, for Your Name\u2019s sake. Do not despise the throne of Your esteem. Remember, do not break Your covenant with us."}, {"pk": 2710976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this."}, {"pk": 2710977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cEven if Mosheh and Shemu\u2019\u0115l were to stand before Me, My being is not toward this people. Send them away from My presence, let them go."}, {"pk": 2710978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when they say to you, \u2018Where do we go?\u2019 then you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThose for death, to death. And those for the sword, to the sword. And those for scarcity of food, to scarcity of food. And those for captivity, to captivity.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2710979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall appoint over them four kinds,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthe sword to kill, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy."}, {"pk": 2710980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make them for a horror to all the reigns of the earth, on account of Menashsheh son of H\u0323izqiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, because of what he did in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2710981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor who has compassion on you, O Yerushalayim? And who mourns for you? And who turns aside to ask how you are doing?"}, {"pk": 2710982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou who have forsaken Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cyou have gone backward. Therefore I shall stretch out My hand against you and destroy you. I have been weary of relenting!"}, {"pk": 2710983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land. I shall bereave, I shall destroy My people. They would not turn back from their ways."}, {"pk": 2710984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTheir widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the seas. I shall bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a ravager at noon. I shall cause agitation and sudden alarm to fall on her, suddenly."}, {"pk": 2710985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cShe who has borne seven shall pine away. She shall breathe her last. Her sun shall go down while it is yet day. She shall be put to shame and be humiliated. And their remnant I give up to the sword before their enemies,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me."}, {"pk": 2710987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cDid I not direct you for <i>your</i> good? Did I not intercede for you in a time of evil and in a time of distress against the enemy?"}, {"pk": 2710988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cDoes one break iron, iron or bronze from the north?"}, {"pk": 2710989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYour wealth and your treasures I give as plunder, not for price, because of all your sins, even in all your borders."}, {"pk": 2710990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cause them to pass over with your enemies into a land which you did not know, for a fire is kindled in My displeasure, which burns upon you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "You Yourself know, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on these who persecute me. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that for You I have suffered reproach."}, {"pk": 2710992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. For Your Name is called on me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts."}, {"pk": 2710993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "I have not sat in the company of the mockers, nor do I exult. I have sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with displeasure."}, {"pk": 2710994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "Why is my pain without end and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Are You to me like a failing stream, as waters not steadfast?"}, {"pk": 2710995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIf you turn back, then I shall bring you back. Before Me you shall stand. And if you take out the precious from the worthless, you shall become as My mouth. Let them return to you, but do not return to them."}, {"pk": 2710996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make you to this people a strong bronze wall. And they shall fight against you, but not overcome you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2710997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall deliver you from the hand of evil-doers, and I shall ransom you from the grip of the ruthless.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2710998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2710999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cDo not take a wife, nor have sons or daughters in this place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bear them and their fathers who bring them forth in this land,"}, {"pk": 2711001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThey shall die of deaths from diseases, they shall not be lamented nor be buried, but be like dung on the face of the earth, and be consumed by sword and by scarcity of food. And their corpses shall be meat for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo not enter the house of mourning, neither go to lament or mourn for them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201ceven the loving-commitment and the compassions."}, {"pk": 2711003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBoth great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them, or cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them."}, {"pk": 2711004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNeither shall they break bread in mourning for them to comfort them for the dead, nor give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or their mother."}, {"pk": 2711005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cDo not enter the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, before your eyes and in your days, I am making the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride to cease in this place."}, {"pk": 2711007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, \u2018Why has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our crookedness, and what is our sin that we have committed against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "then you shall say to them, \u2018Because your fathers have forsaken Me,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and have walked after other mighty ones and served them and bowed themselves to them, and have forsaken Me, and did not guard My Torah."}, {"pk": 2711009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me."}, {"pk": 2711010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "So I shall throw you out of this land into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers. And there you shall serve other mighty ones day and night, where I show you no favour.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen it is no longer said, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives who brought up the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the land of Mitsrayim,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "but, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives who brought up the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.\u2019 For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers."}, {"pk": 2711013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSee, I am sending for many fishermen,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks."}, {"pk": 2711014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from My face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from My eyes."}, {"pk": 2711015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the dead bodies of their disgusting <i>matters</i>, and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, \u201cOur fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.\u201d", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/147/19'>147:19</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/2/3'>2:3</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/2'>60:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/60/3'>3</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/4/22'>4:22</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/20'>2:20</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/3/2'>3:2</a> and Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/4'>9:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2711017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones?"}, {"pk": 2711018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThe sin of Yehud\u0331ah is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your slaughter-places,"}, {"pk": 2711020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "while their children remember their slaughter-places and their Ash\u0115rim by the spreading trees on the high hills."}, {"pk": 2711021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cMy mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders."}, {"pk": 2711022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cCursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited."}, {"pk": 2711025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBlessed is the man who trusts in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and whose trust is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and in the year of drought he is not anxious, nor does he cease from yielding fruit."}, {"pk": 2711027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick \u2014 who shall know it?", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/24'>7:24</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/16/12'>16:12</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/18/12'>18:12</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/17'>23:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2711028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, search the heart, I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."}, {"pk": 2711029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAs a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "An esteemed throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2711031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the expectation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all who forsake You are put to shame. \u201cThose who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the fountain of living waters.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/2/13'>2:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2711032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "Heal me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so that I am healed. Save me, so that I am saved, for You are my praise."}, {"pk": 2711033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "See, they say to me, \u201cWhere is the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Let it come now!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "And I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows You, nor have I longed for the desperately sick day. You Yourself have known, that which came out of my lips was before You."}, {"pk": 2711035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not be a ruin to me, You are my shelter in the day of evil."}, {"pk": 2711036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "Let these who persecute me be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be broken, but do not let me be broken. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction!"}, {"pk": 2711037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "Thus \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cGo and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, and all Yehud\u0331ah, and all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, who enter by these gates."}, {"pk": 2711039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cGuard yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2711040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "nor take a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work. And you shall set apart the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers."}, {"pk": 2711041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut they did not obey, or incline their ear, and they made their neck stiff not to hear and not to receive instruction."}, {"pk": 2711042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, if you diligently obey Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cto bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and set apart the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,"}, {"pk": 2711043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "then sovereigns and heads sitting on the throne of Dawid\u0331 shall enter in through the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their heads \u2014 the men of Yehud\u0331ah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. And this city shall be inhabited forever."}, {"pk": 2711044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall come from the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and from the places around Yerushalayim, and from the land of Binyamin and from the low country, from the mountains and from the South, bringing ascending offerings and slaughterings, grain offerings and incense, bringing offerings of praise to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not obey Me to set apart the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden when entering the gates of Yerushalayim on the Sabbath day, then I shall kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall consume the palaces of Yerushalayim, and not be quenched.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "The word which came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cArise, and go down to the potter\u2019s house, and there I let you hear My words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "So I went down to the potter\u2019s house, and saw him doing a piece of work on the wheel."}, {"pk": 2711049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And the vessel that he made of clay was ruined in the hand of the potter, so he remade it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do."}, {"pk": 2711050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cO house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, am I not able to do with you as this potter?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cLook, as the clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in My hand, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2711052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThe moment I speak concerning a nation and concerning a reign, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,"}, {"pk": 2711053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "and that nation shall turn from its evil because I have spoken against it, then I shall repent of the evil that I thought to do to it."}, {"pk": 2711054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the moment I speak concerning a nation and concerning a reign, to build and to plant it,"}, {"pk": 2711055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "and it shall do evil in My eyes in not obeying My voice, then I shall repent concerning the good with which I spoke of doing to it."}, {"pk": 2711056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd now, speak to the men of Yehud\u0331ah and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am forming evil and devising a plan against you. Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your deeds good.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "But they shall say, \u201cIt is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/24'>7:24</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/16/12'>16:12</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/17/9'>17:9</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/17'>23:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2711058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAsk now among the nations, who has heard the like of this? The maiden of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has done what is most horrible."}, {"pk": 2711059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDoes the snow of Leb\u0331anon cease from the rock of the field? Or the cool flowing waters from afar dry up?"}, {"pk": 2711060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to what is false, and they have stumbled from their ways, from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths and not on a highway,"}, {"pk": 2711061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "to make their land become a ruin, a hissing forever \u2014 everyone who passes by it is appalled and shakes his head."}, {"pk": 2711062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cI shall scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I shall show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "Then they said, \u201cCome and let us devise plans against Yirmeyahu, for the Torah shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "Attend to me, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and listen to the voice of my adversaries!"}, {"pk": 2711065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for my life. Remember that I stood before You to speak good for them, and to turn away Your wrath from them."}, {"pk": 2711066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "So give their children over to scarcity of food, and hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become widows and bereaved of their children. Let their men be killed to death, their young men be stricken by the sword in battle."}, {"pk": 2711067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You bring a raiding party suddenly upon them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet."}, {"pk": 2711068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "But You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You know all their counsel against me, to slay me. Do not pardon their crookedness, nor blot out their sin from Your presence, and let them be overthrown before You. Deal with them in the time of Your displeasure."}, {"pk": 2711069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cGo and get a potter\u2019s earthen jug, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests."}, {"pk": 2711070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThen you shall go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and shall proclaim there the words that I speak to you,"}, {"pk": 2711071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall say, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am bringing evil on this place, that makes the ears tingle of all who hear it."}, {"pk": 2711072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBecause they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah have known, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocents,"}, {"pk": 2711073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "and have built the high places of Ba\u201bal, to burn their sons with fire for ascending offerings to Ba\u201bal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My heart."}, {"pk": 2711074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat this place shall no more be called Topheth or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but <i>rather</i> the Valley of Slaughter."}, {"pk": 2711075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall pour out the counsel of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim in this place, and I shall make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives. And I shall give their corpses as meat for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make this city a ruin, and a hissing \u2014 everyone who passes by it is appalled and hisses because of all its plagues."}, {"pk": 2711077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another\u2019s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall break the jug before the eyes of the men who go with you,"}, {"pk": 2711079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "and shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cEven so I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter\u2019s vessel, which one is unable to repair again. And let them bury them in Topheth till there is no place to bury."}, {"pk": 2711080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThis is what I shall do to this place,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand to its inhabitants, so as to make this city like Topheth."}, {"pk": 2711081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the houses of Yerushalayim and the houses of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah shall be as unclean as the place of Topheth, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink offerings to other mighty ones.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And when Yirmeyahu returned from Topheth, where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had sent him to prophesy, he stood in the courtyard of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said to all the people,"}, {"pk": 2711083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018See, I am bringing on this city and on all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And Pashh\u0323ur son of Imm\u0115r, the priest who was also chief governor in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, heard that Yirmeyahu prophesied these words,"}, {"pk": 2711085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And Pashh\u0323ur struck Yirmeyahu the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Binyamin, which was by the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be on the next day that Pashh\u0323ur brought Yirmeyahu out of the stocks, and Yirmeyahu said to him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not called your name Pashh\u0323ur, but Ma\u1e21or-Missab\u0331ib\u0331."}, {"pk": 2711087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am making you a fear to yourself and to all your loved ones. And they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, while your eyes see it. And I shall give all Yehud\u0331ah into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and he shall exile them to Bab\u0331el and strike them with the sword."}, {"pk": 2711088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And I shall give all the wealth of this city and all its labour, and all its valuables, and all the treasures of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, I give into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them, seize them, and shall bring them to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And you, Pashh\u0323ur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity, and enter into Bab\u0331el. And there you shall die, and be buried there, you and all your loved ones, to whom you have prophesied falsehood.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You enticed me, and I was enticed. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have been ridiculed all day long, everyone mocks me."}, {"pk": 2711091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "For when I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and ruin. Because the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was made to me a reproach and a derision daily."}, {"pk": 2711092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "Whenever I said, \u201cLet me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,\u201d it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless."}, {"pk": 2711093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "For I heard many mocking, \u201cFear on every side!\u201d \u201cExpose,\u201d they say, \u201cyes, let us expose him!\u201d All my friends watched for my stumbling, <i>saying</i>, \u201cHe might be lured away, so that we prevail against him, and take our revenge on him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with me like a mighty, awesome one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed, for they have not acted wisely \u2014 an everlasting reproach never to be forgotten."}, {"pk": 2711095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "But, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, trying the righteous, and seeing the kidneys and heart, let me see Your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to You."}, {"pk": 2711096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "Sing to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Praise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! For He has delivered the being of the poor from the hand of evil ones."}, {"pk": 2711097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!"}, {"pk": 2711098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, \u201cA male child has been born to you,\u201d making him very glad."}, {"pk": 2711099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "And let that man be like the cities which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 overthrew, and repented not. Let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,"}, {"pk": 2711100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my burial-site and her womb forever great."}, {"pk": 2711101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?"}, {"pk": 2711102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 when Sovereign Tsid\u0331qiyahu sent to him Pashh\u0323ur son of Malkiyah, and Tsephanyah the son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, the priest, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cPlease inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on our behalf, for Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el has <i>started</i> fighting against us. It might be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 deals with us according to all His wondrous works, so that he withdraws from us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "But Yirmeyahu said to them, \u201cSay this to Tsid\u0331qiyahu,"}, {"pk": 2711105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am turning back the weapons of battle that are in your hands, with which you fight against the sovereign of Bab\u0331el and the Kasdim who besiege you outside the wall. And I shall gather them inside this city."}, {"pk": 2711106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I Myself shall fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a strong arm, even in displeasure and rage and great wrath."}, {"pk": 2711107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast \u2014 let them die of a great pestilence."}, {"pk": 2711108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd afterward,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI give Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the scarcity of food, into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not pardon them, nor spare nor have compassion.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYou shall also say to this people, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I set before you the way of life and the way of death."}, {"pk": 2711110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhoever stays in this city dies by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence. But whoever goes out and shall go over to the Kasdim who besiege you, is going to live, and his life shall be as a prize to him."}, {"pk": 2711111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor I have set My face against this city for evil and not for good,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cIt is given into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and he shall burn it with fire.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd to the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, <i>say</i>, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2711113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "O house of Dawid\u0331! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cRender right-ruling in the morning, and deliver him who has been robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My wrath go out like fire and burn, with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds."}, {"pk": 2711114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwho are saying, \u2018Who would come down against us? And who would come into our dwellings?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd I shall kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall consume all that is around her.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cGo down to the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah. And there you shall speak this word,"}, {"pk": 2711117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall say, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, you who sit on the throne of Dawid\u0331, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates!"}, {"pk": 2711118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cDo right-ruling and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do not maltreat nor do violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place."}, {"pk": 2711119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor if you certainly do this word, then there shall enter in by the gates of this house sovereigns sitting on the throne of Dawid\u0331, riding on horses and in chariots, he and his servants and his people."}, {"pk": 2711120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not obey these words, I swear by Myself,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat this house shall become a ruin.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cYou are <i>like</i> Gil\u201bad\u0331 to Me, the head of Leb\u0331anon. But I shall make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited."}, {"pk": 2711122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons. And they shall cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire."}, {"pk": 2711123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say to one another, \u2018Why has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 done so to this great city?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThen they shall say, \u2018Because they have forsaken the covenant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and bowed themselves to other mighty ones and served them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not weep for the dead, nor mourn for him. Weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall never come back nor see the land of his birth."}, {"pk": 2711126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning Shallum son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, who reigned instead of Yoshiyahu his father, who went from this place, \u201cHe shall never come back,"}, {"pk": 2711127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "but he shall die in the place where they have exiled him, and not see this land again."}, {"pk": 2711128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his rooms without right-ruling, who uses his neighbour\u2019s service without wages and does not give him his wages,"}, {"pk": 2711129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "who says, \u2018I am going to build myself a wide house with spacious rooms, and cut out windows for it, panelling it with cedar and painting it in red.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cDo you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do right-ruling and righteousness? Then it was well with him."}, {"pk": 2711131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cHe defended the cause of the poor and needy \u2014 then it was well. Was this not to know Me?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cLet them not lament for him: \u2018Alas, my brother!\u2019 or \u2018Alas, my sister!\u2019 Let them not lament for him: \u2018Alas, master!\u2019 or \u2018Alas, his excellency!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cHe shall be buried \u2014 the burial-place of a donkey \u2014 dragged and thrown outside the gates of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cGo up to Leb\u0331anon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan. And cry from Ab\u0331arim, for all your lovers are destroyed."}, {"pk": 2711136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI have spoken to you in your ease, but you said, \u2018I do not listen.\u2019 This has been your way from your youth, for you did not obey My voice."}, {"pk": 2711137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cLet all your shepherds be devoured by the wind, and your lovers go into captivity. Then you shall be ashamed and humiliated for all your evil."}, {"pk": 2711138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cYou who dwell in Leb\u0331anon, being nested in the cedars, how you shall groan when pangs come upon you, like the pains of a woman giving birth!"}, {"pk": 2711139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthough Konyahu son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, were the signet on My right hand, I would still pull you off from there;"}, {"pk": 2711140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "and I shall give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whose face you fear, into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and the hand of the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2711141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall hurl you out, and your mother who bore you, into another land where you were not born, and there you shall die."}, {"pk": 2711142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut they shall not return to the land to which their being yearns to return."}, {"pk": 2711143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cIs this man Konyahu a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?"}, {"pk": 2711144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cO land, land, land! Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2711145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Write this man down as childless, a strong man who is not to prosper in his days, for none of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of Dawid\u0331, or rule any more in Yehud\u0331ah.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWoe to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/21'>10:21</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/5'>50:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/50/6'>6</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/1-23'>34:1-23</a>; Zec. <a href='/TS2009/38/10/2'>10:2</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/9/36'>9:36</a>."}, {"pk": 2711147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l against the shepherds who feed My people, \u201cYou have scattered My flock, driven them away, and have not tended them. See, I am punishing you for the evil of your deeds,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore I shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and shall bring them back to their fold. And they shall bear and increase."}, {"pk": 2711149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall raise up shepherds over them, and they shall feed them. And they shall fear no more, nor be discouraged, nor shall they be lacking,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/3/14-17'>3:14-17</a>"}, {"pk": 2711150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall raise for Dawid\u0331 a Branch of righteousness, and a Sovereign shall reign and act wisely, and shall do right-ruling and righteousness in the earth.", "comment": "Or <em>Sprout.</em>"}, {"pk": 2711151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIn His days Yehud\u0331ah shall be saved, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwell safely. And this is His Name whereby He shall be called: \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Righteousness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cTherefore, see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen they shall say no more, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives who brought up the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the land of Mitsrayim,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "but, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives who brought up and led the seed of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the land of the north and from all the lands where I had driven them.\u2019 And they shall dwell on their own soil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and because of His set-apart words."}, {"pk": 2711155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "For the land is filled with adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right."}, {"pk": 2711156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor both prophet and priest have become defiled. Even in My house I have found their evil,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTherefore their way is to them like slippery ways in the dark. They are driven on and they shall fall in them. For I bring evil on them, the year of their punishment,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I have seen folly in the prophets of Shomeron: they prophesied by Ba\u201bal and led My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l astray."}, {"pk": 2711159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd among the prophets of Yerushalayim I have seen a horrible matter: committing adultery and walking in falsehood. And they strengthen the hands of evil ones, so that no one turns back from his evil. All of them are like Sed\u0331om to Me, and her inhabitants like Amorah."}, {"pk": 2711160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts concerning the prophets, \u2018See, I am making them eat wormwood, and shall make them drink poisoned water. For defilement has gone out into all the land from the prophets of Yerushalayim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cDo not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, they lead you astray. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThey keep on saying to those who despise Me, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said you shall have peace.\u2019 And to all who walk according to the stubbornness of their own heart <i>they say</i>, \u2018No evil comes upon you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "For who has stood in the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and has seen and heard His word? Who has listened to His word and obeyed it?"}, {"pk": 2711164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "See, a storm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall go forth in a rage, a whirling storm! It whirls on the head of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2711165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "The displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/24'>30:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2711166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/14/14'>14:14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/14/15'>15</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/32'>23:32</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/28/15'>28:15</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/29/9'>29:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2711167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut if they had stood in My counsel, then they would have let My people hear My Words, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds."}, {"pk": 2711168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAm I an Elohim close by,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand not an Elohim afar off?"}, {"pk": 2711169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cIf anyone is hidden in secret places, would I not see him?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cDo I not fill the heavens and earth?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cI have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsehood in My Name, saying, \u2018I have dreamed, I have dreamed!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTill when shall it be in the heart of the prophets? \u2014 the prophets of falsehood and prophets of the deceit of their own heart,"}, {"pk": 2711172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "who try to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which everyone relates to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot My Name for Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2711173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThe prophet who has a dream, let him relate the dream, and he who has My Word, let him speak My Word in truth. What is the chaff to the wheat?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cIs not My Word like a fire?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand like a hammer that shatters a rock?"}, {"pk": 2711175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, I am against the prophets,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwho steal My Words every one from his neighbour."}, {"pk": 2711176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against the prophets,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwho use their tongues and say, \u2018He declares.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand relate them, and lead My people astray by their falsehoods and by their reckless boasting. But I Myself did not send them nor have I commanded them. And they do not profit this people at all,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, \u2018What is the message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u2019 then you shall say to them, \u2018What message?\u2019 I shall forsake you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAs for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, \u2018The message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 I shall punish that man and his house."}, {"pk": 2711180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThis is what each one says to his neighbour, and each one to his brother, \u2018What has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered?\u2019 and, \u2018What has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoken?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cBut the message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 you no longer remember! For every man\u2019s message is his own word, for you have changed the Words of the living Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, our Elohim!", "comment": "Or <em>overthrown</em>. See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/5'>24:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2711182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cThis is what you say to the prophet, \u2018What has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered you?\u2019 and, \u2018What has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoken?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cBut since you say, \u2018The message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you say this word, \u201cThe message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u201d and I have sent to you, saying, \u201cDo not say, \u2018The message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "therefore see, I, I shall utterly forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city that I gave you and your fathers."}, {"pk": 2711185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 23, "verse": 40, "text": "And I shall put an everlasting reproach on you, and an everlasting shame that is not forgotten.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs set before the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, after Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331rets-tsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el had exiled Yek\u0331onyahu son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and the heads of Yehud\u0331ah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Yerushalayim, and had brought them to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cWhat do you see, Yirmeyahu?\u201d And I said, \u201cFigs, the good figs, very good. And the spoilt, very spoilt, which could not be eaten, they are so spoilt.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "Again the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Like these good figs, so do I acknowledge the exiles of Yehud\u0331ah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2711191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "And I shall set My eyes on them for good, and shall bring them back to this land. And I shall build them and not pull them down, and shall plant them and not pluck them up."}, {"pk": 2711192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "And I shall give them a heart to know Me, that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim, for they shall turn back to Me with all their heart."}, {"pk": 2711193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And as the spoilt figs that could not be eaten because they are so spoilt,\u2019 for thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018so do I give up Tsid\u0331qiyahu, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, his heads, the rest of Yerushalayim who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2711194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them."}, {"pk": 2711195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And I shall send the sword, the scarcity of food, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the people of Yehud\u0331ah, in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, which was the first year of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el,"}, {"pk": 2711197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "which Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke to all the people of Yehud\u0331ah and to all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFrom the thirteenth year of Yoshiyahu son of Amon, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has come to me. And I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened."}, {"pk": 2711199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cMoreover, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,"}, {"pk": 2711200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "saying, \u2018Turn back now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the soil which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given to you and your fathers forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2711201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And do not go after other mighty ones to serve them and to bow down to them. And do not provoke Me with the works of your hands, so that I do you no evil.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut you did not listen to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cso as to provoke Me with the works of your hands, for your own evil."}, {"pk": 2711203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Because you did not obey My words,"}, {"pk": 2711204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins."}, {"pk": 2711205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "And I shall banish from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp."}, {"pk": 2711206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "And all this land shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el seventy years."}, {"pk": 2711207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "And it shall be, when seventy years are completed, that I shall punish the sovereign of Bab\u0331el and that nation, the land of the Kasdim, for their crookedness,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and shall make it everlasting ruins."}, {"pk": 2711208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And I shall bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Yirmeyahu has prophesied concerning all the nations."}, {"pk": 2711209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "For they too shall be enslaved by many nations and great sovereigns. And I shall repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to me, \u201cTake this wine cup of wrath from My hand, and make all the nations, to whom I send you, drink it."}, {"pk": 2711211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall drink, and shake, and go mad because of the sword that I am sending among them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "I then took the cup from the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and made all the nations drink, to whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had sent me,"}, {"pk": 2711213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>namely</i> Yerushalayim and the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and its sovereigns, its heads, to make them a ruin, an object of astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;"}, {"pk": 2711214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and his servants, and his heads, and all his people;"}, {"pk": 2711215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "and all the mixed multitude, and all the sovereigns of the land of Uts, and all the sovereigns of the land of the Philistines \u2014 even Ashqelon, and Azzah, and Eqron, and the remnant of Ashdod\u0331;"}, {"pk": 2711216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "Ed\u0331om, and Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the children of Ammon;"}, {"pk": 2711217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "and all the sovereigns of Tsor, and all the sovereigns of Tsid\u0331on, and the sovereigns of the coastlands which are beyond the sea;"}, {"pk": 2711218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "Ded\u0331an, and T\u0115ma, and Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners;"}, {"pk": 2711219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "and all the sovereigns of Arab\u0331ia and all the sovereigns of the mixed multitude who dwell in the wilderness;"}, {"pk": 2711220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "and all the sovereigns of Zimri, and all the sovereigns of \u011aylam, and all the sovereigns of the Medes;"}, {"pk": 2711221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "and all the sovereigns of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the reigns of the earth which are on the face of the ground. Also the sovereign of Sh\u0115shak\u0331 shall drink after them."}, {"pk": 2711222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cDrink, be drunk, and vomit! Fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I am sending among you.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cYou shall drink!"}, {"pk": 2711224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am beginning to bring evil upon the city which is called by My Name, and should you be entirely unpunished? You are not going unpunished, for I am calling for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 roars from on high, and utters His voice from His set-apart dwelling place. He roars mightily over His fold, a shout as those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cTumult shall come to the ends of the earth, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has a controversy with the nations. He shall enter into judgment with all flesh. The wrong He shall give to the sword,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cSee, evil is going forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind is raised up from the farthest parts of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day the slain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried, for they are dung on the face of the ground.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@290 66:24>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/24'>66:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2711229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cHowl, you shepherds, and cry! And roll yourselves <i>in the ashes</i>, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are completed, and you shall fall like a choice vessel."}, {"pk": 2711230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd a place of refuge shall perish from the shepherds, and escape from the leaders of the flock."}, {"pk": 2711231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cHear the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is ravaging their pasture!"}, {"pk": 2711232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd the pastures of peace shall be cut down because of the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cLike a lion He shall leave His hiding place, for their land shall become a waste because of the sword of oppressors, and because of His burning displeasure.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "In the beginning of the reign of Yehoyaqim the son of Yoshiyahu, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, this word came from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Stand in the courtyard of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and speak to all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, which come to bow themselves in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Do not diminish a word."}, {"pk": 2711236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "If so be that they listen and each turn from his evil way, then I shall repent of the evil that I plan to do to them, because of the evil of their deeds.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIf you do not listen to Me, to walk in My Torah which I set before you,"}, {"pk": 2711238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "to listen to the words of My servants the prophets I am sending you, even rising up early and sending them \u2014 though you have not listened \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "then I shall make this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Yirmeyahu speaking these words in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, when Yirmeyahu had ended speaking all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, \u201cYou shall certainly die!"}, {"pk": 2711242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhy have you prophesied in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying, \u2018This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city be dried up, without an inhabitant\u2019?\u201d And all the people were gathered against Yirmeyahu in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "And the heads of Yehud\u0331ah heard this, and they came up from the sovereign\u2019s house to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and sat down in the entrance of the new gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "And the priests and the prophets spoke to the heads and all the people, saying, \u201cA death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "And Yirmeyahu spoke to all the heads and all the people, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words you heard."}, {"pk": 2711246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now, make good your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall relent concerning the evil He has pronounced against you."}, {"pk": 2711247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I, look I am in your hand. Do with me as seems good and right to you."}, {"pk": 2711248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut know for certain that if you put me to death, you are bringing innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants. For truly \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the heads and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, \u201cNo death sentence for this man. For he has spoken to us in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "And some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cMik\u0331ayah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of H\u0323izqiyahu the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and he spoke to all the people of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cTsiyon shall become a ploughed field, and Yerushalayim be heaps, and the mountain of the House like the bare hills of the forest.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cDid H\u0323izqiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and all Yehud\u0331ah indeed put him to death? Did he not fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and seek the favour of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? And the Master relented concerning the evil which He had pronounced against them. But we are doing great evil against ourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "There was however a man who prophesied in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Uriyahu the son of Shemayahu of Qiryath Ye\u201barim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Yirmeyahu."}, {"pk": 2711254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And when Yehoyaqim the sovereign, with all his mighty men and all the heads, heard his words, the sovereign sought to put him to death. But Uriyahu heard of it, and was afraid and fled, and went to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2711255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "Then Yehoyaqim the sovereign sent men to Mitsrayim: Elnathan the son of Ak\u0331bor, and some men who went with him to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2711256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "And they brought Uriyahu from Mitsrayim and brought him to Yehoyaqim the sovereign, who struck him with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial-sites of the common people."}, {"pk": 2711257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "However, the hand of Ah\u0323iqam son of Shaphan was with Yirmeyahu, so as not to give him into the hand of the people to put him to death."}, {"pk": 2711258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "In the beginning of the reign of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, this word came to Yirmeyah from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThis is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Make for yourselves bands and yokes. Then you shall put them on your neck,"}, {"pk": 2711260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall send them to the sovereign of Ed\u0331om, and the sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the sovereign of the Ammonites, and the sovereign of Tsor, and the sovereign of Tsid\u0331on, by the hand of the messengers who come to Yerushalayim to Tsid\u0331qiyahu, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And you shall command them to say to their masters, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Say this to your masters,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the face of the earth, by My great power and by My outstretched arm. And I shall give it to whom it seemed right in My eyes."}, {"pk": 2711263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And now, I have given all these lands into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, My servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him."}, {"pk": 2711264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "And all nations shall serve him and his son and his son\u2019s son, until the time of his land comes. And then many nations and great sovereigns shall make him serve them."}, {"pk": 2711265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "And it shall be, the nation and reign that do not serve Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and the one that does not put its neck under the yoke of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, that nation I shall punish,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018with the sword, and the scarcity of food, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand."}, {"pk": 2711266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "So do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreamers, or to your observers of clouds, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, \u201cDo not serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "For they are prophesying falsehood to you, to remove you far from your land. And I shall drive you out, and you shall perish."}, {"pk": 2711268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el and serve him, I shall leave in their own land,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and they shall till it and dwell in it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And I spoke to Tsid\u0331qiyah the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah according to all these words, saying, \u201cBring your necks under the yoke of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and serve him and his people, and live!"}, {"pk": 2711270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWhy should you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the scarcity of food, and by the pestilence, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken against the nation that does not serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el?"}, {"pk": 2711271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDo not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, \u2018Do not serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el,\u2019 for they prophesy falsehood to you,"}, {"pk": 2711272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "for I have not sent them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cyet they prophesy falsehood in My Name, in order that I drive you out. Then you shall perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, \u201cSee, the vessels of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are brought back from Bab\u0331el soon now,\u201d for they prophesy falsehood to you."}, {"pk": 2711274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not listen to them. Serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?"}, {"pk": 2711275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "But if they are prophets, and if the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with them, let them now make intercession to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and in the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and at Yerushalayim, shall not go to Bab\u0331el.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts concerning the columns, and concerning the Sea, and concerning the stands, and concerning the remainder of the vessels which are left in this city,"}, {"pk": 2711277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el did not take, when he exiled Yek\u0331onyah the son of Yehoyaqim, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, from Yerushalayim to Bab\u0331el, and all the nobles of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, concerning the vessels that remain in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and in the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and of Yerushalayim:"}, {"pk": 2711279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "They shall be brought to Bab\u0331el, and be there until the day that I visit them,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018Then I shall bring them back and restore them to this place.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in that year, at the beginning of the reign of Tsid\u0331qiyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the fourth year and in the fifth new <i>moon</i>, that H\u0323ananyah son of Azzur the prophet, who was from Gib\u0331\u201bon, spoke to me in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus spoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018I have broken the yoke of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el removed from this place and took to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "And I am going to bring back to this place Yek\u0331onyah son of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, with all the exiles of Yehud\u0331ah who went to Bab\u0331el,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018for I am going to break the yoke of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the prophet Yirmeyah spoke to the prophet H\u0323ananyah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2711285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "and the prophet Yirmeyah said, \u201cAm\u0115n! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 do so! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 establish your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and all the exiles from Bab\u0331el to this place!"}, {"pk": 2711286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cOnly, hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:"}, {"pk": 2711287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many lands and great reigns, of battle and of evil and of pestilence."}, {"pk": 2711288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe prophet who prophesies of peace \u2014 when the word of the prophet comes to pass, that prophet is known as one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has truly sent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "And H\u0323ananyah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Yirmeyah\u2019s neck and broke it."}, {"pk": 2711290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And H\u0323ananyah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018So I shall break the yoke of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el from the neck of all nations within two years.\u2019 \u201d And the prophet Yirmeyah went his way."}, {"pk": 2711291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyah, after H\u0323ananyah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Yirmeyah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cGo and speak to H\u0323ananyah, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou have broken the yokes of wood, but you shall make yokes of iron instead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, to serve Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el. And they shall serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And the prophet Yirmeyah said to H\u0323ananyah the prophet, \u201cListen, please, H\u0323ananyah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not sent you, but you have made this people trust in falsehood."}, {"pk": 2711295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am sending you away from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, for you have spoken apostasy against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And H\u0323ananyah the prophet died the same year, in the seventh new <i>moon</i>."}, {"pk": 2711297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "And these are the words of the letter which Yirmeyah the prophet sent from Yerushalayim to the rest of the elders of the exile, and to the priests, and to the prophets and to all the people whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had exiled from Yerushalayim to Bab\u0331el \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "after Yek\u0331onyah the sovereign, and the sovereigness mother, and the eunuchs, and the heads of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, and the craftsmen, and the smiths had gone <i>into exile</i> from Yerushalayim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "by the hand of El\u201basah son of Shaphan, and Gemaryah the son of H\u0323ilqiyah, whom Tsid\u0331qiyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah sent to Bab\u0331el, to Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to all the exiles whom I exiled from Yerushalayim to Bab\u0331el,"}, {"pk": 2711301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "Build houses and dwell <i>in them</i>, plant gardens and eat their fruit."}, {"pk": 2711302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "Take wives and bring forth sons and daughters. And take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters, and be increased there, and not diminished."}, {"pk": 2711303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you, and pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for it, for in its peace you have peace.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, neither listen to the dreams which you are dreaming."}, {"pk": 2711305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "For they are prophesying falsely to you in My Name. I have not sent them,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018When seventy years are completed, at Bab\u0331el I shall visit you and establish My good word toward you, to bring you back to this place."}, {"pk": 2711307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "For I know the plans I am planning for you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018plans of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy."}, {"pk": 2711308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you."}, {"pk": 2711309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/29'>4:29</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/12'>2:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2711310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "And I shall be found by you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBecause you have said, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has raised up prophets for us in Bab\u0331el\u2019 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the sovereign who sits on the throne of Dawid\u0331, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brothers who have not gone out with you into exile,"}, {"pk": 2711313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018See, I am sending on them the sword, the scarcity of food, and the pestilence. And I shall make them like spoilt figs, so spoilt as to be uneatable."}, {"pk": 2711314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "And I shall pursue them with the sword, with scarcity of food, and with pestilence. And I shall make them a horror among all the reigns of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them."}, {"pk": 2711315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "For they did not heed My words,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, yet you did not listen,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou, therefore, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you exiles whom I have sent from Yerushalayim to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, concerning Ah\u0323ab\u0331 son of Qolayah, and Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, who are prophesying falsely to you in My Name, \u2018See, I am giving them into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and he shall strike them before your eyes."}, {"pk": 2711318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 22, "text": "And because of them all the exiles of Yehud\u0331ah who are in Bab\u0331el shall use a curse, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 make you like Tsid\u0331qiyahu and Ah\u0323ab\u0331, whom the sovereign of Bab\u0331el roasted in the fire,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 23, "text": "because they have done wickedness in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and committed adultery with their neighbours\u2019 wives, and have spoken a word in My Name falsely which I have not commanded them. And I am He who knows, and a witness,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to Shemayahu the Neh\u0323elamite, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThus speaks \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Because you have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Yerushalayim, to Tsephanyah son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made you priest instead of Yehoyad\u0331a the priest, so that there are overseers in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 over everyone who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in the iron collar."}, {"pk": 2711323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSo why have you not reproved Yirmeyahu of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you?"}, {"pk": 2711324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor he has sent to us in Bab\u0331el, saying, \u2018<i>This captivity</i> is long \u2014 build houses and dwell <i>in them</i>, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.\u2019\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 29, "text": "And Tsephanyah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Yirmeyahu the prophet."}, {"pk": 2711326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 30, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSend to all those in exile, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning Shemayah the Neh\u0323elamite, \u201cBecause Shemayah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has made you to trust on falsehood,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 29, "verse": 32, "text": "therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am bringing punishment upon Shemayah the Neh\u0323elamite and his seed: he shall have no one to dwell among this people, nor is he to see the good that I am about to do for My people,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cbecause he has spoken apostasy against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus spoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you."}, {"pk": 2711331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "For look, the days are coming,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018when I shall turn back the captivity of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and I shall bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and let them possess it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "And these are the words \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke concerning Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor this is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u2018We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace."}, {"pk": 2711334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "Ask now, and see if a man is giving birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labour, and all faces turned pale?"}, {"pk": 2711335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "Oh! For great is that day, there is none like it. And it is the time of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s distress, but he shall be saved out of it."}, {"pk": 2711336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "And it shall be in that day,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018that I break his yoke from your neck, and tear off your bonds, and foreigners no more enslave them."}, {"pk": 2711337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "And they shall serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim and Dawid\u0331 their sovereign, whom I raise up for them."}, {"pk": 2711338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "And you, do not fear, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018nor be discouraged, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l. For look, I am saving you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall return, and have rest and be at ease, with no one to trouble him."}, {"pk": 2711339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "For I am with you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018to save you. Though I make a complete end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.\u2019", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/46/28'>46:28</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/2'>34:2</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/45/17'>45:17</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/9/8'>9:8</a>; Hagg. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/22'>2:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2711340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Your breach is incurable, your wound is grievous."}, {"pk": 2711341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "No one pleads your cause, to bind up. There are no healing medicines for you."}, {"pk": 2711342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "All those loving you have forgotten you, they do not seek you. For I struck you as an enemy strikes, with cruel chastisement, because your crookedness is great, your sins have increased."}, {"pk": 2711343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "Why do you cry about your breach? Your pain is incurable. Because of your many crookednesses, because your sins have increased, I have done this to you."}, {"pk": 2711344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "However, all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And those who exploit you shall be exploited, and all who prey upon you I shall make a prey."}, {"pk": 2711345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "For I restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018for they have called you an outcast saying, \u201cThis is Tsiyon, no one is seeking her.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I turn back the captivity of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built upon its own mound, and the palace stand on its right place."}, {"pk": 2711347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "And out of them shall arise thanksgiving and the voice of those who are laughing. And I shall increase them, and they shall not diminish. And I shall esteem them, and they shall not be small."}, {"pk": 2711348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "And his children shall be as before, and his congregation shall be established before Me. And I shall punish all who oppress them."}, {"pk": 2711349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "And his Prince shall be from him, and his Ruler shall come from among him. And I shall bring him near, and he shall approach Me, for who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "And you shall be My people, and I shall be your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "See, the storm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall go forth in a rage, a whirling storm! It bursts upon the head of the wrong."}, {"pk": 2711352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "The burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/20'>23:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2711353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAt that time,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall be the Elohim of all the clans of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they shall be My people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cA people escaped from the sword found favour in the wilderness, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, when it went to find rest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to me from afar, <i>saying</i>, \u201cI have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore I shall draw you with loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2711356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI am going to build you again. And you shall be rebuilt, O maiden of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Again you shall take up your tambourines, and go forth in the dances of those who rejoice."}, {"pk": 2711357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAgain you shall plant vines on the mountains of Shomeron. The planters shall plant and treat them as common."}, {"pk": 2711358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor there shall be a day when the watchmen cry on Mount Ephrayim, \u2018Arise, and let us go up to Tsiyon, to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSing with gladness for Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and shout among the chief of the nations. Cry out, give praise, and say, \u2018O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, save Your people, the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, I am bringing them from the land of the north, and shall gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together \u2014 a great assembly returning here."}, {"pk": 2711361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWith weeping they shall come, and with <i>their</i> prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Ephrayim \u2014 he is My first-born."}, {"pk": 2711362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, \u2018He who scattered Yisra\u2019\u0115l gathers him, and shall guard him as a shepherd his flock.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall ransom Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and redeem him from the hand of one stronger than he."}, {"pk": 2711364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall come in and shall sing on the height of Tsiyon, and stream to the goodness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for grain and for new wine and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd. And their being shall be like a well-watered garden, and never languish again."}, {"pk": 2711365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThen shall a maiden rejoice in a dance, and young men and old, together. And I shall turn their mourning to joy, and shall comfort them, and shall make them rejoice from their sorrow,"}, {"pk": 2711366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "and shall fill the being of the priests with fatness. And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cA voice was heard in Ramah, wailing, bitter weeping, Rah\u0323\u0115l weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHold back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand they shall return from the land of the enemy."}, {"pk": 2711369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd there is expectancy for your latter end,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand your children shall return to their own country."}, {"pk": 2711370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI have clearly heard Ephrayim lamenting, \u2018You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf. Turn me back, and I shall turn back, for You are \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2711371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 19, "text": "For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cIs Ephrayim a precious son to Me, a child of delights? For though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. That is why My affections were deeply moved for him. I have great compassion for him,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSet up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway, the way in which you went. Turn back, O maiden of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, turn back to these cities of yours!"}, {"pk": 2711374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTill when would you turn here and there, O backsliding daughter? For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has created what is new on earth: a woman encompasses a man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 23, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cLet them once again say this word in the land of Yehud\u0331ah and in its cities, when I turn back their captivity, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 bless you, O home of righteousness, mountain of set-apartness!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd in Yehud\u0331ah and all its cities farmers and those who journey with flocks, shall dwell together."}, {"pk": 2711377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor I shall fill the weary being, and I shall replenish every grieved being.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 26, "text": "At this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me."}, {"pk": 2711379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I shall sow the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the house of Yehud\u0331ah with the seed of man and the seed of beast."}, {"pk": 2711380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict, so I shall watch over them to build and to plant,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cIn those days they shall no longer say, \u2018The fathers ate sour grapes, and the children\u2019s teeth are blunted.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cBut each one shall die for his own crookedness \u2014 whoever eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be blunted."}, {"pk": 2711383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and with the house of Yehud\u0331ah,", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/8/8-12'>8:8-12</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/16'>10:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/10/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2711384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 32, "text": "not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I strengthened their hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Commonly understood as \u201ctake hold of.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cFor this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l after those days, declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people."}, {"pk": 2711386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, \u2018Know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cFor I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 35, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name:"}, {"pk": 2711388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cIf these laws vanish from before Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthen the seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 37, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIf the heavens above could be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I would also cast off all the seed of Yisra\u2019\u0115l for all that they have done,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat the city shall be built for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the Tower of H\u0323anan\u2019\u0115l to the Corner Gate."}, {"pk": 2711391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd the measuring line shall again extend straight ahead to the hill Gar\u0115b\u0331, then it shall turn toward Go\u201bah."}, {"pk": 2711392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 31, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd all the valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the wadi Qid\u0331ron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, is to be set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the tenth year of Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, which was the eighteenth year of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar."}, {"pk": 2711394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "Now at that time the army of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el besieged Yerushalayim, and Yirmeyahu the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "For Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah had shut him up, saying, \u201cWhy are you prophesying, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am giving this city into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and he shall take it,"}, {"pk": 2711396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "and Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah shall not escape from the hand of the Kasdim, but certainly be given into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye,"}, {"pk": 2711397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "and he shall lead Tsid\u0331qiyahu to Bab\u0331el, and be there until I visit him,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthough you fight with the Kasdim, you shall not prosper\u201d \u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said, \u201cThe word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "See, H\u0323aname\u2019\u0115l son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, \u201cBuy my field which is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSo H\u0323aname\u2019\u0115l my uncle\u2019s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and said to me, \u2018Please buy my field that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Binyamin, for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption. Buy it for yourself.\u2019 And I knew that this was the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I bought the field which was at Anathoth from H\u0323aname\u2019\u0115l, my uncle\u2019s son, and weighed out to him the silver, seventeen sheqels of silver."}, {"pk": 2711402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales."}, {"pk": 2711403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThen I took the deed of purchase \u2014 that which was sealed according to the command and law, and that which was open \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "and I gave the deed of purchase to Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah, son of Mah\u0323s\u0115yah, in the presence of H\u0323aname\u2019\u0115l my uncle\u2019s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Yehud\u0331im who sat in the court of the guard."}, {"pk": 2711405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I commanded Baruk\u0331 before their eyes, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cTake these deeds, both this deed of purchase which is sealed and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they remain many days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cHouses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah, I prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "Ah, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! See, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is no matter too hard for You,"}, {"pk": 2711410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "who show loving-commitment to thousands, and repay the crookedness of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them \u2014 the Great, the Mighty \u011al, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name,"}, {"pk": 2711411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds."}, {"pk": 2711412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Mitsrayim, to this day, and in Yisra\u2019\u0115l and among other men. And You have made Yourself a Name, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2711413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "And You have brought Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of the land of Mitsrayim with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great fearsome deeds."}, {"pk": 2711414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "And You gave them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey."}, {"pk": 2711415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil upon them."}, {"pk": 2711416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "See the siege mounds! They have come to the city to take it. And the city has been given into the hand of the Kasdim who fight against it, because of the sword and the scarcity of food and the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come about, and look, You see it!"}, {"pk": 2711417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "Yet You, O Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have said to me, \u201cBuy the field for silver, and take witnesses\u201d! although the city has been given into the hand of the Kasdim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSee, I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of all flesh. Is there any matter too hard for Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am giving this city into the hand of the Kasdim, into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and he shall take it."}, {"pk": 2711421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd the Kasdim who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Ba\u201bal and poured out drink offerings to other mighty ones, to provoke Me."}, {"pk": 2711422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the children of Yehud\u0331ah have done only evil before Me, from their youth. For the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have only provoked Me with the work of their hands,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cFor this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,"}, {"pk": 2711424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "because of all the evil of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and the children of Yehud\u0331ah, which they have done to provoke Me \u2014 they, their sovereigns, their heads, their priests, their prophets, and the men of Yehud\u0331ah, and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd they have turned their back to Me, and not their face \u2014 though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they did not listen to receive instruction."}, {"pk": 2711426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd they set their abominations in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it."}, {"pk": 2711427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd they built the high places of Ba\u201bal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and their daughters to Molek\u0331, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My heart, that they should do this abomination, to make Yehud\u0331ah sin."}, {"pk": 2711428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd now, thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, concerning this city of which you say, \u2018It shall be given into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el by the sword, and by scarcity of food, and by pestilence\u2019:"}, {"pk": 2711429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 37, "text": "See, I am gathering them out of all the lands where I have driven them in My displeasure, and in My wrath, and in great rage. And I shall bring them back to this place, and shall let them dwell in safety."}, {"pk": 2711430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 38, "text": "And they shall be My people, and I shall be their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2711431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 39, "text": "And I shall give them one heart and one way, to fear Me all the days, for the good of them and of their children after them."}, {"pk": 2711432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 40, "text": "And I shall make an everlasting covenant with them, that I do not turn back from doing good to them. And I shall put My fear in their hearts so as not to turn aside from Me."}, {"pk": 2711433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 41, "text": "And I shall rejoice over them to do good to them, and shall plant them in this land in truth, with all My heart and with all My being.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018As I have brought all this great evil on this people, so I am bringing on them all the good that I am speaking to them."}, {"pk": 2711435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 43, "text": "And fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, \u201cIt is a wasteland, without man or beast. It has been given into the hand of the Kasdim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 32, "verse": 44, "text": "Fields shall be bought for silver, and deeds signed and sealed, and witnesses be called, in the land of Binyamin, and in the places around Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the low country, and in the cities of the South. For I shall turn back their captivity,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who made it, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who formed it to establish it, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His Name,"}, {"pk": 2711439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "Call unto Me, and I shall answer you, and show you great and inaccessible <i>matters</i>, which you have not known.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, which are thrown down against the siege mounds and the sword,"}, {"pk": 2711441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "while coming to fight with the Kasdim, and to fill their places with the corpses of men whom I shall strike in My displeasure and My wrath, all for whose evil I have hidden My face from this city."}, {"pk": 2711442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "See, I am bringing to it relief and healing. And I shall heal them and reveal to them the riches of peace and truth."}, {"pk": 2711443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "And I shall turn back the captivity of Yehud\u0331ah and the captivity of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall build them as at the first,"}, {"pk": 2711444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall cleanse them from all their crookedness that they have sinned against Me. And I shall pardon all their crookednesses that they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me."}, {"pk": 2711445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "And it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and a pride before all nations of the earth, who hear all the good I am doing to them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the peace I am doing to it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018In this place of which you say, \u201cIt is dried up, without man and without beast,\u201d in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, in the streets of Yerushalayim that are deserted, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, there shall once again be heard"}, {"pk": 2711447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who are saying, \u201cPraise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good, for His loving-commitment is forever,\u201d of those who are bringing the offering of praise into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For I shall turn back the captivity of the land, as at the first,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018In this place which is dried up, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall once again be a home of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down."}, {"pk": 2711449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the low country, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Binyamin, and in the places around Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, the flocks once again pass under the hands of him who counts them,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "See, the days are coming,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018when I shall establish the good word which I have promised to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and to the house of Yehud\u0331ah:"}, {"pk": 2711451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "In those days and at that time I cause a Branch of righteousness to spring forth for Dawid\u0331. And He shall do right-ruling and righteousness in the earth."}, {"pk": 2711452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "In those days Yehud\u0331ah shall be saved, and Yerushalayim dwell in safety. And this is that which shall be proclaimed to her: \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Righteousness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018For Dawid\u0331 there is not to cease a man to sit on the throne of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2711454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "And for the priests, the L\u0115wites, there is not to cease a man to offer ascending offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to slaughter continually.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018If you could break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there be not day and night in their season,"}, {"pk": 2711457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "then My covenant could also be broken with Dawid\u0331 My servant \u2014 so that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne \u2014 and with the L\u0115wites, the priests, My attendants."}, {"pk": 2711458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawid\u0331 My servant and the L\u0115wites who attend upon Me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cHave you not observed what these people have spoken, saying, \u2018The two clans which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has chosen have been rejected by Him\u2019? So they have despised My people, no more to be a nation before them.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/83/3'>83:3</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/83/4'>4</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/28/24-26'>28:24-26</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/36/2-6'>36:2-6</a>"}, {"pk": 2711461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the laws of the heavens and earth,"}, {"pk": 2711462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "text": "then I would also reject the descendants of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Dawid\u0331 My servant, so that I should not take of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Ab\u0331raham, Yitsh\u0323aq, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331. For I shall turn back their captivity, and have compassion on them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "The word which came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and all his army, and all the reigns of the earth under his rule, and all the people, fought against Yerushalayim and all its cities, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Go and speak to Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and say to him, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am giving this city into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el. And he shall burn it with fire,"}, {"pk": 2711465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "and you shall not escape out of his hand, but certainly be taken and given into his hand. And your eyes shall see the eyes of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and his mouth shall speak with your mouth, and you shall go to Bab\u0331el.\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning you, \u2018You shall not die by the sword."}, {"pk": 2711467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "In peace you are to die, and as in the burnings of spices for your fathers, the former sovereigns who were before you, so they shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, \u201cAlas, master!\u201d \u2019 For I have spoken the word,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke all these words to Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2711469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "while the sovereign of Bab\u0331el\u2019s army was fighting against Yerushalayim and all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah that were left, against Lak\u0331ish and Az\u0115qah. For only these walled cities remained of the cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "The word which came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, after Sovereign Tsid\u0331qiyahu had made a covenant with all the people who were at Yerushalayim to proclaim release to them:"}, {"pk": 2711471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "that everyone was to set free his male and female slave, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, no one was to keep a Yehud\u0331i, his brother, enslaved."}, {"pk": 2711472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "And when all the heads and all the people who had come into the covenant heard that each one was to set free his male and female slaves, and not keep them enslaved any longer, they obeyed and released them."}, {"pk": 2711473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "But afterward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves."}, {"pk": 2711474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018I Myself made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAt the end of seven years each one should set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.\u201d But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear."}, {"pk": 2711477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "And you recently turned and did what was right in My eyes, each man proclaiming release to his neighbour. And you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My Name."}, {"pk": 2711478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "But you turned back and profaned My Name, and each one of you took back his male and female slaves, whom he had set free, at their pleasure, and brought them into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbour. See, I am proclaiming release to you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the scarcity of food! And I shall make you a horror to all reigns of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "And I shall give the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it:"}, {"pk": 2711481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "the heads of Yehud\u0331ah, and the heads of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf."}, {"pk": 2711482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "And I shall give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their corpses shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "And I shall give Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and his heads into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el\u2019s army that has withdrawn from you."}, {"pk": 2711484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "See, I am commanding,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and shall bring them back to this city, and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. And I shall make the cities of Yehud\u0331ah a ruin without inhabitant.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "The word which came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the days of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cGo to the house of the R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331ites. And you shall speak to them, and bring them into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "And I took Ya\u201bazanyah the son of Yirmeyahu, the son of H\u0323ab\u0331atstsinyah, and his brothers and all his sons, and all the house of the R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331ites,"}, {"pk": 2711488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "and brought them into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, into the room of the sons of H\u0323anan son of Yi\u1e21dalyahu, a man of Elohim, which was by the chamber of the heads, above the room of Ma\u201bas\u0115yahu son of Shallum, the keeper of the door."}, {"pk": 2711489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "And I set before the sons of the house of the R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331ites bowls filled with wine, and cups, and I said to them, \u201cDrink wine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "But they said, \u201cWe do not drink wine, because Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 the son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, our father, commanded us, saying, \u2018You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons, forever."}, {"pk": 2711491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "And do not build a house, neither sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have any of these, but dwell in tents all your days, so that you live many days on the face of the land where you are sojourners.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSo we obeyed the voice of Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters,"}, {"pk": 2711493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "nor to build ourselves houses to dwell in. And we have no vineyard, field or seed."}, {"pk": 2711494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut we dwell in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 our father commanded us."}, {"pk": 2711495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, whenNeb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retst-sar sovereign of Bab\u0331el came up into the land, that we said, \u2018Come, let us go to Yerushalayim for fear of the army of the Kasdim and for fear of the army of the Arameans.\u2019 So we dwell at Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Go, and you shall say to the men of Yehud\u0331ah and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, \u201cHave you not received instruction, to obey My words?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThe words of Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331, which he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are established, and they have not drunk unto this day, for they have obeyed their father\u2019s command. And as for Me, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not obeyed Me."}, {"pk": 2711499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, \u2018Turn, each one from his evil way, and make good your deeds, and do not go after other mighty ones to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given you and your fathers.\u2019 But you have not inclined your ear, nor obeyed Me."}, {"pk": 2711500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThe sons of Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 have indeed carried out the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not obeyed Me.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018See, I am bringing on Yehud\u0331ah and on all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim all the evil I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they did not listen, and I have called to them but they did not answer.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to the house of the R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331ites, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Because you have obeyed the command of Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 your father, and guarded all his commands and done according to all that he commanded you,"}, {"pk": 2711503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 35, "verse": 19, "text": "therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cOf Yonad\u0331ab\u0331 son of R\u0115k\u0331ab\u0331 there shall never cease to be a man to stand before Me.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, that this word came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTake a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and against Yehud\u0331ah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Yoshiyahu even to this day."}, {"pk": 2711506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cIt could be that the house of Yehud\u0331ah hears of all the evil which I plan to bring upon them, so that each one turns back from his evil way, and I shall pardon their crookedness and their sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yirmeyahu called Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah. And Baruk\u0331 wrote on a scroll from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had spoken to him."}, {"pk": 2711508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yirmeyahu commanded Baruk\u0331, saying, \u201cI am shut up, I am unable to enter the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut you shall enter, and shall read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the hearing of the people in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the day of fasting. And also read them in the hearing of all Yehud\u0331ah who come from their cities."}, {"pk": 2711510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIt could be that they present their supplication before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and they turn back, each one from his evil way. For great is the displeasure and the wrath that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken against this people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "And Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah did according to all that Yirmeyahu the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be in the fifth year of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the ninth new <i>moon</i>, that they called a fast before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to all the people in Yerushalayim, and to all the people who came from the cities of Yehud\u0331ah to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "And Baruk\u0331 read from the book the words of Yirmeyahu in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the room of Gemaryahu son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the entry of the New Gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the hearing of all the people."}, {"pk": 2711514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu son of Gemaryahu, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from the book,"}, {"pk": 2711515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "And then he went down to the sovereign\u2019s house, into the scribe\u2019s room. And there all the heads were sitting: Elishama the scribe, and Delayahu son of Shemayahu, and Elnathan son of Ak\u0331bor, and Gemaryahu son of Shaphan, and Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of H\u0323ananyahu, and all the heads."}, {"pk": 2711516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "And Mik\u0331ayehu told them all the words which he heard when Baruk\u0331 read the book in the hearing of the people."}, {"pk": 2711517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "Then all the heads sent Yehud\u0331i son of Nethanyahu, son of Shelemyahu, son of Kushi, to Baruk\u0331, saying, \u201cTake in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come.\u201d So Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyahu took the scroll in his hand and came to them."}, {"pk": 2711518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cSit down, please, and read it in our hearing.\u201d Then Baruk\u0331 read it in their hearing."}, {"pk": 2711519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, when they had heard all the words, that they looked at each other in fear, and said to Baruk\u0331, \u201cWe are certainly going to report all these words to the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "And they asked Baruk\u0331, saying, \u201cPlease explain to us, how did you write all these words? From his mouth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "And Baruk\u0331 answered them, \u201cFrom his mouth he spoke all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the heads said to Baruk\u0331, \u201cGo, hide, you and Yirmeyahu, and let no one know where you are.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "And they went to the sovereign, into the court. But they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2711524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "The sovereign therefore sent Yehud\u0331i to bring the scroll, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Yehud\u0331i read it in the hearing of the sovereign and in the hearing of all the heads standing beside the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2711525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "And the sovereign was sitting in the winter house in the ninth new <i>moon</i>, with a fire burning on the hearth before him."}, {"pk": 2711526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "Then it came to be, when Yehud\u0331i had read three or four columns, that the sovereign cut it with the scribe\u2019s knife and threw it into the fire that was on the hearth, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire that was on the hearth."}, {"pk": 2711527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "text": "Yet the sovereign and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments."}, {"pk": 2711528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "text": "Moreover, Elnathan, and Delayahu, and Gemaryahu pleaded with the sovereign not to burn the scroll, but he did not listen to them."}, {"pk": 2711529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "text": "And the sovereign commanded Yerah\u0323me\u2019\u0115l son of the sovereign, and Serayahu son of Azri\u2019\u0115l, and Shelemyahu son of Ab\u0331de\u2019\u0115l, to seize Baruk\u0331 the scribe and Yirmeyahu the prophet, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had hid them."}, {"pk": 2711530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "text": "And after the sovereign had burned the scroll with the words which Baruk\u0331 had written from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cTake another scroll, and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Yehoyaqim the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah has burned,"}, {"pk": 2711532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "text": "and say to Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou have burned this scroll, saying, \u2018Why have you written in it that the sovereign of Bab\u0331el is certainly coming to destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, \u201cHe shall have no one to sit on the throne of Dawid\u0331, and his dead body is to be thrown out, to the heat of the day and the frost of the night."}, {"pk": 2711534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish him, and his seed, and his servants for their crookedness. And I shall bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and on the men of Yehud\u0331ah all the evil I have spoken against them. But they did not listen.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "text": "So Yirmeyahu took another scroll and gave it to Baruk\u0331 the scribe, son of N\u0115riyahu, who wrote on it from the mouth of Yirmeyahu all the words of the book which Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them."}, {"pk": 2711536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sovereign Tsid\u0331qiyahu son of Yoshiyahu reigned instead of Konyahu son of Yehoyaqim, whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el set up to reign in the land of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land had listened to the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He spoke by the prophet Yirmeyahu."}, {"pk": 2711538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign sent Yehuk\u0331al son of Shelemyah, and the priest, Tsephanyahu son of Ma\u201bas\u0115yah, to the prophet Yirmeyahu, saying, \u201cPlease pray to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim for us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "Now Yirmeyahu was still coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison."}, {"pk": 2711540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "Meanwhile, Pharaoh\u2019s army had set out from Mitsrayim. And when the Kasdim who were besieging Yerushalayim heard news of them, they withdrew from Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Say this to the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me, \u201cSee, Pharaoh\u2019s army which has come up to help you, shall turn back to Mitsrayim, to their own land."}, {"pk": 2711543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the Kasdim shall return and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Do not deceive yourselves, saying, \u201cThe Kasdim shall go away from us,\u201d for they do not go."}, {"pk": 2711545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "For though you had stricken the entire army of the Kasdim who are fighting against you, and there remained only wounded men among them, they would get up, each man in his tent, and burn the city with fire.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, when the army of the Kasdim left the siege of Yerushalayim for fear of Pharaoh\u2019s army,"}, {"pk": 2711547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "that Yirmeyahu went out of Yerushalayim to go into the land of Binyamin to receive his portion there in the midst of the people."}, {"pk": 2711548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, as he was in the gate of Binyamin, a master of the guard was there whose name was Yiriyah son of Shelemyah, son of H\u0323ananyah. And he seized Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying, \u201cYou are deserting to the Kasdim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "But Yirmeyahu said, \u201cIt is a lie! I am not deserting to the Kasdim.\u201d But he did not listen to him, and Yiriyah seized Yirmeyahu and brought him to the heads."}, {"pk": 2711550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "And the heads were wroth with Yirmeyahu, and struck him and put him in prison in the house of Yehonathan the scribe. For they had made that for a prison."}, {"pk": 2711551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "When Yirmeyahu had entered into the dungeon and into the cells, then Yirmeyahu remained there many days."}, {"pk": 2711552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign sent and took him out. And the sovereign asked him secretly in his house, and said, \u201cIs there any word from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?\u201d And Yirmeyahu said, \u201cThere is.\u201d And he said, \u201cYou are given into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign, \u201cWhat have I sinned against you, and against your servants, and against this people, that you have put me into prison?"}, {"pk": 2711554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhere are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, \u2018The sovereign of Bab\u0331el is not coming against you or against this land?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut now, please hear, O my master the sovereign. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Yehonathan the scribe, lest I die there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign then commanded Yirmeyahu to be placed in the court of the guard, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers\u2019 street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the guard."}, {"pk": 2711557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "And Shephatyah son of Mattan, and Ged\u0331alyahu son of Pashh\u0323ur, and Yuk\u0331al son of Shelemyahu, and Pashh\u0323ur son of Malkiyah heard the words which Yirmeyahu had spoken to all the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence, but whoever goes over to the Kasdim shall live. And his life shall be as a prize to him, and he shall live.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018This city is certainly given into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el\u2019s army, and he shall take it.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "Then the heads said to the sovereign, \u201cPlease, let this man be put to death, because he is weakening the hands of the men of battle who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the peace of this people, but the evil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "And Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign said, \u201cLook, he is in your hand. For the sovereign is unable to do any matter against you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "And they took Yirmeyahu and threw him into the dungeon of Malkiyahu the sovereign\u2019s son, which was in the court of the guard, and they let Yirmeyahu down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mud. So Yirmeyahu sank in the mud."}, {"pk": 2711563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "And Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 the Kushite, one of the eunuchs, who was in the sovereign\u2019s house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon. And the sovereign was sitting at the Gate of Binyamin,"}, {"pk": 2711564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "And Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 came from the sovereign\u2019s house and spoke to the sovereign, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cMy master the sovereign, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu the prophet, whom they have thrown into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign commanded Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 the Kushite, saying, \u201cTake thirty men from here with you, and lift Yirmeyahu the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "So Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 took the men with him and went into the house of the sovereign under the treasury, and took old clothes and old rags from there, and let them down by ropes into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu."}, {"pk": 2711568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "And Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 the Kushite said to Yirmeyahu, \u201cPlease put these old clothes and rags under your armpits, under the ropes.\u201d And Yirmeyahu did so,"}, {"pk": 2711569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "and they pulled Yirmeyahu up with ropes and lifted him out of the dungeon. And Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the guard."}, {"pk": 2711570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "Then Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign sent and had Yirmeyahu the prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And the sovereign said to Yirmeyahu, \u201cI am asking you a matter. Do not hide a matter from me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to Tsid\u0331qiyahu, \u201cIf I declare it to you, shall you not put me to death? And if I give you advice, you shall not listen to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "But Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign swore secretly to Yirmeyahu, saying, \u201cAs \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives, who made us this life, I do not put you to death, nor do I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to Tsid\u0331qiyahu, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018If you do indeed surrender to the heads of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, then your being shall live, and this city not be burned with fire. And you and your house shall live."}, {"pk": 2711574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "But if you do not surrender to the heads of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Kasdim, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign said to Yirmeyahu, \u201cI am afraid of the Yehud\u0331im who have gone over to the Kasdim, lest they give me into their hand, and they maltreat me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "But Yirmeyahu said, \u201cThey shall not hand you over. Please, obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which I speak to you, and let it be well with you, and your life be spared."}, {"pk": 2711577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has shown me:"}, {"pk": 2711578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "Then see, all the women who are left in the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah\u2019s house shall be surrendered to the heads of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and see, they are saying, \u201cYour close friends have set upon you and prevailed against you; your feet have sunk in the mire; they have turned away again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "text": "And they are going to surrender all your wives and children to the Kasdim, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but be taken by the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and this city shall be burned with fire.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 24, "text": "Then Tsid\u0331qiyahu said to Yirmeyahu, \u201cLet no one know of these words, and you shall not die."}, {"pk": 2711581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut if the heads hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, \u2018Declare to us now what you have said to the sovereign, and also what the sovereign said to you. Do not hide it from us, and we do not put you to death,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 26, "text": "then you shall say to them, \u2018I presented my petition before the sovereign, not to send me back to the house of Yonathan to die there.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 27, "text": "And all the heads came to Yirmeyahu and asked him. And he informed them according to all these words that the sovereign had commanded. And they said no more to him, for the matter was not heard."}, {"pk": 2711584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 38, "verse": 28, "text": "So Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the guard until the day that Yerushalayim was taken, and he was <i>there</i> when Yerushalayim was taken."}, {"pk": 2711585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "In the ninth year of Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the tenth new <i>moon</i>, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and all his army came against Yerushalayim, and besieged it."}, {"pk": 2711586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "In the eleventh year of Tsid\u0331qiyahu, in the fourth new <i>moon</i>, on the ninth day of the new <i>moon</i>, the city was broken into."}, {"pk": 2711587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "And all the heads of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el came in and sat in the Middle Gate: N\u0115r\u1e21al-Shar\u2019etser, Samgar-Neb\u0331o, Sarsek\u0331im, Rab\u0331saris, N\u0115r\u1e21al-Sarezer, Rab\u0331ma\u1e21, and all the rest of the heads of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, when Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and all the men of battle saw them, they fled and left the city by night, by way of the sovereign\u2019s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out toward the desert plain."}, {"pk": 2711589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "But the army of the Kasdim pursued them and overtook Tsid\u0331qiyahu in the desert plains of Yerih\u0323o. And they captured him, and brought him up to Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, to Rib\u0331lah in the land of H\u0323amath, where he spoke judgment on him."}, {"pk": 2711590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el slew the sons of Tsid\u0331qiyahu before his eyes in Rib\u0331lah. The sovereign of Bab\u0331el also slew all the nobles of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "And he put out the eyes of Tsid\u0331qiyahu, and bound him with bronze shackles to bring him to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Kasdim burned the house of the sovereign and the houses of the people with fire, and they broke down the walls of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, exiled to Bab\u0331el the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who were left."}, {"pk": 2711594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "But Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, left in the land of Yehud\u0331ah the poor people, who had naught whatever, and gave them vineyards and fields on the same day."}, {"pk": 2711595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "And Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el gave a command concerning Yirmeyahu to Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTake him and look after him, and do no harm whatsoever to him, but do to him even as he shall speak to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, and Neb\u0331ushazban the Rab\u0331saris, N\u0115r\u1e21al-Shar\u2019etser the Rab\u0331ma\u1e21, and all the sovereign of Bab\u0331el\u2019s chief officers sent,"}, {"pk": 2711598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "text": "and had Yirmeyahu taken from the court of the guard, and gave him to Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, to take him home. And he dwelt among the people."}, {"pk": 2711599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had come to Yirmeyahu while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cGo, and you shall speak to Eb\u0331ed\u0331-Melek\u0331 the Kushite, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am bringing My words upon this city for evil and not for good, and they shall be before you in that day."}, {"pk": 2711601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall deliver you in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cso that you are not given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid."}, {"pk": 2711602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor I shall rescue you, and you shall not fall by the sword. But your life shall be as a prize to you, for you have put your trust in Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 after Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles from Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah, who were being exiled to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "And the chief of the guard took Yirmeyahu and said to him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim has spoken this evil on this place."}, {"pk": 2711605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought it on, and has done, as He has said. Because you have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not obey His voice, therefore this matter has come upon you."}, {"pk": 2711606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd now, see, I loosen you today from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Bab\u0331el, come, and I shall look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Bab\u0331el, remain here. See, all the land is before you, go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "And before he replied, <i>Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an said</i>, \u201cOr go back to Ged\u0331alyah son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, whom the sovereign of Bab\u0331el has made governor over the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, and dwell with him among the people, or go wherever it seems right for you to go.\u201d And the chief of the guard gave him provisions and a gift and let him go."}, {"pk": 2711608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "So Yirmeyahu went to Ged\u0331alyah son of Ah\u0323iqam, to Mitspah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land."}, {"pk": 2711609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "And all the commanders of the armies who were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had made Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam governor in the land, and had put him in charge of the men, and women, and children, and the poor of the land who had not been exiled to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "So they came to Ged\u0331alyah at Mitspah \u2014 Yishma\u201b\u0115l the son of Nethanyahu, and Yoh\u0323anan and Yonathan the sons of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and Serayah the son of Tanh\u0323umeth, and the sons of Ophai the Netophathite and Yezanyahu the son of a Ma\u201bak\u0331athite, they and their men."}, {"pk": 2711611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "And Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, \u201cDo not be afraid of serving the Kasdim. Dwell in the land and serve the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and it shall be well with you."}, {"pk": 2711612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I, see, I am dwelling at Mitspah, to serve the Kasdim who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities which you have taken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "Also, when all the Yehud\u0331im who were in Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and among the Ammonites, and in Ed\u0331om, and who were in all the lands, heard that the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had left a remnant of Yehud\u0331ah, and that he had set over them Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan,"}, {"pk": 2711614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "then all the Yehud\u0331im returned from all the places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Yehud\u0331ah, to Ged\u0331alyahu at Mitspah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in large quantities."}, {"pk": 2711615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323 and all the commanders of the army that were in the fields came to Ged\u0331alyahu at Mitspah,"}, {"pk": 2711616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "and they said to him, \u201cDo you certainly know that Ba\u201balis sovereign of the Ammonites has sent Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah to strike you \u2014 a being?\u201d But Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam would not believe them."}, {"pk": 2711617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "Then Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323 spoke secretly to Ged\u0331alyahu in Mitspah, saying, \u201cPlease let me go and strike Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah, without anyone knowing it. Why should he murder you, and so let all the Yehud\u0331im who are gathered to you be scattered, and the remnant in Yehud\u0331ah perish?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "But Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam said to Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, \u201cDo not do this matter, for what you are saying about Yishma\u201b\u0115l is not true.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the seventh new <i>moon</i> it came to be that Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah, son of Elishama, of the royal seed, and of the officers of the sovereign, came with ten men to Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, at Mitspah. And while they ate bread together there in Mitspah,"}, {"pk": 2711620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had made governor over the land."}, {"pk": 2711621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yishma\u201b\u0115l struck all the Yehud\u0331im who were with him, with Ged\u0331alyahu at Mitspah, and the Kasdim who were found there, the men of battle."}, {"pk": 2711622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, on the second day after he had killed Ged\u0331alyahu, when no one yet knew it,"}, {"pk": 2711623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "that men came from Shek\u0331em, from Shiloh, and from Shomeron, eighty men with their beards shaved and their garments torn, having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah went out from Mitspah to meet them, weeping as he walked along. And it came to be, as he met them, that he said to them, \u201cCome to Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, when they came inside the city, that Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah slew them, <i>throwing</i> them into a pit, he and the men who were with him."}, {"pk": 2711626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "But ten men were found among them who said to Yishma\u201b\u0115l, \u201cDo not kill us, for we have wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey hidden in the field.\u201d So he held back and did not kill them among their brothers."}, {"pk": 2711627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "And the pit into which Yishma\u201b\u0115l had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had struck, because of Ged\u0331alyahu, was the same one Asa the sovereign had made for fear of Ba\u201basha sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyahu had filled it with the slain."}, {"pk": 2711628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "Then Yishma\u201b\u0115l took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mitspah, the sovereign\u2019s daughters and all the people who were left in Mitspah, whom Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, had entrusted to Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam. And Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyahu took them captive and went to go over to the Ammonites."}, {"pk": 2711629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "But Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323 and all the commanders of the army that were with him heard of all the evil that Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah had done,"}, {"pk": 2711630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "so they took all the men and went to fight with Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah. And they found him by the great pool that is in Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2711631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, when all the people who were with Yishma\u201b\u0115l saw Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and all the commanders of the army who were with him, that they were glad."}, {"pk": 2711632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "text": "And all the people whom Yishma\u201b\u0115l had taken captive from Mitspah turned around, and came back, and went to Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2711633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "text": "But Yishma\u201b\u0115l the son of Nethanyah escaped from Yoh\u0323anan with eight men and went to the Ammonites."}, {"pk": 2711634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "text": "Then Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and all the commanders of the army that were with him, took from Mitspah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah after he had struck Ged\u0331alyah son of Ah\u0323iqam \u2014 the mighty men of battle and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gib\u0331\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2711635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "text": "And they set out and dwelt in the lodging place of Kimham, which is near B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, to go to enter Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2711636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "text": "because of the Kasdim. For they were afraid of them, because Yishma\u201b\u0115l son of Nethanyah had struck Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, whom the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had made governor in the land."}, {"pk": 2711637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "Then all the commanders of the army, and Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and Yezanyah son of Hoshayah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near"}, {"pk": 2711638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, \u201cWe beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us."}, {"pk": 2711639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim show us the way in which we should walk and the word we should do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yirmeyahu the prophet said to them, \u201cI have heard. See, I am praying to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim according to your words, and it shall be that I declare to you all the word \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answers you. I withhold not a word from you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "And they said to Yirmeyahu, \u201cLet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be a true and steadfast witness between us, if we do not do according to all the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim sends us by you."}, {"pk": 2711642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhether good or evil, let us obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim to whom we send you, in order that it might be well with us when we obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "And after ten days it came to be that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu."}, {"pk": 2711644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "So he called Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and all the commanders of the army which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,"}, {"pk": 2711645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "and said to them, \u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him,"}, {"pk": 2711646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "If you would indeed stay in this land, then I shall build you and not pull you down, and I shall plant you and not pluck you up. For I have relented of the evil I have done to you."}, {"pk": 2711647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "Do not be afraid of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, of whom you are afraid. Do not be afraid of him,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand."}, {"pk": 2711648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "text": "And I shall show you compassion, so that he has compassion on you and let you return to your own land.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut if you say, \u2018We are not staying in this land,\u2019 and so disobey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2711650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "text": "saying, \u2018No, but we are going to the land of Mitsrayim so that we see no fighting, nor hear a voice of a shophar, nor hunger for bread, and there we shall stay,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "text": "then hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, O remnant of Yehud\u0331ah! Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018If you indeed set your faces to enter Mitsrayim, and shall go to sojourn there,"}, {"pk": 2711652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "text": "then it shall be that the sword which you feared overtakes you there in the land of Mitsrayim, and the scarcity of food of which you were afraid clings to you there in Mitsrayim, and you die there."}, {"pk": 2711653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "text": "And so it shall be with all the men who set their faces to go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence, and not one of them shall survive or escape from the evil I am bringing upon them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018As My displeasure and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so shall My wrath be poured out on you when you enter Mitsrayim. And you shall be an oath, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, and you shall see this place no more.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken about you, O remnant of Yehud\u0331ah, \u2018Do not go to Mitsrayim!\u2019 Know for certain that I have warned you this day."}, {"pk": 2711656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor you deceived yourselves when you sent me to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, saying, \u2018Pray for us to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, and according to all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim says, so declare to us and we shall do it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSo I have declared it to you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in all which He has sent me to you."}, {"pk": 2711658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 42, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd now, know for certain that you shall die by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence in the place where you have desired to go to sojourn.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when Yirmeyahu had ended speaking all these words to all the people \u2014 all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, for which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim had sent him to them \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "text": "that Azaryah son of Hoshayah, and Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Yirmeyahu, \u201cYou are speaking a lie! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim has not sent you to say, \u2018Do not go to Mitsrayim to sojourn there.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah is moving you against us, to give us into the hand of the Kasdim, to put us to death or exile us to Bab\u0331el.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "text": "So Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323, and all the commanders of the army, and all the people disobeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to stay in the land of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan son of Qar\u0115ah\u0323 and all the commanders of the army took all the remnant of Yehud\u0331ah who had returned to dwell in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, from all nations where they had been driven \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 6, "text": "the men, and the women, and the children, and the sovereign\u2019s daughters, and every being whom Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, had left with Ged\u0331alyahu son of Ah\u0323iqam, son of Shaphan, and Yirmeyahu the prophet, and Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyahu."}, {"pk": 2711665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 7, "text": "So they went to the land of Mitsrayim, for they disobeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And they went as far as Tah\u0323panh\u0323es."}, {"pk": 2711666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 8, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yirmeyahu in Tah\u0323panh\u0323es, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTake large stones in your hand, and you shall hide them before the eyes of the men of Yehud\u0331ah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh\u2019s house in Tah\u0323panh\u0323es."}, {"pk": 2711668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThen you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am sending, and I shall bring Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, My servant. And I shall set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he shall spread his canopy over them."}, {"pk": 2711669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall come and strike the land of Mitsrayim, <i>bringing</i> death to those <i>appointed</i> for death, and captivity to those for captivity, and the sword to those for the sword."}, {"pk": 2711670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall set fire to the houses of the mighty ones of Mitsrayim. And he shall burn them and take them captive. And he shall cover himself with the land of Mitsrayim, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace."}, {"pk": 2711671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 43, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall break the stone pillars of the House of the Sun which are in the land of Mitsrayim, and he shall burn the houses of the mighty ones of the Mitsrites with fire.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that came to Yirmeyahu concerning all the Yehud\u0331im who were dwelling in the land of Mitsrayim \u2014 who were dwelling at Mi\u1e21dol, and at Tah\u0323panh\u0323es, and at Noph, and in the land of Pathros, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018You yourselves have seen all the evil that I have brought on Yerushalayim and on all the cities of Yehud\u0331ah. And see, this day they are a ruin, and no one dwells in them,"}, {"pk": 2711674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "text": "because of their evil which they have done to provoke Me, by going to burn incense by serving other mighty ones whom they did not know, they nor you nor your fathers."}, {"pk": 2711675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "text": "And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, \u201cPlease do not do this abominable matter that I hate!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "text": "But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil, not to burn incense to other mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2711677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "text": "So My wrath and My displeasure were poured out and burned in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim, and they became a ruin and a wasteland, as it is this day.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd now, thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Why are you doing this great evil against your lives, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Yehud\u0331ah, leaving none to remain,"}, {"pk": 2711679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "text": "by provoking Me with the works of your hands, by burning incense to other mighty ones in the land of Mitsrayim where you have gone to dwell, to cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?"}, {"pk": 2711680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "text": "Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, and the evils of the sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, and the evils of their wives, and your own evils, and the evils of your wives, which they have done in the land of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim?"}, {"pk": 2711681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "text": "To this day they have not been humbled, nor have they feared, nor have they walked in My Torah and in My laws that I set before you and your fathers.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018See, I am setting My face against you for evil and for cutting off all Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2711683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "text": "And I shall take the remnant of Yehud\u0331ah who have set their faces to go into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there. And they shall all be consumed in the land of Mitsrayim \u2014 fall by the sword, consumed by scarcity of food. From the least to the greatest they shall die, by the sword and by scarcity of food. And they shall be an oath and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach!"}, {"pk": 2711684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "text": "And I shall punish those dwelling in the land of Mitsrayim, as I have punished Yerushalayim, by the sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence."}, {"pk": 2711685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "text": "And none of the remnant of Yehud\u0331ah who have gone into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there shall escape or survive, lest they return to the land of Yehud\u0331ah, to which they are longing to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except those who escape.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "text": "Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other mighty ones, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who dwelt in the land of Mitsrayim, in Pathros, answered Yirmeyahu, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWe are not going to listen to you in the matter about which you spoke to us in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2711688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut we shall do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our sovereigns and our heads, in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim. And we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil."}, {"pk": 2711689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut since we ceased burning incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all and have been consumed by the sword and by scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2711690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd when we burned incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to idolize her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "text": "Then Yirmeyahu spoke to all the people \u2014 to the men and to the women, and to all the people who had given him that answer, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAs for the incense that you burned in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah and in the streets of Yerushalayim, you and your fathers, your sovereigns and your heads, and the people of the land, did not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 remember them? And it came into His heart!"}, {"pk": 2711693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your deeds and because of the abominations which you did. Therefore your land is a ruin, an object of astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, as it is this day."}, {"pk": 2711694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBecause you have burned incense and because you have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 or walk in His Torah, in His laws or in His witnesses, therefore this evil did befall you, as at this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to all the people and to all the women, \u201cHear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all Yehud\u0331ah who are in the land of Mitsrayim!"}, {"pk": 2711696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThus spoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018You and your wives have spoken with your mouths, and have filled with your hands, saying, \u201cWe shall perform our vows that we have made, to burn incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to her.\u201d Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTherefore hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all Yehud\u0331ah who are dwelling in the land of Mitsrayim, \u2018See, I have sworn by My great Name,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018My Name shall no longer be called upon by the mouth of any man of Yehud\u0331ah in all the land of Mitsrayim, saying, \u201cAs the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives...\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 27, "text": "See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good. And all the men of Yehud\u0331ah who are in the land of Mitsrayim shall be consumed by the sword and by scarcity of food, until they come to an end."}, {"pk": 2711699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 28, "text": "And those who escape the sword, few in number, shall return from the land of Mitsrayim to the land of Yehud\u0331ah. And all the remnant of Yehud\u0331ah, who came into the land of Mitsrayim to sojourn there, shall know whose word is established, Mine or theirs."}, {"pk": 2711700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 29, "text": "And this is the sign to you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018that I am punishing you in this place, so that you know that My words are certainly established against you for evil.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 44, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am giving Pharaoh H\u0323ophra sovereign of Mitsrayim into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Tsid\u0331qiyahu sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, his enemy who sought his life.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke to Baruk\u0331 son of N\u0115riyah, when he had written these words in a book from the mouth of Yirmeyahu, in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, concerning you, Baruk\u0331:"}, {"pk": 2711704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "text": "You have said, \u201cWoe to me now! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has added grief to my pain. I have been wearied with my sighing, and I have found no rest.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2711705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSay this to him, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up, that is, the entire land."}, {"pk": 2711706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd do you seek great matters for yourself? Do not seek them, for look, I am bringing evil on all flesh,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cBut I shall give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2711707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the nations:"}, {"pk": 2711708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "text": "For Mitsrayim, concerning the army of Pharaoh Nek\u0331o, sovereign of Mitsrayim, which was by the River Euphrates in Karkemish, and which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el had stricken in the fourth year of Yehoyaqim, son of Yoshiyahu, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah:"}, {"pk": 2711709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cPrepare the large and the small shield, and draw near to battle!"}, {"pk": 2711710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHarness the horses, and mount up, you horsemen! Stand with helmets, polish the spears, put on the armour!"}, {"pk": 2711711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhy do I see them afraid, turned back? And their fighters are beaten down. And they have fled in haste, and did not look back, for fear was all around,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They shall stumble and fall toward the north, by the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2711713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "text": "Who is this rising like a flood, whose waters surge about like the rivers?"}, {"pk": 2711714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "text": "Mitsrayim rises like a flood, and its waters surge about like the rivers. And he says, \u2018Let me rise and cover the earth; let me destroy the city and its inhabitants.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "text": "Go up, O horses, and rage, O chariots! And let the mighty men go forth \u2014 Kush and Put who handle the shield, and Lud\u0331 who handle and bend the bow."}, {"pk": 2711716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "text": "For this is the day of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, a day of vengeance, to revenge Himself on His adversaries. And the sword shall devour, and be satisfied and made drunk with their blood. For the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has a slaughtering in the land of the north by the River Euphrates."}, {"pk": 2711717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "text": "Go up to Gil\u201bad\u0331 and take balm, O maiden, the daughter of Mitsrayim. In vain you have used many remedies, there is no healing for you."}, {"pk": 2711718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 12, "text": "Nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. For the mighty has stumbled against the mighty, they have both fallen together."}, {"pk": 2711719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 13, "text": "The word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Yirmeyahu the prophet, about the coming of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, to strike the land of Mitsrayim:"}, {"pk": 2711720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cDeclare in Mitsrayim, and let it be heard in Mi\u1e21dol. And let it be heard in Noph and in Tah\u0323panh\u0323es. Say, \u2018Stand fast and be prepared, for a sword shall devour all around you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWhy were your strong ones swept away? They did not stand because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 drove them away."}, {"pk": 2711722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cHe made many stumble; indeed, they fell over each other, and said, \u2018Arise! Let us go back to our own people, and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThere they cried, \u2018Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, is but a noise. He has let the appointed time pass by!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares the Sovereign, whose Name is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cFor as Tab\u0331or is among the mountains, and as Karmel by the sea, he shall come."}, {"pk": 2711725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cO you daughter dwelling in Mitsrayim, prepare yourself to go into exile! For Noph shall become a waste and a ruin, and be burned, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2711726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cMitsrayim is like a very pretty heifer, but destruction comes, it comes from the north."}, {"pk": 2711727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cHer hired ones too, in her midst, are like fattened calves, for they too shall turn, they shall flee away together. They shall not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment."}, {"pk": 2711728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cIts sound moves along like a serpent, for they move on like an army and come against her with axes, like woodcutters."}, {"pk": 2711729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThey shall cut down her forest,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cfor it is not searched, because they are more numerous than locusts, and without number."}, {"pk": 2711730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThe daughter of Mitsrayim shall be put to shame. She shall be given into the hand of the people of the north.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, has said, \u201cSee, I am bringing punishment on Amon of No, and on Pharaoh, and on Mitsrayim, and on their mighty ones, and on their sovereigns, and on Pharaoh and on those trusting in him."}, {"pk": 2711732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and into the hand of his servants. And afterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut as for you, do not fear, O My servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and do not be discouraged, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l! For look, I am saving you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall return, and shall have rest and be at ease, with no one disturbing."}, {"pk": 2711734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 46, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cDo not fear, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cfor I am with you. Though I make a complete end of all the nations to which I have driven you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in right-ruling, and by no means leave you unpunished.\u201d", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 30:11>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2711735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Azzah:"}, {"pk": 2711736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, waters are rising out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood. And they shall overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell within. And men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail."}, {"pk": 2711737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAt the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look to their children, because of weakness of hands,"}, {"pk": 2711738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "text": "because of the day that shall come to ravage all the Philistines, to cut off from Tsor and Tsid\u0331on every helper that survives. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is ravaging the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Kaphtor."}, {"pk": 2711739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBaldness shall come upon Azzah, Ashqelon shall be cut off with the remnant of their valley. Till when would you cut yourself?"}, {"pk": 2711740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cO you sword of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, how long till you rest? Put yourself up into your sheath, rest and be still!"}, {"pk": 2711741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHow shall it rest, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given it a command? Against Ashqelon and against the seashore \u2014 there He has appointed it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "text": "Concerning Mo\u2019ab\u0331. This is what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l said, \u201cWoe to Neb\u0331o! For it is ravaged, Qiryathayim is put to shame, captured. The high stronghold is put to shame and broken down."}, {"pk": 2711743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThere is praise for Mo\u2019ab\u0331 no longer. In H\u0323eshbon they have devised evil against her, \u2018Come and let us cut it off as a nation.\u2019 O Mad\u0331m\u0115n, you are also cut off, a sword goes after you."}, {"pk": 2711744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cListen! An outcry from H\u0323oronayim, ravaging and great destruction!"}, {"pk": 2711745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cMo\u2019ab\u0331 shall be destroyed, her little ones shall cry out."}, {"pk": 2711746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor on the ascent to Luh\u0323ith they go up weeping bitterly. For in the descent of H\u0323oronayim the enemies shall hear a cry of destruction."}, {"pk": 2711747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFlee, deliver your own lives! And be like a bush in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2711748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, you shall be captured. And Kemosh shall go forth into exile, his priests and his heads together."}, {"pk": 2711749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd a ravager shall come into every city, no one escapes. And the valley shall perish, and the plain be destroyed, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2711750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cGive wings to Mo\u2019ab\u0331, for she has to flee away, and her cities become a ruin, with no one to dwell in them."}, {"pk": 2711751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "text": "(Cursed is he who is slack in doing the work of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from blood)."}, {"pk": 2711752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cMo\u2019ab\u0331 has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his flavour has stayed in him, and his fragrance is unchanged."}, {"pk": 2711753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall send him tilters, who shall tilt him over and empty his vessels and break the bottles."}, {"pk": 2711754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall be ashamed because of Kemosh, as the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was ashamed of B\u0115yth \u011al, their refuge."}, {"pk": 2711755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cHow do you say, \u2018We are mighty and strong men for battle\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2711756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cMo\u2019ab\u0331 is ravaged and her cities have been entered. And her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,\u201d declares the Sovereign, whose Name is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2711757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThe calamity of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is near to come and his affliction hurries fast."}, {"pk": 2711758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cLament for him, all you who are around him. And all you who know his name, say, \u2018How the strong sceptre has been broken, the staff of splendour!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cCome down from your esteem, and sit in thirst, O inhabitant, daughter of Dib\u0331on. For the ravager of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall come against you, he shall destroy your strongholds."}, {"pk": 2711760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cStand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aro\u201b\u0115r. Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, \u2018What has been done?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cMo\u2019ab\u0331 has been put to shame, for it has been broken down. Howl and cry! Let it be heard in Arnon that Mo\u2019ab\u0331 is ravaged."}, {"pk": 2711762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd judgment has come on the plain country, on H\u0323olon and on Yah\u0323tsah and on Mopha\u201bath,"}, {"pk": 2711763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 22, "text": "and on Dib\u0331on and Neb\u0331o and on B\u0115yth Dib\u0331lathayim,"}, {"pk": 2711764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 23, "text": "and on Qiryathayim and on B\u0115yth Gamul and on B\u0115yth Me\u201bon,"}, {"pk": 2711765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 24, "text": "and on Qeriyoth and on Botsrah, and on all the cities of the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, far or near."}, {"pk": 2711766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThe horn of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 has been cut off, and his arm has been broken,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cMake him drunk, because he has made himself great against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall splash in his vomit, and he shall also be in mockery."}, {"pk": 2711768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd was not Yisra\u2019\u0115l a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him, you shake your head."}, {"pk": 2711769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cO inhabitants of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, leave the cities and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove making a nest in the sides of the cave\u2019s mouth."}, {"pk": 2711770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWe have heard of the pride of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 (he is very proud!), of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, and of the haughtiness of his heart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cI know his wrath,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand his boastings are untrue, <i>and</i> his deeds are false."}, {"pk": 2711772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cTherefore I wail for Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and I cry out for all Mo\u2019ab\u0331. I mourn for the men of Qir H\u0323eres."}, {"pk": 2711773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cO vine of Sib\u0331mah! I weep for you with the weeping of Ya\u201bz\u0115r. Your branches have passed over the sea, they have come to the sea of Ya\u201bz\u0115r. The ravager has fallen on your summer fruit and your grape harvest."}, {"pk": 2711774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cJoy and gladness have been taken away from the orchard and from the land of Mo\u2019ab\u0331. And I have made wine to cease from the winepresses. No one treads with shouting \u2014 the shouting is no shouting!"}, {"pk": 2711775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFrom the outcry of H\u0323eshbon unto El\u201bal\u0115h, unto Yahats, they shall raise their voice, from Tso\u201bar to H\u0323oronayim, like a three-year-old heifer, for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up."}, {"pk": 2711776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make an end in Mo\u2019ab\u0331 to him who offers in the high places and burns incense to his mighty ones,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cSo My heart sounds for Mo\u2019ab\u0331 like flutes, and My heart sounds for the men of Qir H\u0323eres like flutes. Therefore the wealth they made shall be gone."}, {"pk": 2711778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor every head is bald, and every beard clipped \u2014 cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins."}, {"pk": 2711779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cOn all the house-tops of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and in its streets it is all lamentation, for I have broken Mo\u2019ab\u0331 like a vessel in which no one delights,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cHow has she been broken down! They shall wail! How has Mo\u2019ab\u0331 turned her back with shame! So Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall be a mockery and a horror to all those about her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 40, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, he soars like an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2711782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cQeriyoth shall be captured, and the strongholds seized. And the heart of the mighty men in Mo\u2019ab\u0331 on that day shall be like the heart of a woman in labour."}, {"pk": 2711783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall be destroyed as a people, because he has made himself great against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cFear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of Mo\u2019ab\u0331,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cHe who flees from the fear falls into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit is caught in the snare. For I am bringing upon Mo\u2019ab\u0331 the year of their punishment,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cThose who fled stood powerless under the shadow of H\u0323eshbon. But a fire shall come out of H\u0323eshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sih\u0323on, and consume the brow of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and the crown of the head of the sons of uproar."}, {"pk": 2711787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, O Mo\u2019ab\u0331! The people of Kemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken into exile, and your daughters into exile."}, {"pk": 2711788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 48, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cBut I shall turn back the captivity of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 in the latter days,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Thus far is the judgment of Mo\u2019ab\u0331."}, {"pk": 2711789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 1, "text": "Concerning the Ammonites: Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHas Yisra\u2019\u0115l no sons? Has he no heir? Why has Malkam taken possession of Gad\u0331, and his people dwell in its cities?"}, {"pk": 2711790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cHowl, O H\u0323eshbon, for Ai is ravaged! Cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird on sackcloth! Lament and diligently search by the walls, for Malkam shall go into exile, with his priests and his heads."}, {"pk": 2711792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhy do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter who is trusting in her treasures, saying, \u2018Who would come against me?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, I am bringing fear upon you, from all those around you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cAnd you shall be driven out, each one straight ahead, with no one to bring home the wanderer."}, {"pk": 2711794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd after this I turn back the captivity of the children of Ammon,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 7, "text": "Concerning Ed\u0331om: Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cIs there no more wisdom in T\u0115man? Has counsel been lost to those with understanding? Has their wisdom vanished?"}, {"pk": 2711796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFlee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Ded\u0331an! For I shall bring the calamity of \u011asaw upon him, the time that I shall punish him."}, {"pk": 2711797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? Even thieves by night would destroy <i>only</i> until they had enough!"}, {"pk": 2711798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut as for Me, I shall make \u011asaw bare. I shall uncover his hiding places, so that he is unable to conceal himself. His seed is ravaged, his brothers and his neighbours, and he is no more."}, {"pk": 2711799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cLeave your fatherless children, let Me keep them alive. And let your widows trust in Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 12, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have certainly drunk. And are you the one to go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but certainly drink of it."}, {"pk": 2711801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor I have sworn by Myself,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat Botsrah is to become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all its cities become everlasting wastes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 14, "text": "I have heard a report from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and an envoy has been sent to the nations, \u201cGather together, come against her, and rise up to battle!"}, {"pk": 2711803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor look, I shall make you small among nations, despised among men."}, {"pk": 2711804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThe dread for you, the pride of your heart, has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, from there I bring you down,\u201d declares the Master."}, {"pk": 2711805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd Ed\u0331om shall be a ruin, everyone who passes by it is astonished and whistles at all its plagues."}, {"pk": 2711806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAs in the overthrow of Sed\u0331om and Amorah and their neighbouring cities,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cNo one shall dwell there, nor would a son of man sojourn in it."}, {"pk": 2711807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSee, he comes up like a lion from the Yard\u0115n jungle against the home of the strong. But in an instant I shall make him run away from her. And who is the Chosen One, to appoint over her? For who is like Me? And who summons Me? And who is that Shepherd who stands before Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore hear the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He has counselled concerning Ed\u0331om, and the purposes He has purposed concerning the inhabitants of T\u0115man: the least of the flock shall drag them away! He shall make their pasture a waste before them!"}, {"pk": 2711809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 21, "text": "The earth shall be shaken at the noise of their fall. There is an outcry! Its noise is heard at the Sea of Reeds."}, {"pk": 2711810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 22, "text": "See, like an eagle he flies up, and spreads his wings over Botsrah. And the heart of the mighty men of Ed\u0331om in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pain."}, {"pk": 2711811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 23, "text": "Concerning Dammeseq: \u201cH\u0323amath and Arpad\u0331 have been put to shame, for they have heard an evil report. They have been melted in anxiety, like the sea, unable to rest."}, {"pk": 2711812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cDammeseq has become feeble, she has turned to flee, and trembling has taken hold of her. Distress and pain have seized her like a woman in labour."}, {"pk": 2711813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cHow is the city of praise deserted, the city of My joy!"}, {"pk": 2711814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTherefore her young men fall in her streets, and all the men of battle are cut off in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2711815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall kindle a fire in the wall of Dammeseq, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 28, "text": "To Q\u0115d\u0331ar and to the reigns of H\u0323atsor, which Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el struck: Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cArise, go up to Q\u0115d\u0331ar, and ravage the men of the East!"}, {"pk": 2711817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cTheir tents and their flocks, their curtains and all their vessels shall be taken. And they shall take away their camels for themselves. And they shall cry out to them, \u2018Fear is on every side!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFlee, go away! Dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of H\u0323atsor!\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cFor Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el has taken counsel against you, and has devised a plan against you."}, {"pk": 2711819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cArise, go up to the nation at ease that dwells safely,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cIt has no gates or bars, they dwell alone."}, {"pk": 2711820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd their camels shall become plunder, and their large herds booty. And I shall scatter them to all winds, those who cut off the corner, and bring their calamity from all its sides,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 33, "text": "\"H\u0323atsor shall be a habitation for jackals, a desert forever. No one dwells there, nor does son of man sojourn in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 34, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning \u011aylam, in the beginning of the reign of Tsid\u0331qiyah, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2711823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018See, I am breaking the bow of \u011aylam, the chief of their might."}, {"pk": 2711824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 36, "text": "And I shall bring upon \u011aylam the four winds from the four quarters of the heavens, and scatter them toward all those winds. And there shall be no nation where the outcasts of \u011aylam do not go."}, {"pk": 2711825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 37, "text": "And I shall break \u011aylam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. And I shall bring evil upon them, my burning displeasure,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018And I shall send the sword after them until I have consumed them."}, {"pk": 2711826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 38, "text": "And I shall set My throne in \u011aylam, and destroy from there the sovereign and the heads,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 49, "verse": 39, "text": "And it shall be in the latter days that I turn back the captivity of \u011aylam,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 1, "text": "The word that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke concerning Bab\u0331el, concerning the land of the Kasdim by Yirmeyahu the prophet."}, {"pk": 2711829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cDeclare among the nations, and let it be heard. And lift up a banner, let it be heard, and do not conceal it. Say, \u2018Bab\u0331el shall be taken, B\u0115l shall be put to shame, Merod\u0331ak\u0331 shall be broken, her images shall be put to shame, her idols shall be broken.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 3, "text": "For a nation shall come up against her from the north, which shall make her land waste, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall go, both man and beast."}, {"pk": 2711831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIn those days and at that time,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthe children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall come, they and the children of Yehud\u0331ah together, weeping as they come, and seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2711832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThey shall ask the way to Tsiyon, their faces toward it, \u2018Come and let us join ourselves to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cMy people have been wandering sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.", "comment": "Or <em>lost</em>, or <em>straying</em>, or <em>perishing</em>."}, {"pk": 2711834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll who found them have devoured them. And their adversaries have said, \u2018We are not guilty, because they have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Home of righteousness, and the Expectation of their fathers: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFlee from the midst of Bab\u0331el, come out of the land of the Kasdim. And be as rams before a flock.", "comment": "See Rev <a href='/TS2009/66/18/4'>18:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2711836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Bab\u0331el an assembly of great nations from a land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be captured \u2014 their arrows are like those of a mighty skilled man, not returning empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2711837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd Chaldea shall become plunder, all who plunder her shall satisfy themselves,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBecause you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,"}, {"pk": 2711839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 12, "text": "your mother shall be greatly ashamed. She who bore you shall be humiliated. Look, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land and a desert."}, {"pk": 2711840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBecause of the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be deserted \u2014 all of it. Everyone passing by Bab\u0331el shall be astonished and whistle at all her plagues."}, {"pk": 2711841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSet yourselves in array against Bab\u0331el all around, all you who bend the bow. Shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cShout against her all around. She has given her hand, her foundations have fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her."}, {"pk": 2711843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cCut off the sower from Bab\u0331el, and him who handles the sickle at harvest time. From before the sword of the oppressor each one turns to his own people, and each one flees to his own land."}, {"pk": 2711844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away. First the sovereign of Ashshur devoured him, and now, at last, this Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el has broken his bones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 18, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSee, I am punishing the sovereign of Bab\u0331el and his land, as I have punished the sovereign of Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2711846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring back Yisra\u2019\u0115l to his pasture, and he shall feed on Karmel and Bashan. And his being shall be satisfied on Mount Ephrayim and Gil\u201bad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2711847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cIn those days and at that time,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthe crookedness of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be searched for, but there shall be none; and the sin of Yehud\u0331ah, but none shall be found. For I shall pardon those whom I leave as a remnant."}, {"pk": 2711848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cGo up against the land of Merathayim, against it, and against the inhabitants of Peqod\u0331. Slay and put them under the ban,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand do according to all that I have commanded you."}, {"pk": 2711849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThere is a sound of battle in the land, and of great destruction."}, {"pk": 2711850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cHow the hammer of all the earth has been cut off and broken! How Bab\u0331el has become a ruin among the nations!"}, {"pk": 2711851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cI have laid a snare for you, and you were captured, O Bab\u0331el, and you yourself did not know! You have been found and also caught, because you strove against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has opened His armoury, and has brought out the weapons of His displeasure, for the Master Elohim of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2711853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 26, "text": "Come against her from every quarter, open her storehouses, pile her up as heaps of ruins, and put her under the ban. Let her have no remnant."}, {"pk": 2711854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 27, "text": "Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment."}, {"pk": 2711855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 28, "text": "Listen! They flee and escape from the land of Bab\u0331el, to declare in Tsiyon the vengeance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, the vengeance of His H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2711856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSummon archers against Bab\u0331el. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around, let no one escape. Repay her according to her work, do to her according to all she has done. For she has been proud against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, against the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2711857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTherefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of battle shall perish in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against you, O proud one!\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cfor your day has come, the time for your punishment."}, {"pk": 2711859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd the proud one shall stumble, and he shall fall, with no one to raise him up. And I shall kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 33, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cThe children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were oppressed, along with the children of Yehud\u0331ah. And all who took them captive have held them fast, they refused to let them go."}, {"pk": 2711861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cTheir Redeemer is strong, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name. He shall strongly plead their case, so as to give rest to the land, but unrest to the inhabitants of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cA sword is upon the Kasdim,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cand it is upon the inhabitants of Bab\u0331el, and upon her heads and upon her wise men."}, {"pk": 2711863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cA sword is upon the liars, and they shall be fools. A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be broken down."}, {"pk": 2711864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cA sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed peoples who are in her midst, and they shall become like women. A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be plundered."}, {"pk": 2711865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cA sword is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they boast about their idols."}, {"pk": 2711866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cTherefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell with the jackals, and the ostriches dwell in it. And it shall never again be inhabited, nor dwelt in, unto all generations."}, {"pk": 2711867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAs Elohim overthrew Sed\u0331om and Amorah and their neighbouring cities,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cso no one would dwell there, nor would son of man sojourn in it."}, {"pk": 2711868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cSee, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation and many sovereigns stirred up from the ends of the earth."}, {"pk": 2711869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cThey strengthen <i>their</i> bow and spear, they are cruel and they show no compassion. They sound like the roaring sea, and ride on horses, set in array, like a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cThe sovereign of Bab\u0331el has heard the report about them, and his hands became weak. Distress has taken hold of him, pain like that of a woman in labour."}, {"pk": 2711871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cSee, he comes up like a lion from the Yard\u0115n jungle, against the enduring pasture. But in an instant I shall make them run away from her. And who is the Chosen One whom I appoint against her? For who is like Me? Who summons Me? And who is that Shepherd who stands before Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 45, "text": "Therefore hear the counsel of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He has counselled concerning Bab\u0331el, and His purposes He has purposed concerning the land of the Kasdim: the least of the flock shall drag them away! He shall make their pasture a waste before them!"}, {"pk": 2711873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 50, "verse": 46, "text": "At the sound of Bab\u0331el\u2019s capture the earth shall be shaken, and the outcry shall be heard among the nations."}, {"pk": 2711874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am stirring up the spirit of a destroyer against Bab\u0331el, against those who dwell in L\u0115b \u2014 My opponents."}, {"pk": 2711875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 2, "text": "And I shall send winnowers to Bab\u0331el, who shall winnow her and empty her land. For they shall be against her all around, in the day of evil."}, {"pk": 2711876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLet the archer draw his bow, and let him stand ready in his armour. Do not spare her young men, put all her army under the ban."}, {"pk": 2711877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd the slain shall fall in the land of the Kasdim, and the pierced-through in her streets."}, {"pk": 2711878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor neither Yisra\u2019\u0115l nor Yehud\u0331ah is widowed by his Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, though their land has been filled with sin against the Set-apart One of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 6, "text": "Flee from the midst of Bab\u0331el, and let each one save his life! Do not be cut off in her crookedness, for this is the time of the vengeance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the recompense He is repaying her.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/18/4'>18:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2711880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 7, "text": "Bab\u0331el was a golden cup in the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank her wine, that is why the nations went mad!", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/17/1-18'>17:1-18</a>"}, {"pk": 2711881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 8, "text": "Bab\u0331el shall suddenly fall and be broken. Howl for her! Take balm for her pain \u2014 if so be, she might be healed."}, {"pk": 2711882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 9, "text": "We would have healed Bab\u0331el, but she is not healed. Let us leave her and each go to his own land, for her judgment reaches to the heavens and is lifted up to the clouds."}, {"pk": 2711883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has brought forth our righteousness. Come and let us relate in Tsiyon the work of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2711884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 11, "text": "Polish the arrows! Put on the shields! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has stirred up the spirit of the sovereigns of the Medes. For His plan is against Bab\u0331el to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the vengeance for His H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2711885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 12, "text": "Lift up a banner on the walls of Bab\u0331el, strengthen the watch, station the watchmen, prepare the ambush. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has both planned and done what He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 13, "text": "You who dwell upon many waters, great in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your greedy gain."}, {"pk": 2711887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sworn by Himself, \u201cI shall certainly fill you with men, as with locusts, and they shall lift up a shout against you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 15, "text": "He made the earth by His power, He established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His understanding."}, {"pk": 2711889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 16, "text": "When He gives forth His voice the waters in the heavens roar, and He makes vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain, and He brings the wind out of His treasuries."}, {"pk": 2711890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 17, "text": "All mankind has become too brutish to know, every smith has been put to shame by the carved image, for his moulded image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them."}, {"pk": 2711891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 18, "text": "They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they perish."}, {"pk": 2711892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 19, "text": "The Portion of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 is not like them, for He is the Maker of all, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l is the tribe of His inheritance. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is His Name."}, {"pk": 2711893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cYou are My battle-axe, weapons of battle, and with you I shall break nations in pieces, and with you I shall destroy reigns."}, {"pk": 2711894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd with you I shall break in pieces the horse and its rider, and with you I shall break in pieces the chariot and its rider."}, {"pk": 2711895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd with you I shall break in pieces man and woman, and with you I shall break in pieces old and young, and with you I shall break in pieces the young man and the maiden."}, {"pk": 2711896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd with you I shall break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with you I shall break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen. And with you I shall break in pieces governors and rulers."}, {"pk": 2711897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall repay Bab\u0331el and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Tsiyon before your eyes,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against you, O destroying mountain, who destroys all the earth,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd I shall stretch out My hand against you. And I shall roll you down from the rocks, and make you a burnt mountain."}, {"pk": 2711899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall not take from you a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation, but you shall be a waste forever,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 27, "text": "Lift up a banner in the land, blow a shophar among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, call the reigns together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her, bring up horses like hairy locusts."}, {"pk": 2711901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 28, "text": "Separate the nations against her, with the sovereigns of the Medes, its governors and all its rulers, all the land of his rule,"}, {"pk": 2711902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 29, "text": "so that the land shakes and writhes in pain. For every plan of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be established against Bab\u0331el, to make the land of Bab\u0331el a ruin, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2711903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 30, "text": "The mighty men of Bab\u0331el have ceased to fight, they remained in their strongholds. Their might has failed, they became like women, they have burned her dwelling places. The bars of her gate have been broken."}, {"pk": 2711904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 31, "text": "One runner runs to meet another, and one reporter to meet another, to report to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el that his city is taken on all sides,"}, {"pk": 2711905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 32, "text": "and the fords have been captured, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the soldiers are startled."}, {"pk": 2711906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 33, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cThe daughter of Bab\u0331el is like a threshing-floor at the time it is trodden. Yet a little while and the time of her harvest shall come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cNeb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar the sovereign of Bab\u0331el has devoured us, he has crushed us, he has made us an empty vessel, he has swallowed us up like a monster. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, he has driven us away."}, {"pk": 2711908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cLet the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Bab\u0331el,\u201d says the inhabitant of Tsiyon. And, \u201cLet my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,\u201d says Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2711909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 36, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am pleading your case. And I shall take vengeance for you and dry up her sea and make her fountain dry."}, {"pk": 2711910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd Bab\u0331el shall become a heap, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2711911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cTogether they roar like lions, they shall growl like lions\u2019 cubs."}, {"pk": 2711912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cIn their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cI shall bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats."}, {"pk": 2711914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cOh, how Sh\u0115shak\u0331 has been captured, the praise of all the earth been seized! How Bab\u0331el has become a ruin among the nations!"}, {"pk": 2711915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cThe sea has risen over Bab\u0331el, she has been covered with the roaring of its waves."}, {"pk": 2711916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cHer cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a desert, a land where no one dwells, neither does son of man pass by it."}, {"pk": 2711917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish B\u0115l in Bab\u0331el. And I shall make him spew out what he has swallowed, and nations shall no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Bab\u0331el shall fall."}, {"pk": 2711918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cCome out of her midst, My people! And let everyone deliver his being from the burning displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/18/4'>18:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2711919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd lest your heart grow faint, and you fear the report heard in the land \u2014 for a report shall come one year, and after that, in another year a report shall come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 47, "text": "therefore see, the days are coming that I shall bring punishment on the carved images of Bab\u0331el, and all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain fall in her midst."}, {"pk": 2711921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cAnd the heavens and the earth and all that is in them shall shout for joy over Bab\u0331el, for the ravagers shall come to her from the north,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 49, "text": "As Bab\u0331el is to fall for the slain of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so for Bab\u0331el the slain of all the earth shall fall."}, {"pk": 2711923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 50, "text": "You who have escaped the sword, go away! Do not stand still! Remember \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from afar, and let Yerushalayim come to your heart."}, {"pk": 2711924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 51, "text": "We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the set-apart places of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/1-7'>79:1-7</a>; Lam. <a href='/TS2009/25/1/10'>1:10</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/8/13'>8:13</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/11/31'>11:31</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2711925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I shall bring punishment on her carved images, while the wounded groan throughout all her land."}, {"pk": 2711926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cThough Bab\u0331el should mount up to the heavens, and though she should make the height of her strength inaccessible, ravagers shall come to her from Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2711927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 54, "text": "Listen! A cry from Bab\u0331el, and great destruction from the land of the Kasdim,"}, {"pk": 2711928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 55, "text": "because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is ravaging Bab\u0331el, and shall silence her loud voice. And her waves shall roar like great waters, the noise of their voice shall resound,"}, {"pk": 2711929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 56, "text": "because the ravager shall come against her, against Bab\u0331el, and her mighty men shall be captured. Every one of their bows shall be broken, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the \u011al of recompense, He shall certainly repay."}, {"pk": 2711930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 57, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,\u201d declares the Sovereign, whose Name is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2711931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 58, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cThe broad walls of Bab\u0331el are completely demolished, and her high gates are burned with fire, and peoples labour in vain, and the nations weary themselves for fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2711932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 59, "text": "The word that Yirmeyahu the prophet commanded Serayah son of N\u0115riyah, son of Mah\u0323s\u0115yah, when he went with Tsid\u0331qiyahu the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah to Bab\u0331el in the fourth year of his reign. And Serayah was a quartermaster."}, {"pk": 2711933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 60, "text": "So Yirmeyahu wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Bab\u0331el, all these words which have been written concerning Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 61, "text": "And Yirmeyahu said to Serayah, \u201cWhen you come to Bab\u0331el and see it, and read all these words,"}, {"pk": 2711935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 62, "text": "then you shall say, \u2018O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have spoken concerning this place to cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, for it is a ruin forever.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2711936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 63, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when you have ended reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the midst of the Euphrates,"}, {"pk": 2711937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 51, "verse": 64, "text": "and shall say, \u2018So does Bab\u0331el sink and not rise from the evil that I am bringing upon her, and they shall weary themselves.\u2019 \u201d Thus far are the words of Yirmeyahu."}, {"pk": 2711938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 1, "text": "Tsid\u0331qiyahu was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Yerushalayim. And his mother\u2019s name was H\u0323amutal the daughter of Yirmeyahu of Lib\u0331nah."}, {"pk": 2711939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 2, "text": "And he did evil in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all that Yehoyaqim had done."}, {"pk": 2711940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 3, "text": "For through the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 this came to be against Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah, until He had cast them out from His presence. And Tsid\u0331qiyahu rebelled against the sovereign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth new <i>moon</i>, on the tenth of the new <i>moon</i>, that Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el and all his army came against Yerushalayim and encamped against it. And they built a siege wall against it all around."}, {"pk": 2711942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 5, "text": "And the city was under siege until the eleventh year of Sovereign Tsid\u0331qiyahu."}, {"pk": 2711943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 6, "text": "On the ninth of the fourth new <i>moon</i> the scarcity of food was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2711944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 7, "text": "Then the city wall was breached, and all the men of battle fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the sovereign\u2019s garden, while the Kasdim were near the city all around. And they went by way of the desert plain."}, {"pk": 2711945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 8, "text": "But the army of the Kasdim pursued the sovereign, and they overtook Tsid\u0331qiyahu in the desert plains of Yerih\u0323o, and his entire army was scattered from him."}, {"pk": 2711946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 9, "text": "Then they captured the sovereign and brought him up to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el at Rib\u0331lah in the land of H\u0323amath, and he pronounced judgments on him."}, {"pk": 2711947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 10, "text": "And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el slew the sons of Tsid\u0331qiyahu before his eyes, and he also slew all the heads of Yehud\u0331ah in Rib\u0331lah."}, {"pk": 2711948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 11, "text": "And he put out the eyes of Tsid\u0331qiyahu. And the sovereign of Bab\u0331el bound him in bronze shackles, and took him to Bab\u0331el, and put him in prison till the day of his death."}, {"pk": 2711949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 12, "text": "And on the tenth of the fifth new <i>moon</i>, which was the nineteenth year of sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, who served the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, came to Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2711950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 13, "text": "and he burned the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the sovereign\u2019s house, and all the houses of Yerushalayim, and all the houses of the great men, he burned with fire."}, {"pk": 2711951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 14, "text": "And all the army of the Kasdim who were with the chief of the guard broke down all the walls of Yerushalayim all around."}, {"pk": 2711952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 15, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, exiled some of the poor people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the defectors who had gone over to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, and the rest of the craftsmen."}, {"pk": 2711953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 16, "text": "But Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers."}, {"pk": 2711954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Kasdim broke the bronze columns that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the stands and the bronze Sea that were in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and brought all their bronze to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 18, "text": "They also took away the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the ladles, and all the bronze utensils with which they served,"}, {"pk": 2711956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 19, "text": "and the basins, and the fire holders, and the bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the ladles, and the cups, whatever was of solid gold and whatever was of solid silver, the chief of the guard took."}, {"pk": 2711957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 20, "text": "The two columns, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the stands, which Sovereign Shelomoh had made for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weighing."}, {"pk": 2711958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 21, "text": "As for the columns, the height of one column was eighteen cubits, and its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, hollow."}, {"pk": 2711959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 22, "text": "And a capital of bronze was on it. And the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. And the second column, with pomegranates was the same."}, {"pk": 2711960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 23, "text": "And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides. All the pomegranates on the network were one hundred, all around."}, {"pk": 2711961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 24, "text": "And the chief of the guard took Serayah the chief priest, and Tsephanyah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers."}, {"pk": 2711962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 25, "text": "And from the city he took one eunuch who was in charge of the men of battle, and seven men who saw the sovereign\u2019s face, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city."}, {"pk": 2711963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 26, "text": "And Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, took these and brought them to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el at Rib\u0331lah,"}, {"pk": 2711964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 27, "text": "and the sovereign of Bab\u0331el struck them and put them to death at Rib\u0331lah in the land of H\u0323amath. Thus Yehud\u0331ah was exiled from its own land."}, {"pk": 2711965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 28, "text": "These are the people whom Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar exiled: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Yehud\u0331im;"}, {"pk": 2711966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 29, "text": "in the eighteenth year of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar he exiled from Yerushalayim eight hundred and thirty-two beings;"}, {"pk": 2711967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 30, "text": "in the twenty-third year of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar, Neb\u0331uzarad\u0331an, chief of the guard, exiled of the Yehud\u0331im seven hundred and forty-five beings. All the beings were four thousand six hundred."}, {"pk": 2711968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 31, "text": "And it came to be in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Yehoyak\u0331in sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, in the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, on the twenty-fifth of the new <i>moon</i>, that Ewil-Merod\u0331ak\u0331 sovereign of Bab\u0331el, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Yehoyak\u0331in sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah and brought him out of prison,"}, {"pk": 2711969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 32, "text": "and spoke kindly to him and set his throne above those of the sovereigns who were with him in Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2711970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 33, "text": "So he changed his prison garments, and he ate bread continually before the sovereign all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2711971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 24, "chapter": 52, "verse": 34, "text": "And as for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life."}, {"pk": 2719300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "How she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!"}, {"pk": 2719301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "She weeps bitterly at night, And her tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no comforter for her. All her friends have betrayed her, They have become her enemies."}, {"pk": 2719302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah has gone into exile, Because of affliction and because of harsh labour. She has dwelt among nations, She has found no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her Between narrow places."}, {"pk": 2719303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.", "comment": "Or <em>festivals</em>"}, {"pk": 2719304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have become at ease. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has afflicted her Because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy."}, {"pk": 2719305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And all the splendour has departed From the daughter of Tsiyon. Her rulers have become like buck, They have found no pasture, And they go powerless before the pursuer."}, {"pk": 2719306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "In the days of her affliction and wandering, Yerushalayim remembered all her precious <i>matters</i> She had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her destruction."}, {"pk": 2719307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Yerushalayim has sinned greatly, Therefore she has become defiled. All who esteemed her despised her Because they have seen her nakedness. She herself has sighed and turned away."}, {"pk": 2719308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Her uncleanness is in her skirts. She did not keep in mind her latter end, And has gone down appallingly, There was no one to comfort her. \u201cSee, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my affliction, For the enemy has made himself great!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "The adversary has spread his hand Over all her precious <i>matters</i>; Indeed, she has seen: The nations have entered her set-apart place, Those whom You commanded not to enter Your assembly."}, {"pk": 2719310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious <i>matters</i> For food, to bring back life. \u201cSee, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and look, For I have become despised.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIs it naught to you, All you who pass by? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain, Which has been brought on me, Which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has inflicted on me In the day of His burning displeasure."}, {"pk": 2719312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFrom above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back; He has laid me waste and faint all the day."}, {"pk": 2719313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThe yoke of my transgressions Has been bound by His hand, Woven together and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given me into hands Which I am unable to withstand."}, {"pk": 2719314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has trodden down all my strong men in my midst, He has called an appointed time Against me to crush my young men. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has trodden down as in a winepress The maiden daughter of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThis is why I weep. My eye, my eye is running down with water, Because the comforter, Who could bring back my life, Has been far from me. My children are stunned, For the enemy has prevailed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Tsiyon spreads out her hands, There is no comforter for her. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded concerning Ya\u201baqob\u0331, His neighbours are his adversaries. Yerushalayim has become an uncleanness among them."}, {"pk": 2719317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous, for I rebelled against His mouth. Hear now, all peoples, and see my pain. My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity."}, {"pk": 2719318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders breathed their last in the city, While they sought food to bring back their life."}, {"pk": 2719319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSee, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I am in distress. My inward parts are boiling up, My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. From without the sword has bereaved, At home it is like death."}, {"pk": 2719320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThey have heard that I sighed, With no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that You have done it. You shall bring on the day that You have announced, So let them become like me."}, {"pk": 2719321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cLet all their evil come before You, And do to them as You have done to me For all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "How \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in His displeasure Has covered the daughter of Tsiyon with a cloud! He has cast down from the heavens to the earth The comeliness of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, And has not remembered His footstool in the day of His displeasure."}, {"pk": 2719323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has swallowed up, without compassion, All the pastures of Ya\u201baqob\u0331. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Yehud\u0331ah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the reign and its rulers."}, {"pk": 2719324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "In the heat of displeasure He has cut off every horn of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. He has withdrawn His right hand from before the enemy. And He burns against Ya\u201baqob\u0331 Like a flaming fire, consuming all around."}, {"pk": 2719325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "He has bent His bow like an enemy. He has set His right hand like an adversary. And He kills all who delighted the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Tsiyon, He has poured out His wrath like fire."}, {"pk": 2719326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra\u2019\u0115l, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has made the appointed times and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsiyon, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging displeasure.", "comment": "Or <em>festivals</em>."}, {"pk": 2719328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has cast off His slaughter-place, He has rejected His set-apart place, He has delivered the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 As on the day of an appointed time."}, {"pk": 2719329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has planned to destroy The wall of the daughter of Tsiyon. He has stretched out a line. He has not turned back His hand from destroying. And He has made the rampart and wall to lament; Together they have languished."}, {"pk": 2719330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the nations. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "The elders of the daughter of Tsiyon Sit on the ground, are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Yerushalayim Have let their heads hang to the ground."}, {"pk": 2719332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "My eyes are spent with tears, My inward parts ferment, My bile has been poured on the ground Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, As children and the infants languish In the streets of the city."}, {"pk": 2719333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "They say to their mothers, \u201cWhere is grain and wine?\u201d As they languish like the wounded In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out in their mothers\u2019 bosom."}, {"pk": 2719334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "How shall I admonish you, To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Yerushalayim? To what shall I liken you to comfort you, O maiden daughter of Tsiyon? For your breach is as great as the sea. Who shall heal you?"}, {"pk": 2719335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Your prophets have seen Falsehood and folly for you, And have not shown you your crookedness, To turn back your captivity. But their visions for you Are false and misleading messages."}, {"pk": 2719336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "All who pass by have clapped their hands at you. They have whistled, And they shake their heads At the daughter of Yerushalayim, \u201cIs this the city that is called \u2018The perfection of loveliness, The joy of all the earth\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "All your enemies have opened Their mouth against you; They have whistled and they gnash their teeth. They say, \u201cWe have swallowed her up! This is certainly the day we waited for; We have found it, we have seen it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done what He planned, He has filled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has torn down, without compassion, And He has let your enemy rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries."}, {"pk": 2719339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Their heart cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cO wall of the daughter of Tsiyon, Let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no numbness, Let your eyes have no rest."}, {"pk": 2719340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cArise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches, Pour out your heart like water Before the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who languish from hunger At the head of every street."}, {"pk": 2719341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSee, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be killed In the set-apart place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2719342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYoung and old lie on the ground in the streets. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your displeasure, You have slaughtered without compassion."}, {"pk": 2719343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cWould You proclaim, as in a day of appointed time, The fears that surround me? And no one escaped or survived In the day of the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Those whom I have nursed and brought up My enemy has destroyed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "I am the man who has seen affliction By the rod of His wrath."}, {"pk": 2719345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not light."}, {"pk": 2719346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Indeed, He has turned back, He has turned His hand against me all the day."}, {"pk": 2719347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "He has worn out my flesh and my skin, He has broken my bones."}, {"pk": 2719348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "He has piled up against me, And surrounded me with bitterness and hardship."}, {"pk": 2719349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "He has made me dwell in dark places Like the dead of old."}, {"pk": 2719350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "He has hedged me in and I do not go out, He has made my chain heavy."}, {"pk": 2719351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Also, when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer."}, {"pk": 2719352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "He has blocked my ways with hewn stone, He has made my paths crooked."}, {"pk": 2719353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "He is to me like a bear lying in wait, A lion in hiding."}, {"pk": 2719354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "He has turned aside my ways And torn me in pieces, He has laid me waste."}, {"pk": 2719355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow."}, {"pk": 2719356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "He made the arrows of His quiver pierce my kidneys."}, {"pk": 2719357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "I have been a mockery to all my people, Their <i>mocking</i> song all the day."}, {"pk": 2719358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "He has filled me with bitterness, He drenched me with wormwood."}, {"pk": 2719359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And He has broken my teeth with gravel, He has covered me with ashes."}, {"pk": 2719360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And You have removed my being far from peace, I have forgotten goodness."}, {"pk": 2719361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And I said, \u201cMy strength and my expectancy Have perished from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Remember my affliction and my anguish, The wormwood and the gall."}, {"pk": 2719363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "Your being indeed remembers And bows down upon me."}, {"pk": 2719364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "This I recall to my mind, therefore I wait:"}, {"pk": 2719365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "The loving-commitments of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! For we have not been consumed, For His compassions have not ended."}, {"pk": 2719366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "They are new every morning, Great is Your trustworthiness."}, {"pk": 2719367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my Portion,\u201d says my being, \u201cTherefore I wait for Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good to those waiting for Him, To the being who seeks Him."}, {"pk": 2719369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "It is good \u2014 both to wait and to be silent, For the deliverance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "It is good for a man to bear a yoke in his youth."}, {"pk": 2719371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "Let him sit alone and be silent, Because He has laid it on him."}, {"pk": 2719372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "Let him put his mouth in the dust, There might yet be expectancy."}, {"pk": 2719373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "Let him give his cheek To the one who strikes him \u2014 He is filled with reproach."}, {"pk": 2719374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not cast off forever."}, {"pk": 2719375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "For though He afflicted, Yet He shall show compassion According to the greatness of His loving-commitments."}, {"pk": 2719376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "For He has not afflicted from His heart, Nor does He grieve the children of men."}, {"pk": 2719377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the earth,"}, {"pk": 2719378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "To turn aside the right-ruling of man Before the face of the Most High,"}, {"pk": 2719379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "text": "Or wrong a man in his cause \u2014 This \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not approve."}, {"pk": 2719380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "text": "Who was it that spoke, And it came to be! Has \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 not commanded it?"}, {"pk": 2719381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "text": "Do not the evils and the good Come out of the mouth of the Most High?"}, {"pk": 2719382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 39, "text": "What? Should mankind complain, A living man, because of his sins?"}, {"pk": 2719383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 40, "text": "Let us search and examine our ways, And turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 41, "text": "Let us lift our hearts and hands To \u011al in the heavens <i>and say</i>:"}, {"pk": 2719385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 42, "text": "We, we have transgressed and rebelled. You, You have not forgiven."}, {"pk": 2719386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 43, "text": "You have wrapped Yourself With displeasure and pursued us. You have killed, You have not shown compassion."}, {"pk": 2719387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 44, "text": "You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through."}, {"pk": 2719388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 45, "text": "You make us as scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples."}, {"pk": 2719389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 46, "text": "All our enemies have opened their mouth against us."}, {"pk": 2719390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 47, "text": "Fear and a snare have come upon us, Shame and ruin."}, {"pk": 2719391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 48, "text": "Streams of water run down my eye For the ruin of the daughter of my people."}, {"pk": 2719392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 49, "text": "My eye flows out and does not cease, Without stopping,"}, {"pk": 2719393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 50, "text": "Until \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 looks down and sees from the heavens."}, {"pk": 2719394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 51, "text": "My eye pains my being Because of all the daughters of my city."}, {"pk": 2719395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 52, "text": "My enemies hunted me down Like a bird, without cause."}, {"pk": 2719396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 53, "text": "They have cut off my life in the pit, And they threw stones at me."}, {"pk": 2719397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 54, "text": "Waters flowed over my head; I said, \u201cI am cut off!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 55, "text": "I called on Your Name, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, from the lowest pit."}, {"pk": 2719399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 56, "text": "You have heard my voice, Do not hide Your ear from my groaning, From my outcry!"}, {"pk": 2719400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 57, "text": "You drew near on the day I called on You; You said, \u201cDo not fear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 58, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You did plead the case for my being; You have redeemed my life."}, {"pk": 2719402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 59, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case."}, {"pk": 2719403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 60, "text": "You have seen all their vengeance, All their plans against me."}, {"pk": 2719404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 61, "text": "You have heard their reproach, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all their plans against me,"}, {"pk": 2719405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 62, "text": "The lips of those rising against me, And their scheming against me all the day."}, {"pk": 2719406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 63, "text": "Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their song."}, {"pk": 2719407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 64, "text": "Repay them, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, According to the work of their hands."}, {"pk": 2719408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 65, "text": "Give them a veiled heart, Your curse upon them!"}, {"pk": 2719409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 3, "verse": 66, "text": "Pursue and destroy them in displeasure, From under the heavens of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2719410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "How dim the gold has become, The fine gold changed! The stones of the set-apart place Are scattered at the head of every street."}, {"pk": 2719411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "The precious sons of Tsiyon Who were weighed against fine gold, How they have been reckoned as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!"}, {"pk": 2719412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "Even jackals have presented their breasts, They have nursed their young. The daughter of my people has become as cruel, As ostriches in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2719413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "The tongue of the infant has clung To the roof of its mouth for thirst; Children asked for bread, No one breaks it for them."}, {"pk": 2719414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills."}, {"pk": 2719415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And the crookedness of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sed\u0331om, Which was overthrown in a moment, And no hands were wrung over her!"}, {"pk": 2719416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Her Nazirites were brighter than snow And whiter than milk; More ruddy in body than rubies, Their cut like sapphire."}, {"pk": 2719417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Their appearance has become blacker than soot; They have become unrecognised in the streets; Their skin has shrivelled on their bones, It has become dry, it has become as wood."}, {"pk": 2719418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Better off were those pierced by the sword Than those pierced by hunger; For these pine away, Pierced through for lack of the fruits of the field."}, {"pk": 2719419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people."}, {"pk": 2719420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has completed His wrath, He has poured out His burning displeasure. And He kindled a fire in Tsiyon, And it consumed her foundations."}, {"pk": 2719421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "The sovereigns of the earth did not believe, Nor any of the inhabitants of the world, That an adversary and enemy Would enter the gates of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2719422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2719423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "They staggered, blind, in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one was able to touch their garments."}, {"pk": 2719424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "They shouted at them, \u201cAway! Unclean! Away! Away! Touch not!\u201d When they fled and staggered, They said, among the nations, \u201cThey shall stay no longer.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2719425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "The face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 scattered them. He no longer regards them. They showed no respect for the priests Nor favour to the elders."}, {"pk": 2719426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "While we exist, our eyes are consumed, Watching vainly for our help. In our watch-tower we watched for a nation That could not save."}, {"pk": 2719427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "They have hunted our steps From going in our streets. Our end was near, Our days were completed, For our end had come."}, {"pk": 2719428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They came hotly after us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2719429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, Was caught in their pits, In whose shadow we had thought To live among the nations."}, {"pk": 2719430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Ed\u0331om, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup is to pass over to you too, So that you become drunk and make yourself naked."}, {"pk": 2719431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "Your crookedness has been completed, O daughter of Tsiyon. He no longer prolongs your exile. He shall punish your crookedness, O daughter of Ed\u0331om, He shall uncover your sins!"}, {"pk": 2719432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Remember, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, what has come upon us. Look, and see our reproach!"}, {"pk": 2719433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, And our houses to foreigners."}, {"pk": 2719434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "We have become orphans, fatherless, Our mothers are like widows."}, {"pk": 2719435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "We had to pay for our drinking water, And our wood comes at a price."}, {"pk": 2719436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "We have been pursued close onto our neck, We have laboured and had no rest."}, {"pk": 2719437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread."}, {"pk": 2719438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "Our fathers sinned, they are no more. We have borne their crookednesses."}, {"pk": 2719439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Servants have ruled over us; There is no one to deliver from their hand."}, {"pk": 2719440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2719441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of scarcity of food."}, {"pk": 2719442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "They have humbled the women in Tsiyon, The maidens in the cities of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2719443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Rulers were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected."}, {"pk": 2719444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "They have taken young men to grind, And youths stumbled under <i>loads of</i> wood."}, {"pk": 2719445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Elders have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song."}, {"pk": 2719446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has turned into mourning."}, {"pk": 2719447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!"}, {"pk": 2719448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Because of this our heart has been sick, Because of these our eyes have become dim,"}, {"pk": 2719449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "Because of Mount Tsiyon which is laid waste; Foxes have gone roaming in it."}, {"pk": 2719450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, remain forever, Your throne from generation to generation."}, {"pk": 2719451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Why do You forget us forever, Forsake us for length of days?"}, {"pk": 2719452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "Turn us back to You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, And let us turn back, Renew our days as of old."}, {"pk": 2719453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 25, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "For have You completely rejected us? You have been wroth with us, exceedingly!"}, {"pk": 2711972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the thirtieth year, in the fourth <i>month</i>, on the fifth of the new <i>moon</i>, as I was among the exiles by the River Keb\u0331ar, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2711973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "On the fifth of the new <i>moon</i>, in the fifth year of Sovereign Yehoyak\u0331in\u2019s exile,"}, {"pk": 2711974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came expressly to Yeh\u0323ezq\u0115l the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Kasdim by the River Keb\u0331ar. And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon him there."}, {"pk": 2711975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And I looked and saw a whirlwind coming out of the north, a great cloud with fire flashing itself. And brightness was all around it, and out of its midst like glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire,"}, {"pk": 2711976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "and out of the midst of it came what looked like four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man."}, {"pk": 2711977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings."}, {"pk": 2711978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And their feet were straight feet, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calves\u2019 foot. And they sparkled like the appearance of polished bronze,"}, {"pk": 2711979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "and under their wings on their four sides were the hands of a man. And each of the four had faces and wings \u2014"}, {"pk": 2711980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "their wings touched one another. They did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward."}, {"pk": 2711981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And the likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, and each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle."}, {"pk": 2711982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward, two of each touched one another, and two covered their bodies."}, {"pk": 2711983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And each one went straight forward, going wherever the spirit was to go, and they did not turn when they went."}, {"pk": 2711984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And the likeness of the living creatures: their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of torches, moving back and forth among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning."}, {"pk": 2711985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And the living creatures ran back and forth, like the appearance of a flash of lightning."}, {"pk": 2711986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And I looked at the living creatures, and saw a wheel on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces."}, {"pk": 2711987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "The appearance of the wheels and their works was like the appearance of beryl, and all four had the same form. The appearance of their works was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel."}, {"pk": 2711988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "When they went, they went in any one of four directions, they did not turn aside when they went."}, {"pk": 2711989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And their rims were high and awesome, and their rims were covered with eyes, all around the four of them."}, {"pk": 2711990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up."}, {"pk": 2711991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, because there the spirit went. And the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels."}, {"pk": 2711992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood. And when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels."}, {"pk": 2711993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And a likeness was over the heads of the living creatures, an expanse like the appearance of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads."}, {"pk": 2711994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And under the expanse their wings were straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body."}, {"pk": 2711995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army. And when they stood still, they let down their wings."}, {"pk": 2711996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And a voice came from above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood, they dropped their wings."}, {"pk": 2711997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone. And on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man high above it."}, {"pk": 2711998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "And from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw what looked like glowing metal with the appearance of fire all around within it. And from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw what looked like fire, and brightness all around."}, {"pk": 2711999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "As the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking."}, {"pk": 2712000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, stand on your feet, so that I speak to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him who was speaking to me."}, {"pk": 2712002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, I am sending you to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me, until this day."}, {"pk": 2712003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd the children are stiff of face and hard of heart to whom I am sending you, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they \u2014 whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are a rebellious house \u2014 shall know that a prophet has been in their midst."}, {"pk": 2712005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or discouraged by their looks, for they are a rebellious house."}, {"pk": 2712006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious."}, {"pk": 2712007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, hear what I am speaking to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house, open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And I looked and saw a hand stretched out to me. And see, a scroll of a book was in it,"}, {"pk": 2712009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "and He spread it before me, and it was written on the inside and on the outside. And written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe."}, {"pk": 2712010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, eat what you find, eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll."}, {"pk": 2712012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, feed your stomach, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I am giving you.\u201d And I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/10'>19:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/103'>119:103</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/10/9'>10:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/10/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2712013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, go to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall speak to them with My words."}, {"pk": 2712014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and of difficult language, but to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2712015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "not to many people of foreign speech and of difficult language, whose words you do not understand. If I had rather sent you to them, they would have listened to you."}, {"pk": 2712016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is going to refuse to listen to you, for they refuse to listen to Me. For all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are hard of head, and hard of heart."}, {"pk": 2712017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, I shall make your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads."}, {"pk": 2712018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cLike adamant stone, harder than flint, I shall make your forehead. Do not be afraid of them, nor be discouraged at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears."}, {"pk": 2712020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd go! Come to the exiles, to the children of your people, and speak to them and say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 whether they hear, or whether they refuse.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And the Spirit lifted me up, and behind me I heard the sound of a great rumbling voice, \u201cBlessed be the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from His place,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great rushing."}, {"pk": 2712023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Spirit lifted me and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, while the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was strong upon me."}, {"pk": 2712024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And I came to the exiles at T\u0115l Ab\u0331ib\u0331, who were dwelling by the River Keb\u0331ar. And I sat where they were sitting, and sat there, stunned among them, seven days."}, {"pk": 2712025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be at the end of seven days that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSon of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall warn them from Me."}, {"pk": 2712027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWhen I say to the wrong, \u2018You shall certainly die,\u2019 and you have not warned him, nor spoken to warn the wrong from his wrong way, to save his life, that same wrong man shall die in his crookedness, and his blood I require at your hand.", "comment": "This passage is almost the same as in Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/18/20-32'>18:20-32</a> and Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/33/8-20'>33:8-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2712028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut if you have warned the wrong and he does not turn from his wrong, nor from his wrong way, he shall die in his crookedness, and you have delivered your being."}, {"pk": 2712029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd when a righteous one turns from his righteousness and shall do unrighteousness, when I have put a stumbling-block before him, he shall die. Because you did not warn him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done is not remembered, and his blood I require at your hand."}, {"pk": 2712030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut if you have warned the righteous one that the righteous should not sin, and he did not sin, he shall certainly live because he has been warned, and you have delivered your being.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon me there, and He said to me, \u201cArise, go out into the plain, so that I might speak to you there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "So I got up and went out into the plain, and see, the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood there, like the esteem which I saw by the River Keb\u0331ar, and I fell on my face."}, {"pk": 2712033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me, \u201cGo, shut yourself inside your house."}, {"pk": 2712034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd you, O son of man, see, they shall put cords on you and bind you with them, so that you do not go out in their midst."}, {"pk": 2712035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be dumb and not be a reprover to them, for they are a rebellious house."}, {"pk": 2712036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut when I speak with you, I open your mouth, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 He who hears, let him hear. And he who refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house."}, {"pk": 2712037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, take a clay tablet, and you shall lay it before you, and shall inscribe on it a city, Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2712038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall lay siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around."}, {"pk": 2712039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThen take an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. It is a sign to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd lie on your left side, and you shall put the crookedness of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l on it. As many days as you lie on it, you shall bear their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2712041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor I Myself have laid on you the years of their crookedness, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the crookedness of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side and shall bear the crookedness of the house of Yehud\u0331ah forty days, a day for a year. I have laid on you a day for a year."}, {"pk": 2712043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThen you shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against it."}, {"pk": 2712044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I shall put cords on you so that you do not turn from one side to another until you have completed the days of your siege."}, {"pk": 2712045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd take wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt. And you shall put them into one vessel, and make bread of them. You shall eat it, as many days as you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days."}, {"pk": 2712046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd your food which you eat is by weight, twenty sheqels a day, to be eaten from time to time."}, {"pk": 2712047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin, to be drunk from time to time."}, {"pk": 2712048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd eat it as a barley cake. And bake it, before their eyes, on human dung.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cEven so the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall eat their defiled bread among the nations, to whom I drive them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Then I said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! See, I have never defiled myself from my youth till now. I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has unclean meat ever come into my mouth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSee, I am giving you the dung of cattle instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread over it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, see, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Yerushalayim, and they shall eat bread by weight and with fear, and drink water by measure and with dread,"}, {"pk": 2712053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "so that they lack bread and water, and shall be appalled with one another, and be consumed in their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2712054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber\u2019s razor, and you shall pass it over your head and your beard. And you shall take scales to weigh and divide the hair."}, {"pk": 2712055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBurn with fire one-third in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are completed. And you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and scatter one-third in the wind. And I shall draw out a sword after them."}, {"pk": 2712056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take a few <i>hairs</i> from there and bind them in the edge of your garment."}, {"pk": 2712057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd take again some of them, and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire shall spread unto all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018This is Yerushalayim which I have set in the midst of the nations, with the <i>other</i> lands all around her."}, {"pk": 2712059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "But she rebelled against My rightrulings, doing wrong, more than the nations, and My laws more than the lands all around her. For they have rejected My right-rulings, and they have not walked in My laws.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have rebelled more than the nations all around you, and have not walked in My laws, nor done My right-rulings, nor even done according to the right-rulings of the nations all around you,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Look I Myself am against you and shall execute judgments in your midst before the eyes of the nations."}, {"pk": 2712062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And I shall do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I never do again, because of all your abominations."}, {"pk": 2712063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds."}, {"pk": 2712064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore, as I live,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018because you have defiled My set-apart place with all your disgusting <i>matters</i> and with all your abominations, therefore I also withdraw. And My eye shall not pardon, nor shall I spare."}, {"pk": 2712065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "One-third of you shall die of pestilence, and be consumed with scarcity of food in your midst. And one-third shall fall by the sword all around you. And I shall scatter another third to all the winds, and draw out a sword after them."}, {"pk": 2712066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And My displeasure shall be completed. And I shall bring My wrath to rest upon them, and I shall be eased. And they shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken it in My ardour, when I have completed My wrath upon them."}, {"pk": 2712067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And I shall make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, before the eyes of all who pass by."}, {"pk": 2712068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And it shall be a reproach, an object of scorn, a warning, and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments among you in displeasure and in wrath and in heated chastisements. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken."}, {"pk": 2712069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "When I send against them the evil arrows of scarcity of food which shall be for their destruction, which I send to destroy you, I shall increase the scarcity of food upon you and cut off your supply of bread."}, {"pk": 2712070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And I shall send against you scarcity of food and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you, while I bring the sword against you. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and prophesy against them."}, {"pk": 2712073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018O mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, hear the word of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys, \u201cLook, I Myself am bringing a sword against you, and I shall destroy your high places."}, {"pk": 2712074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd your slaughter-places shall be ruined, your sun-pillars shall be broken in pieces. And I shall make your slain fall in front of your idols,"}, {"pk": 2712075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "and lay the corpses of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in front of their idols, and scatter your bones all around your slaughter-places."}, {"pk": 2712076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIn all your dwelling places the cities shall be destroyed and the high places deserted, so that your slaughter-places are broken and bear their punishment. And your idols shall be smashed and made to cease, and your sun-pillars cut down, and your works blotted out."}, {"pk": 2712077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut I shall leave a remnant, in that some of you shall escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered throughout the lands."}, {"pk": 2712079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd those of you who escape shall remember Me among the nations where they have been taken captive, because I have been broken by their adulterous heart which has turned away from Me, and by their eyes which whored after their idols. And they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have done in all their abominations."}, {"pk": 2712080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and not for naught have I spoken to do this evil to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cStrike with your hand and stamp your feet, and say, \u2018Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who shall fall by sword, by scarcity of food, and by pestilence!"}, {"pk": 2712082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "He who is far off shall die by pestilence, he who is near fall by the sword, and he who is left over and is besieged die by scarcity of food. And I shall complete My wrath upon them."}, {"pk": 2712083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when their slain are among their idols all around their slaughter-places, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols."}, {"pk": 2712084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And I shall stretch out My hand against them and make the land a wasteland, even more waste than the wilderness toward Dib\u0331lah, in all their dwelling places. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, this is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land."}, {"pk": 2712087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Now the end is upon you, and I shall send My displeasure against you, and judge you according to your ways, and repay you for all your abominations."}, {"pk": 2712088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And My eye shall not pardon you, nor would I spare, for I repay your ways while your abominations are in your midst. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018A calamity, an only calamity, look, it has come!"}, {"pk": 2712090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you, look, it has come!"}, {"pk": 2712091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "The turn has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come, a day of uproar is near, and not of rejoicing in the mountains."}, {"pk": 2712092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "Soon I shall pour out My wrath, and shall complete My displeasure upon you, and judge you according to your ways, and repay you for all your abominations."}, {"pk": 2712093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And My eye shall not pardon, nor would I spare. I give you according to your ways while your abominations are in your midst. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who strikes."}, {"pk": 2712094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "See, the day! See, it has come! The turn has come, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded."}, {"pk": 2712095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "The violence has grown into a rod of wrongdoing. There is none of them, and none of its crowd, and none of their riches, and none eminent among them."}, {"pk": 2712096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "The time has come, <i>and</i> the day has arrived. \u2018Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is on all its crowd."}, {"pk": 2712097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "For the seller shall not return to what has been sold, though they are still alive. For the vision is for all its crowd \u2014 it shall not turn back. And in the crookedness of his life a man shall not strengthen himself."}, {"pk": 2712098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "They have blown the trumpet and all is prepared, but no one goes to battle, for My wrath is on all its crowd."}, {"pk": 2712099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the scarcity of food inside. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and he who is in a city, scarcity of food and pestilence devour him,"}, {"pk": 2712100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2712101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "All hands go limp, and all knees become as water."}, {"pk": 2712102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads."}, {"pk": 2712103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "They throw their silver into the streets, and their gold becomes as filth. Their silver and their gold is unable to deliver them in the day of the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. They do not satisfy their appetite, nor fill their stomachs, because it has been their stumbling-block of crookedness."}, {"pk": 2712104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And the splendour of His ornaments, He set it in excellency. But they made from it the images of their abominations and their disgusting <i>matters</i>. Therefore I shall make it like filth to them."}, {"pk": 2712105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And I shall give it for a prey into the hands of strangers, and to the wrong of the earth for a spoil, and they shall profane it."}, {"pk": 2712106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And I shall turn My face from them. And they shall profane My secret place, for destroyers shall enter it and profane it."}, {"pk": 2712107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "Make a chain, for the land has been filled with crimes of blood, and the city has been filled with violence."}, {"pk": 2712108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And I shall bring the evil ones of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. And I shall cause the pride of the strong to cease, and their set-apart places shall be profaned."}, {"pk": 2712109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "Destruction shall come. And they shall seek peace, but there is none."}, {"pk": 2712110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "Calamity upon calamity shall come, and report shall be upon report. And they shall seek a vision from a prophet. But the teaching has perished from the priest, and counsel from the elders!"}, {"pk": 2712111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "Let the sovereign mourn, and let the prince put on despair, and let the hands of the common people tremble. And I shall deal with them according to their way, and judge them with their own right-rulings. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the sixth year, in the sixth <i>month</i>, on the fifth of the new <i>moon</i>, as I sat in my house with the elders of Yehud\u0331ah sitting before me, that the hand of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell upon me there."}, {"pk": 2712113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And I looked and saw a likeness, like the appearance of fire. From His waist and downward the appearance was like fire, and from His waist and upward the appearance of brightness, like glowing metal."}, {"pk": 2712114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in visions of Elohim to Yerushalayim, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which causes jealousy."}, {"pk": 2712115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And see, the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain."}, {"pk": 2712116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, please lift your eyes toward the north.\u201d And I lifted my eyes northward, and north of the slaughter-place gate I saw this image of jealousy in the entrance."}, {"pk": 2712117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are doing here, driving Me away from My set-apart place? And you are to see still greater abominations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "Then He brought me to the door of the court. And I looked and saw a hole in the wall."}, {"pk": 2712119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, please dig into the wall.\u201d And when I dug into the wall I saw a door."}, {"pk": 2712120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cGo in, and see the evil abominations which they are doing there.\u201d", "comment": "See also Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/6/4'>6:4</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/19'>4:19</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/3'>17:3</a>; 2Ki. <a href='/TS2009/12/23/4-11'>23:4-11</a>; 2Ch. <a href='/TS2009/14/14/5'>14:5</a>; Job <a href='/TS2009/18/31/29'>31:29</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/19/13'>19:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/44/17'>44:17</a> and Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/42'>7:42</a>"}, {"pk": 2712121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And I went in and looked and saw all kinds of creeping creatures, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, carved all around on the walls."}, {"pk": 2712122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And facing them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and in their midst stood Ya\u201bazanyahu son of Shaphan. Each one had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up."}, {"pk": 2712123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are doing in the dark, each one in the room of his idols? For they say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does not see us, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has forsaken the land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cYou are to see still greater abominations which they are doing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And He brought me to the door of the north gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz."}, {"pk": 2712126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "Then He said to me, \u201cHave you seen this, O son of man? You are to see still greater abominations than these.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And He brought me into the inner court of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And there, at the door of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, between the porch and the slaughter-place, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing themselves eastward to the sun."}, {"pk": 2712128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cHave you seen, O son of man? Is it a small matter to the house of Yehud\u0331ah to do the abominations which they have done here? For they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me. And see, they are putting the branch to My nose."}, {"pk": 2712129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTherefore I shall indeed deal in wrath. My eye shall not pardon nor would I spare. And they shall cry in My ears with a loud voice, but I shall not hear them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And He called out in my hearing with a loud voice, saying, \u201cLet the punishers of the city draw near, each with his weapon of destruction in his hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And look, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle-axe in his hand. And one man in their midst was clothed with linen and had a writer\u2019s ink-horn at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2712132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went up from the kerub\u0331, where it had been, to the threshold of the House. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer\u2019s ink-horn at his side,"}, {"pk": 2712133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cPass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Yerushalayim, and you shall put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And to the others He said in my hearing, \u201cPass on into the city after him and strike, do not let your eye pardon nor spare."}, {"pk": 2712135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cKill to destruction old, young men, maidens and children and women, but do not come near anyone upon whom is the mark, and begin at My set-apart place.\u201d So they began with the elders who were in front of the House."}, {"pk": 2712136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cDefile the House, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!\u201d And they went out and struck in the city."}, {"pk": 2712137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And as they were striking them it came to be that I alone was left. And I fell on my face and cried out, and said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Are You destroying all the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in pouring out Your wrath on Yerushalayim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cThe crookedness of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Yehud\u0331ah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city filled with that which is warped. For they say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has forsaken the land, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not seeing!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut as for Me, My eye shall not pardon, nor would I spare, I shall recompense their deeds on their own head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And see, the man clothed with linen, who had the ink-horn at his side, reported back and said, \u201cI have done as You commanded me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And I looked and saw in the expanse that was above the head of the kerub\u0331im, like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne."}, {"pk": 2712142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, \u201cGo in among the wheels, under the kerub\u0331, and fill your hands with coals of fire from among the kerub\u0331im, and scatter over the city.\u201d And he went in before my eyes."}, {"pk": 2712143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And the kerub\u0331im were standing on the south side of the House when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court."}, {"pk": 2712144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went up from the kerub\u0331, over the threshold of the House. And the House was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sound of the wings of the kerub\u0331im was heard in the outer court, like the voice of \u011al Shaddai when He speaks."}, {"pk": 2712146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, \u201cTake fire from among the wheels, from among the kerub\u0331im,\u201d that he went in and stood beside the wheel."}, {"pk": 2712147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And the kerub\u0331 stretched out his hand from among the kerub\u0331im to the fire that was among the kerub\u0331im, and took some, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out."}, {"pk": 2712148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And the form of a man\u2019s hand was seen under the wings of the kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2712149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And I looked and saw four wheels beside the kerub\u0331im, one wheel beside each kerub\u0331, and the wheels\u2019 appearance was like the colour of beryl stone."}, {"pk": 2712150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "As for their appearance, all four looked alike; as if a wheel in the middle of a wheel."}, {"pk": 2712151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "When they went, they went on their four sides; they did not turn aside when they went, but went in the direction the head was facing. They did not turn aside when they went."}, {"pk": 2712152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And their entire bodies, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels that the four had, were covered with eyes all around."}, {"pk": 2712153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "The wheels were called in my hearing, \u201cWheel.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And each one had four faces: the first face was the face of a kerub\u0331, and the second face the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle."}, {"pk": 2712155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And the kerub\u0331im were lifted up \u2014 it was the living creature I saw by the River Keb\u0331ar."}, {"pk": 2712156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And when the kerub\u0331im went the wheels went beside them. And when the kerub\u0331im lifted their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also did not turn from beside them."}, {"pk": 2712157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "When they stood still, the wheels stood still, and when one was lifted up, the other lifted itself up, for the spirit of the living creature was in them."}, {"pk": 2712158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went from the threshold of the House and stood over the kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2712159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And the kerub\u0331im lifted their wings and rose from the earth before my eyes. When they went out, the wheels were beside them. And it stood at the door of the east gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was above them."}, {"pk": 2712160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "It was the living creature I saw under the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l by the River Keb\u0331ar, and I knew they were kerub\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2712161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings."}, {"pk": 2712162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Keb\u0331ar, their appearances and themselves. Each one went straight forward."}, {"pk": 2712163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which faces east. And see, at the door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom I saw Ya\u201bazanyah son of Azzur, and Pelatyahu son of Benayahu, heads of the people."}, {"pk": 2712164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, these are the men who plot wickedness and give evil counsel in this city,"}, {"pk": 2712165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "who are saying, \u2018It is not near, let us build houses. This <i>city</i> is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cTherefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 fell upon me, and said to me, \u201cSpeak! \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThus you have said, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. For I know what comes up in your spirit."}, {"pk": 2712168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou have increased your slain in this city, and filled its streets with the slain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYour slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot. But I shall bring you out of the midst of it."}, {"pk": 2712170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYou have feared the sword, and I bring a sword upon you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring you out of its midst, and give you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments on you."}, {"pk": 2712172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBy the sword you fall. At the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l I judge you. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThis <i>city</i> is not your cooking pot, nor are you the meat in its midst. At the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l I judge you."}, {"pk": 2712174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for you have not walked in My laws nor executed My right-rulings, but have done according to the rulings of the nations which are all around you.\u201d \u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 10:2>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/2'>10:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2712175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And it came to be, while I was prophesying, that Pelatyahu son of Benayah died. And I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, and said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Are You making an end of the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSon of man, your brothers, your relatives, your kinsmen, and all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all of it, are those about whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim said, \u2018Keep far from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, this land has been given to us as a possession.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTherefore say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAlthough I have sent them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the lands, yet I was for them a set-apart place for a little while in the lands to which they came.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cTherefore say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAnd I shall gather you from the peoples, and I shall assemble you from the lands where you have been scattered, and I shall give you the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall go there, and shall take away all its disgusting <i>matters</i> and all its abominations from there."}, {"pk": 2712181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,"}, {"pk": 2712182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2712183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut to those whose hearts walk after the heart of their disgusting <i>matters</i> and their abominations, I shall recompense their deeds on their own heads,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And the kerub\u0331im lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was high above them."}, {"pk": 2712185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain, which is on the east side of the city."}, {"pk": 2712186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of Elohim into Kasdima, to those in exile. And the vision that I had seen went up from me."}, {"pk": 2712187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "And I spoke to those in exile of all the words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which He had shown me."}, {"pk": 2712188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, you are dwelling in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but they have not seen, they have ears to hear but they have not heard, for they are a rebellious house."}, {"pk": 2712190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore, son of man, prepare your baggage for exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you shall go from your place into exile to another place before their eyes. It could be that they see, though they are a rebellious house."}, {"pk": 2712191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall bring out your baggage for exile before their eyes by day, and at evening go before their eyes, like those who go into exile."}, {"pk": 2712192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cDig through the wall before their eyes, and you shall bring <i>them</i> out through it \u2014"}, {"pk": 2712193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "take them on your shoulders and bring them out at dark before their eyes. Cover your face, so that you do not see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And so I did, as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage for exile by day, and at evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought them out at dark, and I took them on my shoulder before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2712195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And in the morning the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSon of man, did not the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the rebellious house, say to you, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSay to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThis message is to the prince in Yerushalayim and all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who are in their midst.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSay, \u2018I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it is done to them \u2014 they are to go into exile, into captivity.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the prince who is in their midst is to bear his baggage on his shoulder at dark and go out. They are to dig through the wall to bring them out through it. He is to cover his face, so that he does not see the land with his eyes."}, {"pk": 2712200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare. And I shall bring him to Bab\u0331el, the land of the Kasdim, but he shall not see it, and yet die there."}, {"pk": 2712201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands, and I shall draw out the sword after them."}, {"pk": 2712202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I scatter them among the nations. And I shall disperse them throughout the lands."}, {"pk": 2712203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBut I shall let a few of their men escape from the sword, from scarcity of food, and from pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations wherever they go. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSon of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with fear and with anxiety."}, {"pk": 2712206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to the people of the land, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cLet them eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with astonishment, for her land is emptied of all who are in it, because of the violence of all those who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2712207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a wasteland. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cSon of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which says, \u2018The days go by, and every vision shall come to naught\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2712210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall make this proverb to cease, so that they no longer use it as a proverb in Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d But say to them, \u201cThe days have drawn near, as well as the matter of every vision."}, {"pk": 2712211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor no longer is there to be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I speak. And the word which I speak is done. It is no longer deferred. For in your days, O rebellious house, when I speak the word I shall do it,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "Again the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSon of man, see, the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is saying, \u2018The vision that he is seeing is for many days from now, and he is prophesying of times far off.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cNone of My words are deferred any longer. When I speak a word it is done,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy against the prophets of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWoe to the foolish prophets, who are following their own spirit, without having had a vision!"}, {"pk": 2712219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cO Yisra\u2019\u0115l, your prophets have been like foxes among ruins."}, {"pk": 2712220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cYou have not gone up into the breaches, nor do you build a wall for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to stand in battle on the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTheir visions are false and their divinations a lie, saying, \u2018Thus declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has not sent them, yet they expected the word to be confirmed!"}, {"pk": 2712222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHave you not seen a false vision, and have you not spoken a divination of lies? You say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 declares,\u2019 when I have not spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause you have spoken falsehood and seen lies, therefore see, I am against you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cMy hand shall be against the prophets who see falsehood and who divine lies. They shall not be in the council of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and they shall not enter into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And you shall know that I am the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBecause, yes because they have led My people astray, saying, \u2018Peace!\u2019 when there is no peace. And when one is building a wall, see, they are coating it with whitewash!"}, {"pk": 2712226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSay to those who coat it with whitewash: it shall fall! There shall be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones: fall! \u2014 and a stormy wind breaks it down,"}, {"pk": 2712227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "and see, the wall shall fall! Shall you not be asked, \u2018Where is the coating with which you coated it?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall break down with a stormy wind in My wrath, and a flooding rain in My displeasure, and great hailstones in wrath, to consume."}, {"pk": 2712229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall throw down the wall you have coated with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, and its foundation shall be uncovered. And it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSo I shall complete My wrath on the wall and on those coating it with whitewash, and say to you, \u2018The wall is no more, nor those whitewashing it \u2014"}, {"pk": 2712231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "the prophets of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who are prophesying concerning Yerushalayim, and who are seeing visions of peace for her when there is no peace,\u2019 \u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who are prophesying out of their own heart, and prophesy against them."}, {"pk": 2712233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cWoe to the women sewing cushions for all joints of the hand, and to those making veils for the heads of <i>people</i> of every size, to hunt beings! You hunt the beings of My people, while you keep alive your own beings!"}, {"pk": 2712234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to put to death beings that should not die, and to keep alive beings who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against your cushions by which you hunt the beings there like birds. And I shall tear them from your arms, and shall let the beings go, the beings you hunt like birds."}, {"pk": 2712236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall tear off your veils, and shall deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBecause with falsehood you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad. And you have strengthened the hands of the wrong, so that he does not turn from his evil way, to keep him alive."}, {"pk": 2712238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cTherefore you shall no longer see false visions, nor practise divination. And I shall deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And some of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to me and sat before me."}, {"pk": 2712240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSon of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and have put the stumbling-block of their crookedness before their face. Should I let them inquire of Me at all?"}, {"pk": 2712242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cTherefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cEveryone of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to the prophet \u2014 I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall answer him who comes, according to his many idols,"}, {"pk": 2712243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "in order to lay hold of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l by their heart, for they have become estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cRepent, and turn back from your idols, and turn back your faces from all your abominations."}, {"pk": 2712245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor anyone of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or of the strangers who sojourn in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling-block of his crookedness before his face, and shall come to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall answer him Myself."}, {"pk": 2712246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I shall cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd if the prophet is deceived, and shall speak a word, I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 have deceived that prophet, and shall stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from the midst of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall bear their crookedness, the crookedness of the prophet is the same as the crookedness of the inquirer,"}, {"pk": 2712249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "so that the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l no longer strays from Me, nor be made unclean any more with all their transgressions. And they shall be My people and I be their Elohim,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came again to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSon of man, when a land sins against Me to commit a trespass, and I shall stretch out My hand against it, and cut off its supply of bread and send scarcity of food on it, and cut off man and beast from it,"}, {"pk": 2712252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "even though these three men, Noah\u0323, Dani\u2019\u0115l, and Iyob\u0331, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cIf I cause an evil beast to pass through the land, and it shall bereave it, and it shall be a wasteland, so that no man passes through because of the beasts,"}, {"pk": 2712254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "even though these three men were in it, as I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthey would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land be a wasteland."}, {"pk": 2712255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cOr if I bring a sword on that land, and I shall say, \u2018Sword, go through the land,\u2019 and I shall cut off man and beast from it,"}, {"pk": 2712256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "even though these three men were in its midst, as I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthey would deliver neither sons nor daughters, for they alone would be delivered."}, {"pk": 2712257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cOr if I send a pestilence into that land, and I shall pour out My wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,"}, {"pk": 2712258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "even though Noah\u0323, Dani\u2019\u0115l, and Iyob\u0331 were in it, as I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthey would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver their own lives by their righteousness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHow much more it shall be when I send My four evil judgments on Yerushalayim: the sword and scarcity of food and evil beasts and pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it?"}, {"pk": 2712260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut see, there shall be left in it a remnant who are brought out, both sons and daughters. See, they are coming out to you, and you shall see their ways and their deeds, and shall be comforted concerning the evil which I have brought upon Yerushalayim \u2014 all that I have brought upon it."}, {"pk": 2712261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall comfort you, when you see their ways and their deeds. And you shall know that it was not for naught that I have done whatever I did in it,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, how is the vine tree better than any tree, the vine branch that has been among the trees of the forest?"}, {"pk": 2712264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cIs wood taken from it to be made into any work? Do they take a peg from it to hang any vessel on?"}, {"pk": 2712265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, into the fire it shall be given for fuel. Both ends of it the fire shall burn, and its middle shall be scorched. Is it fit for any work?"}, {"pk": 2712266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, when it was intact, it was not made for work, how much less when the fire has burned it and it is scorched shall it still be used for work?"}, {"pk": 2712267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I shall give up the inhabitants of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2712268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And I shall set My face against them. They shall go out from fire, but fire consumes them. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I set My face against them."}, {"pk": 2712269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And I shall make the land a wasteland, because they committed trespass,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "Again the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, make known to Yerushalayim her abominations,"}, {"pk": 2712272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "and say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Yerushalayim, \u201cYour origin and your birth are from the land of Kena\u201ban. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a H\u0323ittite."}, {"pk": 2712273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAs for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water for cleansing, and you were not rubbed with salt at all, nor wrapped in cloth at all."}, {"pk": 2712274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cNo eye felt sorry for you, to do any of these for you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, to the loathing of your life on the day you were born."}, {"pk": 2712275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThen I passed by you and saw you trampled down in your own blood, and I said to you in your blood, \u2018Live!\u2019 And I said to you in your blood, \u2018Live!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI have let you grow like a plant in the field. And you are grown and are great, and you come in the finest ornaments. \u2014 breasts were formed, your hair grew, and you were naked and bare."}, {"pk": 2712277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAgain I passed by you and looked upon you and saw that your time was the time of <i>carnal</i>-love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I washed you in water, and I washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil."}, {"pk": 2712279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I dressed you in embroidered work and gave you sandals of leather. And I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk."}, {"pk": 2712280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck."}, {"pk": 2712281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a crown of adorning on your head."}, {"pk": 2712282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, and honey, and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful, and became fit for royalty."}, {"pk": 2712283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd your name went out among the nations because of your loveliness, for it was perfect, by My splendour which I had put on you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut you trusted in your own loveliness, and whored because of your name, and poured out your whorings on everyone passing by who would have it."}, {"pk": 2712285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you took some of your garments and made multi-coloured high places for yourself, and whored on them \u2014 which should not have come about, nor shall it be."}, {"pk": 2712286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you took your splendid adornments, of My gold and My silver that I gave you, and made for yourself images of a male and whored with them."}, {"pk": 2712287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them."}, {"pk": 2712288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey which I fed you, you set it before them as sweet incense \u2014 and so it was,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you slaughtered as food to them. Were your whorings a small matter,"}, {"pk": 2712290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "that you have slain My children and gave them up to them by causing them to pass through <i>the fire</i>?"}, {"pk": 2712291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd in all your abominations and whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, trampled down in your blood."}, {"pk": 2712292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThen it came to be after all your evil \u2014 \u2018Woe, woe to you!\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2712293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "that you also built an arched place for yourself, and made a high place in every street for yourself."}, {"pk": 2712294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYou built your high places at the head of every way, and made your loveliness to be loathed. And you parted your feet to everyone who passed by, and increased your whorings."}, {"pk": 2712295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you whored with the sons of Mitsrayim, your neighbours, great of flesh. And you increased your whorings to provoke Me."}, {"pk": 2712296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I have stretched out My hand against you, and withdrew <i>what is</i> lawfully yours, and gave you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way."}, {"pk": 2712297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you whored with the sons of Ashshur, without being satisfied. And you whored with them and still were not satisfied."}, {"pk": 2712298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd you increased your whorings as far as the land of traders, Kasdima, and even then you were not satisfied."}, {"pk": 2712299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cHow weak is your heart!\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cseeing you do all this, the deeds of a shameless whore."}, {"pk": 2712300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cYou built your arched place at the head of every way, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were unlike a whore, you scorned a harlot-fee!"}, {"pk": 2712301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThe wife who commits adultery who takes strangers instead of her husband!"}, {"pk": 2712302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cTo all whores they give gifts, but you gave gifts to all your lovers, and bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings."}, {"pk": 2712303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cThus you are different from other women in your whorings, because no one whores after you, and in you giving a harlot-fee, while a harlot-fee was not given to you. Thus you are different.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "text": "Therefore, O whore, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2712305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause your copper was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with the idols of your abominations, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,"}, {"pk": 2712306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "text": "therefore, see, I am gathering all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, with all those you hated. And I shall gather them from all around against you and shall uncover your nakedness to them, and they shall see all your nakedness."}, {"pk": 2712307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall judge you with judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood. And I shall bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy."}, {"pk": 2712308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give you into their hand, and they shall throw your arched place down, and they shall break down your high places. And they shall strip you of your garments, and they shall take your splendid adornments, and leave you naked and bare."}, {"pk": 2712309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords,"}, {"pk": 2712310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 41, "text": "and burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you before the eyes of many women. And I shall make you stop whoring, and no longer give harlot-fees."}, {"pk": 2712311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cSo I shall bring My wrath to rest upon you, and My jealousy shall turn away from you. And I shall be calm, and no longer be vexed."}, {"pk": 2712312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBecause you did not remember the days of your youth, but troubled Me with all this, so see, I shall also bring your way on your own head,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd shall I not do this thought for all your abominations?"}, {"pk": 2712313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cSee, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, \u2018Like mother, like daughter!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cYou are your mother\u2019s daughter, who despises her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a H\u0323ittite and your father an Amorite."}, {"pk": 2712315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Sed\u0331om and her daughters."}, {"pk": 2712316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd have you not walked in their ways and did according to their abominations? But in all your ways you soon became more corrupt than they."}, {"pk": 2712317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cneither your sister Sed\u0331om nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done."}, {"pk": 2712318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cSee, this was the crookedness of your sister Sed\u0331om: She and her daughter had pride, sufficiency of bread, and unconcerned ease. And she did not help the poor and needy."}, {"pk": 2712319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cAnd they were haughty and did abomination before Me, and I took them away when I saw it."}, {"pk": 2712320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cAnd Shomeron did not commit half of your sins, but you have increased your abominations more than they, and by all the abominations which you have done you made your sisters seem righteous!"}, {"pk": 2712321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cYou also, who pleaded for your sisters, bear your own shame, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs. They are more righteous than you. So be ashamed too, and bear your own shame, because you have made your sisters seem righteous."}, {"pk": 2712322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall turn back their captivity, the captivity of Sed\u0331om and her daughters, and the captivity of Shomeron and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives with them,"}, {"pk": 2712323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 54, "text": "so that you bear your shame, and shall blush for all that you did when you comforted them,"}, {"pk": 2712324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cand your sisters, Sed\u0331om and her daughters, return to their former state, and Shomeron and her daughters return to their former state, and you and your daughters return to your former state."}, {"pk": 2712325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cWas not your sister Sed\u0331om a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,"}, {"pk": 2712326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 57, "text": "before your evil was exposed, as the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram and all who were around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who are despising you everywhere?"}, {"pk": 2712327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 58, "text": "\u201cYou shall bear your wickedness and your abominations,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 59, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall deal with you as you have done, in that you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant."}, {"pk": 2712329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 60, "text": "\u201cBut I shall remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I shall establish an everlasting covenant with you."}, {"pk": 2712330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 61, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters. And I shall give them to you for daughters, though not by your own covenant."}, {"pk": 2712331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 62, "text": "\u201cAnd I Myself shall establish My covenant with you. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2712332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 16, "verse": 63, "text": "so that you remember. And you shall be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I pardon you for all you have done,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe great eagle with large wings of long pinions, covered with feathers of various colours, came to Leb\u0331anon and took the top of the cedar."}, {"pk": 2712336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHe plucked off the topmost of its young twigs and brought it to a land of traders. In a city of merchants he placed it."}, {"pk": 2712337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cHe also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a field for seed. He took it by many waters, set it like a willow tree."}, {"pk": 2712338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSo it grew and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, and its roots were under it. And it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and sent out shoots."}, {"pk": 2712339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd there was another great eagle with large wings and many feathers. And see, this vine bent its roots toward him, and stretched its branches toward him, to water it, away from the beds where it was planted."}, {"pk": 2712340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIt was planted in a good field by many waters, to bring forth branches, and to bear fruit, to be a splendid vine.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSay, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIs it going to thrive? Is he not going to pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, and let it wither? All of its sprouting leaves wither, without great power or many people, to pluck it up by its roots."}, {"pk": 2712342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee, it is planted, is it going to thrive? Would it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it \u2014 wither in the beds where it grows?\u201d \u2018 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cPlease say to the rebellious house, \u2018Do you not know what these mean?\u2019 Say, \u2018See, the sovereign of Bab\u0331el went to Yerushalayim and took its sovereign and heads, and brought them with him to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2712345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And he took one of the royal seed, and made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. And he took away the mighty of the land,"}, {"pk": 2712346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "so that the reign would be brought low and not lift itself up, but guard his covenant, that it might stand."}, {"pk": 2712347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Mitsrayim, to give him horses and many people. Shall he thrive? Shall he escape who is doing these? And shall he break a covenant and still escape?"}, {"pk": 2712348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "As I live,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018in the place where the sovereign dwells who set him up to reign, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, with him in the midst of Bab\u0331el he shall die!"}, {"pk": 2712349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And Pharaoh with his great army and great company is not going to help him in battle, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many beings."}, {"pk": 2712350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "And he despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And see, he has given his hand and he has done all this, he is not going to escape.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs I live, My oath which he has despised, and My covenant which he has broken, shall I not put it on his own head?"}, {"pk": 2712352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. And I shall bring him to Bab\u0331el and enter into judgment with him there for the trespass which he committed against Me,"}, {"pk": 2712353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "and all his fugitives with all his bands fall by the sword, and those who are left be scattered to every wind. And you shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAnd I shall take of the top of the highest cedar and set it out. And I Myself shall pluck off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain."}, {"pk": 2712355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cOn the mountain height of Yisra\u2019\u0115l I plant it. And it shall bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and become a big cedar. And under it shall dwell birds of every sort, in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell."}, {"pk": 2712356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd all the trees of the field shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken and shall do it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWhat do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children\u2019s teeth are blunted\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2712359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cyou shall no longer use this proverb in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, all beings are Mine, the being of the father as well as the being of the son is Mine. The being that is sinning shall die."}, {"pk": 2712361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut if a man is righteous and shall do right-ruling and righteousness,"}, {"pk": 2712362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "if he has not eaten on the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, nor defiled his neighbour\u2019s wife, nor comes near a woman during her uncleanness,"}, {"pk": 2712363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "if he does not oppress anyone, does return to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, does give his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,"}, {"pk": 2712364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "if he does not lend on interest or take increase, turns back his hand from unrighteousness, executes right-ruling in truth between man and man,"}, {"pk": 2712365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "if he walks in My laws, and he has guarded My right-rulings in truth \u2014 he is righteous, he shall certainly live!\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut if he has brought forth a son who is a robber or a shedder of blood, who does any of these \u2014"}, {"pk": 2712367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "whereas he himself did not do any of these \u2014 that also he has eaten on the mountains or defiled his neighbour\u2019s wife,"}, {"pk": 2712368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "if he has oppressed the poor and needy, has committed robbery, he does not return a pledge, has lifted his eyes to the idols, or did abomination,"}, {"pk": 2712369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "if he has lent on interest or taken increase \u2014 shall he live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, he shall certainly die, his blood is upon him."}, {"pk": 2712370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut see, if he has brought forth a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, but he fears and does not do likewise,"}, {"pk": 2712371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "has not eaten on the mountains, and has not lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, has not defiled his neighbour\u2019s wife,"}, {"pk": 2712372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "has not oppressed anyone, nor withheld a pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry and covered the naked with a garment,"}, {"pk": 2712373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "turns back his hand from <i>wronging</i> the poor, and he has not taken interest or increase, has executed My right-rulings and walked in My laws \u2014 he shall not die for the crookedness of his father, he shall certainly live!"}, {"pk": 2712374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHis father, because he used oppression, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, see, he shall die for his crookedness."}, {"pk": 2712375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you said, \u2018Why should the son not bear the crookedness of the father?\u2019 But the son has done right-ruling and righteousness, he has guarded all My laws and he does them, he shall certainly live."}, {"pk": 2712376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe being who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the crookedness of the father, nor the father bear the crookedness of the son. The righteousness of the righteous is upon himself, and the wrongness of the wrong is upon himself."}, {"pk": 2712377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut the wrong, if he turns from all his sins which he has done, and he shall guard all My laws, and shall do right-ruling and righteousness, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.", "comment": "Similar passages in Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/3/18-21'>3:18-21</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/33/8-20'>33:8-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2712378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAll the transgressions which he has done shall not be remembered against him \u2014 in his righteousness that he has done, he shall live."}, {"pk": 2712379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cHave I any pleasure in the death of the wrong?\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cIs it not that he should turn from his ways, and live?"}, {"pk": 2712380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut when a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, according to all the abominations that the wrong one has done, shall he live? All his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. For his trespass which he has committed, and for his sin which he has committed, for them he shall die."}, {"pk": 2712381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd you said, \u2018The way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not right.\u2019 Hear now, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?"}, {"pk": 2712382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cWhen a righteous one turns away from his righteousness, and does unrighteousness, and he dies in it, it is because of his unrighteousness which he has done that he dies."}, {"pk": 2712383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd when the wrong turns away from the wrong which he has done, and he does right-ruling and righteousness, he keeps himself alive."}, {"pk": 2712384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBecause he sees and turns away from all the transgressions which he has done, he shall certainly live, he shall not die."}, {"pk": 2712385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l have said, \u2018The way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not right.\u2019 Are My ways not right, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Is it not your ways that are not right?"}, {"pk": 2712386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTherefore I judge you, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, every one according to his ways,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cRepent, and turn back from all your transgressions, and let not crookedness be a stumbling-block to you."}, {"pk": 2712387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cCast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?"}, {"pk": 2712388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cSo turn back and live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd take up a lamentation for the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2712390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "and you shall say, \u2018What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the lions, in the midst of the young lions she reared her cubs."}, {"pk": 2712391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And she brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men."}, {"pk": 2712392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "Then nations heard of him. He was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "When she saw, as she waited, that her expectancy was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion."}, {"pk": 2712394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And he went about among the lions, and became a young lion. And he learned to tear the prey, he devoured men."}, {"pk": 2712395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And he knew their widows, and laid waste their cities. And the land and all who filled it was stunned by the noise of his roaring."}, {"pk": 2712396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "Then nations set against him from the provinces on every side, and spread their net over him, he was caught in their pit."}, {"pk": 2712397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And they put him in a cage in chains, and brought him to the sovereign of Bab\u0331el. They brought him in nets, so his roar was no longer heard on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters, a bearer of fruit and branching, because of many waters."}, {"pk": 2712399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And she had strong rods for sceptres of rulers. And her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and was seen in her height with the mass of its branches."}, {"pk": 2712400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "But she was uprooted in wrath, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried her fruit. Her strong rods were broken and withered, fire consumed them."}, {"pk": 2712401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land."}, {"pk": 2712402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And fire went out from a rod of her branches. It devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod, a sceptre to rule.\u2019 \u201d This is a lament, and it shall be a lament."}, {"pk": 2712403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the seventh year, in the fifth <i>month</i>, on the tenth of the new <i>moon</i>, that certain of the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came to inquire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and sat before me."}, {"pk": 2712404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSon of man, speak to the elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHave you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I am not being inquired of by you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cJudge them, son of man, judge them! Make known to them the abominations of their fathers."}, {"pk": 2712407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cOn the day when I chose Yisra\u2019\u0115l and lifted My hand in an oath to the seed of the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and made Myself known to them in the land of Mitsrayim, I lifted My hand in an oath to them, saying, \u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cOn that day I lifted My hand in an oath to them, to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendour of all lands."}, {"pk": 2712409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I said to them, \u2018Each one of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Mitsrayim! I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut they rebelled against Me, and would not obey Me. All of them did not throw away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Mitsrayim. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them to complete My displeasure against them in the midst of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut I acted for My Name\u2019s sake, that it should not be profaned before the eyes of the nations among whom they were \u2014 before whose eyes I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSo I took them out of the land of Mitsrayim, and I brought them into the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2712413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I gave them My laws and showed them My right-rulings, \u2018which, if a man does, he shall live by them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, to know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who sets them apart.", "comment": "See also Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/31/13-17'>31:13-17</a>"}, {"pk": 2712415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My laws, and they rejected My right-rulings, which, if a man does, he shall live by them. And they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them."}, {"pk": 2712416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut I acted for My Name\u2019s sake, not to profane it before the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out."}, {"pk": 2712417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I Myself also lifted My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, not to bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, the splendour of all lands,"}, {"pk": 2712418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "because they rejected My right-rulings and did not walk in My laws, and they profaned My Sabbaths. For their heart went after their idols."}, {"pk": 2712419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd My eye pardoned them, from destroying them. And I did not make an end of them in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2712420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd I said to their children in the wilderness, \u2018Do not walk in the laws of your fathers, nor observe their rulings, nor defile yourselves with their idols."}, {"pk": 2712421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim. Walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and do them."}, {"pk": 2712422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And set apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My laws, and My right-rulings they did not guard to do them, which, if a man does, he shall live by them. They profaned My Sabbaths, so I resolved to pour out My wrath on them to complete My displeasure against them in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2712424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut I held back My hand and acted for My Name\u2019s sake, not to profane it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out."}, {"pk": 2712425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAlso, I Myself lifted My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, to scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands,"}, {"pk": 2712426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "because they had not done My right-rulings, and they rejected My laws, and they profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were on their fathers\u2019 idols."}, {"pk": 2712427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd I also gave them up to laws that were not good, and right-rulings by which they would not live.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/81/12'>81:12</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/30/28'>30:28</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/42'>7:42</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/1/24-28'>1:24-28</a>; 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/11'>2:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2712428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I defiled them by their own gifts, as they passed all their first-born through <i>the fire</i>, so that I might stun them, so that they know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cTherefore, son of man, speak to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIn this your fathers have further reviled Me, by committing trespass against Me."}, {"pk": 2712430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cWhen I brought them into the land for which I had lifted My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, they slaughtered their slaughterings there and provoked Me with their offerings there. And they sent up their sweet fragrance there and poured out their drink offerings there."}, {"pk": 2712431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd I said to them, \u2018What is this high place to which you go?\u2019 So its name is called High Place to this day.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAre you defiling yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you whore after their abominations?"}, {"pk": 2712433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cFor when you lift up your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? As I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI am not being inquired of by you."}, {"pk": 2712434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd what comes up in your spirit shall never be, when you say, \u2018Let us be like the nations, like the tribes in other lands, serving wood and stone.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cdo not I, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, reign over you?"}, {"pk": 2712436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out."}, {"pk": 2712437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there."}, {"pk": 2712438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAs I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant,"}, {"pk": 2712440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAs for you, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cGo, serve each of you his idols, and afterwards, if you are not listening to Me. But do not profane My set-apart Name any more with your gifts and your idols."}, {"pk": 2712442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cFor on My set-apart mountain, on the mountain height of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthere all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all of them in the land, shall serve Me. There I shall accept them, and there I shall require your offerings and the first-fruits of your offerings, together with all your set-apart gifts."}, {"pk": 2712443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAs a sweet fragrance I shall accept you when I bring you out from the peoples. And I shall gather you out of the lands where you have been scattered. And I shall be set-apart in you before the nations."}, {"pk": 2712444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I bring you into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, into the land for which I lifted My hand in an oath to give to your fathers."}, {"pk": 2712445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you were defiled. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you did."}, {"pk": 2712446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I have dealt with you for My Name\u2019s sake, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 45, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward the south, and drop <i>word</i> against the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South."}, {"pk": 2712449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to the forest of the South, \u2018Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am kindling a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you \u2014 the blazing flame is not quenched. And it shall burn all faces from the south to the north."}, {"pk": 2712450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cAnd all flesh shall see that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have kindled it, it is not quenched.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 20, "verse": 49, "text": "And I said, \u201cAh, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! They are saying of me, \u2018Is he not speaking parables?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward Yerushalayim, and drop <i>word</i> against the set-apart places, and prophesy against the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against you, and I shall draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off from you the righteous and the wrong."}, {"pk": 2712455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBecause I shall cut off from you the righteous and the wrong, therefore My sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north."}, {"pk": 2712456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd all flesh shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have drawn My sword out of its sheath, not to turn back again.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, sigh with a breaking of loins, and sigh with bitterness before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2712458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be when they say to you, \u2018Why are you sighing?\u2019 that you shall say, \u2018Because of the report that is coming. And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall go limp, and every spirit become faint, and all knees be weak as water. See, it is coming, and it shall be,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy, and you shall say, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! \u201cSay, \u2018A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!"}, {"pk": 2712461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "It is sharpened to make a slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning!\u2019 Or shall we rejoice? My son, you have despised the rod, every stick!"}, {"pk": 2712462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. This sword is sharpened and polished, to be given into the hand of the killer."}, {"pk": 2712463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cCry and wail, son of man, for it shall be on My people, on all the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. They shall be delivered to the sword together with My people, therefore strike your thigh."}, {"pk": 2712464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor it is a trier, and what if it even despises the rod? Shall it not be?\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands striking. And let the sword come down twice, thrice, the sword for the slain. It is the sword of the slain, the great one, which surrounds them."}, {"pk": 2712466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, to melt the heart and that the overthrown be many. Ah! It is made like lightning, keen for slaughter."}, {"pk": 2712467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSharpen yourself on the right, set yourself on the left, wherever your edge is appointed!"}, {"pk": 2712468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I too, I shall strike My hands together and cause My wrath to rest. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me again, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, appoint for yourself two ways for the sword of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el to go, both of them coming from one land. And place a signpost, put it at the head of the way to the city."}, {"pk": 2712471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAppoint a way for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Yehud\u0331ah, into the walled Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2712472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cFor the sovereign of Bab\u0331el shall stand at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to practise divination. He shall shake the arrows, he shall ask the household idols, he shall look at the liver."}, {"pk": 2712473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cIn his right hand shall be the divination for Yerushalayim: to set up battering rams, to call for murder, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, to build a wall."}, {"pk": 2712474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be to them as a false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn oaths to them. But he is bringing their crookedness to remembrance, so that they are taken."}, {"pk": 2712475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have made your crookedness to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins are seen in all your deeds. Because you have been remembered, you are taken by hand."}, {"pk": 2712476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And to you, O profane, wrong one, leader of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whose day has come, in the time of the crookedness of the end,"}, {"pk": 2712477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Remove the turban, and take off the crown! This shall not remain! Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted."}, {"pk": 2712478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "Overthrown, overthrown, I make it overthrown! It shall be no longer, until He comes to whom it rightly belongs \u2014 and I shall give it!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy and say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach.\u2019 And you shall say, \u2018A sword, a sword, drawn for slaughter, polished to the utmost like lightning \u2014"}, {"pk": 2712480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "while they see false visions for you, while they divine a lie to you \u2014 to put you on the necks of the profaned ones, the wrong ones whose day has come, in the time of the crookedness of the end."}, {"pk": 2712481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I shall judge you."}, {"pk": 2712482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "And I shall pour out My displeasure on you, blow against you with the fire of My wrath, and shall give you into the hands of beastly men, skilled to destroy."}, {"pk": 2712483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "You are to be fuel for the fire, your blood to be in the midst of the land. You are not to be remembered, for I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 have spoken.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd now, son of man, judge, judge the city of blood! And you shall show her all her abominations!"}, {"pk": 2712486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe city sheds blood in her midst, that her time might come. And she has made idols within herself to become defiled."}, {"pk": 2712487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYou have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your days near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I shall make you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all lands."}, {"pk": 2712488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThose near and those far from you mock you \u2014 defiled is your name and great the confusion!"}, {"pk": 2712489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSee the leaders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: each one has used his arm to shed blood in you."}, {"pk": 2712490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThey have despised father and mother within you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst. They have wronged the fatherless and the widow within you."}, {"pk": 2712491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYou have despised that which is set-apart to Me, and you have profaned My Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2712492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSlanderous men have been in you to shed blood. And in you are those who eat on the mountains. They have done wickedness in your midst."}, {"pk": 2712493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cIn you they have uncovered the nakedness of a father. In you they have humbled women who are defiled during their uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2712494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the one has done abomination with his neighbour\u2019s wife. And another has wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another within you has humbled his sister, his father\u2019s daughter."}, {"pk": 2712495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIn you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I shall strike My hand because of your greedy gain which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst."}, {"pk": 2712497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cWould your heart stand, your hands be strong, in the days when I deal with you? I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken, and shall do it."}, {"pk": 2712498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall scatter you among the nations, and shall disperse you throughout the lands, and shall consume your filthiness out of you."}, {"pk": 2712499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall profane yourself before the eyes of the nations. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSon of man, the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace \u2014 they have become the dross of silver."}, {"pk": 2712502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because all of you have become dross, therefore see, I am gathering you into the midst of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2712503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it, so I gather you in My displeasure and in My wrath. And I shall blow and melt you."}, {"pk": 2712504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "And I shall gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst."}, {"pk": 2712505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so are you melted in its midst. And you shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have poured out My wrath on you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSon of man, say to her, \u2018You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of displeasure.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThere is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured life, they have taken wealth and precious <i>matters</i>, they have made many widows in her midst."}, {"pk": 2712509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cHer priests have done violence to My teaching and they profane My set-apart <i>matters</i>. They have not distinguished between the set-apart and profane, nor have they made known <i>the difference</i> between the unclean and the clean. And they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned in their midst.", "comment": "See Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/4'>3:4</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/16'>16:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2712510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cHer leaders in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, and to get greedy gain."}, {"pk": 2712511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd her prophets have coated them with whitewash, seeing a false vision, and divining a lie for them, saying, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had not spoken."}, {"pk": 2712512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe people of the land have practised oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy. And they oppressed the stranger without right-ruling."}, {"pk": 2712513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it \u2014 but I did not find one!"}, {"pk": 2712514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cTherefore I have poured out My displeasure on them, I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath. And I have put their way on their own head,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother."}, {"pk": 2712517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd they whored in Mitsrayim, they whored in their youth. There their breasts were handled, and there their maiden nipples were squeezed."}, {"pk": 2712518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd their names were: Oholah the elder and Oholib\u0331ah her sister. And they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And their names: Shomeron is Oholah, and Yerushalayim is Oholib\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2712519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd Oholah whored while she was Mine. And she lusted for her lovers, the neighbouring Ashshurians,"}, {"pk": 2712520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "dressed in purple, officers and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses."}, {"pk": 2712521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSo she gave her whorings on them, all of them choice sons of Ashshur. And with all for whom she lusted, with all their idols, she defiled herself."}, {"pk": 2712522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd she did not forsake her whorings from Mitsrayim, for in her youth they had lain with her, and they squeezed her maiden nipples, and poured out their whorings on her."}, {"pk": 2712523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Ashshurians, for whom she lusted."}, {"pk": 2712524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThey uncovered her nakedness, they took away her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her."}, {"pk": 2712525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd her sister Oholib\u0331ah saw this, yet she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her whorings more corrupt than her sister\u2019s whorings."}, {"pk": 2712526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cShe lusted for the sons of Ashshur, officers and rulers, the ones near, perfectly dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men."}, {"pk": 2712527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I saw that she was defiled, they both took the same way."}, {"pk": 2712528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut she increased her whorings, and she looked at men carved on the wall, images of Kasdim inscribed in red,"}, {"pk": 2712529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "girded with belts around their loins, flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the sons of Bab\u0331el of Kasdim, the land of their birth."}, {"pk": 2712530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAs soon as her eyes saw them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Kasdima."}, {"pk": 2712531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the sons of Bab\u0331el came to her, into the bed of <i>carnal</i>-love, and they defiled her with their whorings. And she was defiled by them, and her being turned from them in disgust."}, {"pk": 2712532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd she uncovered her whorings and uncovered her nakedness. Then I turned My being from her in disgust, as My being had turned from her sister in disgust."}, {"pk": 2712533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she whored in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd she lusted after her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose emission is like the emission of horses."}, {"pk": 2712535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThus you longed for the wickedness of your youth, when the Mitsrites squeezed your nipples because of the breasts of your youth."}, {"pk": 2712536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTherefore, Oholib\u0331ah, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am stirring up your lovers against you, from whom your being turned in disgust, and shall bring them against you from every side:"}, {"pk": 2712537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "the children of Bab\u0331el, and all the Kasdim, Peqod\u0331, and Showa, and Qowa, all the sons of Ashshur with them, all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, officers and men of name, all of them riding on horses."}, {"pk": 2712538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "And they shall come against you with battle-axe, chariots, and vehicles, and with an assembly of peoples. They shall set against you armour, and shield, and helmet all around. And I shall commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their rulings."}, {"pk": 2712539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "And I shall set My jealousy against you and they shall deal heatedly with you. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, while the rest of you fall by the sword. Your sons and your daughters they shall take away, while the rest of you shall be consumed by fire."}, {"pk": 2712540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "And they shall strip you of your garments and shall take your pretty jewels."}, {"pk": 2712541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "And I shall put an end to your wickedness and to your whorings from the land of Mitsrayim, so that you do not lift your eyes to them neither remember Mitsrayim any more.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am giving you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your being turned in disgust."}, {"pk": 2712543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "And they shall deal with you in hatred, and they shall take away all you have worked for, and they shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your whorings shall be uncovered, and the wickedness of your whorings."}, {"pk": 2712544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "I do this to you because of your whoring after the nations, because you have been defiled by their idols."}, {"pk": 2712545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "You have walked in the way of your sister, and I shall give her cup into your hand.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Drink of your sister\u2019s cup, the deep and wide one \u2014 you being laughed at and mocked at \u2014 for it holds much."}, {"pk": 2712547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "Be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of astonishment and ruin, the cup of your sister Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2712548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "And you shall drink it and shall drain it, and gnaw its shards, and tear at your own breasts. For I have spoken,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear your wickedness and your whorings.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cSon of man, judge Oholah and Oholib\u0331ah! And declare to them their abominations."}, {"pk": 2712551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. And they have committed adultery with their idols, and even offered their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through <i>the fire</i>, to devour."}, {"pk": 2712552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cThey also did this to Me: They have defiled My set-apart place on the same day, and they have profaned My Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2712553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cFor when they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My set-apart place to profane it. And see, that is what they did in the midst of My House."}, {"pk": 2712554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd they even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. And see, they came \u2014 for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments."}, {"pk": 2712555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd you sat on a splendid couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil."}, {"pk": 2712556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd the sound of a crowd at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the commonest sort. And they put bracelets on their wrists and pretty crowns on their heads."}, {"pk": 2712557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cThen I said concerning the one worn out in adulteries, \u2018Now let them commit her whorings, even hers!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who is a whore. Thus they went in to Oholah and Oholib\u0331ah, the wicked women."}, {"pk": 2712559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cBut let righteous men judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."}, {"pk": 2712560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cFor thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to maltreatment and plunder."}, {"pk": 2712561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 47, "text": "And the assembly shall stone them with stones and cut them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire."}, {"pk": 2712562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 48, "text": "And I shall put an end to wickedness in the land, and all the women shall be instructed not to commit wickedness as you have done."}, {"pk": 2712563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 23, "verse": 49, "text": "And they shall put your wickedness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols. And you shall know that I am the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the ninth year, in the tenth new <i>moon</i>, on the tenth of the new <i>moon</i>, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, write down the name of the day, for on this same day the sovereign of Bab\u0331el has thrown himself against Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2712566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd speak a parable to the rebellious house, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cPut on a pot, put it on, and also pour water into it."}, {"pk": 2712567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cGather pieces of meat in it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, fill it with choice bones."}, {"pk": 2712568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cTake the choice of the flock, also pile bones under it, cook it thoroughly, also let the bones cook in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWoe to the city of blood, to the pot in which there is rust, and whose rust has not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece, on which no lot has fallen."}, {"pk": 2712570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor her blood is in her midst. She has set it on a shining rock. She did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust."}, {"pk": 2712571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTo stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have set her blood on a shining rock, so that it would not be covered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWoe to the city of blood! Let Me also make the pile great."}, {"pk": 2712573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHeap on the wood, kindle the fire, cook the meat well, mixing in the spices, and let the bones be burned up."}, {"pk": 2712574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd set it on the coals, empty, so that it gets hot, and its bronze glows. And its filthiness shall be melted in it, and its rust be consumed."}, {"pk": 2712575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cShe has wearied herself with sorrows, and her great rust has not gone from her. Into the fire with her rust!"}, {"pk": 2712576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIn your filthiness is wickedness. Because I have cleansed you, but you are not clean. You shall not be cleansed of your filthiness any more, till I have caused My wrath to rest upon you."}, {"pk": 2712577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken. It shall come, and I shall do it. I do not hold back, nor do I pardon, nor do I relent. According to your ways and according to your deeds they shall judge you,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSon of man, see, I am taking away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke. But do not mourn, nor weep, nor let your tears run down."}, {"pk": 2712580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cGroan silently, make no mourning for the dead. Bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your upper lip, and do not eat man\u2019s bread of sorrow.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded."}, {"pk": 2712582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And the people said to me, \u201cWould you not explain to us what these matters you are doing mean to us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "And I said to them, \u201cThe word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "Speak to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am profaning My set-apart place \u2014 the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your being. And your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword."}, {"pk": 2712585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And you shall do as I have done, do not cover your upper lip nor eat man\u2019s bread of sorrow,"}, {"pk": 2712586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "and let your turbans remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. Do not mourn, nor weep, but you shall pine away in your crookednesses and groan with one another."}, {"pk": 2712587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yeh\u0323ezq\u0115l shall be a sign to you. Do according to all that he has done. When this comes, you shall know that I am the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And you, son of man, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their adorning, the desire of their eyes, and the lifting up of their being, their sons and their daughters,"}, {"pk": 2712589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "on that day one that has escaped shall come to you to let you hear it with your ears."}, {"pk": 2712590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "On that day your mouth shall be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak and no longer be silent. And you shall be a sign to them. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them."}, {"pk": 2712593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to the Ammonites, \u2018Hear the word of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause you said, \u2018Aha!\u2019 against My set-apart place when it was profaned, and against the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l when it was ruined, and against the house of Yehud\u0331ah when they went into exile,"}, {"pk": 2712594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "therefore, see, I am giving you as a possession to the men of the East, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you \u2014 they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk."}, {"pk": 2712595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "For this is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cBecause you clapped your hands, and you stamped your feet, and rejoiced with all the scorn of your being against the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2712597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "therefore see, I Myself shall stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations. And I shall cut you off from the peoples, and make you perish from the lands. I shall destroy you, and you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cBecause Mo\u2019ab\u0331 and S\u0115\u201bir say, \u2018See, the house of Yehud\u0331ah is like all the nations,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "therefore, see, I am opening the flank of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 on the side of the cities, on the side of his cities on its frontiers, the splendour of the land, B\u0115yth Yeshimoth, Ba\u201bal Me\u201bon, and Qiryathayim,"}, {"pk": 2712600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "and I shall give it, together with the Ammonites, as a possession to the men of the East, so that the Ammonites are no more remembered among the nations."}, {"pk": 2712601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAlso on Mo\u2019ab\u0331 I execute judgments, and they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause of what Ed\u0331om has done against the house of Yehud\u0331ah by taking vengeance, so that they became very guilty, and they have taken vengeance on them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall stretch out My hand against Ed\u0331om, and I shall cut off man and beast from it and lay it waste \u2014 from T\u0115man even to Ded\u0331an they shall fall by the sword."}, {"pk": 2712604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall lay My vengeance on Ed\u0331om by the hand of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they shall do in Ed\u0331om according to My displeasure and according to My wrath. So they shall know My vengeance,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause the Philistines have acted in vengeance, and took vengeance with scorn in their being, to destroy with lasting enmity,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, and I shall cut off the Ker\u0115thites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast,"}, {"pk": 2712607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "and execute great vengeance on them with raging reproofs. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I lay My vengeance upon them.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the eleventh year, on the first of the new <i>moon</i>, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, because Tsor has spoken against Yerushalayim, \u2018Aha! She, the gateway of the peoples, has been broken, she has been turned over to me. Let me be filled, she has been ruined.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am against you, O Tsor, and shall cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up."}, {"pk": 2712611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "And they shall destroy the walls of Tsor, and they shall break down her towers. And I shall scrape her dust from her, and shall make her like a shining rock."}, {"pk": 2712612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "She shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018And she shall become plunder for the nations,"}, {"pk": 2712613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "while her daughter villages which are in the fields are killed by the sword. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am bringing against Tsor from the north Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, a sovereign of sovereigns, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, even an assembly, and many people."}, {"pk": 2712615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "With the sword he shall kill your daughters in the field. And he shall heap up a siege mound against you, and shall build a wall against you, and shall raise a large shield against you,"}, {"pk": 2712616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "and set the blow of his battering rams against your walls, and break down your towers with his weapons."}, {"pk": 2712617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "From his many horses, their dust shall cover you. From the noise of the horsemen, and vehicles, and chariots, your walls shall shake as he enters your gates, as men enter a city that is breached."}, {"pk": 2712618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "With the hooves of his horses he tramples all your streets, he kills your people by the sword, and the columns of your strength shall fall to the ground."}, {"pk": 2712619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "And they shall plunder your riches, and they shall loot your merchandise. And they shall break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. And they shall put your stones, and your timber, and your dust in the midst of the water."}, {"pk": 2712620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "And I shall cause the sound of your songs to cease, and let the sound of your lyres be heard no more."}, {"pk": 2712621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And I shall make you like a shining rock, and let you be a place for spreading nets, never to be rebuilt, for I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 have spoken,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Tsor, \u2018Would the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the killing occurs in your midst?", "comment": "Lit. - Is being killed."}, {"pk": 2712623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "And all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and they shall lay aside their robes, and take off their embroidered garments, and put on trembling, and sit on the ground. And they shall tremble continuously, and they shall be astonished at you."}, {"pk": 2712624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, \u201cHow you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, the city well-praised, who was strong at sea, she and her inhabitants, who put their fear on all her inhabitants!"}, {"pk": 2712625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall! And the coastlands by the sea shall shudder at your going out.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018When I make you a ruined city, like cities no longer inhabited, when I bring the deep upon you, and great waters cover you,"}, {"pk": 2712627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "then I shall bring you down with those who go down into the pit, to the people of old. And I shall make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in wastes of old, with those who go to the pit, so that you do not return. But I shall establish splendour in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2712628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "I make you a horror, and let you be no more. And you are sought for, but never found again,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came again to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cNow, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tsor,"}, {"pk": 2712631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "and you shall say to Tsor, \u2018You who dwell at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cO Tsor, you yourself have said, \u2018I am perfect in loveliness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYour borders are in the heart of the seas. Your builders have perfected your loveliness."}, {"pk": 2712633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cThey have made all your timbers of fir trees from Senir. They took a cedar from Leb\u0331anon to make a mast for you."}, {"pk": 2712634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFrom the oaks of Bashan they made your oars. They made your deck with ivory from the coasts of Kittim."}, {"pk": 2712635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cOf fine embroidered linen from Mitsrayim was your sail to serve you as banner. Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your covering."}, {"pk": 2712636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe inhabitants of Tsid\u0331on and Arwad\u0331 were your seamen. Your wise men, O Tsor, were in you, they were your sailors."}, {"pk": 2712637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe elders of Geb\u0331al and its wise men were in you repairing your seams. All the ships of the sea and their seamen were in you to trade your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThose from Persia, Lud\u0331, and Put were in your army as men of battle. Shield and helmet they hung up within you, they gave splendour to you."}, {"pk": 2712639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThe sons of Arwad\u0331, and your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammad\u0331ites were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around, they perfected your loveliness."}, {"pk": 2712640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth. They gave you silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYawan, Tub\u0331al, and Meshek\u0331 were your traders. They exchanged slaves and objects of bronze for your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThose from the house of To\u1e21armah exchanged horses, and horsemen, and mules for your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe men of Ded\u0331an traded with you. Many isles were your market, they brought you ivory tusks and ebony as payment."}, {"pk": 2712644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAram was your merchant because of the multitude of your works. They gave you emeralds, purple, and embroidery, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies for your wares."}, {"pk": 2712645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYehud\u0331ah and the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were your traders. For your merchandise they exchanged wheat of Minnith, and early figs, and honey, and oil, and balm."}, {"pk": 2712646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cDammeseq was your merchant because of the multitude of your works, because of your great wealth of goods, with the wine of H\u0323elbon and with white wool."}, {"pk": 2712647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWed\u0331an and Yawan from Uzal paid for your wares, they exchanged wrought iron, cassia, and cane for your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cDed\u0331an traded with you in saddlecloths for riding."}, {"pk": 2712649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cArab\u0331ia, and all princes of Q\u0115d\u0331ar, were merchants for you. In lambs, and rams, and goats they were your merchants."}, {"pk": 2712650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThe traders of Sheb\u0331a and Ra\u201bmah were your traders. They paid for your wares with the choicest spices, and all kinds of precious stones, and gold."}, {"pk": 2712651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "\"H\u0323aran, and Kanneh, and \u011ad\u0331en, traders of Sheb\u0331a, Ashshur, and Kilmad\u0331 traded with you."}, {"pk": 2712652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThey traded with you in perfect items, in purple clothes, in embroidered garments, in chests of multi-coloured clothes, in strong twined cords, among your merchandise."}, {"pk": 2712653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThe ships of Tarshish were the travellers of your merchandise. And you were filled and richly laden in the heart of the seas."}, {"pk": 2712654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cYour seamen brought you into many waters, but the east wind broke you in the heart of the seas."}, {"pk": 2712655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cYour wealth, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your sailors, your repairers of seams, and your dealers in merchandise, and all your fighting men who are in you, and the entire company which is in your midst, shall go down into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall,"}, {"pk": 2712656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "the coasts shaking at the sound of the cry of your sailors."}, {"pk": 2712657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd all the oarsmen, the mariners, all the sailors of the sea shall come down from their ships. They shall stand on the shore,"}, {"pk": 2712658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "and they shall raise their voice and cry bitterly over you, and cast dust on their heads, rolling themselves in ashes."}, {"pk": 2712659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall shave themselves bald because of you, and shall gird themselves with sackcloth. And they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing."}, {"pk": 2712660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd in their wailing for you they shall take up a lamentation. And they shall lament for you, \u2018Who is cut off in the midst of the sea like Tsor?"}, {"pk": 2712661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "When your wares went out by sea, you have filled many peoples; with your great wealth and your merchandise you have made the sovereigns of the earth rich."}, {"pk": 2712662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "In the time you are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company shall fall in your midst."}, {"pk": 2712663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 35, "text": "All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and their sovereigns shall be greatly afraid, their faces shall be troubled."}, {"pk": 2712664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 27, "verse": 36, "text": "The merchants among the peoples shall whistle at you. You shall become a horror, and be no more, forever.\u2019\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, say to the prince of Tsor, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause your heart is lifted up, and you say, \u2018I am \u011al, I sit in the seat of Elohim, in the heart of the seas,\u2019 whereas you are a man, and not \u011al, though you set your heart as the heart of Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2712667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cLook, are you wiser than Dani\u2019\u0115l? Has no secret been hidden from you?"}, {"pk": 2712668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBy your wisdom and your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasuries."}, {"pk": 2712669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBy your great wisdom, by your trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause you have set your heart as the heart of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2712671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "therefore see, I am bringing against you strangers, the ruthless ones of the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the loveliness of your wisdom, and they shall profane your splendour."}, {"pk": 2712672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cDown into the pit they shall bring you, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas."}, {"pk": 2712673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWould you still say before him who slays you, \u2018I am Elohim\u2019, whereas you are man, and not \u011al, in the hand of him who kills you?"}, {"pk": 2712674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThe death of the uncircumcised you shall die, by the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSon of man, take up a lamentation for the sovereign of Tsor, and you shall say to him, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou were sealing up a pattern, complete in wisdom and perfect in loveliness."}, {"pk": 2712677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou were in \u011ad\u0331en, the garden of Elohim. Every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, shoham, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald and gold. The workmanship of your settings and mountings was prepared for you on the day you were created."}, {"pk": 2712678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou were the anointed kerub\u0331 that covered. And I placed you, you were on the set-apart mountain of Elohim. You walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire."}, {"pk": 2712679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you."}, {"pk": 2712680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBy the greatness of your trade you became filled with violence within, and you sinned. So I thrust you from the mountain of Elohim, and I destroyed you, O covering kerub\u0331, from the midst of the stones of fire."}, {"pk": 2712681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cYour heart was lifted up because of your loveliness, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour. I threw you to the earth, I laid you before sovereigns, to look at you."}, {"pk": 2712682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cYou profaned your set-apart places by your many crookednesses, by the unrighteousness of your trading. Therefore I brought forth fire from your midst. It has devoured you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all who see you."}, {"pk": 2712683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAll who knew you among the peoples were astonished at you. Waste you shall be, and cease to be, forever.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face toward Tsid\u0331on, and prophesy against her,"}, {"pk": 2712686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "and you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against you, O Tsid\u0331on, and I shall be esteemed in your midst. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I execute judgments in her. And I shall be set-apart in her."}, {"pk": 2712687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall send pestilence upon her, and blood in her streets. And the slain shall fall in her midst by the sword against her, from all sides. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a paining thorn for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from among all who are around them, who despise them. And they shall know that I am the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhen I have gathered the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the peoples among whom they are scattered, I shall be set-apart in them before the eyes of the nations. And they shall dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2712690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall dwell safely, and build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell safely, when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 1, "text": "In the tenth year, in the tenth <i>month</i>, on the twelfth of the new <i>moon</i>, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim, and prophesy against him, and against Mitsrayim, all of it."}, {"pk": 2712693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSpeak, and you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against you, O Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, \u2018My River is my own, and I, I have made it for myself.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall put hooks in your jaws, and I shall make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales. And I shall bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish in your rivers cling to your scales."}, {"pk": 2712695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. On the face of the field you shall fall, and you shall not be picked up or gathered. I shall give you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2712696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd all the inhabitants of Mitsrayim shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhen they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins shake.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am bringing a sword upon you and shall cut off from you man and beast."}, {"pk": 2712699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the land of Mitsrayim shall become a desert and a waste. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because he said, \u2018The River is mine, and I have made it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTherefore see, I am against you and against your rivers, and shall make the land of Mitsrayim an utter waste and a desert, from Mi\u1e21dol to Sew\u0115n\u0115h, as far as the border of Kush."}, {"pk": 2712701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited for forty years."}, {"pk": 2712702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make the land of Mitsrayim a desert in the midst of the lands that are waste. And among the cities that are ruined, her cities shall be a waste forty years. And I shall scatter the Mitsrites among the nations, and I shall disperse them throughout the lands.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 13, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAt the end of forty years I shall gather the Mitsrites from the peoples among whom they were scattered."}, {"pk": 2712704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall turn back the captivity of Mitsrayim and I shall bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their birth, and there they shall be a lowly reign,"}, {"pk": 2712705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 15, "text": "being the lowliest of reigns, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I shall make them few so as not to rule over the nations."}, {"pk": 2712706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd no longer is it to be the refuge of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, bringing to remembrance their crookedness when they turned to follow them. And they shall know that I am the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be in the twenty-seventh year, in the first <i>month</i>, on the first of the new <i>moon</i>, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSon of man, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el made his army to serve a great service against Tsor, every head was made bald and every shoulder worn bare. But he and his army received no reward from Tsor, for the service he served against it."}, {"pk": 2712709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am giving the land of Mitsrayim to Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el. And he shall take away her wealth, take her spoil, and remove her pillage. And it shall be a reward for his army."}, {"pk": 2712710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 20, "text": "I have given him the land of Mitsrayim as a reward for his labour, because they worked for Me,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 29, "verse": 21, "text": "In that day I shall make the horn of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to spring forth, while I open your mouth to speak in their midst. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy and say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHowl, \u2018Woe to the day!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor the day is near, even the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near. It is a day of clouds, the time of the nations."}, {"pk": 2712715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThe sword shall come upon Mitsrayim, and great anguish shall be in Kush, when the slain fall in Mitsrayim, and they take away her wealth, and her foundations are broken down."}, {"pk": 2712716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cKush, and Put, and Lud\u0331, all the mixed people, and Kub\u0331, and the sons of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThose who lean on Mitsrayim shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From Mi\u1e21dol to Sew\u0115n\u0115h those within her shall fall by the sword,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThey shall be ruined amidst the wasted lands, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are dried up."}, {"pk": 2712719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I have set a fire in Mitsrayim and all her helpers are crushed."}, {"pk": 2712720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cOn that day messengers shall go forth before Me in ships to make the complacent Kushites afraid, and great anguish shall come upon them, as on the day of Mitsrayim \u2014 for look, it is coming!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 10, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall cause the crowd of Mitsrayim to cease, by the hand of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331retstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2712722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHe and his people with him, the ruthless ones of the nations, are brought to destroy the land. And they shall draw their swords against Mitsrayim, and shall fill the land with the slain."}, {"pk": 2712723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make the rivers dry, and I shall sell the land into the hand of evil ones. And I shall lay the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of foreigners. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAnd I shall destroy the idols, and make an end of the images in Noph, and there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Mitsrayim, and I shall put fear in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make Pathros a waste, and I shall set fire to Tso\u201ban, and I shall execute judgments in No."}, {"pk": 2712726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall pour out My wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Mitsrayim. And I shall cut off the crowd of No."}, {"pk": 2712727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set a fire in Mitsrayim, Sin shall writhe in anguish, No is to be split open, and Noph has adversaries daily."}, {"pk": 2712728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThe young men of Awen and Pi B\u0331eseth shall fall by the sword, while these cities go into captivity."}, {"pk": 2712729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd in Teh\u0323aphneh\u0323es the day shall be darkened, when I shatter the yokes of Mitsrayim there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her, a cloud shall cover her. And her daughters shall go into captivity."}, {"pk": 2712730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall execute judgments on Mitsrayim, and they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 20, "text": "And it came to be in the eleventh year, in the first <i>month</i>, on the seventh of the new <i>moon</i>, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSon of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And see, it has not been bound up for healing, to put a bandage to bind it, to make it strong to hold a sword."}, {"pk": 2712733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018See, I am against Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and shall break his arms, both the strong one and the one that was broken, and shall make the sword fall out of his hand,"}, {"pk": 2712734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 23, "text": "and shall scatter the Mitsrites among the nations, and disperse them throughout the lands,"}, {"pk": 2712735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 24, "text": "and strengthen the arms of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el. And I shall put My sword in his hand. And I shall break Pharaoh\u2019s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of the slain before him."}, {"pk": 2712736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 25, "text": "And I shall strengthen the arms of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I put My sword into the hand of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el and he shall stretch it out against the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2712737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 30, "verse": 26, "text": "And I shall scatter the Mitsrites among the nations, and I shall disperse them throughout the lands. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the eleventh year, in the third <i>month</i>, on the first of the new <i>moon</i>, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, say to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim and to his crowd, \u2018To whom are you to be compared in your greatness?"}, {"pk": 2712740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 3, "text": "See, Ashshur was a cedar in Leb\u0331anon, beautiful branches and forest shade, and of high stature. And its top was among the thick foliage."}, {"pk": 2712741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 4, "text": "The waters made him great, the deep gave it height with its rivers running around its planting, and sent their channels to all the trees of the field."}, {"pk": 2712742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore its height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were increased, and its branches became long because of the many waters, as it sent them out."}, {"pk": 2712743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 6, "text": "All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth. And in its shadow all great nations dwelt."}, {"pk": 2712744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 7, "text": "And it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, for its roots reached to many waters."}, {"pk": 2712745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 8, "text": "Cedars in the garden of Elohim did not hide it, fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches. No tree in the garden of Elohim was as pretty as it."}, {"pk": 2712746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 9, "text": "I made it beautiful by its many branches, so that all the trees of \u011ad\u0331en which were in the garden of Elohim were jealous of it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick foliage, and its heart was lifted up in its height,"}, {"pk": 2712748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 11, "text": "I give it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall certainly deal with it. I have driven it out for its wrong."}, {"pk": 2712749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 12, "text": "And foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, shall cut it down and leave it. Its branches shall fall on the mountains and in all the valleys, its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the peoples of the earth shall come out from under its shadow and leave it."}, {"pk": 2712750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 13, "text": "On its ruin shall dwell all the birds of the heavens, and all the beasts of the field shall be on its <i>fallen</i> branches,"}, {"pk": 2712751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 14, "text": "so that none of the trees by the waters would exalt themselves because of their height, nor set their tops among the thick foliage, and that no tree which drinks water would ever be high enough to reach up to them. \u2018For all of them shall be given up to death, to the depths of the earth, among the children of men who go down to the pit.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018In the day when it is brought down to She\u2019ol I shall cause mourning. I shall cover the deep because of it and hold back its streams, and many waters shall be confined. And I shall make Leb\u0331anon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field shall wither away because of it."}, {"pk": 2712753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 16, "text": "I shall make the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I bring it down to She\u2019ol together with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of \u011ad\u0331en, the choice and best of Leb\u0331anon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the depths of the earth."}, {"pk": 2712754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 17, "text": "They too shall go down to She\u2019ol with it, with those slain by the sword. And those who were its strength shall dwell in its shadows among the nations."}, {"pk": 2712755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 31, "verse": 18, "text": "To whom are you to be compared in esteem and greatness among the trees in \u011ad\u0331en? But you shall be brought down with the trees of \u011ad\u0331en to the depths of the earth, lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his crowd,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in the twelfth year, in the twelfth new <i>moon</i>, on the first of the new <i>moon</i>, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, \u2018You were like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas, and you burst forth in your rivers, and trouble the waters with your feet, and muddy their rivers.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018And I shall spread My net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they shall bring you up in My net."}, {"pk": 2712759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 4, "text": "And I shall leave you on the land, hurl you out on the open fields, and make all the birds of the heavens dwell on you. And with you I shall satisfy the beasts of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2712760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 5, "text": "And I shall put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height,"}, {"pk": 2712761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 6, "text": "and water the land with the flow of your blood unto the mountains, and let streams be filled with you."}, {"pk": 2712762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 7, "text": "And when I extinguish you, I shall cover the heavens, and make its stars dark. I shall cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."}, {"pk": 2712763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 8, "text": "All the bright lights of the heavens I shall make dark over you, and I shall bring darkness upon your land,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 9, "text": "And I shall trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the lands which you have not known."}, {"pk": 2712765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 10, "text": "And I shall make many peoples appalled at you, and their sovereigns shall be greatly afraid of you when I swing My sword before them. And they shall tremble continually, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018The sword of the sovereign of Bab\u0331el shall come upon you."}, {"pk": 2712767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 12, "text": "By the swords of the mighty men, all of them the ruthless ones of the nations, I shall make your host fall. And they shall ravage the arrogance of Mitsrayim, and all its host shall be destroyed."}, {"pk": 2712768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 13, "text": "And I shall destroy all its beasts from beside its great waters, and let the foot of man trouble them no more, nor let the hooves of beasts trouble them."}, {"pk": 2712769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 14, "text": "Then I shall make their waters clear, and make their rivers run like oil,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 15, "text": "When I lay the land of Mitsrayim waste, and the land shall be stripped of all that once filled it, when I have stricken all who dwell in it, then they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 16, "text": "This is the lamentation, and they shall lament her, the daughters of the nations lament her. Over Mitsrayim and over all her crowd they shall lament her,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the new <i>moon</i>, that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSon of man, wail over the crowd of Mitsrayim, and send them down to the depths of the earth, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, with those going down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2712774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 19, "text": "Are you more pleasant than others? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cIn the midst of those slain by the sword they fall. She shall be given to the sword, drawing her and all her crowds."}, {"pk": 2712776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThe mightiest among the mighty speak to him out of the midst of She\u2019ol with those who help him, \u2018They have gone down, they lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAshshur is there, and all her assembly, with their burial-sites all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,"}, {"pk": 2712778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 23, "text": "whose burial-sites are set in the sides of the pit, and her assembly is all around her burial-place, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, because they instilled fear in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2712779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThere is \u011aylam and all her crowd, around her burial-place, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, because they instilled fear in the land of the living. And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2712780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThey have set her bed in the midst of the slain, with all her crowd, with her burial-sites all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for the fear they instilled in the land of the living. So they bear their shame with those going down to the pit. In the midst of the slain they have been placed."}, {"pk": 2712781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThere are Meshek\u0331 and Tub\u0331al and all her crowd, with all their burial-sites around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they instilled fear in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2712782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to She\u2019ol with their battle gear, and whose swords were laid under their heads. But their crookednesses are on their bones, because of the fear of the mighty in the land of the living."}, {"pk": 2712783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and lie with those slain by the sword."}, {"pk": 2712784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThere is Ed\u0331om, her sovereigns and all her princes, who shall be given up in their might, with those slain by the sword. With the uncircumcised they lie, and with those going down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2712785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cThere are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Tsid\u0331onians, who have gone down with the slain, because of the fear they instilled. They are ashamed of their might. And they lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those going down to the pit."}, {"pk": 2712786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cPharaoh \u2014 Pharaoh and all his army \u2014 shall see them, and he shall be comforted for all his host that were slain by the sword,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 32, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor I have put a fear of him in the land of the living, yet he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword \u2014 Pharaoh and all his host,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, speak to the children of your people, and you shall say to them, \u2018When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land shall take a man from their borders and shall make him their watchman,"}, {"pk": 2712790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 3, "text": "and he sees the sword coming upon the land, and shall blow with the shophar and shall warn the people,"}, {"pk": 2712791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 4, "text": "then whoever shall hear the voice of the shophar and shall not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood is on his own head."}, {"pk": 2712792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 5, "text": "He heard the voice of the shophar, but he did not take warning, his blood is on himself. But he who takes warning shall deliver his being."}, {"pk": 2712793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 6, "text": "But if the watchman sees the sword coming and shall not blow with the shophar, and the people shall not be warned, and the sword comes and takes any being from among them, he is taken away in his crookedness, and his blood I require at the watchman\u2019s hand.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And you shall hear a word from My mouth and you shall warn them for Me."}, {"pk": 2712795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen I say to the wrong, \u2018O wrong one, you shall certainly die!\u2019 and you have not spoken to warn the wrong from his way, that wrong one shall die in his crookedness, and his blood I require at your hand."}, {"pk": 2712796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut when you have warned the wrong to turn from his way, and he has not turned from his way, he shall die in his crookedness, but you have delivered your being.", "comment": "Similar messages in Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/3/18-21'>3:18-21</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/18/20-30'>18:20-30</a>"}, {"pk": 2712797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd you, O son of man, say to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018This is what you have said, \u201cIf our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how then shall we live?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSay to them, \u2018As I live,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018I have no pleasure in the death of the wrong, but that the wrong turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you, O son of man, say to the children of your people, \u2018The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wrongness of the wrong, he shall not stumble because of it in the day that he turns from his wrong. And the righteous shall not be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWhen I say to the righteous that he shall live, and he has trusted in his righteousness, and shall do unrighteousness, none of his righteousness shall be remembered, but because of his unrighteousness that he has done, he shall die."}, {"pk": 2712801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAgain, when I say to the wrong, \u2018You shall certainly die,\u2019 if he turns from his sin and does right and righteousness,"}, {"pk": 2712802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 15, "text": "if the wrong restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the laws of life without doing crookedness, he shall certainly live; he shall not die."}, {"pk": 2712803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cNone of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him \u2014 he has done right and righteousness; he shall certainly live."}, {"pk": 2712804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the children of your people have said, \u2018The way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not fair.\u2019 But it is their way which is not fair!"}, {"pk": 2712805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWhen the righteous turns from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, he shall die because of it."}, {"pk": 2712806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut when the wrong turns from his wrongness and does right and righteousness, he shall live because of it."}, {"pk": 2712807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you have said, \u2018The way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not fair.\u2019 O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, I shall judge every one of you according to his own ways.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be in the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth <i>month</i>, on the fifth of the new <i>moon</i>, that one who had escaped from Yerushalayim came to me and said, \u201cThe city has been stricken!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 22, "text": "And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth, before he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened. And I was no longer silent."}, {"pk": 2712810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 23, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSon of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are saying, \u2018Ab\u0331raham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many, let the land be given to us as a possession.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cYou eat meat with blood, and you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?"}, {"pk": 2712813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cYou depend on your sword, and you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbour\u2019s wife. Should you then possess the land?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSay this to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs I live, those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I shall give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence."}, {"pk": 2712815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make the land a desert and a waste, the arrogance of her strength shall cease, and the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be a waste, with none passing through."}, {"pk": 2712816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I have made the land a desert and a waste, because of all their abominations which they have done.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAs for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses. And they speak to each other, each saying to his brother, \u2018Please come and hear what the word is that comes from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love \u2014 their hearts pursue their greedy gain."}, {"pk": 2712819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd see, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a beautiful voice and playing well on an instrument. And they hear your words, but they do not do them."}, {"pk": 2712820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 33, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd when it comes \u2014 see, it shall come \u2014 then they shall know that a prophet has been in their midst.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, prophesy and say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the shepherds, \u201cWoe to the shepherds of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@300 10:21>note</a> at Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/21'>10:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2712823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYou eat the fat and you put on the wool. You slaughter the fatlings \u2014 you do not feed the flock."}, {"pk": 2712824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYou have not strengthened the weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back the straying, nor sought what was lost; but you have ruled them with might and harshness."}, {"pk": 2712825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they were scattered because there was no shepherd. And they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered."}, {"pk": 2712826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cMy sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. And My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4:"}, {"pk": 2712828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAs I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cbecause My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, from not having a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 9, "text": "therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2712830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 10, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against the shepherds, and shall require My flock at their hand, and shall make them cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more. And I shall deliver My flock from their mouths, and they shall no longer be food for them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 11, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I Myself shall search for My sheep and seek them out."}, {"pk": 2712832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAs a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of cloud and thick darkness."}, {"pk": 2712833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands, and shall bring them to their own land. And I shall feed them on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, in the valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land."}, {"pk": 2712834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIn good pasture I shall feed them, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. They shall lie there in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI shall feed My flock and make them lie down,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cI shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 17, "text": "And as for you, O My flock, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am judging between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats."}, {"pk": 2712838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cIs it not enough for you to have eaten up the good pasture, and the rest of your pasture you trample with your feet. Or that you should drink of the clear waters, and the rest you muddy with your feet?"}, {"pk": 2712839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd as for My flock, they eat what you have trampled with your feet, and they drink what you have muddied with your feet.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to them, \u201cSee, I Myself shall judge between fat and lean sheep."}, {"pk": 2712841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBecause you have pushed with flank and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak ones with your horns, and scattered them abroad,"}, {"pk": 2712842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 22, "text": "therefore I shall save My flock, and let them no longer be a prey. And I shall judge between sheep and sheep."}, {"pk": 2712843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall raise up over them one shepherd, My servant Dawid\u0331, and he shall feed them. He shall feed them and be their shepherd."}, {"pk": 2712844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, shall be their Elohim, and My servant Dawid\u0331 a prince in their midst. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken."}, {"pk": 2712845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make a covenant of peace with them, and make evil beasts cease from the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest."}, {"pk": 2712846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make them and the places all around My hill a blessing, and shall cause showers to come down in their season \u2014 showers of blessing they are."}, {"pk": 2712847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I have broken the bars of their yoke. And I shall deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them,"}, {"pk": 2712848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 28, "text": "and they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, and the beast of the earth shall not devour them. And they shall dwell safely, with no one to make them afraid."}, {"pk": 2712849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall raise up for them a planting place of name, and they shall no longer be consumed by hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the nations any more."}, {"pk": 2712850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, am with them, and that they, the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, are My people,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 34, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men, and I am your Elohim,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against Mount S\u0115\u201bir and prophesy against it,"}, {"pk": 2712854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 3, "text": "and you shall say to it, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, O Mount S\u0115\u201bir, I am against you, and shall stretch out My hand against you, and shall make you a ruin and a waste."}, {"pk": 2712855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cYour cities I destroy, and let you be a ruin. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBecause you have had a continuous enmity, and handed the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l over to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the crookedness of the end."}, {"pk": 2712857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore, as I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall appoint you for blood, and let blood pursue you. Since you did not hate blood, therefore blood shall pursue you."}, {"pk": 2712858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make Mount S\u0115\u201bir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns,"}, {"pk": 2712859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall fill its mountains with the slain, those slain by the sword falling on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines."}, {"pk": 2712860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI shall make you an everlasting ruin, and your cities uninhabited. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBecause you have said, \u2018These two nations and these two lands are mine, and we shall possess them,\u2019 although \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was there,"}, {"pk": 2712862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 11, "text": "therefore, as I live,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall do according to your displeasure and according to your envy which you showed in your hatred against them. And I shall make Myself known among them when I judge you."}, {"pk": 2712863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. I have heard all your scorns which you have spoken against the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u2018They are laid waste, they were given to us for food.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd with your mouth you have boasted against Me and increased your words against Me \u2014 I Myself have heard.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 14, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs all the earth is rejoicing I shall make you a ruin."}, {"pk": 2712866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 35, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAs you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l was laid waste, so I do to you: be a ruin, O Mount S\u0115\u201bir, as well as all of Ed\u0331om, all of it! And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say, \u2018O mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2712868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 2, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause the enemy has said of you, \u2018Aha! The heights of old have become our possession,\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 3, "text": "therefore prophesy, and you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause they laid you waste and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 4, "text": "therefore, O mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, hear the word of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, and to the deserted ruins, and to the cities that have been forsaken, which became a prey and a mocking to the rest of the nations all around;"}, {"pk": 2712871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 5, "text": "therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cHave I not spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Ed\u0331om, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with all joy of heart, with scorn in their being, to drive it out for a prey?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore prophesy concerning the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall say to mountains, and to hills, to rivers, and to valleys, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I have spoken in My jealousy and My wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI have lifted My hand in an oath that the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame."}, {"pk": 2712874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut you, O mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, put forth your branches and bear your fruit to My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for they are about to come!"}, {"pk": 2712875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am for you, and I shall turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown."}, {"pk": 2712876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall increase men upon you, all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, all of it. And the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt."}, {"pk": 2712877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall increase upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bear young. And I shall make you inhabited as of old, and do better for you than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall let men, My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, walk upon you, and let them possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and no longer let you add to their bereavement.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cBecause they say to you, \u2018You devour men and have bereaved your nation,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 14, "text": "therefore you shall no longer devour men, and no longer bereave your nation,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd no longer shall I let you hear the insults of the nations. And the reproach of the peoples you shall bear no more, and no longer cause your nations to stumble,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 16, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSon of man, when the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. To Me their way was like the uncleanness of a woman in her monthly period."}, {"pk": 2712884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSo I poured out My wrath on them for the blood they had shed on the land, and for their idols they defiled it."}, {"pk": 2712885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. I have judged them according to their ways and their deeds."}, {"pk": 2712886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd when they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My set-apart Name for it was said of them, \u2018These are the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and yet they have gone out of His land.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut I had compassion on My set-apart Name, which the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l had profaned among the nations wherever they went."}, {"pk": 2712888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTherefore say to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI do not do this for your sake, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but for My set-apart Name\u2019s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went."}, {"pk": 2712889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set apart My great Name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I am set-apart in you before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2712890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall take you from among the nations, and I shall gather you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into your own land."}, {"pk": 2712891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean \u2014 from all your filthiness and from all your idols I cleanse you."}, {"pk": 2712892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I shall give you a heart of flesh,"}, {"pk": 2712893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 27, "text": "and put My Spirit within you. And I shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do them.", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/11/19'>11:19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/11/20'>20</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/37/6-14'>37:6-14</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/39/29'>39:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2712894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I shall be your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2712895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall save you from all your uncleannesses. And I shall call for the grain and increase it, and I shall bring no scarcity of food upon you."}, {"pk": 2712896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall increase the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of scarcity of food among the nations."}, {"pk": 2712897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations."}, {"pk": 2712898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cNot for your sake am I acting,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201clet it be known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 33, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cOn the day that I cleanse you from all your crookednesses, I shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruined places shall be rebuilt,"}, {"pk": 2712900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 34, "text": "and the land that was laid waste tilled instead of being a ruin before the eyes of all who pass by."}, {"pk": 2712901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall say, \u2018This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of \u011ad\u0331en. And the wasted, the deserted, and the destroyed cities are now walled and inhabited.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cThen the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have rebuilt the destroyed places and planted what was laid waste. I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have spoken it, and I shall do it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 37, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cOnce again I shall let the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l inquire of Me to do for them: I shall increase their men like a flock."}, {"pk": 2712904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 36, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAs a set-apart flock, as the flock at Yerushalayim at her appointed times, so shall the wasted cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 1, "text": "The hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was upon me and took me out by the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and set me down in the midst of the valley. And it was filled with bones."}, {"pk": 2712906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 2, "text": "And He made me pass among them, all around, and see, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and see, they were very dry."}, {"pk": 2712907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, would these bones live?\u201d And I said, \u201cO Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 4, "text": "Again He said to me, \u201cProphesy to these bones, and you shall say to them, \u2018O dry bones, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2712909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to these bones, \u201cSee, I am bringing into you a spirit, and you shall live."}, {"pk": 2712910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin and put a spirit in you, and you shall live. And you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 7, "text": "And I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and there was a rattling. And the bones came together, bone to bone."}, {"pk": 2712912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 8, "text": "And I looked and saw sinews and flesh came upon them, and skin covered them, but there was no spirit in them."}, {"pk": 2712913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 9, "text": "He then said to me, \u201cProphesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and you shall say to the spirit, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cCome from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe on these killed ones, so that they live.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 10, "text": "And I prophesied as He commanded me, and the spirit came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great army."}, {"pk": 2712915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, these bones are all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. See, they say, \u2018Our bones are dry, our expectancy has perished, and we ourselves have been cut off!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTherefore prophesy, and you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, O My people, I am opening your burial-sites and shall bring you up from your burial-sites, and shall bring you into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, when I open your burial-sites, My people, and bring you up from your burial-sites."}, {"pk": 2712918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall settle you in your own land. And you shall know that I \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 have spoken, and I have done it,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 15, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, \u2018For Yehud\u0331ah and for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, his companions.\u2019 Then take another stick and write on it, \u2018For Yos\u0115ph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, his companions.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThen bring them together for yourself into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand."}, {"pk": 2712922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd when the children of your people speak to you, saying, \u2018Won\u2019t you show us what you mean by these?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 19, "text": "say to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am taking the stick of Yos\u0115ph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehud\u0331ah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes."}, {"pk": 2712925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd speak to them, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am taking the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land."}, {"pk": 2712926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns."}, {"pk": 2712927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting <i>matters</i>, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall cleanse them. And they shall be My people, and I be their Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2712928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 24, "text": "while Dawid\u0331 My servant is sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in My right-rulings and guard My laws, and shall do them."}, {"pk": 2712929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 My servant, where your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell in it, they and their children and their children\u2019s children, forever, and My servant Dawid\u0331 be their prince forever."}, {"pk": 2712930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make a covenant of peace with them \u2014 an everlasting covenant it is with them. And I shall place them and increase them, and shall place My set-apart place in their midst, forever."}, {"pk": 2712931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd My Dwelling Place shall be over them. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people."}, {"pk": 2712932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 37, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd the nations shall know that I, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, am setting Yisra\u2019\u0115l apart, when My set-apart place is in their midst \u2014 forever.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2712933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2712934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSon of man, set your face against Go\u1e21, of the land of Ma\u1e21o\u1e21, the prince of Rosh, Meshek\u0331, and Tub\u0331al, and prophesy against him."}, {"pk": 2712935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018Thus says the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against you, O Go\u1e21, the prince of Rosh, Meshek\u0331, and Tub\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2712936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall turn you around, and I shall put hooks into your jaws, and shall lead you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, clad perfectly, a great assembly with armour and shields, all of them handling swords."}, {"pk": 2712937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cPersia, Kush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet,"}, {"pk": 2712938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cGomer and all its bands, the house of To\u1e21armah from the far north and all its bands, many peoples with you."}, {"pk": 2712939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBe ready, prepare yourself, you and all your assemblies that are assembled unto you. And you shall be a guard for them."}, {"pk": 2712940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAfter many days you shall be called up. In the latter years you shall come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, which had been a continual waste. But they were brought out of the peoples, and all of them shall dwell safely."}, {"pk": 2712941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall go up, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your bands and many peoples with you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 10, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAnd it shall be in that day that words arise in your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan:"}, {"pk": 2712943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say, \u2018Let me go up against a land of unwalled villages, let me go to those at rest who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 12, "text": "to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the peoples, acquiring livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the land."}, {"pk": 2712945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSheb\u0331a, and Ded\u0331an, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions shall say to you, \u2018Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to bear away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?\u2019\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore, son of man, prophesy, and you shall say to Go\u1e21, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIn that day when My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l dwell safely, would you not know?"}, {"pk": 2712947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army."}, {"pk": 2712948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall come up against My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l like a cloud, to cover the land \u2014 in the latter days it shall be. And I shall bring you against My land, in order that the nations know Me, when I am set apart in you, O Go\u1e21, before their eyes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 17, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAre you the one I spoke of in former days by My servants the prophets of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who prophesied for years in those days, to bring you against them?"}, {"pk": 2712950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be on that day, on the day when Go\u1e21 comes against the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat My wrath shall come up in My face."}, {"pk": 2712951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken, \u2018On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2712952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 20, "text": "so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping creatures that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall fall to the ground.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2712953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall call for a sword against Go\u1e21 on all My mountains,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthe sword of each one being against his brother."}, {"pk": 2712954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall judge him with pestilence and blood, and rain down flooding rain and hailstones, fire and sulphur, on him and on his bands and on the many peoples who are with him."}, {"pk": 2712955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 38, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall exalt Myself and set Myself apart, and I shall be known in the eyes of many nations. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, prophesy against Go\u1e21, and you shall say, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, I am against you, O Go\u1e21, the prince of Rosh, Meshek\u0331, and Tub\u0331al,"}, {"pk": 2712957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 2, "text": "and shall turn you around and lead you on, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2712958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 3, "text": "and shall strike the bow out of your left hand, and make the arrows fall from your right hand."}, {"pk": 2712959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cOn the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l you shall fall, you and all your bands and the peoples who are with you. To the birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field I shall give you for food."}, {"pk": 2712960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cOn the face of the field you shall fall, for I have spoken,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall send fire upon Ma\u1e21o\u1e21 and on those who live undisturbed in the coastlands. And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make My set-apart Name known in the midst of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and not let My set-apart Name be profaned any more. And the nations shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Set-apart One in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2712963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSee, it shall come, and it shall be done,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cThis is the day of which I have spoken."}, {"pk": 2712964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd those who inhabit the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and armour, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. And they shall make fires with them for seven years,"}, {"pk": 2712965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 10, "text": "and take no wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, for with the weapons they make fire. And they shall plunder those who plundered them, and loot those who looted them,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be on that day that I give Go\u1e21 a place for a burial-site there in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, the valley of those passing by east of the sea, and stopping those passing by, because there they shall bury Go\u1e21 and all his crowd, and shall call it the Valley of Hamon Go\u1e21."}, {"pk": 2712967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall bury them for seven new <i>moons</i>, in order to cleanse the land."}, {"pk": 2712968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd all the people of the land shall bury them, and it shall be for a name to them on the day that I am esteemed,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall separate men who continually pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven new <i>moons</i> they shall search,"}, {"pk": 2712970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 15, "text": "and those passing through shall pass through the land, and when anyone sees a man\u2019s bone, he shall set up a sign beside it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Go\u1e21."}, {"pk": 2712971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd also a city named Hamonah shall be there. So they shall cleanse the land.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you, son of man, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field, \u201cAssemble yourselves and come, gather from all around to My slaughtering which I am slaughtering for you, a great slaughtering on the mountains of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood."}, {"pk": 2712973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cEat the flesh of the mighty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan."}, {"pk": 2712974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at My slaughtering which I am slaughtering for you."}, {"pk": 2712975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be satisfied at My table with horses and riders, with mighty men and with all the men of battle,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2712976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall set My esteem among the nations. And all nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them."}, {"pk": 2712977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim from that day onward."}, {"pk": 2712978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd the nations shall know that the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went into exile for their crookedness, because they have trespassed against Me, so that I hid My face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword."}, {"pk": 2712979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2712980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Now I am going to bring back the captives of Ya\u201baqob\u0331. And I shall have compassion on all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and shall be jealous for My set-apart Name."}, {"pk": 2712981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 26, "text": "And they shall have borne their shame, and all their trespass they committed against Me, when they dwell safely in their own land, with none to make them afraid,"}, {"pk": 2712982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 27, "text": "when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of the lands of their enemies. And I shall be set apart in them before the eyes of many nations."}, {"pk": 2712983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 28, "text": "And they shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, who sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them back to their own land, and left none of them behind."}, {"pk": 2712984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 39, "verse": 29, "text": "And no longer do I hide My face from them, for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 1, "text": "In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at Rosh haShanah, on the tenth of the new <i>moon</i>, in the fourteenth year after the city was stricken, on that same day the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came upon me and He brought me there.", "comment": "Head.<br><em>Of</em> the year."}, {"pk": 2712986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 2, "text": "In visions of Elohim He brought me into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it toward the south was as the structure of a city."}, {"pk": 2712987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 3, "text": "So He brought me there, and look, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a line of flax and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway."}, {"pk": 2712988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 4, "text": "And the man said to me, \u201cSon of man, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show them to you. Declare to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l all that you are seeing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2712989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 5, "text": "And look: a wall all around the outside of the House, and in the man\u2019s hand a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth. And he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod, and the height one rod."}, {"pk": 2712990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 6, "text": "Then he came to the gate facing east. And he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod wide, and the other threshold, one rod wide,"}, {"pk": 2712991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 7, "text": "and the little room one rod long and one rod wide, and between the little rooms a space of five cubits. And the threshold of the gate inwards from the porch of the gate was one rod."}, {"pk": 2712992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 8, "text": "Then he measured the porch of the inside gate, one rod."}, {"pk": 2712993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 9, "text": "And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and its posts two cubits. And the porch of the gate was on the inside."}, {"pk": 2712994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 10, "text": "And the little rooms of the east gate three on one side and three on the other, all three of the same size. And posts were of the same size on this side and that side."}, {"pk": 2712995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 11, "text": "And he measured the width of the entrance of the gate, ten cubits, and the length of the gate thirteen cubits."}, {"pk": 2712996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 12, "text": "And the border in front of the little rooms, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side. And the gate room was six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side."}, {"pk": 2712997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 13, "text": "And he measured the gate from the roof of one little room to the roof of the other, the width was twenty-five cubits, door to door."}, {"pk": 2712998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 14, "text": "And he measured the posts, sixty cubits high, even to the post of the courtyard all around the gate."}, {"pk": 2712999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 15, "text": "And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the porch of the inner gate was fifty cubits."}, {"pk": 2713000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 16, "text": "And there were narrowed window frames in the little rooms and to their posts at the inside of the gate all around, and for the porches too. And there were windows all around on the inside. And on each post were palm trees."}, {"pk": 2713001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 17, "text": "And he brought me into the outer courtyard, and look, rooms and a pavement made all around the courtyard, thirty rooms on the pavement."}, {"pk": 2713002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 18, "text": "And the pavement was by the side of the gates, equal to the length of the gates \u2014 the lower pavement."}, {"pk": 2713003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 19, "text": "And he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner courtyard on the outside, one hundred cubits toward the east and the north."}, {"pk": 2713004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 20, "text": "And the gate of the outer courtyard facing north he measured its length and its width."}, {"pk": 2713005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 21, "text": "And its little rooms, three on this side and three on that side, its posts and its porches, had the same measurements as the first gate, its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits."}, {"pk": 2713006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 22, "text": "And its windows and its porches, and its palm trees, had the same measurements as the gate facing east. And they went up to it by seven steps, and its porch was in front of it."}, {"pk": 2713007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 23, "text": "And the gate of the inner courtyard was opposite the northern gate, and at the eastern gate. And he measured from gate to gate, one hundred cubits."}, {"pk": 2713008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 24, "text": "And he took me toward the south, and look, a gate toward the south. And he measured its posts and porches according to these measurements."}, {"pk": 2713009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 25, "text": "And windows were in it and in its porches all around like those windows, its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits."}, {"pk": 2713010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 26, "text": "And seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them. And it had palm trees on its posts, one on this side and one on that side."}, {"pk": 2713011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 27, "text": "And the inner courtyard had a gate toward the south. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, one hundred cubits."}, {"pk": 2713012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 28, "text": "And he brought me to the inner courtyard through the south gate, and he measured the southern gate according to these measurements."}, {"pk": 2713013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 29, "text": "And its little rooms, and its posts, and its porches were according to these measurements. And windows were in it and in its porches all around \u2014 fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide."}, {"pk": 2713014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 30, "text": "And there were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide."}, {"pk": 2713015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 31, "text": "And its porches were toward the outer courtyard, and palm trees were on its posts, and eight steps led up to it."}, {"pk": 2713016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 32, "text": "And he brought me into the inner courtyard toward the east, and he measured the gate according to these measurements."}, {"pk": 2713017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 33, "text": "And its little rooms, and its posts, and its porches were according to these measurements. And windows were in it and in its porches all around \u2014 fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide."}, {"pk": 2713018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 34, "text": "And its porches were toward the outer courtyard, and palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side, and eight steps led up to it."}, {"pk": 2713019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 35, "text": "And he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it according to these measurements,"}, {"pk": 2713020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 36, "text": "its little rooms, its posts, and its porches. And it had windows all around, its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits."}, {"pk": 2713021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 37, "text": "And its posts were toward the outer courtyard, and palm trees were on its posts on this side and on that side, and eight steps led up to it."}, {"pk": 2713022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 38, "text": "And there was a room with its entrance by the posts of the gate, where they washed the ascending offering."}, {"pk": 2713023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 39, "text": "And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the ascending offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering."}, {"pk": 2713024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 40, "text": "And on the outer side, as one went up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables. And on the other side of the porch of the gate were two tables."}, {"pk": 2713025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 41, "text": "Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slew."}, {"pk": 2713026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 42, "text": "And there were four tables of hewn stone for the ascending offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high. On these they placed the instruments with which they slew the ascending offering and the slaughterings."}, {"pk": 2713027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 43, "text": "And the double hooks, a handbreadth wide, were fastened all around. And on the tables was the flesh of the offerings."}, {"pk": 2713028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 44, "text": "And on the outside of the inner gate were the rooms for the singers in the inner courtyard, one at the side of the north gate and facing south, and the other at the side of the south gate facing north."}, {"pk": 2713029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 45, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis room facing south is for the priests who guard the duty of the House."}, {"pk": 2713030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cAnd the room facing north is for the priests who guard the duty of the slaughter-place, they are the sons of Tsad\u0331oq, from the sons of L\u0115wi, who come near \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to serve Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 47, "text": "And he measured the courtyard, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square. And the slaughter-place was in front of the House."}, {"pk": 2713032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 48, "text": "And he brought me to the porch of the House and measured the doorposts of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side. And the width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side."}, {"pk": 2713033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 40, "verse": 49, "text": "The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits. And by the steps which led up to it there were columns by the doorposts, one on this side and one on that side."}, {"pk": 2713034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 1, "text": "And he brought me into the H\u0115k\u0331al, and he measured the doorposts, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side, the width of the Tent."}, {"pk": 2713035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 2, "text": "And the entrance was ten cubits wide, and the side walls of the entrance were five cubits on this side and five cubits on the other side. And he measured its length, forty cubits, and twenty cubits wide."}, {"pk": 2713036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 3, "text": "And he went inside and measured the doorposts, two cubits, and the entrance six cubits high, and the width of the entrance seven cubits."}, {"pk": 2713037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 4, "text": "And he measured the length, twenty cubits, and the width twenty cubits, to the front of the H\u0115k\u0331al. And he said to me, \u201cThis is the Most Set-apart Place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 5, "text": "And he measured the wall of the House, six cubits, and the width of each side room all around the House was four cubits on every side."}, {"pk": 2713039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 6, "text": "And the side rooms were on three <i>levels</i>, one above the other, thirty rooms on each <i>level</i>, they rested on ledges which were for the side rooms all around, to be supported, but not fastened to the wall of the House."}, {"pk": 2713040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 7, "text": "And there was a broadening and a winding upwards for the side rooms, for the winding around the House went up like steps. And the width of the structure increased as one went up from the lowest <i>level</i> to the highest by way of the middle one."}, {"pk": 2713041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 8, "text": "And I saw the height all around the House: the foundation of the side rooms, a rod\u2019s length of six cubits."}, {"pk": 2713042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 9, "text": "The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits, and that which was left between the side rooms of the House"}, {"pk": 2713043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 10, "text": "and the rooms was a width of twenty cubits all around the House on every side."}, {"pk": 2713044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 11, "text": "And the door of the side room was toward the open space, one door toward the north and another toward the south. And the width of the place of the open space was five cubits all around."}, {"pk": 2713045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 12, "text": "And the building that was in front of the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits."}, {"pk": 2713046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 13, "text": "Then he measured the House, one hundred cubits long. And the separate place with the building and its walls, were one hundred cubits long,"}, {"pk": 2713047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 14, "text": "and the width of the front of the House, and of the separate place eastward, was one hundred cubits."}, {"pk": 2713048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 15, "text": "And he measured the length of the building to the front of the separate place behind it, and its galleries on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits, as well as the inner H\u0115k\u0331al and the porches of the courtyard."}, {"pk": 2713049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 16, "text": "The doorposts and the narrowed window frames, and the galleries all around, their three <i>levels</i> opposite the threshold, were panelled with wood. From the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered,"}, {"pk": 2713050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 17, "text": "from the space above the door, even to the inner house, as well as outside, and on every wall all around, inside and outside, by measure."}, {"pk": 2713051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 18, "text": "And it was made with kerub\u0331im and palm trees, and a palm tree between kerub\u0331 and kerub\u0331. A kerub\u0331 had two faces,"}, {"pk": 2713052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 19, "text": "so that the face of a man was toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a young lion toward a palm tree on the other side \u2014 made on all the House all around."}, {"pk": 2713053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 20, "text": "From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the H\u0115k\u0331al, kerub\u0331im and palm trees were carved."}, {"pk": 2713054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 21, "text": "The doorposts of the H\u0115k\u0331al were square, and the front of the set-apart place, the appearance of one was like the appearance of the other."}, {"pk": 2713055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 22, "text": "The slaughter-place was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits. And its corners, and its length, and its sides were of wood. And he said to me, \u201cThis is the table that is before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 23, "text": "And the H\u0115k\u0331al and the set-apart place had two doors."}, {"pk": 2713057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 24, "text": "And each of the doors had two panels, two folding panels, two panels for one door and two panels for the other door."}, {"pk": 2713058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 25, "text": "And kerub\u0331im and palm trees were carved on the doors of the H\u0115k\u0331al, like those carved on the walls. And thick wood was on the front of the porch outside."}, {"pk": 2713059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 41, "verse": 26, "text": "And narrowed window frames and palm trees were on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch, and on the side rooms of the House, and thick wood."}, {"pk": 2713060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 1, "text": "And he brought me out into the outer courtyard, the way toward the north. And he brought me into the room which was opposite the separate place, and which was opposite the building to the north."}, {"pk": 2713061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 2, "text": "Along the length which was one hundred cubits, was the north door, the width was fifty cubits."}, {"pk": 2713062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 3, "text": "Opposite the inner courtyard of twenty <i>cubits</i>, and opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard, gallery against gallery in three <i>levels</i>."}, {"pk": 2713063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 4, "text": "And before the rooms, toward the inside, was a walk ten cubits wide, a way of one cubit. And their doors were to the north."}, {"pk": 2713064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 5, "text": "And the upper rooms were shorter, because the galleries took away space from them more than from the lower and middle <i>levels</i> of the building."}, {"pk": 2713065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 6, "text": "For they were in three <i>levels</i> and had no columns like the columns of the courtyards, so the upper <i>level</i> was set back more than the lower and middle <i>levels</i> from the ground up."}, {"pk": 2713066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 7, "text": "As for the outer wall by the side of the rooms, toward the outer courtyard facing the rooms, its length was fifty cubits."}, {"pk": 2713067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 8, "text": "For the length of the rooms toward the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and that facing the H\u0115k\u0331al was one hundred cubits."}, {"pk": 2713068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 9, "text": "And below these rooms was the entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer courtyard."}, {"pk": 2713069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 10, "text": "In the thickness of the wall of the courtyard toward the east, opposite the separate place and opposite the building, were rooms."}, {"pk": 2713070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 11, "text": "And the way in front of them was like the appearance of the rooms which were toward the north, as long and as wide as the others, and all their exits and entrances were according to plan."}, {"pk": 2713071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 12, "text": "And according to the doors of the rooms that were toward the south, there was a door in front of the way, the way in front of the wall toward the east, as one enters them."}, {"pk": 2713072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThe north rooms and the south rooms, which are opposite the separate place, are the set-apart rooms where the priests who approach \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 eat the most set-apart offerings. There they place the most set-apart <i>items</i>, and the grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering, for the place is set-apart."}, {"pk": 2713073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cWhen the priests enter, they are not to go out of the set-apart room into the outer courtyard, but leave their garments in which they attend there, for they are set-apart, and shall put on other garments and shall draw near to that which is for the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 15, "text": "And when he had ended measuring the inner House, he brought me out through the gate that faces east, and measured it all around."}, {"pk": 2713075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 16, "text": "He measured the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around."}, {"pk": 2713076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 17, "text": "He measured the north side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod all around."}, {"pk": 2713077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 18, "text": "He measured the south side, five hundred rods by the measuring rod."}, {"pk": 2713078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 19, "text": "He turned round to the west side and measured five hundred rods by the measuring rod."}, {"pk": 2713079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 42, "verse": 20, "text": "On the four sides he measured it. It had a wall all around, five hundred long and five hundred wide, to separate the set-apart places from the common."}, {"pk": 2713080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 1, "text": "And he led me to the gate, the gate facing east."}, {"pk": 2713081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, the esteem of the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone from His esteem."}, {"pk": 2713082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 3, "text": "And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the River Keb\u0331ar, and I fell on my face."}, {"pk": 2713083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 4, "text": "And the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came into the House by way of the gate facing east."}, {"pk": 2713084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. And see, the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the House."}, {"pk": 2713085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 6, "text": "And I heard someone speaking to me from the House, while a man stood beside me."}, {"pk": 2713086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l forever, and the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places."}, {"pk": 2713087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen they placed their threshold by My threshold, and their doorpost by My doorpost, with a wall between them and Me, they defiled My set-apart Name by the abominations which they have done. So I consumed them in My displeasure."}, {"pk": 2713088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cNow let them put their whoring and the corpses of their sovereigns far away from Me, and I shall dwell in their midst forever."}, {"pk": 2713089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSon of man, explain the House to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the measurements."}, {"pk": 2713090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd since they shall be ashamed of all that they did, make known to them the design of the House and its structure, and its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its laws, and all its forms and all its Torot. And write it down before their eyes, so that they observe its entire design and all its laws, and shall do them."}, {"pk": 2713091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThis is the Torah of the House: Upon the mountaintop, all the boundary of it, all around, is most set-apart. See, this is the Torah of the House."}, {"pk": 2713092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the measurements of the slaughter-place in cubits, that cubit being one cubit and a handbreadth, and the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. And this is the upper part of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2713093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, and the width of the ledge one cubit, and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge four cubits, and the width of the ledge one cubit."}, {"pk": 2713094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the slaughter-place hearth is four cubits high, and four horns extending upward from the hearth."}, {"pk": 2713095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the slaughter-place hearth is twelve cubits long, and twelve wide, square at its four corners."}, {"pk": 2713096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the ledge is fourteen long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it, and its base one cubit all around, and its steps face east.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 18, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cSon of man, thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018These are the laws for the slaughter-place on the day when it is made, for offering ascending offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it."}, {"pk": 2713098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 19, "text": "And you shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the L\u0115wites, who are of the seed of Tsad\u0331oq, who approach unto Me,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 20, "text": "And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the slaughter-place, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it, and shall cleanse it and make atonement for it."}, {"pk": 2713100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 21, "text": "And you shall take the bull of the sin offering, and shall burn it in the appointed place of the House, outside the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2713101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 22, "text": "And on the second day you bring a male goat, a perfect one, for a sin offering. And they shall cleanse the slaughter-place, as they cleansed it with the bull."}, {"pk": 2713102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 23, "text": "When you have ended cleansing it, bring a young bull, a perfect one, and a ram from the flock, a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2713103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 24, "text": "And you shall bring them before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and the priests shall throw salt on them and offer them up as an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 25, "text": "Prepare a goat for a sin offering daily for seven days, and prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, perfect ones."}, {"pk": 2713105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 26, "text": "For seven days they shall make atonement for the slaughter-place and cleanse it, and ordain it."}, {"pk": 2713106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 43, "verse": 27, "text": "And when these days are completed it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests make your ascending offerings and your peace offerings on the slaughter-place, and I shall accept you,\u2019 declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 1, "text": "And He brought me back to the outer gate of the set-apart place which faces east, and it was shut."}, {"pk": 2713108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cThis gate is shut, it is not opened, and no one enters it, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has entered by it, and it shall be shut."}, {"pk": 2713109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe prince, as prince, he sits in it to eat bread before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, coming in by way of the porch of the gate, and going out the same way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 4, "text": "And He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the House. And I looked and saw the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 filled the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I fell on my face."}, {"pk": 2713111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cSon of man, set your heart and see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the laws of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and all its Torot. And you shall set your heart to the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the set-apart place,"}, {"pk": 2713112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 6, "text": "and shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cO house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, enough of all these abominations of yours,"}, {"pk": 2713113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 7, "text": "that you brought in sons of a foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My set-apart place to profane it, My house! That you brought near My food, the fat and the blood, and you broke My covenant because of all your abominations."}, {"pk": 2713114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you did not guard the charge of that which is set-apart to Me, but you have set others to guard the charge of My set-apart place for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cNo son of a foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, comes into My set-apart place, even any son of a foreigner who is among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the L\u0115wites who went far from Me, when Yisra\u2019\u0115l went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2713117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd they were attendants in My set-apart place, as gatekeepers of the house and attendants of the house, slaying the ascending offering and the slaughtering for the people, and standing before them to attend to them."}, {"pk": 2713118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBecause they attended to them before their idols and became a stumbling-block of crookedness to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, therefore I have lifted My hand in an oath against them,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat they shall bear their crookedness,"}, {"pk": 2713119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 13, "text": "and not come near Me to serve as My priest, nor come near any of that which is set-apart to Me, nor into the Most Set-apart Place. And they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have done."}, {"pk": 2713120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYet I shall make them those who guard the duty of the House, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it."}, {"pk": 2713121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut the priests, the L\u0115wites, the sons of Tsad\u0331oq, who guarded the duty of My set-apart place when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went astray from Me, they shall draw near to Me to serve Me, and shall stand before Me to bring to Me the fat and the blood,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThey shall enter My set-apart place, and they shall draw near to My table to serve Me, and they shall guard My charge."}, {"pk": 2713123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, that they put on linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them while they attend within the gates of the inner courtyard or within the house."}, {"pk": 2713124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThey shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies, they shall not gird themselves with sweat."}, {"pk": 2713125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd when they go out to the outer courtyard, to the outer courtyard to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have attended, and shall leave them in the set-apart rooms, and shall put on other garments, and they shall set-apart the people in their garments."}, {"pk": 2713126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd their heads they shall not shave, nor shall they let their hair grow long \u2014 they shall keep their hair well trimmed."}, {"pk": 2713127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd no priest is to drink wine when he comes into the inner court."}, {"pk": 2713128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd they do not take as wife a widow or a divorced woman, but take maidens of the seed of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, or widows of priests."}, {"pk": 2713129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd they are to teach My people the <i>difference</i> between the set-apart and the profane, and make them know what is unclean and clean."}, {"pk": 2713130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd they are to stand as judges in a dispute, and judge it according to My right-rulings. And they are to guard My Torot and My laws in all My appointed times, and set apart My Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2713131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd they are not to defile themselves by coming near a dead man. Only for a father or mother, for a son or daughter, for a brother or unmarried sister they defile themselves."}, {"pk": 2713132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd after his cleansing, they count seven days for him,"}, {"pk": 2713133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 27, "text": "and on the day that he comes into the inner court of the set-apart place to attend in the set-apart place, he brings his sin offering,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be to them for an inheritance, I am their inheritance. And you give them no possession in Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 I am their possession."}, {"pk": 2713135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThe grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering they are to eat, and all that is dedicated in Yisra\u2019\u0115l is theirs."}, {"pk": 2713136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every contribution of all, of all your contributions, belong to the priests. And the first of your ground meal you give to the priest, so that a blessing rests on your house."}, {"pk": 2713137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 44, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cThe priests are not to eat any bird or beast found dead or torn to pieces."}, {"pk": 2713138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd when you divide the land by lot into inheritance, offer a contribution to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a set-apart portion of the land, in length twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> long, and in width ten thousand, this being set-apart throughout its border all around."}, {"pk": 2713139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cOf this a square plot is to be for the set-apart place, five hundred by five hundred, with fifty cubits around it for an open space."}, {"pk": 2713140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd from this measure you are to measure: twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> long and ten thousand wide. And in it is to be the set-apart place, the Most Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2713141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThis is to be a set-apart portion of the land, belonging to the priests, the attendants of the set-apart place, who draw near to serve \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And it shall be a place for their houses and set-apart ground for the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2713142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> in length and ten thousand in width is for the L\u0115wites, the attendants of the House, for them for a possession, twenty rooms."}, {"pk": 2713143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd give the city as possession: five thousand <i>cubits</i> wide and twenty-five thousand long, beside the contribution of the set-apart portion \u2014 it belongs to all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd the prince is to have a portion on one side and the other of the set-apart contribution and of the possession of the city. And bordering on the set-apart contribution and the possession of the city, on the west side westward and on the east side eastward, and the length alongside one of the portions, from the west border to the east border."}, {"pk": 2713145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cOf the land this is his possession in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and My princes shall no longer oppress My people. And they shall give the land to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, according to their tribes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cEnough, you princes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Put away violence and plundering, and do right-ruling and righteousness, and stop your evictions of My people,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHave right scales, and a right \u0115phah, and a right bath."}, {"pk": 2713148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cLet the \u0115phah and the bath be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a h\u0323omer, and the \u0115phah one-tenth of a h\u0323omer. Let their measure be according to the h\u0323omer."}, {"pk": 2713149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the sheqel is twenty g\u0115rahs. Your mina is twenty sheqels, twenty-five sheqels, fifteen sheqels."}, {"pk": 2713150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThis is the contribution which you present: you shall give one-sixth of an \u0115phah from a h\u0323omer of wheat, and one-sixth of an \u0115phah from a h\u0323omer of barley."}, {"pk": 2713151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the law concerning oil, the bath of oil, is one-tenth of a bath from a kor. A kor is a h\u0323omer or ten baths, for ten baths are a h\u0323omer."}, {"pk": 2713152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd one lamb from a flock, from two hundred, from the watered pastures of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for grain offerings, and for an ascending offering, and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAll the people of the land are to give this contribution to the prince in Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd on the prince are the ascending offerings, and the grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the festival, the new <i>moons</i>, the sabbaths \u2014 in all the appointed times of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. He is to prepare the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the ascending offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 18, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cIn the first <i>month</i>, on the first of the new <i>moon</i>, you are to take a young bull, a perfect one, and shall cleanse the set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2713156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the House, on the four corners of the ledge of the slaughter-place, and on the posts of the gate of the inner courtyard."}, {"pk": 2713157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd do the same on the seventh of the new <i>moon</i> for anyone who makes a mistake or is foolish. And you shall make atonement for the House."}, {"pk": 2713158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cIn the first <i>month</i>, on the fourteenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, you have the P\u0115sah\u0323, a festival of seven days, unleavened bread is eaten."}, {"pk": 2713159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2713160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd <i>during</i> the seven days of the festival he prepares an ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, seven bulls and seven rams, perfect ones, daily for seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering."}, {"pk": 2713161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd he prepares a grain offering of one \u0115phah for each bull and one \u0115phah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each \u0115phah."}, {"pk": 2713162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 45, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIn the seventh <i>month</i>, on the fifteenth day of the new <i>moon</i>, at the festival, he prepares like these seven days, as the sin offering, as the ascending offering, as the grain offering, and as the oil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe gate of the inner courtyard facing east is shut the six days of work, but on the sabbath it is opened, and on the day of the new <i>moon</i> it is opened."}, {"pk": 2713164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd the prince shall enter by way of the porch of that gate from the outside, and he shall stand by the post. And the priests shall prepare his ascending offering and his peace offerings. And he shall bow himself at the threshold of the gate, and shall go out, but the gate is not shut until evening."}, {"pk": 2713165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the people of the land shall also bow themselves at the entrance to this gate before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, on the sabbaths and on the new <i>moons</i>."}, {"pk": 2713166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd the ascending offering which the prince brings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 on the sabbath day is six lambs, perfect ones, and a ram, a perfect one."}, {"pk": 2713167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the grain offering is one \u0115phah for a ram, and the grain offering for the lambs, a gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for an \u0115phah."}, {"pk": 2713168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd on the day of the new <i>moon</i>: a young bull, a perfect one, six lambs, and a ram, they should be perfect."}, {"pk": 2713169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd he prepares a grain offering of an \u0115phah for a bull, and an \u0115phah for a ram, and for the lambs as his hand attains, and a hin of oil for an \u0115phah."}, {"pk": 2713170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd when the prince enters, he comes in by way of the porch of that gate, and goes out the same way."}, {"pk": 2713171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd when the people of the land enter before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at the appointed times, whoever shall enter by way of the north gate to bow himself, goes out by way of the south gate. And whoever enters by way of the south gate, goes out by way of the north gate, he shall not return by way of the gate through which he came, but goes out through the opposite one."}, {"pk": 2713172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the prince is to be in their midst, entering when they enter, and going out when they go out."}, {"pk": 2713173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd in the festivals and in the appointed times the grain offering is an \u0115phah for a bull, and an \u0115phah for a ram, and for lambs the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for an \u0115phah."}, {"pk": 2713174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd when the prince makes a spontaneous ascending offering or spontaneous peace offerings to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall prepare his ascending offering and his peace offerings as he did on the Sabbath day. And he shall go out, and after he goes out the gate shall be shut."}, {"pk": 2713175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd make a daily ascending offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of a lamb a year old, a perfect one, preparing it morning by morning."}, {"pk": 2713176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd prepare a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an \u0115phah, and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 continual everlasting laws."}, {"pk": 2713177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd prepare the lamb, and the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, a continual ascending offering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 16, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cWhen the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it belongs to his sons, it is their possession by inheritance."}, {"pk": 2713179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd when he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his till the year of release, then it shall return to the prince. Only the inheritance of his sons is theirs."}, {"pk": 2713180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the prince does not take any of the people\u2019s inheritance by evicting them from their possession. He is to give his sons their inheritance from his own possession, so that none of My people are separated from his possession.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 19, "text": "And he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the set-apart rooms of the priests facing north. And look, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west."}, {"pk": 2713182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis is the place where the priests cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer courtyard to set the people apart.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 21, "text": "And he brought me out into the outer courtyard and made me pass along to the four corners of the courtyard. And look, in every corner of the courtyard was another courtyard."}, {"pk": 2713184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 22, "text": "In the four corners of the courtyard were courtyards covered over, forty cubits long and thirty wide, these four corners having one measure,"}, {"pk": 2713185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 23, "text": "and a row of building stones all around in them, all around the four of them, and places for fire were made under the rows, all around."}, {"pk": 2713186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 46, "verse": 24, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThese are the kitchens where the attendants of the House cook the slaughterings of the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 1, "text": "And he turned me back to the door of the House. And look, water was flowing from under the threshold of the House toward the east, for the House faced east, and the water was flowing from under the right side of the House, from the south of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2713188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 2, "text": "And he led me out by way of the north gate, and took me round on the outside to the outer gate facing east. And look, water trickling out on the right side."}, {"pk": 2713189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 3, "text": "As the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he made me pass over into water, water to the ankles."}, {"pk": 2713190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 4, "text": "And he measured one thousand and made me pass over into water, water to the knees. And he measured one thousand and made me pass over, water to the loins."}, {"pk": 2713191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 5, "text": "And he measured one thousand, a stream that I was unable to pass over, for the water had risen, water to swim, a stream that is not passed over."}, {"pk": 2713192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cSon of man, have you seen this?\u201d And he led me and brought me back to the bank of the stream."}, {"pk": 2713193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 7, "text": "When I returned, then look, along the bank of the stream were very many trees on one side and the other."}, {"pk": 2713194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 8, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThese waters are flowing toward the eastern country, and go down into the Arab\u0331ah, and enter the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters shall be healed."}, {"pk": 2713195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that every swarming creature, wherever the stream goes, shall live. And there shall be very many fish, for these waters shall go there, and they are healed. And wherever the stream flows all shall live."}, {"pk": 2713196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that fishermen stand along it, from \u011an Ged\u0331i to \u011an E\u1e21layim, being places for spreading their nets. Their fish is to be of the same kind as the fish of the Great Sea, very many."}, {"pk": 2713197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIts swamps and marshes shall not be healed, they shall be given over to salt."}, {"pk": 2713198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd by the bank of the stream, on both sides, grow all kinds of trees used for food, whose leaves do not wither and fruit do not fail. They bear fruit every new <i>moon</i>, because their water flows from the set-apart place. And their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for healing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThis is the border by which you inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, two portions for Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2713200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall inherit it, each one the same as his brother. For I lifted My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance."}, {"pk": 2713201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, the way of H\u0323ethlon, as one goes to Tsed\u0331ad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2713202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 16, "text": "\"H\u0323amath, B\u0115rothah, Sib\u0331rayim, which is between the border of Dammeseq and the border of H\u0323amath, H\u0323atsar Hattik\u0331on, which is on the border of H\u0323awran."}, {"pk": 2713203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the border shall be from the Sea to H\u0323atsar \u011anan, the border of Dammeseq, and on the north toward the north is the border of H\u0323amath. This is the north side."}, {"pk": 2713204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the east side is from between H\u0323awran, and Dammeseq, and Gil\u201bad\u0331, and the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l; the Yard\u0115n, from the border to the eastern side of the sea you are to measure. This is the east side."}, {"pk": 2713205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd the south side toward the South is from Tamar to the waters of Merib\u0331ah by Qad\u0331\u0115sh, along the Wadi to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the South."}, {"pk": 2713206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the west side is the Great Sea, from the border to the point opposite H\u0323amath. This is the west side."}, {"pk": 2713207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that you divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn in your midst and who bear children among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 with you they have an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/6-8'>56:6-8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/11/17-26'>11:17-26</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/19'>2:19</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/3/6'>3:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/12'>21:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2713209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 47, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger sojourns, there you give him his inheritance,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the names of the tribes: From the north end along the way to H\u0323ethlon at the entrance of H\u0323amath, to H\u0323atsar \u011anan, the border of Dammeseq northward by the side of H\u0323amath, from its east to its west side, Dan: one."}, {"pk": 2713211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, Ash\u0115r: one."}, {"pk": 2713212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Ash\u0115r, from the east side to the west, Naphtali: one."}, {"pk": 2713213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Menashsheh: one."}, {"pk": 2713214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Menashsheh, from the east side to the west, Ephrayim: one."}, {"pk": 2713215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Ephrayim, from the east side to the west, Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n: one."}, {"pk": 2713216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, from the east side to the west, Yehud\u0331ah: one."}, {"pk": 2713217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Yehud\u0331ah, from the east side to the west, is the contribution which you offer up, twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> in width, and in length the same as one of the portions, from the east side to the west, with the set-apart place in its midst."}, {"pk": 2713218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe contribution that you offer up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> in length and ten thousand in width."}, {"pk": 2713219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd of these is the set-apart contribution for the priests: on the north twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i>, and on the west ten thousand in width, and on the east ten thousand in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand in length. And the set-apart place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be in its midst \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 11, "text": "for the priests of the sons of Tsad\u0331oq, who are set-apart, who did guard My Charge, who did not go astray when the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l went astray, as the L\u0115wites went astray."}, {"pk": 2713221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSo this contribution shall be to them, from the contribution of the land, a most set-apart place by the border of the L\u0115wites."}, {"pk": 2713222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd alongside the border of the priests, the L\u0115wites have twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> in length and ten thousand in width, its entire length is twenty-five thousand and its width ten thousand."}, {"pk": 2713223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd they do not sell any of it, nor exchange it, nor transfer this best part of the land, for it is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the five thousand <i>cubits</i> in width that is left, facing the twenty-five thousand, is for common use by the city, for dwellings and open land. And the city shall be in its midst."}, {"pk": 2713225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd these are its measurements: the north side four thousand five hundred <i>cubits</i>, and the south side four thousand five hundred, and the east side four thousand five hundred, and the west side four thousand five hundred."}, {"pk": 2713226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd the open land of the city shall be: to the north two hundred and fifty <i>cubits</i>, and to the south two hundred and fifty, and to the east two hundred and fifty, and to the west two hundred and fifty."}, {"pk": 2713227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest of the length, alongside the contribution of the set-apart portion, is ten thousand <i>cubits</i> to the east and ten thousand to the west. And it shall be alongside the contribution of the set-apart portion, and its increase shall be food for the workers of the city."}, {"pk": 2713228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, shall till it."}, {"pk": 2713229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe entire contribution is twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> by twenty-five thousand cubits, foursquare. You are to offer up the set-apart contribution with the possession of the city."}, {"pk": 2713230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest is for the prince, on one side and on the other of the set-apart contribution and of the possession of the city, facing the twenty-five thousand <i>cubits</i> of the set-apart contribution as far as the eastern border, and westward facing the twenty-five thousand as far as the western border, alongside the portions of the prince. And the set-apart contribution, and the set-apart place of the House shall be in its midst."}, {"pk": 2713231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cSo the possession of the L\u0115wites and the possession of the city are in the midst of what belongs to the prince \u2014 between the border of Yehud\u0331ah and the border of Binyamin, it belongs to the prince."}, {"pk": 2713232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAs for the rest of the tribes, from the east side to the west side, Binyamin: one."}, {"pk": 2713233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Binyamin, from the east side to the west side, Shim\u201bon: one."}, {"pk": 2713234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Shim\u201bon, from the east side to the west side, Yissask\u0331ar: one."}, {"pk": 2713235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Yissask\u0331ar, from the east side to the west side, Zeb\u0331ulun: one."}, {"pk": 2713236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Zeb\u0331ulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad\u0331: one."}, {"pk": 2713237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd by the border of Gad\u0331, on the south side toward the South, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Merib\u0331ah by Qad\u0331\u0115sh, along the Wadi to the Great Sea."}, {"pk": 2713238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThis is the land which you divide by lot as an inheritance among the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and these are their portions,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd these are the exits of the city, the gates of the city according to the names of the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: On the north side, measuring four thousand five hundred <i>cubits</i>,", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/47/22'>47:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/47/23'>23</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/12'>21:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2713240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 31, "text": "the three gates northward: one gate for Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n, one gate for Yehud\u0331ah, one gate for L\u0115wi."}, {"pk": 2713241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd on the east side, four thousand five hundred <i>cubits</i>, three gates: one gate for Yos\u0115ph, one gate for Binyamin, one gate for Dan."}, {"pk": 2713242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd on the south side, measuring four thousand five hundred <i>cubits</i>, three gates: one gate for Shim\u201bon, one gate for Yissask\u0331ar, one gate for Zeb\u0331ulun."}, {"pk": 2713243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd on the west side, four thousand five hundred <i>cubits</i> with their three gates: one gate for Gad\u0331, one gate for Ash\u0115r, one gate for Naphtali."}, {"pk": 2713244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 26, "chapter": 48, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAll around: eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day is: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is there!\u201d", "comment": "In Hebrew: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Shammah. See also Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/43/7'>43:7</a> and Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/43/9'>43:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2713245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "In the third year of the reign of Yehoyaqim, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, sovereign of Bab\u0331el came to Yerushalayim and besieged it."}, {"pk": 2713246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 gave Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah into his hand, with some of the utensils of the House of Elohim, which he brought to the land of Shin\u201bar to the house of his mighty one. And he brought the utensils into the treasure house of his mighty one."}, {"pk": 2713247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign said to Ashpenaz, the chief of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and some of the sovereign\u2019s descendants and some of the nobles,"}, {"pk": 2713248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, having insight in all wisdom, having knowledge and understanding learning, capable to stand in the sovereign\u2019s palace, and to teach them the writing and speech of the Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2713249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the sovereign appointed for them a daily ration of the sovereign\u2019s food and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end thereof they should stand before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Now among them were from the sons of Yehud\u0331ah: Dani\u2019\u0115l, H\u0323ananyah, Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Azaryah."}, {"pk": 2713251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names. For he called Dani\u2019\u0115l, B\u0115lteshatstsar; and H\u0323ananyah, Shad\u0331rak\u0331; and Misha\u2019\u0115l, M\u0115yshak\u0331; and Azaryah, Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o."}, {"pk": 2713252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "But Dani\u2019\u0115l laid it upon his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the sovereign\u2019s food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked <i>permission</i> from the chief of the eunuchs not to defile himself."}, {"pk": 2713253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim granted Dani\u2019\u0115l loving-commitment and compassion from the chief of the eunuchs,"}, {"pk": 2713254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "but the chief of the eunuchs said to Dani\u2019\u0115l, \u201cI fear my master the sovereign, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would make my head guilty before the sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Dani\u2019\u0115l said to the overseer whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Dani\u2019\u0115l, H\u0323ananyah, Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Azaryah,"}, {"pk": 2713256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cPlease try your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink."}, {"pk": 2713257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThen let our appearances be examined before you, and the appearances of the young men who eat the portion of the sovereign\u2019s food. And do with your servants as you see fit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And he listened to them in this matter, and tried them ten days."}, {"pk": 2713259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And at the end of ten days their appearances looked better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the sovereign\u2019s food."}, {"pk": 2713260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be that the overseer took away their portion of food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables."}, {"pk": 2713261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "As for these four young men, Elohim gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. And Dani\u2019\u0115l had understanding in all visions and dreams."}, {"pk": 2713262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And at the end of the days, when the sovereign had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar."}, {"pk": 2713263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And the sovereign spoke with them, and none among them all were found like Dani\u2019\u0115l, H\u0323ananyah, Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Azaryah, so they stood before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And in any word of wisdom and understanding about which the sovereign examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians, the astrologers, who were in all his reign."}, {"pk": 2713265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And Dani\u2019\u0115l continued until the first year of Sovereign Koresh."}, {"pk": 2713266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the second year of the reign of Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had dreams. And his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him."}, {"pk": 2713267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And the sovereign gave orders to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the practisers of witchcraft, and the Kasdim to declare to the sovereign his dreams. So they came and stood before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And the sovereign said to them, \u201cI have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And the Kasdim spoke to the sovereign in Aramaic, \u201cO sovereign, live forever! Relate the dream to your servants, and we shall reveal the interpretation.\u201d", "comment": "The Aramaic text starts here, chapter <a href='/TS2009/27/2/1'>2</a> verse <a href='/TS2009/27/2/4'>4</a> and ends at chapter <a href='/TS2009/27/7/1'>7</a> verse <a href='/TS2009/27/2/28'>28</a>."}, {"pk": 2713270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "The sovereign answered and said to the Kasdim, \u201cMy decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream and its interpretation to me, your limbs shall be taken from you, and your houses made dunghills."}, {"pk": 2713271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut if you reveal the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive gifts, and rewards, and great esteem from me. So reveal to me the dream and its interpretation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "They answered again and said, \u201cLet the sovereign relate to his servants the dream, and we shall reveal its interpretation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "The sovereign answered and said, \u201cI know for certain that you would gain time, because you see that my decision is firm:"}, {"pk": 2713274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf you do not make known the dream to me, there is only one decree for you! For you have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the time has changed. So relate the dream to me, then I shall know that you shall reveal its interpretation for me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "The Kasdim answered the sovereign, and said, \u201cThere is no one on earth who is able to reveal the matter of the sovereign. Because no sovereign, master, or ruler has ever asked a matter like this of any magician, or astrologer, or Kasdim."}, {"pk": 2713276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the matter that the sovereign is asking is difficult, and there is no other who is able to reveal it to the sovereign except the elahin, whose dwelling is not with flesh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "Because of this the sovereign was enraged and very wroth, and gave orders to destroy all the wise ones of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise ones. And they sought Dani\u2019\u0115l and his companions, to kill them."}, {"pk": 2713279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Then with counsel and wisdom Dani\u2019\u0115l answered Aryok\u0331, the chief of the sovereign\u2019s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise ones of Bab\u0331el \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "he answered and said to Aryok\u0331 the sovereign\u2019s officer, \u201cWhy is the decree from the sovereign so urgent?\u201d So Aryok\u0331 made the decision known to Dani\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And Dani\u2019\u0115l went in and asked the sovereign to give him time, and he would show the sovereign the interpretation."}, {"pk": 2713282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Dani\u2019\u0115l went to his house, and made the decision known to H\u0323ananyah, Misha\u2019\u0115l, and Azaryah, his companions,"}, {"pk": 2713283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "to seek compassion from the Elah of the heavens concerning this secret, so that Dani\u2019\u0115l and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise ones of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the secret was revealed to Dani\u2019\u0115l in a night vision, and Dani\u2019\u0115l blessed the Elah of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2713285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "Dani\u2019\u0115l responded and said, \u201cBlessed be the Name of Elah forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His."}, {"pk": 2713286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd He changes the times and the seasons. He removes sovereigns and raises up sovereigns. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who possess understanding."}, {"pk": 2713287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cHe reveals deep and secret matters. He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him."}, {"pk": 2713288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cI thank You and praise You, O Elah of my fathers. You have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of You, for You have made known to us the sovereign\u2019s matter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "So Dani\u2019\u0115l went to Aryok\u0331, whom the sovereign had appointed to destroy the wise ones of Bab\u0331el. He went and said this to him, \u201cDo not destroy the wise ones of Bab\u0331el. Bring me in before the sovereign, and I shall show the interpretation to the sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "Then Aryok\u0331 brought Dani\u2019\u0115l in a hurry before the sovereign, and said thus to him, \u201cI have found a man among the sons of the exile of Yehud\u0331ah, who does make known to the sovereign the interpretation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "The sovereign answered and said to Dani\u2019\u0115l, whose name was B\u0115lteshatstsar, \u201cAre you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "Dani\u2019\u0115l answered before the sovereign, and said, \u201cThe secret which the sovereign is asking \u2014 the wise ones, the astrologers, the magicians, and the diviners are unable to show it to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut there is an Elah in the heavens who reveals secrets, and He has made known to Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar what is to be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these:"}, {"pk": 2713294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAs for you, O sovereign, on your bed your thoughts came up: What is going to take place after this. And He who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall be <i>after this</i>."}, {"pk": 2713295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAs for me, this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living, but for our sakes who make known the interpretation to the sovereign, and that you should know the thoughts of your heart."}, {"pk": 2713296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cYou, O sovereign, were looking on, and saw a great image! This great image, and its brightness excellent, was standing before you, and its form was awesome."}, {"pk": 2713297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThis image\u2019s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,"}, {"pk": 2713298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay."}, {"pk": 2713299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cYou were looking on, until a stone was cut out without hands, and it smote the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces."}, {"pk": 2713300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThen the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing-floors. And the wind took them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth."}, {"pk": 2713301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cThis is the dream, and its interpretation we declare before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cYou, O sovereign, are a sovereign of sovereigns. For the Elah of the heavens has given you a reign, power, and strength, and preciousness,"}, {"pk": 2713303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold."}, {"pk": 2713304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd after you rises up another reign lower than yours, and another third reign of bronze that rules over all the earth."}, {"pk": 2713305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd the fourth reign is as strong as iron, because iron crushes and shatters all. So, like iron that breaks in pieces, it crushes and breaks all these."}, {"pk": 2713306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cYet, as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter\u2019s clay and partly of iron, the reign is to be divided. But some of the strength of the iron is to be in it, because you saw the iron mixed with muddy clay."}, {"pk": 2713307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the reign is partly strong and partly brittle."}, {"pk": 2713308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd as you saw iron mixed with muddy clay, they are mixing themselves with the seed of men, but they are not clinging to each other, even as iron does not mix with clay."}, {"pk": 2713309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd in the days of these sovereigns the Elah of the heavens shall set up a reign which shall never be destroyed, nor the reign pass on to other people \u2014 it crushes and puts to an end all these reigns, and it shall stand forever.", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/1'>7</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/28'>22:28</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/16'>3:16</a>; Obad. <a href='/TS2009/31/1/15-17'>1:15-17</a>; Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/3/12'>3:12</a>, <a href='/TS2009/35/3/13'>13</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/8'>3:8</a>; Hagg. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/22'>2:22</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2713310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cBecause you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great Elah has made known to the sovereign what shall be after this. And the dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "Then Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar fell on his face, and did obeisance before Dani\u2019\u0115l, and gave orders to present to him an offering and incense."}, {"pk": 2713312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "text": "The sovereign answered Dani\u2019\u0115l, and said, \u201cTruly your Elah is the Elah of elahin, the Master of sovereigns, and a revealer of secrets, since you were able to reveal this secret.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "text": "Then the sovereign made Dani\u2019\u0115l great and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over all the province of Bab\u0331el, and chief of the nobles, over all the wise ones of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "text": "And Dani\u2019\u0115l asked of the sovereign, and he set Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o over the work of the province of Bab\u0331el, and Dani\u2019\u0115l in the gate of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar sent word to gather together the viceroys, the nobles, and the governors, the counsellors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had set up."}, {"pk": 2713317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Then the viceroys, the nobles, and the governors, the counsellors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered together for the dedication of the image that Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had set up. And they stood before the image that Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had set up."}, {"pk": 2713318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Then a herald loudly proclaimed, \u201cTo you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,"}, {"pk": 2713319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "that as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the lyre, the harp, the pipes, and all kinds of instruments, you shall fall down and do obeisance to the gold image that Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar has set up."}, {"pk": 2713320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever does not fall down and do obeisance is immediately thrown into the midst of a burning furnace of fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "So as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the lyre, the harp, all kinds of instruments, all the people, nations, and languages fell down and did obeisance to the gold image that Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had set up."}, {"pk": 2713322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Thereupon, at that time, certain Kasdim came forward and accused the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2713323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "They spoke and said to Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, \u201cO sovereign, live forever!"}, {"pk": 2713324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou, O sovereign, have made a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the lyre, the harp, the pipes, and all kinds of instruments, shall fall down and do obeisance to the gold image,"}, {"pk": 2713325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "and whoever does not fall down and do obeisance is thrown into the midst of a burning furnace of fire."}, {"pk": 2713326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThere are certain Yehud\u0331im whom you have set over the work of the province of Bab\u0331el: Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o. These men, O sovereign, pay no heed to you. They do not serve your elahin, and they are not doing obeisance to the gold image which you have set up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Then Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, in rage and wrath, gave orders to bring Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o. Then they brought these men before the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar spoke and said to them, \u201cIs it true, Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, that you do not serve my elahin, and you do not do obeisance to the gold image which I have set up?"}, {"pk": 2713329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNow if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the lyre, the harp, the pipes, and all kinds of instruments, and you fall down and do obeisance to the image which I have made, good! But if you do not do obeisance, you are immediately thrown into the midst of a burning furnace of fire. And who is the elah who does deliver you from my hands?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o answered and said to the sovereign, \u201cO Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, we have no need to answer you in this matter."}, {"pk": 2713331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor if so, our Elah whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning furnace of fire and from your hand, O sovereign \u2014 He does deliver!"}, {"pk": 2713332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut if not, let it be known to you, O sovereign, that we do not serve your elahin, nor do we do obeisance to the gold image which you have set up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar was filled with wrath, and the expression on his face changed toward Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o. He responded and gave orders that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usual to heat it."}, {"pk": 2713334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And he commanded some of the strongest men of his army to bind Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, and throw them into the burning furnace of fire."}, {"pk": 2713335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "So these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, and their turbans, and their other garments, and were thrown into the midst of the burning furnace of fire."}, {"pk": 2713336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "Thereupon, because the sovereign\u2019s order was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o."}, {"pk": 2713337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And these three men, Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, fell down bound into the midst of the burning furnace of fire."}, {"pk": 2713338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "Then Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar was amazed, and stood up in haste and spoke and said to his counsellors, \u201cDid we not throw three men bound into the midst of the fire?\u201d They answered and said to the sovereign, \u201cCertainly, O sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "He answered and said, \u201cLook! I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire. And they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of Elahin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "Then Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar went near the mouth of the burning furnace of fire. He spoke and said, \u201cShad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, servants of the Most High Elah, come out, and come here.\u201d Then Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o came from the midst of the fire."}, {"pk": 2713341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "And the viceroys, the nobles, and the governors, and the sovereign\u2019s counsellors gathered together, seeing these men on whose bodies the fire had no power, and the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments changed, nor did the smell of fire come on them."}, {"pk": 2713342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar responded and said, \u201cBlessed be the Elah of Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, who sent His Messenger and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and changed the sovereign\u2019s order, and gave up their bodies, that they should not serve nor do obeisance to any elah except their own Elah!"}, {"pk": 2713343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cTherefore I make a decree that whoever of any people, nation, or language who speaks any wrong against the Elah of Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o, his limbs shall be taken, and his house made a dunghill, because there is no other Elah who is able to deliver like this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "Then the sovereign promoted Shad\u0331rak\u0331, M\u0115yshak\u0331, and Ab\u0331\u0115d\u0331-Ne\u1e21o in the province of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar the sovereign, to all peoples, nations and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be increased to you."}, {"pk": 2713346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High Elah has worked for me."}, {"pk": 2713347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "How great are His signs, and how mighty His wonders! His reign is an everlasting reign, and His rulership is from generation to generation."}, {"pk": 2713348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "I, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, was at rest in my house, and prospering in my palace."}, {"pk": 2713349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "I saw a dream and it frightened me, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head alarmed me."}, {"pk": 2713350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "So I issued a decree to bring in all the wise ones of Bab\u0331el before me, to make known to me the interpretation of the dream."}, {"pk": 2713351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "So the magicians, the astrologers, the Kasdim, and the diviners came in, and I related the dream to them, but its interpretation they did not make known to me."}, {"pk": 2713352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And at last Dani\u2019\u0115l, whose name is B\u0115lteshatstsar, according to the name of my elah, came before me. In him is the Spirit of the Set-apart Elahin. So I related the dream to him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2713353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cB\u0115lteshatstsar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Set-apart Elahin is in you, and no secret is too difficult for you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation."}, {"pk": 2713354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNow the visions of my head on my bed were these: I looked, and saw a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height great."}, {"pk": 2713355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThe tree became great and strong, and its height reached to the heavens, and it was visible to the ends of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2713356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIts leaves were lovely, and its fruit plenty, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it."}, {"pk": 2713357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIn the visions of my head on my bed, I looked and saw a Watcher, even a set-apart one, coming down from the heavens."}, {"pk": 2713358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cHe cried aloud and said this, \u2018Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches."}, {"pk": 2713359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let his portion be with the beasts on the grass of the earth."}, {"pk": 2713360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Let his heart be changed from man\u2019s, let him be given the heart of a beast, and seven times pass over him."}, {"pk": 2713361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the set-apart ones, so that the living know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThis dream have I seen, I, Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar. And you, B\u0115lteshatstsar, reveal its interpretation, since all the wise ones of my reign are unable to make known to me the interpretation. But you are able, for the Spirit of the Set-apart Elahin is in you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "Then Dani\u2019\u0115l, whose name was B\u0115lteshatstsar, was stunned for a short time, and his thoughts alarmed him. The sovereign responded and said, \u201cB\u0115lteshatstsar, do not let the dream or its interpretation alarm you.\u201d B\u0115lteshatstsar answered and said, \u201cMy master, the dream is to those who hate you, and its interpretation to your enemies!"}, {"pk": 2713364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe tree you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens and was visible to all the earth,"}, {"pk": 2713365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "whose leaves were lovely and its fruit plenty, and in it was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and on whose branches the birds of the heavens sat \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "it is you, O sovereign, for you have become great and strong. And your greatness has grown, and has reached to the heavens and your rulership to the end of the earth."}, {"pk": 2713367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd as the sovereign saw a Watcher, even a set-apart one, coming down from the heavens, and he said, \u2018Hew down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of the heavens, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him\u2019 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "this is the interpretation, O sovereign, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my master the sovereign:"}, {"pk": 2713369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThat you are going to be driven away from men, and your dwelling be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like oxen, and you be wetted with the dew of the heavens, and seven times pass over you, till you know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and that He gives it to whomever He wishes."}, {"pk": 2713370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd they that gave the command to leave the stump of its roots of the tree: your reign remains yours, from the time you come to know that the heavens are ruling."}, {"pk": 2713371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cTherefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor \u2014 your prosperity might be extended.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "All this came upon Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar."}, {"pk": 2713373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the palace of the reign of Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2713374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "The sovereign spoke and said, \u201cIs not this great Bab\u0331el, which I myself have built, for the house of the reign, by the might of my power and for the esteem of my splendour?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "The word was still in the sovereign\u2019s mouth, when a voice fell from the heavens, \u201cSovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, to you it is spoken: the reign has been taken away from you,"}, {"pk": 2713376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "and you are driven away from men, and your dwelling is to be with the beasts of the field. You are given grass to eat like oxen, and seven seasons shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and He gives it to whomever He wishes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "In that hour the word was executed on Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, and he was driven from men and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens till his hair had grown like eagles\u2019 <i>feathers</i> and his nails like birds\u2019 <i>claws</i>."}, {"pk": 2713378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "And at the end of the days I, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, lifted my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High and praised and made Him great who lives forever, whose rule is an everlasting rule, and His reign is from generation to generation."}, {"pk": 2713379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "And all the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, and He does as He wishes with the host of the heavens and among the inhabitants of the earth. And there is none to strike against His hand or say to Him, \u201cWhat have You done?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "At the same time my understanding returned to me, and for the preciousness of my reign, my esteem and splendour were returning to me. And my counsellors and nobles sought me out, and I was re-established to my reign, and excellent greatness was added to me."}, {"pk": 2713381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "Now I, Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar, am praising and exalting and esteeming the Sovereign of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His ways right. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble."}, {"pk": 2713382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "B\u0115lshatstsar the sovereign made a great feast for a thousand of his great men, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand."}, {"pk": 2713383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "While tasting the wine, B\u0115lshatstsar gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar had taken from the H\u0115k\u0331al which had been in Yerushalayim, that the sovereign and his great men, his wives, and his concubines could drink from them."}, {"pk": 2713384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the H\u0115k\u0331al of the House of Elah which had been in Yerushalayim. And the sovereign and his great men, his wives, and his concubines drank out of them."}, {"pk": 2713385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "They drank wine, and praised the elahin of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone."}, {"pk": 2713386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "At that moment the fingers of a man\u2019s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the sovereign\u2019s palace. And the sovereign saw the part of the hand that wrote."}, {"pk": 2713387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Then the sovereign\u2019s colour changed, and his thoughts alarmed him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other."}, {"pk": 2713388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "The sovereign called loudly to bring in the astrologers, the Kasdim, and the diviners. The sovereign spoke and said to the wise ones of Bab\u0331el, \u201cWhoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, is robed in purple and has a chain of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "So all the sovereign\u2019s wise ones came, but they were unable to read the writing, or to make known its interpretation to the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Then Sovereign B\u0115lshatstsar was greatly alarmed, and his colour changed, and his great men were puzzled."}, {"pk": 2713391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "The sovereigness, because of the words of the sovereign and his great men, came to the banquet hall. And the sovereigness spoke and said, \u201cO sovereign, live forever! Do not let your thoughts alarm you, nor let your colour change."}, {"pk": 2713392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThere is a man in your reign in whom is the Spirit of the Set-apart Elahin. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the elahin, were found in him. And Sovereign Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar your father, your father the sovereign, made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Kasdim, and diviners,"}, {"pk": 2713393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "because an excellent spirit, knowledge and understanding, interpreting dreams, and explaining riddles, and solving difficult problems were found in this Dani\u2019\u0115l, whom the sovereign named B\u0115lteshatstsar. Now let Dani\u2019\u0115l be called, and let him show the interpretation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "So Dani\u2019\u0115l was brought in before the sovereign. The sovereign spoke and said to Dani\u2019\u0115l, \u201cAre you that Dani\u2019\u0115l who is one of the sons of the exile from Yehud\u0331ah, whom my father the sovereign brought from Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2713395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI have heard of you, that the Spirit of Elahin is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you."}, {"pk": 2713396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd the wise ones, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they were unable to show the interpretation of the word."}, {"pk": 2713397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I myself have heard of you, that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. Now if you are able to read the writing and make known its interpretation to me, you are to be robed in purple and have a chain of gold around your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Then Dani\u2019\u0115l answered and said before the sovereign, \u201cLet your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Yet I shall read the writing to the sovereign, and make known the interpretation to him."}, {"pk": 2713399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cO sovereign, the Most High Elah gave Neb\u0331uk\u0331ad\u0331netstsar your father a reign and greatness, and preciousness and esteem."}, {"pk": 2713400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd because of the greatness which He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished he killed, and whomever he wished he kept alive, and whomever he wished he raised up, and whomever he wished he made low."}, {"pk": 2713401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was so strong as to act proudly, he was put down from his throne of reign, and they took his preciousness from him."}, {"pk": 2713402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThen he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, till he knew that the Most High Elah is ruler in the reign of men, and He sets up over it whomever He wishes."}, {"pk": 2713403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you his son, B\u0115lshatstsar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this."}, {"pk": 2713404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you have lifted yourself up against the Master of the heavens. And they brought before you the vessels of His house, and you and your great men, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them. And you have praised the elahin of silver, and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which neither see nor hear nor know. But the Elah who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not made great."}, {"pk": 2713405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThen the part of the hand was sent from Him, and this writing was inscribed."}, {"pk": 2713406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the writing that was inscribed: MEN\u011a, MEN\u011a, TEQ\u011aL, UPHARSIN."}, {"pk": 2713407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThis is the interpretation of each word: MEN\u011a \u2014 Elah has numbered your reign, and put an end to it."}, {"pk": 2713408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cTEQ\u011aL \u2014 You have been weighed on the scales, and found lacking."}, {"pk": 2713409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cPERES \u2014 Your reign has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "Then B\u0115lshatstsar gave orders, and they robed Dani\u2019\u0115l in purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and they proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the reign."}, {"pk": 2713411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "In that night B\u0115lshatstsar, sovereign of the Kasdim, was killed."}, {"pk": 2713412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "And Dareyawesh the Mede took over the reign, being about sixty-two years old."}, {"pk": 2713413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "It pleased Dareyawesh to appoint over the reign one hundred and twenty viceroys, to be over all the reign,"}, {"pk": 2713414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "and over them three governors, of whom Dani\u2019\u0115l was one, so that these viceroys should give account to them, and the sovereign suffer no loss."}, {"pk": 2713415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Then this Dani\u2019\u0115l distinguished himself above the governors and viceroys, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the sovereign planned to appoint him over all the reign."}, {"pk": 2713416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "Then the governors and viceroys sought to find occasion against Dani\u2019\u0115l concerning the reign. But they were unable to find occasion or corruption, because he was steadfast, and no negligence or corruption was found in him."}, {"pk": 2713417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Then these men said, \u201cWe shall not find any occasion against this Dani\u2019\u0115l unless we find it against him concerning the law of his Elah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "Then these governors and viceroys tumultuously gathered before the sovereign, and said this to him, \u201cSovereign Dareyawesh, live forever!"}, {"pk": 2713419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll the governors of the reign, the nobles and viceroys, the counsellors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal decree and to make a strong interdict, that whoever petitions any elah or man for thirty days, except you, O sovereign, is thrown into the den of lions."}, {"pk": 2713420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cNow, O sovereign, establish the interdict and sign the writing, so that it is not to be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not pass away.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "So Sovereign Dareyawesh signed the written interdict."}, {"pk": 2713422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And Dani\u2019\u0115l, when he knew that the writing was signed, went home and in his upper room with his windows open toward Yerushalayim he knelt down on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his Elah, as he had done before."}, {"pk": 2713423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Then these men tumultuously gathered and found Dani\u2019\u0115l praying and entreating before his Elah."}, {"pk": 2713424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Then they approached the sovereign, and spoke concerning the sovereign\u2019s interdict, \u201cHave you not signed a interdict that every man who petitions any elah or man within thirty days, except you, O sovereign, is thrown into the den of lions?\u201d The sovereign answered and said, \u201cThe word is certain, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not pass away.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Then they answered and said before the sovereign, \u201cDani\u2019\u0115l, who is one of the sons of the exile from Yehud\u0331ah, pays no heed to you, O sovereign, nor for the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Then the sovereign, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Dani\u2019\u0115l to deliver him. And he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him."}, {"pk": 2713427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Then these men tumultuously gathered before the sovereign, and said to the sovereign, \u201cKnow, O sovereign, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that any interdict or decree which the sovereign establishes is not to be changed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Then the sovereign gave orders, and they brought Dani\u2019\u0115l and threw him into the den of lions. But the sovereign spoke and said to Dani\u2019\u0115l, \u201cYour Elah, whom you serve continually, He Himself delivers you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the sovereign sealed it with his own signet and with the signets of his great men, that the situation concerning Dani\u2019\u0115l might not be changed."}, {"pk": 2713430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sovereign went to his palace and spent the night fasting. And no entertainment was brought before him, and his sleep fled from him."}, {"pk": 2713431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the sovereign rose up very early in the morning and hurried to the den of lions."}, {"pk": 2713432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And when he came to the den, he called with a grieved voice to Dani\u2019\u0115l. The sovereign spoke and said to Dani\u2019\u0115l, \u201cDani\u2019\u0115l, servant of the living Elah, has your Elah, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Then Dani\u2019\u0115l said to the sovereign, \u201cO sovereign, live forever!"}, {"pk": 2713434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cMy Elah has sent His messenger and has shut the lions\u2019 mouths, and they did not harm me, because I was found innocent before Him. And also before you, O sovereign, I have done no harm.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "Then the sovereign was very glad and gave orders that Dani\u2019\u0115l be taken up out of the den. And Dani\u2019\u0115l was taken up out of the den, and no harm was found on him, because he trusted in his Elah."}, {"pk": 2713436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And the sovereign gave orders and they brought those men who had accused Dani\u2019\u0115l, and they threw them, their children, and their wives into the den of lions. And the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they reached the floor of the den."}, {"pk": 2713437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "Then Sovereign Dareyawesh wrote to all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: \u201cPeace be increased to you."}, {"pk": 2713438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cFrom before me is made a decree that throughout every rule of my reign men are to tremble and fear before the Elah of Dani\u2019\u0115l, for He is the living Elah, and steadfast forever. And His reign is one which is not destroyed, and His rule is unto the end."}, {"pk": 2713439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cHe delivers and rescues, and He works signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for He has delivered Dani\u2019\u0115l from the power of the lions.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "And this Dani\u2019\u0115l prospered in the reign of Dareyawesh and in the reign of Koresh the Persian."}, {"pk": 2713441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "In the first year of B\u0115lshatstsar sovereign of Bab\u0331el, Dani\u2019\u0115l had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, giving a summary of the matters."}, {"pk": 2713442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Dani\u2019\u0115l spoke and said, \u201cI was looking in my vision by night and saw the four winds of the heavens stirring up the Great Sea."}, {"pk": 2713443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd four great beasts came up from the sea, different from one another."}, {"pk": 2713444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThe first was like a lion, and had eagle\u2019s wings. I was looking until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and it was given a man\u2019s heart."}, {"pk": 2713445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd see, another beast, a second, like a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said this to it, \u2018Arise, devour much flesh!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAfter this I looked and saw another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and rule was given to it."}, {"pk": 2713447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAfter this I looked in the night visions and saw a fourth beast, fearsome and burly, exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth. It devoured and crushed, and trampled down the rest with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns."}, {"pk": 2713448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI was thinking about the horns, then saw another horn, a little one, coming up among them, and three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots before it. And see, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great <i>words</i>."}, {"pk": 2713449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI was looking until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like clean wool, His throne was flames of fire, its wheels burning fire."}, {"pk": 2713450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cA stream of fire was flowing and coming forth from His presence, and a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him, the Judge was seated, and the books were opened."}, {"pk": 2713451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI was looking. Then, because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking, I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning fire,"}, {"pk": 2713452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "and the rest of the beasts had their rule taken away. But a lengthening of life was given to them, for a season and a time."}, {"pk": 2713453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI was looking in the night visions and saw One like the Son of Enosh, coming with the clouds of the heavens! And He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.", "comment": "<em>Son of Enosh</em> - This Aramaic term is similar to the Hebrew \u2018Ben Ad\u0331am,\u2019 (Son of Ad\u0331am) but not the exact equivalent of it."}, {"pk": 2713454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd to Him was given rulership and preciousness and a reign, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His rule is an everlasting rule which shall not pass away, and His reign that which shall not be destroyed."}, {"pk": 2713455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAs for me, Dani\u2019\u0115l, my spirit was pierced within my body, and the visions of my head alarmed me."}, {"pk": 2713456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cI drew near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the certainty of all this. And he spoke to me and made known to me the interpretation of the matters:"}, {"pk": 2713457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "These great beasts, which are four, are four sovereigns which rise up from the earth."}, {"pk": 2713458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "Then the set-apart ones of the Most High shall receive the reign, and possess the reign forever, even forever and ever.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThen I desired for certainty concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, very fearsome, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the rest with its feet,"}, {"pk": 2713460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and of the other <i>horn</i> that came up, before which three fell \u2014 this horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke great <i>words</i>, whose appearance was greater than his fellows."}, {"pk": 2713461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI was looking, and this horn was fighting against the set-apart ones, and was prevailing against them,"}, {"pk": 2713462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "until the Ancient of Days came, and right-ruling was given to the set-apart ones of the Most High, and the time came and the set-apart ones took possession of the reign."}, {"pk": 2713463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThis is what he said, \u2018The fourth beast is the fourth reign on earth, which is different from all other reigns, and it devours all the earth, tramples it down and crushes it."}, {"pk": 2713464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns,"}, {"pk": 2713465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.", "comment": "This is another word for <em>festivals</em>."}, {"pk": 2713466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "But the Judgment shall sit, and they shall take away its rule, to cut off and to destroy, until the end."}, {"pk": 2713467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "And the reign, and the rulership, and the greatness of the reigns under all the heavens, shall be given to the people, the set-apart ones of the Most High. His reign is an everlasting reign, and all rulerships shall serve and obey Him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThis is the end of the matter. As for me, Dani\u2019\u0115l, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my colour changed. And I kept the matter in my heart.\u201d", "comment": "The end of the Aramaic text."}, {"pk": 2713469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "In the third year of the reign of B\u0115lshatstsar the sovereign, a vision appeared to me, Dani\u2019\u0115l, after the one that appeared to me the first time."}, {"pk": 2713470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And I looked in the vision, and it came to be while I was looking, that I was in the citadel of Shushan, which is in the province of \u011aylam. And I looked in the vision, and I was by the River Ulai."}, {"pk": 2713471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And I lifted my eyes and looked and saw a ram standing beside the river, and it had two horns, and the two horns were high. And the one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last."}, {"pk": 2713472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, so that no beast could stand before him, and there was no one to deliver from his hand, while he did as he pleased and became great."}, {"pk": 2713473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And I was observing and saw a male goat came from the west, over the surface of all the earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes."}, {"pk": 2713474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him in the rage of his power."}, {"pk": 2713475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And I saw him come close to the ram, and he became embittered against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. And there was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he threw him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one to deliver the ram from his hand."}, {"pk": 2713476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And the male goat became very great. But when he was strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four conspicuous ones came up toward the four winds of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2713477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And from one of them came a little horn which became exceedingly great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the Splendid <i>Land</i>."}, {"pk": 2713478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And it became great, up to the host of the heavens. And it caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and trampled them down."}, {"pk": 2713479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "It even exalted itself as high as the Prince of the host. And it took that which is continual away from Him, and threw down the foundation of His set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2713480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And because of transgression, an army was given over <i>to the horn</i> to oppose that which is continual. And it threw the truth down to the ground, and it acted and prospered.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/14'>59:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2713481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "Then I heard a certain set-apart one speaking. And another set-apart one said to that certain one who was speaking, \u201cTill when is the vision, concerning that which is continual, and the transgression that lays waste, to make both the set-apart place and the host to be trampled under foot?\u201d", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/11/31'>11:31</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2713482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cFor two thousand three hundred nights, then that which is set-apart shall be made right.\u201d", "comment": "Lit. evening-morning."}, {"pk": 2713483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, had seen the vision, that I sought understanding, and see, before me stood one having the appearance of a mighty man."}, {"pk": 2713484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And I heard a man\u2019s voice between <i>the banks</i> of Ulai, who called, and said, \u201cGab\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l, make this man understand the vision.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "He then came near where I stood. And when he came I feared and I fell on my face, but he said to me, \u201cUnderstand, son of man, for the vision is for the time of the end.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And, as he was speaking with me, I fell stunned upon my face to the ground, but he touched me, and made me stand up straight,"}, {"pk": 2713487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "and said, \u201cLook, I am making known to you what shall take place in the latter time of the wrath, for at the appointed time shall be the end."}, {"pk": 2713488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe ram which you saw, having two horns, are the sovereigns of Media and Persia."}, {"pk": 2713489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd the male goat is the sovereign of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd that it was broken and four stood up in its place: are four rulerships arising out of that nation, but not in its power."}, {"pk": 2713491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd in the latter time of their rule, when the transgressors have filled up their measure, a sovereign, fierce of face and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up."}, {"pk": 2713492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy incredibly, and shall prosper and thrive, and destroy mighty men, and the set-apart people."}, {"pk": 2713493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd through his skill he shall make deceit prosper in his hand, and hold himself to be great in his heart, and destroy many who are at ease, and even stand against the Prince of princes \u2014 yet without hand he shall be broken."}, {"pk": 2713494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd what was said in the vision of the evening and morning is truth. And hide the vision, for it is after many days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, was stricken and became sick for days. Then I rose up and went about the sovereign\u2019s work. And I was amazed at the vision, but there was no understanding."}, {"pk": 2713496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "In the first year of Dareyawesh the son of Ah\u0323ashw\u0115rosh, of the seed of the Medes, who was set up as sovereign over the reign of the Kasdim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "in the first year of his reign I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, observed from the Scriptures the number of the years, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 given to Yirmeyah the prophet, for the completion of the wastes of Yerushalayim would be seventy years."}, {"pk": 2713498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "So I set my face toward \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes."}, {"pk": 2713499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And I prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, and made confession, and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, great and awesome \u011al, guarding the covenant and the loving-commitment to those who love Him, and to those who guard His commands."}, {"pk": 2713500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWe have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside from Your commands and from Your right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2713501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."}, {"pk": 2713502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day \u2014 to the men of Yehud\u0331ah, to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Yisra\u2019\u0115l, those near and those far off in all the lands to which You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You."}, {"pk": 2713503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cO Master, to us is the shame of face, to our sovereigns, to our heads, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You."}, {"pk": 2713504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTo \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him."}, {"pk": 2713505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd we have not obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to walk in His Torot, which He set before us through His servants the prophets."}, {"pk": 2713506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd all Yisra\u2019\u0115l have transgressed Your Torah, and turned aside, so as not to obey Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Mosheh the servant of Elohim have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him."}, {"pk": 2713507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2713508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAs it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth."}, {"pk": 2713509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cHence \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has watched over the evil and has brought it upon us. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim is righteous in all the works which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice."}, {"pk": 2713510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, who brought Your people out of the land of Mitsrayim with a strong hand, and made Yourself a Name, as it is this day \u2014 we have sinned, we have done wrong!"}, {"pk": 2713511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us."}, {"pk": 2713512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste."}, {"pk": 2713513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cO my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our wastes, and the city which is called by Your Name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great compassions."}, {"pk": 2713514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, hear! O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, forgive! O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my Elohim, for Your city and Your people are called by Your Name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and presenting my supplication before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim for the set-apart mountain of my Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2713516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gab\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came close to me, in swift flight about the time of the evening offering."}, {"pk": 2713517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And he made me understand, and talked with me, and said, \u201cO Dani\u2019\u0115l, I have now come forth to make you wise concerning understanding."}, {"pk": 2713518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAt the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to make it known, for you are greatly appreciated. So consider the word and understand the vision:"}, {"pk": 2713519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cSeventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart."}, {"pk": 2713520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cKnow, then, and understand: from the going forth of the command to restore and build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction."}, {"pk": 2713521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and have naught. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end."}, {"pk": 2713522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall put an end to slaughtering and meal offering. And on the wing of abominations he shall lay waste, even until the complete end and that which is decreed is poured out on the one who lays waste.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2713523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "In the third year of Koresh sovereign of Persia a word was revealed to Dani\u2019\u0115l, whose name was called B\u0115lteshatstsar. And the word was true, and the conflict great. And he understood the word, and had understanding of the vision."}, {"pk": 2713524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "In those days I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, was mourning three weeks of days."}, {"pk": 2713525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "I did not eat desirable food, and meat and wine did not come into my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days."}, {"pk": 2713526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And on the twenty-fourth day of the first new <i>moon</i>, while I was by the side of the great river, that is H\u0323iddeqel,"}, {"pk": 2713527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "then I lifted my eyes and looked and saw a certain man dressed in linen, whose loins were girded with gold of Uphaz!"}, {"pk": 2713528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And his body was like beryl, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and feet like polished bronze in appearance, and the sound of his words like the sound of a crowd."}, {"pk": 2713529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they ran away to hide themselves."}, {"pk": 2713530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "So I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me, for my comeliness was destroyed in me, and I retained no strength."}, {"pk": 2713531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "But I heard the sound of his words. And while I heard the sound of his words I was stunned lying with my face to the ground."}, {"pk": 2713532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And see, a hand touched me, and set me trembling on my knees and on the palms of my hands."}, {"pk": 2713533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cO Dani\u2019\u0115l, man greatly appreciated, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you.\u201d And while he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling."}, {"pk": 2713534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cDo not fear, Dani\u2019\u0115l, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your Elohim, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words."}, {"pk": 2713535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut the head of the rule of Persia withstood me twenty-one days. And see, Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l, one of the chief heads, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the sovereigns of Persia."}, {"pk": 2713536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I have come to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is yet for days to come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And when he had spoken such words to me, I turned my face toward the ground and kept silent."}, {"pk": 2713538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And see, one who looked like the sons of men touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who stood before me, \u201cMy master, because of the vision I have been seized with pains, and I have retained no strength."}, {"pk": 2713539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSo how was this servant of my master able to speak with you, my master? As for me, no strength remains in me now, nor is any breath left in me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And again the one who looked like a man touched me and strengthened me."}, {"pk": 2713541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said, \u201cDo not fear, O man greatly appreciated! Peace be to you, be strong now, be strong!\u201d So when he spoke to me I was strengthened, and said, \u201cLet my master speak, for you have strengthened me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said, \u201cDo you know why I have come to you? And now I return to fight with the head of Persia. And when I have left, see, the head of Greece shall come."}, {"pk": 2713543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut let me declare to you what is written in the Scripture of Truth, and there is not one strengthening himself with me concerning these, except Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l your head."}, {"pk": 2713544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd in the first year of Dareyawesh the Mede, I myself stood up to support and protect him."}, {"pk": 2713545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd now I declare the truth to you: See, three more sovereigns are to arise in Persia, and the fourth is to become far richer than them all. And by his power, through his riches, he stirs up all against the rulership of Greece."}, {"pk": 2713546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd a mighty sovereign shall arise, and he shall rule with great authority, and do as he pleases."}, {"pk": 2713547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut when he has arisen, his rule shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds of the heavens, but not among his descendants nor according to his authority with which he ruled, because his rule shall be uprooted, even for others besides these."}, {"pk": 2713548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd a sovereign of the South shall become strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong over him and shall rule \u2014 his rule shall be a great rule."}, {"pk": 2713549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd at the end of years they shall join themselves together, and a daughter of the sovereign of the South shall come to the sovereign of the North to make an alliance. But she shall not retain the strength of her power, nor would he or his power stand. And she shall be given up, with those who brought her, and he who brought her forth, and he who supported her in those times."}, {"pk": 2713550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut from a branch of her roots one shall arise in his place, and he shall come into the defence and come into a stronghold of the sovereign of the North, and shall act against them, and shall prevail,"}, {"pk": 2713551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "and also their mighty ones, with their princes and their precious utensils of silver and gold he shall seize and bring to Mitsrayim. And he shall stand more years than the sovereign of the North."}, {"pk": 2713552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThen he shall enter the reign of the sovereign of the South, but shall return to his own land."}, {"pk": 2713553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut his sons shall stir themselves up, and assemble a great army. And he shall certainly come and overflow and pass through, then return to his stronghold, and be stirred up."}, {"pk": 2713554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThen the sovereign of the South shall be enraged and go out to fight with him, with the sovereign of the North, who shall raise a large army. But the army shall be given into the hand of his enemy,"}, {"pk": 2713555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "and he shall capture the army, his heart being exalted. And he shall cause tens of thousands to fall, but not prevail."}, {"pk": 2713556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the sovereign of the North shall return and raise an army greater than the former, and certainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much supplies."}, {"pk": 2713557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd in those times many shall rise up against the sovereign of the South, while some violent ones among your people exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall stumble."}, {"pk": 2713558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThen the sovereign of the North shall come in and build a siege mound, and capture a city of strongholds. And the arms of the South shall not stand, nor his choice people, for there is no strength to stand."}, {"pk": 2713559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSo his opponent shall do as he pleases \u2014 with no one standing against him \u2014 and stand in the Splendid Land with destruction in his hand."}, {"pk": 2713560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall set his face to enter with the strength of his entire rule, and make an alliance with him. And he shall do so, and give him the daughter of women to corrupt her. But she shall not stand, neither be for him."}, {"pk": 2713561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThen he shall turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a ruler shall bring the reproach against them to an end. And with the reproach removed, he shall turn back on him."}, {"pk": 2713562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThen he shall turn his face toward the strongholds of his own land, but shall stumble and fall, and not be found."}, {"pk": 2713563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd in his place one shall stand up who imposes taxes on the adorned <i>city</i> of the rule, but within a few days he is destroyed, but not in wrath or in battle."}, {"pk": 2713564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd in his place shall arise a despised one, to whom they shall not give the excellency of the rule. But he shall come in peaceably, and seize the rule by flatteries."}, {"pk": 2713565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the arms of the flood shall be swept away from before him and be broken, and also the prince of the covenant."}, {"pk": 2713566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd after they joined him, he shall work deceit, and shall come up and become strong with a small nation."}, {"pk": 2713567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cHe shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province, and do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: distribute among them plunder and spoil and supplies, and devise his plots against the strongholds, but only for a time."}, {"pk": 2713568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall stir up his power and his heart against the sovereign of the South with a great army, and the sovereign of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army, but not stand, for they shall devise plots against him."}, {"pk": 2713569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd those who have been eating his food shall destroy him, and his army be swept away, and many fall down slain."}, {"pk": 2713570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd both these sovereigns\u2019 hearts are to do evil, and speak lies at the same table, but not prosper, for the end is still for an appointed time."}, {"pk": 2713571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cThen he shall return to his land with much supplies, and his heart be against the set-apart covenant. And he shall act, and shall return to his land."}, {"pk": 2713572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAt the appointed time he shall return and go toward the south, but it shall not be like the former or the latter."}, {"pk": 2713573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor ships from Kittim shall come against him, and he shall lose heart, and shall return in rage against the set-apart covenant, and shall act, and shall return and consider those who forsake the set-apart covenant."}, {"pk": 2713574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd strong ones shall arise from him and profane the set-apart place, the stronghold, and shall take away that which is continual, and set up the abomination that lays waste.", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/8/13'>8:13</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/9/27'>9:27</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2713575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd by flatteries he shall profane those who do wrong against the covenant, but the people who know their Elohim shall be strong, and shall act."}, {"pk": 2713576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd those of the people who have insight shall give understanding to many. And they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plundering, for days."}, {"pk": 2713577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd when they stumble, they shall be helped, a little help, but many shall join them, by flatteries."}, {"pk": 2713578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd some of those who have insight shall stumble, to refine them, and to cleanse them, and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is still for an appointed time."}, {"pk": 2713579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd the sovereign shall do as he pleases, and exalt himself and show himself to be great above every mighty one, and speak incredible matters against the \u011al of mighty ones, and shall prosper until the wrath has been accomplished \u2014 for what has been decreed shall be done \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "and have no regard for the mighty ones of his fathers nor for the desire of women, nor have regard for any mighty one, but exalt himself above them all."}, {"pk": 2713581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cBut in his place he shall give esteem to a mighty one of strongholds. And to a mighty one which his fathers did not know he shall give esteem with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts."}, {"pk": 2713582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall act against the strongest strongholds with a foreign mighty one, which he shall acknowledge. He shall increase in esteem and cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain."}, {"pk": 2713583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAt the time of the end the sovereign of the South shall push at him, and the sovereign of the North rush against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall enter the lands, and shall overflow and pass over,"}, {"pk": 2713584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "and shall enter the Splendid Land, and many shall stumble, but these escape from his hand: Ed\u0331om, and Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the chief of the sons of Ammon."}, {"pk": 2713585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall stretch out his hand against the lands, and the land of Mitsrayim shall not escape."}, {"pk": 2713586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall rule over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the riches of Mitsrayim, and Libyans and Kushites shall be at his steps."}, {"pk": 2713587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cThen reports from the east and the north shall disturb him, and he shall go out with great wrath to destroy and put many under the ban,"}, {"pk": 2713588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "text": "and he shall pitch the tents of his palace between the seas and the splendid set-apart mountain, but shall come to his end with none to help him."}, {"pk": 2713589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cNow at that time Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l shall stand up, the great head who is standing over the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since there was a nation, until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book,"}, {"pk": 2713590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth wake up, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches, everlasting abhorrence."}, {"pk": 2713591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd those who have insight shall shine like the brightness of the expanse, and those who lead many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2713592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut you, Dani\u2019\u0115l, hide the words, and seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall diligently search and knowledge shall increase.\u201d", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/9'>12:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2713593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Then I, Dani\u2019\u0115l, looked and saw two others standing, one on this bank of the river and the other on that bank."}, {"pk": 2713594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And one said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, \u201cHow long until the end of these wonders?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, and he held up his right hand and his left hand to the heavens, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it would be for an appointed time, appointed times, and half <i>a time</i>. And when they have ended scattering the power of the set-apart people, then all these shall be completed."}, {"pk": 2713596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And I heard, but I did not understand, so I said, \u201cMy master, what is the latter end of these <i>matters</i>?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said, \u201cGo, Dani\u2019\u0115l, for the words are hidden and sealed till the time of the end.", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/4'>12:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2713598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cMany shall be cleansed and made white, and refined. But the wrong shall do wrong \u2014 and none of the wrong shall understand, but those who have insight shall understand."}, {"pk": 2713599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd from the time that which is continual is taken away, and the abomination that lays waste is set up, is one thousand two hundred and ninety days."}, {"pk": 2713600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBlessed is he who is waiting earnestly, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days."}, {"pk": 2713601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 27, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut you, go your way till the end. And rest, and arise to your lot at the end of the days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Hosh\u0115a son of Be\u2019\u0115ri, in the days of Uzziyah, Yotham, Ah\u0323az, and Yeh\u0323izqiyah, sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, and in the days of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Yo\u2019ash, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "The beginning of the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with Hosh\u0115a. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Hosh\u0115a, \u201cGo, take yourself a woman of whoring and children of whoring, for the land has utterly whored away from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Dib\u0331layim, and she conceived and bore him a son."}, {"pk": 2713605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, \u201cCall his name Yizre\u201b\u0115l, for in a little while I shall revenge the bloodshed of Yizre\u201b\u0115l on the house of Y\u0115hu, and put an end to the reign of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day that I shall break the bow of Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the Valley of Yizre\u201b\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, \u201cCall her name Lo-Ruh\u0323amah, for no longer do I have compassion on the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l so as to forgive them at all."}, {"pk": 2713608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut I shall have compassion on the house of Yehud\u0331ah and save them by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and not save them by bow or by sword or battle, by horses or horsemen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And she weaned Lo-Ruh\u0323amah, and conceived and bore a son,"}, {"pk": 2713610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "then He said, \u201cCall his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not for you."}, {"pk": 2713611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYet the number of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, \u2018You are not My people,\u2019 they shall be called, \u2018You are the sons of the living \u011al.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the children of Yehud\u0331ah and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves one head, and shall come up out of the earth, for great is the day of Yizre\u201b\u0115l!"}, {"pk": 2713613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cSay to your brothers, \u2018O my people,\u2019 and to your sisters, \u2018O, compassioned one.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cStrive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,"}, {"pk": 2713615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "lest I strip her naked, and shall set her up as on the day she was born, and shall make her like a wilderness, and shall set her like a dry land, and shall put her to death with thirst."}, {"pk": 2713616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall not have compassion on her children, for they are the children of whorings."}, {"pk": 2713617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, \u2018I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cTherefore, see, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I shall wall her in, so that she does not find her paths."}, {"pk": 2713619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and shall seek them but not find them. Then she shall say, \u2018Let me go and return to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd she did not acknowledge that I gave her grain, and new wine, and oil, and increased her silver and gold which they prepared for Ba\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2713621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore I shall turn back and shall take my grain in its time and My new wine in its appointed time, and I shall take away My wool and My linen covering her nakedness."}, {"pk": 2713622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd now I shall uncover her shame before the eyes of her lovers, and no one shall deliver her from My hand."}, {"pk": 2713623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cause all her rejoicing, her festivals, her New <i>Moons</i>, and her Sabbaths, even all her appointed times, to cease,"}, {"pk": 2713624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "and lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, \u2018these are my harlot-fees that my lovers have given me.\u2019 And I shall make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them."}, {"pk": 2713625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish her for the days of the Ba\u201bals to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore, see, I am alluring her, and shall lead her into the wilderness, and shall speak to her heart,"}, {"pk": 2713627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "and give to her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Ak\u0331or as a door of expectation. And there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2713628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat you call Me \u2018My Husband,\u2019 and no longer call Me \u2018My Ba\u201bal.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall remove the names of the Ba\u201bals from her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name."}, {"pk": 2713630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day I shall make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow, and sword, and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in safety."}, {"pk": 2713631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall take you as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in righteousness, and in right-ruling, and loving-commitment and compassion."}, {"pk": 2713632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day that I answer,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth,"}, {"pk": 2713634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "and the earth answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizre\u201b\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, \u2018You are My people,\u2019 while they say, \u2018My Elohim!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cGo again, love a woman loved by a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, though they are turning to other mighty ones and love their raisin cakes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and one and one-half h\u0323omers of barley."}, {"pk": 2713638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And I said to her, \u201cYou are to remain with me many days, you are not to whore, nor become any man\u2019s, and so I shall also be towards you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "For many days the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are to remain without sovereign and without prince, and without slaughtering, and without pillar, and without shoulder garment or house idols."}, {"pk": 2713640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Afterward the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall return, and seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and Dawid\u0331 their sovereign, and fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and His goodness, in the latter days."}, {"pk": 2713641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, you children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has a case against the inhabitants of the land: \u201cFor there is no truth or loving-commitment or knowledge of Elohim in the land."}, {"pk": 2713642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSwearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery have increased. And bloodshed follows bloodshed."}, {"pk": 2713643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore the land mourns, and everyone living there languishes, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. And the fish of the sea are taken away."}, {"pk": 2713644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cHowever, let no one strive or reprove another, for your people are like those striving with a priest."}, {"pk": 2713645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet shall also stumble with you in the night. And I shall make your mother perish."}, {"pk": 2713646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cMy people have perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the Torah of your Elohim, I also forget your children."}, {"pk": 2713647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAs they were increased, so they sinned against Me. My esteem they have changed into shame."}, {"pk": 2713648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThey eat the sin of My people, and lift up their desire to their crookedness."}, {"pk": 2713649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be: like people, like priest. And I shall punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds."}, {"pk": 2713650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall eat but not be satisfied, they shall whore but not increase, for they have stopped obeying \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cWhoring, and wine, and new wine enslave the heart."}, {"pk": 2713652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cMy people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2713653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThey slaughter on the mountaintops, and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplars and terebinth, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit whoring, and your brides commit adultery."}, {"pk": 2713654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI would not punish your daughters when they commit whoring, nor your brides when they commit adultery, for <i>the men</i> themselves go aside with whores, and slaughter with cult prostitutes \u2014 a people that do not understand are thrust down!"}, {"pk": 2713655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThough you are a whore, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, let not Yehud\u0331ah become guilty. Do not come up to Gilgal, nor go up to B\u0115yth Awen, nor swear an oath, saying, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 lives!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor Yisra\u2019\u0115l is stubborn, like a stubborn calf. Would \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 now feed them like a lamb in a broad place?"}, {"pk": 2713657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cEphrayim is joined to idols, let him alone."}, {"pk": 2713658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTheir drink is sour, they have whored continually. Her rulers wildly loved shame."}, {"pk": 2713659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cA wind has bound her up in its wings, and they are ashamed because of their slaughterings."}, {"pk": 2713660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cHear this, O priests! And listen, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Give ear, O house of the sovereign! For the judgment is for you, for you have been a snare to Mitspah and a net spread on Tab\u0331or."}, {"pk": 2713661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd revolters have gone deep in slaying, and I reprove them all."}, {"pk": 2713662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI have known Ephrayim, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l has not been hidden from Me. For now, O Ephrayim, you have whored, Yisra\u2019\u0115l is defiled."}, {"pk": 2713663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cTheir deeds do not allow them to turn back to their Elohim, for the spirit of whorings is among them, and they do not know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the Excellency of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall witness to his face, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l and Ephrayim stumble in their crookedness. Yehud\u0331ah shall also stumble with them."}, {"pk": 2713665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWith their flocks and herds they go to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but do not find Him \u2014 He has withdrawn from them."}, {"pk": 2713666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThey have acted treacherously against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for they have brought forth strange children. Now a new <i>moon</i> shall devour them with their portions."}, {"pk": 2713667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBlow a shophar in Gib\u201bah, the trumpet in Ramah! Shout, O B\u0115yth Awen! Behind you, O Binyamin!"}, {"pk": 2713668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cEphrayim is laid waste in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l I shall make known what is certain."}, {"pk": 2713669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThe chiefs of Yehud\u0331ah shall be like those who remove a border \u2014 on them I pour out my wrath like water."}, {"pk": 2713670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cEphrayim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he walked after the command when it pleased him."}, {"pk": 2713671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cSo I am to Ephrayim like a moth, and to the house of Yehud\u0331ah like rottenness."}, {"pk": 2713672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWhen Ephrayim saw his sickness, and Yehud\u0331ah saw his wound, then Ephrayim went to Ashshur and sent to Sovereign Yar\u0115b\u0331. But he is unable to heal you, or to remove the wound from you."}, {"pk": 2713673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor I am like a lion to Ephrayim, and like a young lion to the house of Yehud\u0331ah. I Myself tear them and go, I take them away, and there is no one to deliver."}, {"pk": 2713674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI shall go, I shall return to My place, until they confess their guilt and seek My face, in their distress diligently search for Me, <i>and say</i>,"}, {"pk": 2713675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "\u2018Come, and let us turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For He has torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up."}, {"pk": 2713676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live before Him."}, {"pk": 2713677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "So let us know, let us pursue to know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cEphrayim, what would I do with you? Yehud\u0331ah, what would I do with you? For your loving-commitment is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away."}, {"pk": 2713679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cTherefore I have hewn <i>them</i> by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of My mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light."}, {"pk": 2713680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor I delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings."}, {"pk": 2713681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut like Ad\u0331am they transgressed the covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me."}, {"pk": 2713682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cGil\u201bad\u0331 is a city of workers of wickedness \u2014 tracked up with blood."}, {"pk": 2713683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way to Shek\u0331em, for they have done wickedness."}, {"pk": 2713684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI have seen a horrible matter in the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: the whoring of Ephrayim is there, Yisra\u2019\u0115l is defiled."}, {"pk": 2713685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAlso, a harvest is appointed for you, O Yehud\u0331ah, when I turn back the captivity of My people."}, {"pk": 2713686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhenever I would heal Yisra\u2019\u0115l, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron. For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside."}, {"pk": 2713687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me."}, {"pk": 2713688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cWith their evil they make a sovereign glad, and rulers with their lies."}, {"pk": 2713689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAll of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened."}, {"pk": 2713690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIn the day of our sovereign rulers became sick, inflamed with wine. He extended his hand with scoffers."}, {"pk": 2713691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor they have drawn near, their heart is like an oven. While they lie in wait all the night their baker sleeps. In the morning it burns like a flaming fire."}, {"pk": 2713692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll of them are as hot as an oven, and they consumed their rulers. All their sovereigns have fallen \u2014 not one among them calls on Me."}, {"pk": 2713693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cEphrayim mixes himself among the peoples, Ephrayim has become a cake unturned."}, {"pk": 2713694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cStrangers have devoured his strength, but he does not know it. Grey hairs are also sprinkled on him, and he does not know it."}, {"pk": 2713695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the Excellency of Yisra\u2019\u0115l did witness to his face, but they did not return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, nor did they seek Him for all this."}, {"pk": 2713696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd Ephrayim has become a simple dove without heart, they have called on Mitsrayim, they have gone to Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2713697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen they go I spread My net over them, I bring them down like the birds of the heavens, I chastise them as their congregation has heard."}, {"pk": 2713698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWoe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me! And I Myself have ransomed them, yet they have spoken falsehoods against Me,"}, {"pk": 2713699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "and did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; they turn away from Me."}, {"pk": 2713700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I instructed, I strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against Me."}, {"pk": 2713701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThey return but not above. They have been like a slack bow. Their rulers fall by the sword for the cursings of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2713702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cPut a shophar to your mouth, like an eagle against the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, because they have transgressed My covenant, and they have rebelled against My Torah."}, {"pk": 2713703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThey cry out to Me, \u2018My Elohim \u2014 we, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, know You!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l has rejected what is good, an enemy pursues him."}, {"pk": 2713705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThey have made sovereigns, but not from Me. They have made rulers, but I have not known. From their silver and gold they made idols for themselves, so that they are cut off."}, {"pk": 2713706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cO Shomeron, your calf has been cast off! My wrath has burned against them. How long shall they be incapable of innocence?"}, {"pk": 2713707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor from Yisra\u2019\u0115l is even this: a workman made it, and it is not Elohim! For the calf of Shomeron is splinters!"}, {"pk": 2713708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up."}, {"pk": 2713709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYisra\u2019\u0115l has been swallowed up. They have now become among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure."}, {"pk": 2713710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor they themselves have gone up to Ashshur. A wild donkey alone by itself is Ephrayim, they have hired lovers."}, {"pk": 2713711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAlso, although they sold themselves among the nations, this time I shall gather them, when they have suffered for a while from the burden of a sovereign, of rulers."}, {"pk": 2713712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSince Ephrayim has made many slaughter-places for sin, they have been slaughter-places for sinning to him."}, {"pk": 2713713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI have written for him numerous matters of My Torah \u2014 they were regarded as strange."}, {"pk": 2713714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAs for My slaughterings: they slaughter flesh and they eat. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall not accept them. Now does He remember their crookedness and punish their sins. Let them return to Mitsrayim!"}, {"pk": 2713715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor Yisra\u2019\u0115l has forgotten his Maker, and has built palaces. And Yehud\u0331ah has increased walled cities. But I shall send fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, do not rejoice with exultation like the peoples, for you have whored from your Elohim. You have loved a harlot-fee at all threshing-floors."}, {"pk": 2713717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "Threshing floor and winepress shall not feed them, and new wine shall fail in her."}, {"pk": 2713718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "They shall not dwell in the land of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean <i>food</i> in Ashshur."}, {"pk": 2713719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "They do not pour wine <i>offerings</i> to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor are they pleasing to Him. Their slaughterings are like bread of mourners to them, all who eat it are defiled. For their bread is for their beings, it does not come into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "What do you do for the Day of Appointment, and in the day of the Festival of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2713721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "For look, they shall go because of destruction \u2014 Mitsrayim gathers them up, Moph buries them, nettles possess their valuables of silver, thorns are in their tents."}, {"pk": 2713722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra\u2019\u0115l knows! The prophet is a fool, the \u2018man of the Spirit\u2019 is mad, because of the greatness of your crookedness, and great is the enmity."}, {"pk": 2713723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "Elohim\u2019s watchman over you, Ephrayim, is the prophet, but a trapper\u2019s snare is in all his ways. Enmity is in the House of his Elohim."}, {"pk": 2713724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gib\u201bah. He remembers their crookedness, He punishes their sins."}, {"pk": 2713725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI found Yisra\u2019\u0115l like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruits on the fig tree in its beginning. They themselves have gone to Ba\u201bal Pe\u201bor, and separated themselves to shame, and became as abominable as that which they loved."}, {"pk": 2713726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cEphrayim is like a bird, their esteem has flown away \u2014 no birth, and none with child, and no conception!"}, {"pk": 2713727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThough they bring up their children, I shall make them childless, without man. For it is woe to them when I turn away from them!"}, {"pk": 2713728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI have seen Ephrayim, like Tsor, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephrayim shall bring out his children to the killer.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "Give them, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 give what? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."}, {"pk": 2713730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAll their evil is in Gilgal, for there I have hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I drive them from My house, no more do I love them. All their rulers are rebels."}, {"pk": 2713731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cEphrayim has been stricken, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "My Elohim rejects them, because they have not obeyed Him, so that they become wanderers among the nations!", "comment": "Refer Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/28/36'>28:36</a>"}, {"pk": 2713733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Yisra\u2019\u0115l is a degenerate vine, he brings forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he increased the slaughter-places. And the better his land, the better they made the pillars."}, {"pk": 2713734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Their heart has been slippery, now they are guilty. He breaks down their slaughter-places, He destroys their pillars."}, {"pk": 2713735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "For now they say, \u201cWe have no sovereign, because we did not fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. What would the sovereign do for us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field."}, {"pk": 2713737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "The inhabitants of Shomeron fear because of the calf of B\u0115yth Awen. For its people shall mourn for it, as well as its priests who used to rejoice over it, because of its esteem that has departed from it."}, {"pk": 2713738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "It is also brought to Ashshur as a present for Sovereign Yar\u0115b\u0331. Ephrayim does receive shame, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l is put to shame through his counsel."}, {"pk": 2713739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "Shomeron is cut off, her sovereign is like a twig on the surface of the water."}, {"pk": 2713740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And the high places of Awen, the sin of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, shall be destroyed, thorn and thistle come up on their slaughter-places. And they shall say to the mountains, \u201cCover us!\u201d and to the hills, \u201cFall on us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cO Yisra\u2019\u0115l, you have sinned from the days of Gib\u201bah. There they stood! The battle in Gib\u201bah against the children of perversity did not overtake them."}, {"pk": 2713742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhen I desire, then I bind them. And peoples shall be gathered against them when I bind them for their double guilt."}, {"pk": 2713743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass over her comely neck \u2014 I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehud\u0331ah ploughs, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 harrows for him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap according to loving-commitment, break up your tillable ground, it is time to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, till He comes and rainsa righteousness on you."}, {"pk": 2713745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "You have ploughed wrongness, you have reaped unrighteousness, you have eaten the fruit of lying, because you trusted in your own way, in your many mighty men."}, {"pk": 2713746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And uproar shall arise among your people, and all your strongholds shall be ravaged as Shalman ravaged B\u0115yth Arb\u0115l in the day of battle \u2014 a mother dashed in pieces on her children."}, {"pk": 2713747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "Thus it shall be done to you, O B\u0115yth \u011al, because of the evil of your wickedness. At dawn the sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l is completely cut off!"}, {"pk": 2713748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cWhen Yisra\u2019\u0115l was a child, I loved him, and out of Mitsrayim I called My son."}, {"pk": 2713749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThey called to them, so they went from their face. They slaughtered to the Ba\u201bals, and burned incense to carved images."}, {"pk": 2713750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I taught Ephrayim to walk, taking them by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them."}, {"pk": 2713751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI drew them with ropes of man, with cords of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. And I bent down, fed them."}, {"pk": 2713752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cNo, let him return to the land of Mitsrayim, and let Ashshur be his sovereign, because they refused to repent!"}, {"pk": 2713753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the sword shall whirl in his cities, and it shall demolish his gate bars, and consume, because of their own counsels."}, {"pk": 2713754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cMy people are bent towards backsliding from Me. Though they call to <i>the One</i> Above, none of them exalt <i>Him</i>."}, {"pk": 2713755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cHow could I give you up, Ephrayim? How could I hand you over, Yisra\u2019\u0115l? How could I make you like Ad\u0331mah? How could I set you like Tseb\u0331oyim? My heart turns within Me, all My compassion is kindled."}, {"pk": 2713756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI shall not let the heat of My wrath burn, I shall not turn to destroy Ephrayim. For I am \u011al, and not man, the Set-apart One in your midst, and I shall not come in enmity."}, {"pk": 2713757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cLet them follow \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Like a lion He roars. When He roars, then sons shall tremble from the west."}, {"pk": 2713758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThey shall tremble like a bird from Mitsrayim, and like a dove from the land of Ashshur. And I shall let them dwell in their own houses,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cEphrayim has surrounded Me with lying, and the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with deceit. But Yehud\u0331ah is still wandering with \u011al, and is true to the Set-apart One.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Ephrayim is feeding on wind, and pursuing an east wind. All the day he increases falsehood and ruin. And they make a covenant with Ashshur, and oil is sent to Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2713761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has a controversy with Yehud\u0331ah, to punish Ya\u201baqob\u0331 according to his ways, to repay him according to his deeds."}, {"pk": 2713762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he strove with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2713763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "He strove with the Messenger and overcame, he wept and sought His favour. He found Him in B\u0115yth \u011al, and there He spoke to us \u2014", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/32/28'>32:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2713764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "even \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His remembrance."}, {"pk": 2713765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore, return to your Elohim. Guard loving-commitment and right-ruling, and wait on your Elohim continually."}, {"pk": 2713766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "A merchant! In his hand are scales of deceit, he loved to oppress."}, {"pk": 2713767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ephrayim says, \u201cIndeed, I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself. In all my labours they shall find in me no crookedness that is sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim since the land of Mitsrayim, again I shall make you dwell in tents as in the days of the appointed time.", "comment": "Or <em>festival</em>."}, {"pk": 2713769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I have spoken to the prophets, and have increased visions. And through the prophets I gave parables.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "Is Gil\u201bad\u0331 wicked? Certainly, they have been false! In Gilgal they have slaughtered bulls. Also their slaughter-places are as heaps on a ploughed field."}, {"pk": 2713771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And when Ya\u201baqob\u0331 fled to the country of Aram, Yisra\u2019\u0115l served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch."}, {"pk": 2713772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And by a prophet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 brought Yisra\u2019\u0115l out of Mitsrayim, and by a prophet he was watched over."}, {"pk": 2713773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "Ephrayim has provoked most bitterly. So his Master left his blood-guilt on him, and repaid him for his reproach."}, {"pk": 2713774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "When Ephrayim spoke there was trembling, he was lifted up in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But through Ba\u201bal he became guilty, and he died."}, {"pk": 2713775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves moulded images from their silver, idols according to their skill, all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, \u201cLet the men who slaughter kiss the calves!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore they shall be like a morning cloud, and like dew that goes away early, like chaff blown off from a threshing-floor, and like smoke from a window."}, {"pk": 2713777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim since the land of Mitsrayim, and an Elohim besides Me you shall not know, for there is no Saviour besides Me."}, {"pk": 2713778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cI knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought."}, {"pk": 2713779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cWhen they were fed they were satisfied. They were satisfied and their heart was exalted, therefore they forgot Me."}, {"pk": 2713780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSo I am become like a lion to them, like a leopard I watch by the way,"}, {"pk": 2713781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "like a bear robbed of her young I attack them and rip open the enclosure of their heart. And there I devour them like a lion, a wild beast tear them apart."}, {"pk": 2713782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cYou have destroyed yourself, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, but your help is in Me."}, {"pk": 2713783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWhere is your sovereign now to save you in all your cities, and your rulers of whom you said, \u2018Give me a sovereign and rulers\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2713784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI gave you a sovereign in My displeasure, but I took <i>him</i> away in My wrath."}, {"pk": 2713785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThe crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden."}, {"pk": 2713786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cPains of a woman in labour shall come upon him. He is not a wise son, for it is not the time that he should delay at the breaking forth of children."}, {"pk": 2713787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFrom the power of She\u2019ol I ransom them, from death I redeem them. Where is your plague, O Death? Where is your destruction, O She\u2019ol? Repentance is hidden from My eyes."}, {"pk": 2713788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThough he bears fruit among his brothers, an east wind comes, a wind from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes up from the wilderness, and it dries up his fountain, and his spring becomes dry \u2014 it plunders a treasure of all desirable objects."}, {"pk": 2713789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cShomeron is held guilty, for she has rebelled against her Elohim \u2014 they fall by the sword, their infants are dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for you have stumbled by your crookedness."}, {"pk": 2713791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "Take words with you, and return to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Say to Him, \u201cTake away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.", "comment": "Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/13/15'>13:15</a> - bulls, referring to offerings."}, {"pk": 2713792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAshshur does not save us. We do not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, \u2018Our mighty ones.\u2019 For the fatherless finds compassion in You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI shall heal their backsliding, I shall love them spontaneously, for My displeasure has turned away from him."}, {"pk": 2713794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cI shall be like the dew to Yisra\u2019\u0115l. He shall blossom like the lily, and strike out his roots like Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2713795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHis branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2713796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThose who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive like grain, and blossom like the vine, and become as fragrant as the wine of Leb\u0331anon."}, {"pk": 2713797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhat more has Ephrayim to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 28, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "Who is wise and understands these <i>words</i>, discerning and knows them? For the ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them."}, {"pk": 2713799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Yo\u2019\u0115l son of Pethu\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Hear this, you elders, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this <i>ever</i> been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?"}, {"pk": 2713801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Relate it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the generation after them."}, {"pk": 2713802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "What the gnawing locust left the swarming locust has eaten, and what the swarming locust left the crawling locust has eaten, and what the crawling locust left the consuming locust has eaten."}, {"pk": 2713803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Wake up, you drunkards, and weep. And wail, all you drinkers of wine, on account of the new wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth."}, {"pk": 2713804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "For a nation has come up against My land, strong, and innumerable. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness."}, {"pk": 2713805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "It has laid waste My vine and splintered My fig tree. It has made it entirely bare and cast it away, its branches became white."}, {"pk": 2713806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth."}, {"pk": 2713807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. The priests, servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have mourned."}, {"pk": 2713808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "The field is ravaged, the ground has mourned, for the grain is ruined, the new wine has dried up, the oil fails."}, {"pk": 2713809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed."}, {"pk": 2713810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "The vine has dried up, and the fig tree droops, pomegranate, also palm, and apple tree, all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up among the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2713811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Wail, you attendants of the slaughter-place. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you attendants of my Elohim. For the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2713812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Set apart a fast. Call an assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and cry out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Alas for the day! For the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near, and it comes as destruction from the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2713814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the House of our Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2713815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "The seed has rotted under their clods, storehouses are laid waste, granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered."}, {"pk": 2713816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "How the beasts moan! The herds of cattle are restless, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep also perish."}, {"pk": 2713817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "I cry to You \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and a flame has set on fire all the trees of the field."}, {"pk": 2713818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Even the beasts of the field cry out to You, for the water streams are dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2713819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Blow a shophar in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is coming, for it is near:"}, {"pk": 2713820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains \u2014 a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations."}, {"pk": 2713821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Ahead of them a fire has consumed, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the Garden of \u011ad\u0331en, and behind them a desert waste. And from them there is no escape."}, {"pk": 2713822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and they run like steeds."}, {"pk": 2713823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "As the noise of chariots they leap over mountain tops, as the noise of a flaming fire consuming stubble, as a mighty people set in battle array."}, {"pk": 2713824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Before them peoples are in anguish, all faces become flushed."}, {"pk": 2713825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of battle, every one goes on his way, and they do not break ranks."}, {"pk": 2713826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And they do not press one another, every one goes in his path. They fall among the weapons, but they do not stop."}, {"pk": 2713827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "They rush on the city, they run on the wall. They climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief."}, {"pk": 2713828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "The earth shall tremble before them, the heavens shall shake. Sun and moon shall be darkened, and the stars withdraw their brightness."}, {"pk": 2713829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall give forth His voice before His army, for His camp is very great, for mighty is the doer of His word. For the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is great and very awesome, and who does bear it?"}, {"pk": 2713830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cYet even now,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cturn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great loving-commitment, and He shall relent concerning the evil."}, {"pk": 2713832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Who knows \u2014 He might turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2713833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Blow a shophar in Tsiyon, set apart a fast, call an assembly."}, {"pk": 2713834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "Gather the people, set the assembly apart, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes. Let a bridegroom come out from his room, and a bride from her dressing room."}, {"pk": 2713835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Let the priests, servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, weep between the porch and the slaughter-place. And let them say, \u201cSpare Your people, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and do not give Your inheritance to reproach, for the nations to rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, \u2018Where is their Elohim?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be jealous for His land, and spare His people."}, {"pk": 2713837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answer and say to His people, \u201cSee, I am sending you the grain and the new wine and the oil, and you shall be satisfied by them. And no longer do I make you a reproach among the nations."}, {"pk": 2713838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd the Northerner I shall remove far from you, and drive him away into a dry and deserted land, with his face toward the eastern sea and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up and his smell rise, for he has done greatly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "Do not fear, O soil, be glad and rejoice, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done greatly!"}, {"pk": 2713840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not fear, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness shall spring forth, and the tree shall bear its fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall yield their strength."}, {"pk": 2713841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And you children of Tsiyon, be glad and rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, for He shall give you the Teacher of Righteousness, and cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before."}, {"pk": 2713842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And the threshing-floors shall be filled with grain, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil."}, {"pk": 2713843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThen I shall repay you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you."}, {"pk": 2713844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThen you shall eat \u2014 eat and be satisfied \u2014 and shall praise the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, who has done with you so wondrously. And My people shall never be put to shame."}, {"pk": 2713845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I am in the midst of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim and there is no one else. And My people shall never be put to shame.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@290 24:23>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/23'>24:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2713846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions."}, {"pk": 2713847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd also on the male servants and on the female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days."}, {"pk": 2713848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke,"}, {"pk": 2713849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be delivered. For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there shall be an escape as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said, and among the survivors whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 calls.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/21'>2:21</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/10/13'>10:13</a><br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/4/2'>4:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/4/3'>3</a>; Obad. <a href='/TS2009/31/1/17'>1:17</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/14/1'>14:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2713851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cFor look, in those days and at that time, when I turn back the captivity of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2713852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "then I shall gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. And I shall enter into judgment with them there for My people, My inheritance Yisra\u2019\u0115l, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up My land."}, {"pk": 2713853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it."}, {"pk": 2713854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd also, what are you to Me, O Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, and all the coasts of Philistia? Are you repaying Me? And if you are repaying Me, I would swiftly and speedily return your reward on your own head."}, {"pk": 2713855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor you have taken My silver and My gold, and brought My treasures into your temples,"}, {"pk": 2713856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "and the people of Yehud\u0331ah and the people of Yerushalayim you have sold to the sons of Yawan, to remove them far from their borders."}, {"pk": 2713857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSee, I am stirring them up out of the place to which you have sold them, and I shall return on your own head what you have done,"}, {"pk": 2713858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "and shall sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Yehud\u0331ah, and they shall sell them to the Sheb\u0331aites, to a nation far off. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Proclaim this among the nations, \u201cPrepare for battle! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of battle draw near, let them come up."}, {"pk": 2713860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBeat your ploughshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears, let the weak say, \u2018I am strong.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Hasten and come, all you nations, and gather together all around. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, let Your mighty men come down here."}, {"pk": 2713862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cLet the nations be aroused, and come up to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. For there I shall sit to judge all the nations on every side."}, {"pk": 2713863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cPut in the sickle, for the harvest has grown ripe. Come, go down, for the winepress is filled, the vats overflow, for their evil is great.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Crowds, crowds in the valley of decision! For the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near in the valley of decision."}, {"pk": 2713865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "Sun and moon shall become dark, and stars shall withdraw their brightness."}, {"pk": 2713866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall roar from Tsiyon, and give forth His voice from Yerushalayim. And the heavens and earth shall shake, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be a refuge for His people, and a stronghold for the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2713867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThen you shall know that I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, dwelling in Tsiyon, My set-apart mountain. And Yerushalayim shall be set-apart, and foreigners shall not pass through her again.", "comment": "See Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/21'>3:21</a> and the foot<a href=C:@290 24:23>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/23'>24:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2713868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day that the mountains drip with new wine, and the hills flow with milk. And all the streams of Yehud\u0331ah shall be flooded with water, and a fountain flow from the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and water the wadi Shittim."}, {"pk": 2713869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cMitsrayim shall become a ruin, and Ed\u0331om a ruin, a wilderness, because of violence done to the people of Yehud\u0331ah, whose innocent blood they shed in their land."}, {"pk": 2713870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut Yehud\u0331ah shall dwell forever, and Yerushalayim to all generations."}, {"pk": 2713871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 29, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall avenge their blood, which I have not avenged. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be dwelling in Tsiyon!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Teqowa, which he saw concerning Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the days of Uzziyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, and in the days of Yarob\u0331\u201bam son of Yo\u2019ash, sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, two years before the earthquake."}, {"pk": 2713873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 roars from Tsiyon, and gives forth His voice from Yerushalayim. And the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Karmel shall wither.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Dammeseq, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they threshed Gil\u201bad\u0331 with threshing implements of iron."}, {"pk": 2713875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon the house of H\u0323aza\u2019\u0115l, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Had\u0331ad\u0331."}, {"pk": 2713876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall break the bar of Dammeseq, and cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Awen, and the one who holds the sceptre from B\u0115yth \u011ad\u0331en. And the people of Aram shall go exiled to Qir,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Azzah, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they took into exile an entire exile, to surrender it to Ed\u0331om."}, {"pk": 2713878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon the wall of Azzah, and it shall consume its palaces."}, {"pk": 2713879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod\u0331, and the one who holds the sceptre from Ashqelon. And I shall turn My hand against Eqron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,\u201d said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Tsor, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they surrendered an entire exile to Ed\u0331om, and did not remember the brotherly covenant."}, {"pk": 2713881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon the wall of Tsor, and it shall consume its palaces.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Ed\u0331om, and for four, I do not turn it back, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all compassion. And his displeasure tore incessantly, and he kept his wrath forever."}, {"pk": 2713883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon T\u0115man, and it shall consume the palaces of Botsrah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they ripped open the pregnant women in Gil\u201bad\u0331, to enlarge their border."}, {"pk": 2713885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cSo I shall kindle a fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it shall consume its palaces, with a shout in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind."}, {"pk": 2713886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd their sovereign shall go into exile, he and his heads together,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and for four, I do not turn it back, because he burned the bones of the sovereign of Ed\u0331om to lime."}, {"pk": 2713888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and it shall consume the palaces of Qeriyoth. And Mo\u2019ab\u0331 shall die amid uproar, with a cry and with a voice of a shophar."}, {"pk": 2713889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off the judge from its midst, and kill all its heads with him,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Yehud\u0331ah, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they have rejected the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and did not guard His laws. And their lies after which their fathers walked lead them astray."}, {"pk": 2713891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut I shall send fire upon Yehud\u0331ah, and it shall consume the palaces of Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cFor three transgressions of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,"}, {"pk": 2713893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name."}, {"pk": 2713894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd they lie down by every slaughter-place on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their mighty one they drink the wine of those who have been fined."}, {"pk": 2713895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cYet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars. And he was as strong as the oaks, yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath."}, {"pk": 2713896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite."}, {"pk": 2713897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Not so? O you children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets saying, \u2018Do not prophesy!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, I am weighed down by you, as a wagon is weighed down when filled with sheaves."}, {"pk": 2713900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd a place to flee shall perish from the swift, and the strong not fortify his power, and the mighty not save his life,"}, {"pk": 2713901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "and he who handles the bow not stand, and the swift of foot not save, nor he who rides a horse save his life,"}, {"pk": 2713902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "and the one potent of his heart among the mighty flee naked, in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear this word that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken against you, O children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, against the entire clan which I brought up from the land of Mitsrayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2713904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cYou alone have I known of all the clans of the earth, therefore I punish you for all your crookednesses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Would two walk together, without having met?"}, {"pk": 2713906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion give forth his voice out of his den unless he has caught?"}, {"pk": 2713907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Does a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the earth, if it has not captured prey?"}, {"pk": 2713908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "If a shophar is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 have done it?"}, {"pk": 2713909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "For the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets."}, {"pk": 2713910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken! Who would not prophesy?"}, {"pk": 2713911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cCry out at the palaces in Ashdod\u0331, and at the palaces in the land of Mitsrayim, and say, \u2018Gather on the mountains of Shomeron, and see the many unrests in her midst, and the oppressed ones within her."}, {"pk": 2713912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "But they do not know to do what is right,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAn enemy, even all around the land! And he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cAs a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so are the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l who dwell in Shomeron to be rescued \u2014 in the corner of a bed and on the edge of a couch!"}, {"pk": 2713915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHear and witness against the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of hosts."}, {"pk": 2713916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor in the day I visit Yisra\u2019\u0115l for their transgressions, I shall also punish concerning the slaughter-places of B\u0115yth \u011al. And the horns of the slaughter-place shall be broken, and they shall fall to the ground."}, {"pk": 2713917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall strike the winter house along with the summer house. And the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be swept away,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, \u201cBring wine, let us drink!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn by His set-apartness, \u201cSee, days are coming upon you when He shall take you away with hooks, and your descendants with fish-hooks,"}, {"pk": 2713920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "and let you go out at the breaches, each woman before her, and you shall be cast out toward Harmon,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cCome to B\u0115yth \u011al and transgress, to Gilgal, increase transgression. And bring your slaughterings every morning, your tithes every three days."}, {"pk": 2713922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd burn an offering of thanksgiving with leaven, proclaim voluntary offerings, loudly. For you have loved this, you children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places. But you did not turn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I also withheld rain from you, three new <i>moons</i> before the harvest. Then I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part would dry up."}, {"pk": 2713925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThen two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI have stricken you with blight and with mildew. The creeping locust devoured your many gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig trees, and your olive trees. But you did not turn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cI have sent among you a plague in the way of Mitsrayim. I have killed your young men with a sword, along with your captured horses. And I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils. But you did not turn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI have overthrown some of you, as Elohim overthrew Sed\u0331om and Amorah, and you were like a burning stick plucked from the burning. But you did not turn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTherefore I am doing this to you, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And because I do this to you, prepare to meet your Elohim, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "For look, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, and who declares to man what His thought is, and makes the morning darkness, and who treads the high places of the earth, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts is His Name."}, {"pk": 2713931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear this word which I take up against you, this lamentation, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2713932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "The maiden of Yisra\u2019\u0115l has fallen, not to rise again. She lies forsaken on her land, with no one to lift her up."}, {"pk": 2713933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For thus said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThe city that goes out by a thousand has a hundred left, and that which goes out by a hundred has ten left to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cSeek Me and live,"}, {"pk": 2713935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "but do not seek B\u0115yth \u011al, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a. For Gilgal shall certainly go into exile, and B\u0115yth \u011al become a non-entity."}, {"pk": 2713936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSeek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and live, lest He break out like fire upon the house of Yos\u0115ph, and shall consume it, with no one to quench it in B\u0115yth \u011al."}, {"pk": 2713937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cO you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "He who made Kimah and Kesil, and who turns the shadow of death into morning and darkened day into night, who is calling for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His Name \u2014"}, {"pk": 2713939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "who is flashing forth destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the stronghold."}, {"pk": 2713940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "They hated the one who reproves in the gate, and they despise the one who speaks the truth.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/15'>59:15</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2713941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take grain taxes from him \u2014 you have built houses of hewn stone but you are not going to dwell in them, you have planted pleasant vineyards but not drink wine from them."}, {"pk": 2713942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, afflicting the righteous and accepting bribes, and turning aside the poor at the gate."}, {"pk": 2713943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time."}, {"pk": 2713944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Seek good and not evil, so that you live. And let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts be with you, as you have spoken."}, {"pk": 2713945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might be that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts shows favour to the remnant of Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2713946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, said this, \u201cThere is wailing in all open squares, and in all the streets they say, \u2018Alas! Alas!\u2019 and shall call the farmer to mourning, and skilled lamenters to wailing."}, {"pk": 2713947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd in all vineyards there is wailing, for I pass through your midst,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "Woe to you who are longing for the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! What does the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 mean to you? It is darkness, and not light,"}, {"pk": 2713949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear shall meet him; or entered his house, rested his hand on the wall, and a serpent shall bite him."}, {"pk": 2713950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Is not the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?"}, {"pk": 2713951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies."}, {"pk": 2713952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThough you offer Me ascending offerings and your grain offerings, I do not accept them, nor do I look on your fattened peace offerings."}, {"pk": 2713953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cTake away from Me the noise of your songs, for I do not hear the sound of your stringed instruments."}, {"pk": 2713954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd let right-ruling roll on like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream."}, {"pk": 2713955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYou brought Me slaughterings and meal offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,"}, {"pk": 2713956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "but you took up Sikkuth your sovereign and Kiyyun, your idols, your astral mighty ones, which you made for yourselves!", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/43'>7:43</a>"}, {"pk": 2713957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cTherefore I shall send you into exile beyond Dammeseq,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts \u2014 His Name."}, {"pk": 2713958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to those at ease in Tsiyon, and those trusting in Mount Shomeron, the distinguished ones among the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l comes!"}, {"pk": 2713959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Pass over to Kalneh and see, and from there go to H\u0323amath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these reigns, or is their border greater than your border?"}, {"pk": 2713960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "You who are putting off the day of evil, yet bring near the seat of violence,"}, {"pk": 2713961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "who are lying on beds of ivory, and are stretched out on your couches, and are eating lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,"}, {"pk": 2713962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "who are singing to the sound of the harp, having composed songs for themselves like Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2713963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "who are drinking wine from bowls, and anoint with the finest ointments, yet they have not been pained over the breach of Yos\u0115ph!"}, {"pk": 2713964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore they shall now go into exile, with the first of the exiles, and the feasting of the stretched-out ones shall cease!"}, {"pk": 2713965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn by Himself, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts declares, \u201cI am loathing the pride of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and I have hated his palaces. Therefore I shall deliver up the city and all that is in it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And it shall be, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die."}, {"pk": 2713967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And if an uncle, or his undertaker, brings the remains out of the house, he shall say to one inside the house, \u201cIs anyone with you?\u201d and he says, \u201cNo,\u201d then he shall say, \u201cHush!\u201d For we have not remembered the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2713968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "For look, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is commanding, and He shall strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts."}, {"pk": 2713969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,"}, {"pk": 2713970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "you who are rejoicing over a matter of naught, who say, \u201cHave we not taken horns for ourselves by our own strength?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am raising up a nation against you, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of hosts, \u201cand they shall oppress you from the entrance of H\u0323amath to the wadi Arab\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed me, and see, He was forming locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop. And see, it was the late crop after the mowings of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2713973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, \u201cO Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, forgive, I pray! How does Ya\u201baqob\u0331 survive, for he is small?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 relented concerning this. \u201cIt shall not be,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed me, and see, the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was calling to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep and did consume the portion,"}, {"pk": 2713976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "and I said, \u201cO Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please stop! How does Ya\u201baqob\u0331 survive, for he is small?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 relented concerning this. \u201cThis shall not be either,\u201d said the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2713978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "This is what He showed me, and see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood on a wall made with a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in His hand,"}, {"pk": 2713979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cAmos, what do you see?\u201d And I said, \u201cA plumb-line.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cSee, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, no longer do I pardon them."}, {"pk": 2713980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the high places of Yitsh\u0323aq shall be laid waste, and the set-apart places of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be destroyed. And I shall rise with the sword against the house of Yarob\u0331\u201bam.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "Then Amatsyah the priest of B\u0115yth \u011al sent to Yarob\u0331\u201bam sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying, \u201cAmos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. The land is not able to endure all his words,"}, {"pk": 2713982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "for this is what Amos said, \u2018Yarob\u0331\u201bam shall die by the sword, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l certainly be exiled from their own land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And Amatsyah said to Amos, \u201cGo, you seer! Flee to the land of Yehud\u0331ah, and eat bread and prophesy there,"}, {"pk": 2713984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "but do not prophesy any more at B\u0115yth \u011al, for it is the sovereign\u2019s set-apart place and it is the house of the reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And Amos answered and said to Amatsyah, \u201cI am not a prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet, for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs."}, {"pk": 2713986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 took me from behind the flock, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u2018Go, prophesy to My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd now, hear the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. You are saying, \u2018Do not prophesy against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and do not drop <i>words</i> against the house of Yitsh\u0323aq.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2713988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cTherefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018Your wife shall become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters fall by the sword, and your land be divided by a <i>measuring</i> line, and you die in a defiled land, and Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall certainly be exiled from its land.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2713989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed me, and see, a basket of summer fruit."}, {"pk": 2713990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And He said, \u201cAmos, what do you see?\u201d And I said, \u201cA basket of summer fruit.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cThe end has come upon my people Yisra\u2019\u0115l, no longer do I pardon them."}, {"pk": 2713991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the songs of the H\u0115k\u0331al shall be wailing in that day,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cmany dead bodies everywhere, thrown into any place \u2014 hush!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,"}, {"pk": 2713993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "saying, \u201cWhen does the New <i>Moon</i> pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the \u0115phah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit,"}, {"pk": 2713994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2713995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn by the Excellency of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, \u201cI shall never forget any of their works."}, {"pk": 2713996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cShall the land not tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? And all of it shall swell like the River, heave and subside like the River of Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2713997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and shall darken the earth on a day of brightness,"}, {"pk": 2713998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness."}, {"pk": 2713999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSee, days are coming,\u201d declares the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I shall send a hunger in the land, not a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water, but for hearing the Words of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east \u2014 they shall diligently search, seeking the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but they shall not find it.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/5/13'>5:13</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/8/12'>8:12</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/3-10'>34:3-10</a>"}, {"pk": 2714001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIn that day the beautiful maidens and strong young men shall faint from thirst,"}, {"pk": 2714002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "those swearing by the guilt of Shomeron, who say, \u2018As your mighty one lives, O Dan!\u2019 and, \u2018As the way of Be\u2019\u0115rsheb\u0331a lives!\u2019 And they shall fall and never rise again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "I saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 standing by the slaughter-place, and He said, \u201cStrike the column head, so that the thresholds shake, and break them off by the head, all of them. And the last of them I kill with the sword. Not one of them fleeing gets away, and not one fugitive of them escapes."}, {"pk": 2714004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIf they dig into She\u2019ol, from there my hand does take them; and if they climb up to the heavens, from there I bring them down."}, {"pk": 2714005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd if they hide themselves on top of Karmel, from there I shall search, and take them. And if they hide from before My eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I shall command the serpent, and it shall bite them."}, {"pk": 2714006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I shall command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I shall set My eyes on them for evil and not for good.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts is He who touches the earth so that it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it come up like the River, and subside like the River of Mitsrayim \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "who is building His upper room in the heavens, and has founded His firmament on the earth, who is calling for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is His Name."}, {"pk": 2714009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAre you not like the people of Kush to Me, O children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cDid I not bring up Yisra\u2019\u0115l from the land of Mitsrayim, and the Philistines from Kaphtor, and Aram from Qir?"}, {"pk": 2714010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cLook, the eyes of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are on the sinful reign, and I shall destroy it from the face of the earth, except that, I do not completely destroy the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/2'>34:2</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/11'>30:11</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/46/28'>46:28</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/8'>3:8</a>; Hagg. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/22'>2:22</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/5'>4:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/42/4/6'>6</a>"}, {"pk": 2714011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am commanding, and I shall sift the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l among all the nations, as one sifts with a sieve, yet not a grain falls to the ground.", "comment": "Or <em>shake \u2013 shakes</em>.<br>Or <em>shake \u2013 shakes</em>."}, {"pk": 2714012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAll the sinners of My people are going to die by the sword, those who are saying, \u2018Evil does not overtake us nor meet us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIn that day I shall raise up the Booth of Dawid\u0331 which has fallen down. And I shall repair its breaches and raise up its ruins. And I shall build it as in the days of old,"}, {"pk": 2714014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "so that they possess the remnant of Ed\u0331om, and all the nations on whom My Name is called,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who does this.", "comment": "The vowels which the Massoretes added later on makes this read <em>Ed\u0331om</em>, but it was probably a mistake. It should be <em>Ad\u0331am</em>, meaning <em>mankind</em>.<br>See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/15/16'>15:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/15/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2714015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cLook, the days are coming,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. And the mountains shall drip new wine, and all the hills melt."}, {"pk": 2714016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall turn back the captivity of My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them, and shall make gardens and eat their fruit."}, {"pk": 2714017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 30, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall plant them on their own soil, and not uproot them any more from their own soil I have given them,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2714018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The vision of Ob\u0331ad\u0331yah: This is what the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said concerning Ed\u0331om. We have heard a report from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, \u201cArise, and let us rise up against her for battle!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSee, I have made you small among the nations, you are greatly despised."}, {"pk": 2714020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, \u2018Who shall bring me down to the ground?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThough you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I shall bring you down,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cIf thieves came to you, if robbers by night, how ruined you would have been! Would they not steal till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, would they not leave gleanings?"}, {"pk": 2714023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHow \u011asaw shall be searched out! His hidden treasures shall be sought out!"}, {"pk": 2714024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAll your allies shall send you forth to the border, your friends shall deceive you and overpower you. They make your bread a snare under you, without you discerning it!"}, {"pk": 2714025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIn that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall destroy the wise men from Ed\u0331om, and discernment from the mountains of \u011asaw!"}, {"pk": 2714026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd your mighty men shall be discouraged, O T\u0115man, so that everyone from the mountains of \u011asaw is cut off by killing."}, {"pk": 2714027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBecause of your violence against your brother Ya\u201baqob\u0331, let shame cover you. And you shall be cut off forever."}, {"pk": 2714028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIn the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers took captive his wealth, when foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Yerushalayim, you also were like one of them!"}, {"pk": 2714029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd you should not have looked on your brother\u2019s day in the day of his estrangement, nor rejoiced over the children of Yehud\u0331ah in the day of their destruction, nor made your mouth great in the day of distress,"}, {"pk": 2714030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "nor have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity, nor looked down on their evil in the day of their calamity, nor have seized their wealth in the day of their calamity,"}, {"pk": 2714031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "nor have stood at the parting of the way to cut off his fugitives, nor handed over his survivors in the day of distress."}, {"pk": 2714032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your reward shall come back on your own head."}, {"pk": 2714033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor as you have drunk on my set-apart mountain, so do all the nations drink continually. And they shall drink and shall swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been."}, {"pk": 2714034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut on Mount Tsiyon there shall be an escape, and they shall be set-apart. And the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall possess their possessions.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/4/2'>4:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/4/3'>3</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/32'>2:32</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/14/1'>14:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2714035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall be a fire, and the house of Yos\u0115ph a flame, but the house of \u011asaw for stubble. And they shall burn among them and they shall consume them, so that no survivor is left of the house of \u011asaw.\u201d For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has spoken."}, {"pk": 2714036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And they shall possess the South with the mountains of \u011asaw, and low country with the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephrayim and the fields of Shomeron, and Binyamin with Gil\u201bad\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2714037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "and the exiles of this host of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l <i>possess</i> that of the Kena\u201banites as far as Tsarephath, and the exiles of Yerushalayim who are in Sepharad\u0331 possess the cities of the South."}, {"pk": 2714038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 31, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And saviours shall come to Mount Tsiyon to judge the mountains of \u011asaw. And the reign shall belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/8'>2:8</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/28'>22:28</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/14'>14</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/27'>7:27</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/9'>14:9</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/12/10'>12:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2714039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yonah son of Amittai, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cArise, go to Ninew\u0115h, the great city, and cry out against it, for their evils have come up before Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "But Yonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and went down to Yapho, and found a ship going to Tarshish. And he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was thought to be broken up."}, {"pk": 2714043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the seamen were afraid, and each one cried out to his mighty one, and threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Yonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, and he lay down, and was fast asleep."}, {"pk": 2714044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And the captain came to him, and said to him, \u201cWhat do you mean, sleeper? Arise, cry out to your Elohim, if so be that Elohim shall think about us, so that we do not perish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cCome, and let us cast lots, so that we know for whose sake this evil has come upon us.\u201d So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Yonah."}, {"pk": 2714046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "So they said to him, \u201cPlease explain to us! For whose sake is this evil upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And from what people are you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cI am a Hebrew. And I am fearing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Elohim of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, \u201cWhy have you done this?\u201d For the men knew that he fled from the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for he had informed them."}, {"pk": 2714049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhat are we to do to you to make the sea calm for us?\u201d For the sea was growing more stormy."}, {"pk": 2714050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cTake me and throw me into the sea, so that the sea becomes calm for you. For I know that this great storm is because of me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "However, the men rowed hard to bring the ship to land, but were unable, for the sea continued to grow more stormy against them."}, {"pk": 2714052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And they cried out to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and said, \u201cWe pray, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please, let us not perish for this man\u2019s life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, have done as it pleased You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Then they took Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging."}, {"pk": 2714054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And the men feared \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 exceedingly, and slaughtered a slaughtering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and made vows."}, {"pk": 2714055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appointed a great fish to swallow Yonah. And Yonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights."}, {"pk": 2714056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And Yonah prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 his Elohim from the stomach of the fish."}, {"pk": 2714057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said, \u201cI called to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 because of my distress, and He answered me. From the stomach of She\u2019ol I cried, and You heard my voice."}, {"pk": 2714058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me."}, {"pk": 2714059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSo I said, \u2018I have been driven away from Your eyes. Would I ever look again toward Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWaters encompassed me, unto life, the deep closed around me, weeds were wrapped around my head."}, {"pk": 2714061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI went down to the base of the mountains, the earth with its bars were behind me forever. But You brought up my life from the pit, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, my Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWhen my life fainted within me, I remembered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And my prayer went up to You, into Your set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2714063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThose observing false worthlessnesses forsake their own loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2714064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut I slaughter to You with the voice of thanksgiving, I pay what I have vowed. Deliverance is of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah onto the dry land."}, {"pk": 2714066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Yonah the second time, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cArise, go to Ninew\u0115h, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am speaking to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yonah arose and went to Ninew\u0115h, according to the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Now Ninew\u0115h was a great city before Elohim, of three day\u2019s journey."}, {"pk": 2714069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yonah began to go in to the city on the first day\u2019s walk. And he cried out and said, \u201cYet forty days, and Ninew\u0115h shall be overthrown!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And the men of Ninew\u0115h believed in Elohim, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them."}, {"pk": 2714071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And the word reached the sovereign of Ninew\u0115h, so he arose from his throne and took off his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes."}, {"pk": 2714072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And he proclaimed and said throughout Ninew\u0115h, \u201cBy decree of the sovereign and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, shall taste whatever \u2014 let them not eat, let them not even drink water."}, {"pk": 2714073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and call mightily to Elohim. And let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands."}, {"pk": 2714074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWho knows whether Elohim does turn and relent, and shall turn away from the heat of His displeasure, so that we do not perish?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And Elohim saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And Elohim relented from the evil which He had said He would do to them, and He did not do it."}, {"pk": 2714076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "But it greatly displeased Yonah, and he was grieved."}, {"pk": 2714077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he prayed to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and he said, \u201cPlease, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, was this not what I said while I was in my own land? This is why I went ahead and fled to Tarshish. For I know that You are an \u011al showing favour, and compassionate, patient and of great loving-commitment, and relenting from doing evil."}, {"pk": 2714078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cAre you right to be displeased?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Yonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and made himself a shelter there, and sat under it in the shade, to see what would become of the city."}, {"pk": 2714081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim appointed a plant and made it come up over Yonah, to be a shade for his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Yonah greatly rejoiced over the plant."}, {"pk": 2714082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "But as morning dawned the next day Elohim appointed a worm which struck the plant so that it withered."}, {"pk": 2714083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on Yonah\u2019s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, \u201cIt is better for me to die than to live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And Elohim said to Yonah, \u201cHave you rightly become displeased over the plant?\u201d And he said, \u201cI have rightly become displeased, even to death!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said, \u201cYou felt sorry for the plant for which you have not laboured, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night."}, {"pk": 2714086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 32, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd should I not pardon Ninew\u0115h, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand beings who have not known their right hand from their left, and much cattle?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 that came to Mik\u0331ah of Moresheth in the days of Yotham, Ah\u0323az, H\u0323izqiyah, sovereigns of Yehud\u0331ah, which he saw concerning Shomeron and Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all who are in it! And let the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 be a witness against you \u2014 \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from His set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al."}, {"pk": 2714089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "For look, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is coming out of His place, and He shall come down and shall tread on the high places of the earth.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/21'>26:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2714090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys be cleft as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/97/5'>97:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2714091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "All this is for the transgression of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and for the sins of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. What is the transgression of Ya\u201baqob\u0331? Is it not Shomeron? And what are the high places of Yehud\u0331ah? Are they not Yerushalayim?"}, {"pk": 2714092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make Shomeron a heap in the field, places for planting a vineyard. And I shall pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations."}, {"pk": 2714093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd all her carved images shall be beaten in pieces, and all her harlot-fees be burned with the fire. And all her idols I shall lay waste, for she gathered it from the harlot-fee of a whore, and they shall return to the harlot-fee of a whore.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches."}, {"pk": 2714095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Yehud\u0331ah, it has come to the gate of My people, to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Do not declare it in Gath, weep not at all in B\u0115yth Aphrah, roll yourself in the dust."}, {"pk": 2714097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Pass by in nakedness and shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir. The inhabitant of Tsa\u2019anan has not gone out. The lamentation of B\u0115yth \u011atsel takes from you its standing place."}, {"pk": 2714098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the gate of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "O inhabitant of Lak\u0331ish, harness the chariot to the horse \u2014 she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Tsiyon \u2014 for the transgressions of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were found in you."}, {"pk": 2714100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath, the houses of Ak\u0331zib\u0331 becoming a deception to the sovereigns of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2714101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Again I shall bring a dispossessor to you, O inhabitant of Mar\u0115shah. The esteem of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall come to Ad\u0331ullam."}, {"pk": 2714102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Make yourself bald and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, for they shall be exiled from you."}, {"pk": 2714103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand."}, {"pk": 2714104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance."}, {"pk": 2714105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cSee, against this clan I am planning evil, from which you do not remove your necks, nor walk proudly, for this is a time of evil."}, {"pk": 2714106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIn that day one shall lift up a proverb against you, and he shall lament with a bitter lamentation, and shall say, \u2018We have been utterly ravaged! He changes the inheritance of my people. How He removes it from me! He apportions our fields to the backslider.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cTherefore you shall have no one in the assembly of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to divide the land by lot."}, {"pk": 2714108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou do not preach, they preach. They do not preach to these, reproaches are not turned back."}, {"pk": 2714109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAre you called \u2018House of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019? Has the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 been limited? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good to the one walking uprightly?"}, {"pk": 2714110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd lately My people have risen up as an enemy. You strip off the robe with the garment from those who trust you, as they pass by \u2014 those returning from battle."}, {"pk": 2714111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cYou have driven the women of My people from their pleasant houses. You have taken away My splendour from their children forever."}, {"pk": 2714112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cArise and go, for this is not your rest, because uncleanness destroys, and the destruction is grievous."}, {"pk": 2714113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIf a man walking after wind and falsehood has lied: \u2018I preach to you of wine and of strong drink,\u2019 he shall be the \u2018preacher\u2019 of this people!"}, {"pk": 2714114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI shall certainly gather all of you, O Ya\u201baqob\u0331, I shall bring together the remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, put them together like sheep of the fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture, they being noisy because of men."}, {"pk": 2714115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe breach-maker shall go up before them. They shall break out, and pass through the gate, and go out by it, and their sovereign pass before them, with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 at their head!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Then I said, \u201cHear now, O heads of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and you rulers of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l: Should you not know right-ruling,"}, {"pk": 2714117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "you who are hating good and loving evil, tearing away the skin from My people, and the flesh from their bones,"}, {"pk": 2714118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "and who have eaten the flesh of My people, and stripped off their skin, and have broken their bones, and have cut it up as into a pot, like flesh in the cooking pot?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Therefore, when they cry to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 He does not answer them, and hides His face from them at that time, as they have made their deeds evil."}, {"pk": 2714120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and have called out, \u201cPeace!\u201d They even set apart a battle against him who does not give for their mouths."}, {"pk": 2714121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore it shall be night to you without vision, and darkness to you without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be dark for them."}, {"pk": 2714122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners embarrassed. And they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer, O Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "But truly I am filled with power, with the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and with right-ruling and with might, to declare to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 his transgression and to Yisra\u2019\u0115l his sin.", "comment": "See 2Ch. <a href='/TS2009/14/24/20'>24:20</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/16/8'>16:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2714124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and you rulers of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, who despise right-ruling and distort all that is straight,"}, {"pk": 2714125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "those building up Tsiyon with bloodshed and Yerushalayim with unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2714126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and say, \u201cIs not \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in our midst? Evil does not come upon us.\u201d", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/10/12'>10:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2714127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height."}, {"pk": 2714128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the latter days it shall be that the mountain of the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And peoples shall flow to it."}, {"pk": 2714129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And many nations shall come and say, \u201cCome, and let us go up to the mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to the House of the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths. For out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 from Yerushalayim.\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/2/3'>2:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2714130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And He shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong nations afar off. They shall beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks \u2014 nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither teach battle any more."}, {"pk": 2714131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "But each one shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, with no one to make them afraid, for the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has spoken."}, {"pk": 2714132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "For all the peoples walk, each one in the name of his mighty one, but we walk in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim forever and ever.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/10/12'>10:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2714133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIn that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI gather the lame, and I bring together the outcast and those whom I have afflicted."}, {"pk": 2714134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make the lame a remnant, and the outcast a strong nation. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall reign over them in Mount Tsiyon, from now on and forever."}, {"pk": 2714135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd you, O tower of the flock, stronghold of the daughter of Tsiyon, it shall come to you, the former rule shall come, the reign of the daughter of Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no sovereign in you? Has your counsellor perished? For pain has gripped you like a woman in labour."}, {"pk": 2714137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Be in pain, and deliver, O daughter of Tsiyon, like a woman in labour. For now you are to leave the city, and you shall dwell in the field. And you shall go to Bab\u0331el, there you shall be delivered, there \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies."}, {"pk": 2714138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And now, many nations shall be gathered against you, who are saying, \u201cLet her be defiled, and let our eyes look upon Tsiyon!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "But they do not know the thoughts of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor."}, {"pk": 2714140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cArise and thresh, O daughter of Tsiyon, for I make your horn iron and your hooves bronze. And you shall beat many peoples into pieces, and I shall seclude their gain to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their wealth to the Master of all the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Now you are raided, O daughter of raiders, a siege has been laid against us. They strike the Judge of Yisra\u2019\u0115l with a rod on the cheek."}, {"pk": 2714142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut you, B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em Ephrathah, you who are little among the clans of Yehud\u0331ah, out of you shall come forth to Me the One to become Ruler in Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And His comings forth are of old, from everlasting.\u201d", "comment": "Or <em>His appearances</em>."}, {"pk": 2714143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore He shall give them up, until the time that she who is in labour has given birth, and the remnant of His brothers return to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2714144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And He shall stand and shepherd in the strength of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, in the excellency of the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 His Elohim. And they shall dwell, for at that time He shall be great, to the ends of the earth.", "comment": "See Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/13'>34:13</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/34/14'>14</a>"}, {"pk": 2714145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And this shall be peace. When Ashshur comes into our land, and when he treads in our palaces, we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men."}, {"pk": 2714146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And they shall shepherd the land of Ashshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod\u0331 at its entrances. And He shall deliver us from Ashshur, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our borders."}, {"pk": 2714147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And the remnant of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as showers on the grass, which do not wait for man nor delay for the sons of men."}, {"pk": 2714148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And the remnant of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of a forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes through, shall both tread down and shall tear, and there is no one to deliver."}, {"pk": 2714149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Let your hand be lifted up against your adversaries, and all your enemies be cut off."}, {"pk": 2714150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat I shall cut off your horses out of your midst, and I shall destroy your chariots."}, {"pk": 2714151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off the cities of your land, and I shall pull down all your strongholds."}, {"pk": 2714152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off witchcrafts out of your hand, and let you have no magicians."}, {"pk": 2714153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off your carved images, and your pillars from your midst, so that you no longer bow down to the work of your hands."}, {"pk": 2714154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall pluck your Ash\u0115rim out of your midst, and I shall destroy your cities."}, {"pk": 2714155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall take vengeance in wrath and rage on the nations who did not obey.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Hear now what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is saying, \u201cArise, strive with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice."}, {"pk": 2714157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cHear, O you mountains, the controversy of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and you everlasting foundations of the earth! For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has a controversy with His people and He shall reprove Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2714158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cMy people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Answer Me,"}, {"pk": 2714159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "for I brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, and I ransomed you from the house of bondage. And I sent Mosheh, Aharon, and Miryam before you."}, {"pk": 2714160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cMy people, remember, please, what Balaq sovereign of Mo\u2019ab\u0331 counselled, and what Bil\u201bam son of Be\u201bor answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, in order to know the righteousness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "With what shall I come before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bow myself before the high Elohim? Shall I come before Him with ascending offerings, with calves a year old?"}, {"pk": 2714162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 pleased with thousands of rams or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my being?"}, {"pk": 2714163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 require of you but to do right, and to love loving-commitment, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2714164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "The voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 cries to the city \u2014 and let sound wisdom see Your Name! \u201cHear the Rod and Him who appointed it!"}, {"pk": 2714165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAre there still treasures of wrongness in the house of the wrong, and the short measure that is an abomination?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Would I be innocent with wrong scales, and with a bag of false weights?"}, {"pk": 2714167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth."}, {"pk": 2714168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSo I also, I shall strike you with a grievous wound, to lay you waste because of your sins:"}, {"pk": 2714169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou shall eat but not be satisfied, and your inside be empty. And you shall store up but not save, and what you save I shall give to the sword."}, {"pk": 2714170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou shall sow but not reap, you shall tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and make sweet wine but not drink wine."}, {"pk": 2714171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Ah\u0323ab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I give you for a ruin, and your inhabitants for a hissing, and let you bear the reproach of My people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to me! For I am as gatherings of summer fruit, as gleanings of the grape harvest. There is no cluster to eat. My being has desired the first-ripe fruit."}, {"pk": 2714173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "The lovingly-committed one has perished from the earth, and there is no one straight among men. All of them lie in wait for blood, everyone hunts his brother with a net."}, {"pk": 2714174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together."}, {"pk": 2714175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "The best of them is like a prickly plant, the most straight is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman and your punishment has come, now is their confusion."}, {"pk": 2714176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Trust no friend, rely on no companion, guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom."}, {"pk": 2714177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "For son is despising father, daughter rises up against her mother, daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, the enemies of a man are the men of his own house."}, {"pk": 2714178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "As for me, I look to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I wait for the Elohim of my deliverance, my Elohim does hear me."}, {"pk": 2714179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. When I have fallen I have risen, when I sit in darkness \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a light to me."}, {"pk": 2714180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "I bear the displeasure of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for I have sinned against Him, <i>until</i> He pleads my case, and shall execute right-ruling for me, until He brings me out into the light and I look on His righteousness."}, {"pk": 2714181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And let my enemy see it, and let shame cover her who said to me, \u201cWhere is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim?\u201d Let my eyes look on her: now she is trampled down like mud in the streets."}, {"pk": 2714182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "The day for building your walls! Let the law go far and wide in that day \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "that day when they come to you from Ashshur and the besieged cities of Mitsrayim, and from the siege to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.", "comment": "\u201cSiege\u201d in this verse could be another name for Mitsrayim."}, {"pk": 2714184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "But the earth shall become a waste because of those who dwell in it, and for the fruit of their deeds."}, {"pk": 2714185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "Shepherd Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest, in the midst of Karmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gil\u201bad\u0331, as in days of old."}, {"pk": 2714186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAs in the days when you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, I shall let him see wonders.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "Let the nations see and be ashamed of all their might, let them put their hand over their mouth, let their ears be deaf."}, {"pk": 2714188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "Let them lick the dust like a serpent, let them come trembling from their strongholds like snakes of the earth, let them be afraid of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim and fear because of You."}, {"pk": 2714189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "Who is an \u011al like You \u2014 taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in loving-commitment."}, {"pk": 2714190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "He shall turn back, He shall have compassion on us, He shall trample upon our crookednesses! And You throw all our sins into the depths of the sea!"}, {"pk": 2714191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 33, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "You give truth to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, loving-commitment to Ab\u0331raham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old!"}, {"pk": 2714192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The message concerning Ninew\u0115h. The book of the vision of Nah\u0323um the Elqoshite."}, {"pk": 2714193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a jealous and revenging \u011al, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is a revenger and a possessor of wrath. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He watches for His enemies."}, {"pk": 2714194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is patient and great in power, but by no means leaves unpunished. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet."}, {"pk": 2714195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "He is rebuking the sea and dries it up. And all the floods He has made dry, Bashan and Karmel are withering, and the flower of Leb\u0331anon is languishing."}, {"pk": 2714196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Mountains have shaken before Him, and the hills have melted. And the earth is lifted up at His presence, and the world and all who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2714197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "Who does stand before His rage? And who rises up in the heat of His displeasure? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks have been broken by Him."}, {"pk": 2714198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is good, as a stronghold in the day of distress. And He knows those who take refuge in Him."}, {"pk": 2714199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "But with an overwhelming flood He makes a complete end of the place of <i>Ninew\u0115h</i>, and darkness does pursue His enemies."}, {"pk": 2714200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "What do you plot against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? He makes a complete end of it. Distress does not rise up a second time."}, {"pk": 2714201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried."}, {"pk": 2714202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "From you came forth one who plots evil against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, a counsellor of Beliya\u201bal."}, {"pk": 2714203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cThough they are strong and many, even so, they shall be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I afflict you no more."}, {"pk": 2714204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSo now I break his yoke from you, and tear off your shackles.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has commanded concerning you, \u201cYour name shall no longer be sown. From the house of your mighty ones I shall cut off the carved image and the moulded image. I shall appoint your burial-site, for you have been of no account.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "See, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace! O Yehud\u0331ah, celebrate your festivals, perform your vows. For Beliya\u201bal shall no more pass through you. He has been cut off completely."}, {"pk": 2714207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "He who breaks in pieces has come up before your face. Guard the ramparts! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power very much."}, {"pk": 2714208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall turn back the splendour of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 like the splendour of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for the emptiers have emptied them out and ruined their vine branches."}, {"pk": 2714209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "The shields of his mighty men have become red, the men of battle are in scarlet. The chariots are like flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the cypresses shall be shaken."}, {"pk": 2714210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "The chariots dash about in the streets, they rush one another in the broad ways. They look like flaming torches, they run like lightning."}, {"pk": 2714211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "He remembers his noble ones, they stumble in their walk, they hurry to her walls, and the defence is prepared."}, {"pk": 2714212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "The river gates have been opened, and the palace is melted."}, {"pk": 2714213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And it is established: she shall be exiled, she shall be led away. And her female servants are moaning as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts."}, {"pk": 2714214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And Ninew\u0115h of old was like a pool of water, now they flee away. \u201cStop! Stop!\u201d they cry, but no one turns back."}, {"pk": 2714215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no limit to the treasure \u2014 a wealth of all precious objects."}, {"pk": 2714216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "She is empty, even emptiness and waste! And the heart has melted, and the knees have knocked together, and much pain is in all loins, and all their faces have become flushed."}, {"pk": 2714217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness and the lion\u2019s cub walked, with no one to disturb them?"}, {"pk": 2714218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with torn prey."}, {"pk": 2714219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand I shall burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword devour your young lions. And I shall cut off your prey from the earth, and no longer is the voice of your messengers heard.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to the city of blood! All of it is a lie, filled with plunder, the prey is not lacking."}, {"pk": 2714221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "The sound of a whip and the sound of rattling wheels, of galloping horses, of jolting chariots,"}, {"pk": 2714222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "mounted horsemen with bright sword and glittering spear, and many wounded, and a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses, they stumble over the corpses \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "because of the many whorings of the well-favoured whore, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her whorings, and clans by her sorceries."}, {"pk": 2714224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, I am against you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand shall lift up your skirts over your face, and shall show nations your nakedness, and reigns your shame."}, {"pk": 2714225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cast abominations upon you, and treat you as foolish, and make a spectacle of you."}, {"pk": 2714226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be that all who see you flee from you, and say, \u2018Ninew\u0115h is laid waste! Who does mourn for her?\u2019 Where do I seek comforters for you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Are you better than No Amon, who dwelt by the Nile-streams, with waters around her, whose rampart was like the sea, whose wall was like the sea?"}, {"pk": 2714228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Kush and Mitsrayim were her strength, even unlimited. Put and Lub\u0331im were your helpers."}, {"pk": 2714229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "Yet she was exiled, she went into captivity. At the head of every street her young children were dashed to pieces. Lots were cast for her esteemed men, and all her great men were bound in chains."}, {"pk": 2714230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "You too are to become drunk, you are to go into hiding. You too are to seek refuge from the enemy."}, {"pk": 2714231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs, when shaken they shall fall into the mouth of the eater."}, {"pk": 2714232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "See, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land shall be opened wide to your enemies. Fire shall consume your gate bars."}, {"pk": 2714233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your defences! Go into the clay and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brick mould!"}, {"pk": 2714234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "There a fire shall consume you, a sword cut you off, eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locust!"}, {"pk": 2714235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust shall strip off and fly away."}, {"pk": 2714236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Your officials are like the locusts, and your marshals are like the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges on a cold day \u2014 when the sun rises they flee away, and the place where they are is unknown."}, {"pk": 2714237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "Your shepherds have slumbered, O sovereign of Ashshur, your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them."}, {"pk": 2714238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 34, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Your injury has no healing, your wound is grievous. All who hear news of you shall clap their hands over you. For over whom did your evil not pass continually?"}, {"pk": 2714239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The message which the prophet H\u0323ab\u0331aqquq saw."}, {"pk": 2714240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, \u201cViolence!\u201d and You do not save."}, {"pk": 2714241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises."}, {"pk": 2714242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted."}, {"pk": 2714243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cLook among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told."}, {"pk": 2714244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cSee, I am raising up the Kasdim, a bitter and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs."}, {"pk": 2714245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThey are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves."}, {"pk": 2714246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTheir horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat."}, {"pk": 2714247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAll of them come for violence, the direction of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand."}, {"pk": 2714248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd they scoff at sovereigns, and princes are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up earth and seize it."}, {"pk": 2714249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThen shall he pass on as a wind, and transgress and be guilty, and ascribe this power to his mighty one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Are You not from everlasting, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof."}, {"pk": 2714251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>You</i>, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously \u2014 keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?"}, {"pk": 2714252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And would You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping creatures that have no ruler over them?"}, {"pk": 2714253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>The wicked foe</i> has pulled all of them up with a hook, caught them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and exults."}, {"pk": 2714254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore he slaughters to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, for by them is his portion fat and his food is rich."}, {"pk": 2714255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Is he therefore to keep on emptying his net, and killing nations without sparing?"}, {"pk": 2714256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "I stand at my watch, and station myself on the watch-tower, and wait to see what He says to me, and what to answer when I am reproved."}, {"pk": 2714257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered me and said, \u201cWrite the vision and inscribe it on tablets, so that he who reads it runs."}, {"pk": 2714258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cFor the vision is yet for an appointed time, and it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it lingers, wait for it, for it shall certainly come, it shall not delay."}, {"pk": 2714259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cSee, he whose being is not upright in him is puffed up. But the righteous one lives by his steadfastness."}, {"pk": 2714260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd also, because wine betrays him, a man is proud, and he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his appetite as She\u2019ol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, and gathers to himself all nations and heaps up for himself all peoples."}, {"pk": 2714261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cShall not all these lift up a proverb against him, and a mocking riddle against him, and say, \u2018Woe to him who increases what is not his! Till when is he to load on himself many pledges\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2714262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cDo not your creditors rise up suddenly? And those who make you tremble wake up and you be plunder for them?"}, {"pk": 2714263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBecause you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you, because of men\u2019s blood, and doing violence to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2714264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who is getting evil gain for his house, in order to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of evil!"}, {"pk": 2714265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cYou have counselled shame for your house, to cut off many peoples, and your being is sinning."}, {"pk": 2714266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor a stone from the wall cries out, and a beam from the timbers answers it."}, {"pk": 2714267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who builds a town by blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness!"}, {"pk": 2714268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cSee, it is not from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts that peoples labour only for fire, and nations weary themselves for naught,"}, {"pk": 2714269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as the waters cover the sea!", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/9'>11:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2714270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who gives drink to his neighbour, pouring out your wineskin, and also making him drunk \u2014 in order to look on their nakedness!"}, {"pk": 2714271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cYou shall be filled with shame instead of esteem. Drink, you too, and be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the right hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall come around to you, and great shame upon your esteem."}, {"pk": 2714272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor the violence done to Leb\u0331anon is to overwhelm you \u2014 and the ravaging of beasts by which you made them afraid \u2014 because of men\u2019s blood and the violence to the land, to the city and of all who dwell in it."}, {"pk": 2714273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cOf what use shall a carved image be? For its maker has carved it: a moulded image and teacher of falsehood! For the maker trusts what he has made: to make dumb idols!"}, {"pk": 2714274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWoe to him who says to wood, \u2018Awake!\u2019 to silent stone, \u2018Arise!\u2019 Is it a teacher? See, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no spirit at all inside it."}, {"pk": 2714275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is in His set-apart H\u0115k\u0331al. Let all the earth be silent before Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "A prayer of H\u0323ab\u0331aqquq the prophet, on Shi\u1e21ionoth."}, {"pk": 2714277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I have heard your report, I was afraid. O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, renew Your work in the midst of the years! Make it known in the midst of the years. In wrath remember compassion."}, {"pk": 2714278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Eloah comes from T\u0115man, And the Set-apart One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour shall cover the heavens, And His praise shall fill the earth."}, {"pk": 2714279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And the brightness is as the light, He has rays from His hand, And there His power is hidden."}, {"pk": 2714280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Before Him goes pestilence, And a burning flame goes forth at His feet."}, {"pk": 2714281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "He shall stand and measure the earth. He shall look and shake the nations. And the ancient mountains are shattered, The age-old hills shall bow. His ways are everlasting."}, {"pk": 2714282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "I saw the tents of Kushan under sorrow, The curtains of the land of Mid\u0331yan tremble."}, {"pk": 2714283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Shall \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 burn against the rivers? Is Your displeasure against the rivers, Is Your wrath against the sea, That You ride on Your horses, Your chariots of deliverance?"}, {"pk": 2714284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "You uncover Your bow, The oaths of the rod of the Word. Selah. You cut through the earth with rivers."}, {"pk": 2714285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "The mountains shall see You, they tremble. The storm of water shall pass over. The deep shall give forth its voice, It shall lift up its hands."}, {"pk": 2714286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Sun, moon shall stand still in their places. Like light Your arrows fly, Like lightning is Your glittering spear."}, {"pk": 2714287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "You step through the earth in rage, You thresh the nations in wrath."}, {"pk": 2714288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "You shall go forth to save Your people; to save Your Anointed. You shall smite the head from the house of the wrong, By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah."}, {"pk": 2714289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "You shall pierce with his own arrows The head of his leaders. They stormed along to scatter me, Rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret."}, {"pk": 2714290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "You shall tread the sea with Your horses, The foaming of many waters."}, {"pk": 2714291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the sound, Rottenness came into my bones. And I trembled within myself, That I might rest for the day of distress, To come upon the people who would attack us."}, {"pk": 2714292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Though the fig tree does not blossom, And there is no fruit on the vine, The yield of the olive has failed, And the fields brought forth no food, The flock has been cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls,"}, {"pk": 2714293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "Yet I exult in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I rejoice in the Elohim of my deliverance."}, {"pk": 2714294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 35, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Master is my strength. And He makes my feet like those of deer, And makes me walk on my high places. To the chief singer with my stringed instruments."}, {"pk": 2714295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 which came to Tsephanyah son of Kushi, son of Ged\u0331alyah, son of Amaryah, son of H\u0323izqiyah, in the days of Yoshiyahu son of Amon, sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2714296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI shall snatch away all from the face of the earth,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI snatch away man and beast, I snatch away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, with the wrong, when I shall cut off man from the face of the earth,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall stretch out My hand against Yehud\u0331ah, and against all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and cut off every trace of Ba\u201bal from this place, the names of the idolatrous priests, with the priests,"}, {"pk": 2714299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "and those bowing down to the host of the heavens on the house-tops, and those bowing themselves, swearing by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and swearing by Malkam;"}, {"pk": 2714300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "and those who turn away from following \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and who have not sought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 or inquired of Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Hush! in the presence of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. For the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is near, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has prepared a slaughter, He has set apart His invited ones."}, {"pk": 2714302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, in the day of the slaughter of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that I shall punish the rulers and the sons of the sovereign, and all such as are clad in foreign garments."}, {"pk": 2714303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters\u2019 houses with violence and deceit."}, {"pk": 2714304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd on that day there shall be,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthe sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and of a howling from the Second Quarter, and of a great crashing from the hills."}, {"pk": 2714305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHowl, you inhabitants of Mak\u0331t\u0115sh, for all the merchant people shall be silenced, all those weighing out silver shall be cut off."}, {"pk": 2714306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd at that time it shall be, that I search Yerushalayim with lamps and punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 does no good, nor does He evil.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd their wealth shall become plunder, and their houses laid waste. And they shall build houses but not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards but not drink their wine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Near is the great day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, near and hurrying greatly, the noise of the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Let the mighty man then bitterly cry out!"}, {"pk": 2714309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and trouble, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,"}, {"pk": 2714310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "a day of a shophar and sounding \u2014 against the walled cities and against the corner towers."}, {"pk": 2714311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring distress on men, and they shall walk like blind men \u2014 because they have sinned against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And by the fire of His jealousy all the earth shall be consumed, for He makes a sudden end of all those who dwell in the earth."}, {"pk": 2714313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Gather together, gather together, O nation without shame,"}, {"pk": 2714314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "before the law gives birth \u2014 the day shall pass on like chaff \u2014 before the burning wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes upon you, before the day of wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes upon you!"}, {"pk": 2714315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling. Seek righteousness, seek meekness, if so be that you are hidden in the day of wrath of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "For Azzah is abandoned and Ashqelon laid waste, Ashdod\u0331 is driven out at noonday and Eqron is uprooted."}, {"pk": 2714317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Ker\u0115thites! The word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is against you, O Kena\u201ban, land of the Philistines, \u201cAnd I shall destroy you, so that there is no inhabitant.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And the seacoast shall be pastures, shepherds\u2019 meadows and enclosures for flocks."}, {"pk": 2714319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Yehud\u0331ah. They shall feed their flocks on it, at evening they lie down in the houses of Ashqelon. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim shall visit them and turn back their captivity."}, {"pk": 2714320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI have heard the reproach of Mo\u2019ab\u0331, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached My people, and exalted themselves against their borders."}, {"pk": 2714321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore, as I live,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cMo\u2019ab\u0331 shall be like Sed\u0331om, and the children of Ammon like Amorah \u2014 a possession for weeds and a pit of salt, and a waste forever, the remnant of My people plunder them, and the rest of My nation possess them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "This is what they get for their pride, because they have reproached and exalted themselves against the people of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be awesome to them, for He shall make all the mighty ones of the earth to shrivel, while all the coastlands of the nations bow down to Him, each one from his place."}, {"pk": 2714324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cYou too, O Kushites, are to be slain by My sword.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And He shall stretch out His hand against the north, and destroy Ashshur, and make Ninew\u0115h a waste, as dry as a wilderness."}, {"pk": 2714326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And droves shall lie down in her midst, every beast of the nation, both pelican and bittern lodge in the tops of her columns, a voice singing at the window, ruin be at the threshold, for the cedar work is exposed."}, {"pk": 2714327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "This is the exultant city that is dwelling in safety, that said in her heart, \u201cI am it, and there is none but me.\u201d How has she become a waste, a place for beasts to lie down! Everyone who passes by her whistles and shakes his fist."}, {"pk": 2714328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!"}, {"pk": 2714329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "She did not obey the voice, she did not accept instruction, she did not trust in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, she did not draw near to her Elohim."}, {"pk": 2714330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning."}, {"pk": 2714331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the set-apart place, they have done violence to the Torah.", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/22/26'>22:26</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/16'>16:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2714332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is righteous in her midst, He does no unrighteousness. Morning by morning He brings His right-ruling to light, it has not been lacking, yet the unrighteous one knows no shame."}, {"pk": 2714333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI have cut off nations, their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets deserted, with no one passing by. Their cities are destroyed, without man, without inhabitant."}, {"pk": 2714334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI have said, \u2018Only fear Me, accept instruction.\u2019 And her dwelling would not be cut off, all that I have appointed for her. But they rose up early, they corrupted all their deeds."}, {"pk": 2714335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTherefore wait for Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cuntil the day I rise up for plunder. For My judgment is to gather nations, to assemble reigns, to pour out on them My rage, all My burning wrath. For by the fire of My jealousy all the earth shall be consumed."}, {"pk": 2714336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor then I shall turn unto the peoples a clean lip, so that they all call on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to serve Him with one shoulder.", "comment": "Or <em>language</em>."}, {"pk": 2714337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFrom beyond the rivers of Kush my worshippers, the daughter of My dispersed ones, shall bring My offering."}, {"pk": 2714338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIn that day you shall not be put to shame for any of your deeds in which you have transgressed against Me, for then I shall remove from your midst your proud exulting ones, and you shall no more be haughty in My set-apart mountain."}, {"pk": 2714339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut I shall leave in your midst an oppressed and poor people, and they shall trust in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThe remnant of Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall do no unrighteousness and speak no falsehood, nor is a tongue of deceit found in their mouth. For they shall feed their flocks and lie down, with none to frighten them.\u201d", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/14/5'>14:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2714341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "Shout for joy, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Yerushalayim!"}, {"pk": 2714342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has turned aside your judgments. He has faced your enemy. The Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, is in your midst. No longer need you fear evil.", "comment": "See Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/17'>3:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2714343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "In that day it shall be said to Yerushalayim, \u201cDo not fear, Tsiyon, do not let your hands be weak."}, {"pk": 2714344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim in your midst, is mighty to save. He rejoices over you with joy, He is silent in His love, He rejoices over you with singing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI shall gather those who grieve about the appointed time, who are among you, to whom its reproach is a burden."}, {"pk": 2714346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSee, I am dealing with all those afflicting you at that time. And I shall save the lame, and gather those who were cast out. And I shall give them for a praise and for a name in all the earth where they were put to shame."}, {"pk": 2714347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 36, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAt that time I shall bring you in, even at the time I gather you, for I shall give you for a name, and for a praise, among all the peoples of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "In the second year of Dareyawesh the sovereign, in the sixth new <i>moon</i>, on the first day of the new <i>moon</i>, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came by H\u0323aggai the prophet to Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, governor of Yehud\u0331ah, and to Yehoshua son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus spoke \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, saying, \u2018This people have said, \u201cThe time has not come, the time the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is to be built.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came by H\u0323aggai the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIs it time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, and this House be in ruins?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And now, thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cConsider your ways!"}, {"pk": 2714353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYou have sown much, but brought in little; eat, but do not have enough; drink, but you are not filled with drink; clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cConsider your ways!"}, {"pk": 2714355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Go up to the mountain, and you shall bring wood and build the House. And I will be pleased with it, and let Me be esteemed,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhen you looked for much, then see, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I would blow on it. Why?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cBecause of My House which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house."}, {"pk": 2714357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTherefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its fruit."}, {"pk": 2714358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I called for a drought on the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on whatever the ground brings forth, and on man, and on livestock, and on all the labour of the hands.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, and Yehoshua son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and the words of H\u0323aggai the prophet, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim had sent him. And the people feared the presence of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323aggai, the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, spoke the message of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to the people, saying, \u201cI am with you, declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stirred up the spirit of Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, governor of Yehud\u0331ah, and the spirit of Yehoshua son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, their Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2714362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth new <i>moon</i>, in the second year of Dareyawesh the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2714363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "In the seventh <i>month</i>, on the twenty-first of the new <i>moon</i>, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came by H\u0323aggai the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSpeak, please, to Zerubbab\u0331el son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, governor of Yehud\u0331ah, and to Yehoshua son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Who is there left among you who saw this House in its former esteem? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes as naught when compared to it?"}, {"pk": 2714366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And now, be strong, Zerubbab\u0331el,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u2018And be strong, Yehoshua, son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and work. For I am with you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "the Word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Mitsrayim, and My Spirit is remaining in your midst, do not fear!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Once more, in a little while, and I am shaking the heavens and earth, the sea and dry land."}, {"pk": 2714369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And I shall shake all the nations, and they shall come to the Delight of all the nations, and I shall fill this House with esteem,\u2019 said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Let the esteem of this latter House be greater than the former,\u2019 said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u2018And in this place I give peace,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "On the twenty-fourth of the ninth <i>month</i>, in the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came unto H\u0323aggai the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Now, ask the priests concerning the Torah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cIf one bears set-apart meat in the fold of his garment, and with the edge he touches bread or stew, or wine or oil, or any food, is it set-apart?\u201d \u2018 \u201d And the priests answered and said, \u201cNo.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323aggai said, \u201cIf someone defiled by a dead body touches any of these, is it defiled?\u201d And the priests answered and said, \u201cIt is defiled.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323aggai answered and said, \u201c \u2018So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and so is every work of their hands. And whatever they bring near there is defiled."}, {"pk": 2714377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "But now, please consider, from this day onward: Before a stone was laid on a stone in the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2714378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "since those days \u2014 one came to a heap of twenty \u0115phahs, and there were ten; one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths from the press, and there were twenty \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labours of your hands, and there was none of you with Me,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth <i>month</i>, from the day that the foundation of the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was laid, consider it:"}, {"pk": 2714381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "Is the seed yet in the storehouse? And until now the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit! From this day on I shall bless you!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And a second time the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to H\u0323aggai on the twenty-fourth day of the new <i>moon</i>, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSpeak to Zerubbab\u0331el, the governor of Yehud\u0331ah, saying, \u2018I am shaking the heavens and earth."}, {"pk": 2714384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And I shall overturn the throne of reigns. And I shall destroy the might of the reigns of the nations, and overturn the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each by the sword of his brother.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@340 2:44>note</a> at Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>"}, {"pk": 2714385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 37, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "In that day,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018I shall take you, Zerubbab\u0331el My servant, son of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018and shall make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "In the eighth new <i>moon</i> of the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Zek\u0331aryah son of Berek\u0331yah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was very wroth with your fathers."}, {"pk": 2714388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall say to them, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cTurn back to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand I shall turn back to you,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cTurn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.\u201d \u2019 But they did not obey or give heed to Me,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cYour fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?"}, {"pk": 2714391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut My words and My laws, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers?\u201d \u201cThen they turned back and said, \u2018As \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.\u2019\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh new <i>moon</i>, which is the new <i>moon</i> Sheb\u0331at, in the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Zek\u0331aryah son of Berek\u0331yahu, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI looked at night and saw a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees in the shade. And behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And I said, \u201cMy master, what are these?\u201d And the messenger who was speaking to me said to me, \u201cLet me show you what they are.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, \u201cThey are the ones \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent to go throughout the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And they answered the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, \u201cWe have gone throughout the earth, and see, all the earth is at peace and rest.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered and said, \u201cO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, how long would You have no compassion on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehud\u0331ah, against which You were enraged these seventy years?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 answered the messenger who talked to me, good words, comforting words."}, {"pk": 2714399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And the messenger who spoke with me said to me, \u201cProclaim, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cI have been jealous for Yerushalayim and for Tsiyon with great jealousy."}, {"pk": 2714400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I am very wroth with the nations who are at ease, for when I was a little wroth, they furthered the evil!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI shall return to Yerushalayim with compassion. My house shall be built in it,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand a surveyor\u2019s line be stretched out over Yerushalayim.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2714402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAgain proclaim, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cAgain My cities shall overflow with goodness. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall again comfort Tsiyon, and shall again choose Yerushalayim.\u201d \u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/12'>2:12</a> and the foot<a href=C:@290 14:1>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>."}, {"pk": 2714403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and saw four horns."}, {"pk": 2714404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And I said to the messenger who was speaking to me, \u201cWhat are these?\u201d And he said to me, \u201cThese are the horns that have scattered Yehud\u0331ah, Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and Yerushalayim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 showed me four craftsmen."}, {"pk": 2714406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And I said, \u201cWhat are these coming to do?\u201d And he spoke saying, \u201cThese are the horns that scattered Yehud\u0331ah, so that no one lifted up his head. But these come to trouble them, to throw down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Yehud\u0331ah to scatter it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand."}, {"pk": 2714408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And I said, \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d And he said to me, \u201cTo measure Yerushalayim, to see what is its width and what is its length.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And see, the messenger who was speaking to me was going out. And another messenger was coming out to meet him,"}, {"pk": 2714410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "and he said to him, \u201cRun, speak to this young man, saying, \u2018Yerushalayim is to remain unwalled, because of the many men and livestock in it."}, {"pk": 2714411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For I Myself am to her,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018a wall of fire all around, and for esteem I am in her midst.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cOh, Oh! And flee from the land of the north,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cfor I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cOh, Tsiyon! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Bab\u0331el.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "For thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts (for the sake of esteem He sent me to the nations which plunder you): \u201cFor he who touches you touches the apple of My eye.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/10'>32:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2714415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am waving My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. And you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sent Me."}, {"pk": 2714416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSing and rejoice, O daughter of Tsiyon! For look, I am coming, and shall dwell in your midst,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd many nations shall be joined to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 in that day, and they shall become My people. And I shall dwell in your midst. And you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sent Me to you.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/6-8'>56:6-8</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/3'>60:3</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/47/22'>47:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/47/23'>23</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/10/16'>10:16</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/15/14-17'>15:14-17</a>"}, {"pk": 2714418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall inherit Yehud\u0331ah, His portion in the Set-apart Land. And He shall again choose Yerushalayim.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/1/17'>1:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2714419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHush, all flesh, before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for He has roused Himself out of His set-apart dwelling!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And he showed me Yehoshua the high priest standing before the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and Satan standing at his right hand to be an adversary to him."}, {"pk": 2714421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to Satan, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rebuke you, Satan! \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who has chosen Yerushalayim rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehoshua was dressed in filthy garments, and was standing before the messenger."}, {"pk": 2714423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And He answered and spoke to those who stood before Him, saying, \u201cRemove the filthy garments from him.\u201d And to him He said, \u201cSee, I have removed your guilt from you, and shall put costly robes on you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And I said, \u201cLet them put a clean turban on his head.\u201d Then they put a clean turban on his head, and they put garments on him. And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood by."}, {"pk": 2714425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 witnessed to Yehoshua, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018If you walk in My ways, and if you guard My duty, then you shall also rule My house, and also guard My courts. And I shall give you access among these standing here."}, {"pk": 2714427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Now listen, Yehoshua the high priest, you and your companions who sit before you, for they are men of symbol. For look, I am bringing forth My Servant \u2014 the Branch.", "comment": "Or <em>Sprout</em>. See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/4/2'>4:2</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/1'>11:1</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/5'>23:5</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/33/15'>33:15</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/6/12'>6:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2714428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "See the stone which I have put before Yehoshua: on one stone are seven eyes. See, I am engraving its inscription,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018and I shall remove the guilt of that land in one day."}, {"pk": 2714429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "In that day,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018you shall invite one another, under the vine and under the fig tree.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And the messenger who was speaking to me came back and woke me up as a man is awakened from sleep."}, {"pk": 2714431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d So I said, \u201cI have looked, and see: a lampstand all of gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven spouts to the seven lamps."}, {"pk": 2714432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Then I responded and spoke to the messenger who was speaking to me, saying, \u201cWhat are these, my master?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger who was speaking to me answered and said to me, \u201cDo you not know what these are?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And he answered and said to me, \u201cThis is the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Zerubbab\u0331el, \u2018Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,\u2019 said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbab\u0331el? A plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of \u201cFavour, favour to it!\u201d \u2018 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThe hands of Zerubbab\u0331el have laid the foundation of this House, and his hands shall complete it. And you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sent Me to you."}, {"pk": 2714439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor who has despised the day of small <i>beginnings</i>? They shall rejoice when they see the plumb-line in the hand of Zerubbab\u0331el. These seven are the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, which diligently search throughout all the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Then I responded and said to him, \u201cWhat are these two olive trees, one at the right of the lampstand and the other at its left?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And I responded a second time and said to him, \u201cWhat are these two olive branches which empty golden <i>oil</i> from themselves by means of the two gold pipes?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And he answered me and said, \u201cDo you not know what these are?\u201d And I said, \u201cNo, my master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And he said, \u201cThese are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Master of all the earth.\u201d", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/4/3'>4:3</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/4/11'>4:11</a> and also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/17/3'>17:3</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/17/4'>4</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/3-10'>11:3-10</a>"}, {"pk": 2714444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And I lifted up my eyes again, and looked and saw a flying scroll."}, {"pk": 2714445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d And I answered, \u201cI see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThis is the curse that goes forth over the face of all the earth: \u2018everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,\u2019 on the one side, according to it, and, \u2018everyone who has sworn <i>falsely</i> shall go unpunished,\u2019 on the other side, according to it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI shall send it out,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and stones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger who was speaking with me came out and said to me, \u201cLift up your eyes now, and see what this is that is going forth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And I said, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d And he said, \u201cIt is an \u0115phah-measure that is going forth.\u201d Again he said, \u201cThis is their appearance throughout the earth:"}, {"pk": 2714450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd see, a lead cover lifted up, and this: a woman sitting inside the \u0115phah-measure!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And he said, \u201cThis is Wrongness!\u201d And he threw her down into the \u0115phah-measure, and threw the lead weight over its mouth."}, {"pk": 2714452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And I lifted up my eyes, and looked and saw two women, coming with the wind in their wings. And they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the \u0115phah-measure between earth and the heavens."}, {"pk": 2714453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Then I said to the messenger who was speaking to me, \u201cWhere are they taking the \u0115phah-measure?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cTo build a house for it in the land of Shin\u201bar. And it shall be established and set there on its own base.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And I lifted up my eyes again, and looked and saw four chariots coming from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze."}, {"pk": 2714456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "With the first chariot were red horses, and with the second chariot black horses,"}, {"pk": 2714457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "and with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong speckled horses."}, {"pk": 2714458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "So I responded and said to the messenger who was speaking to me, \u201cWhat are these, my master?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger answered and said to me, \u201cThese are four spirits of the heavens, coming forth from presenting themselves before the Master of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2714460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThe one with the black horses is going out to the land of the north, and the white ones have gone out after them, and the speckled ones have gone out to the land of the south.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the strong ones went out, eager to go, to walk to and fro in the earth. And He said, \u201cGo, walk to and fro in the earth.\u201d So they walked to and fro in the earth."}, {"pk": 2714462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And He called to me, and spoke to me, saying, \u201cSee, those who go toward the land of the north have given rest to My Spirit in the land of the north.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cReceive the gift from the exiles, from H\u0323eldai, Tob\u0331iyah, and Yed\u0331ayah, who have come from Bab\u0331el. Then you shall go the same day and enter the house of Yoshiyah son of Tsephanyah."}, {"pk": 2714465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall take the silver and gold, make a crown, and set it on the head of Yehoshua the son of Yehotsad\u0331aq, the high priest,"}, {"pk": 2714466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "and shall speak to him, saying, \u2018Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, saying, \u201cSee, the Man whose name is the Branch! And from His place He shall branch out, and He shall build the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/3/8'>3:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2714467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cIt is He who is going to build the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. It is He who is going to bear the splendour. And He shall sit and rule on His throne, and shall be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between Them both,\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2714468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "while the crown is for a remembrance in the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to H\u0323\u0115lem, and to Tob\u0331iyah, and to Yed\u0331ayah, and to H\u0323\u0115n son of Tsephanyah."}, {"pk": 2714469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd those who are far away shall come and build the H\u0115k\u0331al of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And you shall know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall be, if you diligently obey the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the fourth year of Sovereign Dareyawesh it came to be that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Zek\u0331aryah, on the fourth of the ninth new <i>moon</i>, Kisl\u0115w."}, {"pk": 2714471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Now B\u0115yth \u011al had sent Shar\u2019etser, with Re\u1e21em-Melek\u0331 and his men, to pray before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2714472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "speaking to the priests who belonged to the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, \u201cShould I weep in the fifth new <i>moon</i> and fast as I have done for so many years?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "Then the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSpeak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, \u2018When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh <i>months</i> all these seventy years, did you truly fast for Me \u2014 for Me?"}, {"pk": 2714475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And when you ate and when you drank, was it not for those eating and for those drinking?"}, {"pk": 2714476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "Are these not the words which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 proclaimed through the former prophets when Yerushalayim and the cities around it were inhabited and in safety, and the South and the low country were inhabited?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to Zek\u0331aryah, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Execute true right-ruling, show loving-commitment and compassion everyone to his brother."}, {"pk": 2714479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cDo not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut they refused to listen, and they shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears from hearing."}, {"pk": 2714481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd they made their hearts like flint against hearing the Torah, and the words, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be: as He called and they did not hear, so let them call, but I shall not hear,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations which they had not known. And the land was laid waste behind them, no one passing through or returning, for they made the pleasant land a waste.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts came, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018I shall be jealous for Tsiyon with great jealousy, with great wrath I shall be jealous for her.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u2018I shall return to Tsiyon, and I shall dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. And Yerushalayim shall be called: City of the Truth, and the Mountain of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the Set-apart Mountain.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Again old men and old women shall dwell in the streets of Yerushalayim, each one with his staff in his hand because of great age,"}, {"pk": 2714488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "and the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018If it is marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in My eyes?\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018See, I am saving My people from the land of the sunrise and from the land of the sunset."}, {"pk": 2714491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And I shall bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. And they shall be My people, and I shall be their Elohim, in truth and in righteousness.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Let your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to these words, from the mouth of the prophets, of the day the foundation was laid for the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, the H\u0115k\u0331al that was to be rebuilt."}, {"pk": 2714493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "For before these days there was not a wage for a man, nor a hire for beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or came in, because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another."}, {"pk": 2714494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "But now I am not as in the former days to the remnant of this people,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "Because of the sowing of peace the vine does give its fruit, the ground does give her increase, and the heavens do give their dew. And I shall cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these."}, {"pk": 2714496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And it shall be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Yehud\u0331ah and house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, so I shall save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, let your hands be strong.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018As I purposed to do evil to you when your fathers provoked Me,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018and I did not relent,"}, {"pk": 2714498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "so again in these days I have purposed to do good to Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehud\u0331ah. Do not fear!"}, {"pk": 2714499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "These are the words you should do: speak the truth to one another, judge with truth and right-ruling for peace in your gates."}, {"pk": 2714500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And do not plot evil in your heart against another, and do not love a false oath. For all these I hate,\u2019 declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts came to me, saying,"}, {"pk": 2714502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth <i>months</i>, are to be joy and gladness, and pleasant appointed times for the house of Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 and they shall love the truth and the peace.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018Peoples shall yet come, inhabitants of many cities,"}, {"pk": 2714504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "and the inhabitants of the one go to another, saying, \u201cLet us earnestly go and pray before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. I myself am going.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts in Yerushalayim, and to pray before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u2018In those days ten men from all languages of the nations take hold, yes, they shall take hold of the edge of the garment of a man, a Yehud\u0331i, saying, \u201cLet us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.\u201d \u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/4/22'>4:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2714507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "The message of the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against the land of H\u0323ad\u0331rak\u0331, and Dammeseq its resting place \u2014 when the eye of man and all the tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l are on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2714508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "and H\u0323amath also borders on it, Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, though they are very wise."}, {"pk": 2714509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "For Tsor built herself a tower, heaped up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets."}, {"pk": 2714510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "See, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall dispossess her, and He shall strike her power in the sea, and she shall be consumed by fire."}, {"pk": 2714511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "Ashqelon sees it and fears, Azzah too, writhing in anguish, and Eqron, for her expectation has dried up. And the sovereign shall perish from Azzah, and Ashqelon shall not be inhabited."}, {"pk": 2714512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd a mamzer shall settle in Ashdod\u0331. So I shall cut off the pride of the Philistines,", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Mamzer\""}, {"pk": 2714513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "and shall take away his blood from his mouth, and the abominations from between his teeth. And he shall remain, even he, to our Elohim, and he shall be like a leader in Yehud\u0331ah, and Eqron like a Yeb\u0331usite."}, {"pk": 2714514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And I shall encamp around My house, against an army, against him who passes by and him who returns, so that no oppressor passes through them again, for now I have seen with My eyes."}, {"pk": 2714515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cRejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/21/5'>21:5</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/15'>12:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2714516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall cut off the chariot from Ephrayim and the horse from Yerushalayim. And the battle bow shall be cut off. And He shall speak peace to the nations, and His rule is from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth."}, {"pk": 2714517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAlso you, because of the blood of your covenant, I shall send your prisoners out of the pit."}, {"pk": 2714518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cReturn to the stronghold, you prisoners of the expectation. Even today I declare that I return double to you."}, {"pk": 2714519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor I shall bend Yehud\u0331ah for Me, I shall fill the bow with Ephrayim, and I shall stir up your sons, O Tsiyon, against your sons, O Greece, and I shall make you like the sword of a mighty man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall appear for them, and His arrow go forth like lightning, and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 sound with the shophar. And He shall go with whirlwinds from the south,"}, {"pk": 2714521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall shield them. And they shall devour and trample on sling stones. And they shall drink, roar as if with wine, and they shall be filled like basins, like the corners of the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2714522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim shall save them in that day, as the flock of His people, for the stones of a diadem, sparkling over His land."}, {"pk": 2714523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "For what goodness is His, and what comeliness is His. Grain make the young men thrive, and new wine the maidens!"}, {"pk": 2714524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Ask \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for rain in the time of the latter rain, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who makes storm clouds. And He gives them showers of rain, the plants in the field to everyone."}, {"pk": 2714525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "For the household idols spoke emptiness, the diviners saw falsehood, and relate dreams of deceit, they comfort in vain. Therefore they have wandered about like sheep. They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/5'>34:5</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/8'>34:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2714526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cMy wrath burns against the shepherds, and I lay a charge against the leaders. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts shall visit His flock, the house of Yehud\u0331ah, and make them like His splendid horse in battle."}, {"pk": 2714527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFrom him comes the corner-stone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler, together."}, {"pk": 2714528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be like mighty men, who trample down the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame."}, {"pk": 2714529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make the house of Yehud\u0331ah mighty, and save the house of Yos\u0115ph. And I shall bring them back, because I have compassion on them. And they shall be as though I had not pushed them aside. For I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim, and I answer them."}, {"pk": 2714530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd Ephrayim shall be as a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as if with wine. And their children shall see and rejoice, their heart exulting in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI shall whistle for them and gather them, for I shall ransom them. And they shall increase as they once increased."}, {"pk": 2714532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThough I sow them among peoples, they shall remember Me in places far away. And they shall live, together with their children, and they shall return."}, {"pk": 2714533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring them back from the land of Mitsrayim, and gather them from Ashshur, and bring them into the land of Gil\u201bad\u0331 and Leb\u0331anon, until no more room is found for them."}, {"pk": 2714534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall pass through the sea of distress, and strike the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the River shall dry up. And the pride of Ashshur shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Mitsrayim be taken away."}, {"pk": 2714535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall make them mighty in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, so that they walk up and down in His Name,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "Open your doors, O Leb\u0331anon, and let fire devour your cedars."}, {"pk": 2714537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "Howl, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the mighty are ravaged. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down."}, {"pk": 2714538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "Listen! The howling of shepherds, for their splendour is ravaged. Listen! The roaring of lions, for the pride of the Yard\u0115n is ravaged."}, {"pk": 2714539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "Thus said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim, \u201cFeed the flock for slaughter,"}, {"pk": 2714540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "whose owners kill them and feel no guilt, and their sellers say, \u2018Blessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for I have become rich.\u2019 And their own shepherds do not spare them."}, {"pk": 2714541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor I shall no longer spare the inhabitants of the land,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cBut see, I am delivering up mankind, each one into his neighbour\u2019s hand and into the hand of his sovereign. And they shall crush the earth, but I do not deliver from their hand.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "So I shepherded the flock meant for slaughter, the truly poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs, the one I called Pleasantness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock."}, {"pk": 2714543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "Then I sent off the three shepherds in one month, for my being despised them, and their being also loathed me."}, {"pk": 2714544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "So I said, \u201cI am not shepherding you. Let the dying die, and the straying stray, and let those who are left eat each other\u2019s flesh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "And I took my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it in two, to break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples."}, {"pk": 2714546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "So it was broken on that day. And the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And I said to them, \u201cIf it is good in your eyes, give me my wages. And if not, refrain.\u201d So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver."}, {"pk": 2714548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cThrow it to the potter,\u201d the splendid price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 for the potter."}, {"pk": 2714549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "Then I cut in two my other staff, Unity, to break the brotherhood between Yehud\u0331ah and Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2714550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to me, \u201cTake again the implements of a foolish shepherd."}, {"pk": 2714551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who does not visit those straying, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he does eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hooves."}, {"pk": 2714552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cWoe to the worthless shepherd forsaking the flock! Let a sword be upon his arm and upon his right eye! His arm shall wither and his right eye shall be dimmed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "The message of the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 against Yisra\u2019\u0115l. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, stretching out the heavens, and laying the foundation of the earth, and forming the spirit of man within him, declares,"}, {"pk": 2714554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSee, I am making Yerushalayim a cup of reeling to all the people all around, and also against Yehud\u0331ah it is in the siege against Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day it shall be that I make Yerushalayim a very heavy stone for all peoples \u2014 all lifting it are severely injured. And all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against it."}, {"pk": 2714556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIn that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cI strike every horse with bewilderment and its rider with madness. And on the house of Yehud\u0331ah I open My eyes, but every horse of the peoples I strike with blindness."}, {"pk": 2714557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd the leaders of Yehud\u0331ah shall say in their heart, \u2018The inhabitants of Yerushalayim are a strength to me, through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, their Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIn that day I make the leaders of Yehud\u0331ah like a fire pot among trees, and like a torch of fire in the sheaves. And they shall consume all the peoples all around, on the right and on the left. And Yerushalayim shall dwell again in her own place, in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall save the tents of Yehud\u0331ah first, so that the comeliness of the house of Dawid\u0331 and the comeliness of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim would not become greater than that of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2714560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIn that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall shield the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. And the feeble among them in that day shall be like Dawid\u0331, and the house of Dawid\u0331 like Elohim, like the Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before them!"}, {"pk": 2714561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day that I seek to destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2714562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall pour on the house of Dawid\u0331 and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born."}, {"pk": 2714563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIn that day the mourning in Yerushalayim is going to be great, like the mourning at Had\u0331ad\u0331 Rimmon in the valley of Me\u1e21iddo."}, {"pk": 2714564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the land shall mourn, every clan by itself: the clan of the house of Dawid\u0331 by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their women by themselves;"}, {"pk": 2714565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "the clan of the house of L\u0115wi by itself, and their women by themselves; the clan of Shim\u201bi by itself, and their women by themselves;"}, {"pk": 2714566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "all the rest of the clans, every clan by itself, and their women by themselves."}, {"pk": 2714567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cIn that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of Dawid\u0331 and for the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, for sin and for uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2714568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cthat I cut off the names of the idols from the earth, and they shall be remembered no more, and I shall also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the earth.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/23/13'>23:13</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/12/3'>12:3</a>; Jdg. 23:7; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/17'>2:17</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/9'>3:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2714569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be, when one prophesies again, then his father and mother who brought him forth shall say to him, \u2018You shall not live, because you have spoken falsehood in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 And his father and mother who brought him forth shall pierce him through when he prophesies."}, {"pk": 2714570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall be in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, everyone of his vision when he prophesies, and not put a hairy robe on in order to deceive,"}, {"pk": 2714571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "but shall say, \u2018I am no prophet, I am a farmer, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd one shall say to him, \u2018What are these wounds in your hands?\u2019 And he shall say, \u2018Because I was struck at home by those who love me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cO sword, awake against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cStrike the Shepherd, and let the sheep be scattered. But I shall turn My hand upon the little ones."}, {"pk": 2714574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And it shall be throughout all the soil,\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cthat two thirds therein are cut off and die, and one third is left therein."}, {"pk": 2714575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall bring the third into fire, and refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My Name, and I shall answer them. I shall say, \u2018This is My people,\u2019 while they say, \u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my Elohim.\u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/9'>3:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2714576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "See, a day shall come for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and your spoil shall be divided in your midst."}, {"pk": 2714577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And I shall gather all the nations to battle against Yerushalayim. And the city shall be taken, the houses plundered, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into exile, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.", "comment": "See Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/2'>3:2</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/8'>3:8</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/16/14'>16:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2714578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall go forth, and He shall fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle."}, {"pk": 2714579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And in that day His feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives, which faces Yerushalayim on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south."}, {"pk": 2714580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And you shall flee to the valley of My mountain \u2014 for the valley of the mountains reaches to Atsal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziyah sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 my Elohim shall come \u2014 all the set-apart ones with You."}, {"pk": 2714581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And in that day it shall be: there is no light, it is dark."}, {"pk": 2714582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And it shall be one day which is known to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light."}, {"pk": 2714583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And in that day it shall be that living waters flow from Yerushalayim, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea, in summer as well as in winter.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/1'>22:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/22/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2714584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be Sovereign over all the earth. In that day there shall be one \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and His Name one.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@290 24:23>note</a> at Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/23'>24:23</a> also Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2714585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "All the land shall be changed into a desert plain from Geb\u0331a to Rimmon south of Yerushalayim, and she shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Binyamin\u2019s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of H\u0323anan\u2019\u0115l to the winepresses of the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2714586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And they shall dwell in her, and there shall be no more utter destruction, but Yerushalayim shall be safely inhabited.", "comment": "See Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2714587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And this is the plague with which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 plagues all the people who fought against Yerushalayim: their flesh shall decay while they stand on their feet, and their eyes decay in their sockets, and their tongues decay in their mouths."}, {"pk": 2714588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And it shall be in that day that a great confusion from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is among them, and everyone of them shall seize the hand of his neighbour, and his hand rise up against his neighbour\u2019s hand."}, {"pk": 2714589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah shall fight at Yerushalayim as well. And the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together: gold, and silver, and garments in great quantities."}, {"pk": 2714590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "So also is the plague on the horse and the mule, on the camel and the donkey, and on all the cattle that are in those camps \u2014 as this plague."}, {"pk": 2714591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And it shall be that all who are left from all the nations which came up against Yerushalayim, shall go up from year to year to bow themselves to the Sovereign, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, and to celebrate the Festival of Sukkot.", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2714592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And it shall be, that if anyone of the clans of the earth does not come up to Yerushalayim to bow himself to the Sovereign, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, on them there is to be no rain."}, {"pk": 2714593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And if the clan of Mitsrayim does not come up and enter in, then there is no rain. On them is the plague with which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 plagues the nations who do not come up to celebrate the Festival of Sukkot.", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2714594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "This is the punishment of Mitsrayim and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to celebrate the Festival of Sukkot.", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2714595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "In that day \u201cSET-APART TO \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u201d shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. And the pots in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be like the bowls before the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2714596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 38, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And every pot in Yerushalayim and Yehud\u0331ah shall be set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. And all those who slaughter shall come and take them and cook in them. And there shall no longer be a merchant in the House of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, in that day."}, {"pk": 2714597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The message of the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to Yisra\u2019\u0115l by Mal\u2019ak\u0331i."}, {"pk": 2714598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI have loved you,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cBut you asked, \u2018In what way have You loved us?\u2019 \u201dWas not \u011asaw Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s brother?\u201d declares \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. \u201cAnd I love Ya\u201baqob\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2714599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "but I have hated \u011asaw, and have laid waste his mountains and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "If Ed\u0331om says, \u201cWe have been beaten down, let us return and build the ruins,\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts said thus: \u201cLet them build, but I tear down. And they shall be called \u2018Border of Wrongness\u2019, and the people against whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is enraged forever."}, {"pk": 2714601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, \u2018Great is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 beyond the border of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cA son esteems his father, and a servant his master. And if I am the Father, where is My esteem? And if I am a Master, where is My fear? said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts to you priests who despise My Name. But you asked, \u2018In what way have we despised Your Name?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cYou are presenting defiled food on My slaughter-place. But you asked, \u2018In what way have we defiled You?\u2019 Because you say, \u2018The table of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is despicable.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd when you present the blind as a slaughtering, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil? Bring it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favourably?\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd now, entreat the face of \u011al to show favour to us. This has been done by your hands. Would He show favour to you?\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cWho among you who would shut the doors, so that you would not kindle fire on My slaughter-place for naught? I have no pleasure in you,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cNor do I accept an offering from your hands."}, {"pk": 2714607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My Name is great among nations. And in every place incense is presented to My Name, and a clean offering. For My Name is great among nations,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut you are profaning Me, in that you say, \u2018The table of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is defiled, and its fruit, its food, is despicable.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd you said, \u2018Oh, what weariness!\u2019 and you sneered at it,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cAnd you brought in plunder, and the lame, and the sick \u2014 thus you have brought in the offering! Should I accept this from your hand?\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut cursed be the deceiver who has a male in his flock, and makes a vow, but is slaughtering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 what is blemished. For I am a great Sovereign,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cand My Name is feared among nations."}, {"pk": 2714611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd now, O priests, this command is for you."}, {"pk": 2714612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIf you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cI shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart."}, {"pk": 2714613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSee, I shall rebuke your seed, and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall be taken away with it."}, {"pk": 2714614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall know that I have sent this command to you, as being My covenant with L\u0115wi,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cMy covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe of My Name."}, {"pk": 2714616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThe Torah of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@160 9:13>note</a> at Neh. <a href='/TS2009/16/9/13'>9:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2714617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of L\u0115wi,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I also, I shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Torah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "Have we not all one Father? Did not one \u011al create us? Why do we act treacherously against one another, to profane the covenant of the fathers?"}, {"pk": 2714621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Yisra\u2019\u0115l and in Yerushalayim, for Yehud\u0331ah has profaned what is set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014 which He had loved \u2014 and has married the daughter of a foreign mighty one."}, {"pk": 2714622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "Let \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 cut off from the tents of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the man who does this \u2014 stirring up or answering, and bringing an offering to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts!"}, {"pk": 2714623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And this you have done a second time: you cover the slaughter-place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with tears, with weeping and crying, because He no longer regards the offering, nor receives it with pleasure from your hands."}, {"pk": 2714624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And you said, \u201cWhy?\u201d Because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant."}, {"pk": 2714625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And did He not make one? And He had the remnant of the Spirit? And what is the one <i>alone</i>? He seeks a seed of Elohim. So you shall guard your spirit, and let none act treacherously against the wife of his youth."}, {"pk": 2714626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor I hate divorce,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u201cand the one who covers his garment with cruelty,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cSo you shall guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "You have wearied \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 with your words, and you have said, \u201cIn what way have we wearied Him?\u201d In that you say, \u201cEveryone who does evil is good in the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and He is delighting in them,\u201d or, \u201cWhere is the Elohim of right-ruling?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2714628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cSee, I am sending My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. Then suddenly the Master you are seeking comes to His H\u0115k\u0331al, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. See, He is coming,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd who is able to bear the day of His coming, and who is able to stand when He appears? For He is like the fire of a refiner, and like the soap of a launderer."}, {"pk": 2714630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall sit as a refiner and a cleanser of silver. And He shall cleanse the sons of L\u0115wi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall belong to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, bringing near an offering in righteousness."}, {"pk": 2714631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThen shall the offering of Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim be pleasant to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, as in the days of old, as in former years."}, {"pk": 2714632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cFor I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, I shall not change, and you, O sons of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, shall not come to an end.", "comment": "See James <a href='/TS2009/59/1/17'>1:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2714634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFrom the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts. \u201cBut you said, \u2018In what shall we turn back?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWould a man rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing Me! But you said, \u2018In what have we robbed You?\u2019 In the tithe and the offering!"}, {"pk": 2714636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cYou have cursed Me with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this nation, all of it!"}, {"pk": 2714637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in My house. And please prove Me in this,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cwhether I do not open for you the windows of the heavens, and shall pour out for you boundless blessing!"}, {"pk": 2714638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall rebuke the devourer for you, so that it does not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor does the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd all nations shall call you blessed, for you shall be a land of delight,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYour words have been strong against Me,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cbut you have said, \u2018What have we spoken against You?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2714641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou have said, \u2018It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we guarded His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts?"}, {"pk": 2714642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And now we are calling the proud blessed \u2014 not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2714643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Then shall those who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 speak to one another, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 listens and hears, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who fear \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and those who think upon His Name."}, {"pk": 2714644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall be Mine,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201con the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."}, {"pk": 2714645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cThen you shall again see the <i>difference</i> between the righteous and the wrong, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him."}, {"pk": 2714646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cFor look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts, \u201cwhich leaves to them neither root nor branch."}, {"pk": 2714647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall."}, {"pk": 2714648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall trample the wrongdoers, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,\u201d said \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts."}, {"pk": 2714649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cRemember the Torah of Mosheh, My servant, which I commanded him in H\u0323or\u0115b\u0331 for all Yisra\u2019\u0115l \u2014 laws and right-rulings."}, {"pk": 2714650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSee, I am sending you \u011aliyah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2714651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 39, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with utter destruction.\u201d", "comment": "See also Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/13'>14:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2722293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The book of the genealogy of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, Son of Dawid\u0331, Son of Ab\u0331raham:"}, {"pk": 2722294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Ab\u0331raham brought forth Yitsh\u0323aq, and Yitsh\u0323aq brought forth Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 brought forth Yehud\u0331ah and his brothers."}, {"pk": 2722295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah brought forth Perets and Zerah\u0323 by Tamar, and Perets brought forth H\u0323etsron, and H\u0323etsron brought forth Ram."}, {"pk": 2722296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And Ram brought forth Amminad\u0331ab\u0331, and Amminad\u0331ab\u0331 brought forth Nah\u0323shon, and Nah\u0323shon brought forth Salmon."}, {"pk": 2722297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And Salmon brought forth Bo\u201baz by Rah\u0323ab\u0331, and Bo\u201baz brought forth Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331 by Ruth, and Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331 brought forth Yishai."}, {"pk": 2722298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yishai brought forth Dawid\u0331 the sovereign, and Dawid\u0331 the sovereign brought forth Shelomoh by Uriyah\u2019s wife."}, {"pk": 2722299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And Shelomoh brought forth Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam, and Reh\u0323ab\u0331\u201bam brought forth Ab\u0331iyah, and Ab\u0331iyah brought forth Asa.", "comment": "His mother was an Ammorite. See also 1Kings <a href='/TS2009/11/14/21'>14:21</a>; 1Kings <a href='/TS2009/11/14/31'>14:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2722300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And Asa brought forth Yehoshaphat, and Yehoshaphat brought forth Yoram, and Yoram brought forth Uzziyah."}, {"pk": 2722301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And Uzziyah brought forth Yotham, and Yotham brought forth Ah\u0323az, and Ah\u0323az brought forth H\u0323izqiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And H\u0323izqiyahu brought forth Menashsheh, and Menashsheh brought forth Amon, and Amon brought forth Yoshiyahu."}, {"pk": 2722303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And Yoshiyahu brought forth Yek\u0331onyah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Bab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And after the exile to Bab\u0331el, Yek\u0331onyah brought forth She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, and She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l brought forth Zerubbab\u0331el."}, {"pk": 2722305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And Zerubbab\u0331el brought forth Ab\u0331ihud\u0331, and Ab\u0331ihud\u0331 brought forth [Ab\u0331ner and Ab\u0331ner brought forth] Elyaqim, and Elyaqim brought forth Azor.", "comment": "[Ab\u0331ner and Ab\u0331ner brought forth] appears in the Du Tillit Hebrew text."}, {"pk": 2722306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And Azor brought forth Tsad\u0331oq, and Tsad\u0331oq brought forth Aqim, and Aqim brought forth Elihud\u0331."}, {"pk": 2722307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And Elihud\u0331 brought forth El\u201bazar, and El\u201bazar brought forth Mattan, and Mattan brought forth Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2722308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 brought forth Yos\u0115ph the husband of Miryam, of whom was born \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who is called Messiah."}, {"pk": 2722309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "So all the generations from Ab\u0331raham to Dawid\u0331 were fourteen generations, and from Dawid\u0331 until the exile to Bab\u0331el were fourteen generations, and from the exile to Bab\u0331el until the Messiah were fourteen generations."}, {"pk": 2722310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "But the birth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah was as follows: After His mother Miryam was engaged to Yos\u0115ph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant from the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2722311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph her husband, being righteous, and not wishing to make a show of her, had in mind to put her away secretly."}, {"pk": 2722312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "But while he thought about this, see, a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him in a dream, saying, \u201cYos\u0115ph, son of Dawid\u0331, do not be afraid to take Miryam as your wife, for that which is in her was brought forth from the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2722313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd she shall give birth to a Son, and you shall call His Name \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 for He shall save His people from their sins.", "comment": "This is the meaning of the Hebrew of His Name."}, {"pk": 2722314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And all this came to be in order to fill what was spoken by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 through the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "<i>\u201cSee, an \u2018almah\u2019 shall conceive, and she shall give birth to a Son, and they shall call His Name Immanu\u2019\u0115l,</i>\u201d which translated, means, \u201c\u011al with us.\u201d", "comment": "According to the Shem Tob\u0331 Hebrew text and Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/7/14'>7:14</a> \u201cvirgin / young woman\u201d. See also Explanatory Note \"Maiden\".<br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/7/14'>7:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2722316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph, awaking from his sleep, did as the messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 commanded him and took his wife,"}, {"pk": 2722317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "but knew her not until she gave birth to her Son, the first-born. And he called His Name \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2722318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 having been born in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em of Yehud\u0331ah in the days of Herodes the sovereign, see, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2722319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "saying, \u201cWhere is He who has been born Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im? For we saw His star in the East and have come to do reverence to Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And Herodes the sovereign, having heard, was troubled, and all Yerushalayim with him."}, {"pk": 2722321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born."}, {"pk": 2722322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cIn B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em of Yehud\u0331ah, for thus it has been written by the prophet,"}, {"pk": 2722323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>\u201cBut you, B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, in the land of Yehud\u0331ah, you are by no means least among the rulers of Yehud\u0331ah, for out of you shall come a Ruler who shall shepherd My people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.</i> \u2019 \u201d", "comment": "Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/5/2'>5:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Then Herodes, having called the Magi secretly, learned exactly from them what time the star appeared."}, {"pk": 2722325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And having sent them to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, he said, \u201cGo and search diligently for the Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, so that I too might go and do reverence to Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And having heard the sovereign, they went. And see, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, until it came and stood over where the Child was."}, {"pk": 2722327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And seeing the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy."}, {"pk": 2722328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And coming into the house, they saw the Child with Miryam His mother, and fell down and did reverence to Him, and opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, and frankincense, and myrrh."}, {"pk": 2722329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And having been warned in a dream that they should not return to Herodes, they departed for their own country by another way."}, {"pk": 2722330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And when they had left, see, a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to Yos\u0115ph in a dream, saying, \u201cArise, take the Child and His mother, and flee to Mitsrayim, and remain there until I bring you word, for Herodes is about to seek the Child to destroy Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And rising up, he took the Child and His mother by night and departed for Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2722332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "and remained there until the death of Herodes, to fill what was spoken by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 through the prophet, saying, <i>\u201cOut of Mitsrayim I have called My Son.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/4/22'>4:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/2/4/23'>23</a>; Hos. <a href='/TS2009/28/11/1'>11:1</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/7'>21:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2722333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "Then Herodes, having seen that he was fooled by the Magi, was greatly enraged, and he sent forth and slew all the male children in B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learnt from the Magi."}, {"pk": 2722334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Then was filled what was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cA voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and weeping, and great mourning \u2014 Rah\u0323\u0115l weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they were no more.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/15'>31:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2722336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And Herodes having died, see, a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared in a dream to Yos\u0115ph in Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2722337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "saying, \u201cArise, <i>and</i> take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, for those seeking the life of the Child are dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And rising up, he took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "But hearing that Archelaos was reigning over Yehud\u0331ah instead of his father Herodes, he was afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he departed to the parts of Galil,"}, {"pk": 2722340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "and came and dwelt in a city called Natsareth \u2014 thus to fill what was spoken by the prophets, \u201cHe shall be called Natsarene.\u201d", "comment": "<em>Spoken</em> (not written) by the prophets (plural)."}, {"pk": 2722341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And in those days Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser came proclaiming in the wilderness of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2722342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "and saying, \u201cRepent, for the reign of the heavens has come near!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Yeshayahu, saying, <i>\u201cA voice of one crying in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, make His paths straight.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/3'>40:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2722344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan had a garment of camel\u2019s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey."}, {"pk": 2722345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Then Yerushalayim, and all Yehud\u0331ah, and all the country around the Yard\u0115n went out to him,"}, {"pk": 2722346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "and they were immersed by him in the Yard\u0115n, confessing their sins."}, {"pk": 2722347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, \u201cBrood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?"}, {"pk": 2722348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBear, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance,"}, {"pk": 2722349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "and do not think to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Ab\u0331raham as father.\u2019 For I say to you that Elohim is able to raise up children to Ab\u0331raham from these stones.", "comment": "The only difference in Hebrew between children and stones is the first letter of the word. Children - banim. Stones - ab\u0331anim.<br>See John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/33-44'>8:33-44</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/8'>9:8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/26-29'>2:26-29</a>"}, {"pk": 2722350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the axe is already laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."}, {"pk": 2722351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear. He shall immerse you in the Set-apart Spirit and fire."}, {"pk": 2722352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and gather His wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff He shall burn with unquenchable fire."}, {"pk": 2722353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came from Galil to Yoh\u0323anan at the Yard\u0115n to be immersed by him."}, {"pk": 2722354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But Yoh\u0323anan was hindering Him, saying, \u201cI need to be immersed by You, and You come to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to him, \u201cPermit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fill all righteousness.\u201d Then he permitted Him."}, {"pk": 2722356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And having been immersed, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went up immediately from the water, and see, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of Elohim descending like a dove and coming upon Him,"}, {"pk": 2722357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "and see, a voice out of the heavens, saying, \u201cThis is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tried by the devil."}, {"pk": 2722359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And after having fasted forty days and forty nights, He was hungry."}, {"pk": 2722360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And the trier came and said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of Elohim, command that these stones become bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "But He answering, said, \u201cIt has been written, <i>\u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/8/3'>8:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2722362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the devil took Him up into the set-apart city, set Him on the edge of the Set-apart Place,"}, {"pk": 2722363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "and said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of Elohim, throw Yourself down. For it has been written, <i>\u2018He shall command His messengers concerning you,\u2019</i> and, <i>\u2018In their hands they shall bear you up, so that you do not dash your foot against a stone.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/91/12'>91:12</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/91/11'>91:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2722364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cIt has also been written, <i>\u2018You shall not try \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/16'>6:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2722365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the reigns of the world, and their esteem,"}, {"pk": 2722366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "and said to Him, \u201cAll these I shall give You if You fall down and worship me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cGo, Satan! For it has been written, <i>\u2018You shall worship \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and Him alone you shall serve.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/13'>6:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2722368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Then the devil left Him, and see, messengers came and attended Him."}, {"pk": 2722369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, having heard that Yoh\u0323anan had been put in prison, withdrew into Galil."}, {"pk": 2722370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And leaving Natsareth, He came and dwelt in Kephar Nah\u0323um, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zeb\u0331ulun and Naphtali,"}, {"pk": 2722371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "to fill what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>\u201cLand of Zeb\u0331ulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Yard\u0115n, Galil of the nations \u2014</i>"}, {"pk": 2722373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and upon those who sat in the land and shadow of death, light arose to them.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/9/1'>9:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/9/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "From that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 began to proclaim and to say, \u201cRepent, for the reign of the heavens has drawn near.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, walking by the Sea of Galil, saw two brothers, Shim\u201bon called K\u0115pha, and Andri his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen."}, {"pk": 2722376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cFollow Me, and I shall make you fishers of men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And immediately they left their nets and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And going on from there, He saw two other brothers, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 <i>the son</i> of Zab\u0331dai, and Yoh\u0323anan his brother, in the boat with Zab\u0331dai their father, mending their nets. And He called them,"}, {"pk": 2722379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went about all Galil, teaching in their congregations, and proclaiming the Good News of the reign, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people."}, {"pk": 2722381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And news about Him went out into all Suria. And they brought to Him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and pains, and those who were demon-possessed, and epileptics, and paralytics. And He healed them."}, {"pk": 2722382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "And large crowds \u2014 from Galil, and Dekapolis, and Yerushalayim, and Yehud\u0331ah, and beyond the Yard\u0115n \u2014 followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "But when He saw the crowds, He went up on a mountain. And when He was seated His taught ones came to Him."}, {"pk": 2722384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And having opened His mouth, He was teaching them, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cBlessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "Blessed are those who mourn, because they shall be comforted."}, {"pk": 2722387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>\u201cBlessed are the meek, because they shall inherit the earth.</i>", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/9'>37:9</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/11'>37:11</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/22'>37:22</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/29'>37:29</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/34'>37:34</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/11'>37:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2722388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they shall be filled.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/55/1'>55:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/55/2'>2</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/4/4'>4:4</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/48'>6:48</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/6/49'>49</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/6/50'>50</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/6/51'>51</a>"}, {"pk": 2722389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBlessed are the compassionate, because they shall obtain compassion."}, {"pk": 2722390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Blessed are the clean in heart, because they shall see Elohim.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/24/3'>24:3</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/24/4'>4</a>"}, {"pk": 2722391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, because they shall be called sons of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2722392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness\u2019 sake, because theirs is the reign of the heavens.", "comment": "See 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/3/14'>3:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2722393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you when they reproach and persecute you, and falsely say every wicked word against you, for My sake."}, {"pk": 2722394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Rejoice and be glad, because your reward in the heavens is great. For in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."}, {"pk": 2722395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall it be seasoned? For it is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and to be trodden down by men."}, {"pk": 2722396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "You are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain."}, {"pk": 2722397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cNor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house."}, {"pk": 2722398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete.", "comment": "The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures."}, {"pk": 2722400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/17'>16:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2722401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens.", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/23/28'>23:28</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/3-9'>15:3-9</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/7/7-13'>7:7-13</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/7/19'>7:19</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/53'>7:53</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/23-27'>2:23-27</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/6/13'>6:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2722403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYou heard that it was said to those of old, <i>\u2018You shall not murder,\u2019</i> and whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/13'>20:13</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/17'>5:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2722404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "But I say to you that whoever is wroth with his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, \u2018Raka!\u2019 shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 shall be liable to fire of G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2722405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cIf, then, you bring your gift to the slaughter-place, and there remember that your brother holds whatever against you,"}, {"pk": 2722406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "leave your gift there before the slaughter-place, and go, first make peace with your brother, and then come and offer your gift."}, {"pk": 2722407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "Be well-minded with your opponent, promptly, while you are on the way with him, lest your opponent deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison."}, {"pk": 2722408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, you shall by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny."}, {"pk": 2722409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "You heard that it was said to those of old, <i>\u2018You shall not commit adultery.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/14'>20:14</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2722410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."}, {"pk": 2722411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2722412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2722413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "And it has been said, <i>\u2018Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/1'>24:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2722414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.", "comment": "See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/1'>24:1</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/9'>19:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2722415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAgain, you heard that it was said to those of old, <i>\u2018You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/12'>19:12</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/30/2'>30:2</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/23/21'>23:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2722416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 34, "text": "But I say to you, do not swear [vainly] at all, neither by the heaven, because it is Elohim\u2019s throne;", "comment": "Shem Tob\u0331 texts include \u2018vainly\u2019 = Hebrew: Shaw\u2019."}, {"pk": 2722417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 35, "text": "nor by <i>the earth</i>, for it is His <i>footstool</i> nor by Yerushalayim, for it is <i>the city of the great Sovereign;</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/1'>66:1</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/48/2'>48:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 36, "text": "nor swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black."}, {"pk": 2722419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cBut let your word \u2018Yes\u2019 be \u2018Yes,\u2019 and your \u2018No\u2019 be \u2018No.\u2019 And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one."}, {"pk": 2722420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 38, "text": "You heard that it was said, <i>\u2018An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,\u2019</i>", "comment": "This was the principle for the judges to follow, while \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 speaks in the next verse of our personal conduct.<br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/21/24'>21:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2722421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 39, "text": "but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also."}, {"pk": 2722422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd he who wishes to sue you and take away your inner garment, let him have your outer garment as well."}, {"pk": 2722423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 41, "text": "And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two."}, {"pk": 2722424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cGive to him who asks of you, and from him who wishes to borrow from you, do not turn away."}, {"pk": 2722425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 43, "text": "You heard that it was said, <i>\u2018You shall love your neighbour</i> and hate your enemy.\u2019", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a><br><em> Hate your enemy</em> was \u201csaid,\u201d not \u201cwritten.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,"}, {"pk": 2722427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 45, "text": "so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.", "comment": "Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/6/35'>6:35</a>; Act.<a href='/TS2009/42/14/16'>14:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/42/14/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2722428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cFor if you love those loving you, what reward have you? Are the tax collectors not doing the same too?"}, {"pk": 2722429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 47, "text": "And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more <i>than others</i>? Are the tax collectors not doing so too?"}, {"pk": 2722430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 5, "verse": 48, "text": "Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/17/1'>17:1</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/1'>119:1</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/5'>2:5</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/6/1'>6:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2722431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cBeware of doing your kind deeds before men, in order to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThus, when you do a kind deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do, in the congregations and in the streets, to be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward."}, {"pk": 2722433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "But when you do a kind deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,"}, {"pk": 2722434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "so that your kind deed shall be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall Himself reward you openly."}, {"pk": 2722435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward."}, {"pk": 2722436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly."}, {"pk": 2722437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when praying, do not keep on babbling like the nations. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words."}, {"pk": 2722438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."}, {"pk": 2722439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThis, then, is the way you should pray: \u2018Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,"}, {"pk": 2722440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven."}, {"pk": 2722441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Give us today our daily bread."}, {"pk": 2722442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."}, {"pk": 2722443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "\u2018And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the wicked one \u2014 because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Am\u0115n.\u2019", "comment": "Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/26/41'>26:41</a>"}, {"pk": 2722444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father shall also forgive you."}, {"pk": 2722445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither shall your Father forgive your trespasses."}, {"pk": 2722446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd when you fast, do not be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that they appear to be fasting to men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward."}, {"pk": 2722447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,"}, {"pk": 2722448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly."}, {"pk": 2722449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cDo not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,"}, {"pk": 2722450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal."}, {"pk": 2722451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "For where your treasure is, there your heart shall be also."}, {"pk": 2722452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThe lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, all your body shall be enlightened."}, {"pk": 2722453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "But if your eye is evil, all your body shall be darkened. If, then, the light that is within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!", "comment": "This is a Hebrew idiom \u2013 <em>a good eye</em> means to be generous, while <em>an evil eye</em> means to be stingy."}, {"pk": 2722454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.", "comment": "Personification of wealth."}, {"pk": 2722455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBecause of this I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat or drink, or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than the food and the body more than the clothing?"}, {"pk": 2722456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "Look at the birds of the heaven, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly Father does feed them. Are you not worth more than they?"}, {"pk": 2722457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his life\u2019s span?"}, {"pk": 2722458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "So why do you worry about clothing? Note well the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin,"}, {"pk": 2722459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "and I say to you that even Shelomoh in all his esteem was not dressed like one of these."}, {"pk": 2722460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cBut if Elohim so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?"}, {"pk": 2722461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "Do not worry then, saying, \u2018What shall we eat?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we drink?\u2019 or \u2018What shall we wear?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor all these the nations seek for. And your heavenly Father knows that you need all these."}, {"pk": 2722463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "But seek first the reign of Elohim, and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you."}, {"pk": 2722464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cDo not, then, worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow shall have its own worries. Each day has enough evil of itself."}, {"pk": 2722465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cDo not judge, lest you be judged."}, {"pk": 2722466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cFor with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged. And with the same measure you use, it shall be measured to you."}, {"pk": 2722467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd why do you look at the splinter in your brother\u2019s eye, but do not notice the plank in your own eye?"}, {"pk": 2722468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cOr how is it that you say to your brother, \u2018Let me remove the splinter out of your eye,\u2019 and see, a plank is in your own eye?"}, {"pk": 2722469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cHypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to remove the splinter out of your brother\u2019s eye."}, {"pk": 2722470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cDo not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces."}, {"pk": 2722471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAsk and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you."}, {"pk": 2722472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened."}, {"pk": 2722473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cOr is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?"}, {"pk": 2722474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cOr if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?"}, {"pk": 2722475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cIf you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!"}, {"pk": 2722476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cTherefore, whatever you wish men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Torah and the Prophets."}, {"pk": 2722477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cEnter in through the narrow gate! Because the gate is wide \u2014 and the way is broad \u2014 that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in through it."}, {"pk": 2722478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBecause the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.", "comment": "Or <em>the way is afflicted</em>."}, {"pk": 2722479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves.", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/23'>7:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2722480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBy their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?"}, {"pk": 2722481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSo every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit."}, {"pk": 2722482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cA good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit."}, {"pk": 2722483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cEvery tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."}, {"pk": 2722484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSo then, by their fruits you shall know them \u2014"}, {"pk": 2722485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cNot everyone who says to Me, \u2018Master, Master,\u2019 shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the desire of My Father in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cMany shall say to Me in that day, \u2018Master, Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name, and done many mighty works in Your Name?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd then I shall declare to them, \u2018I never knew you, <i>depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!\u2019</i>", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/15'>7:15</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/41'>13:41</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/13/42'>42</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/6/8'>6:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2722488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cTherefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock,"}, {"pk": 2722489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cand the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock."}, {"pk": 2722490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not do them, shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand,", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/15'>7:15</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/41'>13:41</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/13/42'>42</a>"}, {"pk": 2722491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had ended these words, that the people were astonished at His teaching,"}, {"pk": 2722493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "for He was teaching them as one possessing authority, and not as the scribes."}, {"pk": 2722494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And when He came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, a leper came, and bowed before Him, saying, \u201cMaster, if You desire, You are able to make me clean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And stretching out His hand \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 touched him, saying, \u201cI desire it. Be cleansed!\u201d And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."}, {"pk": 2722497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cSee, mention it to no one. But go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Mosheh commanded, as a witness to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had entered Kephar Nah\u0323um, a captain came to Him, appealing to Him,"}, {"pk": 2722499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "saying, \u201cMaster, my servant is lying in the house paralysed, grievously tortured.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cI shall come and heal him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And the captain answering, said, \u201cMaster, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only say a word, and my servant shall be healed."}, {"pk": 2722502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes, and to another, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes, and to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it."}, {"pk": 2722503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 heard, He marvelled, and said to those who followed, \u201cTruly, I say to you, not even in Yisra\u2019\u0115l have I found such great belief!"}, {"pk": 2722504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and sit down with Ab\u0331raham, and Yitsh\u0323aq, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 in the reign of the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2722505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness \u2014 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to the captain, \u201cGo, and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.\u201d And his servant was healed that hour."}, {"pk": 2722507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had come into the house of K\u0115pha, He saw his wife\u2019s mother lying sick with inflammation."}, {"pk": 2722508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And He touched her hand, and the inflammation left her. And she arose and served them."}, {"pk": 2722509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And when evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,"}, {"pk": 2722510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "that it might be filled what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, saying, <i>\u201cHe Himself took our weaknesses and bore our sicknesses.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/4'>53:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2722511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw large crowds about Him, He gave a command to go off to the other side."}, {"pk": 2722512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "And a certain scribe, having come near, said to Him, \u201cTeacher, I shall follow You wherever You go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cThe foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven nests, but the Son of Ad\u0331am has nowhere to lay His head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And another of His taught ones said to Him, \u201cMaster, first let me go and bury my father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cFollow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And when He entered into a boat, His taught ones followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And see, a great gale arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping."}, {"pk": 2722518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "And His taught ones came to Him and woke Him up, saying, \u201cMaster, save us! We are perishing!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhy are you afraid, O you of little belief?\u201d Then, having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm."}, {"pk": 2722520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And the men marvelled, saying, \u201cWhat is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And when He came to the other side, to the country of the Girgashites, two demon-possessed ones met Him, coming out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass that way."}, {"pk": 2722522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And see, they cried out, saying, \u201cWhat have we to do with You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Son of Elohim? Have You come here to torture us, before the appointed time?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And at a distance from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding,"}, {"pk": 2722524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "and the demons begged Him, saying, \u201cIf You cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cGo.\u201d And they, coming out, went into the herd of pigs. And see, the entire herd of pigs rushed down the steep place into the sea, and died in the water."}, {"pk": 2722526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And the herdsmen fled, and went away into the city and reported all this, and about those possessed by demons."}, {"pk": 2722527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And see, all the city came out to meet \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their borders."}, {"pk": 2722528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And entering into a boat, He passed over, and came to His own city."}, {"pk": 2722529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, they were bringing to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, seeing their belief, said to the paralytic, \u201cTake courage, son, your sins have been forgiven.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And see, some of the scribes said to themselves, \u201cThis One blasphemes!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing their thoughts, said, \u201cWhy do you think wicked <i>thoughts</i> in your hearts?"}, {"pk": 2722532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor which is easier, to say, \u2018Your sins have been forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Arise and walk\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2722533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut in order for you to know that the Son of Ad\u0331am possesses authority on earth to forgive sins...\u201d He then said to the paralytic, \u201cRise, take up your bed, and go to your house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And he rose and went to his house."}, {"pk": 2722535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And when the crowds saw it, they marvelled and praised Elohim who had given such authority to men."}, {"pk": 2722536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 passed on from there, He saw a man called Mattithyahu sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d And he rose and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And it came to be, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 sat at the table in the house, that see, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2722538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His taught ones, \u201cWhy does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 hearing this, said to them, \u201cThose who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick."}, {"pk": 2722540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "But go and learn what this means, <i>\u2018I desire compassion and not offering.\u2019</i> For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/6/6'>6:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2722541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "Then the taught ones of Yoh\u0323anan came to Him, saying, \u201cWhy do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your taught ones do not fast?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cAre the friends of the bridegroom able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days shall come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they shall fast."}, {"pk": 2722543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse."}, {"pk": 2722544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cNeither do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "While He was saying all this to them, see, a ruler came and bowed down to Him, saying, \u201cMy daughter is dead by now, but come and lay Your hand on her and she shall live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 rose and followed him, His taught ones too."}, {"pk": 2722547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And see, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the tzitzit of His garment.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Tzitzit\" and Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/15/37-41'>15:37-41</a>; Deut. <a href='/TS2009/5/22/12'>22:12</a>."}, {"pk": 2722548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "For she said to herself, \u201cIf I only touch His garment, I shall be healed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 turned, and when He saw her He said, \u201cTake courage, daughter, your belief has healed you.\u201d And the woman was healed from that hour."}, {"pk": 2722550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came into the ruler\u2019s house, and saw the flute players and the crowd making a noise,"}, {"pk": 2722551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "He said to them, \u201cGo back, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.\u201d And they laughed at Him."}, {"pk": 2722552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose."}, {"pk": 2722553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And this report went out into all that land."}, {"pk": 2722554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 passed on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, \u201cSon of Dawid\u0331, have compassion on us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And when He came into the house, the blind men came to Him. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cDo you believe that I am able to do this?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cYes, Master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "Then He touched their eyes, saying, \u201cAccording to your belief let it be to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And their eyes were opened. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 strictly ordered them, saying, \u201cSee, let no one know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "But when they went out, they made Him known in all that land."}, {"pk": 2722559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "And as they were going out, see, they brought to Him a man, dumb and demon-possessed."}, {"pk": 2722560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And when the demon was cast out, the dumb one spoke. And the crowds marvelled, saying, \u201cIt was never seen like this in Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "But the Pharisees said, \u201cHe casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their congregations, and proclaiming the Good News of the reign, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people."}, {"pk": 2722563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And having seen the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd."}, {"pk": 2722564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "Then He said to His taught ones, \u201cThe harvest truly is great, but the workers are few."}, {"pk": 2722565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "Pray then that the Master of the harvest would send out workers to His harvest."}, {"pk": 2722566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And having called His twelve taught ones near, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every bodily weakness."}, {"pk": 2722567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And these are the names of the twelve emissaries: first, Shim\u201bon, who is called K\u0115pha, and Andri his brother; Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the <i>son</i> of Zab\u0331dai, and Yoh\u0323anan his brother;"}, {"pk": 2722568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "Philip and Bartholomi; T\u2019oma and Mattithyahu the tax collector; Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the <i>son</i> of Alphai, and Lab\u0331ai whose last name was Taddai;"}, {"pk": 2722569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "Shim\u201bon the Kena\u201banite, and Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, who did also deliver Him up."}, {"pk": 2722570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 sent these twelve out, having commanded them, saying, \u201cDo not go into the way of the nations, and do not enter a city of the Shomeronim,"}, {"pk": 2722571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd as you go, proclaim, saying, \u2018The reign of the heavens has drawn near.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cHeal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received without paying, give without being paid."}, {"pk": 2722574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cDo not acquire gold or silver or copper for your <i>money</i>-belts,"}, {"pk": 2722575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "or a bag for the journey, or two undergarments, or sandals, or staffs, for the worker is worthy of his food."}, {"pk": 2722576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd into whatever city or village you enter, ask who is worthy in it, and stay there until you leave."}, {"pk": 2722577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd as you enter into a house, greet it."}, {"pk": 2722578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you."}, {"pk": 2722579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever does not receive you nor hear your words, when you leave that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet."}, {"pk": 2722580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, it shall be more bearable for the land of Sed\u0331om and Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!"}, {"pk": 2722581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSee, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.", "comment": "Or cautious, crafty, shrewd."}, {"pk": 2722582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut beware of men, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins and flog you in their congregations."}, {"pk": 2722583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be brought before governors and sovereigns for My sake, as a witness to them and to the nations."}, {"pk": 2722584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it shall be given to you in that hour what you shall speak,"}, {"pk": 2722585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you."}, {"pk": 2722586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd brother shall deliver up brother to death, and a father his child. And <i>children shall rise up against parents</i> and shall put them to death.", "comment": "Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/7/6'>7:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2722587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be hated by all for My Name\u2019s sake. But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/13'>24:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2722588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly, I say to you, you shall by no means have gone through the cities of Yisra\u2019\u0115l before the Son of Ad\u0331am comes."}, {"pk": 2722589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cA taught one is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master."}, {"pk": 2722590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIt is enough for the taught one to become like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Be\u201belzebul, how much more those of his household!"}, {"pk": 2722591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTherefore do not fear them. For whatever is covered shall be revealed, and whatever is hidden shall be made known."}, {"pk": 2722592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWhat I say to you in the dark, speak in the light. And what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the house-tops."}, {"pk": 2722593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the being. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both being and body in G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2722594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAre not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground without your Father."}, {"pk": 2722595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd even the hairs of your head are all numbered."}, {"pk": 2722596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSo do not fear, you are worth more than many sparrows."}, {"pk": 2722597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cEveryone, therefore, who shall confess Me before men, him I shall also confess before My Father who is in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cBut whoever shall deny Me before men, him I shall also deny before My Father who is in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cDo not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword,", "comment": "InLuke 12:51 the word \u201cdivision\u201d is used, while \u201csword\u201d has the same meaning here."}, {"pk": 2722600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "for I have come to bring division, <i>a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law \u2014</i>"}, {"pk": 2722601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "<i>and a man\u2019s enemies are those of his own household.</i>", "comment": "Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/7/6'>7:6</a><br>See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/12/53'>12:53</a>"}, {"pk": 2722602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cHe who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/16'>16:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/42/16/17'>17</a> which explains it more clearly."}, {"pk": 2722603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd he who does not take up his stake and follow after Me is not worthy of Me."}, {"pk": 2722604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cHe who has found his life shall lose it, and he that has lost his life for My sake shall find it."}, {"pk": 2722605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cHe who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2722606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cHe who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet\u2019s reward. And he who receives a righteous one in the name of a righteous one shall receive a righteous one\u2019s reward."}, {"pk": 2722607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever gives one of these little ones a cup of cold <i>water</i> only in the name of a taught one, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 ended instructing His twelve taught ones, that He set out from there to teach and to proclaim in their cities."}, {"pk": 2722609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And when Yoh\u0323anan had heard in the prison of the works of Messiah, he sent two of his taught ones"}, {"pk": 2722610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "and said to Him, \u201cAre You the Coming One, or do we look for another?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cGo, report to Yoh\u0323anan what you hear and see:"}, {"pk": 2722612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>\u201cBlind receive sight</i> and <i>lame walk</i>, lepers are cleansed and <i>deaf hear</i>, dead are raised up and <i>poor are brought the Good News.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/35/5'>35:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/35/6'>6</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/61/1'>61:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2722613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd blessed is he who does not stumble in Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And as these were going, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 began to say to the crowds concerning Yoh\u0323anan, \u201cWhat did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?"}, {"pk": 2722615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those wearing soft <i>garments</i> are in the houses of sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2722616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet."}, {"pk": 2722617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor this is he of whom it was written, <i>\u2018See, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/1'>3:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2722618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser, yet the least one in the reign of the heavens is greater than he."}, {"pk": 2722619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd from the days of Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser till now the reign of the heavens is violated, and the violent seize it.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/16'>16:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/42/16/17'>17</a> which explains it more clearly."}, {"pk": 2722620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cFor all the prophets and the Torah prophesied till Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2722621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd if you wish to accept it, he is \u011aliyahu who was about to come."}, {"pk": 2722622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cHe who has ears to hear, let him hear!"}, {"pk": 2722623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to their companions,"}, {"pk": 2722624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "and saying, \u2018We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we lamented to you, and you did not beat the breast.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor Yoh\u0323anan came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, \u2018He has a demon.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am came eating and drinking, and they say, \u2018See, a man, a glutton and a winedrinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2019 And wisdom was declared right by her works.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "Then He began to reproach the cities in which most of His miracles had been done, because they did not repent:"}, {"pk": 2722628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a! Because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."}, {"pk": 2722629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you, it shall be more bearable for Tsor and Tsid\u0331on in the day of judgment than for you."}, {"pk": 2722630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you, Kephar Nah\u0323um, who were <i>exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to She\u2019ol!</i> Because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Sed\u0331om, it would have remained until this day.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/13-15'>14:13-15</a><br>See Explanatory Notes - \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2722631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you that it shall be more bearable for the land of Sed\u0331om in the day of judgment than for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "At that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responding, said, \u201cI thank You, Father, Master of the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these <i>matters</i> from clever and learned ones and have revealed them to babes.", "comment": "Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/10/21'>10:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2722633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cYes, Father, because so it was well-pleasing in Your sight."}, {"pk": 2722634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAll have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him."}, {"pk": 2722635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cCome to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest."}, {"pk": 2722636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cTake My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your beings", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/6/16'>6:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2722637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor My yoke is gentle and My burden is light.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "At that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And His taught ones were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain, to eat."}, {"pk": 2722639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, \u201cLook, Your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "But He said to them, \u201cHave you not read what Dawid\u0331 did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:"}, {"pk": 2722641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?"}, {"pk": 2722642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cOr did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?"}, {"pk": 2722643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2722644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd if you had known what this means, <i>\u2018I desire compassion and not offering,\u2019</i> you would not have condemned the blameless.", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/6/6'>6:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2722645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor the Son of Ad\u0331am is Master of the Sabbath.\u201d", "comment": "See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/2'>2:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/2/3'>3</a>"}, {"pk": 2722646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And having left there, He went into their congregation."}, {"pk": 2722647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And see, there was a man having a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, \u201cIs it right to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d \u2014 so as to accuse Him."}, {"pk": 2722648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhat man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, shall not take hold of it and lift it out?"}, {"pk": 2722649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "How much more worth is a man than a sheep! So it is right to do good on the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2722650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "Then He said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d And he stretched it out, and it was restored, as healthy as the other."}, {"pk": 2722651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against Him, so as to destroy Him."}, {"pk": 2722652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing it, withdrew from there. And large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,"}, {"pk": 2722653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "and warned them not to make Him known,"}, {"pk": 2722654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "in order that what was spoken by Yeshayahu the prophet, might be filled, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cSee, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My being did delight. I shall put My Spirit upon Him, and He shall declare right-ruling to the nations.</i>"}, {"pk": 2722656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>\u201cHe shall not strive nor cry out, nor shall anyone hear His voice in the streets.</i>"}, {"pk": 2722657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>\u201cA crushed reed He shall not break, and smoking flax He shall not quench, till He brings forth right-ruling forever.</i>"}, {"pk": 2722658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd the nations shall trust in His Name.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/42/1-4'>42:1-4</a><br>This is according to the Shem-Tob\u0331 Hebrew text. However, this passage is a quote from Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/42/1-3'>42:1-3</a> where it reads <em>right-ruling unto truth.</em>"}, {"pk": 2722659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "Then they brought to Him one who was demon-possessed, blind and dumb. And He healed him, so that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw."}, {"pk": 2722660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "And all the crowds were amazed and said, \u201cIs this the Son of Dawid\u0331?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "But when the Pharisees heard it they said, \u201cThis one does not cast out demons except by Be\u201belzebul, the ruler of the demons.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 knew their thoughts, and said to them, \u201cEvery reign divided against itself is laid waste, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."}, {"pk": 2722663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then does his reign stand?"}, {"pk": 2722664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd if I, by Be\u201belzebul, do cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges."}, {"pk": 2722665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut if I cast out demons by the Spirit of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you."}, {"pk": 2722666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cOr how is one able to enter a strong man\u2019s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he shall plunder his house."}, {"pk": 2722667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cHe who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad."}, {"pk": 2722668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cBecause of this I say to you, all sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven men."}, {"pk": 2722669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever speaks a word against the Son of Ad\u0331am, it shall be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come."}, {"pk": 2722670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cEither make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit."}, {"pk": 2722671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cBrood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good \u2014 being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart."}, {"pk": 2722672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThe good man brings forth what is good from the good treasures of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked from the wicked treasure."}, {"pk": 2722673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you that for every idle word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the day of judgment."}, {"pk": 2722674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor by your words you shall be declared righteous, and by your words you shall be declared unrighteous.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, \u201cTeacher, we wish to see a sign from You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "But He answering, said to them, \u201cA wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah."}, {"pk": 2722677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cFor as<i> Yonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish</i>, so shall the Son of Ad\u0331am be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.", "comment": "Jonah <a href='/TS2009/32/1/17'>1:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2722678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cMen of Ninew\u0115h shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here."}, {"pk": 2722679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cThe sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here."}, {"pk": 2722680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cNow when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none."}, {"pk": 2722681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cThen it says, \u2018I shall return to my house from which I came.\u2019 And when it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and decorated."}, {"pk": 2722682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cThen it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "text": "And while He was still talking to the crowds, see, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him."}, {"pk": 2722684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "text": "And one said to Him, \u201cSee, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 48, "text": "But He answering, said to the one who spoke to Him, \u201cWho is My mother and who are My brothers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 49, "text": "And having stretched out His hand toward His taught ones, He said, \u201cSee My mother and My brothers!"}, {"pk": 2722687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 12, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cFor whoever does the desire of My Father who is in the heavens is My brother and sister and mother.\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/21'>8:21</a> where the wording differs slightly."}, {"pk": 2722688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And on that day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went out of the house and sat by the sea."}, {"pk": 2722689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And large crowds were gathered together to Him, so that He went into a boat and sat down. And all the crowd stood on the beach."}, {"pk": 2722690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And He spoke to them much in parables, saying, \u201cSee, the sower went out to sow."}, {"pk": 2722691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd as he sowed, some indeed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them."}, {"pk": 2722692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd others fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil."}, {"pk": 2722693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered."}, {"pk": 2722694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd others fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them."}, {"pk": 2722695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd others fell on good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."}, {"pk": 2722696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cHe who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And the taught ones came and said to Him, \u201cWhy do You speak to them in parables?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cBecause it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.", "comment": "See also Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/4/33'>4:33</a>, <a href='/TS2009/41/4/34'>34</a><br>Mattithyahu uses the word \u201cheaven(s)\u201d as an euphemism for the Name or designation of the Father, while Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/4/11'>4:11</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/10'>8:10</a> use the Father\u2019s Name/designation."}, {"pk": 2722699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor whoever possesses, to him more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/18'>8:18</a>."}, {"pk": 2722700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBecause of this I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand."}, {"pk": 2722701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, <i>\u2018Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive,</i>"}, {"pk": 2722702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/9'>6:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/6/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2722703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,"}, {"pk": 2722704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."}, {"pk": 2722705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cYou, then, hear the parable of the sower:"}, {"pk": 2722706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWhen anyone hears the word of the reign, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that sown by the wayside."}, {"pk": 2722707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd that sown on rocky places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,"}, {"pk": 2722708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived, and when pressure or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles."}, {"pk": 2722709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd that sown among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the worry of this age and the deceit of riches choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.", "comment": "Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/21/34'>21:34</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/3/4'>3:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2722710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd that sown on the good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields \u2014 some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."}, {"pk": 2722711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "Another parable He put before them, saying, \u201cThe reign of the heavens has become like a man who sowed good seed in his field,"}, {"pk": 2722712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.", "comment": "Darnel looks like wheat but is poisonous to man and beast."}, {"pk": 2722713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd when the blade sprouted and bore fruit, then the darnel also appeared."}, {"pk": 2722714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, \u2018Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then does it have the darnel?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd he said to them, \u2018A man, an enemy did this.\u2019 And the servants said to him, \u2018Do you wish then, that we go and gather them up?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cBut he said, \u2018No, lest while you gather up the darnel you also uproot the wheat with them."}, {"pk": 2722717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I shall say to the reapers, \u201cFirst gather the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2722718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "Another parable He put before them, saying, \u201cThe reign of the heavens is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,"}, {"pk": 2722719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "which indeed is less than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than the plants and becomes a tree, so that <i>the birds of the heaven come and dwell in its branches.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/104/12'>104:12</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/17/23'>17:23</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/31/6'>31:6</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/4/12'>4:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2722720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "Another parable He spoke to them, \u201cThe reign of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said all this to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable,"}, {"pk": 2722722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "so that what was spoken by the prophet might be filled, saying, <i>\u201cI shall open My mouth in parables, I shall pour forth what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/78/2'>78:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "Then, having sent the crowds away, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went into the house. And His taught ones came to Him, saying, \u201cExplain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cHe who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Ad\u0331am,"}, {"pk": 2722725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "text": "and the field is the world. And the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, but the darnel are the sons of the wicked one,"}, {"pk": 2722726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "text": "and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. And the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the messengers."}, {"pk": 2722727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAs the darnel, then, is gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be at the end of this age."}, {"pk": 2722728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am shall send out His messengers, and they shall gather out of His reign <i>all the stumbling-blocks,</i> and<i> those doing lawlessness</i>,", "comment": "Or <em>all the causes of sinning/offence</em>.<br>Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/1/3'>1:3</a><br>The darnel of Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/25'>13:25</a>."}, {"pk": 2722729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 42, "text": "and shall throw them into the furnace of fire \u2014 there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."}, {"pk": 2722730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 43, "text": "<i>\u201cThen the righteous shall shine forth as the sun</i> in the reign of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/37/29'>37:29</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/72/7'>72:7</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/75/10'>75:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/19'>118:19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/118/20'>20</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/146/8'>146:8</a>; Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/18'>3:18</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/11'>22:11</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/3'>12:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2722731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAgain, the reign of the heavens is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man having found it, hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."}, {"pk": 2722732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAgain, the reign of the heavens is like a man, a merchant, seeking fine pearls,"}, {"pk": 2722733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cwho, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it."}, {"pk": 2722734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAgain, the reign of the heavens is like a dragnet that was thrown into the sea and gathered some of every kind,"}, {"pk": 2722735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 48, "text": "which, when it was filled, they drew to shore. And they sat down and gathered the good into containers, but threw the rotten away."}, {"pk": 2722736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cThus shall it be at the end of the age: the messengers shall come forth, and separate the wicked out of the midst of the righteous,"}, {"pk": 2722737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 50, "text": "and shall throw them into the furnace of fire \u2014 there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 51, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cHave you understood all this?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cYes, Master.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 52, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTherefore every scholar taught in the reign of the heavens is like a householder who brings out of his treasure <i>matters</i>, renewed and old.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 53, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had ended these parables, that He left there."}, {"pk": 2722741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 54, "text": "And when He had come to His own country, He taught them in their congregation, so that they were astonished and said, \u201cWhere did this One get this wisdom and miracles?"}, {"pk": 2722742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cIs this not the son of the carpenter? Is not His mother called Miryam? And His brothers Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yos\u0115ph and Shim\u201bon and Yehud\u0331ah?"}, {"pk": 2722743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cAnd His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this One get all this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 57, "text": "And they stumbled at Him. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cA prophet is not unappreciated except in his own country and in his own house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 13, "verse": 58, "text": "And He did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief."}, {"pk": 2722746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "At that time Herodes the district ruler heard the report about \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2722747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "and said to his servants, \u201cThis is Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser. He has risen from the dead, and that is why these mighty powers are at work in him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "For Herodes had arrested Yoh\u0323anan, bound him and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip\u2019s wife,"}, {"pk": 2722749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "for Yoh\u0323anan had said to him, \u201cIt is not right for you to have her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And wishing to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they held him as a prophet."}, {"pk": 2722751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "But as Herodes\u2019 birthday was being held, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herodes,"}, {"pk": 2722752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "so he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked."}, {"pk": 2722753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And she, being urged on by her mother, said, \u201cGive me here the head of Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser on a dish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And the sovereign was sad, but because of the oaths and the guests he commanded it to be given,"}, {"pk": 2722755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "and sent and beheaded Yoh\u0323anan in prison."}, {"pk": 2722756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother."}, {"pk": 2722757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And his taught ones came and took away the body and buried it, and went and reported to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2722758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "Now when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 heard it, He withdrew from there by boat to a deserted place, by Himself. And when the crowds heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities."}, {"pk": 2722759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came out, He saw a large crowd and was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick."}, {"pk": 2722760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And when evening came, His taught ones came to Him, saying, \u201cThis is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds, so that they might go into the villages and buy food for themselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cThey do not need to go away, give them to eat yourselves.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cWe have here only five loaves and two fish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And He said, \u201cBring them here to Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And commanding the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the taught ones. And the taught ones gave to the crowds,"}, {"pk": 2722765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "and all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up the pieces left over \u2014 twelve baskets, filled."}, {"pk": 2722766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children."}, {"pk": 2722767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And immediately \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 made His taught ones enter into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds."}, {"pk": 2722768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "And having dismissed the crowds, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there."}, {"pk": 2722769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, agitated by the waves, for the wind was against it."}, {"pk": 2722770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And in the fourth watch of the night \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went to them, walking on the sea."}, {"pk": 2722771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And when the taught ones saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, \u201cIt is a phantom!\u201d And from fear they cried."}, {"pk": 2722772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "But immediately \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke to them, saying, \u201cTake courage, it is I, do not be afraid.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And K\u0115pha answered Him and said, \u201cMaster, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And He said, \u201cCome.\u201d And when K\u0115pha had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2722775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, \u201cMaster, save me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "And immediately \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, \u201cO you of little belief, why did you doubt?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "And when they came into the boat, the wind ceased."}, {"pk": 2722778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "And those in the boat came and did bow to Him, saying, \u201cTruly You are the Son of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "And having passed over, they came to the land of Genn\u0115sar."}, {"pk": 2722780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "And when the men of that place recognised Him, they sent out into all that surrounding country, and brought to Him all who were sick,"}, {"pk": 2722781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "and begged Him to let them only touch the tzitzit of His garment. And as many as touched it were completely healed.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes - \"Tzitzit\"."}, {"pk": 2722782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "Then there came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 scribes and Pharisees from Yerushalayim, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."}, {"pk": 2722784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "But He answering, said to them, \u201cWhy do you also transgress the command of Elohim because of your tradition?", "comment": "Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/20'>5:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2722785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor Elohim has commanded, saying, <i>\u2018Respect your father and your mother,\u2019</i> and, <i>\u2018He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12'>20:12</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16'>5:16</a><br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/21/17'>21:17</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/20/9'>20:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2722786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut you say, \u2018Whoever says to his father or mother, \u201cWhatever profit you might have received from me has been dedicated,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "is certainly released from respecting his father or mother.\u2019 So you have nullified the command of Elohim by your tradition."}, {"pk": 2722788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHypocrites! Yeshayahu rightly prophesied about you, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>\u2018This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.</i>"}, {"pk": 2722790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>\u2018But in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/13'>29:13</a><br>Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/7/7'>7:7</a>; 2Ki. <a href='/TS2009/12/17/19'>17:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2722791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And calling the crowd near, He said to them, \u201cHear and understand:"}, {"pk": 2722792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cNot that which goes into the mouth defiles the man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man."}, {"pk": 2722793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "Then His taught ones came and said to Him, \u201cDo You know that the Pharisees stumbled when they heard this word?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "But He answering, said, \u201cEvery plant which My heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted."}, {"pk": 2722795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cLeave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch."}, {"pk": 2722796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And K\u0115pha answering, said to Him, \u201cExplain this parable to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cAre you also still without understanding?"}, {"pk": 2722798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cDo you not understand that whatever enters into the mouth goes into the stomach, and is cast out in the sewer?"}, {"pk": 2722799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man."}, {"pk": 2722800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders."}, {"pk": 2722801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThese defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.\u201d", "comment": "This refers to the mistaken belief that demons entered the person eating bread with \u201cunwashed hands\"."}, {"pk": 2722802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went out from there and withdrew to the parts of Tsor and Tsid\u0331on."}, {"pk": 2722803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "And see, a woman of Kena\u201ban came from those borders and cried out to Him, saying, \u201cHave compassion on me, O Master, Son of Dawid\u0331! My daughter is badly demon-possessed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "But He did not answer her a word. And His taught ones came and asked Him, saying, \u201cSend her away, because she cries after us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And He answering, said, \u201cI was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/10/6'>10:6</a>."}, {"pk": 2722806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "But she came and was bowing to Him, saying, \u201cMaster, help me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And He answering, said, \u201cIt is not good to take the children\u2019s bread and throw it to the little dogs.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "But she said, \u201cYes Master, for even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters\u2019 table.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to her, \u201cO woman, your belief is great! Let it be to you as you desire.\u201d And her daughter was healed from that hour."}, {"pk": 2722810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And moving from there, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came toward the Sea of Galil, and going up on the mountain, He was sitting there."}, {"pk": 2722811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "And large crowds came to Him, having with them those who were lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others. And they laid them down at the feet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and He healed them,"}, {"pk": 2722812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "so that the crowd marvelled when they saw the dumb speaking, the crippled well, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, having called His taught ones near, said, \u201cI have compassion on the crowd, because they have now continued with Me three days and do not have whatever to eat. And I do not wish to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And His taught ones said to Him, \u201cWhere are we to get enough bread in the desert to satisfy such a large crowd?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have?\u201d And they said, \u201cSeven, and a few little fish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "And He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground,"}, {"pk": 2722817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "and taking the seven loaves and the fish, giving thanks, He broke them and gave to His taught ones, and the taught ones to the crowd."}, {"pk": 2722818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces \u2014 seven large baskets, filled."}, {"pk": 2722819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children."}, {"pk": 2722820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "And dismissing the crowd, He went into the boat, and came to the borders of Ma\u1e21dala."}, {"pk": 2722821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and trying Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven."}, {"pk": 2722822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cWhen it is evening you say, \u2018Fair weather, for the heaven is red,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "and in the morning, \u2018Stormy weather today, for the heaven is red and overcast.\u2019 You know how to discern the face of the heaven, but you are unable to <i>discern</i> the signs of the times!"}, {"pk": 2722824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Yonah. And He left them and went away."}, {"pk": 2722825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And His taught ones came to the other side, and had forgotten to take bread."}, {"pk": 2722826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cMind! And beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And they reasoned among themselves, saying, \u201cBecause we brought no bread!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, aware of this, said to them, \u201cO you of little belief, why do you reason among yourselves because you brought no bread?"}, {"pk": 2722829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cDo you still not understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you picked up?"}, {"pk": 2722830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you picked up?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, <i>but</i> to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."}, {"pk": 2722833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "Now when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His taught ones, saying, \u201cWho do men say the Son of Ad\u0331am is?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And they said, \u201cSome <i>say</i> Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser, and others \u011aliyahu, and others Yirmeyahu or one of the prophets.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "He said to them, \u201cAnd you, who do you say I am?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha answering, said, \u201cYou are the Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim.\u201d", "comment": "This is repeated in eight more places."}, {"pk": 2722837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to him, \u201cBlessed are you, Shim\u201bon Bar-Yonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And I also say to you that you are K\u0115pha, and on this rock I shall build My assembly, and the gates of She\u2019ol shall not overcome it.", "comment": "Shem Tob\u0331 reads: G\u0115Hinnom, i.e. \u2018valley of weeping\u2019."}, {"pk": 2722839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And I shall give you the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever you bind on earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been loosened in the heavens.\u201d", "comment": "<em> Binding and loosening</em> is a Hebrew idiom for <em>exercising authority</em> (to prohibit and permit)."}, {"pk": 2722840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "Then He warned His taught ones that they should say to no one that He is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2722841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "From that time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 began to show to His taught ones that it was necessary for Him to go to Yerushalayim, and to suffer much from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and to be raised again the third day."}, {"pk": 2722842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "And K\u0115pha took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, \u201cBe kind to Yourself, Master, this shall not be to You!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "But He turned and said to K\u0115pha, \u201cGet behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to Me, for your thoughts are not those of Elohim, but those of men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to His taught ones, \u201cIf anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me."}, {"pk": 2722845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it."}, {"pk": 2722846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cFor what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?"}, {"pk": 2722847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "For the Son of Ad\u0331am is going to come in the esteem of His Father with His messengers, and then He shall <i>reward each according to his works.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/62/12'>62:12</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/24/12'>24:12</a><br>See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/21/44'>21:44</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/29'>5:29</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/6'>2:6</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/5/10'>5:10</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/10'>2:10</a>; Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/2/7'>2:7</a>; Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/2/14'>2:14</a>; Jas. <a href='/TS2009/59/2/14-24'>2:14-24</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/12'>22:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2722848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death at all until they see the Son of Ad\u0331am coming in His reign:\"", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/17/2-5'>17:2-5</a>"}, {"pk": 2722849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And after six days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan his brother, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves,"}, {"pk": 2722850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "and He was transformed before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as the light."}, {"pk": 2722851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And see, Mosheh and \u011aliyahu appeared to them, talking with Him."}, {"pk": 2722852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And K\u0115pha answering, said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cMaster, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, let us make here three booths: one for You, one for Mosheh, and one for \u011aliyahu.\u201d", "comment": "See Mark. <a href='/TS2009/41/9/4'>9:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2722853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "While he was still speaking, see, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And see, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, \u201cThis is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I did delight. Hear Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And when the taught ones heard, they fell on their faces and were much afraid."}, {"pk": 2722855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came near and touched them and said, \u201cRise, and do not be afraid.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And having lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 only."}, {"pk": 2722857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And as they were coming down from the mountain, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 commanded them, saying, \u201cDo not mention the vision to anyone until the Son of Ad\u0331am is raised from the dead.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And His taught ones asked Him, saying, \u201cWhy then do the scribes say that \u011aliyahu has to come first?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201c\u011aliyahu is indeed coming first, and shall restore all.", "comment": "See Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/9/12'>9:12</a> and Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/21'>3:21</a> in particular."}, {"pk": 2722860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you that \u011aliyahu has already come, and they did not recognise him but did to him whatever they wished. In this way the Son of Ad\u0331am is also about to suffer by them."}, {"pk": 2722861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "Then the taught ones understood that He had spoken to them about Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser."}, {"pk": 2722862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,"}, {"pk": 2722863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cMaster, have compassion on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers badly, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water."}, {"pk": 2722864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I brought him to Your taught ones, but they were unable to heal him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said, \u201cO generation, unbelieving and perverted, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 rebuked the demon, and he came out of him. And the child was healed from that hour."}, {"pk": 2722867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the taught ones came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 by Himself and said, \u201cWhy were we unable to cast him out?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cBecause of your unbelief, for truly, I say to you, if you have belief as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, \u2018Move from here to there,\u2019 and it shall move. And no matter shall be impossible for you."}, {"pk": 2722869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And while they were staying in Galil, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,"}, {"pk": 2722871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall be raised up.\u201d And they were deeply grieved."}, {"pk": 2722872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "And when they came into Kephar Nah\u0323um, those who received the tax came to K\u0115pha and said, \u201cDoes your Teacher not pay the tax?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "He said, \u201cYes.\u201d And when he came into the house, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke to him first, saying, \u201cWhat do you think, Shim\u201bon? From whom do the sovereigns of the earth take toll or tax, from their own sons or from the strangers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "K\u0115pha <i>then</i> said to Him, \u201cFrom the strangers.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cThen the sons are exempt."}, {"pk": 2722875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a stater. Take that and give it to them for Me and you.\u201d", "comment": "A coin."}, {"pk": 2722876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "At that time the taught ones came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saying, \u201cWho, then, is greatest in the reign of the heavens?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 called a little child to Him, set him in their midst,"}, {"pk": 2722878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "and said, \u201cTruly, I say to you, unless you turn and become as little children, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhoever then humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the reign of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever receives one little child like this in My Name receives Me."}, {"pk": 2722881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea."}, {"pk": 2722882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cWoe to the world because of stumbling-blocks! For it is necessary that stumbling-blocks come, but woe to that man by whom the stumbling-block comes!"}, {"pk": 2722883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd if your hand or foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the everlasting fire."}, {"pk": 2722884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be thrown into the fire of G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2722885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSee that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in the heavens their messengers always see the face of My Father who is in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor the Son of Ad\u0331am has come to save what was lost."}, {"pk": 2722887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhat do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, going to seek the one that is straying?"}, {"pk": 2722888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd if he should find it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray."}, {"pk": 2722889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThus it is not the desire of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should be lost."}, {"pk": 2722890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd if your brother sins against you, go and convict him, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother."}, {"pk": 2722891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "But if he does not hear, take with you one or two more, that <i>\u2018by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might be established.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/19/15'>19:15</a><br>John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/17'>8:17</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/13/1'>13:1</a>; 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/5/19'>5:19</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/28'>10:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2722892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd if he refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like the nations and a tax collector."}, {"pk": 2722893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be having been bound in heaven, and whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been loosened in heaven.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@470 16:19>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/19'>16:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2722894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAgain I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "Then K\u0115pha came to Him and said, \u201cMaster, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cI do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven."}, {"pk": 2722898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBecause of this the reign of the heavens is like a certain man, a sovereign who wished to settle accounts with his servants."}, {"pk": 2722899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And when he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents,"}, {"pk": 2722900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "but as he was unable to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made."}, {"pk": 2722901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cThen the servant fell down before him, saying, \u2018Master, have patience with me, and I shall pay you all.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt."}, {"pk": 2722903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, \u2018Pay me what you owe!\u2019", "comment": "A Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2722904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cThen his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, \u2018Have patience with me, and I shall pay you all.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "But he would not, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt."}, {"pk": 2722906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were deeply grieved, and came and reported to their master all that had taken place."}, {"pk": 2722907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "Then his master called him and said to him, \u2018Wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt seeing you begged me."}, {"pk": 2722908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, as I also had compassion on you?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd his master was wroth, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him."}, {"pk": 2722910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "So also My heavenly Father shall do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had ended these words, that He left Galil and came to the borders of Yehud\u0331ah beyond the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2722912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there."}, {"pk": 2722913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And the Pharisees came to Him, trying Him, and saying to Him, \u201cIs it right for a man to put away his wife for every reason?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cDid you not read that He who made them at the beginning <i>made them male and female,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/1/27'>1:27</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/5/2'>5:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "and said, <i>\u2018For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh\u2019?</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2722916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate."}, {"pk": 2722917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "They said to Him, \u201cWhy then did Mosheh command to <i>give a certificate of divorce,</i> and to put her away?\u201d", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/1'>24:1</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/3'>24:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2722918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "He said to them, \u201cBecause of the hardness of your hearts, Mosheh allowed you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so."}, {"pk": 2722919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you, whoever puts away his wife, except on the ground of whoring, and marries another, commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been put away commits adultery.\u201d", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@470 5:32>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/32'>5:32</a>."}, {"pk": 2722920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "His taught ones said to Him, \u201cIf such is the case of the man with his wife, it is good not to marry.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cNot all receive this word, but only those to whom it has been given,"}, {"pk": 2722922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "for there are eunuchs who were so born from their mother\u2019s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the reign of the heavens. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "Then young children were brought to Him to lay His hands on them and pray, and the taught ones rebuked them."}, {"pk": 2722924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cAllow the young children and do not stop them from coming to Me, for of such is the reign of the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And having laid hands on them He went from there."}, {"pk": 2722926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And see, one came and said to Him, \u201cGood Teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cWhy do you call Me good? No one is good except One \u2014 Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.\u201d", "comment": "See also Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/10/28'>10:28</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/50'>12:50</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2722928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "He said to Him, \u201cWhich?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, <i>\" \u2018You shall not murder,\u2019 \u2018You shall not commit adultery,\u2019 \u2018You shall not steal,\u2019 \u2018You shall not bear false witness,\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/13-16'>20:13-16</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/17-20'>5:17-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2722929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>\u2018Respect your father and your mother,\u2019</i> and <i>\u2018You shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12'>20:12</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16'>5:16</a><br>Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2722930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "The young man said to Him, \u201cAll these I have watched over from my youth, what do I still lack?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cIf you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/12/33'>12:33</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/9'>16:9</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/45'>2:45</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/4/34'>4:34</a><br>Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/6/20'>6:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2722932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And when the young man heard the word, he went away sad, because he had many possessions."}, {"pk": 2722933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to His taught ones, \u201cTruly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the reign of the heavens."}, {"pk": 2722934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the reign of Elohim.\u201d", "comment": "Aramaic \u201cgamla\u201d, which is camel or rope."}, {"pk": 2722935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "And when His taught ones heard it, they were very astonished, saying, \u201cWho then is able to be saved?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "And looking intently \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cWith men this is impossible, but with Elohim all is possible.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "Then K\u0115pha answering, said to Him, \u201cSee, we have left all and followed You. What then shall we have?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cTruly I say to you, when the Son of Ad\u0331am sits on the throne of His esteem, you who have followed Me in the rebirth, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2722939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My Name\u2019s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2722940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cBut many who are first shall be last, and the last first."}, {"pk": 2722941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cFor the reign of the heavens is like a man, a householder who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard."}, {"pk": 2722942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And when he had agreed with the workers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2722943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market-place,"}, {"pk": 2722944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "and said to them, \u2018You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I shall give you.\u2019 And they went."}, {"pk": 2722945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cHaving gone out again about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did likewise."}, {"pk": 2722946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and said to them, \u2018Why do you stand here idle all day?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "They said to him, \u2018Because no one hired us.\u2019 He said to them, \u2018You too go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you shall receive.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2722948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd when evening came, the master of the vineyard said to his manager, \u2018Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2722950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd when the first came, they thought they would receive more. But they too received each a silver piece."}, {"pk": 2722951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And when they received it, they grumbled against the householder,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "saying, \u2018These last have worked <i>only</i> one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "But he answering, said to one of them, \u2018Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2722954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "Take yours and go. But I wish to give to this last man as also to you."}, {"pk": 2722955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "Is it not right for me to do what I wish with my own? Or is your eye evil because I am good?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2722956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat.<a href='/TS2009/40/22/14'>22:14</a>."}, {"pk": 2722957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, going up to Yerushalayim, took the twelve taught ones aside on the way and said to them,"}, {"pk": 2722958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSee, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they shall condemn Him to death,"}, {"pk": 2722959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "and deliver Him to the nations to mock and to flog and to impale. And the third day He shall be raised.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "Then the mother of the sons of Zab\u0331dai came to Him with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him."}, {"pk": 2722961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "And He said to her, \u201cWhat do you wish?\u201d She said to Him, \u201cCommand that these two sons of mine might sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said, \u201cYou do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and to be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cWe are able.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cYou shall indeed drink My cup, and you shall be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with. But to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by My Father.\u201d", "comment": "See also Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/10/39'>10:39</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/12/50'>12:50</a>"}, {"pk": 2722964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "And when the ten heard it, they were displeased at the two brothers."}, {"pk": 2722965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 called them near and said, \u201cYou know that the rulers of the nations are masters over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them."}, {"pk": 2722966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut it shall not be so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you, let him be your servant."}, {"pk": 2722967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And whoever wishes to be first among you, let him be your servant,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "even as the Son of Ad\u0331am did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.\u201d", "comment": "Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/10/45'>10:45</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/1-7'>49:1-7</a>"}, {"pk": 2722969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "And as they were leaving Yerih\u0323o, a large crowd followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "And see, two blind men sitting by the way, having heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was passing by, cried out, saying, \u201cHave compassion on us, O Master, Son of Dawid\u0331!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "And the crowd rebuked them that they should be silent, but they cried out all the more, saying, \u201cHave compassion on us, O Master, Son of Dawid\u0331!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stopped and called them, and said, \u201cWhat do you wish Me to do for you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "They said to Him, \u201cMaster, that our eyes be opened.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And having been moved with compassion, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him."}, {"pk": 2722975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And when they came near to Yerushalayim, and came to B\u0115yth Pha\u1e21i, at the Mount of Olives, then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 sent two taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2722976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "saying to them, \u201cGo into the village opposite you, and straightaway you shall find a donkey tied, and a colt with her, loosen <i>them</i>, and bring them to Me."}, {"pk": 2722977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And if anyone says whatever to you, you shall say, \u2018The Master needs them,\u2019 and immediately he shall send them."}, {"pk": 2722978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And all this took place that it might be filled what was spoken by the prophet, saying,"}, {"pk": 2722979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>\u201cSay to the daughter of Tsiyon, \u2018See, your Sovereign is coming to you, meek, and sitting on a donkey, even a colt, the foal of a donkey.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/9/9'>9:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2722980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And the taught ones went, and having done as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 ordered them,"}, {"pk": 2722981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "they brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their garments on them, and He sat on them."}, {"pk": 2722982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And most of the crowd spread their garments on the way, while others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the way."}, {"pk": 2722983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And the crowds who went before and those who followed cried out, saying, <i>\u201cHoshia-na to the Son of Dawid\u0331! Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Hoshia-na in the highest!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2722984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And as He entered into Yerushalayim, all the city was stirred, saying, \u201cWho is this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "And the crowds said, \u201cThis is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, the prophet from Natsareth of Galil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went into the Set-apart Place of Elohim and drove out all those buying and selling in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves."}, {"pk": 2722987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cIt has been written, <i>\u2018My House shall be called a house of prayer,\u2019</i> but you have made it a <i>\u2018den of robbers.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/7'>56:7</a><br>Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/11'>7:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2722988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And blind and lame ones came to Him in the Set-apart Place, and He healed them."}, {"pk": 2722989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonders which He did, and the children crying out in the Set-apart Place and saying,<i>\u201cHoshia-na</i> to the Son of Dawid\u0331!\u201d they were greatly displeased,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2722990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "and said to Him, \u201cDo You hear what these say?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cYes, have you never read, <i>\u2018Out of the mouth of babes and nurslings You have perfected praise\u2019?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/8/2'>8:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2722991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And having left them He went out of the city to B\u0115yth Anyah, and spent the night there."}, {"pk": 2722992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And returning to the city early in the morning, He became hungry."}, {"pk": 2722993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And seeing a single fig tree by the way, He came to it and found naught on it but leaves, and said to it, \u201cLet no fruit grow on you ever again.\u201d And immediately the fig tree withered."}, {"pk": 2722994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And the taught ones, seeing it, marvelled, saying, \u201cHow did the fig tree wither so soon?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you, if you have belief and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, \u2018Be removed and be thrown into the sea,\u2019 it shall be done."}, {"pk": 2722996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."}, {"pk": 2722997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And when He had come into the Set-apart Place, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him as He was teaching, and said, \u201cBy what authority are You doing these? And who gave You this authority?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2722998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cI shall ask you one question too, which if you answer Me, I also shall say to you by what authority I do these:"}, {"pk": 2722999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "The immersion of Yoh\u0323anan, where did it come from? From heaven or from men? So they reasoned among themselves, saying, \u201cIf we say, \u2018From heaven,\u2019 He shall say to us, \u2018Then why did you not believe him?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "But if we say, \u2018From men,\u2019 we fear the crowd, for all hold Yoh\u0323anan as a prophet."}, {"pk": 2723001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "And they answered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and said, \u201cWe do not know.\u201d And He said to them, \u201cNeither do I say to you by what authority I do these."}, {"pk": 2723002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, \u2018Son, go, work today in my vineyard.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd he answering, said, \u2018I do not wish to,\u2019 but afterwards he repented and went."}, {"pk": 2723004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd having come to the second, he said similarly. And he answering, said, \u2018I go, master,\u2019 but he did not go."}, {"pk": 2723005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cWhich of the two did the desire of the father?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cThe first.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you that tax collectors and whores are entering into the reign of Elohim before you,"}, {"pk": 2723006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "for Yoh\u0323anan came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but tax collectors and whores believed him. And when you saw it, you did not repent afterwards, to believe him."}, {"pk": 2723007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cHear another parable: There was a certain man, a householder who <i>planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower.</i> And he leased it to farmers and went abroad.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/5/1'>5:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/5/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2723008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive its fruit."}, {"pk": 2723009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd the farmers took his servants and beat one, and they killed one, and they stoned another."}, {"pk": 2723010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAgain he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them."}, {"pk": 2723011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd at last he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They shall respect my son.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cBut when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us possess his inheritance.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him."}, {"pk": 2723014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cTherefore, when the master of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those farmers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 41, "text": "They said to Him, \u201cEvil ones! He shall bring them to evil destruction, and lease the vineyard to other farmers who shall give to him the fruits in their seasons.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 42, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cDid you never read in the Scriptures, <i>\u2018The stone which the builders rejeted has become the chief corner-stone. This was from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it is marvellous in our eyes\u2019?</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/22'>118:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/118/23'>23</a>"}, {"pk": 2723017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBecause of this I say to you: the reign of Elohim shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it."}, {"pk": 2723018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd he who falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomever it falls, he shall be pulverised.\u201d", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/10'>8:10</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/13'>8:13</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/3/5'>3:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 45, "text": "And the chief priests and Pharisees, having heard His parables, knew that He was speaking of them."}, {"pk": 2723020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 21, "verse": 46, "text": "And seeking to lay hands on Him, they feared the crowds, seeing they held Him to be a prophet."}, {"pk": 2723021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responded and spoke to them again by parables and said,"}, {"pk": 2723022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThe reign of the heavens is like a man, a sovereign, who made a wedding feast for his son,"}, {"pk": 2723023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast. But they would not come."}, {"pk": 2723024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "Again he sent out other servants, saying, \u2018Say to those who are invited, \u201cSee, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle are slaughtered, and all is ready. Come to the wedding feast.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2723025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut they disregarded it and went their way \u2014 this one to his field, that one to his trade."}, {"pk": 2723026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd the rest, having seized his servants, insulted and killed them."}, {"pk": 2723027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut when the sovereign heard, he was wroth, and sent out his soldiers, destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire."}, {"pk": 2723028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThen he said to his servants, \u2018The wedding feast, indeed, is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy."}, {"pk": 2723029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "Therefore go into the street corners, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding feast.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd those servants went out into the street corners and gathered all whom they found, both wicked and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests."}, {"pk": 2723031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And when the sovereign came in to view the guests, he saw there a man who had not put on a wedding garment,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "and he said to him, \u2018Friend, how did you come in here not having a wedding garment?\u2019 And he was speechless."}, {"pk": 2723033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThen the sovereign said to the servants, \u2018Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him out into the outer darkness \u2014 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cFor many are called, but few are chosen.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/20/16'>20:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2723035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him in His words."}, {"pk": 2723036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "And they sent to Him their taught ones with the Herodians, saying, \u201cTeacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of Elohim in truth, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You are not partial to any man."}, {"pk": 2723037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "Then say to us, what do You think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"}, {"pk": 2723038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "But knowing their wickedness, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cWhy do you try Me, you hypocrites?"}, {"pk": 2723039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "Show Me the coin of the tax. And they brought Him a denarius.", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2723040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhose likeness and inscription is this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "They said to Him, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d And He said to them, \u201cThen give to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s, and to Elohim what is Elohim\u2019s.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "And having heard, they marvelled, and left Him and went away."}, {"pk": 2723043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "On that day Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,"}, {"pk": 2723044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "saying, \u201cTeacher, Mosheh said that if <i>anyone should die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise offspring for his brother.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/5'>25:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd there were with us seven brothers, and the first died after he had married, and having no children, left his wife to his brother."}, {"pk": 2723046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cIn the same way the second also, and the third, unto the seventh."}, {"pk": 2723047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd last of all the woman died too."}, {"pk": 2723048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAt the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven shall she be \u2014 for all had her?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cYou go astray, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/24'>12:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2723050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor in the resurrection they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of Elohim in heaven."}, {"pk": 2723051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by Elohim, saying,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "<i>\u2018I am the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, and the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019?</i> Elohim is not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living.\u201d", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2723053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "And when the crowds heard, they were astonished at His teaching."}, {"pk": 2723054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "But the Pharisees, having heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, were gathered together,"}, {"pk": 2723055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "text": "and one of them, one learned in the Torah, did question, trying Him, and saying,"}, {"pk": 2723056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "text": "Teacher, which is the great command in the Torah?"}, {"pk": 2723057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, <i>\" \u2018You shall love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/5'>6:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cThis is the first and great command."}, {"pk": 2723059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "text": "And the second is like it, <i>\u2018You shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "text": "On these two commands hang all the Torah and the Prophets."}, {"pk": 2723061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "text": "And when the Pharisees were gathered together, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 asked them,"}, {"pk": 2723062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "text": "saying, \u201cWhat do you think concerning the Messiah? Whose Son is He?\u201d They said to Him, \u201c<i>The Son</i> of Dawid\u0331.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "text": "He said to them, \u201cThen how does Dawid\u0331 in the Spirit call Him \u2018Master,\u2019 saying,"}, {"pk": 2723064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "text": "<i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my Master, \u201cSit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool of Your feet\u201d \u2019?</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2723065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "text": "If then Dawid\u0331 calls Him \u2018Master,\u2019 how is He his Son?"}, {"pk": 2723066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "text": "And no one was able to answer Him a word, and from that day on no one was bold <i>enough</i> to ask Him any more questions."}, {"pk": 2723067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke to the crowds and to His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2723068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "saying, \u201cThe scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2723069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore, whatever they say to you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do.", "comment": "Four of eleven available Shem Tob\u0331 texts read \u201che says\u201d, referring to Mosheh, instead of \u201cthey say\u201d, referring to the Pharisees."}, {"pk": 2723070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cFor they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men\u2019s shoulders, but with their finger they do not wish to move them."}, {"pk": 2723071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t\u2019fillen wide and lengthen the tzitzit of their garments,", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes - \"Tzitzit\" and Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/15/37-41'>15:37-41</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/22/12'>22:12</a><br>See Explanatory Notes - \"T\u2019fillen\"."}, {"pk": 2723072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "and they love the best place at feasts, and the best seats in the congregations,"}, {"pk": 2723073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "and the greetings in the market-places, and to be called by men, \u2018Rabbi, Rabbi.\u2019", "comment": "Rabbi - A Semitic term literally meaning \u201cMy Great One.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut you, do not be called \u2018Rabbi,\u2019 for One is your Teacher, the Messiah, and you are all brothers."}, {"pk": 2723075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd do not call <i>anyone</i> on earth your father, for One is your Father, He who is in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2723076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cNeither be called leaders, for One is your Leader, the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2723077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut the greatest among you shall be your servant."}, {"pk": 2723078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted."}, {"pk": 2723079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in."}, {"pk": 2723080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows\u2019 houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment."}, {"pk": 2723081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go about the land and the sea to win one convert, and when he is won, you make him a son of G\u0115Hinnom twofold more than yourselves."}, {"pk": 2723082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, blind guides, who say, \u2018Whoever swears by the Dwelling Place, it does not matter, but whoever swears by the gold of the Dwelling Place, is bound by oath.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the Dwelling Place that sets the gold apart?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd, \u2018Whoever swears by the slaughter-place, it does not matter, but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, is bound by oath.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the slaughter-place that sets the gift apart?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cHe, then, who swears by the slaughter-place, swears by it and by all that is upon it."}, {"pk": 2723087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd he who swears by the Dwelling Place, swears by it and by Him who is dwelling in it."}, {"pk": 2723088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd he who swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of Elohim and by Him who is sitting upon it."}, {"pk": 2723089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier <i>matters</i> of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others.", "comment": "The wording in Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/11/42'>11:42</a> is somewhat different."}, {"pk": 2723090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBlind guides \u2014 straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!"}, {"pk": 2723091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are filled with plunder and unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2723092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBlind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them becomes clean too."}, {"pk": 2723093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men\u2019s bones and all uncleanness."}, {"pk": 2723094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cSo you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/20'>5:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2723095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,"}, {"pk": 2723096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "and say, \u2018If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who did murder the prophets \u2014"}, {"pk": 2723098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "and you fill up the measure of your fathers!"}, {"pk": 2723099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cSerpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of G\u0115Hinnom?"}, {"pk": 2723100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cBecause of this, see, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scholars <i>of Scripture.</i> Some of them you shall kill and impale, and some of them you shall flog in your congregations and persecute from city to city,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/52'>13:52</a>"}, {"pk": 2723101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "so that on you should come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Heb\u0331el to the blood of Zek\u0331aryah, son of Berek\u0331yah, whom you murdered between the Dwelling Place and the slaughter-place."}, {"pk": 2723102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "Truly, I say to you, all this shall come upon this generation.", "comment": "Or \u2018race\u2019."}, {"pk": 2723103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cYerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!"}, {"pk": 2723104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "<i>See! Your house is left to you laid waste,</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/22/5'>22:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "for I say to you, from now on you shall by no means see Me, until you say, <i>\u2018Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2723106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And going out, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went away from the Set-apart Place, and His taught ones came near to point out to Him the buildings of the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2723107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cDo you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the taught ones came to Him separately, saying, \u201cSay to us, when shall this be, and what is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cTake heed that no one leads you astray."}, {"pk": 2723110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cFor many shall come in My Name, saying, \u2018I am the Messiah,\u2019 and they shall lead many astray."}, {"pk": 2723111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall begin to hear of fightings and reports of fightings. See that you are not troubled, for these have to take place, but the end is not yet."}, {"pk": 2723112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor nation shall rise against nation, and reign against reign. And there shall be scarcities of food, and deadly diseases, and earthquakes in places."}, {"pk": 2723113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd all these are the beginning of birth pains."}, {"pk": 2723114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cThen they shall deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you shall be hated by all nations for My Name\u2019s sake."}, {"pk": 2723115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd then many shall stumble, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another."}, {"pk": 2723116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd many false prophets shall rise up and lead many astray."}, {"pk": 2723117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd because of the increase in lawlessness, the love of many shall become cold."}, {"pk": 2723118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/10/22'>10:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2723119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd this Good News of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come."}, {"pk": 2723120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSo when you see the <i>\u2018abomination that lays waste,\u2019</i> spoken of by Dani\u2019\u0115l the prophet, set up in the set-apart place\u201d \u2014 he who reads, let him understand \u2014", "comment": "See also Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/9/1'>9</a>.27 and <em>\"Abomination that lays waste\"</em> in the Explanatory Notes.<br>Dan.<a href='/TS2009/27/11/1'>11</a>.31"}, {"pk": 2723121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cthen let those who are in Yehud\u0331ah flee to the mountains."}, {"pk": 2723122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cLet him who is on the house-top not come down to take whatever out of his house."}, {"pk": 2723123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd let him who is in the field not turn back to get his garments."}, {"pk": 2723124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2723126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "For then there shall be great distress, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.", "comment": "Or<em> great pressure</em>, or <em>great affliction</em>."}, {"pk": 2723127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the sake of the chosen ones those days shall be shortened."}, {"pk": 2723128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cIf anyone then says to you, \u2018Look, here is the Messiah!\u2019 or \u2018There!\u2019 do not believe."}, {"pk": 2723129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones."}, {"pk": 2723130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cSee, I have forewarned you."}, {"pk": 2723131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cSo if they say to you, \u2018Look, He is in the desert!\u2019 do not go out; or \u2018Look, He is in the inner rooms!\u2019 do not believe."}, {"pk": 2723132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "For as the lightning comes from the east and shines to the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Ad\u0331am be."}, {"pk": 2723133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "For wherever the dead body is, there the vultures shall be gathered together.", "comment": "See also Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/17/37'>17:37</a>"}, {"pk": 2723134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "And immediately after the distress of those days the <i>sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven,</i> and <i>the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</i>", "comment": "See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/4'>34:4</a><br>Or <em>pressure.</em><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/10'>13:10</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/23'>24:23</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/32/7'>32:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/32/8'>8</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/10'>2:10</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/31'>2:31</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/15'>3:15</a><br>See also Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/5/20'>5:20</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/8/9'>8:9</a><br>Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/6'>2:6</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/21'>2:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2723135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd then the sign of the Son of Ad\u0331am shall appear in the heaven, and then <i>all the tribes of the earth shall mourn,</i> and they shall see the <i>Son of Ad\u0331am coming on the clouds</i> of the heaven with power and much esteem.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a><br>See also Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/14'>7:14</a><br>Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/12/10'>12:10</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/12/14'>12:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2723136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "And He shall send His messengers with <i>a great sound of a trumpet,</i> and they shall gather together His chosen ones from <i>the four winds,</i> <i>from one end of the heavens to the other.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/32'>4:32</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/27/13'>27:13</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/2'>7:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2723137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near."}, {"pk": 2723138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cSo you also, when you see all these, know that He is near, at the doors."}, {"pk": 2723139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away until all this takes place."}, {"pk": 2723140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThe heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away."}, {"pk": 2723141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cBut concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the heavens, but My Father only.", "comment": "See also Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/13/32'>13:32</a>"}, {"pk": 2723142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd as the days of Noah\u0323, so also shall the coming of the Son of Ad\u0331am be."}, {"pk": 2723143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 38, "text": "For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that <i>Noah\u0323 entered into the ark,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/7/7'>7:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2723144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 39, "text": "and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall the coming of the Son of Ad\u0331am be."}, {"pk": 2723145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 40, "text": "Then two shall be in the field, the one is taken and the one is left.", "comment": "A masculine plural can refer to either gender; feminine plural refers to females only."}, {"pk": 2723146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cTwo women shall be grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left.", "comment": "A masculine plural can refer to either gender; feminine plural refers to females only."}, {"pk": 2723147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cWatch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Master is coming."}, {"pk": 2723148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into."}, {"pk": 2723149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cBecause of this, be ready too, for the Son of Ad\u0331am is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him."}, {"pk": 2723150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 45, "text": "Who then is a trustworthy and wise servant, whom his master set over his household, to give them food in season?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cBlessed is that servant whom his master, having come, shall find so doing."}, {"pk": 2723152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you that he shall set him over all his possessions."}, {"pk": 2723153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cBut if that evil servant says in his heart, \u2018My master is delaying his coming,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 49, "text": "and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards,"}, {"pk": 2723155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 50, "text": "the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect it, and at an hour he does not know,"}, {"pk": 2723156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 24, "verse": 51, "text": "and shall cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites \u2014 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."}, {"pk": 2723157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThen the reign of the heavens shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom."}, {"pk": 2723158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd five of them were wise, and five foolish."}, {"pk": 2723159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "Those who were foolish, having taken their lamps, took no oil with them,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "but the wise took oil in their containers with their lamps."}, {"pk": 2723161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cNow while the bridegroom took time, they all slumbered and slept."}, {"pk": 2723162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And at midnight a cry was heard, \u2018See, the bridegroom is coming, go out to meet him!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThen all those maidens rose up and trimmed their lamps."}, {"pk": 2723164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "And the foolish said to the wise, \u2018Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut the wise answered, saying, \u2018No, indeed, there would not be enough for us and you. Instead, go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut."}, {"pk": 2723167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd later the other maidens also came, saying, \u2018Master, Master, open up for us!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "But he answering, said, \u2018Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWatch therefore, because you do not know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Ad\u0331am is coming,"}, {"pk": 2723170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "for it is like a man going from home, who called his own servants and delivered his possessions to them."}, {"pk": 2723171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability, and went from home."}, {"pk": 2723172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he who had received the five talents went and worked with them, and made another five talents."}, {"pk": 2723173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cIn the same way, he with the two also, he gained two more."}, {"pk": 2723174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut he who had received the one went away and dug in the ground, and hid the silver of his master."}, {"pk": 2723175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them."}, {"pk": 2723176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, \u2018Master, you delivered to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents besides them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "And his master said to him, \u2018Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cThen he who had received two talents came and said, \u2018Master, you delivered to me two talents. See, I have gained two more talents besides them.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "His master said to him, \u2018Well done, good and trustworthy servant. You were trustworthy over a little, I shall set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd the one who had received the one talent also came and said, \u2018Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed,"}, {"pk": 2723181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "and being afraid, I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd his master answering, said to him, \u2018You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed."}, {"pk": 2723183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "Then you should have put my silver with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest."}, {"pk": 2723184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 28, "text": "Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to him who possesses ten talents."}, {"pk": 2723185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 29, "text": "\u2018For to everyone who possesses, more shall be given, and he shall have overflowingly; but from him who does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/18'>8:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 30, "text": "And throw the worthless servant out into the outer darkness \u2014 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd when the Son of Ad\u0331am comes in His esteem, and all the set-apart messengers with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His esteem."}, {"pk": 2723188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd all the nations shall be gathered before Him, and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats."}, {"pk": 2723189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left."}, {"pk": 2723190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 34, "text": "Then the Sovereign shall say to those on His right hand, \u2018Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the reign prepared for you from the foundation of the world - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 35, "text": "for I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,"}, {"pk": 2723192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 36, "text": "was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 37, "text": "Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, \u2018Master, when did we see You hungry and we fed <i>You</i>, or thirsty and gave <i>You</i> to drink?"}, {"pk": 2723194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 38, "text": "And when did we see You a stranger and took <i>You</i> in, or naked and clothed <i>You</i>?"}, {"pk": 2723195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 39, "text": "And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and we came to You?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd the Sovereign shall answer and say to them, \u2018Truly, I say to you, in so far as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 41, "text": "He shall then also say to those on the left hand, \u2018Go away from Me, accursed ones, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his messengers - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 42, "text": "for I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink,"}, {"pk": 2723199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 43, "text": "I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, was naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cThen they also shall answer Him, saying, \u2018Master, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve You?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 45, "text": "Then He shall answer them, saying, \u2018Truly, I say to you, in so far as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 25, "verse": 46, "text": "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2723203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 ended all these words, He said to His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2723204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "You know that after two days the P\u0115sah\u0323 takes place, and the Son of Ad\u0331am is to be delivered up to be impaled."}, {"pk": 2723205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people came together at the court of the high priest, who was called Qayapha,"}, {"pk": 2723206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "and plotted to seize \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 by trickery and kill <i>Him</i>."}, {"pk": 2723207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "But they said, \u201cNot at the festival lest there be an uproar among the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was in B\u0115yth Anyah at the house of Shim\u201bon the leper,"}, {"pk": 2723209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "a woman came to Him, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table."}, {"pk": 2723210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "And when His taught ones saw it, they were much displeased saying, \u201cTo what purpose is this waste?"}, {"pk": 2723211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "For this perfume could have been sold for much and given to the poor."}, {"pk": 2723212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "However, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 noticed it, He said to them, \u201cWhy do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work toward Me."}, {"pk": 2723213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cFor you always have the poor with you, but Me you do not have always."}, {"pk": 2723214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cFor in pouring this perfume on My body, she did it for My burial."}, {"pk": 2723215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "Truly, I say to you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what this woman has done shall be spoken of also, to her remembrance."}, {"pk": 2723216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "Then one of the twelve, called Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, went to the chief priests,"}, {"pk": 2723217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "and said, \u201cWhat would you give me to deliver Him to you?\u201d And <i>they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/11/12'>11:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2723218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "And from then on he was seeking an occasion to deliver Him up."}, {"pk": 2723219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "And on the first <i>day</i> of Unleavened Bread the taught ones came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saying to Him, \u201cWhere do You wish us to prepare for You to eat the P\u0115sah\u0323?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "And He said, \u201cGo into the city to a certain man, and say to him, \u2018The Teacher says, \u201cMy time is near. I am to perform the P\u0115sah\u0323 at your house with My taught ones.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "And the taught ones did as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had ordered them, and prepared the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2723222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "And when evening came, He sat down with the twelve."}, {"pk": 2723223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "And while they were eating, He said, \u201cTruly, I say to you, one of you shall deliver Me up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "And they were deeply grieved, and began to say to Him, each of them, \u201cMaster, is it I?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "And He answering, said, \u201cHe who has dipped his hand with Me in the dish, he shall deliver Me up."}, {"pk": 2723226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "Indeed, the Son of Ad\u0331am goes as it has been written concerning Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Ad\u0331am is delivered up! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."}, {"pk": 2723227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 he who delivered Him up \u2014 answering, said, \u201cRabbi, is it I?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYou have said it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "And as they were eating, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took bread, and having blessed, broke and gave it to the taught ones and said, \u201cTake, eat, this is My body.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "And taking the cup, and giving thanks, He gave it to them, saying, \u201cDrink from it, all of you."}, {"pk": 2723230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor this is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins."}, {"pk": 2723231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on till that day when I drink it anew with you in the reign of My Father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "And having sung a song, they went out to the Mount of Olives."}, {"pk": 2723233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cAll of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, <i>\u2018I shall strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.\u2019</i>", "comment": "See also Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/14/27'>14:27</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/16/32'>16:32</a><br>Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/13/7'>13:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2723234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "But after I have been raised, I shall go before you into Galil."}, {"pk": 2723235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 33, "text": "And K\u0115pha answering, said to Him, \u201cEven if all stumble in You, I shall never stumble.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cTruly, I say to you that this night, before the cock crows, you shall deny Me three times.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 35, "text": "K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cEven if I have to die with You, I shall not deny You!\u201d All the taught ones said the same too."}, {"pk": 2723238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 36, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, \u201cSit here while I go over there and pray.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 37, "text": "And He took with Him K\u0115pha and the two sons of Zab\u0331dai, and He began to be grieved and deeply distressed."}, {"pk": 2723240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 38, "text": "Then He said to them, \u201cMy being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 39, "text": "And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, \u201cO My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You <i>desire</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 40, "text": "And He came to the taught ones and found them asleep, and said to K\u0115pha, \u201cSo, were you not able to watch with Me one hour?"}, {"pk": 2723243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 41, "text": "Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."}, {"pk": 2723244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 42, "text": "Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, \u201cO My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 43, "text": "And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy."}, {"pk": 2723246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 44, "text": "And He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words."}, {"pk": 2723247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 45, "text": "Then He came to His taught ones and said to them, \u201cStill sleeping and taking rest? See, the hour has come near, and the Son of Ad\u0331am is delivered up into the hands of sinners."}, {"pk": 2723248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 46, "text": "Rise, let us go. See, he who delivers Me up has come near."}, {"pk": 2723249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 47, "text": "And while He was still speaking, see, Yehud\u0331ah, one of the twelve, with a large crowd with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people."}, {"pk": 2723250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 48, "text": "And he who was delivering Him up gave them a sign, saying, \u201cWhomever I kiss, it is He, seize Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 49, "text": "And going straight up to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 he said, \u201cGreetings, Rabbi!\u201d and kissed Him."}, {"pk": 2723252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 50, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cFriend, why have you come?\u201d Then they came and laid hands on \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and seized Him."}, {"pk": 2723253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 51, "text": "And look, one of those with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking the servant of the high priest he cut off his ear."}, {"pk": 2723254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 52, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cReturn your sword to its place, for all who take the sword shall die by the sword."}, {"pk": 2723255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 53, "text": "\u201cOr do you think that I am not able to pray to My Father now, and He shall provide Me with more than twelve legions of messengers?"}, {"pk": 2723256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 54, "text": "\u201cHow then would the Scriptures be filled that it has to be this way?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 55, "text": "In that hour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to the crowds, \u201cHave you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to arrest Me? Daily I sat with you, teaching in the Set-apart Place, and you did not seize Me."}, {"pk": 2723258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 56, "text": "But all this came to be, so that the Scriptures of the prophets might be filled. Then all the taught ones left Him and fled."}, {"pk": 2723259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 57, "text": "And those who had seized \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 led Him away to Qayapha the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together."}, {"pk": 2723260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 58, "text": "But K\u0115pha followed Him at a distance to the courtyard of the high priest, and he went in and sat with the servants to see the end."}, {"pk": 2723261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 59, "text": "And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council were seeking false witness against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 to put Him to death,"}, {"pk": 2723262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 60, "text": "but found none. Although many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,"}, {"pk": 2723263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 61, "text": "and said, \u201cThis one said, \u2018I am able to destroy the Dwelling Place of Elohim and to build it in three days.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 62, "text": "And the high priest stood up and said to Him, \u201cHave You no answer to make? What do these witness against You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 63, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 remained silent. So the high priest said to Him, \u201cI put You to oath, by the living Elohim that You say to us if You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 64, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYou have said it. Besides I say to you, from now on you shall see <i>the Son of Ad\u0331am sitting at the right hand of the Power,</i> and <i>coming on the clouds of the heaven.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2723267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 65, "text": "Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, \u201cHe has blasphemed! Why do we need any more witnesses? See, now you have heard His blasphemy!"}, {"pk": 2723268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 66, "text": "What do you think? And they answering, said, \u201cHe is liable to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 67, "text": "Then they spat in His face and beat Him, and others slapped Him,"}, {"pk": 2723270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 68, "text": "saying, \u201cProphesy to us, Messiah! Who is the one who struck You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 69, "text": "And K\u0115pha sat outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him, saying, \u201cAnd you were with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Galil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 70, "text": "But he denied it before them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you say.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 71, "text": "And as he was going out into the porch, another girl saw him and said to those there, \u201cAnd this one was with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 72, "text": "But again he denied with an oath, \u201cI do not know the Man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 73, "text": "And after a while those who stood by came to him and said to K\u0115pha, \u201cTruly you are one of them too, for even your speech gives you away.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 74, "text": "Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, \u201cI do not know the Man!\u201d And immediately a cock crowed."}, {"pk": 2723277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 26, "verse": 75, "text": "And K\u0115pha remembered the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who had said to him, \u201cBefore a cock crows, you shall deny Me three times.\u201d And going out, he wept bitterly."}, {"pk": 2723278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And morning having come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, so as to put Him to death."}, {"pk": 2723279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "And having bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor."}, {"pk": 2723280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "Then Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 he who delivered Him up \u2014 having seen that He had been condemned, repented, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and to the elders,"}, {"pk": 2723281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "saying, \u201cI have sinned in delivering up innocent blood.\u201d And they said, \u201cWhat is that to us? You see to it!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "And throwing down the pieces of silver in the Dwelling Place he left, and went and hanged himself."}, {"pk": 2723283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, \u201cIt is not right to put them into the treasury, seeing they are the price of blood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "So they took counsel and bought with them the potter\u2019s field, for the burial of strangers."}, {"pk": 2723285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood, until today."}, {"pk": 2723286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "Then was filled what was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet, saying, <i>\u201cAnd they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who was pierced, on whom they of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l set a price,</i>"}, {"pk": 2723287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>and gave them for the potter\u2019s field, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had ordered me.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/11/12'>11:12</a>, <a href='/TS2009/38/11/13'>13</a>"}, {"pk": 2723288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stood before the governor, and the governor asked Him, saying, \u201cAre You the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYou say it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And as He was accused by the chief priests and the elders, He answered not."}, {"pk": 2723290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "Then Pilate said to Him, \u201cDo You not hear how much they witness against You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "And He did not answer him, not one word, so that the governor wondered much."}, {"pk": 2723292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "And at the festival the governor used to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished."}, {"pk": 2723293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "And they had then a well-known prisoner called Barabba."}, {"pk": 2723294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "So when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, \u201cWhom do you wish I release to you? Barabba, or \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who is called Messiah?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "For he knew that because of envy they had delivered Him up."}, {"pk": 2723296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "And as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, \u201cHave none at all to do with that righteous Man, for I have suffered much today in a dream because of Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabba and to destroy \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2723298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "And the governor answering, said to them, \u201cWhich of the two do you wish I release to you?\u201d They said, \u201cBarabba!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "Pilate said to them, \u201cWhat then shall I do with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who is called Messiah?\u201d They all said to him, \u201cLet Him be impaled!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "And the governor said, \u201cIndeed, what evil has He done?\u201d And they were crying out all the more, saying, \u201cLet Him be impaled!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "And when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, \u201cI am innocent of the blood of this Righteous One. You shall see to it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "And all the people answering, said, \u201cHis blood be on us and on our children.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "Then he released Barabba to them, but having \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 whipped, he delivered Him over to be impaled."}, {"pk": 2723304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "Then the soldiers of the governor took \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 into the court and gathered the entire company <i>of soldiers</i> around Him."}, {"pk": 2723305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "And having stripped Him, they put a scarlet robe on Him."}, {"pk": 2723306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "And plaiting a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they kneeled down before Him and mocked Him, saying, \u201cGreetings, Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "And spitting on Him they took the reed and struck Him on the head."}, {"pk": 2723308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, then put His own garments on Him, and led Him away to be impaled."}, {"pk": 2723309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene, Shim\u201bon by name \u2014 they compelled him to bear His stake."}, {"pk": 2723310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "And when they came to a place called Golgotha, that is to say, Place of a Skull,"}, {"pk": 2723311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "they gave Him wine mixed with bile to drink. And after tasting, He would not drink it."}, {"pk": 2723312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 35, "text": "And having impaled Him, they divided His garments, casting lots, that it might be filled what was spoken by the prophet, <i>\u201cThey divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/18'>22:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 36, "text": "And sitting down, they guarded Him there."}, {"pk": 2723314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 37, "text": "And they put up over His head the written charge against Him: THIS IS \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUD\u0331IM."}, {"pk": 2723315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 38, "text": "Then two robbers were impaled with Him, one on the right and another on the left."}, {"pk": 2723316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 39, "text": "And those passing by were blaspheming Him, <i>shaking their heads,</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/7'>22:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2723317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 40, "text": "and saying, \u201cYou who destroy the Dwelling Place and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of Elohim, come down from the stake.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 41, "text": "And likewise the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocking, said,"}, {"pk": 2723319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cHe saved others \u2014 He is unable to save Himself. If He is the Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, let Him now come down from the stake, and we shall believe Him."}, {"pk": 2723320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 43, "text": "<i>He trusted in Elohim, let Him rescue Him now if He desires Him,</i> for He said, \u2018I am the Son of Elohim.\u2019 \u201d", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/8'>22:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2723321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 44, "text": "And also the robbers who were impaled with Him reviled Him, <i>saying</i> the same."}, {"pk": 2723322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 45, "text": "And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land, until the ninth hour."}, {"pk": 2723323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 46, "text": "And about the ninth hour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 cried out with a loud voice, saying, <i>\"\u011ali, \u011ali, lemah sheb\u0331aqtani?\u201d</i> that is, <i>\u201cMy \u011al, My \u011al, why have You forsaken Me?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/1'>22:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2723324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 47, "text": "Some of those standing there, having heard, said, \u201cThis One calls \u011aliyahu!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 48, "text": "And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with <i>sour wine</i> and put it on a reed, and gave it to Him <i>to drink.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/21'>69:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2723326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 49, "text": "But the rest said, \u201cLeave it, let us see if \u011aliyahu comes to save Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 50, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 cried out again with a loud voice, and gave up His spirit."}, {"pk": 2723328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 51, "text": "And see, the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split,"}, {"pk": 2723329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 52, "text": "and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the set-apart ones who had fallen asleep were raised,"}, {"pk": 2723330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 53, "text": "and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the set-apart city and appeared to many."}, {"pk": 2723331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 54, "text": "And when the captain and those with him, who were guarding \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saw the earthquake and all that took place, they feared exceedingly, saying, \u201cTruly this was the Son of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 55, "text": "And many women who followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from Galil, attending Him, were there, watching from a distance,"}, {"pk": 2723333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 56, "text": "among whom were Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, and Miryam the mother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yos\u0115ph, and the mother of Zab\u0331dai\u2019s sons."}, {"pk": 2723334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 57, "text": "And when evening came, there came a rich man from Ramathayim, named Yos\u0115ph, who himself had also become a taught one of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2723335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 58, "text": "He went to Pilate and asked for the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given."}, {"pk": 2723336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 59, "text": "And having taken the body, Yos\u0115ph wrapped it in clean linen,"}, {"pk": 2723337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 60, "text": "and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock. And he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and went away."}, {"pk": 2723338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 61, "text": "And Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala was there, and the other Miryam, sitting opposite the tomb."}, {"pk": 2723339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 62, "text": "On the next day, which was after the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,"}, {"pk": 2723340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 63, "text": "saying, \u201cMaster, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, \u2018After three days I am raised.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 64, "text": "Command, then, that the tomb be safeguarded until the third day, lest His taught ones come by night and steal Him away, and should say to the people, \u2018He was raised from the dead.\u2019 And the last deception shall be worse than the first."}, {"pk": 2723342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 65, "text": "So Pilate said to them, \u201cYou have a watch, go, safeguard it as you know how.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 27, "verse": 66, "text": "And they went and safeguarded the tomb, sealing the stone and setting the watch."}, {"pk": 2723344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "But late in the sabbath, as it was dawning into <i>day</i> one of <i>the</i> week, Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala and the other Miryam came to see the tomb.", "comment": "Greek: one of <em>the</em> sabbaths. See Explanatory Notes \"First Day of the Week\" and also Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/16/2'>16:2</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/24/1'>24:1</a>; 1 Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/16/2'>16:2</a><br>Greek: Sabbaths"}, {"pk": 2723345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, there was a great earthquake, for a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came down out of heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it."}, {"pk": 2723346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "And his appearance was like lightning, and his garments as white as snow."}, {"pk": 2723347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "And the guards trembled for fear of him, and became like dead men."}, {"pk": 2723348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger responding, said to the women, \u201cDo not be afraid, for I know that you seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who was impaled."}, {"pk": 2723349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHe is not here, for He was raised, as He said. Come, see the place where the Master lay."}, {"pk": 2723350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd go quickly, say to His taught ones that He was raised from the dead, and see, He is going before you to Galil. There you shall see Him. See, I have told you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "And they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to report to His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2723352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "And as they were going to report to His taught ones, see, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 met them, saying, \u201cGreetings!\u201d And they came and held Him by the feet and did bow to Him."}, {"pk": 2723353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid. Go, report to My brothers, to go to Galil, and they shall see Me there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And while they were going, see, some of the watch having gone into the city, reported to the chief priests all that took place."}, {"pk": 2723355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And when they had come together with the elders and taken counsel, they gave enough silver to the soldiers,"}, {"pk": 2723356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "saying, \u201cSay that His taught ones came at night and stole Him away while we slept."}, {"pk": 2723357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "And if this should be reported to the governor, we shall win him over and keep you out of trouble."}, {"pk": 2723358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And having taken the silver they did as they were instructed. And this account was widely spread among the Yehud\u0331im, to this day."}, {"pk": 2723359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "And the eleven taught ones went away into Galil, to the mountain which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had appointed for them."}, {"pk": 2723360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And when they saw Him, they bowed to Him, but some doubted."}, {"pk": 2723361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came up and spoke to them, saying, \u201cAll authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."}, {"pk": 2723362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit,", "comment": "Note the singular<br>Not found in the Hebrew Shem Tob\u0331 text,\u201d...and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 40, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.\u201d Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2723364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The beginning of the Good News of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Son of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2723365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "As it has been written in the Prophets, <i>\u201cSee, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You,</i>", "comment": "Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/1'>3:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2723366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>a voice of one crying in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, make His paths straight.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/1'>40</a>.3"}, {"pk": 2723367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan came immersing in the wilderness and proclaiming an immersion of repentance for the forgiveness of sins."}, {"pk": 2723368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And all the country of Yehud\u0331ah, and those of Yerushalayim, went out to him and were all immersed by him in the Yard\u0115n River, confessing their sins."}, {"pk": 2723369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan was clothed with camel\u2019s hair and a leather girdle around his waist, and eating locusts and wild honey."}, {"pk": 2723370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And he proclaimed, saying, \u201cAfter me comes One who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen."}, {"pk": 2723371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "I indeed did immerse you in water, but He shall immerse you in the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2723372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And it came to be in those days that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came from Natsareth of Galil, and was immersed by Yoh\u0323anan in the Yard\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2723373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit coming down on Him like a dove."}, {"pk": 2723374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And a voice came out of the heavens, \u201cYou are My Son, the Beloved, in whom I did delight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2723376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tried by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And the messengers attended Him."}, {"pk": 2723377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And after Yoh\u0323anan was delivered up, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came to Galil, proclaiming the Good News of the reign of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2723378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "and saying, \u201cThe time has been filled, and the reign of Elohim has come near. Repent, and believe in the Good News.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And walking by the Sea of Galil, He saw Shim\u201bon, and Andri his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers."}, {"pk": 2723380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cCome, follow Me, and I shall make you become fishers of men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And immediately they left their nets and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2723382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And having gone on a little from there, He saw Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the <i>son</i> of Zab\u0331dai, and Yoh\u0323anan his brother, and they were in the boat mending their nets."}, {"pk": 2723383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And immediately He called them, and leaving their father Zab\u0331dai in the boat with the hired servants, they went after Him."}, {"pk": 2723384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And they went into Kephar Nah\u0323um, and immediately on the Sabbath He went into the congregation and taught."}, {"pk": 2723385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And they were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as possessing authority, and not as the scribes."}, {"pk": 2723386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And there was a man in their congregation with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,"}, {"pk": 2723387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "saying, \u201cHa! What have we to do with You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are: the Set-apart One of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 rebuked him, saying, \u201cBe silenced, and come out of him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit called out with a loud voice, and came out of him."}, {"pk": 2723390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "And they were all so amazed, as to reason among themselves, saying, \u201cWhat is this, a fresh teaching? With authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And news about Him immediately spread into all the country around Galil."}, {"pk": 2723392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "And coming out of the congregation, they went straight to the house of Shim\u201bon and Andri, with Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2723393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "And the mother-in-law of Shim\u201bon lay sick with inflammation, and immediately they spoke to Him about her."}, {"pk": 2723394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "And having come, He took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the inflammation left her, and she served them."}, {"pk": 2723395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "And when evening came, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed."}, {"pk": 2723396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "And the entire city had gathered at the door."}, {"pk": 2723397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "And He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons, and was not allowing the demons to speak, because they knew Him."}, {"pk": 2723398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "And having risen very early in the morning, while still dark, He went out, and went away to a lonely place, and there He prayed."}, {"pk": 2723399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "And Shim\u201bon and those who were with Him searched for Him,"}, {"pk": 2723400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "and when they found Him, they said to Him, \u201cAll are seeking You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cLet us go into the neighbouring towns, so that I proclaim there also, because for this I have come forth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "And He was proclaiming in their congregations, in all Galil, and casting out demons."}, {"pk": 2723403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "And a leper came to Him, calling upon Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, \u201cIf You desire, You are able to make me clean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, \u201cI desire it. Be cleansed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed."}, {"pk": 2723406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "And having strictly warned him, He immediately sent him away,"}, {"pk": 2723407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "and said to him, \u201cSee, say none at all to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Mosheh ordered, as a witness to them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "But he went out and began to publish it so much, and to spread the word, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was no longer able to openly enter the city, but was outside in lonely places. Yet they came to Him from all directions."}, {"pk": 2723409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And some days later He again entered into Kephar Nah\u0323um, and it was heard that He was in the house."}, {"pk": 2723410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And so many gathered together, that there was no more room, not even at the door. And He spoke the Word to them."}, {"pk": 2723411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And they came to Him, bringing a paralytic, carried by four."}, {"pk": 2723412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And not being able to come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. And when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying."}, {"pk": 2723413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw their belief, He said to the paralytic, \u201cSon, your sins are forgiven you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Now some of the scribes were sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,"}, {"pk": 2723415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Why does this One talk like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins but Elohim alone?"}, {"pk": 2723416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And immediately \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them, \u201cWhy do you reason about all this in your hearts?"}, {"pk": 2723417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhich is easier, to say to the paralytic, \u2018Your sins are forgiven,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Rise, take up your bed and walk\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2723418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBut in order for you to know that the Son of Ad\u0331am possesses authority on earth to forgive sins...\u201d He said to the paralytic,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "I say to you, rise, take up your bed, and go to your house."}, {"pk": 2723420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And he rose straightaway, and took up the bed, and went out before all, so that all were amazed and praised Elohim, saying, \u201cWe have never seen the like of it!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And He went out again by the sea, and all the crowd was coming to Him, and He taught them."}, {"pk": 2723422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And passing by, He saw L\u0115wi the son of Alphai sitting at the tax office, and said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d And having risen he followed Him."}, {"pk": 2723423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, as He sat at the table at his house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and His taught ones, for there were many, and they followed Him."}, {"pk": 2723424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His taught ones, \u201cWhy does He eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And hearing this, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cThose who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And the taught ones of Yoh\u0323anan and of the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to Him, \u201cWhy do the taught ones of Yoh\u0323anan and of the Pharisees fast, but Your taught ones do not fast?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cAre the friends of the bridegroom able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast."}, {"pk": 2723428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days."}, {"pk": 2723429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd no one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise the renewed piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse."}, {"pk": 2723430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine is to be put into fresh wineskins."}, {"pk": 2723431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And as they went His taught ones began to pluck heads of grain,"}, {"pk": 2723432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "and the Pharisees said to Him, \u201cLook, why do they do what is not right on the Sabbath?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cHave you never read what Dawid\u0331 did when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?"}, {"pk": 2723434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "How he went into the House of Elohim, while Eb\u0331yathar was high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not right to eat, except for the priests, and he gave it also to those who were with him?"}, {"pk": 2723435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThe Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2723436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "So the Son of Ad\u0331am is also Master of the Sabbath.\u201d", "comment": "See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/2'>2:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/2/3'>3</a>"}, {"pk": 2723437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And He went into the congregation again, and a man who had a withered hand was there."}, {"pk": 2723438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And they were watching Him, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so as to accuse Him."}, {"pk": 2723439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to the man who had the withered hand, \u201cGet up to the middle.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cIs it right to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil, to save life or to kill?\u201d But they remained silent."}, {"pk": 2723441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And having looked around on them with displeasure, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other."}, {"pk": 2723442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how to destroy Him."}, {"pk": 2723443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 withdrew with His taught ones to the sea. And a great crowd from Galil followed Him, and from Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2723444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Even from Yerushalayim, and from Ed\u0331om and beyond the Yard\u0115n, and those around Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, a large crowd came to Him when they heard how much He was doing."}, {"pk": 2723445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And He spoke to His taught ones, that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the crowd, lest they should press upon Him."}, {"pk": 2723446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions fell upon Him to touch Him."}, {"pk": 2723447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, \u201cYou are the Son of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "But He warned them many times that they should not make Him known."}, {"pk": 2723449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And He went up on the mountain and called to Him whom He wished, and they came to Him."}, {"pk": 2723450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And He appointed twelve to be with Him, and to be sent out to proclaim,"}, {"pk": 2723451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "and to possess authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons."}, {"pk": 2723452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And He appointed the twelve: Shim\u201bon, to whom He added the name K\u0115pha;"}, {"pk": 2723453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the <i>son</i> of Zab\u0331dai, and Yoh\u0323anan the brother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to whom He added the name Beni-Re\u1e21es, that is, \u201cSons of Thunder,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "and Andri, and Philip, and Bartholomi, and Mattithyahu, and T\u2019oma, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 son of Alphai, and Taddai, and Shim\u201bon the Kena\u201banite;"}, {"pk": 2723455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "and Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, who did also deliver Him up. And they went into a house,"}, {"pk": 2723456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "and again the crowd came together, so that they were unable even to eat bread."}, {"pk": 2723457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And when His relatives heard about this, they went out to seize Him, for they said, \u201cHe is out of His mind.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And the scribes who came down from Yerushalayim said, \u201cHe has Be\u201belzebul,\u201d and, \u201cHe casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And calling them near He said to them in parables, \u201cHow is Satan able to cast out Satan?"}, {"pk": 2723460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd if a reign is divided against itself, that reign is unable to stand."}, {"pk": 2723461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd if a house is divided against itself, that house is unable to stand."}, {"pk": 2723462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he is unable to stand, but has an end."}, {"pk": 2723463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cNo one is able to enter a strong man\u2019s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house."}, {"pk": 2723464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, all the sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they speak,"}, {"pk": 2723465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "but he who blasphemes against the Set-apart Spirit has no forgiveness forever, but is subject to everlasting judgment,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "because they said, \u201cHe has an unclean spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "And His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him."}, {"pk": 2723468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "And a crowd was sitting around Him. And they said to Him, \u201cSee, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "But He answered them, saying, \u201cWho is My mother, or My brothers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "And looking about on those sitting round Him, He said, \u201cSee My mother and My brothers!"}, {"pk": 2723471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor whoever does the desire of Elohim is My brother and My sister and mother.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/12/50'>12:50</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/21'>8:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2723472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And He began to teach again by the sea, and a large crowd was gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat, to sit in the sea. And all the crowd was on the land facing the sea."}, {"pk": 2723473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And He taught them much in parables, and said to them in His teaching:"}, {"pk": 2723474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "Listen! See, a sower went out to sow.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/1'>13</a> with its footnotes."}, {"pk": 2723475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the birds of the heaven came and devoured it."}, {"pk": 2723476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd other fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil. And immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil."}, {"pk": 2723477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away."}, {"pk": 2723478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd other fell among thorns. And the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop."}, {"pk": 2723479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And other fell on good soil and yielded a crop that came up, grew and yielded a crop, some thirtyfold, and some sixty, and some a hundred."}, {"pk": 2723480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cHe who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And when He was alone, those about Him, with the twelve, asked Him about the parable."}, {"pk": 2723482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTo you it has been given to know the secret of the reign of Elohim, but to those who are outside, all are done in parables,"}, {"pk": 2723483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "so that <i>\u2018seeing they see but do not perceive, and hearing they hear but do not understand, lest they should turn and their sins be forgiven them.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "See footnote Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/15'>13:15</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/9'>6:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/6/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2723484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cDo you not understand this parable? How then shall you understand all the parables?"}, {"pk": 2723485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThe sower sows the word."}, {"pk": 2723486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThese, then, are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts."}, {"pk": 2723487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd likewise these are the ones sown on rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy,"}, {"pk": 2723488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "and they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. Then when pressure or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble."}, {"pk": 2723489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And others are those sown among thorns, these are they who hear the word,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "and the worries of this age, and the deceit of riches, and the desires for other <i>matters</i>, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes fruitless."}, {"pk": 2723491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And those sown on good soil, are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirtyfold, and some sixty, and some a hundred."}, {"pk": 2723492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWould a lamp be brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be put on a lampstand?"}, {"pk": 2723493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "For whatever is hidden shall be revealed, and whatever has been kept secret, shall come to light.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/17'>8:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2723494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."}, {"pk": 2723495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTake heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it shall be measured to you, and more shall be added to you who hear."}, {"pk": 2723496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "For whoever possesses, to him more shall be given; but whoever does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/18'>8:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "And He said, \u201cThe reign of Elohim is as when a man scatters seed on the ground,"}, {"pk": 2723498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed sprouts and grows, he himself does not know how."}, {"pk": 2723499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor the soil yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the completed grain in the head."}, {"pk": 2723500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd when the crop is ready, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And He said, \u201cTo what shall we compare the reign of Elohim? Or with what parable shall we present it?"}, {"pk": 2723502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cLike a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth,"}, {"pk": 2723503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cand when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all plants, and forms large branches, so that the birds of the heaven are able to nest under its shade."}, {"pk": 2723504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "And with many such parables He was speaking to them the word as they were able to hear,"}, {"pk": 2723505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "and He was not speaking to them without parables. And when they were alone, He explained all to His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2723506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "And on the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, \u201cLet us pass over to the other side.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "And having left the crowd, they took Him along in the boat, as He was. And other little boats were also with Him."}, {"pk": 2723508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "And there came a great windstorm, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already being filled."}, {"pk": 2723509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "And He was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. And they woke Him up and said to Him, \u201cTeacher, is it no concern to You that we perish?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "And having been awakened He rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, \u201cPeace, be still!\u201d And the wind ceased and there was a great calm."}, {"pk": 2723511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhy are you so afraid? Have you not yet belief?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "And they feared exceedingly, and asked each other, \u201cWho then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gad\u0331arenes."}, {"pk": 2723514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And when He came out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,"}, {"pk": 2723515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "who had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him, not even with chains,"}, {"pk": 2723516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "because he had often been bound with shackles and chains but the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was able to tame him."}, {"pk": 2723517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And continually, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones."}, {"pk": 2723518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And seeing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from a distance, he ran and bowed down to Him,"}, {"pk": 2723519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "and having called out with a loud voice, said, \u201cWhat have I to do with You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Son of the Most High \u011al? Swear to Elohim not to torture me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "For He had said to him, \u201cCome out of the man, unclean spirit!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And He was asking him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he answered, saying, \u201cMy name is Legion, because we are many.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And he begged Him very much that He would not send them out of the country."}, {"pk": 2723523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Now a great herd of pigs was there, feeding near the mountains."}, {"pk": 2723524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And all the demons begged Him, saying, \u201cSend us to the pigs, so that we enter into them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And He gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs \u2014 they were about two thousand \u2014 and the herd rushed down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea."}, {"pk": 2723526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And those who fed the pigs fled, and reported it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what had taken place."}, {"pk": 2723527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "So they came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and saw the demon-possessed one, him who had the legion, sitting, and dressed, and in his right mind. And they were afraid."}, {"pk": 2723528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And those who saw it related to them what was done to the demon-possessed one, and about the pigs."}, {"pk": 2723529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And they began to plead with Him to leave their borders."}, {"pk": 2723530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And as He was entering into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him."}, {"pk": 2723531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did not allow him, but said to him, \u201cGo home to your friends, and report to them what the Master has done for you, and how He had compassion on you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And he left and began to proclaim in Dekapolis all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had done for him, and all marvelled."}, {"pk": 2723533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had passed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd assembled to Him, and He was by the sea."}, {"pk": 2723534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And see, one of the rulers of the congregation came, Ya\u2019ir by name. And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet,"}, {"pk": 2723535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "and begged Him strongly, saying, \u201cMy little daughter lies at the point of death. Come, lay Your hands on her to heal her, and she shall live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And He went with him. And a large crowd was following Him, and they were thronging Him."}, {"pk": 2723537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,"}, {"pk": 2723538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "and had suffered much from many physicians, and spent all that she had and was no better, but rather became worse."}, {"pk": 2723539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "Having heard about \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment,"}, {"pk": 2723540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "for she said, \u201cIf I only touch His garments, I shall be made well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction."}, {"pk": 2723542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "And immediately \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, \u201cWho touched My garments?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "And His taught ones said to Him, \u201cYou see the crowd is thronging You, and You say, \u2018Who touched Me?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "And He was looking around to see her who did this."}, {"pk": 2723545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "And the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what was done to her, came and fell down before Him and spoke to Him all the truth."}, {"pk": 2723546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 34, "text": "And He said to her, \u201cDaughter, your belief has healed you. Go in peace, and be relieved from your affliction.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 35, "text": "As He was speaking, they came from the ruler of the congregation\u2019s <i>house</i>, saying to <i>him</i>, \u201cYour daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 36, "text": "But having heard the word that was spoken, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to the ruler of the congregation, \u201cDo not be afraid \u2014 only believe.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 37, "text": "And He allowed no one to follow Him except K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan the brother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2723550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 38, "text": "So they came to the house of the ruler of the congregation, and saw a commotion, and much weeping and lamenting."}, {"pk": 2723551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 39, "text": "And coming in He said to them, \u201cWhy make this commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is sleeping.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 40, "text": "And they were laughing at Him. And when He had put them all out, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and went in where the child was lying."}, {"pk": 2723553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 41, "text": "And taking the child by the hand He said to her, \u201cTalitha, qumi,\u201d which is translated, \u201cLittle girl, I say to you, arise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 42, "text": "And immediately the girl rose up and was walking, for she was twelve years old. And they were completely astonished."}, {"pk": 2723555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 5, "verse": 43, "text": "But He ordered them many times that no one should know it, and said that she should be given <i>food</i> to eat."}, {"pk": 2723556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And He went away from there and came to His own country, and His taught ones followed Him."}, {"pk": 2723557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And Sabbath having come, He began to teach in the congregation. And many who heard <i>Him</i> were astonished, saying, \u201cWhere did He get all this? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such miracles are done through His hands?"}, {"pk": 2723558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Miryam, and brother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yos\u0115ph, and Yehud\u0331ah, and Shim\u201bon? And are not His sisters here with us? And they stumbled in Him."}, {"pk": 2723559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cA prophet is not unappreciated except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And He was unable to do any miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick ones and healed them."}, {"pk": 2723561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And He marvelled because of their unbelief. And He was going around among the villages, teaching."}, {"pk": 2723562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And He called the twelve near, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over unclean spirits."}, {"pk": 2723563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And He instructed them to take none at all for the journey except a staff \u2014 no bag, no bread, no copper in their money belts,"}, {"pk": 2723564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "but to wear sandals, and not to wear two undergarments."}, {"pk": 2723565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWherever you enter into a house, stay there until you leave that place."}, {"pk": 2723566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And any place that does not receive you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake off the dust under your feet as a witness against them. Truly, I say to you, it shall be more bearable for Sed\u0331om and Amorah in the day of judgment than for that city!"}, {"pk": 2723567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And they went out and proclaimed that <i>men</i> should repent."}, {"pk": 2723568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And they were casting out many demons, and they were anointing with oil many who were sick, and they were healing them."}, {"pk": 2723569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And Sovereign Herodes heard, for His Name had become well-known. And he said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan the Immerser has been raised from the dead, and because of this these powers are at work in him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Others said, \u201cHe is \u011aliyahu.\u201d And others said, \u201cHe is a prophet \u2014 like one of the prophets.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "But when Herodes heard, he said, \u201cThis one is Yoh\u0323anan whom I beheaded, he has been raised from the dead!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "For Herodes himself had sent and seized Yoh\u0323anan, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip\u2019s wife, because he had married her,"}, {"pk": 2723573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "for Yoh\u0323anan had said to Herodes, \u201cIt is not right for you to have your brother\u2019s wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "So Herodias held a grudge against him and wished to kill him, but was unable,"}, {"pk": 2723575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "for Herodes feared Yoh\u0323anan, knowing that he was a righteous and set-apart man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he was much perplexed, yet heard him gladly."}, {"pk": 2723576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "And a suitable day came when Herodes on his birthday gave a feast for his great men, and the high officers, and the chief men of Galil."}, {"pk": 2723577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, and pleased Herodes and those who sat with him, the sovereign said to the girl, \u201cAsk me whatever you wish, and I shall give it to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "And he swore to her, \u201cWhatever you ask me, I shall give you, up to half of my reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "And she went out and said to her mother, \u201cWhat shall I ask?\u201d And she said, \u201cThe head of Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And coming in immediately with haste to the sovereign she asked, saying, \u201cI wish that you give me at once the head of Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser on a dish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "And the sovereign, becoming deeply grieved, because of the oaths, and because of those who sat with him, did not wish to refuse her."}, {"pk": 2723582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "And the sovereign straightaway sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,"}, {"pk": 2723583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "and brought his head on a dish, and gave it to the girl. And the girl gave it to her mother."}, {"pk": 2723584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "And when his taught ones heard of it, they came and took away his dead body and laid it in a tomb."}, {"pk": 2723585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "And the emissaries gathered to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and reported to Him all, both what they had done and what they had taught."}, {"pk": 2723586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cCome aside by yourselves to a lonely place and rest a little\u201d \u2014 for there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat."}, {"pk": 2723587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "And they went away to a lonely place in the boat by themselves."}, {"pk": 2723588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "But they saw them going, and many recognised Him and ran there on foot from all the cities, and came before them and came together to Him."}, {"pk": 2723589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "And having gone out, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw a large crowd and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. And He began to teach them many <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2723590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "And as the hour grew late, His taught ones came to Him and said, \u201cThis is a lonely place, and now the hour is late."}, {"pk": 2723591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "Send them away, so that they go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, since they have no <i>food</i> to eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "But He answering, said to them, \u201cYou give them to eat.\u201d And they said to Him, \u201cShould we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?\u201d", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2723593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "Then He said to them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have? Go and see.\u201d And when they found out they said, \u201cFive, and two fishes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "And He ordered them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass."}, {"pk": 2723595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "And they sat down in groups, in hundreds and in fifties."}, {"pk": 2723596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "text": "And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His taught ones to set before them. And the two fishes He divided among them all."}, {"pk": 2723597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "text": "And all ate and were satisfied."}, {"pk": 2723598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 43, "text": "And they picked up twelve baskets, filled with pieces, also from the fishes."}, {"pk": 2723599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 44, "text": "Now those who ate the loaves were about five thousand men."}, {"pk": 2723600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 45, "text": "And immediately He made His taught ones enter into the boat, and to go before Him to the other side, to B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a, while He was dismissing the crowd."}, {"pk": 2723601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 46, "text": "And having sent them away, He went away to the mountain to pray."}, {"pk": 2723602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 47, "text": "And when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea. And He was alone on the land."}, {"pk": 2723603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 48, "text": "And seeing them straining at rowing \u2014 for the wind was against them \u2014 at about the fourth watch of the night, He came to them walking on the sea, and <i>He</i> wished to pass them by."}, {"pk": 2723604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 49, "text": "And when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought it was a phantom, and cried out,"}, {"pk": 2723605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 50, "text": "for they all saw Him and were troubled. And immediately He spoke to them and said to them, \u201cTake courage, it is I. Do not be afraid.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 51, "text": "And He went up to them, into the boat, and the wind ceased. And they were exceedingly amazed in themselves, and marvelled."}, {"pk": 2723607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 52, "text": "For they did not understand about the loaves, because their heart was hardened."}, {"pk": 2723608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 53, "text": "And having passed over, they came to the land of Genn\u0115sar and drew to shore."}, {"pk": 2723609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 54, "text": "And when they came out of the boat, He was immediately recognised,"}, {"pk": 2723610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 55, "text": "and all that neighbourhood ran about, and began to carry about on beds those who were sick to wherever they heard He was."}, {"pk": 2723611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 6, "verse": 56, "text": "And wherever He went, into villages, or cities, or the country, they were laying the sick in the market-places, and begged Him to let them touch if only the tzitzit of His garment. And as many as touched Him were healed.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Tzitzit\" and Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/15/37-41'>15:37-41</a>; Deut. <a href='/TS2009/5/22/12'>22:12</a>."}, {"pk": 2723612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Pharisees and some of the scribes assembled to Him, having come from Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2723613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And seeing some of His taught ones eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault."}, {"pk": 2723614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "For the Pharisees, and all the Yehud\u0331im, do not eat unless they wash their hands thoroughly, holding fast the tradition of the elders,"}, {"pk": 2723615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "and <i>coming</i> from the market-place, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other <i>traditions</i> which they have received and hold fast \u2014 the washing of cups and utensils and copper vessels and couches."}, {"pk": 2723616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, \u201cWhy do Your taught ones not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cWell did Yeshayahu prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, <i>\u2018This people respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.</i>"}, {"pk": 2723618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.\u2019</i>", "comment": "See also 2Kings <a href='/TS2009/12/17/19'>17:19</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/3-9'>15:3-9</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/13'>29:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2723619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "Forsaking the command of Elohim, you hold fast the tradition of men."}, {"pk": 2723620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWell do you set aside the command of Elohim, in order to guard your tradition."}, {"pk": 2723621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor Mosheh said, <i>\u2018Respect your father and your mother,\u2019</i> and, <i>\u2018He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/21/17'>21:17</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/20/9'>20:9</a><br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12'>20:12</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16'>5:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2723622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBut you say, \u2018If a man says to his father or mother, \u201cWhatever profit you might have received from me, is Qorban (that is, a gift),\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2723623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "you no longer let him do any <i>matter</i> at all for his father or his mother,"}, {"pk": 2723624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "nullifying the Word of Elohim through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such <i>traditions</i> you do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And calling the crowd to Him, He said to them, \u201cHear Me, everyone, and understand:"}, {"pk": 2723626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThere is no matter that enters a man from outside which is able to defile him, but it is what comes out of him that defiles the man."}, {"pk": 2723627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cIf anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And when He went from the crowd into a house, His taught ones asked Him concerning the parable."}, {"pk": 2723629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cAre you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside is unable to defile him,"}, {"pk": 2723630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purging all the foods?\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/20'>15:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2723631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And He said, \u201cWhat comes out of a man, that defiles a man."}, {"pk": 2723632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cFor from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders,"}, {"pk": 2723633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness."}, {"pk": 2723634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAll these wicked <i>matters</i> come from within and defile a man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And rising up from there He went to the borders of Tsor and Tsid\u0331on. And entering into a house He wished no one to know it, but it was impossible to be hidden."}, {"pk": 2723636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet."}, {"pk": 2723637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter."}, {"pk": 2723638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cLet the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children\u2019s bread and throw it to the little dogs.\u201d", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/27'>15:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2723639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "But she answering, said to Him, \u201cYes, Master, for even the little dogs under the table eat from the children\u2019s crumbs.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "And He said to her, \u201cBecause of this word go, the demon has gone out of your daughter.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "And having come into her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed."}, {"pk": 2723642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "And again, going out from the borders of Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, He came to the Sea of Galil, through the midst of the borders of Dekapolis."}, {"pk": 2723643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "And they brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they begged Him to lay His hand upon him."}, {"pk": 2723644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "And taking him away from the crowd, He put His fingers in his ears, and having spit, He touched his tongue."}, {"pk": 2723645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "And looking up to the heaven, He sighed, and said to him, \u201cEphphatha,\u201d that is, \u201cBe opened.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "And immediately his ears were opened, and the binding of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plainly."}, {"pk": 2723647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "And He ordered them, that they should say it to no one, but the more He ordered them, the more they published it."}, {"pk": 2723648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "And they were immeasurably astonished, saying, \u201cHe has done all well. He makes even the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "In those days, the crowd being very great and not having any to eat, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 called His taught ones near and said to them,"}, {"pk": 2723650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "I have compassion on the crowd, for they have now been with Me three days and do not have <i>food</i> to eat."}, {"pk": 2723651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And if I dismiss them unfed to their home, they shall faint on the way, for some of them have come from far."}, {"pk": 2723652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And His taught ones answered Him, \u201cHow shall anyone be able to feed these people with bread here in the desert?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And He asked them, \u201cHow many loaves do you have?\u201d And they said, \u201cSeven.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, He broke them and gave them to His taught ones to set before them. And they set them before the crowd."}, {"pk": 2723655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And they had a few small fishes. And having blessed, He said to set them also before them."}, {"pk": 2723656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And they ate and were satisfied, and they picked up seven large baskets of broken pieces."}, {"pk": 2723657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And those eating were about four thousand, and He dismissed them."}, {"pk": 2723658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And immediately entering into the boat with His taught ones, He came to the parts of Dalmanutha."}, {"pk": 2723659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, trying Him."}, {"pk": 2723660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And sighing deeply in His spirit He said, \u201cWhy does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And leaving them, again entering into the boat, He went away to the other side."}, {"pk": 2723662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And they had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat."}, {"pk": 2723663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "And He was warning them, saying, \u201cMind! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herodes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "And they were reasoning with one another, saying, \u201cBecause we have no bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, being aware of it, said to them, \u201cWhy do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?"}, {"pk": 2723666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cHaving eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?</i> And do you not remember?", "comment": "Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/12/2'>12:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2723667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets filled with broken pieces did you pick up? They said to Him, \u201cTwelve.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets filled with broken pieces did you pick up? And they said, \u201cSeven.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cHow do you not understand?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And He came to B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a, and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him."}, {"pk": 2723671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And taking the blind man by the hand He led him out of the village. And having spit on his eyes, laying hands on him, He asked him, \u201cDo you see at all?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And he looked up and said, \u201cI see men like trees, walking.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "Then He placed His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored, and saw all clearly."}, {"pk": 2723674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And He sent him away to his home, saying, \u201cDo not go into the village.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and His taught ones went out to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way He asked His taught ones, saying to them, \u201cWho do men say I am?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cYoh\u0323anan the Immerser, and others, \u011aliyahu, but others, one of the prophets.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And He asked them, \u201cAnd you, who do you say I am?\u201d And K\u0115pha answering, said to Him, \u201cYou are the Messiah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And He warned them that they should speak to no one about Him."}, {"pk": 2723679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And He began to teach them that the Son of Ad\u0331am has to suffer much, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days to rise again."}, {"pk": 2723680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And He was speaking about this openly. Then K\u0115pha, taking Him aside, began to rebuke Him."}, {"pk": 2723681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And turning around and seeing His taught ones, He rebuked K\u0115pha, saying, \u201cGet behind Me, Satan! For your thoughts are not those of Elohim, but those of men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And calling near the crowd with His taught ones, He said to them, \u201cWhoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake, and follow Me."}, {"pk": 2723683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for the sake of Me and the Good News, he shall save it."}, {"pk": 2723684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "For what shall it profit a man if he gains all the world, and loses his own life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cOr what shall a man give in exchange for his life?"}, {"pk": 2723686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cFor whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinning generation, of him the Son of Ad\u0331am also shall be ashamed when He comes in the esteem of His Father with the set-apart messengers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you that there are some standing here who shall not taste of death at all until they see the reign of Elohim having come in power:\""}, {"pk": 2723688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And after six days \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan, and led them up on a high mountain alone by themselves. And He was transformed before them."}, {"pk": 2723689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And His garments became glittering, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth is able to whiten."}, {"pk": 2723690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And there appeared to them \u011aliyahu with Mosheh, and they were talking with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/17/2-9'>17:2-9</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/9/28-35'>9:28-35</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/31'>16:31</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/47'>5:47</a>; Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/4/4'>4:4</a>, <a href='/TS2009/39/4/5'>5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And K\u0115pha responding, said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cRabbi, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three booths, one for You, and one for Mosheh, and one for \u011aliyahu,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "because he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid."}, {"pk": 2723693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, \u201cThis is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them, but only \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2723695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And as they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them not to relate to anyone what they saw, till the Son of Ad\u0331am had risen from the dead."}, {"pk": 2723696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And they kept this matter to themselves, debating what the rising from the dead meant."}, {"pk": 2723697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And they asked Him, saying, \u201cWhy do the scribes say that \u011aliyahu has to come first?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And He said to them, \u201c\u011aliyahu indeed, having come first, restores all <i>matters</i>. And how has it been written concerning the Son of Ad\u0331am, that He is to suffer much and be despised?", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/17/11'>17:11</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/21'>3:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2723699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "But I say to you that even \u011aliyahu has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it has been written of him."}, {"pk": 2723700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "And coming to the taught ones, He saw a large crowd around them, and scribes disputing with them."}, {"pk": 2723701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And immediately, when all the crowd saw Him, they were greatly astonished, and running near, greeted Him."}, {"pk": 2723702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And He asked the scribes, \u201cWhat are you disputing with them?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And one of the crowd answering, said, \u201cTeacher, I brought You my son, who has a dumb spirit."}, {"pk": 2723704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And wherever he seizes him, he throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and gnashes his teeth, and he wastes away. And I spoke to Your taught ones, that they should cast him out, but they were not able."}, {"pk": 2723705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And He answered him and said, \u201cO unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "So they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into convulsions. And falling on the ground, he rolled about, foaming <i>at the mouth</i>."}, {"pk": 2723707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And He asked his father, \u201cHow long has he been like this?\u201d And he said, \u201cFrom childhood,"}, {"pk": 2723708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "and often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if it is at all possible for You, have compassion on us and help us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cIf you are able to believe, all is possible to him who believes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "And immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, \u201cI believe Master, help my unbelief!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw that a crowd came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, \u201cYou deaf and dumb spirit, I order you, come out of him, and never again enter into him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And crying out, and convulsing him much, it came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said that he was dead."}, {"pk": 2723713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, taking him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose."}, {"pk": 2723714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And when He came into a house, His taught ones asked Him separately, \u201cWhy were we unable to cast him out?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cIt is impossible for this kind to come out except through prayer and fasting.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And going from there they passed through Galil. And He did not wish anyone to know,"}, {"pk": 2723717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "for He was teaching His taught ones and said to them, \u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am is being delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him. And having been killed, He shall rise the third day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "But they did not understand the word, and they were afraid to ask Him."}, {"pk": 2723719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And they came to Kephar Nah\u0323um, and being in the house He asked them, \u201cWhat was it you disputed among yourselves on the way?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And they were silent, for on the way they had disputed with one another who was the greatest."}, {"pk": 2723721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, \u201cIf anyone wishes to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And He took a little child and set him in their midst, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,"}, {"pk": 2723723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "Whoever receives one of such little children in My Name receives Me. And whoever receives Me, receives not Me, but the One who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2723724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan said to Him, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone, who does not follow us, casting out demons in Your Name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cDo not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My Name is able to readily speak evil of Me."}, {"pk": 2723726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cFor he who is not against us is for us."}, {"pk": 2723727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cFor whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My Name, because you are of Messiah, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."}, {"pk": 2723728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "text": "And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.", "comment": "Or to sin."}, {"pk": 2723729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd if your hand makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands, to go into G\u0115Hinnom, into the unquenchable fire,"}, {"pk": 2723730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "text": "where \u2018their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.\u2019", "comment": "Verses <a href='/TS2009/41/9/44'>44</a> and 46 are omitted from some ancient manuscripts."}, {"pk": 2723731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd if your foot makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two feet, to be thrown into G\u0115Hinnom, into the unquenchable fire,"}, {"pk": 2723732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 46, "text": "where \u2018their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.\u2019", "comment": "Verses <a href='/TS2009/41/9/44'>44</a> and 46 are omitted from some ancient manuscripts."}, {"pk": 2723733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd if your eye makes you stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the reign of Elohim with one eye, than having two eyes, to be thrown into the fire of G\u0115Hinnom,"}, {"pk": 2723734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 48, "text": "where <i>\u2018their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/24'>66:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2723735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cFor everyone shall be seasoned with fire, and every offering shall be seasoned with salt."}, {"pk": 2723736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 9, "verse": 50, "text": "Salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among one another."}, {"pk": 2723737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And rising up from there He came into the borders of Yehud\u0331ah by the other side of the Yard\u0115n. And crowds gathered to Him again, and as He usually did, He was teaching them again."}, {"pk": 2723738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "And Pharisees came and asked Him, \u201cIs it right for a man to put away his wife?\u201d \u2014 trying Him."}, {"pk": 2723739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cWhat did Mosheh command you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And they said, \u201cMosheh allowed a man to <i>write a certificate of divorce,</i> and to put <i>her</i> away.\u201d", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/1'>24:1</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/3'>24:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2723741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cBecause of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this command."}, {"pk": 2723742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHowever, from the beginning of the creation, Elohim <i>\u2018made them male and female.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/1/27'>1:27</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/5/2'>5:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2723743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>\u2018For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife,</i>"}, {"pk": 2723744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>and the two shall become one flesh,\u2019</i> so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2723745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And in the house His taught ones asked Him about this again."}, {"pk": 2723747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery against her."}, {"pk": 2723748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.\u201d", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@470 5:32>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/32'>5:32</a>"}, {"pk": 2723749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And they were bringing little children for Him to touch them, but the taught ones were rebuking those who were bringing them."}, {"pk": 2723750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw it, He was much displeased and said to them, \u201cLet the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2723751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it."}, {"pk": 2723752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And taking them up in His arms, laying His hands on them, He blessed them."}, {"pk": 2723753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And as He was setting out on the way, one came running, and knelt before Him, and asked Him, \u201cGood Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cWhy do you call Me good? No one is good except One \u2014 Elohim."}, {"pk": 2723755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "You know the commands, <i>\u2018Do not commit adultery,\u2019 \u2018Do not murder,\u2019 \u2018Do not steal,\u2019 \u2018Do not bear false witness,\u2019 \u2018Do not rob,\u2019 \u2018Respect your father and your mother.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12-16'>20:12-16</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16-20'>5:16-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2723756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And he answering, said to Him, \u201cTeacher, all these I have watched over from my youth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, \u201cOne <i>matter</i> you lack: Go, sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me, taking up the stake.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "But he, being sad at this word, went away grieved, for he had many possessions."}, {"pk": 2723759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, looking around, said to His taught ones, \u201cHow hard it is for those who have money to enter into the reign of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And the taught ones were astonished at His words. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responding, said to them again, \u201cChildren, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into the reign of Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2723761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cIt is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the reign of Elohim.\u201d", "comment": "Aramaic \u201cgamla\u201d, which is camel or rope."}, {"pk": 2723762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And they were immeasurably astonished, saying among themselves, \u201cWho then is able to be saved?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And looking at them, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cWith men it is impossible, but not with Elohim, for with Elohim all is possible.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And K\u0115pha began to say to Him, \u201cSee, we have left all and we have followed You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cTruly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2723766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2723767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "But many who are first shall be last, and the last first."}, {"pk": 2723768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "And they were on the way, going up to Yerushalayim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was going before them. And they were astonished, and those who followed were afraid. And again He took the twelve aside and began to say to them what was about to befall Him:"}, {"pk": 2723769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cSee, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be delivered to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death and shall deliver Him to the nations,"}, {"pk": 2723770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "and they shall mock Him, and flog Him, and spit on Him, and kill Him. And the third day He shall rise again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan, the sons of Zab\u0331dai, came up to Him, saying, \u201cTeacher, we wish that You would do for us whatever we ask.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhat do you wish Me to do for you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cGrant us to be seated in Your esteem, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cYou do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be immersed with the immersion that I am immersed with?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cWe are able.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cYou shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and with the immersion I am immersed with you shall be immersed,", "comment": "See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/20/23'>20:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2723776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "And when the ten heard it, they began to be sorely displeased with Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2723778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, calling them near, said to them, \u201cYou know that those who think to rule the nations are masters over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them."}, {"pk": 2723779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBut it is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant."}, {"pk": 2723780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be servant of all."}, {"pk": 2723781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 45, "text": "For even the Son of Ad\u0331am did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."}, {"pk": 2723782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 46, "text": "And they came to Yerih\u0323o. And as He was leaving Yerih\u0323o with His taught ones and a large crowd, blind Bartimai, the son of Timai, was sitting by the way begging."}, {"pk": 2723783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 47, "text": "And when he heard that it was \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth, he began to cry out and to say, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Son of Dawid\u0331, have compassion on me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 48, "text": "And many were reprimanding him to be silent, but he cried out all the more, \u201cSon of Dawid\u0331, have compassion on me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 49, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stopped and said, \u201cCall him.\u201d And they called the blind man, saying to him, \u201cTake courage, arise, He is calling you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 50, "text": "And he, throwing aside his garment, rose and came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2723787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 51, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responding, said to him, \u201cWhat do you desire I do for you?\u201d And the blind man said to Him, \u201cRabboni, that I receive my sight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 10, "verse": 52, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cGo, your belief has healed you.\u201d And immediately he saw again and followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 on the way."}, {"pk": 2723789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And when they came near Yerushalayim, to B\u0115yth Pha\u1e21i and B\u0115yth Anyah, at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2723790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "and said to them, \u201cGo into the village opposite you, and immediately entering into it, you shall find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loosen it and bring it."}, {"pk": 2723791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And if anyone says to you, \u2018Why are you doing this?\u2019 say, \u2018The Master needs it and shall send it back straightaway.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "So they went away, and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosened it."}, {"pk": 2723793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And some of those standing there said to them, \u201cWhat are you doing, loosening the colt?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And they said to them, as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had said. So they let them go."}, {"pk": 2723795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And they brought the colt to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and threw their garments on it, and He sat on it."}, {"pk": 2723796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "And many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees and were spreading them on the way."}, {"pk": 2723797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And those going before and those following cried out, saying, <i>\u201cHoshia-na! \u2018Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/25'>118:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>26</a>"}, {"pk": 2723798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "Blessed is the coming reign of our father Dawid\u0331 \u2014 in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! <i>Hoshia-na</i> in the highest!\u201d", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/25'>118:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2723799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went into Yerushalayim and into the Set-apart Place. And having looked around on all, He went out to B\u0115yth Anyah with the twelve, as the hour was already late."}, {"pk": 2723800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And on the next day, when they had come out from B\u0115yth Anyah, He was hungry."}, {"pk": 2723801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And seeing at a distance a fig tree having leaves, He went to see whether He would find any <i>fruit</i> on it. And when He came to it, He found none but leaves, for it was not the season for figs."}, {"pk": 2723802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, responding, said to it, \u201cLet no one eat fruit from you ever again.\u201d And His taught ones heard it."}, {"pk": 2723803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And they came to Yerushalayim. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, entering into the Set-apart Place, began to drive out those who bought and sold in the Set-apart Place, and overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling doves."}, {"pk": 2723804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And He did not allow anyone to carry a vessel through the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2723805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And He was teaching, saying to them, \u201cHas it not been written, <i>\u2018My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations\u2019?</i> But you have made it a <i>\u2018den of robbers.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/7'>56:7</a><br>Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/11'>7:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2723806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And the scribes and the chief priests heard it and they were seeking how to destroy Him, for they feared Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His teaching."}, {"pk": 2723807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And when evening came, He went out of the city."}, {"pk": 2723808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots."}, {"pk": 2723809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Then K\u0115pha, remembering, said to Him, \u201cRabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cHave belief in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2723811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, \u2018Be removed and be thrown into the sea,\u2019 and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says, shall be done, he shall have whatever he says."}, {"pk": 2723812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBecause of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them."}, {"pk": 2723813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses."}, {"pk": 2723814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not forgive, neither shall your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And they came again to Yerushalayim. And as He was walking in the Set-apart Place, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to Him,"}, {"pk": 2723816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "and they said to Him, \u201cBy what authority are You doing these? And who gave You this authority to do these?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cI shall ask you one question, and answer Me, and I shall say to you by what authority I do these:"}, {"pk": 2723818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "The immersion of Yoh\u0323anan \u2014 was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me."}, {"pk": 2723819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "And they reasoned among themselves, saying, \u201cIf we say, \u2018From heaven,\u2019 He shall say, \u2018Then why did you not believe him?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "But if we say, \u2018From men\u2019 \u2014 they feared the people, for all held that Yoh\u0323anan was a prophet indeed."}, {"pk": 2723821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "And answering they said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cWe do not know.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cNeither do I say to you by what authority I do these.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And He began to speak to them in parables, <i>\u201cA man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it, and dug a vat for the winepress and built a watchtower,</i> and let it out to farmers and went away.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/80/8'>80:8</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/5/1'>5:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/5/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2723823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And at <i>harvest</i> time he sent a servant to the farmers, to receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers."}, {"pk": 2723824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And they seized him and beat <i>him</i> and sent <i>him</i> away empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2723825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And again he sent them another servant, and throwing stones at him, they wounded <i>him</i> in the head, and sent him away, having insulted <i>him</i>."}, {"pk": 2723826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd again he sent another, and they killed him; and many others, beating some and killing some."}, {"pk": 2723827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "He had one more son, his beloved. He sent him last of all, saying, \u2018They shall respect my son.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut those farmers said among themselves, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cSo they took him and killed <i>him</i> and threw <i>him</i> out of the vineyard."}, {"pk": 2723830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWhat then shall the owner of the vineyard do? He shall come and destroy the farmers, and give the vineyard to others."}, {"pk": 2723831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "Have you not read this Scripture, <i>\u2018The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/22'>118:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2723832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u2018This was from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and it is marvellous in our eyes\u2019?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/23'>118:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2723833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And they were seeking to seize Him, but feared the crowd, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away."}, {"pk": 2723834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in a word."}, {"pk": 2723835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And when they came, they said to Him, \u201cTeacher, we know that You are true, and it does not concern You about anyone, for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of Elohim in truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"}, {"pk": 2723836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "Should we pay, or should we not pay? And He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, \u201cWhy do you try Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.\u201d", "comment": "A Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2723837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And they brought it, and He said to them, \u201cWhose likeness and inscription is this?\u201d And they said to Him, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cGive to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s, and to Elohim what is Elohim\u2019s.\u201d And they marvelled at Him."}, {"pk": 2723839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him. And they asked Him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2723840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTeacher, Mosheh wrote to us that <i>if a brother of anyone dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/5'>25:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/25/6'>6</a>"}, {"pk": 2723841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThere were seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring."}, {"pk": 2723842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd the second took her, and he died, leaving behind no offspring. And the third likewise."}, {"pk": 2723843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman died too."}, {"pk": 2723844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "In the resurrection then, when they rise, whose wife shall she be? For seven had her as wife."}, {"pk": 2723845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cIs this not why you go astray, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of Elohim?", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/22/29'>22:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2723846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as messengers in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2723847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "And concerning the dead, that they rise \u2014 have you not read in the book of Mosheh, at the bush, how Elohim spoke to him, saying, <i>\u2018I am the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, and the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019?</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2723848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "He is not the Elohim of the dead, but Elohim of the living. You, then, go greatly astray."}, {"pk": 2723849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "And one of the scribes coming near, hearing them reasoning together, knowing that He had answered them well, asked Him, \u201cWhich is the first command of all?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cThe first of all the commands is, <i>\u2018Hear, O Yisra\u2019\u0115l, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is one.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/4'>6:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2723851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "<i>\u2018And you shall love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.\u2019</i> This is the first command.", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/5'>6:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "And the second, like it, is this, <i>\u2018You shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u2019</i> There is no other command greater than these.", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "And the scribe said to Him, \u201cWell said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, <i>for there is one Elohim, and there is no other besides Him.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/35'>4:35</a>"}, {"pk": 2723854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength,</i> and to love one\u2019s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the ascending offerings and offerings.\u201d", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/5'>6:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2723855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, \u201cYou are not far from the reign of Elohim.\u201d And after that no one was bold <i>enough</i> to question Him."}, {"pk": 2723856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responding, said, while teaching in the Set-apart Place, \u201cHow is it that the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of Dawid\u0331?"}, {"pk": 2723857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "Dawid\u0331 himself said by the Set-apart Spirit, <i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my Master, Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool of Your feet.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110</a>.1"}, {"pk": 2723858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "Dawid\u0331 himself calls Him \u2018Master.\u2019 In what way then is He his Son? And the large crowd heard Him gladly."}, {"pk": 2723859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "And in His teaching He was saying to them, \u201cBeware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and <i>like</i> greetings in the market-places,"}, {"pk": 2723860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "and the best seats in the congregations, and the best places at feasts,"}, {"pk": 2723861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "who are devouring widows\u2019 houses, and for a show make long prayers. These shall receive greater judgment.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "And sitting opposite the treasury He saw how the people put copper into the treasury. And many rich ones put in much."}, {"pk": 2723863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "And a poor widow came and threw in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent."}, {"pk": 2723864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "And calling near His taught ones He said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those putting into the treasury,"}, {"pk": 2723865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "for they all put in out of their excess, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her entire livelihood.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And as He went out of the Set-apart Place, one of His taught ones said to Him, \u201cTeacher, see what stones! And what buildings!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to him, \u201cDo you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another at all, which shall not be thrown down.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/1'>24</a>"}, {"pk": 2723868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the Set-apart Place, K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan, and Andri asked Him separately,"}, {"pk": 2723869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Say to us, when shall these events be? And what shall be the sign when all this is going to be accomplished?"}, {"pk": 2723870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 began to say to them, \u201cTake heed that no one leads you astray,"}, {"pk": 2723871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "for many shall come in My Name, saying, \u2018I am He,\u2019 and they shall lead many astray."}, {"pk": 2723872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd when you hear of fightings and reports of fightings, do not be troubled \u2014 it has to take place, but the end is not yet."}, {"pk": 2723873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor nation shall rise against nation, and reign against reign. And there shall be earthquakes in various places, and there shall be scarcities of food, and disturbances. These are the beginnings of birth-pains."}, {"pk": 2723874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to councils and to congregations. You shall be beaten, and you shall be brought before rulers and sovereigns for My sake, for a witness to them."}, {"pk": 2723875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd the Good News has to be proclaimed first to all the nations."}, {"pk": 2723876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd when they lead you away and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand what you are to say. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that, for it is not you who are speaking, but the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2723877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd brother shall deliver up brother to death, and a father his child. And children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death."}, {"pk": 2723878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And you shall be hated by all because of My Name. But he who shall have endured to the end, he shall be saved.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/10/22'>10:22</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/13'>24:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2723879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And when you see the \u2018abomination that lays waste,\u2019 spoken of by Dani\u2019\u0115l the prophet, set up where it should not be\u201d \u2014 he who reads, let him understand \u2014 \u201cthen let those who are in Yehud\u0331ah flee to the mountains.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Abomination that lays waste\""}, {"pk": 2723880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd he who is on the house-top, let him not go down into the house, nor come in to take whatever out of his house."}, {"pk": 2723881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he who is in the field, let him not go back to get his cloak."}, {"pk": 2723882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing children in those days!"}, {"pk": 2723883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd pray that your flight does not take place in winter."}, {"pk": 2723884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor in those days there shall be distress, such as has not been from the beginning of creation which Elohim created until this time, nor ever shall be."}, {"pk": 2723885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd if the Master had not shortened those days, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen ones, whom He chose, He shortened the days."}, {"pk": 2723886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd if anyone then says to you, \u2018Look, here is the Messiah!\u2019 or, \u2018Look, there!\u2019 do not believe it."}, {"pk": 2723887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor false messiahs and false prophets shall rise and show signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones."}, {"pk": 2723888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd you, take heed. See, I have forewarned you of it all."}, {"pk": 2723889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "But in those days, after that distress, <i>the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light,</i>"}, {"pk": 2723890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "<i>and the stars of heaven shall fall,</i> and <i>the powers in the heavens shall be shaken.</i>", "comment": "See also Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/32/7'>32:7</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/10'>2:10</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/31'>2:31</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/15'>3:15</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/6'>2:6</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/21'>2:21</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/10'>13:10</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/34/4'>34:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2723891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd then they shall see the<i> Son of Ad\u0331am coming in the clouds</i> with much power and esteem.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2723892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "And then He shall send His messengers, and <i>assemble His chosen ones</i> from the <i>four winds</i>, from the <i>farthest part of earth to the farthest part of heaven.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/4'>30:4</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/6'>2:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2723893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that the summer is near."}, {"pk": 2723894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cSo you also, when you see these taking place, know that it is near, at the door."}, {"pk": 2723895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away till all this takes place."}, {"pk": 2723896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cThe heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away."}, {"pk": 2723897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cBut concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."}, {"pk": 2723898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is - \u201d"}, {"pk": 2723899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "as a man going abroad, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch."}, {"pk": 2723900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cWatch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming \u2014 in the evening or at midnight, or at the crowing of the cock, or in the morning,"}, {"pk": 2723901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "lest, coming suddenly, he should find you sleeping."}, {"pk": 2723902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Now the P\u0115sah\u0323 and the <i>Festival of</i> Matzot was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to take Him through treachery and put Him to death.", "comment": "Unleavened Bread<br>Passover."}, {"pk": 2723904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And they said, \u201cNot at the festival, lest there shall be an uproar of the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And while He was in B\u0115yth Anyah in the house of Shim\u201bon the leper, and sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of perfume, genuine nard, very costly. And breaking the flask she poured it on His head."}, {"pk": 2723906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, and said, \u201cWhy was this perfume wasted?"}, {"pk": 2723907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "For it could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they were scolding her."}, {"pk": 2723908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cLeave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me."}, {"pk": 2723909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor you have the poor with you always, and you are able do good to them, whenever you wish. But you do not always have Me."}, {"pk": 2723910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhat she had, she used. She took it beforehand to anoint My body for the burial."}, {"pk": 2723911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "Truly, I say to you, wherever this Good News is proclaimed in all the world, what this woman did shall also be spoken of, to her remembrance."}, {"pk": 2723912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to deliver Him up to them."}, {"pk": 2723913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him silver. And he was seeking how to deliver Him up, conveniently."}, {"pk": 2723914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they were slaughtering the P\u0115sah lamb, His taught ones said to Him, \u201cWhere do You wish us to go and prepare, for You to eat the P\u0115sah\u0323?\u201d", "comment": "Passover."}, {"pk": 2723915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And He sent out two of His taught ones and said to them, \u201cGo into the city, and there a man bearing a jar of water shall meet you, follow him."}, {"pk": 2723916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, \u2018The Teacher says, Where is the guest room in which I am to eat the P\u0115sah\u0323 with My taught ones?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2723917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And he shall show you a large upper room, furnished, ready. Prepare for us there."}, {"pk": 2723918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And His taught ones went out and came into the city, and found it as He said to them, and they prepared the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2723919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And evening having come, He came with the twelve."}, {"pk": 2723920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And as they sat and ate, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cTruly, I say to you, one of you who is eating with Me shall deliver Me up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And they began to be grieved, and to say to Him one by one, \u201cIs it I?\u201d And another, \u201cIs it I?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cIt is one of the twelve, he who is dipping with Me in the dish."}, {"pk": 2723923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "The Son of Ad\u0331am is indeed going, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Ad\u0331am is delivered up! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."}, {"pk": 2723924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "And as they were eating, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took bread, having blessed, broke it, gave it to them and said, \u201cTake, eat, this is My body.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "And taking the cup, giving thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it."}, {"pk": 2723926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThis is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many."}, {"pk": 2723927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "Truly, I say to you, I shall certainly no more drink of the fruit of the vine till that day when I drink it anew in the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2723928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "And having sung a song, they went out to the Mount of Olives."}, {"pk": 2723929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cAll of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, <i>\u2018I shall strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/13/7'>13:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2723930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "But after I am raised, I shall go before you to Galil."}, {"pk": 2723931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cEven if all shall stumble, yet not I.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cTruly, I say to you that today, this night, before the cock shall crow twice, you shall deny Me three times.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "But he spoke more strongly, \u201cIf I have to die with You, I shall not deny You!\u201d And they all said the same."}, {"pk": 2723934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "And they came to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to His taught ones, \u201cSit here while I pray.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "And He took with Him K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan, and He began to be greatly amazed, and to be deeply distressed."}, {"pk": 2723936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cMy being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "And He went on a little, and fell on the ground, and was praying that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him."}, {"pk": 2723938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "And He said, \u201cAbba, Father, all is possible for You. Make this cup pass from Me. Yet not what I desire, but what You desire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "text": "And He came and found them sleeping, and said to K\u0115pha, \u201cShim\u201bon, are you sleeping? You were not able to watch one hour!"}, {"pk": 2723940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "text": "Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."}, {"pk": 2723941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "text": "And again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same words."}, {"pk": 2723942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "text": "And having returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him."}, {"pk": 2723943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 41, "text": "And He came the third time and said to them, \u201cAre you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come. See, the Son of Ad\u0331am is being delivered up into the hands of the sinners."}, {"pk": 2723944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 42, "text": "Rise up, let us go. See, he who is delivering Me up has drawn near."}, {"pk": 2723945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 43, "text": "And immediately, while He was still speaking, Yehud\u0331ah, one of the twelve, with a large crowd with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders."}, {"pk": 2723946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 44, "text": "And the one who was delivering Him up had given them a signal, saying, \u201cWhomever I kiss, it is He \u2014 seize Him and lead Him away safely.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 45, "text": "And coming, going straight up to Him, he said to Him, \u201cRabbi, Rabbi!\u201d and kissed Him."}, {"pk": 2723948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 46, "text": "And they laid their hands on Him and seized Him."}, {"pk": 2723949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 47, "text": "And one of those standing by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear."}, {"pk": 2723950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 48, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cHave you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to take Me?"}, {"pk": 2723951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 49, "text": "Daily I was with you in the Set-apart Place teaching, and you did not seize Me. But let the Scriptures be filled."}, {"pk": 2723952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 50, "text": "And they all left Him and fled."}, {"pk": 2723953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 51, "text": "And a certain young man was following Him, having a linen cloth thrown around <i>his</i> naked <i>body</i>. And when they seized him,"}, {"pk": 2723954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 52, "text": "he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked."}, {"pk": 2723955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 53, "text": "And they led \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 away to the high priest. And all the chief priests, and the elders, and the scribes came together to Him."}, {"pk": 2723956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 54, "text": "And K\u0115pha followed Him at a distance, even into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself at the fire."}, {"pk": 2723957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 55, "text": "And the chief priests and all the council were seeking witness against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 to put Him to death, and they were finding none."}, {"pk": 2723958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 56, "text": "For many bore false witness against Him, but their evidences did not agree."}, {"pk": 2723959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 57, "text": "And some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying,"}, {"pk": 2723960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 58, "text": "We heard Him saying, \u2018I shall destroy this Dwelling Place that is made with hands, and within three days I shall build another made without hands.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2723961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 59, "text": "And not even then did their witness agree."}, {"pk": 2723962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 60, "text": "Then the high priest stood up in the centre and asked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saying, \u201cHave You no answer to make? What do these witness against You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 61, "text": "But He remained silent and gave no answer. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, \u201cAre You the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 62, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cI am, and you shall see the <i>Son of Ad\u0331am sitting at the right hand of the Power,</i> and <i>coming with the clouds of the heaven.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2723965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 63, "text": "And tearing his garments, the high priest said, \u201cWhat further need do we have of witnesses?"}, {"pk": 2723966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 64, "text": "You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think? And they all condemned Him to be liable to death."}, {"pk": 2723967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 65, "text": "And some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him, and to say to Him, \u201cProphesy!\u201d And the officers struck Him with the palms of their hands."}, {"pk": 2723968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 66, "text": "And as K\u0115pha was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came,"}, {"pk": 2723969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 67, "text": "and seeing K\u0115pha warming himself, she looked at him and said, \u201cAnd you were with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 68, "text": "But he denied it, saying, \u201cI do not know nor understand what you are saying.\u201d And he went out onto the porch, and a cock crowed."}, {"pk": 2723971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 69, "text": "And the servant girl saw him again, and began to say to those who stood by, \u201cThis is one of them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 70, "text": "And again he was denying it. And after a little while those who stood by again said to K\u0115pha, \u201cTruly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too, and your speech is alike.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 71, "text": "And he began to curse and swear, \u201cI do not know this Man of whom you speak!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 14, "verse": 72, "text": "And a second time the cock crowed. And K\u0115pha remembered the word that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had said to him, \u201cBefore the cock crows twice, you shall deny Me three times.\u201d And thinking on it, he wept."}, {"pk": 2723975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And immediately, in the morning, the chief priests had a council <i>meeting</i> with the elders and scribes and all the council. Having bound \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate."}, {"pk": 2723976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And Pilate asked Him, \u201cAre You the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d And He answering, said to him, \u201cYou say it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And the chief priests accused Him of much, but He made no answer."}, {"pk": 2723978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And Pilate again asked Him, saying, \u201cHave You no answer? See how much they witness against You!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 still gave no answer, so that Pilate marvelled."}, {"pk": 2723980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And at a festival he released to them one prisoner, whomever they were asking."}, {"pk": 2723981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And there was one called Barabba, chained with his fellow rebels, who had committed murder in the uprising."}, {"pk": 2723982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And the crowd, crying aloud, began to ask, as he had always done for them."}, {"pk": 2723983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "But Pilate answered them, saying, \u201cDo you wish me to release for you the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy."}, {"pk": 2723985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And the chief priests stirred up the crowd, that he should rather release Barabba to them."}, {"pk": 2723986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And Pilate answered and again said to them, \u201cWhat then do you wish me to do <i>to Him</i> whom you call the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And again they cried out, \u201cImpale Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And Pilate said to them, \u201cWhy, what evil has He done?\u201d And they vehemently cried out, \u201cImpale Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabba to them, and having whipped <i>Him</i>, he delivered \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 over to be impaled."}, {"pk": 2723990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "And the soldiers led Him away into the court, which is the palace, and they called together the entire company <i>of soldiers</i>,"}, {"pk": 2723991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "and decked Him with purple. And they plaited a crown of thorns, put it on Him,"}, {"pk": 2723992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "and they began to call out to Him, \u201cGreetings, Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2723993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "And they kept beating Him on the head with a reed and were spitting on Him. And bending the knee, they were bowing down to Him."}, {"pk": 2723994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him, and put His own garments on Him, and led Him out to impale Him."}, {"pk": 2723995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And they compelled a passer-by, Shim\u201bon, a Cyrenian, coming from a field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His stake."}, {"pk": 2723996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull."}, {"pk": 2723997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And they were giving Him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but He did not take it."}, {"pk": 2723998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "And when they impaled Him, <i>they divided His garments, casting lots for them,</i> what each one should take.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/18'>22:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2723999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "And it was the third hour, and they impaled Him."}, {"pk": 2724000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "And the inscription of His accusation was written above: THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUD\u0331IM."}, {"pk": 2724001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And with Him they impaled two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left."}, {"pk": 2724002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And the Scripture was filled which says,<i>\u201cAnd He was reckoned with the lawless.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/12'>53:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2724003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And those passing by were blaspheming Him, <i>shaking their heads</i> and saying, \u201cAh! You who destroy the Dwelling Place and build it in three days,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/7'>22:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2724004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "save Yourself, and come down from the stake!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And likewise the chief priests and the scribes, mocking to one another said, \u201cHe saved others, He is unable to save Himself."}, {"pk": 2724006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "The Messiah? The Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? Come down now from the stake, so that we see and believe. And those who were impaled with Him were reproaching Him."}, {"pk": 2724007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour."}, {"pk": 2724008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "And at the ninth hour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 cried out with a loud voice, saying, <i>\"\u011ali, \u011ali, lamah sheb\u0331aqtani?\u201d</i> which is translated,<i>\u201cMy \u011al, My \u011al, why have You forsaken Me?\u201d</i>", "comment": "In Hebrew - \u201cEli, Eli lamah azab\u0331tani\u201d - as per Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/1'>22:1</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/1'>22:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "And some of those standing by, when they heard it, said, \u201cSee, He is calling for \u011aliyahu!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "And someone ran and filled a sponge with <i>sour wine</i>, and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him <i>to drink,</i> saying, \u201cLeave Him, let us see if \u011aliyahu does come to take Him down.\u201d", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/21'>69:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2724011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last."}, {"pk": 2724012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "And the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two from top to bottom."}, {"pk": 2724013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "And when the captain, who was standing opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, \u201cTruly this Man was the Son of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "text": "And there were also women watching from a distance, among whom was also Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, and Miryam the mother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the Less and of Yos\u0115ph, and Shelomah,"}, {"pk": 2724015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "text": "who also followed Him and attended Him when He was in Galil, and many other women who came up with Him to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 42, "text": "And when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,"}, {"pk": 2724017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 43, "text": "Yos\u0115ph of Ramathayim, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the reign of Elohim, came, boldly went in to Pilate and asked for the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2724018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 44, "text": "But Pilate wondered whether He was already dead, so summoning the captain, he asked him if He was already dead."}, {"pk": 2724019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 45, "text": "And when he learned <i>this</i> from the captain, he gave the body to Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2724020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 46, "text": "And he, having bought fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb."}, {"pk": 2724021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 15, "verse": 47, "text": "And Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, and Miryam the <i>mother</i> of Yos\u0115ph, saw where He was laid."}, {"pk": 2724022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And when the Sabbath was past, Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, and Miryam the <i>mother</i> of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Shelomah bought spices, to go and anoint Him."}, {"pk": 2724023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And very early on <i>day</i> one of <i>the</i> week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.", "comment": "Greek one of <em>the</em> sabbaths. See Explanatory Notes \"First day of the week\u201d and Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/28/1'>28:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And they said among themselves, \u201cWho shall roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb for us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, for it was extremely large."}, {"pk": 2724026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And having entered into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, wearing a white robe, and they were greatly astonished."}, {"pk": 2724027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cDo not be much astonished. You seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth, who was impaled. He was raised \u2014 He is not here! See the place where they laid Him."}, {"pk": 2724028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And go, say to His taught ones, and K\u0115pha, that He is going before you into Galil. You shall see Him there as He said to you."}, {"pk": 2724029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And they went out and fled from the tomb, and were trembling and bewildered. And they spoke to no one, for they were afraid."}, {"pk": 2724030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And having risen early on the first <i>day</i> of <i>the</i> week He appeared first to Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, from whom He had cast out seven demons.", "comment": "Some manuscripts omit vv. <a href='/TS2009/41/16/9-20'>9-20</a>; Textus Receptus includes them.<br>Gk. first of a sabbath."}, {"pk": 2724031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "She went and reported to those who had been with Him, mourning and weeping."}, {"pk": 2724032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe."}, {"pk": 2724033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And after this He appeared in another form to two of them as they walked and went into a field."}, {"pk": 2724034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And they went and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them either."}, {"pk": 2724035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table. And He reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He was raised."}, {"pk": 2724036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cGo into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature."}, {"pk": 2724037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cHe who has believed and has been immersed, shall be saved, but he who has not believed shall be condemned."}, {"pk": 2724038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd these signs shall accompany the ones who believe: In My Name they shall cast out demons, they shall speak with renewed tongues,"}, {"pk": 2724039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "they shall take up snakes, and if they drink any deadly <i>drink</i> it shall by no means hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall get well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "Then indeed, after the Master had spoken to them, He was received up into the heaven, and <i>sat down at the right hand of Elohim.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 41, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And they went out and proclaimed it everywhere, while the Master worked with them, and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2724042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Since many have indeed taken in hand to set in order an account of the matters completely confirmed among us,"}, {"pk": 2724043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,"}, {"pk": 2724044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "it seemed good to me as well, having followed up all these matters exactly from the beginning, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilos,"}, {"pk": 2724045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "that you might know the certainty of the words which you were taught."}, {"pk": 2724046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "There was in the days of Herodes, the sovereign of Yehud\u0331ah, a certain priest named Zek\u0331aryah, of the division of Ab\u0331iyah. And his wife was of the daughters of Aharon, and her name was Elisheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2724047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And they were both righteous before Elohim, blamelessly walking in all the commands and righteousnesses of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2724048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And they had no child, because Elisheb\u0331a was barren, and both were advanced in years."}, {"pk": 2724049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be, that while he was serving as priest before Elohim in the order of his division,"}, {"pk": 2724050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "according to the institute of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to burn incense when he went into the Dwelling Place of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2724051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And the entire crowd of people was praying outside at the hour of incense."}, {"pk": 2724052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him, standing on the right side of the slaughter-place of incense."}, {"pk": 2724053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And when Zek\u0331aryah saw <i>him</i>, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him."}, {"pk": 2724054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "But the messenger said to him, \u201cDo not be afraid, Zek\u0331aryah, for your prayer is heard. And your wife Elisheb\u0331a shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2724055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth."}, {"pk": 2724056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor he shall be great before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and shall drink no wine and strong drink at all. And he shall be filled with the Set-apart Spirit, even from his mother\u2019s womb."}, {"pk": 2724057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall turn many of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 their Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of \u011aliyahu, <i>\u2018to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,\u2019</i> and the disobedient to the insight of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d", "comment": "Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And Zek\u0331aryah said to the messenger, \u201cBy what shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife advanced in years.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And the messenger answering, said to him, \u201cI am Gab\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l, who stands in the presence of Elohim, and was sent to speak to you and announce to you this good news."}, {"pk": 2724061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "But see, you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day this takes place, because you did not believe my words which shall be filled in their appointed time."}, {"pk": 2724062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And the people waited for Zek\u0331aryah, and marvelled at his delay in the Dwelling Place."}, {"pk": 2724063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them. And they recognised that he had seen a vision in the Dwelling Place, for he was beckoning to them and remained dumb."}, {"pk": 2724064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And it came to be, as soon as the days of his service were completed, he went away to his house."}, {"pk": 2724065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And after those days his wife Elisheb\u0331a conceived. And she hid herself five months, saying,"}, {"pk": 2724066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has done this for me, in the days when He looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men."}, {"pk": 2724067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And in the sixth month the messenger Gab\u0331ri\u2019\u0115l was sent by Elohim to a city of Galil named Natsareth,"}, {"pk": 2724068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "to a maiden engaged to a man whose name was Yos\u0115ph, of the house of Dawid\u0331. And the maiden\u2019s name was Miryam."}, {"pk": 2724069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And the messenger, coming to her, said, \u201cGreetings, favoured one, the Master is with you. Blessed are you among women!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "But she was greatly disturbed at his word, and wondered what kind of greeting this was."}, {"pk": 2724071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "And the messenger said to her, \u201cDo not be afraid, Miryam, for you have found favour with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "And see, you shall conceive in your womb, and shall give birth to a Son, and call His Name \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/1/21'>1:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2724073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cHe shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim shall give Him the throne of His father Dawid\u0331."}, {"pk": 2724074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd He shall reign over the house of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 forever, and there shall be no end to His reign.\u201d", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/1'>2</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/89/14-34'>89:14-34</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/9/7'>9:7</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/16/5'>16:5</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/23/3-6'>23:3-6</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/30/9'>30:9</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/37/24'>37:24</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/18-27'>7:18-27</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/5/2-4'>5:2-4</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/1/6'>1:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/1/7'>7</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2724075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "And Miryam said to the messenger, \u201cHow shall this be, since I do not know a man?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "And the messenger answering, said to her, \u201cThe Set-apart Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you. And for that reason the Set-apart One born of you shall be called: Son of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cAnd see, Elisheb\u0331a your relative, she has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is now the sixth month to her who was called barren,"}, {"pk": 2724078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cbecause with Elohim no matter shall be impossible."}, {"pk": 2724079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "And Miryam said, \u201cSee the female servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4! Let it be to me according to your word.\u201d And the messenger went away from her."}, {"pk": 2724080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "And Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2724081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "and entered into the house of Zek\u0331aryah and greeted Elisheb\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2724082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "And it came to be, when Elisheb\u0331a heard the greeting of Miryam, that the baby leaped in her womb. And Elisheb\u0331a was filled with the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2724083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "and called out with a loud voice and said, \u201cBlessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!"}, {"pk": 2724084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cAnd who am I, that the mother of my Master should come to me?"}, {"pk": 2724085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cFor look, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy."}, {"pk": 2724086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "Blessed is she who believed, for that which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has said to her shall be accomplished!"}, {"pk": 2724087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "And Miryam said, \u201cMy being makes \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 great,"}, {"pk": 2724088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "and my spirit has rejoiced in Elohim my Saviour."}, {"pk": 2724089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "Because He looked on the humiliation of His female servant. For look, from now on all generations shall call me blessed.", "comment": "See also 1Sam. <a href='/TS2009/9/1/11'>1:11</a>; 1Sam. <a href='/TS2009/9/2/1'>2:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cFor He who is mighty has done wonders for me, and set-apart is His Name.", "comment": "See also Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/111/9'>111:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2724091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd His compassion is from generation to generation, to those who fear Him.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/103/17'>103:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2724092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cHe did mightily with His arm; He scattered the proud in the thought of their hearts."}, {"pk": 2724093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cHe brought down rulers from their thrones, and exalted the lowly."}, {"pk": 2724094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 53, "text": "<i>\u201cHe has filled the hungry with good <i>items</i>,</i> and the rich He has sent away empty.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/107/9'>107:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2724095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 54, "text": "\u201cHe sustained Yisra\u2019\u0115l, His servant, in remembrance of His compassion,"}, {"pk": 2724096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cas He spoke to our fathers, to Ab\u0331raham and to his seed, forever."}, {"pk": 2724097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 56, "text": "And Miryam stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home."}, {"pk": 2724098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 57, "text": "And the time was filled for Elisheb\u0331a to give birth, and she bore a son."}, {"pk": 2724099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 58, "text": "And her neighbours and relatives heard how \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 had shown great compassion to her, and they rejoiced with her."}, {"pk": 2724100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 59, "text": "And it came to be, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child. And they were calling him by the name of his father, Zek\u0331aryah."}, {"pk": 2724101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 60, "text": "And his mother answering, said, \u201cNot so, but he shall be called Yoh\u0323anan.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 61, "text": "And they said to her, \u201cThere is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 62, "text": "Then they motioned to his father, what he would like him to be called."}, {"pk": 2724104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 63, "text": "And having asked for a writing tablet, he wrote, saying, \u201cYoh\u0323anan is his name.\u201d And they all marvelled."}, {"pk": 2724105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 64, "text": "And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he was speaking, praising Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 65, "text": "And fear came on all those dwelling around them, and all these matters were spoken of in all the hill country of Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2724107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 66, "text": "And all who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, \u201cWhat then shall this child be?\u201d And the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was with him."}, {"pk": 2724108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 67, "text": "And Zek\u0331aryah, his father, was filled with the Set-apart Spirit, and prophesied, saying,"}, {"pk": 2724109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 68, "text": "<i>\u201cBlessed be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,</i> for He did look upon and worked redemption for His people,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/41/13'>41:13</a><br>See also Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/72/18'>72:18</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/106/48'>106:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2724110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 69, "text": "and has raised up a horn of deliverance for us in the house of His servant Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2724111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 70, "text": "as He spoke by the mouth of His set-apart prophets, from of old \u2014"}, {"pk": 2724112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 71, "text": "deliverance <i>from our enemies and from the hand of all those hating us,</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/106/10'>106:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2724113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 72, "text": "to show compassion toward our fathers and to remember His set-apart covenant,"}, {"pk": 2724114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 73, "text": "an oath which He swore to our father Ab\u0331raham:"}, {"pk": 2724115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 74, "text": "to give to us, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,"}, {"pk": 2724116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 75, "text": "in set-apartness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life."}, {"pk": 2724117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 76, "text": "And you, child, shall be called prophet of the Most High, for you shall <i>go before the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to prepare His ways,</i>", "comment": "See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/3'>40:3</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/23'>1:23</a><br>Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/1'>3:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 77, "text": "to give knowledge of deliverance to His people, by the forgiveness of their sins,"}, {"pk": 2724119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 78, "text": "through the tender compassion of our Elohim, with which the daybreak from on high has looked upon us,"}, {"pk": 2724120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 79, "text": "<i>to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,</i> to guide our feet into the way of peace.\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/9/1'>9:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 1, "verse": 80, "text": "And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts until the day of showing himself openly to Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2724122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus for all the world to be registered."}, {"pk": 2724123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "This took place as a first registration while Quirinius was governing Suria."}, {"pk": 2724124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And all were going to be registered, each one to his own city."}, {"pk": 2724125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph also went up from Galil, out of the city of Natsareth to Yehud\u0331ah, to the city of Dawid\u0331, which is called B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, because he was of the house and lineage of Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2724126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "to be registered with Miryam, who was engaged to him \u2014 being pregnant."}, {"pk": 2724127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, that while they were there, the days were filled for her to give birth."}, {"pk": 2724128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And she gave birth to her first-born Son, and wrapped Him up, and laid Him down in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in a lodging place."}, {"pk": 2724129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And in the same country there were shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night."}, {"pk": 2724130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "And look, a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood before them, and the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shone around them, and they were greatly afraid."}, {"pk": 2724131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And the messenger said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid, for look, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all people."}, {"pk": 2724132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBecause there was born to you today in the city of Dawid\u0331 a Saviour, who is Messiah, the Master."}, {"pk": 2724133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the sign to you: You shall find a baby wrapped up, lying in a feeding trough.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And suddenly there was with the messenger a crowd of the heavenly host praising Elohim and saying,"}, {"pk": 2724135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Esteem to Elohim in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased!"}, {"pk": 2724136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, when the messengers had gone away from them into the heaven, that the shepherds said to each other, \u201cIndeed, let us go to B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em and see this matter that has taken place, which the Master has made known to us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And they came in haste and found Miryam and Yos\u0115ph, and the baby lying in a feeding trough."}, {"pk": 2724138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And having seen, they made known the matter which was spoken to them concerning the child."}, {"pk": 2724139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And all those who heard marvelled at what the shepherds said to them."}, {"pk": 2724140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "But Miryam kept all these matters, considering them in her heart."}, {"pk": 2724141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And the shepherds returned, boasting and praising Elohim for all they had heard and seen, as it was spoken to them."}, {"pk": 2724142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "And when eight days were completed for Him to be circumcised, His Name was called \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, the Name given by the messenger before He was conceived in the womb."}, {"pk": 2724143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And when the days of her cleansing according to the Torah of Mosheh were completed, they brought Him to Yerushalayim to present Him to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u2014"}, {"pk": 2724144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "as it has been written in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>\u201cEvery male who opens the womb shall be called set-apart to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/13/2'>13:2</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/13/12'>13:12</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/13/15'>13:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2724145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "and to give an offering according to what is said in the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, <i>\u201cA pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/5/11'>5:11</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/12/8'>12:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2724146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And see, there was a man in Yerushalayim whose name was Shim\u201bon, and this man was righteous and dedicated, looking for the comforting of Yisra\u2019\u0115l. And the Set-apart Spirit was upon him."}, {"pk": 2724147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "And it had been revealed to him by the Set-apart Spirit that he would not see death before he sees the Messiah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2724148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And he came in the Spirit into the Set-apart Place. And as the parents brought in the Child \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, to do for Him according to the usual practice of the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2724149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "then he took Him up in his arms and blessed Elohim and said,"}, {"pk": 2724150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cNow let Your servant go in peace, O Master, according to Your word,"}, {"pk": 2724151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "for my eyes have seen Your deliverance,"}, {"pk": 2724152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "which You have prepared before the face of all the peoples,"}, {"pk": 2724153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "<i>a light for the unveiling of the nations,</i> and the esteem of Your people Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/42/6'>42:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/6'>49:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph and His mother were marvelling at what was said about Him."}, {"pk": 2724155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "And Shim\u201bon blessed them, and said to Miryam His mother, \u201cSee, this One is set for a fall and rising of many in Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and for a sign spoken against \u2014"}, {"pk": 2724156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "and a sword shall pierce through your own being also \u2014 so as to reveal the thoughts of many hearts.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "And there was H\u0323annah, a prophetess, a daughter of Penu\u2019\u0115l, of the tribe of Ash\u0115r. She was advanced in years, and had lived with a husband seven years from her maidenhood,"}, {"pk": 2724158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not leave the Set-apart Place, but served Elohim with fastings and prayers night and day."}, {"pk": 2724159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "And she, coming in at that moment, gave thanks to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and spoke of Him to all who were waiting for redemption in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "And when they had accomplished all <i>matters</i> according to the Torah of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they returned to Galil, to their city Natsareth."}, {"pk": 2724161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom. And the favour of Elohim was upon Him."}, {"pk": 2724162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "And His parents went to Yerushalayim every year at the Festival of the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2724163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Yerushalayim according to the practice of the festival."}, {"pk": 2724164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "When they had accomplished the days, as they returned, the Child \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stayed behind in Yerushalayim. And His parents did not know it,"}, {"pk": 2724165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "but thinking He was in the company, they went a day\u2019s journey, and were seeking Him among the relatives and friends."}, {"pk": 2724166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "And not having found Him, they returned to Yerushalayim, seeking Him."}, {"pk": 2724167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "And it came to be, after three days, that they found Him in the Set-apart Place, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions."}, {"pk": 2724168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "text": "And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers."}, {"pk": 2724169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 48, "text": "And having seen Him, they were amazed. And His mother said to Him, \u201cSon, why have You done this to us? See, Your father and I have been anxiously seeking You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 49, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhy were you seeking Me? Did you not know that I had to be in the <i>matters</i> of My Father?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 50, "text": "But they did not understand the word which He spoke to them."}, {"pk": 2724172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 51, "text": "And He went down with them and came to Natsareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these matters in her heart."}, {"pk": 2724173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 2, "verse": 52, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with Elohim and men."}, {"pk": 2724174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Yehud\u0331ah, and Herodes district ruler of Galil, and his brother Philip district ruler of Yetur and the country of Trachonitis, and Lusanias district ruler of Ab\u0331ilene,"}, {"pk": 2724175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "H\u0323anan and Qayapha being high priests, the word of Elohim came to Yoh\u0323anan the son of Zek\u0331aryah in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2724176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And he went into all the neighbourhood of the Yard\u0115n, proclaiming an immersion of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,"}, {"pk": 2724177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "as it has been written in the book of the words of Yeshayahu the prophet, saying,<i>\u201cA voice of one crying in the wilderness, \u2018Prepare the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, make His paths straight.</i>", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/23'>1:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2724178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>\u2018Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough become smooth ways,</i>"}, {"pk": 2724179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>and all flesh shall see the deliverance of Elohim.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/3-6'>40:3-6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be immersed by him, \u201cBrood of adders, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"}, {"pk": 2724181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cTherefore bear fruit worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, \u2018We have Ab\u0331raham as our father.\u2019 For I say to you that Elohim is able to raise up children to Ab\u0331raham from these stones."}, {"pk": 2724182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And the crowds asked him, saying, \u201cWhat, then, shall we do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And answering He said to them, \u201cLet him who has two undergarments share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And tax collectors also came to be immersed, and said to him, \u201cTeacher, what shall we do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cCollect no more than what is appointed for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And soldiers also asked him, saying, \u201cAnd what shall we do?\u201d And he said to them, \u201cDo not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts about Yoh\u0323anan, whether he was the Messiah or not,"}, {"pk": 2724189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan answered, saying to them all, \u201cI indeed immerse you in water, but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal straps I am not worthy to loosen. He shall immerse you in the Set-apart Spirit and fire."}, {"pk": 2724190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He shall thoroughly cleanse His threshing-floor, and gather the wheat into His storehouse, but the chaff He shall burn with unquenchable fire."}, {"pk": 2724191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And urging with many other <i>words</i>, he brought the Good News to the people."}, {"pk": 2724192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And Herodes the district ruler, being convicted by him concerning Herodias his brother Philip\u2019s wife, and for all the wicked deeds which Herodes did,"}, {"pk": 2724193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "added this also to them all \u2014 he locked up Yoh\u0323anan in prison."}, {"pk": 2724194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened,"}, {"pk": 2724195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "and the Set-apart Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven saying, \u201cYou are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yos\u0115ph, of \u011ali,"}, {"pk": 2724197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "of Mattithyahu, of L\u0115wi, of Melek\u0331i, of Yanah, of Yos\u0115ph,"}, {"pk": 2724198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "of Mattithyahu, of Amots, of Nah\u0323um, of H\u0323esli, of No\u1e21ah,"}, {"pk": 2724199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "of Ma\u201bath, of Mattithyahu, of Shim\u201bi, of Yos\u0115ph, of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2724200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "of Yoh\u0323anan, of Rephayah, of Zerubbab\u0331el, of She\u2019alti\u2019\u0115l, of Neri,"}, {"pk": 2724201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "of Melek\u0331i, of Addi, of Qosam, of Elmod\u0331am, of \u011ar,"}, {"pk": 2724202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "of Yehoshua, of Eli\u201bezer, of Yorim, of Mattithyahu, of L\u0115wi,"}, {"pk": 2724203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "of Shim\u201bon, of Yehud\u0331ah, of Yos\u0115ph, of Yonam, of Elyaqim,"}, {"pk": 2724204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "of Melea, of Menna, of Mattattah, of Nathan, of Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2724205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "of Yishai, of Ob\u0331\u0115d\u0331, of Bo\u201baz, of Salmon, of Nah\u0323shon,"}, {"pk": 2724206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "of Amminad\u0331ab\u0331, of Ram, of H\u0323etsron, of Perets, of Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2724207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, of Yitsh\u0323aq, of Ab\u0331raham, of Terah\u0323, of Nah\u0323or,"}, {"pk": 2724208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "of Seru\u1e21, of Re\u201bu, of Pele\u1e21, of \u011ab\u0331er, of Sh\u0115lah\u0323,"}, {"pk": 2724209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "text": "of Q\u0115ynan, of Arpak\u0331shad\u0331, of Sh\u0115m, of Noah\u0323, of Lemek\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2724210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 37, "text": "of Methushelah\u0323, of H\u0323anok\u0331, of Yered\u0331, of Mahalal\u0115l, of Q\u0115ynan,"}, {"pk": 2724211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 3, "verse": 38, "text": "of Enosh, of Sh\u0115th, of Ad\u0331am, of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, returned from the Yard\u0115n and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,"}, {"pk": 2724213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "being tried for forty days by the devil. And in those days He did not eat at all, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry."}, {"pk": 2724214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And the devil said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of Elohim, command this stone to become bread.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, saying, \u201cIt has been written, <i>\u2018Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of Elohim.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/8/3'>8:3</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/4/1'>4</a>.4"}, {"pk": 2724216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the reigns of the world in a moment of time."}, {"pk": 2724217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And the devil said to Him, \u201cAll this authority I shall give You, and their esteem, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/4/4'>4:4</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/31'>12:31</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/30'>14:30</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/16/11'>16:11</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/19'>5:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2724218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "If, then, You worship before me, all shall be Yours."}, {"pk": 2724219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering him, said, \u201cGet behind Me, Satan! For it has been written, <i>\u2018You shall worship \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim, and Him only you shall serve.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/13'>6:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2724220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And he brought Him to Yerushalayim, set Him on the edge of the Set-apart Place, and said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of Elohim, throw Yourself down from here,"}, {"pk": 2724221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "for it has been written, <i>\u2018He shall command His messengers concerning You, to guard over You,\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/91/11'>91:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2724222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "and, <i>\u2018In their hands they shall bear You up, lest You dash Your foot against a stone.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/91/12'>91:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2724223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to him, \u201cIt has been said, <i>\u2018You shall not try \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/16'>6:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2724224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And when the devil had ended every trial, he went away from Him until a convenient time."}, {"pk": 2724225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 returned in the power of the Spirit to Galil, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding country."}, {"pk": 2724226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And He was teaching in their congregations, being praised by all."}, {"pk": 2724227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up. And according to His practice, He went into the congregation on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read."}, {"pk": 2724228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And the scroll of the prophet Yeshayahu was handed to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it was written:"}, {"pk": 2724229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cThe Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon Me,</i><i> because He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release,</i>", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/61/1-3'>61:1-3</a>"}, {"pk": 2724230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>to proclaim the acceptable year of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/61/1'>61:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/61/2'>2</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/58/6'>58:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And having rolled up the scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the congregation were fixed upon Him."}, {"pk": 2724232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And He began to say to them, \u201cToday this Scripture has been filled in your hearing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "And all were bearing witness to Him, and marvelled at the pleasant words that came out of His mouth. And they said, \u201cIs this not the son of Yos\u0115ph?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cNo doubt, you shall say this proverb to Me, \u2018Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard being done in Kephar Nah\u0323um, do also here in Your country.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And He said, \u201cTruly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country."}, {"pk": 2724236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut truly I say to you, many widows were in Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the days of \u011aliyahu, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great scarcity of food in all the land,"}, {"pk": 2724237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "and \u011aliyahu was sent to none of them, but to Tsarephath of Tsid\u0331on, to a woman, a widow."}, {"pk": 2724238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd many lepers were in Yisra\u2019\u0115l in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Na\u201baman the Aramean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "And all those in the congregation, when they heard this, were filled with wrath."}, {"pk": 2724240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "And rising up they drove Him out of the city, and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down."}, {"pk": 2724241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "But He, passing through the midst of them, went away."}, {"pk": 2724242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "And He came down to Kephar Nah\u0323um, a city of Galil, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2724243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And they were astonished at His teaching, for His word was with authority."}, {"pk": 2724244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "And in the congregation was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice,"}, {"pk": 2724245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "saying, \u201cHa! What have we to do with You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know You, who You are, the Set-apart One of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 rebuked him, saying, \u201cBe silenced, and come out of him!\u201d And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him without hurting him."}, {"pk": 2724247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "And astonishment came on all, and they spoke to each other, saying, \u201cWhat is this word, that with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "And the report about Him went out into every place of the neighbourhood."}, {"pk": 2724249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "And rising up from the congregation He went into the house of Shim\u201bon. But the mother-in-law of Shim\u201bon was sick with a severe inflammation, and they asked Him concerning her."}, {"pk": 2724250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "And standing over her He rebuked the inflammation, and it left her, and instantly rising up she served them."}, {"pk": 2724251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "And when the sun was setting, all who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him. And He laid His hands on each one of them and healed them."}, {"pk": 2724252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "And also demons were coming out of many, crying out and saying, \u201cYou are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim!\u201d And rebuking them, He did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2724253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "And when day came, He went out and proceeded to a lonely place, but the crowds were seeking Him and came to Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them."}, {"pk": 2724254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTo the other cities I also have to bring the Good News: the reign of Elohim, because for this I have been sent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "And He was proclaiming in the congregations of Galil."}, {"pk": 2724256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, while the crowd was pressing upon Him to hear the word of Elohim, that He stood by the Lake of Genn\u0115sar,"}, {"pk": 2724257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "and He saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets."}, {"pk": 2724258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And entering into one of the boats, which belonged to Shim\u201bon, He asked him to pull away a little from the land. And He sat down and was teaching the crowds from the boat."}, {"pk": 2724259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And when He ceased speaking, He said to Shim\u201bon, \u201cPull out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And Shim\u201bon answering, said to Him, \u201cMaster, we have toiled all night and caught none, but at Your word I shall let down the net.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And when they did so, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking,"}, {"pk": 2724262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "and they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking."}, {"pk": 2724263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And when Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha saw it, he fell down at the knees of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saying, \u201cDepart from me, for I am a man, a sinner, O Master!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "For astonishment had seized him and all those with him, at the catch of fish which they took,"}, {"pk": 2724265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "so too were Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan, the sons of Zab\u0331dai, who were partners with Shim\u201bon. Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to Shim\u201bon, \u201cDo not fear, from now on you shall catch men.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And having brought the boats to land, they left all and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2724267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And it came to be when He was in a certain city, that see, a man covered with leprosy saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. And he fell on his face and begged Him, saying, \u201cMaster, if You desire, You are able to cleanse me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, \u201cI desire it. Be cleansed.\u201d And immediately the leprosy left him."}, {"pk": 2724269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And He ordered him to say it to no one, <i>\u201cBut go and show yourself to the priest,</i> and make an offering for your cleansing, as a witness to them, as Mosheh commanded.\u201d", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/13/49'>13:49</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/14/2'>14:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2724270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And the news about Him was spreading even more. And large crowds were coming together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their sicknesses."}, {"pk": 2724271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "But He was <i>often</i> withdrawing Himself to lonely places and praying."}, {"pk": 2724272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "And on a certain day it came to be, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the Torah sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galil, Yehud\u0331ah, and Yerushalayim. And the power of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was <i>there</i> to heal them."}, {"pk": 2724273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And see, men brought on a bed a man who was paralysed. And they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Him."}, {"pk": 2724274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "But having found no way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the house-top and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2724275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And having seen their belief, He said to him, \u201cMan, your sins are forgiven you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, \u201cWho is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except Elohim alone?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing their thoughts, answering, said to them, \u201cWhy are you reasoning in your hearts?"}, {"pk": 2724278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cWhich is easier, to say, \u2018Your sins are forgiven you,\u2019 or to say, \u2018Rise up and walk\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2724279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut in order for you to know that the Son of Ad\u0331am possesses authority on earth to forgive sins...\u201d He said to the man who was paralysed, \u201cI say to you, rise, take up your bed, and go to your house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "And at once, having risen up before them, he took up what he had been lying on, and went away to his house, praising Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "And astonishment seized them all, and they praised Elohim and were filled with fear, saying, \u201cWe have seen extra-ordinary <i>feats</i> today!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "And after this He went out and saw a tax collector named L\u0115wi, sitting at the tax office, and said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "And he, having left all, rose up and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2724284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "And L\u0115wi made a great feast for Him in his house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them."}, {"pk": 2724285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled against His taught ones, saying, \u201cWhy do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cThose who are well do not need a physician, but those who are sick."}, {"pk": 2724287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."}, {"pk": 2724288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cWhy do the taught ones of Yoh\u0323anan fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 34, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cAre you able to make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?"}, {"pk": 2724290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 35, "text": "But days shall come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days."}, {"pk": 2724291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 36, "text": "And He also spoke a parable to them, \u201cNo one puts a piece from a fresh garment on an old one, otherwise the fresh one makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the fresh one does not match the old."}, {"pk": 2724292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd no one puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine shall burst the wineskins and run out, and the wineskins shall be ruined."}, {"pk": 2724293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cBut new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."}, {"pk": 2724294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 5, "verse": 39, "text": "And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new <i>wine</i>, for he says, \u2018The old is better.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be on a Sabbath that He went through grainfields, and His taught ones were plucking the heads of grain and were eating, rubbing <i>them</i> with the hands.", "comment": "Some manuscripts read: On the second Sabbath after the first."}, {"pk": 2724296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And some of the Pharisees said to them, \u201cWhy are you doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering them, said, \u201cHave you not read what Dawid\u0331 did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him,"}, {"pk": 2724298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "how he went into the House of Elohim, took and ate the showbread, and also gave some to those with him, which is not right for any but the priests to eat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am is Master of the Sabbath.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/12/8'>12:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2724300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And it also came to be on another Sabbath, that He entered into the congregation and taught, and there was a man whose right hand was withered."}, {"pk": 2724301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely, whether He would heal on the Sabbath, for them to find an accusation against Him."}, {"pk": 2724302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And He knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, \u201cRise and stand in the midst.\u201d And he rose up and stood."}, {"pk": 2724303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cI ask you, is it right to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And looking around at them all, He said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d And he did so, and his hand was restored sound as the other."}, {"pk": 2724305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "But they were filled with folly, and were speaking with one another what they should do to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2724306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And when it became day, He called near His taught ones and chose from them twelve, whom He also named emissaries:"}, {"pk": 2724308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Shim\u201bon whom He also named K\u0115pha, and his brother Andri, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan, Philip and Bartholomi,"}, {"pk": 2724309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Mattithyahu and T\u2019oma, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the son of Alphai and Shim\u201bon, the one called the Ardent One,"}, {"pk": 2724310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah <i>the son</i> of Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth who also became the betrayer."}, {"pk": 2724311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And coming down with them He stood on a level place with a crowd of His taught ones and a great number of people from all Yehud\u0331ah and Yerushalayim, and from the coast country of Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases,"}, {"pk": 2724312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "and those who were troubled with unclean spirits \u2014 and they were healed."}, {"pk": 2724313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "And all the crowd were seeking to touch Him, for power went out from Him, and healing them all."}, {"pk": 2724314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And He, lifting up His eyes toward His taught ones, said, \u201cBlessed are the poor, because yours is the reign of Elohim.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/4'>11:4</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/2/5'>2:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2724315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you who hunger now, because you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, because you shall laugh."}, {"pk": 2724316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBlessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as wicked, for the sake of the Son of Ad\u0331am."}, {"pk": 2724317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cRejoice in that day and leap for joy, for look, your reward is great in the heaven, for that is how their fathers treated the prophets."}, {"pk": 2724318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut woe to you who are rich, because you are receiving your comfort."}, {"pk": 2724319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cWoe to you who have been filled, because you shall hunger. Woe to you who are laughing now, because you shall mourn and weep."}, {"pk": 2724320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cWoe to you when all men speak well of you, for thus their fathers did to the false prophets."}, {"pk": 2724321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you who are hearing: Love your enemies, do good to those hating you."}, {"pk": 2724322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBless those cursing you, and pray for those insulting you."}, {"pk": 2724323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd to him who hits you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold the inner garment either."}, {"pk": 2724324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away what is yours do not ask it back."}, {"pk": 2724325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd as you wish men should do to you, you also do to them in the same way."}, {"pk": 2724326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd if you love those loving you, what favour have you? For sinners, too, love those loving them."}, {"pk": 2724327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd if you do good to those doing good to you, what favour have you? For even sinners do the same."}, {"pk": 2724328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd if you lend <i>to those</i> from whom you expect to receive back, what favour have you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back."}, {"pk": 2724329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "Rather, love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting none in return. And your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High. Because He is kind to the thankless and wicked ones.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/45'>5:45</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/14/16'>14:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/14/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2724330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cTherefore be compassionate, as your Father also is compassionate."}, {"pk": 2724331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAnd do not judge, and you shall not be judged at all. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned at all. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven."}, {"pk": 2724332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "Give, and it shall be given to you. A good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over shall be put into your lap. For with the same measure with which you measure, it shall be measured back to you."}, {"pk": 2724333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "And He spoke a parable to them, \u201cIs a blind able to lead a blind? Shall they not both fall into a pit?"}, {"pk": 2724334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cA taught one is not above his teacher, but everyone perfected shall be like his teacher."}, {"pk": 2724335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "text": "And why do you see the splinter in your brother\u2019s eye, but are not aware of the plank in your own eye?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cOr how are you able to say to your brother, \u2018Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,\u2019 not seeing the plank in your own eye? Hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to take out the splinter that is in your brother\u2019s eye."}, {"pk": 2724337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cFor a good tree does not yield rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree yield good fruit."}, {"pk": 2724338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cFor each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush."}, {"pk": 2724339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cThe good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks."}, {"pk": 2724340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cBut why do you call Me \u2018Master, Master,\u2019 and do not do what I say?", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/6/47-49'>6:47-49</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/24-28'>7:24-28</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/21'>8:21</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/2/17-24'>2:17-24</a>"}, {"pk": 2724341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cEveryone who is coming to Me, and is hearing My words and is doing them, I shall show you whom he is like:"}, {"pk": 2724342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cHe is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood came, the stream burst against that house, but was unable to shake it, for it was founded on the rock."}, {"pk": 2724343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 6, "verse": 49, "text": "But the one hearing and not doing, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream burst, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."}, {"pk": 2724344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And when He completed all His words in the hearing of the people, He went into Kephar Nah\u0323um."}, {"pk": 2724345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And a certain captain\u2019s servant, who was valuable to him, was sick and about to die."}, {"pk": 2724346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "And hearing about \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, he sent elders of the Yehud\u0331im to Him, asking Him to come and heal his servant."}, {"pk": 2724347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And when they came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, they begged Him earnestly, saying, \u201cHe is worthy for You to grant this to him,"}, {"pk": 2724348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "for he loves our nation, and has built the congregation for us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went with them. However, He was not far from the house when the captain sent friends to Him, saying to Him, \u201cMaster, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should come under my roof."}, {"pk": 2724350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cFor this reason I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say a word, and my servant shall be healed."}, {"pk": 2724351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cFor I too am a man appointed under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to one, \u2018Go,\u2019 and he goes, and to another, \u2018Come,\u2019 and he comes, and to my servant, \u2018Do this,\u2019 and he does it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 heard this, He marvelled at him, and turned around and said to the crowd that followed Him, \u201cI say to you, not even in Yisra\u2019\u0115l have I found such great belief!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And those who were sent, returning to the house, found the servant who had been sick in good health."}, {"pk": 2724354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be the next day, that He went into a city called Na\u201bim. And many of His taught ones went with Him, and a large crowd."}, {"pk": 2724355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And see, as He came near the gate of the city a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her."}, {"pk": 2724356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And when the Master saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, \u201cDo not weep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And coming near He touched the bier, and those bearing it stood still. And He said, \u201cYoung man, I say to you, arise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And he who was dead sat up and began to speak, and He gave him to his mother."}, {"pk": 2724359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "And fear seized all, and they praised Elohim, saying, \u201cA great prophet has been raised up among us,\u201d and, \u201cElohim has visited His people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And this news about Him went out in all Yehud\u0331ah and all the neighbourhood."}, {"pk": 2724361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "And the taught ones of Yoh\u0323anan reported to him about all this."}, {"pk": 2724362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan, calling two of his taught ones near, sent to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, saying, \u201cAre You the Coming One, or should we look for another?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And coming to Him, the men said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan the Immerser has sent us to You, saying, \u2018Are You the Coming One, or should we look for another?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "And in the same hour He healed many of diseases, and afflictions, and wicked spirits. And He gave sight to many blind ones."}, {"pk": 2724365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cGo, report to Yoh\u0323anan what you have seen and heard: <i>blind receive sight, lame do walk,</i> lepers are cleansed, <i>deaf do hear,</i> dead are raised, <i>the Good News is brought to the poor.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/35/5'>35:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/35/6'>6</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/61/1'>61:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And blessed is he who shall not stumble in Me."}, {"pk": 2724367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "And when the messengers of Yoh\u0323anan had left, He began to speak to the crowds concerning Yoh\u0323anan, \u201cWhat did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?"}, {"pk": 2724368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft garments? Look, those who are splendidly dressed and living in luxury are in the houses of sovereigns."}, {"pk": 2724369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet."}, {"pk": 2724370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cThis is he concerning whom it has been written, <i>\u2018See, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/1'>3:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cFor I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser, but he who is least in the reign of Elohim is greater than he.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "And all the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard, declared Elohim righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2724373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "But the Pharisees and those learned in the Torah rejected the counsel of Elohim for themselves, not having been immersed by him."}, {"pk": 2724374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "And the Master said, \u201cTo what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?"}, {"pk": 2724375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThey are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to each other, saying, \u2018We played the flute for you and you did not dance, we lamented for you and you did not weep.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "For Yoh\u0323anan the Immerser came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, \u2018He has a demon.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am has come eating and drinking, and you say, \u2018Look, a man, a glutton and a winedrinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd wisdom is declared right by all her children.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "And one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went into the Pharisee\u2019s house, and sat down to eat."}, {"pk": 2724380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "And see, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 sat at the table in the Pharisee\u2019s house, brought an alabaster flask of perfume."}, {"pk": 2724381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "And standing behind, at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiping them with the hair of her head, and was kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume."}, {"pk": 2724382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "And when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, \u201cThis One, if He were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to him, \u201cShim\u201bon, I have somewhat to say to you.\u201d And he said, \u201cTeacher, say it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "A certain creditor had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.", "comment": "Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2724385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "And when they were unable to repay, he forgave them both. Which of them, then, shall love him more?"}, {"pk": 2724386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "And Shim\u201bon answering, said, \u201cI suppose the one whom he forgave more.\u201d And He said to him, \u201cYou have rightly judged.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "And turning to the woman He said to Shim\u201bon, \u201cDo you see this woman? I came into your house \u2014 you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wetted My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head."}, {"pk": 2724388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cYou gave Me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in."}, {"pk": 2724389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cYou did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume."}, {"pk": 2724390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "Therefore I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little."}, {"pk": 2724391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "And He said to her, \u201cYour sins have been forgiven.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "And those who were sitting at the table with Him began to say among themselves, \u201cWho is this who even forgives sins?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "And He said to the woman, \u201cYour belief has saved you. Go in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, afterward, that He went through every city and village, proclaiming and bringing the Good News of the reign of Elohim, and the twelve were with Him,"}, {"pk": 2724395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "and certain women who were healed of wicked spirits and sicknesses: Miryam, called \u2018from Ma\u1e21dala,\u2019 out of whom had come seven demons,"}, {"pk": 2724396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "and Yoh\u0323anah the wife of Kuza, manager of Herodes, and Shoshannah, and many others who provided for Him from their resources."}, {"pk": 2724397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And when a large crowd had gathered, and those who were coming to Him from every city, He spoke by a parable:"}, {"pk": 2724398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cA sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some indeed fell by the wayside. And it was trodden down, and the birds of the heaven devoured it."}, {"pk": 2724399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd other fell on rock, and when it grew up, it withered because it had no moisture."}, {"pk": 2724400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd other fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it."}, {"pk": 2724401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd other fell on the good soil, and grew up, and yielded a crop a hundredfold.\u201d Having said this He cried, \u201cHe who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And His taught ones were asking Him, saying, \u201cWhat does this parable mean?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said, \u201cTo you it has been given to know the secrets of the reign of Elohim, but to the rest in parables, that <i>\u2018Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not understand.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/9'>6:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2724404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the parable: The seed is the word of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/1'>13</a> and Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/4/1'>4</a>"}, {"pk": 2724405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd those by the wayside are the ones who hear, then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, lest having believed, they should be saved."}, {"pk": 2724406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd those on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy. And these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of trial fall away."}, {"pk": 2724407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd that which fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with worries, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection."}, {"pk": 2724408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd that on the good soil are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, retain it, and bear fruit with endurance."}, {"pk": 2724409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd no one having lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those coming in see the light."}, {"pk": 2724410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor whatever is hidden shall be revealed, and whatever is secret shall be known and come to light."}, {"pk": 2724411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cTherefore take heed how you hear. For whoever possesses, to him <i>more</i> shall be given; and whoever does not possess, even what he thinks he possesses shall be taken from him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "And His mother and brothers came to Him, and were unable to get to Him because of the crowd."}, {"pk": 2724413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "And it was reported to Him, saying, \u201cYour mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cMy mother and My brothers are those who are hearing the Word of Elohim and doing it.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/12/50'>12:50</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/3/35'>3:35</a>"}, {"pk": 2724415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And on a certain day it came to be, that He entered into a boat with His taught ones, and He said to them, \u201cLet us go over to the other side of the lake.\u201d And they set out."}, {"pk": 2724416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And as they were sailing He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling up, and were in danger."}, {"pk": 2724417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "And they came to Him and woke Him up, saying, \u201cMaster, Master, we are perishing!\u201d And He awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there came a calm."}, {"pk": 2724418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhere is your belief?\u201d And they were afraid, and marvelled, saying to one another, \u201cWho then is this, that He even commands the winds and water, and they obey Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And they sailed to the country of the Gad\u0331arenes, which is opposite Galil."}, {"pk": 2724420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And as He went out onto the land, He was met by a certain man, from the city, who had demons for a long time. And he wore no garments, and he was not living in a house but in the tombs."}, {"pk": 2724421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And when he saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, \u201cWhat have I to do with You, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Son of the Most High Elohim? I beg You, do not torture me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times, and he was bound with chains and shackles, being guarded. And breaking the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the lonely places."}, {"pk": 2724423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 asked him, saying, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cLegion,\u201d because many demons had entered into him."}, {"pk": 2724424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And they were begging Him that He would not command them to go out into the bottomless pit."}, {"pk": 2724425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And a herd of many pigs was feeding there on the mountain. And they begged Him to allow them to go into them. And He allowed them."}, {"pk": 2724426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "And the demons, having gone out of the man, entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep place into the lake and drowned."}, {"pk": 2724427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And when those feeding them saw what had taken place, they fled and reported it in the city and in the country."}, {"pk": 2724428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "So they came out to see what had taken place, and came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at the feet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, dressed, and in his right mind. And they were afraid."}, {"pk": 2724429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "And those who had seen it reported to them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed."}, {"pk": 2724430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "And all the crowd of the neighbourhood of the Gad\u0331arenes asked Him to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. And He entered into the boat and returned."}, {"pk": 2724431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "And the man from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him to be with Him. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 sent him away, saying,"}, {"pk": 2724432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "Go back to your house, and relate what Elohim has done for you. And he went away proclaiming through all the city what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did for him."}, {"pk": 2724433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "text": "And it came to be, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 returned, that the crowd gladly received Him, for they were all looking for Him."}, {"pk": 2724434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 41, "text": "And see, there came a man whose name was Ya\u2019ir, and he was a ruler of the congregation. And falling down at the feet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 he was calling upon Him to come to his house,"}, {"pk": 2724435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 42, "text": "because he had an only daughter about twelve years of age, and she was dying. And as He went, the crowds thronged upon Him."}, {"pk": 2724436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 43, "text": "And a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who, having spent all her livelihood on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,"}, {"pk": 2724437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 44, "text": "came from behind and touched the tzitzit of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped."}, {"pk": 2724438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 45, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cWho touched Me?\u201d And when all denied it, K\u0115pha and those with him said, \u201cMaster, the crowds throng You and press upon You, and You say, \u2018Who touched Me?\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 46, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cSomebody did touch Me, for I knew power went out from Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 47, "text": "And the woman, seeing that she was not hidden, came trembling, and falling down before Him she declared to Him in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately."}, {"pk": 2724441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 48, "text": "And He said to her, \u201cTake courage, daughter, your belief has healed you. Go in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 49, "text": "While He was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the congregation\u2019s <i>house</i>, saying to him, \u201cYour daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Teacher any further.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 50, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, having heard, answered him, saying, \u201cDo not be afraid, only believe, and she shall be healed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 51, "text": "And coming into the house, He allowed no one to go in except K\u0115pha, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Yoh\u0323anan, and the girl\u2019s father and mother."}, {"pk": 2724445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 52, "text": "And they were all weeping and mourning for her, and He said, \u201cDo not weep, she is not dead, but sleeps.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 53, "text": "And they were laughing at Him, knowing that she was dead."}, {"pk": 2724447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 54, "text": "But taking her by the hand He called, saying, \u201cChild, arise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 55, "text": "And her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. And He directed that she be given <i>food</i> to eat."}, {"pk": 2724449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 8, "verse": 56, "text": "And her parents were astonished, but He ordered them to say to no one what had taken place."}, {"pk": 2724450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And having called His twelve taught ones together, He gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases."}, {"pk": 2724451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And He sent them to proclaim the reign of Elohim and to heal the sick."}, {"pk": 2724452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTake no <i>matter</i> at all for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor silver \u2014 neither have two undergarments."}, {"pk": 2724453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever house you enter, stay there, and go out from there."}, {"pk": 2724454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd as for those who do not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the dust from your feet as a witness against them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And going out they went through the villages, bringing the Good News and healing everywhere."}, {"pk": 2724456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And Herodes the district ruler heard of all that was done by Him, and was perplexed, because it was said by some that Yoh\u0323anan had been raised from the dead,"}, {"pk": 2724457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "and by some that \u011aliyahu had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets has risen up."}, {"pk": 2724458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And Herodes said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such <i>reports</i>?\u201d And he was seeking to see Him."}, {"pk": 2724459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And the emissaries, when they had returned, related to Him all that they had done. And He took them and they withdrew by themselves to a city called B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a."}, {"pk": 2724460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And when the crowds knew it, they followed Him. And having received them, He was speaking to them about the reign of Elohim, and healed those who had need of healing."}, {"pk": 2724461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And as the day began to decline, the twelve came and said to Him, \u201cSend the crowd away, that going into the surrounding villages and country, they might lodge and get food, because here we are in a lonely place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "But He said to them, \u201cYou give them to eat.\u201d And they said, \u201cWe have no more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we go and buy food for all these people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "For there were about five thousand men. And He said to His taught ones, \u201cMake them sit down in groups of fifty.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And they did so, and made them all sit down."}, {"pk": 2724465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the taught ones to set before the crowd."}, {"pk": 2724466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "So they all ate and were satisfied, and twelve baskets of the broken pieces were picked up by them."}, {"pk": 2724467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And it came to be, as He was alone praying, the taught ones were with Him, and He asked them, saying, \u201cWho do the crowds say that I am?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And they answering, said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan the Immerser, but others \u011aliyahu, and others say that one of the old prophets has risen up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cAnd you, who do you say I am?\u201d And K\u0115pha answering, said, \u201cThe Messiah of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And strictly warning them, He commanded them to say this to no one,"}, {"pk": 2724471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "saying, \u201cThe Son of Ad\u0331am has to suffer much, and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised the third day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And He said to them all, \u201cIf anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his stake daily, and follow Me."}, {"pk": 2724473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake shall save it."}, {"pk": 2724474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and is himself destroyed or lost?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cFor whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be ashamed when He comes in His esteem, and in His Father\u2019s, and of the set-apart messengers."}, {"pk": 2724476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut truly I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death at all till they see the reign of Elohim:\""}, {"pk": 2724477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And it came to be, about eight days after these words, taking with Him K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, He went up to the mountain to pray."}, {"pk": 2724478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, as He prayed, the appearance of His face changed, and His garment dazzling white."}, {"pk": 2724479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And see, two men were talking with Him, who were Mosheh and \u011aliyahu,", "comment": "See Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/9/4'>9:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2724480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "who having appeared in esteem, spoke of His death which He was about to complete at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "But K\u0115pha and those with him were heavy with sleep. And having awakened, they saw His esteem and the two men standing with Him."}, {"pk": 2724482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And it came to be, as they were parting from Him, K\u0115pha said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cMaster, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three booths: one for You, and one for Mosheh, and one for \u011aliyahu,\u201d not knowing what he said."}, {"pk": 2724483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And as he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And they were afraid as they entered the cloud."}, {"pk": 2724484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, \u201cThis is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And when the voice had spoken, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was found alone. And they were silent, and reported to no one in those days any of what they had seen."}, {"pk": 2724486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "And it came to be on the next day, when they came down from the mountain, that a large crowd met Him."}, {"pk": 2724487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And see, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, \u201cTeacher, I beg You, look at my son, for he is my only child."}, {"pk": 2724488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd see, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him, with foaming, and scarcely leaves him, bruising him."}, {"pk": 2724489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cAnd I begged Your taught ones to cast it out, but they were unable.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said, \u201cO generation, unbelieving and perverse, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "text": "And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down in convulsions. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and gave him back to his father."}, {"pk": 2724492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "text": "And they were all amazed at the greatness of Elohim. And while all were marvelling at all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did, He said to His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2724493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 44, "text": "Lay up in your ears these words, for the Son of Ad\u0331am is about to be delivered into the hands of men."}, {"pk": 2724494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 45, "text": "But they did not understand this saying, and it was veiled from them so that they did not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask Him about this saying."}, {"pk": 2724495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 46, "text": "And a reasoning arose among them, who might be the greater of them."}, {"pk": 2724496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 47, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, having seen the reasoning of their heart, took a little child and placed him by His side,"}, {"pk": 2724497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 48, "text": "and said to them, \u201cWhoever receives this little child in My Name receives Me. And whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. For he who is least among you all, he shall be great.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 49, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan answering, said, \u201cMaster, we saw someone casting out demons in Your Name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 50, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cDo not forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 51, "text": "And it came to be, when the days of His taking up were being completed, even He set His face to go to Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2724501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 52, "text": "and He sent messengers ahead of Him. And they went and entered into a village of the Shomeronim, to prepare for Him."}, {"pk": 2724502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 53, "text": "And they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 54, "text": "And His taught ones, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan, seeing it said, \u201cMaster, do You wish us to command fire to come down from the heaven and destroy them, as also \u011aliyahu", "comment": "See 2Kings <a href='/TS2009/12/1/9-16'>1:9-16</a>"}, {"pk": 2724504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 55, "text": "But having turned, He rebuked them and said, \u201cYou do not know of what spirit you are,"}, {"pk": 2724505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 56, "text": "for the Son of Ad\u0331am did not come to destroy men\u2019s lives but to save them.\u201d And they went on to another village."}, {"pk": 2724506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 57, "text": "And it came to be, as they journeyed on the way, that someone said to Him, \u201cMaster, I shall follow You wherever You go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 58, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cThe foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven nests, but the Son of Ad\u0331am has nowhere to lay His head.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 59, "text": "And He said to another, \u201cFollow Me,\u201d but he said, \u201cMaster, let me first go and bury my father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 60, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cLet the dead bury their own dead, but you go and announce the reign of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 61, "text": "And another also said, \u201cMaster, I shall follow You, but let me first say good-bye to those in my house.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 9, "verse": 62, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cNo one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of Elohim.\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/14/26'>14:26</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/14/33'>14:33</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/24-26'>12:24-26</a>"}, {"pk": 2724512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this the Master appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of Him into every city and place where He Himself was about to go."}, {"pk": 2724513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Then He said to them, \u201cThe harvest indeed is great, but the workers are few, therefore pray the Master of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest."}, {"pk": 2724514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cGo! See, I send you out as lambs into the midst of wolves."}, {"pk": 2724515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cDo not take a purse, nor a bag, nor sandals. And greet no one along the way."}, {"pk": 2724516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever house you enter, first say, \u2018Peace to this house.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd if indeed a son of peace is there, your peace shall rest on it; and if not, it shall return to you."}, {"pk": 2724518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd stay in the same house, eating and drinking whatever with them, for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house."}, {"pk": 2724519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat whatever is placed before you,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "and heal the sick there, and say to them, \u2018The reign of Elohim has come near to you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,"}, {"pk": 2724522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you, but know this, that the reign of Elohim has come near to you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you that it shall be more bearable for Sed\u0331om in that Day, than for that city."}, {"pk": 2724524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a! For if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes."}, {"pk": 2724525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut it shall be more bearable for Tsor and Tsid\u0331on at the judgment than for you."}, {"pk": 2724526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And you, Kephar Nah\u0323um, who are <i>exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to She\u2019ol.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/13'>14:13</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/15'>14:15</a><br>See Explanatory Notes \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2724527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2724528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And the seventy returned with joy, saying, \u201cMaster, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cI saw Satan falling out of the heaven as lightning."}, {"pk": 2724530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cSee, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and none at all shall hurt you."}, {"pk": 2724531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names have been written in the heavens.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "In that hour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 exulted in the Spirit and said, \u201cI praise You, Father, Master of the heaven and of the earth, that You have hidden these <i>matters</i> from clever and learned ones, and did reveal them to babes. Yes, Father, because thus it was well-pleasing in Your sight."}, {"pk": 2724533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "All has been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son wishes to reveal <i>Him</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And turning to His taught ones He said, separately, \u201cBlessed are the eyes that see what you see,"}, {"pk": 2724535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "for I say to you that many prophets and sovereigns have wished to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And see, a certain one learned in the Torah stood up, trying Him, and saying, \u201cTeacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cWhat has been written in the Torah? How do you read it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And he answering, said, <i>\" \u2018You shall love \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your strength, and with all your mind,\u2019</i> and <i>\u2018your neighbour as yourself.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/5'>6:5</a><br>Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2724539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cYou have answered rightly. <i>Do this and you shall live.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/5'>18:5</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/17'>19:17</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/50'>12:50</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2724540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "But he, wishing to declare himself righteous, said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cAnd who is my neighbour?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And replying, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cA certain man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yerih\u0323o, and fell among robbers, who, both stripping and beating him, went away, leaving him half dead."}, {"pk": 2724542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd by a coincidence a certain priest was going down that way. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side."}, {"pk": 2724543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd likewise a L\u0115wite also, when he came to the place, and seeing, passed by on the other side."}, {"pk": 2724544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "But a certain Shomeroni, journeying, came upon him. And when he saw him, he had compassion on him,", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/17/18'>17:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2724545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "and he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And having placed him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and looked after him."}, {"pk": 2724546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd going out on the next day, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, \u2018Look after him, and whatever more you spend I shall repay you when I return.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cWho, then, of these three, do you think, was neighbour to him who fell among the robbers?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "And he said, \u201cHe who showed compassion on him.\u201d Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cGo and do likewise.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "And it came to be as they went that He entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house."}, {"pk": 2724550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "And she had a sister called Miryam, who also sat at the feet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and heard His word."}, {"pk": 2724551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "But Martha was distracted with much serving, and coming up she said, \u201cMaster, are You not concerned that my sister has left me to serve alone? Speak to her then, to help me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to her, \u201cMartha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many <i>matters</i>,"}, {"pk": 2724553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "but one only is necessary, and Miryam has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be while He was praying in a certain place, as He ceased, one of His taught ones said to Him, \u201cMaster, teach us to pray, as Yoh\u0323anan also taught his taught ones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhen you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven."}, {"pk": 2724556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cGive us day by day our daily bread."}, {"pk": 2724557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhich of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, \u2018Friend, lend me three loaves,"}, {"pk": 2724559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have <i>food</i> to set before him,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "then the one inside answering, says, \u2018Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2724561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence."}, {"pk": 2724562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you."}, {"pk": 2724563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cFor everyone asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened."}, {"pk": 2724564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish,"}, {"pk": 2724565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion?"}, {"pk": 2724566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!"}, {"pk": 2724567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to be, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb spoke. And the crowds marvelled."}, {"pk": 2724568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "But some of them said, \u201cHe casts out demons by Be\u201belzebul, the ruler of the demons,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "and others, trying <i>Him</i>, were seeking from Him a sign from heaven."}, {"pk": 2724570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, \u201cEvery reign divided against itself is laid waste, and a house <i>divided</i> against a house falls."}, {"pk": 2724571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cSo if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his reign stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Be\u201belzebul."}, {"pk": 2724572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cNow if I cast out demons by Be\u201belzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges."}, {"pk": 2724573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut if I cast out demons by the finger of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/31/18'>31:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2724574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cWhen a strong man, having been well armed, watches over his own court, his possessions are in peace."}, {"pk": 2724575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armour in which he trusted, and divides his booty."}, {"pk": 2724576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cHe who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters."}, {"pk": 2724577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest. And finding none, he says, \u2018I shall return to my house from which I came.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd when he comes, he finds it swept and decorated,"}, {"pk": 2724579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cthen he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last <i>state</i> of that man becomes worse than the first.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And it came to be, as He was saying this, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, \u201cBlessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You sucked!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "But He said, \u201cBlessed rather are those hearing the Word of Elohim and watching over it!\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/21'>8:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2724582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "And while the crowds were thronging, He began to say, \u201cThis generation is wicked. It seeks a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Yonah the prophet."}, {"pk": 2724583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor as Yonah became a sign to the Ninewites, so also the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be to this generation."}, {"pk": 2724584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cThe sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here."}, {"pk": 2724585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThe men of Ninew\u0115h shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here."}, {"pk": 2724586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd no one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in shall see the light."}, {"pk": 2724587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, all your body also is enlightened. But when your eye is evil, your body also is darkened.", "comment": "This is Hebrew idiom \u2013 <em>a good eye</em> means to be generous, while <em>an evil eye</em> means to be stingy. Also see Prov. <a href='/TS2009/20/22/9'>22:9</a>; Prov. <a href='/TS2009/20/23/6'>23:6</a> and Prov. <a href='/TS2009/20/28/22'>28:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2724588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cSee to it therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness."}, {"pk": 2724589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cIf then all your body is enlightened, having no part dark, all shall be enlightened, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him, so He went in and sat down to eat."}, {"pk": 2724591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that He did not first wash before dinner."}, {"pk": 2724592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "And the Master said to him, \u201cNow you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is filled with greed and wickedness."}, {"pk": 2724593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cMindless ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?"}, {"pk": 2724594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cBut give in kindness of that which is within, and see, all are clean to you."}, {"pk": 2724595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cBut woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe the mint and the rue and every plant, and pass by the right-ruling and the love of Elohim. These you should have done, without leaving the others undone."}, {"pk": 2724596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cWoe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the congregations and the greetings in the market-places."}, {"pk": 2724597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "text": "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like the unseen tombs, and the men walking over them do not know."}, {"pk": 2724598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "text": "And one of those learned in the Torah, answering, said to Him, \u201cTeacher, when You say this You insult us too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "text": "And He said, \u201cWoe to you also, you learned in the Torah, because you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers."}, {"pk": 2724600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cWoe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them."}, {"pk": 2724601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cSo you bear witness that you approve of the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs."}, {"pk": 2724602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cAnd because of this the wisdom of Elohim said, \u2018I shall send them prophets and emissaries, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 50, "text": "so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world shall be required of this generation,"}, {"pk": 2724604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 51, "text": "from the blood of Heb\u0331el to the blood of Zek\u0331aryah who perished between the slaughter-place and the Dwelling Place. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation."}, {"pk": 2724605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cWoe to you learned in the Torah, because you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 53, "text": "And as He was saying this to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely, and to draw Him out on many subjects,"}, {"pk": 2724607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 11, "verse": 54, "text": "watching Him, and seeking to catch Him in whatever He says, so as to accuse Him."}, {"pk": 2724608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Meanwhile, when an innumerable crowd of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His taught ones, first, \u201cBeware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."}, {"pk": 2724609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever is concealed shall be revealed, and whatever is hidden shall be known."}, {"pk": 2724610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cSo, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms shall be proclaimed on the house-tops."}, {"pk": 2724611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that are unable to do any more."}, {"pk": 2724612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "But I shall show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after killing, possesses authority to cast into G\u0115Hinnom. Yes, I say to you, fear Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAre not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut even the hairs of your head have all been numbered. Do not fear, you are worth more than many sparrows."}, {"pk": 2724615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I say to you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Ad\u0331am shall also confess him before the messengers of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cBut he that has denied Me before men shall be denied before the messengers of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd everyone who shall speak a word against the Son of Ad\u0331am, it shall be forgiven him, but to him who has blasphemed against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven."}, {"pk": 2724618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And when they bring you to the congregations and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "for the Set-apart Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what you should say.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And someone from the crowd said to Him, \u201cTeacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "But He said to him, \u201cMan, who made Me a judge or divider over you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cMind, and beware of greed, because one\u2019s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "He then spoke a parable to them, saying, \u201cThe land of a certain rich man yielded well."}, {"pk": 2724624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd he was reasoning within himself, saying, \u2018What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "And he said, \u2018I am going to do this: pull down my storehouses and build greater, and store all my crops and my goods there,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "then say to myself, \u201cLife, you have many goods laid up for many years, take your ease, eat, drink, rejoice.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2724627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut Elohim said to him, \u2018You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cSo is he who is storing up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "And He said to His taught ones, \u201cFor this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat; nor about the body, what you shall put on."}, {"pk": 2724630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cThe life is more than the food, and the body is more than the clothing."}, {"pk": 2724631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "Look at the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor granary, and Elohim feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his life\u2019s span?"}, {"pk": 2724633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "If then you are unable to do the least, why do you worry about the rest?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cLook at the lilies, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin, and I say to you, even Shelomoh in all his esteem was not dressed like one of these."}, {"pk": 2724635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "And if Elohim so clothes the grass, which today exists in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd do not seek what you shall eat or what you shall drink, and do not keep worrying."}, {"pk": 2724637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cFor the nations of the world seek all these, and your Father knows that you need these."}, {"pk": 2724638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cBut seek the reign of Elohim, and all these shall be added to you."}, {"pk": 2724639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cDo not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign."}, {"pk": 2724640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cSell your possessions and give in kindness. Make yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief does come near nor moth destroys."}, {"pk": 2724641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFor where your treasure is, there your heart shall be also."}, {"pk": 2724642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cLet your loins be girded and your lamps burning,"}, {"pk": 2724643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "and be like men waiting for their master, when he shall return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they open to him immediately."}, {"pk": 2724644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cBlessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, shall find watching. Truly, I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them sit down to eat, and shall come and serve them."}, {"pk": 2724645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd if he comes in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants."}, {"pk": 2724646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief comes, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into."}, {"pk": 2724647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "And you, then, be ready, for the Son of Ad\u0331am is coming at an hour you do not expect."}, {"pk": 2724648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "And K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cMaster, do You speak this parable to us, or also to all?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "And the Master said, \u201cWho then is the trustworthy and wise manager, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?"}, {"pk": 2724650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBlessed is that servant whom his master shall find so doing when he comes."}, {"pk": 2724651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you that he shall appoint him over all his possessions."}, {"pk": 2724652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cBut if that servant says in his heart, \u2018My master is delaying his coming,\u2019 and begins to beat the male servants and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,"}, {"pk": 2724653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "text": "the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers."}, {"pk": 2724654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd that servant who knew his master\u2019s desire, and did not prepare, nor did according to his desire, shall be beaten with many <i>stripes</i>."}, {"pk": 2724655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cBut he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be asked."}, {"pk": 2724656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 49, "text": "I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cBut I have an immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!"}, {"pk": 2724658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cDo you think that I came to give peace on earth? I say to you, no, but rather division."}, {"pk": 2724659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cFor from now on five in one house shall be divided, three against two, and two against three \u2014"}, {"pk": 2724660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 53, "text": "father shall be divided against son, and <i>son against father</i>, mother against daughter, and <i>daughter against mother</i>, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and<i>daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.</i>", "comment": "Micah <a href='/TS2009/33/7/6'>7:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 54, "text": "And He also said to the crowds, \u201cWhen you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, \u2018A storm is coming,\u2019 and so it is."}, {"pk": 2724662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cAnd when you see the south wind blow, you say, \u2018There shall be hot weather,\u2019 and it is."}, {"pk": 2724663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 56, "text": "Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 57, "text": "\u201cAnd why, also, do you not judge for yourselves what is right?"}, {"pk": 2724665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 58, "text": "\u201cFor, as you go with your opponent to a ruler, try hard along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison."}, {"pk": 2724666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 12, "verse": 59, "text": "I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite."}, {"pk": 2724667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And some were present at that time, reporting to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their offerings."}, {"pk": 2724668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cDo you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all <i>other</i> Galileans, because they have suffered like this?"}, {"pk": 2724669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way."}, {"pk": 2724670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Shiloah\u0323 fell and killed them, do you think that they were greater offenders than all other men who dwelt in Yerushalayim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "I say to you, no! But unless you repent you shall all perish in the same way."}, {"pk": 2724672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And He spoke this parable, \u201cA certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none."}, {"pk": 2724673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd he said to the gardener, \u2018Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down, why does it even make the ground useless?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd he answering, said to him, \u2018Master, leave it this year too, until I dig around it and throw manure."}, {"pk": 2724675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "And if indeed it bears fruit, <i>good</i>. But if not so, you shall cut it down.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "And He was teaching in one of the congregations on the Sabbath,"}, {"pk": 2724677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "and see, there was a woman having a weakening spirit for eighteen years, and was bent over and was unable to straighten up at all."}, {"pk": 2724678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, seeing her, called her near and said to her, \u201cWoman, you are loosened from your weakness.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was straightened up, and praised Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "But the ruler of the congregation, responding, much displeased that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, \u201cThere are six days on which men should work, so come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Then the Master answered him and said, \u201cHypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?"}, {"pk": 2724682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And this one, being a daughter of Ab\u0331raham, whom Satan has bound, look, for eighteen years, should she not be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath?"}, {"pk": 2724683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "And when He said this, all His opponents were put to shame. And all the crowd rejoiced for all the splendid works being done by Him."}, {"pk": 2724684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Therefore He said, \u201cWhat is the reign of Elohim like? And to what shall I compare it?"}, {"pk": 2724685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his garden. And it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the heavens nested in its branches."}, {"pk": 2724686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And again He said, \u201cTo what shall I compare the reign of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2724687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened."}, {"pk": 2724688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And He was going through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2724689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "and someone said to Him, \u201cMaster, are there few who are being saved?\u201d And He said to them,"}, {"pk": 2724690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cStrive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in and shall not be able."}, {"pk": 2724691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, \u2018Master, Master, open for us,\u2019 and He shall answer and say to you, \u2018I do not know you, where you are from,\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "then you shall begin to say, \u2018We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut He shall say, \u2018I say to you I do not know you, where you are from. <i>Depart from Me, all you workers of unrighteousness.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/6/8'>6:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2724694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Ab\u0331raham and Yitsh\u0323aq and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and all the prophets in the reign of Elohim, and yourselves thrown outside.", "comment": "See Mat. 16:28-Mat. <a href='/TS2009/42/17/3'>17:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2724695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and sit down in the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd see, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "On the same day there came certain Pharisees, saying to Him, \u201cGet out and go from here, for Herodes wishes to kill You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cGo, say to that fox, \u2018See, I cast out demons and perform healings today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cBut I have to journey today, and tomorrow, and the day following, because it is not fitting for a prophet to perish outside of Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen <i>gathers</i> her chickens under her wings, but you would not!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "See, your House is left to you laid waste. And truly I say to you, you shall by no means see Me until <i>the time</i> comes when you say, <i>\u2018Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/23/39'>23:39</a>"}, {"pk": 2724702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely."}, {"pk": 2724703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, there was a certain man before Him suffering from dropsy."}, {"pk": 2724704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responding, spoke to those learned in the Torah and the Pharisees, saying, \u201cIs it right to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "But they were silent. So taking hold of him He healed him, and let him go."}, {"pk": 2724706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And to them He said, \u201cWhich of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, shall not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And they were unable to answer Him regarding these <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2724708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:"}, {"pk": 2724709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cWhen you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more distinguished than you be invited by him,"}, {"pk": 2724710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "and he who invited you and him come and say to you, \u2018Give this one place,\u2019 and then you begin with shame to take the last place."}, {"pk": 2724711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cRather, when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, so that when he who invited you comes he shall say to you, \u2018Friend, come up higher.\u2019 Then you shall have esteem in the presence of those who sit at the table with you."}, {"pk": 2724712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."}, {"pk": 2724713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And He also said to him who invited Him, \u201cWhen you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbours, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid."}, {"pk": 2724714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut when you give a feast, invite poor ones, crippled ones, lame ones, blind ones,"}, {"pk": 2724715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cand you shall be blessed, because they do not have to repay you. For you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."}, {"pk": 2724716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard this, he said to Him, \u201cBlessed is he who eats bread in the reign of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "But He said to him, \u201cA certain man gave a great supper and invited many,"}, {"pk": 2724718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "and he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, \u2018Come, for all is now ready.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut one by one they all began making excuses. The first said to him, \u2018I have bought a field, and I need to go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And another said, \u2018I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you to have me excused.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd another said, \u2018I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And that servant came and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house, being wroth, said to his servant, \u2018Hurry out into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and crippled, and lame, and blind.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the servant said, \u2018Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd the master said to the servant, \u2018Go out into the street corners and hedges, and compel them to come in, so that my house is filled."}, {"pk": 2724725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And large crowds were going with Him, and turning, He said to them,"}, {"pk": 2724727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and his own life too, he is unable to be My taught one.", "comment": "To <em>love less</em>"}, {"pk": 2724728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd whoever does not bear his stake and come after Me is unable to be My taught one."}, {"pk": 2724729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has <i>enough</i> to complete it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cOtherwise, when he has laid the foundation, and is unable to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him,"}, {"pk": 2724731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "saying, \u2018This man began to build and was unable to finish.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "Or what sovereign, going to fight against another sovereign, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd if not, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace."}, {"pk": 2724734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "So, then, every one of you who does not give up all that he has, is unable to be My taught one.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/9/62'>9:62</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/24-26'>12:24-26</a>; Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/3/7'>3:7</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/26'>11:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2724735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cThe salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?"}, {"pk": 2724736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cIt is not fit for land, nor for manure; they throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming to Him to hear Him."}, {"pk": 2724738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And the Pharisees and scribes grumbled, saying, \u201cThis One receives sinners and eats with them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And He spoke this parable to them, saying,"}, {"pk": 2724740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWhat man among you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?"}, {"pk": 2724741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd having found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2724742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd having come home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, \u2018Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cI say to you that in the same way there shall be more joy in the heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous ones who need no repentance."}, {"pk": 2724744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cOr what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she finds it?"}, {"pk": 2724745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "And having found it, she calls friends and neighbours together, saying, \u2018Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost!\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting."}, {"pk": 2724747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And He said, \u201cA certain man had two sons,"}, {"pk": 2724748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "and the younger of them said to his father, \u2018Father, give me the portion of goods falling <i>to me</i>.\u2019 And he divided his livelihood between them."}, {"pk": 2724749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And not many days after, the younger son, having gathered all together, went away to a distant country, and there wasted his goods with loose living.", "comment": "Or <em>unbridled</em>"}, {"pk": 2724750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd when he had spent all, there arose a severe scarcity of food throughout that land, and he began to be in need."}, {"pk": 2724751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed pigs."}, {"pk": 2724752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him."}, {"pk": 2724753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "But having come to himself, he said, \u2018How many of my father\u2019s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "Having risen, I shall go to my father and say to him, \u201cFather, I have sinned against the heaven, and before you,"}, {"pk": 2724755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2724756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd having risen, he went to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him."}, {"pk": 2724757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "And the son said to him, \u2018Father, I have sinned against the heaven, and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut the father said to his servants, \u2018Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet."}, {"pk": 2724759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And bring the fattened calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and rejoice,"}, {"pk": 2724760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "because this son of mine was dead and is alive again, and he was lost and is found.\u2019 And they began to rejoice."}, {"pk": 2724761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing."}, {"pk": 2724762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd having called one of the servants he asked what this meant."}, {"pk": 2724763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "And he said to him, \u2018Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he received him back in health.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd he was wroth and would not go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him."}, {"pk": 2724765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd answering, he said to his father, \u2018See, these many years I have been serving you, and I have never transgressed a command of yours, but to me you have never given a young goat, so I could rejoice with my friends."}, {"pk": 2724766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with whores, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cThen he said to him, \u2018Son, you are always with me, and all I have is yours."}, {"pk": 2724768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And we had to rejoice and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive, and was lost and is found.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And He also said to His taught ones, \u201cThere was a certain rich man who had a manager and he was accused to him as wasting his possessions."}, {"pk": 2724770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cSo having called him he said to him, \u2018What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you are no longer able to be manager.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd the manager said within himself, \u2018What shall I do? For my master is taking the managership away from me. I am unable to dig, I am ashamed to beg."}, {"pk": 2724772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "I know what I shall do, that, when I am removed from the managership, they might receive me into their houses.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd calling every one of his master\u2019s debtors to him, he said to the first, \u2018How much do you owe my master?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said, \u2018A hundred measures of oil.\u2019 And he said to him, \u2018Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThen to another he said, \u2018And how much do you owe?\u2019 And he said, \u2018A hundred measures of wheat.\u2019 And he said to him, \u2018Take your bill, and write eighty.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light."}, {"pk": 2724777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they shall receive you into everlasting dwellings.", "comment": "Deity of wealth."}, {"pk": 2724778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cHe who is trustworthy in what is least, is trustworthy also in much. And he who is unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much."}, {"pk": 2724779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "If, therefore, you have not been trustworthy in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd if you have not been trustworthy in what is another man\u2019s, who shall give you what is your own?"}, {"pk": 2724781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cNo servant is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cling to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Pharisees, who loved silver, also heard all this, and were sneering at Him,"}, {"pk": 2724783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "so He said to them, \u201cYou are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "The Torah and the prophets are until Yoh\u0323anan. Since then the reign of Elohim is being announced, and everyone is doing violence upon it.", "comment": "See Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/22/26'>22:26</a>; Zeph. <a href='/TS2009/36/3/4'>3:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2724785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Torah to fall.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Law\""}, {"pk": 2724786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And everyone marrying her who is put away from her husband commits adultery.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/32'>5:32</a>"}, {"pk": 2724787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day."}, {"pk": 2724788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And there was a certain beggar named El\u201bazar, being covered with sores, who was placed at his gate,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "and longing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man\u2019s table. Indeed, even the dogs came and licked his sores."}, {"pk": 2724790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be that the beggar died, and was carried by the messengers to the bosom of Ab\u0331raham. And the rich man also died and was buried."}, {"pk": 2724791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd while suffering tortures in She\u2019ol, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Ab\u0331raham far away, and El\u201bazar in his bosom."}, {"pk": 2724792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd crying out he said, \u2018Father Ab\u0331raham, have compassion on me, and send El\u201bazar to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut Ab\u0331raham said, \u2018Son, remember that in your life you received your good, and likewise El\u201bazar the evil, but now he is comforted and you are suffering."}, {"pk": 2724794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who wish to pass from here to you are unable, nor do those from there pass to us.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd he said, \u2018Then I beg you, father, that you would send him to my father\u2019s house,"}, {"pk": 2724796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "for I have five brothers, let him warn them, lest they also come to this place of torture.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "Ab\u0331raham said to him, \u2018They have Mosheh and the prophets, let them hear them.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd he said, \u2018No, father Ab\u0331raham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they shall repent.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cBut he said to him, \u2018If they do not hear Mosheh and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded even if one should rise from the dead.\u2019 \u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/9/33'>9:33</a> and Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/4/4'>4:4</a>, <a href='/TS2009/39/4/5'>5</a>"}, {"pk": 2724800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And He said to the taught ones, \u201cIt is inevitable that stumbling-blocks should come, but woe to him through whom they come!"}, {"pk": 2724801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIt would be better for him if a millstone is put around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble."}, {"pk": 2724802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTake heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."}, {"pk": 2724803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day comes back to you, saying, \u2018I repent,\u2019 you shall forgive him."}, {"pk": 2724804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "And the emissaries said to the Master, \u201cGive us more belief.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Master said, \u201cIf you have belief as a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, \u2018Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,\u2019 and it would obey you."}, {"pk": 2724806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut who of you, having a servant ploughing or shepherding, would say to him when he has come in from the field, \u2018Come immediately and sit down to eat\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2724807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "But would he not rather say to him, \u2018Prepare somewhat for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you shall eat and drink\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cWould he thank that servant because he did what he was commanded? I think not."}, {"pk": 2724809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cSo also you, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, \u2018We are unworthy servants, we have done what was our duty to do.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "And it came to be, as He went to Yerushalayim, that He passed through the midst of Shomeron and Galil."}, {"pk": 2724811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "And as He was entering into a certain village, He was met by ten leprous men, who stood at a distance."}, {"pk": 2724812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And they lifted up their voices, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Master, have compassion on us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And having seen <i>them</i>, He said to them, \u201cGo, show yourselves to the priests.\u201d And it came to be, that as they were going, they were cleansed."}, {"pk": 2724814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, praising Elohim with a loud voice,"}, {"pk": 2724815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "and he fell down upon his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Shomeroni."}, {"pk": 2724816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said, \u201cWere there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?"}, {"pk": 2724817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "Was no one found to return to give praise to Elohim, except this foreigner?\u201d", "comment": "The Greek word referring to this Shomeroni is <em>allogenes</em>, which means \u201cof another race.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cRise, go your way. Your belief has made you well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "And having been asked by the Pharisees when the reign of Elohim would come, He answered them and said, \u201cThe reign of Elohim does not come with intent watching,"}, {"pk": 2724820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "nor shall they say, \u2018Look here!\u2019 or \u2018Look there!\u2019 For look, the reign of Elohim is in your midst!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And He said to the taught ones, \u201cDays shall come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of Ad\u0331am, but you shall not see it."}, {"pk": 2724822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall say to you, \u2018Look here!\u2019 or \u2018Look there!\u2019 Do not go after them, nor follow."}, {"pk": 2724823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFor as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be in His day."}, {"pk": 2724824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut first He has to suffer much and be rejected by this generation."}, {"pk": 2724825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "And as it came to be in the days of Noah\u0323, so also shall it be in the days of the Son of Ad\u0331am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cThey were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah\u0323 went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all."}, {"pk": 2724827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "text": "but on the day Lot went out of Sed\u0331om it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all."}, {"pk": 2724829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIt shall be the same in the day the Son of Ad\u0331am is revealed."}, {"pk": 2724830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cIn that day, he who shall be on the house-top, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back."}, {"pk": 2724831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cRemember the wife of Lot."}, {"pk": 2724832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cWhoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life shall preserve it."}, {"pk": 2724833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cI say to you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left."}, {"pk": 2724834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cTwo women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left."}, {"pk": 2724835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cTwo shall be in the field, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/40'>24:40</a>. Some manuscripts do not contain this verse, <a href='/TS2009/42/17/36'>17:36</a>."}, {"pk": 2724836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 17, "verse": 37, "text": "And they answering, said to Him, \u201cWhere, Master?\u201d And He said to them, \u201cWhere the body is, there also the vultures shall be gathered together.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/28'>24:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2724837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,"}, {"pk": 2724838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "saying, \u201cIn a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man."}, {"pk": 2724839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, \u2018Do right to me on my adversary.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, \u2018Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "And the Master said, \u201cHear what the unrighteous judge said."}, {"pk": 2724843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?"}, {"pk": 2724844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Ad\u0331am comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:"}, {"pk": 2724846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cTwo men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray \u2014 the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector."}, {"pk": 2724847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cThe Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, \u2018Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector."}, {"pk": 2724848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I acquire.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, \u2018Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And they also brought infants to Him to touch them, but His taught ones seeing it, rebuked them."}, {"pk": 2724852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 called them to Him and said, \u201cLet the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it."}, {"pk": 2724854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, \u201cGood Teacher, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cWhy do you call Me good? No one is good except One \u2014 Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "You know the commands, <i>\u2018Do not commit adultery,\u2019 \u2018Do not murder,\u2019 \u2018Do not steal,\u2019 \u2018Do not bear false witness,\u2019 \u2018Respect your father and your mother.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12-16'>20:12-16</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16-20'>5:16-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2724857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And he said, \u201cAll these I have watched over from my youth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And hearing this, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYet one you lack: Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. And come, follow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "But when he heard this, he became intensely sad, for he was extremely rich."}, {"pk": 2724860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw that he became intensely sad, He said, \u201cHow hard it is for those who have money to enter into the reign of Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2724861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "For it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle\u2019s eye than for a rich man to enter into the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And those who heard it said, \u201cAnd who is able to be saved?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And He said, \u201cWhat is impossible with men is possible with Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "And K\u0115pha said, \u201cSee, we have left all and followed You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the reign of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2724866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come everlasting life.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/6/33'>6:33</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/29'>19:29</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/10/29'>10:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2724867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "And taking the twelve aside, He said to them, \u201cSee, we are going up to Yerushalayim, and all that has been written by the prophets about the Son of Ad\u0331am shall be accomplished."}, {"pk": 2724868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFor He shall be delivered up to the nations and shall be mocked and insulted and spat upon,"}, {"pk": 2724869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cand having flogged Him they shall kill Him. And on the third day He shall rise again."}, {"pk": 2724870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "But they understood none of this, and this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was being said."}, {"pk": 2724871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "And it came to be, that as He was coming near Yerih\u0323o, that a certain blind man was sitting by the way begging."}, {"pk": 2724872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "text": "And hearing a crowd passing by, he asked what it meant."}, {"pk": 2724873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "text": "And they reported to him that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth was passing by."}, {"pk": 2724874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "text": "And he cried out, saying, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Son of Dawid\u0331, have compassion on me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "text": "And those going before were rebuking him that he should be silent, but he was crying out much more, \u201cSon of Dawid\u0331, have compassion on me!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stopped and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him,"}, {"pk": 2724877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 41, "text": "saying, \u201cWhat do you wish Me to do for you?\u201d And he said, \u201cMaster, to receive my sight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 42, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cReceive your sight! Your belief has saved you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 18, "verse": 43, "text": "And immediately he received his sight, and was following Him, praising Elohim. And all the people, seeing it, gave praise to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2724880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And having entered, He was passing through Yerih\u0323o."}, {"pk": 2724881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And see, a man called Zakkai! And he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich,"}, {"pk": 2724882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "and he was seeking to see who \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was, but was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature."}, {"pk": 2724883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And having run ahead, he climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, because He was about to pass by."}, {"pk": 2724884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, \u201cZakkai, hurry and come down, for I have to stay at your house today.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And he hurried and came down, and received Him, rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2724886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And seeing it, they all grumbled, saying, \u201cHe has gone in to stay with a man who is a sinner.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "But Zakkai stood up and said to the Master, \u201cLook, Master, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have taken whatever from anyone by false accusation, I repay fourfold.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cToday deliverance has come to this house \u2014 since he also is a son of Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2724889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "For the Son of Ad\u0331am has come to seek and to save what was lost."}, {"pk": 2724890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And as they were hearing this, He spoke another parable, because He was near Yerushalayim and they thought the reign of Elohim was about to be manifested straightaway."}, {"pk": 2724891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "He therefore said, \u201cA certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a reign and to return."}, {"pk": 2724892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, \u2018Trade until I come.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "But his subjects were hating him, and sent a delegation after him, to say, \u2018We do not wish this one to reign over us.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd it came to be, when he came back, having received the reign, that he sent for these servants to whom he had given the silver, in order to know what each had gained by trading."}, {"pk": 2724895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And the first came, saying, \u2018Master, your mina has earned ten minas.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And he said to him, \u2018Well done, good servant. Because you were trustworthy in a small <i>matter</i>, have authority over ten cities.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the second came, saying, \u2018Master, your mina has earned five minas.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And he said to him also, \u2018And you \u2014 be over five cities.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd another came, saying, \u2018Master, here is your mina, which I kept laid up in a handkerchief."}, {"pk": 2724900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd he said to him, \u2018Out of your own mouth I shall judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow."}, {"pk": 2724902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "Why did you not put the silver in the bank, that when I come I could have collected it with interest?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cThen he said to those who stood by, \u2018Take the mina from him, and give it to him who possesses ten minas.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "But they said to him, \u2018Master, he <i>already</i> possesses ten minas.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "For I say to you, that to everyone who possesses shall be given; and from him who does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him."}, {"pk": 2724906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "But those enemies of mine who did not wish me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "And having said this, He went on ahead, going up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2724908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "And it came to be, when He came near to B\u0115yth Pha\u1e21i and B\u0115yth Anyah, at the mountain of Olives, that He sent two of His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2724909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "saying, \u201cGo into the village opposite you, in which, as you enter, you shall find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loosen it and bring it here."}, {"pk": 2724910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "And if anyone asks you, \u2018Why do you loosen it?\u2019 thus you shall say to him, \u2018Because the Master has need of it.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "And those who were sent went away and found it as He had said to them."}, {"pk": 2724912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "And as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, \u201cWhy do you loosen the colt?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "And they said, \u201cThe Master needs it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "So they brought it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. And throwing their garments on the colt, they set \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 on it."}, {"pk": 2724915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "And as He went, they were spreading their garments on the way."}, {"pk": 2724916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "And as He was coming near, already at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the entire crowd of the taught ones began rejoicing, to praise Elohim with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen,"}, {"pk": 2724917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "saying, <i>\" \u2018Blessed is</i> the Sovereign <i>who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!</i> Peace in heaven and esteem in the highest!\u201d", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/1'>118</a>.26<br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/23/39'>23:39</a>"}, {"pk": 2724918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "text": "And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, \u201cTeacher, rebuke Your taught ones.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "text": "But He answering, said to them, \u201cI say to you that if these shall be silent, the stones would cry out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "text": "And as He came near, He saw the city and wept over it,"}, {"pk": 2724921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "text": "saying, \u201cIf you only knew even today, the <i>matters</i> for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes."}, {"pk": 2724922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cBecause days shall come upon you when your enemies shall build a rampart around you, and surround you and press you on all sides,"}, {"pk": 2724923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cand dash you to the ground, and your children within you. And they shall not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."}, {"pk": 2724924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 45, "text": "And having entered into the Set-apart Place, He began to drive out those selling and buying in it,"}, {"pk": 2724925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 46, "text": "saying to them, \u201cIt has been written, <i>\u2018My House is a house of prayer,\u2019</i> but you have made it a <i>\u2018den of robbers.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/7'>56:7</a><br>Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/7/11'>7:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2724926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 47, "text": "And He was teaching daily in the Set-apart Place. But the chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the people were seeking to destroy Him,"}, {"pk": 2724927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 19, "verse": 48, "text": "but they did not find what they might do, for all the people were hanging upon Him, listening."}, {"pk": 2724928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, on one of those days, as He was teaching the people in the Set-apart Place and bringing the Good News, that the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, came up"}, {"pk": 2724929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "and spoke to Him, saying, \u201cSay to us, by what authority are You doing these? Or who is he who gave You this authority?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "And He answering, said to them, \u201cI shall ask you one question too, and answer Me:"}, {"pk": 2724931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "The immersion of Yoh\u0323anan \u2014 was it from heaven or from men?"}, {"pk": 2724932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And they debated among themselves, saying, \u201cIf we say, \u2018From heaven,\u2019 He shall say, \u2018Then why did you not believe him?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "But if we say, \u2018From men,\u2019 all the people shall stone us, for they are persuaded that Yoh\u0323anan was a prophet."}, {"pk": 2724934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And they answered that they did not know from where it was."}, {"pk": 2724935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cNeither do I say to you by what authority I do these.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And He began to speak this parable to the people, \u201cA certain man planted a vineyard, and leased it to farmers, and went away for a long time."}, {"pk": 2724937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And at <i>harvest</i> time he sent a servant to the farmers, to give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2724938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd again he sent another servant. And they beat him too and maltreated him, and sent him away empty-handed."}, {"pk": 2724939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd again he sent a third. And they wounded him too and cast him out."}, {"pk": 2724940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd the owner of the vineyard said, \u2018What shall I do? I shall send my son, the beloved. They might respect him when they see him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2724941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, so that the inheritance becomes ours.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2724942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?"}, {"pk": 2724943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cHe shall come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.\u201d And having heard, they said, \u201cLet it not be!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "But He looked at them and said, \u201cWhat then is this that has been written, <i>\u2018The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone\u2019?</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/22'>118:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2724945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "Everyone who falls on that stone shall be broken, but on whomever it falls, he shall be pulverised."}, {"pk": 2724946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him in the same hour, but they feared the people, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them."}, {"pk": 2724947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And keeping a close watch <i>on Him</i>, they sent spies who pretended to be righteous, to catch Him in a word, in order to deliver Him to the rule and to the authority of the governor."}, {"pk": 2724948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "So they asked Him, saying, \u201cTeacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You are not partial to any, but teach the way of Elohim truly,"}, {"pk": 2724949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"}, {"pk": 2724950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "But perceiving their craftiness, He said to them, \u201cWhy do you try Me?"}, {"pk": 2724951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have? And they answering, said, \u201cCaesar\u2019s.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThen give to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s, and to Elohim what is Elohim\u2019s.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "And they were unable to catch Him in a saying in the presence of the people, and marvelling at His answer, they were silent."}, {"pk": 2724954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,"}, {"pk": 2724955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "saying, \u201cTeacher, Mosheh wrote to us that <i>if a man\u2019s brother dies, having a wife, and he dies childless, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/5'>25:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2724956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cNow, there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife, and died childless."}, {"pk": 2724957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd the second took her as wife, and he died childless."}, {"pk": 2724958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd the third took her, and in the same way the seven also. And they left no children, and died."}, {"pk": 2724959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd last of all the woman died too."}, {"pk": 2724960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "At the resurrection, then, whose wife does she become? For the seven had her as wife."}, {"pk": 2724961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said to them, \u201cThe sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,"}, {"pk": 2724962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "but those who are counted worthy of attaining that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage,"}, {"pk": 2724963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "for neither is it possible for them to die any more, because they are like messengers and are sons of Elohim, being sons of the resurrection."}, {"pk": 2724964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cBut that the dead are raised, even Mosheh showed at the bush when he called \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 <i>\u2018the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, and the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq, and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2724965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cNow He is not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living, for all live to Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 39, "text": "And some of the scribes answering, said, \u201cTeacher, You have spoken well.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 40, "text": "And they were not bold <i>enough</i> to question Him any more."}, {"pk": 2724968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 41, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cHow do they say that the Messiah is the Son of Dawid\u0331?"}, {"pk": 2724969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 42, "text": "For Dawid\u0331 himself said in the Book of Tehillim, <i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my Master, sit at My right hand,</i>"}, {"pk": 2724970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 43, "text": "<i>until I make Your enemies a footstool of Your feet.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2724971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 44, "text": "Dawid\u0331 then calls Him \u2018Master,\u2019 how is He then his Son?"}, {"pk": 2724972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 45, "text": "And in the hearing of all the people, He said to His taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2724973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cBeware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the market-places, and the best seats in the congregations, and the best places at feasts,"}, {"pk": 2724974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 20, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cwho devour widows\u2019 houses, and for a show make long prayers. They shall receive greater judgment."}, {"pk": 2724975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And looking up He saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,"}, {"pk": 2724976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "and He saw a certain poor widow putting in two mites."}, {"pk": 2724977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And He said, \u201cTruly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all."}, {"pk": 2724978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "For all these out of their excess have put in offerings for Elohim, but she out of her poverty has put in all that she had to live on."}, {"pk": 2724979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And as some were speaking about the Set-apart Place, that it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, He said,"}, {"pk": 2724980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "These that you see \u2014 the days are coming in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down."}, {"pk": 2724981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And they asked Him, saying, \u201cTeacher, but when shall this be? And what is the sign when this is about to take place?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And He said, \u201cSee that you are not led astray, for many shall come in My Name, saying, \u2018I am,\u2019 and, \u2018The time is near.\u2019 Then do not go after them."}, {"pk": 2724983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "But when you hear of fightings and unrests, do not be alarmed, for these have to take place first, but the end is not immediately."}, {"pk": 2724984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "Then He said to them, \u201cNation shall rise against nation, and reign against reign.", "comment": "The Greek word for nation is <em>ethnos</em> which could also mean \u201cethnic group.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2724985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd there shall be great earthquakes in various places, and scarcities of food and deadly diseases. And there shall be horrors, and great signs from heaven."}, {"pk": 2724986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut before all this, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the congregations and prisons, being brought before sovereigns and rulers for My Name\u2019s sake."}, {"pk": 2724987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd it shall turn out to you for a witness."}, {"pk": 2724988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cTherefore, resolve in your hearts not to premeditate on what to answer."}, {"pk": 2724989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor I shall give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to refute or resist."}, {"pk": 2724990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall also be betrayed by parents and brothers and relatives and friends. And some of you shall be put to death."}, {"pk": 2724991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd you shall be hated by all because of My Name."}, {"pk": 2724992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut not a hair of your head shall be lost at all."}, {"pk": 2724993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cPossess your lives by your endurance!"}, {"pk": 2724994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd when you see Yerushalayim surrounded by armies, then know that its laying waste is near."}, {"pk": 2724995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThen let those in Yehud\u0331ah flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of her go out, and let not those who are in the fields enter her."}, {"pk": 2724996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBecause these are days of vengeance, to fill all that have been written."}, {"pk": 2724997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing children in those days! For there shall be great distress in the earth and wrath upon this people."}, {"pk": 2724998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Yerushalayim shall be trampled underfoot by the nations until the times of the nations are filled.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/48/19'>48:19</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/79/1'>79:1</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/11/25'>11:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2724999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd there shall be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars, and on the earth anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea, and agitation,"}, {"pk": 2725000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "men fainting from fear and the expectation of what is coming on the earth, for <i>the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</i>", "comment": "Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/6'>2:6</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/21'>2:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2725001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd then they shall see <i>the Son of Ad\u0331am coming in a cloud</i> with power and much esteem.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2725002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd when these <i>matters</i> begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "And He spoke a parable to them, \u201cLook at the fig tree, and all the trees."}, {"pk": 2725004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cWhen they have already budded, observing it, you shall know for yourselves that summer is now near."}, {"pk": 2725005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cSo you also, when you see these <i>matters</i> take place, know that the reign of Elohim is near."}, {"pk": 2725006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cTruly, I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away till all shall have taken place."}, {"pk": 2725007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cThe heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away."}, {"pk": 2725008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly."}, {"pk": 2725009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor it shall come as a snare on all those dwelling on the face of all the earth."}, {"pk": 2725010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "text": "Watch then at all times, and pray that you be counted worthy to escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Ad\u0331am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 37, "text": "And He was teaching in the Set-apart Place by day, but at night He went out and stayed on the mountain of Olives,"}, {"pk": 2725012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 21, "verse": 38, "text": "and early in the morning all the people came to Him in the Set-apart Place to hear Him."}, {"pk": 2725013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And the Festival of Matzot drew near, which is called P\u0115sah\u0323.", "comment": "Unleavened bread<br>Passover."}, {"pk": 2725014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to kill Him, for they feared the people."}, {"pk": 2725015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And Satan entered into Yehud\u0331ah, who was called <i>man</i> from Qerioth, who was numbered among the twelve."}, {"pk": 2725016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And he went and spoke with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver Him up to them."}, {"pk": 2725017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "And they were glad, and agreed to give him silver."}, {"pk": 2725018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And he promised, and was seeking an occasion to deliver Him up to them, away from the crowd."}, {"pk": 2725019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "And the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the P\u0115sah\u0323 had to be slaughtered.", "comment": "Passover"}, {"pk": 2725020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And He sent K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan, saying, \u201cGo and prepare the P\u0115sah\u0323 for us to eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And they said to Him, \u201cWhere do You wish us to prepare?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cSee, as you enter into the city, a man shall meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house he enters."}, {"pk": 2725023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "And you shall say to the master of the house, \u2018The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I might eat the P\u0115sah\u0323 with My taught ones?\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2725024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And he shall show you a large, furnished upper room. Prepare it there."}, {"pk": 2725025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "And going they found it as He had said to them, and they prepared the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2725026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "And when the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve emissaries with Him."}, {"pk": 2725027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWith desire I have desired to eat this P\u0115sah\u0323 with you before My suffering,"}, {"pk": 2725028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "for I say to you, I shall certainly not eat of it again until it is filled in the reign of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And taking the cup, giving thanks, He said, \u201cTake this and divide it among yourselves,"}, {"pk": 2725030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "for I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of the fruit of the vine until the reign of Elohim comes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "And taking bread, giving thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, \u201cThis is My body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "Likewise the cup also, after supper, saying, \u201cThis cup is the renewed covenant in My blood which is shed for you."}, {"pk": 2725033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut see, the hand of him delivering Me up is with Me on the table."}, {"pk": 2725034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor indeed the Son of Ad\u0331am goes as it has been decreed, but woe to that man by whom He is delivered up!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "And they began to ask among themselves, which of them it could be who was about to do this."}, {"pk": 2725036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "And there also took place a dispute among them, as to which of them seemed to be greater."}, {"pk": 2725037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThe sovereigns of the nations rule over them, and those who control them are called \u2018workers of good.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut not so with you, but let him who is greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves."}, {"pk": 2725039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor who is greater, the one who sits at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at the table? But I am in your midst as the One who serves."}, {"pk": 2725040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cBut you are those who have remained with Me in My trials."}, {"pk": 2725041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd I covenant for you, as My Father covenanted for Me, a reign,"}, {"pk": 2725042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "to eat and drink at My table, in My reign, and to sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisra\u2019\u0115l.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 31, "text": "And the Master said, \u201cShim\u201bon, Shim\u201bon! See, Satan has asked for you to sift you as wheat."}, {"pk": 2725044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 32, "text": "But I have prayed for you, that your belief should not fail. And when you have turned, strengthen your brothers."}, {"pk": 2725045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 33, "text": "And he said to Him, \u201cMaster, I am prepared to go with You, both to prison and to death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 34, "text": "And He said, \u201cI say to you, K\u0115pha, the cock shall not crow at all today until you have denied three times that you know Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 35, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhen I sent you without purse and bag and sandals, did you lack any?\u201d And they said, \u201cNone at all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 36, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cBut now, let him who has a purse take it, likewise also a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his garment and buy one."}, {"pk": 2725049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 37, "text": "For I say to you that what has been written has yet to be accomplished in Me, <i>\u2018And He was reckoned with lawless ones.\u2019</i> For that which refers to Me has an end too.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/12'>53:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2725050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 38, "text": "And they said, \u201cMaster, look, here are two swords.\u201d But He said to them, \u201cThat is enough!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 39, "text": "And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, according to usage, and His taught ones also followed Him."}, {"pk": 2725052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 40, "text": "And coming to the place, He said to them, \u201cPray that you do not enter into trial.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 41, "text": "And He withdrew from them about a stone\u2019s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,"}, {"pk": 2725054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 42, "text": "saying, \u201cFather, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 43, "text": "And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him."}, {"pk": 2725056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 44, "text": "And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground."}, {"pk": 2725057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 45, "text": "And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief."}, {"pk": 2725058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 46, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhy do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 47, "text": "And while He was still speaking, see: a crowd! And he who was called Yehud\u0331ah, one of the twelve, was going before them and came near to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 to kiss Him."}, {"pk": 2725060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 48, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYehud\u0331ah, do you deliver up the Son of Ad\u0331am with a kiss?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 49, "text": "And those around Him, seeing what was about to take place, said to Him, \u201cMaster, shall we strike with the sword?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 50, "text": "And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear."}, {"pk": 2725063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 51, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answering, said, \u201cAllow it this far.\u201d And touching his ear He healed him."}, {"pk": 2725064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 52, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to those who had come against Him, the chief priests and captains of the Set-apart Place and the elders, \u201cHave you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?"}, {"pk": 2725065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 53, "text": "While I was with you daily in the Set-apart Place, you did not lay hands on Me. But this is your hour and the authority of darkness."}, {"pk": 2725066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 54, "text": "And having seized Him, they led Him and brought Him to the house of the high priest. And K\u0115pha was following at a distance."}, {"pk": 2725067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 55, "text": "And when they had lit a fire in the midst of the courtyard, and sat down together, K\u0115pha sat among them."}, {"pk": 2725068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 56, "text": "And a certain servant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said, \u201cAnd this one was with Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 57, "text": "But he denied Him, saying, \u201cWoman, I do not know Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 58, "text": "And after a little while another saw him and said, \u201cYou are one of them too.\u201d But K\u0115pha said, \u201cMan, I am not!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 59, "text": "And about an hour later, another insisted, saying, \u201cTruly, this one was with Him too, for he is a Galilean too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 60, "text": "But K\u0115pha said, \u201cMan, I do not know what you are saying!\u201d And immediately, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed."}, {"pk": 2725073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 61, "text": "And the Master turned and looked at K\u0115pha, and K\u0115pha remembered the word of the Master, how He had said to him, \u201cBefore a cock crows, you shall deny Me three times.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 62, "text": "And K\u0115pha went out and wept bitterly."}, {"pk": 2725075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 63, "text": "And the men who were holding \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 were mocking Him, beating <i>Him</i>."}, {"pk": 2725076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 64, "text": "And having blindfolded Him, they were striking Him on the face and were asking Him, saying, \u201cProphesy! Who is it that struck You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 65, "text": "And they said to Him much more, blaspheming."}, {"pk": 2725078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 66, "text": "And when it became day, the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, came together and they led Him into their council, saying,"}, {"pk": 2725079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 67, "text": "If You are the Messiah, say it to us. And He said to them, \u201cIf I say to you, you would not believe it at all,"}, {"pk": 2725080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 68, "text": "and if I asked you, you would not answer Me at all."}, {"pk": 2725081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 69, "text": "From now on the Son of Ad\u0331am shall <i>sit on the right hand of the power of</i> Elohim.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2725082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 70, "text": "And they all said, \u201cAre You then the Son of Elohim?\u201d And He said to them, \u201cYou say that I am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 22, "verse": 71, "text": "And they said, \u201cWhy do we need further witness? For we heard it ourselves from His mouth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And the entire assembly of them, having risen up, led Him to Pilate,"}, {"pk": 2725085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "and began to accuse Him, saying, \u201cWe found this one perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Messiah, a Sovereign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "And Pilate asked Him, saying, \u201cAre You the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d And answering him He said, \u201cYou say it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, \u201cI find no guilt in this Man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "But they were insisting, saying, \u201cHe stirs up the people, teaching through all Yehud\u0331ah, beginning from Galil unto this place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "And when Pilate heard of Galil, he asked if the Man were a Galilean."}, {"pk": 2725090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "And when he learned that He was under the authority of Herodes, he sent Him to Herodes, who was also in Yerushalayim in those days."}, {"pk": 2725091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "And seeing \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, Herodes rejoiced greatly, for a long time he had wished to see Him, because he had heard much about Him, and was anticipating to see some miracle done by Him,"}, {"pk": 2725092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "and was questioning Him with many words, but He gave him no answer."}, {"pk": 2725093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And the chief priests and the scribes stood, accusing Him intensely."}, {"pk": 2725094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And Herodes, with his soldiers, made light of Him and mocked Him, dressing Him in a splendid robe, and sent Him back to Pilate."}, {"pk": 2725095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And on that day Pilate and Herodes became friends with each other, for before that they had been at enmity with each other."}, {"pk": 2725096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "And Pilate, having called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,"}, {"pk": 2725097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "said to them, \u201cYou brought this Man to me, as one who turns away the people. And look, I have examined Him in your presence and have found no guilt in this Man regarding the charges which you make against Him,"}, {"pk": 2725098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "and neither did Herodes, for I sent you back to him. And look, He has done none at all deserving death."}, {"pk": 2725099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "Having disciplined Him, then, I shall release <i>Him</i>\" \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "for he had to release one to them at the festival."}, {"pk": 2725101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "And they cried out, all together, saying, \u201cAway with this One, and release to us Barabba\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "(who had been thrown into prison for a certain uprising made in the city, and for murder)."}, {"pk": 2725103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "Wishing to release \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, then, Pilate appealed to them again."}, {"pk": 2725104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "But they were calling out, saying, \u201cImpale! Impale Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "And he said to them the third time, \u201cWhy, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. Having disciplined Him then, I shall release <i>Him</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "But with loud voices they insisted, asking for Him to be impaled. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests were prevailing."}, {"pk": 2725107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked should be done."}, {"pk": 2725108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "And he released the one they asked for, who for uprising and murder had been thrown into prison, but he handed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 over to their wishes."}, {"pk": 2725109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "And as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Shim\u201bon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the field, and they put the stake on him, to bear it behind \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "And a great number of the people were following Him, and women who also were mourning and lamenting Him."}, {"pk": 2725111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, turning to them, said, \u201cDaughters of Yerushalayim, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children."}, {"pk": 2725112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor look, days are coming in which they shall say, \u2018Blessed are the barren, and wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "Then they shall begin <i>\u2018to say to the mountains, \u201cFall on us!\u201d and to the hills, \u201cCover us!\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/2/19'>2:19</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/2/20'>20</a>; Hos. <a href='/TS2009/28/10/8'>10:8</a><br>See also Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/6/16'>6:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2725114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "Because if they do this to the green tree, what is going to be done to the dry <i>tree</i>?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "And two others also, evil-doers, were led with Him to be put to death."}, {"pk": 2725116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "And when they had come to the place called Golgotha, they impaled Him there, and the evil-doers, one on the right and the other on the left."}, {"pk": 2725117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.\u201d <i>And they divided His garments and cast lots.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/18'>22:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2725118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, \u201cHe saved others, let Him save Himself if He is the Messiah, the chosen of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 36, "text": "And the soldiers were mocking Him too, coming and offering Him sour wine,"}, {"pk": 2725120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 37, "text": "and saying, \u201cIf You are the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im, save Yourself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 38, "text": "And there was also an inscription written over Him in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew: THIS IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUD\u0331IM."}, {"pk": 2725122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 39, "text": "And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of Him, saying, \u201cIf You are the Messiah, save Yourself and us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 40, "text": "But the other, responding, rebuked him, saying, \u201cDo you not even fear Elohim, since you are under the same judgment?"}, {"pk": 2725124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 41, "text": "And we, indeed, rightly so, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this One has done no wrong."}, {"pk": 2725125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 42, "text": "And he said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cMaster, remember me when You come into Your reign.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 43, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cTruly, I say to you today, you shall be with Me in paradise.\u201d", "comment": "Lit. garden"}, {"pk": 2725127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 44, "text": "And it was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land, until the ninth hour."}, {"pk": 2725128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 45, "text": "And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two."}, {"pk": 2725129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 46, "text": "And crying out with a loud voice, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cFather, <i>into Your hands I commit My spirit.\u201d</i> And having said this, He breathed His last.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/31/5'>31:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2725130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 47, "text": "And the captain, seeing what took place, praised Elohim, saying, \u201cTruly, this Man was righteous!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 48, "text": "And when all the crowds who had gathered to that sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away."}, {"pk": 2725132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 49, "text": "And all those who knew Him, and the women who followed Him from Galil, stood at a distance, watching this."}, {"pk": 2725133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 50, "text": "And see, a man named Yos\u0115ph, a council member, a good and righteous man \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 51, "text": "he was not agreeing with their counsel and deed \u2014 from Ramathayim, a city of the Yehud\u0331im, who himself was also waiting for the reign of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2725135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 52, "text": "he, going to Pilate, asked for the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 53, "text": "And taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb hewn out of the rock, where no one was yet laid."}, {"pk": 2725137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 54, "text": "And it was Preparation day, and the Sabbath was approaching."}, {"pk": 2725138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 55, "text": "And the women who had come with Him from Galil followed after, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid."}, {"pk": 2725139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 23, "verse": 56, "text": "And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the command."}, {"pk": 2725140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "But on <i>day</i> one of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared,", "comment": "Lit. Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2725141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "and they found the stone rolled away from the tomb."}, {"pk": 2725142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "And having entered, they did not find the body of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "And it came to be, as they were perplexed about this, that see, two men stood by them in glittering garments."}, {"pk": 2725144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "And becoming frightened and bowing their faces to the earth, these said to them, \u201cWhy do you seek the living among the dead?"}, {"pk": 2725145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHe is not here, but has been raised up! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galil,"}, {"pk": 2725146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "saying, \u2018The Son of Ad\u0331am has to be delivered into the hands of sinners, and be impaled, and the third day rise again.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "And they remembered His words."}, {"pk": 2725148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And having returned from the tomb they reported all this to the eleven and to all the rest."}, {"pk": 2725149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And it was Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala, and Yoh\u0323anah, and Miryam <i>the mother</i> of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and the rest with them, who told this to the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2725150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "And their words appeared to them to be nonsense, and they did not believe them."}, {"pk": 2725151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "But K\u0115pha arose and ran to the tomb. And stooping down, he saw the linen wrappings lying by themselves. And he went away home, marvelling at what took place."}, {"pk": 2725152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "And see, two of them were going that same day to a village called Amma\u2019us, which was sixty stadia from Yerushalayim.", "comment": "Approx. 11km or 6.8 miles."}, {"pk": 2725153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "And they were talking to each other of all this which had taken place."}, {"pk": 2725154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "And it came to be, as they were talking and reasoning, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Himself drew near and went with them."}, {"pk": 2725155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him."}, {"pk": 2725156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhat are these words you are exchanging with each other as you are walking \u2014 and you are sad?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "And the one whose name was Qleophas answering, said to Him, \u201cAre You the lone visitor in Yerushalayim who does not know what took place in it these days?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhat?\u201d And they said to Him, \u201cConcerning \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before Elohim and all the people,"}, {"pk": 2725159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and impaled Him."}, {"pk": 2725160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "We, however, were expecting that it was He who was going to redeem Yisra\u2019\u0115l. But besides all this, today is the third day since these <i>matters</i> took place."}, {"pk": 2725161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBut certain women of ours, who arrived at the tomb early, also astonished us,"}, {"pk": 2725162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "when they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of messengers who said He was alive."}, {"pk": 2725163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd some of those with us went to the tomb and found it, as also the women had said, but they did not see Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cO thoughtless ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"}, {"pk": 2725165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these and to enter into His esteem?"}, {"pk": 2725166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "And beginning at Mosheh and all the Prophets, He was explaining to them in all the Scriptures the <i>matters</i> concerning Himself."}, {"pk": 2725167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 28, "text": "And they approached the village where they were going, and He seemed to be going on."}, {"pk": 2725168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 29, "text": "But they urged Him strongly, saying, \u201cStay with us, for it is toward evening, and the day has declined.\u201d And He went in to stay with them."}, {"pk": 2725169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 30, "text": "And it came to be, when He sat at the table with them, having taken the bread, He blessed, and having broken, He was giving it to them."}, {"pk": 2725170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 31, "text": "And their eyes were opened and they recognised Him. And He disappeared from their sight."}, {"pk": 2725171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 32, "text": "And they said to each other, \u201cWas not our heart burning within us as He was speaking to us on the way, and as He was opening the Scriptures to us?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 33, "text": "And rising up that same hour they returned to Yerushalayim, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together,"}, {"pk": 2725173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 34, "text": "saying, \u201cThe Master was truly raised, and has appeared to Shim\u201bon!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 35, "text": "And they related what <i>took place</i> on the way, and how He was recognised by them in the breaking of the bread."}, {"pk": 2725175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 36, "text": "And as they were saying this, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, \u201cPeace to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 37, "text": "And being startled and frightened, they thought they had seen a spirit."}, {"pk": 2725177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 38, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cWhy are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts?"}, {"pk": 2725178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 39, "text": "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."}, {"pk": 2725179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 40, "text": "And saying this, He showed them His hands and His feet."}, {"pk": 2725180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 41, "text": "And while they were still not believing for joy, and marvelling, He said to them, \u201cHave you any food here?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 42, "text": "And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb."}, {"pk": 2725182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 43, "text": "And taking it He ate in their presence."}, {"pk": 2725183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 44, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThese are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all have to be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh and the Prophets and the Tehillim concerning Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 45, "text": "Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,"}, {"pk": 2725185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 46, "text": "and said to them, \u201cThus it has been written, and so it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day,"}, {"pk": 2725186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 47, "text": "and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His Name to all nations, beginning at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2725187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 48, "text": "And you are witnesses of these <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2725188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 49, "text": "And see, I am sending the Promise of My Father upon you, but you are to remain in the city of Yerushalayim until you are clothed with power from on high.", "comment": "Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/1/4-8'>1:4-8</a>"}, {"pk": 2725189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 50, "text": "And He led them out as far as B\u0115yth Anyah, and lifting up His hands He blessed them."}, {"pk": 2725190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 51, "text": "And it came to be, while He was blessing them, that He was parted from them and was taken up into the heaven."}, {"pk": 2725191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 52, "text": "And they, having bowed down to Him, returned to Yerushalayim with great joy,"}, {"pk": 2725192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 42, "chapter": 24, "verse": 53, "text": "and were continually in the Set-apart Place praising and blessing Elohim. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2725193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "He was in the beginning with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "All came to be through Him, and without Him not even one came to be that came to be.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/3/9'>3:9</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/16'>1:16</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/1/2'>1:2</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/3'>11:3</a>; 2Pet. <a href='/TS2009/61/3/5'>3:5</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/33/6'>33:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."}, {"pk": 2725197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."}, {"pk": 2725198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "There was a man sent from Elohim, whose name was Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2725199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "This one came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all might believe through him."}, {"pk": 2725200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "He was not that Light, but that he might bear witness of that Light."}, {"pk": 2725201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "He was the true Light, which enlightens every man, coming into the world."}, {"pk": 2725202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "He was in the world, and the world came to be through Him, and the world did not know Him."}, {"pk": 2725203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him."}, {"pk": 2725204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of Elohim, to those believing in His Name,"}, {"pk": 2725205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "who were born, not of blood nor of the desire of flesh nor of the desire of man, but of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only brought-forth of a father, complete in favour and truth."}, {"pk": 2725207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, \u201cThis was He of whom I said, \u2018He who comes after me has become before me, because He was before me.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And out of His completeness we all did receive, and favour upon favour,"}, {"pk": 2725209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "for the Torah was given through Mosheh \u2014 the favour and the truth came through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2725210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "No one has ever seen Elohim. All came to be through Him, The only brought-forth Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He did declare.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/37'>5:37</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/46'>6:46</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/12'>4:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2725211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "Now this was the witness of Yoh\u0323anan when the Yehud\u0331im sent from Yerushalayim priests and L\u0115wites to ask him, \u201cWho are you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And he confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, \u201cI am not the Messiah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And they asked him, \u201cWhat then, are you \u011aliyahu?\u201d So he said, \u201cI am not.\u201d \u201cAre you the Prophet?\u201d And he answered, \u201cNo.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "Therefore they said to him, \u201cWho are you, so that we give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "He said, <i>\u201cI am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, \u2018Make straight the way of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019</i> as the prophet Yeshayahu said.\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/3'>40:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2725216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And those sent were of the Pharisees,"}, {"pk": 2725217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "and they asked him, saying, \u201cWhy then do you immerse if you are not the Messiah, nor \u011aliyahu, nor the Prophet?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan answered them, saying, \u201cI immerse in water, but in your midst stands One whom you do not know,"}, {"pk": 2725219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "the One coming after me, who has become before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loosen.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "This took place in B\u0115yth Anyah beyond the Yard\u0115n, where Yoh\u0323anan was immersing."}, {"pk": 2725221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "On the next day Yoh\u0323anan saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 coming toward him, and said, \u201cSee, the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sin of the world!", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/1/21'>1:21</a>; Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/2/14'>2:14</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/5'>3:5</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/8'>3:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2725222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "This is He of whom I said, \u2018After me comes a Man who has become before me, for He was before me.\u2019", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/15'>1:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2725223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "And I did not know Him, but that He might be revealed to Yisra\u2019\u0115l, therefore I came immersing in water."}, {"pk": 2725224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan bore witness, saying, \u201cI have seen the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and remain on Him."}, {"pk": 2725225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cAnd I did not know Him, but He who sent me to immerse in water said to me, \u2018Upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining on Him, this is He who immerses in the Set-apart Spirit.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd I have seen and have witnessed that this is the Son of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 35, "text": "Again the following day, Yoh\u0323anan was standing with two of his taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2725228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 36, "text": "and looking at \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 walking, he said, \u201cSee the Lamb of Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 37, "text": "And the two taught ones heard him speaking, and they followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 38, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 turning, and seeing them following, said to them, \u201cWhat do you seek?\u201d And they said to Him, \u201cRabbi\u201d (which means Teacher), \u201cwhere are You staying?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 39, "text": "He said to them, \u201cCome and see.\u201d They went and saw where He was staying, and remained with Him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour."}, {"pk": 2725232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 40, "text": "Andri, the brother of Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, was one of the two who heard from Yoh\u0323anan, and followed Him."}, {"pk": 2725233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 41, "text": "First he found his own brother Shim\u201bon, and said to him, \u201cWe have found the Messiah\u201d (which means the Anointed)."}, {"pk": 2725234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 42, "text": "And he brought him to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. And looking at him, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cYou are Shim\u201bon the son of Yonah, you shall be called K\u0115pha\u201d (which means a Stone)."}, {"pk": 2725235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 43, "text": "On the following day \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 wished to go to Galil, and He found Philip and said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 44, "text": "And Philip was from B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a, the city of Andri and K\u0115pha."}, {"pk": 2725237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 45, "text": "Philip found Nethan\u2019\u0115l and said to him, \u201cWe have found Him whom Mosheh wrote of in the Torah, and the prophets: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth \u2014 the son of Yos\u0115ph.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 46, "text": "And Nethan\u2019\u0115l said to him, \u201cIs it possible for any good <i>matter</i> to come out of Natsareth?\u201d Philip said to him, \u201cCome and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 47, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw Nethan\u2019\u0115l coming toward Him, and said of him, \u201cSee, truly a Yisra\u2019\u0115li, in whom is no deceit!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 48, "text": "Nethan\u2019\u0115l said to Him, \u201cFrom where do You know me?\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to him, \u201cBefore Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 49, "text": "Nethan\u2019\u0115l answered and said to Him, \u201cRabbi, You are the Son of Elohim! You are the Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 50, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to him, \u201cBecause I said to you, \u2018I saw you under the fig tree,\u2019 do you believe? Greater than that you shall see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 1, "verse": 51, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, from now on you shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of Elohim ascending and descending upon the Son of Ad\u0331am.\u201d", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/28/12'>28:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2725244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And on the third day there was a wedding in Qanah of Galil, and the mother of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was there."}, {"pk": 2725245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And both \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and His taught ones were invited to the wedding."}, {"pk": 2725246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And when they were short of wine, the mother of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to Him, \u201cThey have no wine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cWoman, what is that to Me and to you? My hour has not yet come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "His mother said to the servants, \u201cDo whatever He says to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And there were six stone water-jugs standing there, according to the mode of cleansing of the Yehud\u0331im, each holding two or three measures."}, {"pk": 2725250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cFill the water-jugs with water.\u201d And they filled them up to the brim."}, {"pk": 2725251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cNow draw out and take it to the master of the feast.\u201d So they took it."}, {"pk": 2725252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "But when the master of the feast had tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from \u2014 though the servants who had drawn the water knew \u2014 the master of the feast called the bridegroom,"}, {"pk": 2725253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "and said to him, \u201cEvery man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when they have drunk, then that which is poorer. You have kept the good wine until now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "This, the beginning of the signs, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did in Qanah of Galil, and manifested His esteem. And His taught ones believed in Him."}, {"pk": 2725255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "After this He went down to Kephar Nah\u0323um, He and His mother, and His brothers, and His taught ones. And there they stayed not many days."}, {"pk": 2725256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And the P\u0115sah\u0323 of the Yehud\u0331im was near, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2725257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And He found in the Set-apart Place those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting."}, {"pk": 2725258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And having made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the Set-apart Place, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the moneychangers\u2019 coins and overturned the tables."}, {"pk": 2725259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And He said to those selling doves, \u201cTake these away! Do not make the house of My Father a house of merchandise!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And His taught ones remembered that it was written, <i>\u201cThe ardour for Your house has eaten Me up.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/9'>69:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2725261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im answered and said to Him, \u201cWhat sign do You show to us, since You are doing these?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to them, \u201cDestroy this Dwelling Place, and in three days I shall raise it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "Then the Yehud\u0331im said, \u201cIt took forty-six years to build this Dwelling Place, and You are going to raise it in three days?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "But He spoke about the Dwelling Place of His body."}, {"pk": 2725265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "So, when He was raised from the dead, His taught ones remembered that He said this to them. And they believed the Scripture and the word which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had said."}, {"pk": 2725266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And when He was in Yerushalayim at the P\u0115sah\u0323, at the festival, many believed in His Name when they saw the signs which He was doing."}, {"pk": 2725267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was not entrusting Himself to them, because He knew all men,"}, {"pk": 2725268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "and had no need that anyone should witness of man, for He knew what was in man."}, {"pk": 2725269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nak\u0331dimon was his name, a ruler of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2725270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "This one came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 by night and said to Him, \u201cRabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from Elohim, for no one is able to do these signs You do if Elohim is not with him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to him, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he is unable to see the reign of Elohim.\u201d", "comment": "Or <em>perceive</em>"}, {"pk": 2725272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Nak\u0331dimon said to Him, \u201cHow is a man able to be born when he is old? Is he able to enter into his mother\u2019s womb a second time and be born?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is unable to enter into the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cThat which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit."}, {"pk": 2725275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Do not marvel that I said to you, \u2018You have to be born from above.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.\u201d", "comment": "Wind and Spirit have the same underlying Hebrew and Greek words."}, {"pk": 2725277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Nak\u0331dimon answered and said to Him, \u201cHow is it possible for this to take place?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to him, \u201cAre you the teacher of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and do not know this?"}, {"pk": 2725279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, We speak what We know and witness what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness."}, {"pk": 2725280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "If you do not believe when I spoke to you about earthly <i>matters</i>, how are you going to believe when I speak to you about the heavenly <i>matters</i>?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd no one has gone up into the heaven except He who came down from the heaven \u2014 the Son of Ad\u0331am."}, {"pk": 2725282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Ad\u0331am has to be lifted up,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "so that whoever is believing in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2725284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cFor Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2725285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."}, {"pk": 2725286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHe who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked."}, {"pk": 2725288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "For everyone who is practising evil <i>matters</i> hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed."}, {"pk": 2725289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "But the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works are clearly seen, that they have been wrought in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "After this, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and His taught ones came into the land of Yehud\u0331ah, and He remained there with them, and was immersing."}, {"pk": 2725291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And Yoh\u0323anan was also immersing in Ayin near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. And they were coming and were being immersed,"}, {"pk": 2725292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "for Yoh\u0323anan had not yet been put into prison."}, {"pk": 2725293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "Then a dispute arose between some of Yoh\u0323anan\u2019s taught ones and the Yehud\u0331im about cleansing,"}, {"pk": 2725294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "and they came to Yoh\u0323anan and said to him, \u201cRabbi, He who was with you beyond the Yard\u0115n, to whom you have witnessed, see, He is immersing, and all are coming to Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan answered and said, \u201cNo man is able to receive any <i>matter</i> unless it is given to him from the heaven."}, {"pk": 2725296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cYou yourselves are witnesses for me that I said, \u2018I am not the Messiah but I am sent ahead of Him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cHe that has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. So this joy of mine is complete."}, {"pk": 2725298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cIt is right for Him to increase, but me to decrease."}, {"pk": 2725299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cHe who comes from above is over all, he who is from the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from the heaven is over all."}, {"pk": 2725300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd what He has seen and heard, that He witnesses. And no one receives His witness."}, {"pk": 2725301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cHe who receives His witness has set his seal that Elohim is true."}, {"pk": 2725302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFor He whom Elohim has sent speaks the Words of Elohim, for Elohim does not give the Spirit by measure."}, {"pk": 2725303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThe Father loves the Son, and has given all into His hand."}, {"pk": 2725304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 3, "verse": 36, "text": "He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him."}, {"pk": 2725305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "So when the Master knew that the Pharisees had heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 made and immersed more taught ones than Yoh\u0323anan \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "although \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Himself did not immerse, but His taught ones \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "He left Yehud\u0331ah and went away again to Galil."}, {"pk": 2725308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And He had to pass through Shomeron."}, {"pk": 2725309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "So He came to a city of Shomeron, called Shek\u0331em, near the piece of land Ya\u201baqob\u0331 gave to his son Yos\u0115ph."}, {"pk": 2725310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And Ya\u201baqob\u0331\u2019s fountain was there. So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour."}, {"pk": 2725311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cGive Me to drink.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food."}, {"pk": 2725313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, \u201cHow is it that You, being a Yehud\u0331i, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?\u201d For Yehud\u0331im do not associate with Shomeronim."}, {"pk": 2725314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to her, \u201cIf you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, \u2018Give Me to drink,\u2019 you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/2/13'>2:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/17/13'>17:13</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/8'>14:8</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/7/37-39'>7:37-39</a>"}, {"pk": 2725315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "The woman said to Him, \u201cMaster, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?"}, {"pk": 2725316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Are You greater than our father Ya\u201baqob\u0331, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"}, {"pk": 2725317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to her, \u201cEveryone drinking of this water shall thirst again,"}, {"pk": 2725318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "The woman said to Him, \u201cMaster, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cGo, call your husband, and come here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "The woman answered and said, \u201cI have no husband.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cYou have well said, \u2018I have no husband,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "The woman said to Him, \u201cMaster, I see that You are a prophet."}, {"pk": 2725324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you <i>people</i> say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cWoman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father."}, {"pk": 2725326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of the Yehud\u0331im.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/147/19'>147:19</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/2/3'>2:3</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/6-8'>56:6-8</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/47/22'>47:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/47/23'>23</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/2/10'>2:10</a>, <a href='/TS2009/38/2/11'>11</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/8/23'>8:23</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/20'>2:20</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/3/2'>3:2</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/4'>9:4</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/12'>21:12</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/24'>21:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2725327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cBut the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him."}, {"pk": 2725328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cElohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "The woman said to Him, \u201cI know that Messiah is coming, the One who is called Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cI who am speaking to you am He.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "And upon this His taught ones came, and they were marvelling that He was speaking with a woman, however, no one said, \u201cWhat do You seek?\u201d or, \u201cWhy do You speak with her?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and said to the men,"}, {"pk": 2725333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "Come, see a Man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Messiah?"}, {"pk": 2725334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "They went out of the city and were coming to Him."}, {"pk": 2725335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "But in the meantime His taught ones were asking Him, saying, \u201cRabbi, eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cI have food to eat of which you do not know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "Then the taught ones said to each other, \u201cDid anyone bring Him <i>food</i> to eat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cMy food is to do the desire of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work."}, {"pk": 2725339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cDo you not say, \u2018There are still four months, and the harvest comes\u2019? See, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvest \u2014 already!"}, {"pk": 2725340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cHe who is reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping rejoice together."}, {"pk": 2725341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor in this the word is true, \u2018One sows and another reaps.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cI sent you to reap that for which you have not laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 39, "text": "And many of the Shomeronim of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who witnessed, \u201cHe told me all that I have done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 40, "text": "Therefore when the Shomeronim came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days."}, {"pk": 2725345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 41, "text": "And many more believed because of His word."}, {"pk": 2725346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 42, "text": "And they said to the woman, \u201cWe no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 43, "text": "And after the two days He left there and went to Galil."}, {"pk": 2725348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 44, "text": "For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Himself witnessed that a prophet is without appreciation in his own country."}, {"pk": 2725349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 45, "text": "Therefore when He came to Galil, the Galileans received Him, having seen all that He had done in Yerushalayim at the festival, for they also went to the festival."}, {"pk": 2725350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 46, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came again to Qanah of Galil where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Kephar Nah\u0323um."}, {"pk": 2725351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 47, "text": "When he heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had come from Yehud\u0331ah into Galil, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die."}, {"pk": 2725352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 48, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 then said to him, \u201cIf you <i>people</i> do not see signs and wonders, you do not believe at all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 49, "text": "The nobleman said to Him, \u201cMaster, come down before my child dies!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 50, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cGo, your son lives.\u201d And the man believed the word that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke to him, and went."}, {"pk": 2725355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 51, "text": "And while he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying, \u201cYour son lives!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 52, "text": "He then asked from them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him, \u201cYesterday at the seventh hour the inflammation left him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 53, "text": "Then the father knew that it was at the same hour in which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYour son lives.\u201d And he himself believed, and all his household."}, {"pk": 2725358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 4, "verse": 54, "text": "Again this was the second sign \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did, when He had come from Yehud\u0331ah into Galil."}, {"pk": 2725359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "After this there was a festival of the Yehud\u0331im, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2725360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And in Yerushalayim at the Sheep <i>Gate</i> there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, B\u0115yth Zatha, having five porches."}, {"pk": 2725361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "In these were lying a great number of those who were sick, blind, crippled, paralysed, waiting for the stirring of the water."}, {"pk": 2725362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "For a messenger was going down at a certain time into the pool and was stirring the water. Whoever stepped in first, then, after the stirring of the water, became well of whatever disease he had."}, {"pk": 2725363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And a certain man was there who had a sickness thirty-eight years."}, {"pk": 2725364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 saw him lying there, and knowing that he already had been a long time, He said to him, \u201cDo you wish to become well?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "The sick man answered Him, \u201cMaster, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred, but while I am coming, another steps down before me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cRise, take up your bed and walk.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And immediately the man became well, and he took up his bed and was walking. Now it was Sabbath on that day."}, {"pk": 2725368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im therefore said to him who had been healed, \u201cIt is the Sabbath, it is not right for you to take up the bed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "He answered them, \u201cHe who made me well said to me, \u2018Take up your bed and walk.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore they asked him, \u201cWho is the Man who said to you, \u2018Take up your bed and walk\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had moved away, a crowd being in that place."}, {"pk": 2725372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Afterward \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 found him in the Set-apart Place, and said to him, \u201cSee, you have been made well. Sin no more, so that no worse <i>matter</i> befalls you.\u201d", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/11'>8:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2725373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "The man went away, and told the Yehud\u0331im that it was \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who made him well."}, {"pk": 2725374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And because of this the Yehud\u0331im persecuted \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and were seeking to kill Him, because He was doing these <i>healings</i> on the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2725375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cMy Father works until now, and I work.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "Because of this, then, the Yehud\u0331im were seeking all the more to kill Him, \u2018because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He also called Elohim His own Father, making Himself equal with Elohim.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 responded and said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, the Son is able to do none at all by Himself, but only that which He sees the Father doing, because whatever He does, the Son also likewise does."}, {"pk": 2725378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all that He Himself does. And greater works than these He is going to show Him, in order that you marvel."}, {"pk": 2725379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cFor as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son makes alive whom He wishes."}, {"pk": 2725380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor the Father judges no one, but has given all the judgment to the Son,"}, {"pk": 2725381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "that all should value the Son even as they value the Father. He who does not value the Son does not value the Father who sent Him."}, {"pk": 2725382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me possesses everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life."}, {"pk": 2725383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of Elohim. And those having heard shall live."}, {"pk": 2725384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "For as the Father possesses life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son to possess life in Himself,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "and He has given Him authority also to do judgment, because He is the Son of Ad\u0331am."}, {"pk": 2725386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cDo not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the tombs shall hear His voice,"}, {"pk": 2725387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "and shall come forth \u2014 those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil <i>matters</i>, to a resurrection of judgment."}, {"pk": 2725388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "Of Myself I am unable to do any <i>matter</i>. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own desire, but the desire of the Father who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cIf I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true."}, {"pk": 2725390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cThere is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true."}, {"pk": 2725391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cYou have sent to Yoh\u0323anan, and he bore witness to the truth."}, {"pk": 2725392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cBut I do not receive witness from man, but I say this in order that you might be saved."}, {"pk": 2725393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cHe was the burning and shining lamp, and for a while you wished to rejoice in his light."}, {"pk": 2725394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cBut I have a greater witness than that of Yoh\u0323anan, for the works that the Father gave Me to accomplish, the works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 37, "text": "And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His form.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/18'>1:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2725396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd you do not have His Word staying in you, because you do not believe Him whom He sent."}, {"pk": 2725397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cYou search the Scriptures, because you think you possess everlasting life in them. And these are the ones that bear witness of Me."}, {"pk": 2725398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cBut you do not desire to come to Me in order to possess life."}, {"pk": 2725399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 41, "text": "I do not receive esteem from men,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 42, "text": "but I know you, that you do not have the love of Elohim in you."}, {"pk": 2725401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cI have come in My Father\u2019s Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive."}, {"pk": 2725402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 44, "text": "How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cDo not think that I shall accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Mosheh, in whom you have set your expectation."}, {"pk": 2725404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cFor if you believed Mosheh, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me."}, {"pk": 2725405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 5, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cBut if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words?\u201d", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/16/31'>16:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2725406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "After this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went away to the other side of the Sea of Galil, that is Lake Kinnereth."}, {"pk": 2725407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And a large crowd was following Him, because they saw His signs which He did on those who were sick."}, {"pk": 2725408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went up on a mountain, and there He sat down with His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2725409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And the P\u0115sah\u0323 was near, the festival of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2725410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, lifting up His eyes and seeing a large crowd coming toward Him, said to Philip, \u201cWhere shall we buy bread for them to eat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And this He said, trying him, for He Himself knew what He would do."}, {"pk": 2725412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Philip answered Him, \u201cTwo hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for every one of them to receive a little.\u201d", "comment": "A Roman monetary unit."}, {"pk": 2725413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "One of His taught ones, Andri, the brother of Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, said to Him,"}, {"pk": 2725414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fishes, but what are these for so many?"}, {"pk": 2725415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cMake the people sit down.\u201d Now there was much grass in the place, and the men, numbering about five thousand, sat down."}, {"pk": 2725416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the taught ones, and the taught ones to those sitting down. And the same with the fish, as much as they wished."}, {"pk": 2725417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And when they were filled, He said to His taught ones, \u201cGather the broken pieces that are left over, so that none gets wasted.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten."}, {"pk": 2725419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Then the men, having seen the sign that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did, said, \u201cThis is truly the Prophet who is coming to the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing that they were about to come and seize Him, that they might make Him sovereign, withdrew again to the mountain, alone by Himself."}, {"pk": 2725421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And when evening came, His taught ones went down to the sea,"}, {"pk": 2725422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "and entering into the boat, they were going over the sea toward Kephar Nah\u0323um. And it had already become dark, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had not yet come to them."}, {"pk": 2725423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And the sea was rising because a great wind was blowing."}, {"pk": 2725424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "When they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.", "comment": "Approx. 5 to 6 kilometres or 3 to 4 miles."}, {"pk": 2725425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cIt is I, do not be afraid.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "They wished therefore to take Him into the boat, and at once the boat was at the land where they were going."}, {"pk": 2725427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "On the next day, the crowd that was standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there except that one into which His taught ones had entered, and that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had not entered the boat with His taught ones, but His taught ones went away alone \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "but other boats came from Kinnereth, near the place where they ate bread after the Master had given thanks \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "therefore when the crowd saw that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was not there, nor His taught ones, they themselves also entered into the boats and came to Kephar Nah\u0323um, seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 25, "text": "And having found Him on the other side of the sea, they asked Him, \u201cRabbi, when did You come here?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 26, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them and said, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied."}, {"pk": 2725432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 27, "text": "Do not labour for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to everlasting life, which the Son of Ad\u0331am shall give you, for the Father, Elohim, has set His seal on Him.\u201d", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/35'>6:35</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/48'>6:48</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/51'>6:51</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/58'>6:58</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2725433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 28, "text": "So they said to Him, \u201cWhat should we do to work the works of Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 29, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to them, \u201cThis is the work of Elohim, that you believe in Him whom He sent.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 30, "text": "So they said to Him, \u201cWhat sign then would You do, so that we see and believe You? What would You do?"}, {"pk": 2725436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 31, "text": "Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it has been written, <i>\u2018He gave them bread out of the heaven to eat.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/78/24'>78:24</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/105/40'>105:40</a>; Neh. <a href='/TS2009/16/9/15'>9:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2725437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 32, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, Mosheh did not give you the bread out of the heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of the heaven."}, {"pk": 2725438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 33, "text": "For the bread of Elohim is He who comes down out of the heaven and gives life to the world."}, {"pk": 2725439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 34, "text": "So they said to Him, \u201cMaster, give us this bread always.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 35, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cI am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall not get hungry at all, and he who believes in Me shall not get thirsty at all."}, {"pk": 2725441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cBut I said to you that you have seen Me, and still do not believe."}, {"pk": 2725442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAll that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I shall by no means cast out."}, {"pk": 2725443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cBecause I have come down out of the heaven, not to do My own desire, but the desire of Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cThis is the desire of the Father who sent Me, that all He has given Me I should not lose of it, but should raise it in the last day."}, {"pk": 2725445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 40, "text": "And this is the desire of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him should possess everlasting life. And I shall raise him up in the last day."}, {"pk": 2725446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 41, "text": "Therefore the Yehud\u0331im were grumbling against Him, because He said, \u201cI am the bread which came down out of the heaven.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 42, "text": "And they said, \u201cIs not this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, the son of Yos\u0115ph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, \u2018I have come down out of the heaven\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 43, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to them, \u201cDo not grumble with one another."}, {"pk": 2725449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cNo one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. And I shall raise him up in the last day."}, {"pk": 2725450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 45, "text": "It has been written in the prophets, <i>\u2018And they shall all be taught by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019</i> Everyone, then, who has heard from the Father, and learned, comes to Me.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/54/13'>54:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/34'>31:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2725451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cNot that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from Elohim \u2014 He has seen the Father."}, {"pk": 2725452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me possesses everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2725453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cI am the bread of life."}, {"pk": 2725454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cYour fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died."}, {"pk": 2725455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cThis is the bread which comes down out of the heaven, so that anyone might eat of it, and not die."}, {"pk": 2725456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cI am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 52, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, \u201cHow is this One able to give us <i>His</i> flesh to eat?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 53, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Ad\u0331am and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves."}, {"pk": 2725459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 54, "text": "\u201cHe who eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day."}, {"pk": 2725460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 55, "text": "\u201cFor My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink."}, {"pk": 2725461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 56, "text": "\u201cHe who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him."}, {"pk": 2725462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 57, "text": "\u201cAs the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me."}, {"pk": 2725463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 58, "text": "This is the bread which came down out of the heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever."}, {"pk": 2725464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 59, "text": "He said this in a congregation, teaching in Kephar Nah\u0323um."}, {"pk": 2725465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 60, "text": "Therefore many of His taught ones having heard, said, \u201cThis word is hard, who is able to hear it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 61, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 knowing within Himself that His taught ones were grumbling about this, said to them, \u201cDoes this make you stumble?"}, {"pk": 2725467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 62, "text": "\u201cWhat if you see the Son of Ad\u0331am going up where He was before?"}, {"pk": 2725468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 63, "text": "It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh does not profit at all. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and are life.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/68'>6:68</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/15/45'>15:45</a>"}, {"pk": 2725469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 64, "text": "But there are some of you who do not believe. For \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would deliver Him up."}, {"pk": 2725470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 65, "text": "And He said, \u201cBecause of this I have said to you that no one is able to come to Me unless it has been given to him by My Father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 66, "text": "From then on many of His taught ones withdrew and were not walking with Him any more."}, {"pk": 2725472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 67, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore said to the twelve, \u201cDo you also wish to go away?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 68, "text": "Then Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha answered Him, \u201cMaster, to whom shall we go? You possess words of everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2725474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 69, "text": "And we have believed, and we know that You are the Messiah, the Son of the living Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 70, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cHave I not chosen you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 6, "verse": 71, "text": "He was now speaking of Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, <i>the son</i> of Shim\u201bon, for he, one of the twelve, was about to deliver Him up."}, {"pk": 2725477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was walking in Galil, for He did not wish to walk in Yehud\u0331ah, because the Yehud\u0331im were seeking to kill Him."}, {"pk": 2725478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And the festival of the Yehud\u0331im was near, the Festival of Sukkot.", "comment": "Booths."}, {"pk": 2725479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "So His brothers said to Him, \u2018Get away from here and go into Yehud\u0331ah, so that Your taught ones also see the works that You are doing."}, {"pk": 2725480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "For no one acts in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these works, show Yourself to the world."}, {"pk": 2725481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "For even His brothers did not believe in Him."}, {"pk": 2725482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore said to them, \u201cMy time has not yet come, but your time is always ready."}, {"pk": 2725483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIt is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked."}, {"pk": 2725484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cYou go up to this festival. I am not yet going up to this festival, for My time has not yet been filled.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And having said this to them, He stayed in Galil."}, {"pk": 2725486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "But when His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret."}, {"pk": 2725487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im, therefore, were seeking Him at the festival, and said, \u201cWhere is He?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And there was much grumbling about Him among the crowd. Some were saying, \u201cHe is good,\u201d but others were saying, \u201cNo, but He is leading the crowd astray.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2725490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And about the middle of the festival \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went up into the Set-apart Place, and He was teaching."}, {"pk": 2725491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im were marvelling, saying, \u201cHow does this Man know letters, not having learned?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them and said, \u201cMy teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.", "comment": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 says this in seven places in the Book of John: John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/34'>3:34</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/7/16'>7:16</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/28'>8:28</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/40'>8:40</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/49'>12:49</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/24'>14:24</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/8'>17:8</a>. See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/15-20'>18:15-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2725493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "If anyone desires to do His desire, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from Elohim, or <i>whether</i> I speak from Myself."}, {"pk": 2725494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cHe who speaks from himself is seeking his own esteem, but He who seeks the esteem of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him."}, {"pk": 2725495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cDid not Mosheh give you the Torah? Yet not one of you does the Torah! Why do you seek to kill Me?\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/20'>5:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2725496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "The crowd answered and said, \u201cYou have a demon, who seeks to kill You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to them, \u201cI did one work, and you all marvel."}, {"pk": 2725498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cBecause of this Mosheh has given you the circumcision \u2014 though it is not from Mosheh, but from the fathers \u2014 and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2725499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Torah of Mosheh should not be broken, are you wroth with Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."}, {"pk": 2725501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "Therefore some of them from Yerushalayim said, \u201cIs this not He whom they are seeking to kill?"}, {"pk": 2725502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd see! He speaks boldly, and they say none at all to Him. Could it be that the rulers truly know that this is truly the Messiah?"}, {"pk": 2725503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut we know where this One is from. And when the Messiah comes, no one knows where He is from.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore cried out in the Set-apart Place, teaching and saying, \u201cYou both know Me, and you know where I am from. And I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know."}, {"pk": 2725505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "But I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "So they were seeking to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come."}, {"pk": 2725507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "And many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, \u201cWhen the Messiah comes, shall He do more signs than these which this One did?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these <i>matters</i> concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to seize Him."}, {"pk": 2725509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cYet a little while I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "You shall seek Me and you shall not find <i>Me</i>, and where I am you are unable to come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im, therefore, said to themselves, \u201cWhere is He about to go that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?"}, {"pk": 2725512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "What is this word which He said, \u2018You shall seek Me and you shall not find <i>Me</i>, and where I am you are unable to come\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "And on the last day, the great <i>day</i> of the festival, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stood and cried out, saying, \u201cIf anyone thirsts, let him come to Me, and let him who believes in Me drink."}, {"pk": 2725514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAs the Scripture said, out of His innermost shall flow rivers of living water.\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/44/3'>44:3</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/2/13'>2:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/17/13'>17:13</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/8'>14:8</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/36/8'>36:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/36/9'>9</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/14/27'>14:27</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/4/10'>4:10</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/33'>6:33</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/4'>10:4</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/7/17'>7:17</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/6'>21:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/1'>22:1</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/17'>22:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2725515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "And this He said concerning the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive, for the Set-apart Spirit was not yet <i>given</i>, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was not yet esteemed.", "comment": "See Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/36/26'>36:26</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/36/27'>27</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/28-32'>2:28-32</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/1/4-8'>1:4-8</a>; Acts.<a href='/TS2009/44/2/1'>2</a>.4; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/33'>2:33</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/10/44-47'>10:44-47</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/11/15'>11:15</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/11/16'>16</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2725516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "Many from the crowd, when they heard the word, then said, \u201cThis truly is the Prophet.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "Others said, \u201cThis is the Messiah,\u201d but others said, \u201cDoes the Messiah then come out of Galil?"}, {"pk": 2725518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cDid not the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from the seed of Dawid\u0331 and from the village of B\u0115yth Leh\u0323em, where Dawid\u0331 was?\u201d", "comment": "See 2Sam. <a href='/TS2009/10/7/12'>7:12</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/89/4'>89:4</a><br>See Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/5/2'>5:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2725519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "So a division came about among the people because of Him."}, {"pk": 2725520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "And some of them wished to take Him, but no one laid hands on Him."}, {"pk": 2725521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, \u201cWhy did you not bring Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "The officers answered, \u201cNever has any man spoken like this Man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, \u201cHave you also been led astray?"}, {"pk": 2725524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cHas anyone of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in Him?"}, {"pk": 2725525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cBut this crowd that does not know the Torah is accursed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "Nak\u0331dimon \u2014 he who came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 by night, being one of them \u2014 said to them,"}, {"pk": 2725527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "text": "Does our Torah judge the man unless it hears first from him and knows what he is doing?"}, {"pk": 2725528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "text": "They answered and said to him, \u201cAre you also from Galil? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galil.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "text": "And each one went to his own house."}, {"pk": 2725530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went to the Mount of Olives."}, {"pk": 2725531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And at dawn He came again into the Set-apart Place, and all the people were coming to Him. And having sat down, He was teaching them."}, {"pk": 2725532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And having set her in the midst,"}, {"pk": 2725533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "they said to Him, \u201cTeacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery."}, {"pk": 2725534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What then do You say?"}, {"pk": 2725535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And this they said, trying Him, so that they might accuse Him. But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, bending down, wrote on the ground with the finger, as though He did not hear."}, {"pk": 2725536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "But as they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, \u201cHe who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And bending down again, He wrote on the ground."}, {"pk": 2725538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "And when they heard it, being reproved by <i>their</i> conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the older ones until the last. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle."}, {"pk": 2725539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, straightening up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, \u201cWoman, where are those accusers of yours? Did no one condemn you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And she said, \u201cNo one, Master.\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cNeither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.\u201d", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/14'>5:14</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/16-20'>6:16-20</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/15/34'>15:34</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/24'>2:24</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/4/1'>4:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/60/4/2'>2</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/4-10'>3:4-10</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2725541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke to them again, saying, \u201cI am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.\u201d", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/11/9'>11:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/11/10'>10</a> Chapter <a href='/TS2009/43/7/53-8'>7:53-8:11</a> does not appear in the Aramaic Peshitta or Aramaic Old Syriac texts."}, {"pk": 2725542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "The Pharisees, therefore, said to Him, \u201cYou bear witness about Yourself, Your witness is not true.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to them, \u201cEven if I witness concerning Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know from where I come, or where I go."}, {"pk": 2725544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cYou judge according to the flesh, I judge no one."}, {"pk": 2725545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cBut even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone <i>in it</i>, but I and the Father who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd in your Torah also, it has been written that the witness of two men is true."}, {"pk": 2725547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI am One who witnesses concerning Myself, and the Father who sent Me witnesses concerning Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "Therefore they said to Him, \u201cWhere is Your Father?\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cYou know neither Me nor My Father. If you knew Me, you would have known My Father also.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "These words \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke in the treasury, teaching in the Set-apart Place. And no one laid hands on Him, because His hour had not yet come."}, {"pk": 2725550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them again, \u201cI am going away, and you shall seek Me, and you shall die in your sin. Where I go you are unable to come.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "Then the Yehud\u0331im said, \u201cShall He kill Himself, because He says, \u2018Where I go you are unable to come\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cYou are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world."}, {"pk": 2725553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins."}, {"pk": 2725554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "Then they said to Him, \u201cWho are You?\u201d And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cAltogether that which I even say to you!"}, {"pk": 2725555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "I have much to say and to judge concerning you. But He who sent Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these <i>Words</i> I speak to the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father."}, {"pk": 2725557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cWhen you lift up the Son of Ad\u0331am, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these <i>words</i> I speak."}, {"pk": 2725558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him."}, {"pk": 2725559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "As He was speaking these words, many believed in Him."}, {"pk": 2725560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "So \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to those Yehud\u0331im who believed Him, \u201cIf you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2725561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "They answered Him, \u201cWe are the seed of Ab\u0331raham, and have been servants to no one at any time. How do you say, \u2018You shall become free\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, everyone doing sin is a servant of sin."}, {"pk": 2725564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAnd the servant does not stay in the house forever \u2014 a son stays forever."}, {"pk": 2725565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cIf, then, the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed."}, {"pk": 2725566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cI know that you are the seed of Ab\u0331raham, but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you."}, {"pk": 2725567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cI speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "They answered and said to Him, \u201cAb\u0331raham is our father.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cIf you were Ab\u0331raham\u2019s children, you would do the works of Ab\u0331raham.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@470 3:9>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/3/9'>3:9</a>; and also Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/8'>9:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2725569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cBut now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has spoken to you the truth which I heard from Elohim. Ab\u0331raham did not do this."}, {"pk": 2725570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cYou do the works of your father.\u201d Then they said to Him, \u201cWe were not born of whoring, we have one Father: Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 42, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cIf Elohim were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from Elohim, and am here. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 43, "text": "\u201cWhy do you not know what I say? Because you are unable to hear My Word."}, {"pk": 2725573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cYou are of <i>your</i> father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it."}, {"pk": 2725574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me."}, {"pk": 2725575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 46, "text": "Who of you proves Me wrong concerning sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 47, "text": "He who is of Elohim hears the Words of Elohim, therefore you do not hear because you are not of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 48, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im answered and said to Him, \u201cDo we not say well that You are a Shomeroni and have a demon?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 49, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cI do not have a demon, but I value My Father, and you do not value Me."}, {"pk": 2725579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cAnd I do not seek My own esteem, there is One who is seeking and is judging."}, {"pk": 2725580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 51, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, if anyone guards My Word he shall never see death at all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 52, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im said to Him, \u201cNow we know that You have a demon! Ab\u0331raham died, and the prophets. And You say, \u2018If anyone guards My Word he shall never taste death at all.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 53, "text": "Are You greater than our father Ab\u0331raham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do You make Yourself?"}, {"pk": 2725583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 54, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cIf I esteem Myself, My esteem is none at all. It is My Father who esteems Me, of whom you say that He is your Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 55, "text": "And you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, \u2018I do not know Him,\u2019 I shall be like you, a liar. But I do know Him and I guard His Word.", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/10'>15:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2725585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 56, "text": "Your father Ab\u0331raham was glad that he should see My day, and he saw it and did rejoice."}, {"pk": 2725586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 57, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im, therefore, said to Him, \u201cYou are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Ab\u0331raham?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 58, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, before Ab\u0331raham came to be, I am.\u201d", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/1'>1:1</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/6/62'>6:62</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/5'>17:5</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/26'>11:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2725588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 8, "verse": 59, "text": "Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was hidden and went out of the Set-apart Place, going through the midst of them, and so passed by."}, {"pk": 2725589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And passing by, He saw a man, blind from birth."}, {"pk": 2725590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And His taught ones asked Him, saying, \u201cRabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cNeither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of Elohim might be made manifest in him."}, {"pk": 2725592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cIt is necessary for Me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day \u2014 night is coming, when no one is able to work."}, {"pk": 2725593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "Having said this, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and applied the clay to the eyes of the blind man."}, {"pk": 2725595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said to him, \u201cGo, wash in the pool of Shiloah\u0323\" (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came seeing."}, {"pk": 2725596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore the neighbours and those who saw him before, that he was blind, said, \u201cIs not this he who was sitting and begging?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "Others said, \u201cThis is he.\u201d Others <i>said</i>, \u201cHe is like him.\u201d He said, \u201cI am.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "So they said to him, \u201cHow were your eyes opened?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "He answered and said, \u201cA Man called \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 made clay and applied it to my eyes and said to me, \u2018Go to the pool of Shiloah\u0323 and wash.\u2019 And I went and washed, and I received sight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWhere is He?\u201d He said, \u201cI do not know.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "They brought to the Pharisees the one who was once blind."}, {"pk": 2725602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "Now it was a Sabbath when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 made the clay and opened his eyes."}, {"pk": 2725603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "Therefore the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, \u201cHe put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore some of the Pharisees said, \u201cThis Man is not from Elohim, because He does not guard the Sabbath.\u201d Others said, \u201cHow is a man who is a sinner able to do such miracles?\u201d And there was a division among them."}, {"pk": 2725605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "So they said to the blind one again, \u201cWhat do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?\u201d And he said, \u201cHe is a prophet.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "However, the Yehud\u0331im did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, till they called the parents of him who had received his sight."}, {"pk": 2725607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And they asked them, saying, \u201cIs this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "His parents answered them and said, \u201cWe know that this is our son, and that he was born blind,"}, {"pk": 2725609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "but how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age, ask him, he shall speak concerning himself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "His parents said this because they were afraid of the Yehud\u0331im, for the Yehud\u0331im had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Messiah, he should be put out of the congregation."}, {"pk": 2725611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "Because of this his parents said, \u201cHe is of age, ask him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "So for the second time they called the man who was blind, and said to him, \u201cGive esteem to Elohim, we know that this Man is a sinner.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "Then he answered and said, \u201cWhether He is a sinner, I do not know. I only know that I was blind, now I see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And they asked him once more, \u201cWhat did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "He answered them, \u201cI have told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you wish to hear it again? Do you wish to become His taught ones too?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "Then they abused him and said, \u201cYou are His taught one, but we are taught ones of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2725617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "We know that Elohim has spoken to Mosheh, but this One, we do not know where He is from."}, {"pk": 2725618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "The man answered and said to them, \u201cWhy, this is a wonder! You do not know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!"}, {"pk": 2725619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "And we know that Elohim does not hear sinners. But if anyone fears Elohim and does His desire, He hears him.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@240 28:9>note</a> at Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/28/9'>28:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2725620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cFrom of old it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind."}, {"pk": 2725621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cIf this One were not from Elohim, He could have done none at all.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "They answered and said to him, \u201cYou were completely born in sins \u2014 and are you teaching us?\u201d And they cast him out."}, {"pk": 2725623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 heard that they had cast him out, and when He had found him, He said to him, \u201cDo you believe in the Son of Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "He answered and said, \u201cWho is He, Master, that I might believe in Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cYou have both seen Him and He who speaks with you is He.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And he said, \u201cMaster, I believe,\u201d and bowed before Him."}, {"pk": 2725627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cFor judgment I have come into this world, that those not seeing might see, and those seeing might become blind.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, \u201cAre we blind, too?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cIf you were blind, you would have no sin, but now you say, \u2018We see,\u2019 therefore your sin remains."}, {"pk": 2725630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up by another way, that one is a thief and a robber."}, {"pk": 2725631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep."}, {"pk": 2725632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cThe doorkeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."}, {"pk": 2725633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd when he has brought out his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him, because they know his voice."}, {"pk": 2725634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd they shall by no means follow a stranger, but shall flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 used this figure of speech, but they did not know what He had been saying to them."}, {"pk": 2725636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore said to them again, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep."}, {"pk": 2725637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAll who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them."}, {"pk": 2725638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI am the door. Whoever enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out and find pasture."}, {"pk": 2725639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cThe thief does not come except to steal, and to slaughter, and to destroy. I have come that they might possess life, and that they might possess it beyond measure."}, {"pk": 2725640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep."}, {"pk": 2725641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut the hireling, and not being a shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them."}, {"pk": 2725642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cNow the hireling flees because he is a hireling and is not concerned about the sheep."}, {"pk": 2725643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI am the good shepherd. And I know Mine, and Mine know Me,", "comment": "See Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/1'>34</a>; especially verses Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/11'>34:11</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/34/12'>12</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/13/20'>13:20</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/25'>2:25</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/5/4'>5:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2725644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep."}, {"pk": 2725645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd other sheep I have which are not of this fold \u2014 I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/11/52'>11:52</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/13-19'>2:13-19</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/8'>56:8</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/23'>34:23</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/37/24'>37:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2725646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBecause of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, in order to receive it again."}, {"pk": 2725647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cNo one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This command I have received from My Father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "Again there came a division among the Yehud\u0331im because of these words,"}, {"pk": 2725649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "and many of them said, \u201cHe has a demon and is mad, why do you listen to Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "Others said, \u201cThese are not the words of one possessed by a demon. Is a demon able to open the eyes of the blind?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "At that time the H\u0323anukkah came to be in Yerushalayim, and it was winter.", "comment": "Feast of Dedication, during which candles are lit every evening to commemorate Maccabean victory over Greeks in 165 BCE."}, {"pk": 2725652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was walking in the Set-apart Place, in the porch of Shelomoh."}, {"pk": 2725653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "So the Yehud\u0331im surrounded Him and said to Him, \u201cHow long do You keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, say to us plainly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cI have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father\u2019s Name, they bear witness concerning Me."}, {"pk": 2725655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you."}, {"pk": 2725656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cMy sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/14/4'>14:4</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/14/5'>5</a>"}, {"pk": 2725657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd I give them everlasting life, and they shall by no means ever perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand."}, {"pk": 2725658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cMy Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of My Father\u2019s hand."}, {"pk": 2725659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cI and My Father are one.\u201d", "comment": "One - Hebrew: Eh\u0323ad\u0331. See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/11'>17:11</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/21-23'>17:21-23</a>; Also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/4'>6:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2725660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "Again the Yehud\u0331im picked up stones to stone Him."}, {"pk": 2725661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cMany good works I have shown you from My Father. Because of which of these works do you stone Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im answered Him, saying, \u201cWe do not stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cIs it not written in your own Torah, \u2018I said, <i>\u201cYou are elohim\u201d</i>\u2019?", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/82/6'>82:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cIf He called them elohim, to whom the word of Elohim came \u2014 and it is impossible for the Scripture to be broken \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "do you say of Him whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, \u2018You are blaspheming,\u2019 because I said, \u2018I am the Son of Elohim\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2725666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cIf I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, but He went forth out of their hand,"}, {"pk": 2725669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "and went once more to the other side of the Yard\u0115n to the place where Yoh\u0323anan was immersing at first, and there He stayed."}, {"pk": 2725670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "And many came to Him and said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan indeed did no sign, yet all that Yoh\u0323anan said about this Man was true.\u201d", "comment": "Or <em>miracle</em>"}, {"pk": 2725671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "And many believed in Him there."}, {"pk": 2725672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And a certain one was sick, El\u201bazar from B\u0115yth Anyah, the village of Miryam and her sister Martha."}, {"pk": 2725673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "(Now it was Miryam who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother El\u201bazar was sick)."}, {"pk": 2725674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, \u201cMaster, see, he whom You love is sick.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "But when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 heard, He said, \u201cThis sickness is not unto death, but for the esteem of Elohim, so that the Son of Elohim might be esteemed by it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "Now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 loved Martha and her sister and El\u201bazar."}, {"pk": 2725677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore, when He heard that he was sick, then indeed He stayed at the place where He was, two more days."}, {"pk": 2725678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Then after this He said to the taught ones, \u201cLet us go back to Yehud\u0331ah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "The taught ones said to Him, \u201cRabbi, the Yehud\u0331im were but now seeking to stone You, and are You going back there?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cAre there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world."}, {"pk": 2725681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."}, {"pk": 2725682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "He said this, and after that He said to them, \u201cOur friend El\u201bazar has fallen asleep, but I am going there, to wake him up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore the taught ones said to Him, \u201cMaster, if he has fallen asleep he shall recover.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had spoken about his death, whereas they thought that He spoke of taking rest in sleep."}, {"pk": 2725685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "So then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them plainly, \u201cEl\u201bazar has died."}, {"pk": 2725686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And for your sake I am glad I was not there, in order for you to believe. But let us go to him."}, {"pk": 2725687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "T\u2019oma, who is called the Twin, then said to his fellow taught ones, \u201cLet us also go, so that we die with Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore, when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 arrived, He found that he had already been four days in the tomb."}, {"pk": 2725689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "Now B\u0115yth Anyah was near Yerushalayim, about fifteen stadia away.", "comment": "About 3 kilometres or 2 miles."}, {"pk": 2725690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And many of the Yehud\u0331im had come to Martha and Miryam, to comfort them concerning their brother."}, {"pk": 2725691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "Martha, then, when she heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was coming, met Him, but Miryam was sitting in the house."}, {"pk": 2725692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "Martha, then, said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cMaster, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."}, {"pk": 2725693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "But even now I know that whatever You might ask of Elohim, Elohim shall give You."}, {"pk": 2725694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cYour brother shall rise again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "Martha said to Him, \u201cI know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he dies, he shall live."}, {"pk": 2725697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And everyone that is living and believing in Me shall never die at all. Do you believe this?"}, {"pk": 2725698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "She said to Him, \u201cYes, Master, I believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of Elohim, who is coming into the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "And having said this she went away and called her sister Miryam secretly, saying, \u201cThe Teacher is here and calls you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "When she heard, she rose up quickly and came to Him."}, {"pk": 2725701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him."}, {"pk": 2725702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "Therefore the Yehud\u0331im who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, when they saw that Miryam rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, \u201cShe is going to the tomb to weep there.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "Miryam, therefore, when she came where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, \u201cMaster, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Yehud\u0331im who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled,"}, {"pk": 2725705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "and said, \u201cWhere have you laid him?\u201d They said to Him, \u201cMaster, come and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 wept."}, {"pk": 2725707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im therefore said, \u201cSee how He loved him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "And some of them said, \u201cWas this One, who opened the eyes of the blind, not also able to prevent this one from dying?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, therefore, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it."}, {"pk": 2725710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cTake away the stone.\u201d Martha, the sister of him who had died, said to Him, \u201cMaster, already he smells, for it is four days.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cDid I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the esteem of Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 41, "text": "So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 lifted up His eyes and said, \u201cFather, I thank You that You have heard Me."}, {"pk": 2725713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 42, "text": "And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 43, "text": "And when He had said this, He cried with a loud voice, \u201cEl\u201bazar, come out!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 44, "text": "And he who died came out bound feet and hands with wrappings, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cLoosen him, and let him go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 45, "text": "Therefore many of the Yehud\u0331im who had come to Miryam, and had seen what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did, believed in Him."}, {"pk": 2725717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 46, "text": "But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did."}, {"pk": 2725718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 47, "text": "So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, \u201cWhat shall we do? Because this Man does many signs."}, {"pk": 2725719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 48, "text": "If we let Him alone like this, they all shall believe in Him, and the Romans shall come and take away from us both our place and nation."}, {"pk": 2725720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 49, "text": "And one of them, Qayapha, being high priest that year, said to them, \u201cYou know naught,"}, {"pk": 2725721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 50, "text": "neither do you consider that it is better for us that one man die for the people than that the entire nation should perish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 51, "text": "But he did not say this from himself, but being high priest that year he prophesied that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was about to die for the nation,"}, {"pk": 2725723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 52, "text": "and not for the nation only, but to gather together into one the children of Elohim who were scattered abroad."}, {"pk": 2725724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 53, "text": "So from that day on they plotted to kill Him."}, {"pk": 2725725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 54, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 therefore no longer went openly among the Yehud\u0331im, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephrayim, and remained there with His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2725726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 55, "text": "Now the P\u0115sah\u0323 of the Yehud\u0331im was near, and many went from the country up to Yerushalayim before the P\u0115sah\u0323, to set themselves apart."}, {"pk": 2725727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 56, "text": "And so they were seeking \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and spoke among one another, standing in the Set-apart Place, \u201cWhat do you think? Is He not coming to the festival at all?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 11, "verse": 57, "text": "And both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should disclose it, in order for them to seize Him."}, {"pk": 2725729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "Accordingly \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, six days before the P\u0115sah\u0323, came to B\u0115yth Anyah, where El\u201bazar was, who had died, whom He raised from the dead."}, {"pk": 2725730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "So they made Him a supper there, and Martha served, while El\u201bazar was one of those who sat at the table with Him."}, {"pk": 2725731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "Then Miryam took a pound of costly perfume of nard, anointed the feet of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume."}, {"pk": 2725732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "Then one of His taught ones, Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, <i>son</i> of Shim\u201bon, who was about to deliver Him up, said,"}, {"pk": 2725733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"}, {"pk": 2725734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and he used to take what was put in it."}, {"pk": 2725735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 then said, \u201cLet her alone, she has kept this for the day of My burial."}, {"pk": 2725736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."}, {"pk": 2725737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Then a great crowd of the Yehud\u0331im learned that He was there. And they came, not on account of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 only, but also to see El\u201bazar, whom He had raised from the dead."}, {"pk": 2725738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And the chief priests resolved to kill El\u201bazar as well,"}, {"pk": 2725739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "because on account of him many of the Yehud\u0331im went away and believed in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "On the next day a great crowd who had come to the festival, when they heard that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was coming to Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2725741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and were crying out, <i>\u201cHoshia-na!</i> <i>Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,</i> the Sovereign of Yisra\u2019\u0115l!\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/23/39'>23:39</a>; and Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/25'>118:25</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/26'>118:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2725742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, having found a young donkey, sat on it, as it has been written:"}, {"pk": 2725743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>\u201cDo not fear, daughter of Tsiyon, see, your Sovereign is coming, sitting on the colt of a donkey.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/9/9'>9:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2725744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "At first His taught ones did not understand this. But when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was esteemed, then they remembered that this was written about Him and that they had done this to Him."}, {"pk": 2725745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore the crowd, who were with Him when He called El\u201bazar out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, were bearing witness."}, {"pk": 2725746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "On account of this the crowd also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign."}, {"pk": 2725747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "The Pharisees then said among themselves, \u201cYou see how you are getting nowhere at all. Look, the world has gone after Him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And there were certain Greeks among those coming up to worship at the festival."}, {"pk": 2725749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "These then came to Philip, who was from B\u0115yth Tsaid\u0331a of Galil, and were asking him, saying, \u201cMaster, we wish to see \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "Philip came and told Andri, and in turn Andri and Philip told \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, saying, \u201cThe hour has come for the Son of Ad\u0331am to be esteemed."}, {"pk": 2725752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit."}, {"pk": 2725753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cHe who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world shall preserve it for everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2725754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cIf anyone serves Me, let him follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father shall value him."}, {"pk": 2725755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cNow I Myself am troubled, and what shall I say? \u2018Father, save Me from this hour\u2019? But for this reason I came to this hour."}, {"pk": 2725756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "Father, esteem Your Name. Then a voice came from the heaven, \u201cI have both esteemed it and shall esteem it again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "So the crowd who stood by and heard it were saying there had been thunder. Others said, \u201cA messenger has spoken to Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said, \u201cThis voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake."}, {"pk": 2725759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "Now is the judgment of this world, now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 32, "text": "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw all <i>men</i> unto Myself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 33, "text": "This He said, signifying by what death He was about to die."}, {"pk": 2725762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 34, "text": "The crowd answered Him, \u201cWe have heard out of the Torah that the Messiah remains forever. And how do You say, \u2018The Son of Ad\u0331am has to be lifted up\u2019? Who is this Son of Ad\u0331am?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 35, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, therefore, said to them, \u201cYet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going."}, {"pk": 2725764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 36, "text": "While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you become sons of light. These <i>words</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 spoke, and went off and was hidden from them."}, {"pk": 2725765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 37, "text": "But though He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,"}, {"pk": 2725766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 38, "text": "that the word of Yeshayahu the prophet might be filled, which he spoke, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 been revealed?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/1'>53:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2725767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 39, "text": "Because of this they were unable to believe, because again Yeshayahu said:"}, {"pk": 2725768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 40, "text": "<i>\u201cHe has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn, and I should heal them.\u201d</i>", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/15'>13:15</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/10'>6:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2725769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 41, "text": "Yeshayahu said this when he saw His esteem and spoke of Him."}, {"pk": 2725770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 42, "text": "Still, even among the rulers many did believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess <i>Him</i>, lest they should be put out of the congregation,"}, {"pk": 2725771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 43, "text": "for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 44, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 cried out and said, \u201cHe who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 45, "text": "\u201cAnd he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 46, "text": "\u201cI have come as a light into the world, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness."}, {"pk": 2725775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 47, "text": "\u201cAnd if anyone hears My Words but does not watch over them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world but to save the world."}, {"pk": 2725776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 48, "text": "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him: the Word that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/18'>3:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/3/19'>19</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/7/16'>7:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2725777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 49, "text": "\u201cBecause I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me has given Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/7/16'>7:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2725778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 12, "verse": 50, "text": "\u201cAnd I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/17'>19:17</a>: John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>"}, {"pk": 2725779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And before the Festival of the P\u0115sah\u0323, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 knowing that His hour had come that He should move out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end."}, {"pk": 2725780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And supper taking place, the devil having already put it into the heart of Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, <i>son</i> of Shim\u201bon, to deliver Him up,"}, {"pk": 2725781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing that the Father had given all into His hands, and that He had come from Elohim and was going to Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2725782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "rose from supper and laid aside His garments, and having taken a towel, He girded Himself."}, {"pk": 2725783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "After that He put water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the taught ones, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded."}, {"pk": 2725784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And so He came to Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, and he said to Him, \u201cMaster, do You wash my feet?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered and said to him, \u201cYou do not know what I am doing now, but you shall know after this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cBy no means shall You wash my feet, ever!\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cIf I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cMaster, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cHe who has had a bath does not need to wash, except his feet, but is clean altogether. And you are clean, but not all of you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "For He knew who would deliver Him up, so He said, \u201cYou are not all clean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "So when He had washed their feet and taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, \u201cDo you know what I have done to you?"}, {"pk": 2725791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cYou call me Teacher and Master, and you say well, for I am."}, {"pk": 2725792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThen if I, Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another\u2019s feet."}, {"pk": 2725793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor I gave you an example, that you should do as I have done to you."}, {"pk": 2725794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is an emissary greater than he who sent him."}, {"pk": 2725795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "If you know these <i>teachings</i>, blessed are you if you do them."}, {"pk": 2725796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but that the Scripture might be filled, <i>\u2018He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/41/9'>41:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2725797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cNow I say to you, before it takes place, that when it does take place, you shall believe that I am."}, {"pk": 2725798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send, receives Me. And he who receives Me, receives Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "When \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had said this He was troubled in spirit, and witnessed and said, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, one of you shall deliver Me up.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "The taught ones looked at one another, doubting of whom He spoke."}, {"pk": 2725801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "And one of His taught ones, whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 loved, was reclining on the bosom of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2725802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha then motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke."}, {"pk": 2725803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And leaning back on the breast of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 he said to Him, \u201cMaster, who is it?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cIt is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.\u201d And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Yehud\u0331ah from Qerioth, <i>son</i> of Shim\u201bon."}, {"pk": 2725805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "And after the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, therefore, said to him, \u201cWhat you do, do quickly.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "But no one at the table knew why He said this to him,"}, {"pk": 2725807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "for some were supposing, because Yehud\u0331ah had the bag, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was saying to him, \u201cBuy what we need for the festival,\u201d or that he should give somewhat to the poor."}, {"pk": 2725808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "So, having received the piece of bread, he then went out straightaway, and it was night."}, {"pk": 2725809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "When, therefore, he went out, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said, \u201cNow the Son of Ad\u0331am has been esteemed, and Elohim has been esteemed in Him."}, {"pk": 2725810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cIf Elohim has been esteemed in Him, Elohim shall also esteem Him in Himself, and straightaway esteem Him."}, {"pk": 2725811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cLittle children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek Me, and as I said to the Yehud\u0331im, \u2018Where I am going, you are unable to come,\u2019 I now also say to you."}, {"pk": 2725812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cA renewed command I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another."}, {"pk": 2725813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cBy this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have love for one another.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cMaster, where are You going?\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cWhere I am going you are unable to follow Me now, but afterwards you shall follow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "K\u0115pha said to Him, \u201cMaster, why am I unable to follow You now? I shall lay down my life for You.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cShall you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the cock shall not crow at all until you have denied Me three times."}, {"pk": 2725817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cLet not your heart be troubled. Believe in Elohim, believe also in Me."}, {"pk": 2725818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cIn My Father\u2019s house are many staying places. And if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."}, {"pk": 2725819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd if I go and prepare a place for you, I shall come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, you might be too."}, {"pk": 2725820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd where I go you know, and the way you know."}, {"pk": 2725821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "T\u2019oma said to Him, \u201cMaster, we do not know where You are going, and how are we able to know the way?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cI am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."}, {"pk": 2725823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father too. From now on you know Him, and have seen."}, {"pk": 2725824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "Philip said to Him, \u201cMaster, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cHave I been with you so long, and you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father, and how do you say, \u2018Show us the Father\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2725826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cDo you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself. But the Father who stays in Me does His works."}, {"pk": 2725827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cBelieve Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves."}, {"pk": 2725828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater <i>works</i> than these he shall do, because I go to My Father."}, {"pk": 2725829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son."}, {"pk": 2725830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cIf you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it."}, {"pk": 2725831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cIf you love Me, you shall guard My commands.", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/22'>14:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/14/23'>23</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/6'>20:6</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/2'>5:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/62/5/3'>3</a>; 3John <a href='/TS2009/64/1/6'>1:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever \u2014"}, {"pk": 2725833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you."}, {"pk": 2725834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI shall not leave you orphans \u2014 I am coming to you."}, {"pk": 2725835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cYet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live."}, {"pk": 2725836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cIn that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you."}, {"pk": 2725837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cHe who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah \u2014 not the one from Qerioth \u2014 said to Him, \u201cMaster, what has come about that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cIf anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him."}, {"pk": 2725840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cHe who does not love Me does not guard My Words. And the Word which you hear is not Mine but of the Father Who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThese <i>Words</i> I have spoken to you while still with you."}, {"pk": 2725842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cBut the Helper, the Set-apart Spirit, whom the Father shall send in My Name, He shall teach you all, and remind you of all that I said to you."}, {"pk": 2725843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cPeace I leave with you \u2014 My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."}, {"pk": 2725844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cYou heard that I said to you, \u2018I am going away and I am coming to you.\u2019 If you did love Me, you would have rejoiced that I said, \u2018I am going to the Father,\u2019 for My Father is greater than I."}, {"pk": 2725845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd now I have told you before it takes place, that when it does take place, you shall believe."}, {"pk": 2725846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cI shall no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he possesses none at all in Me,", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@490 4:6>note</a> at Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "but, in order for the world to know that I love the Father, and that as the Father commanded Me, so I am doing. Rise up, let us go from here."}, {"pk": 2725848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cI am the true vine, and My Father is the gardener."}, {"pk": 2725849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cEvery branch in Me that bears no fruit He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit He prunes, so that it bears more fruit."}, {"pk": 2725850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cYou are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you."}, {"pk": 2725851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "Stay in Me, and I <i>stay</i> in you. As the branch is unable to bear fruit of itself, unless it stays in the vine, so neither you, unless you stay in Me."}, {"pk": 2725852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cI am the vine, you are the branches. He who stays in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit. Because without Me you are able to do naught!"}, {"pk": 2725853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cIf anyone does not stay in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned."}, {"pk": 2725854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cIf you stay in Me, and My Words stay in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you."}, {"pk": 2725855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cIn this My Father is esteemed, that you bear much fruit, and you shall be My taught ones."}, {"pk": 2725856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAs the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Stay in My love."}, {"pk": 2725857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cIf you guard My commands, you shall stay in My love even as I have guarded My Father\u2019s commands and stay in His love.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/15'>14:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2725858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "These <i>words</i> I have spoken to you, so that My joy might be in you, and that your joy might be complete."}, {"pk": 2725859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cThis is My command, that you love one another, as I have loved you.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/13/34'>13:34</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/17'>15:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2725860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cNo one has greater love than this: that one should lay down his life for his friends."}, {"pk": 2725861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cYou are My friends if you do whatever I command you."}, {"pk": 2725862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, for all <i>teachings</i> which I heard from My Father I have made known to you."}, {"pk": 2725863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cYou did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He might give you."}, {"pk": 2725864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThese <i>words</i> I command you, so that you love one another.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/13/34'>13:34</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/12'>15:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2725865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before <i>it hated</i> you."}, {"pk": 2725866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cIf you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you."}, {"pk": 2725867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cRemember the word that I said to you, \u2018A servant is not greater than his master.\u2019 If they persecuted Me, they shall persecute you too. If they have guarded My Word, they would guard yours too."}, {"pk": 2725868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut all this they shall do to you because of My Name, because they do not know Him who sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."}, {"pk": 2725870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cHe who hates Me hates My Father as well."}, {"pk": 2725871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "If I did not do among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have both seen and have hated both Me and My Father,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "but...that the word might be filled which was written in their Torah, <i>\u2018They hated Me without a cause.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/35/19'>35:19</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/64/9'>64:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2725873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth, who comes from the Father, He shall bear witness of Me,"}, {"pk": 2725874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "but you also bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning."}, {"pk": 2725875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cThese <i>words</i> I have spoken to you, so that you do not stumble."}, {"pk": 2725876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cThey shall put you out of the congregations, but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you shall think he is rendering service to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd this they shall do to you because they did not know the Father, nor Me."}, {"pk": 2725878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "But I have said these <i>words</i> to you, so that when the hour comes you remember that I told them to you. And these <i>words</i> I did not say to you at the beginning, for I was with you."}, {"pk": 2725879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBut now I go away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, \u2018Where are You going?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2725880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBut because I have said these <i>words</i> to you, grief has filled your heart."}, {"pk": 2725881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cBut I say the truth to you. It is better for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you at all, but if I go, I shall send Him to you."}, {"pk": 2725882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd having come, He shall convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment \u2014", "comment": "Or <em>confute</em> or <em>prove wrong.</em><br>See 2Ch. <a href='/TS2009/14/24/20'>24:20</a>; Neh. <a href='/TS2009/16/9/30'>9:30</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/36/27'>36:27</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/3/8'>3:8</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/28/25-27'>28:25-27</a>"}, {"pk": 2725883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "concerning sin because they do not believe in Me,"}, {"pk": 2725884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "concerning righteousness because I go to My Father and you see Me no more,"}, {"pk": 2725885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "concerning judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2725886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cI still have many <i>words</i> to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now."}, {"pk": 2725887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cBut when He comes, the Spirit of the Truth, He shall guide you into all the truth. For He shall not speak from Himself, but whatever He hears He shall speak, and He shall announce to you what is to come."}, {"pk": 2725888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cHe shall esteem Me, for He shall take of what is Mine and announce it to you."}, {"pk": 2725889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAll that the Father has is Mine. That is why I said that He takes from what is Mine and announces it to you."}, {"pk": 2725890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cA little while, and you do not see Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore some of His taught ones said to one another, \u201cWhat is this that He says to us, \u2018A little while, and you do not see Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me,\u2019 and, \u2018because I am going to the Father\u2019?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "So they said, \u201cWhat is this that He says, \u2018A little while\u2019? We do not know what He is saying.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask Him, and He said to them, \u201cAre you asking one another about what I said, \u2018A little while, and you do not see Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me\u2019?"}, {"pk": 2725894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cTruly, truly, I say to you that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. And you shall be grieved, but your grief shall become joy."}, {"pk": 2725895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThe woman has grief when she is in labour, because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the affliction, for joy that a man was born into the world."}, {"pk": 2725896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd you, therefore, have grief now, but I shall see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you."}, {"pk": 2725897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd in that day you shall ask Me none at all. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My Name He shall give you."}, {"pk": 2725898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cUntil now you have asked naught in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy might be complete."}, {"pk": 2725899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cThese <i>words</i> I have spoken to you in figures of speech, but an hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall declare the Father plainly to you."}, {"pk": 2725900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cIn that day you shall ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father on your behalf,"}, {"pk": 2725901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "for the Father Himself does love you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cI came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "His taught ones said to Him, \u201cSee, now You are speaking plainly, and not using figure of speech!"}, {"pk": 2725904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cNow we know that You know all, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from Elohim."}, {"pk": 2725905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered them, \u201cDo you now believe?"}, {"pk": 2725906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cSee, an hour is coming, and has now come, that you are scattered, each to his own, and leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me."}, {"pk": 2725907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cThese <i>words</i> I have spoken to you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have pressure, but take courage, I have overcome the world.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said these <i>words</i>, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said, \u201cFather, the hour has come. Esteem Your Son, so that Your Son also might esteem You,"}, {"pk": 2725909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give everlasting life to all whom You have given Him."}, {"pk": 2725910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true Elohim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah whom You have sent."}, {"pk": 2725911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cI have esteemed You on the earth, having accomplished the work You have given Me that I should do."}, {"pk": 2725912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now, esteem Me with Yourself, Father, with the esteem which I had with You before the world was."}, {"pk": 2725913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cI have revealed Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have guarded Your Word.", "comment": "See also Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/138/2'>138:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2725914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cNow they have come to know that all You gave to Me, is from You."}, {"pk": 2725915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBecause the Words which You gave to Me, I have given to them. And they have received them, and have truly known that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours."}, {"pk": 2725917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I have been esteemed in them."}, {"pk": 2725918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Set-apart Father, guard them in Your Name which You have given Me, so that they might be one, as We are.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/10/30'>10:30</a>"}, {"pk": 2725919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhen I was with them in the world, I was guarding them in Your Name which You have given Me, and I watched over them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be filled."}, {"pk": 2725920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd now I come to You. And I speak these <i>words</i> in the world, so that they have My joy completed in them."}, {"pk": 2725921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cI have given them Your Word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world."}, {"pk": 2725922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked <i>one</i>."}, {"pk": 2725923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cThey are not of the world, as I am not of the world."}, {"pk": 2725924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSet them apart in Your truth \u2014 Your Word is truth.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/142'>119:142</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/151'>119:151</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/160'>119:160</a>"}, {"pk": 2725925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAs You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world."}, {"pk": 2725926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth."}, {"pk": 2725927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word,"}, {"pk": 2725928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the esteem which You gave Me I have given them, so that they might be one as We are one,"}, {"pk": 2725930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cI in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me."}, {"pk": 2725931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cFather, I desire that those whom You have given Me, might be with Me where I am, so that they see My esteem which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world."}, {"pk": 2725932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cO righteous Father, indeed the world did not know You, but I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me."}, {"pk": 2725933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd I have made Your Name known to them, and shall make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them, and I in them.\u201d", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/6'>17:6</a>; as well as Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/22'>22:22</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/2/12'>2:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2725934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "Having said these <i>words</i>, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went out with His taught ones beyond the Qid\u0331ron torrent, where there was a garden, into which He and His taught ones entered."}, {"pk": 2725935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah, who delivered Him up, also knew the place, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 often met there with His taught ones."}, {"pk": 2725936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah, then, having received the company <i>of soldiers</i>, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, and torches, and weapons."}, {"pk": 2725937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, then, knowing all that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, \u201cWhom do you seek?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "They answered Him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cI am.\u201d And Yehud\u0331ah, who delivered Him up, was also standing with them."}, {"pk": 2725939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "When, therefore, He said to them, \u201cI am,\u201d they drew back and fell to the ground."}, {"pk": 2725940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "Once more He asked them, \u201cWhom do you seek?\u201d And they said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cI said to you that I am. If, then, you seek Me, allow these to go,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "in order that the word might be filled which He spoke, \u201cOf those whom You have given Me, I have lost none.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "Then Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest\u2019s servant, and cut off his right ear. And the servant\u2019s name was Melek\u0331."}, {"pk": 2725944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to K\u0115pha, \u201cPut your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "Then the company <i>of soldiers</i> and the commander and the officers of the Yehud\u0331im seized \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and bound Him,"}, {"pk": 2725946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "and they led Him away to H\u0323anan first, for he was the father-in-law of Qayapha who was high priest that year."}, {"pk": 2725947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "Now Qayapha was the one who gave counsel to the Yehud\u0331im that it was better that one man should die for the people."}, {"pk": 2725948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "And Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha followed \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, with another taught one, and that taught one was known to the high priest, and went with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 into the courtyard of the high priest."}, {"pk": 2725949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "But K\u0115pha was standing outside at the door. So the other taught one, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought K\u0115pha in."}, {"pk": 2725950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "Then the servant girl who kept the door said to K\u0115pha, \u201cAre you also one of this Man\u2019s taught ones?\u201d He said, \u201cI am not.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, because it was cold, and they warmed themselves. And K\u0115pha was standing with them and warming himself."}, {"pk": 2725952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "Then the high priest asked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 about His taught ones and His teaching."}, {"pk": 2725953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cI spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the congregation and in the Set-apart Place, where the Yehud\u0331im always meet, and I spoke no <i>word</i> in secret."}, {"pk": 2725954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "Why do you ask Me? Ask those who have heard Me what I said to them. See, they know what I said."}, {"pk": 2725955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And when He had said this, one of the officers who stood by slapped \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 in the face, saying, \u201cDo You answer the high priest this way?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cIf I have spoken evilly, bear witness of the evil, but if well, why do you strike Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "Then H\u0323anan sent Him bound to the high priest, Qayapha."}, {"pk": 2725958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "And Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him, \u201cAre you also one of His taught ones?\u201d He denied it and said, \u201cI am not!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the one whose ear K\u0115pha cut off, said, \u201cDid I not see you in the garden with Him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "Then K\u0115pha again denied it, and immediately a cock crowed."}, {"pk": 2725961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "Then they led \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from Qayapha to the palace, and it was early. And they themselves did not go into the palace, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2725962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 29, "text": "Pilate, therefore, came out to them and said, \u201cWhat accusation do you bring against this Man?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 30, "text": "They answered and said to him, \u201cIf He were not an evil-doer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 31, "text": "Then Pilate said to them, \u201cYou take Him and judge Him according to your law.\u201d The Yehud\u0331im said to him, \u201cIt is not right for us to put anyone to death,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 32, "text": "in order that the word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 might be filled which He spoke, signifying by what death He was about to die."}, {"pk": 2725966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 33, "text": "Then Pilate went back into the palace, and called \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and said to Him, \u201cAre You the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 34, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered him, \u201cDo you say this from yourself, or did others talk to you about Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 35, "text": "Pilate answered, \u201cAm I a Yehud\u0331i? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What did You do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 36, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cMy reign is not of this world. If My reign were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Yehud\u0331im. But now My reign is not from here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 37, "text": "Then Pilate said to Him, \u201cYou are a sovereign, then?\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cYou say it, because I am a sovereign. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 38, "text": "Pilate said to Him, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d And when he had said this, he went out again to the Yehud\u0331im, and said to them, \u201cI find no guilt in Him."}, {"pk": 2725972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 39, "text": "But you have a habit that I shall release someone to you at the P\u0115sah\u0323. Do you wish, then, that I release to you the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im?"}, {"pk": 2725973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 18, "verse": 40, "text": "Then they all shouted again, saying, \u201cNot this One, but Barabba!\u201d And Barabba was a robber."}, {"pk": 2725974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "Then, therefore, Pilate took \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and flogged <i>Him</i>."}, {"pk": 2725975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and placed it on His head, and they put a purple robe on Him,"}, {"pk": 2725976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "and came to Him and said, \u201cGreetings, Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im!\u201d And they slapped Him in the face."}, {"pk": 2725977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And Pilate went outside again, and said to them, \u201cSee, I am bringing Him out to you, to let you know that I find no guilt in Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, \u201cSee the Man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "So when the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, saying, \u201cImpale! Impale!\u201d Pilate said to them, \u201cYou take Him and impale Him, for I find no guilt in Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "The Yehud\u0331im answered him, \u201cWe have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, for He has made Himself the Son of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "So when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid,"}, {"pk": 2725982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "and went back into the palace, and asked \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cWhere are You from?\u201d But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 gave him no answer."}, {"pk": 2725983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "Then Pilate said to Him, \u201cDo You not speak to me? Do You not know that I possess authority to impale You, and I possess authority to release You?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 answered, \u201cYou would possess no authority against Me if it were not given you from above. Because of this, he who delivered Me to you has greater sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "From then on Pilate was seeking to release Him, but the Yehud\u0331im shouted, saying, \u201cIf you release this One, you are not Caesar\u2019s friend. Everyone who makes himself a sovereign, does speak against Caesar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore, when Pilate heard these words, he brought \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha."}, {"pk": 2725987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And it was the Preparation <i>Day</i> of the P\u0115sah\u0323 <i>week</i>, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Yehud\u0331im, \u201cSee your Sovereign!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "But they shouted, \u201cAway, away, impale Him!\u201d Pilate said to them, \u201cShall I impale your Sovereign?\u201d The chief priests answered, \u201cWe have no sovereign except Caesar!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "At that time, then, he delivered Him to them to be impaled. And they took \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and led <i>Him</i> away."}, {"pk": 2725990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And bearing His stake, He went out to the so-called Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,"}, {"pk": 2725991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "where they impaled Him, and two others with Him, one on this side and one on that side, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 in the middle."}, {"pk": 2725992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And Pilate wrote a title too, and put it on the stake, and it was written: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 OF NATSARETH, THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUD\u0331IM."}, {"pk": 2725993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "Many of the Yehud\u0331im therefore read this title, for the place where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was impaled was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman."}, {"pk": 2725994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "So the chief priests of the Yehud\u0331im said to Pilate, \u201cDo not write, \u2018The Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im,\u2019 but, \u2018He said, \u201cI am the Sovereign of the Yehud\u0331im.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2725995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "Pilate answered, \u201cWhat I have written, I have written.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2725996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "Then the soldiers, when they had impaled \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, took His outer garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and the inner garment. But the inner garment was without seam, woven from the top in one piece."}, {"pk": 2725997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "So they said to each other, \u201cLet us not tear it, but cast lots for it \u2014 whose it shall be,\u201d in order that the Scripture might be filled which says, <i>\u201cThey divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.\u201d</i> The soldiers therefore indeed did this.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/18'>22:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2725998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "And by the stake of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stood His mother, and His mother\u2019s sister, Miryam the wife of Qlophah, and Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala."}, {"pk": 2725999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, seeing His mother and the taught one whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, \u201cWoman, see your son!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "Then to the taught one He said, \u201cSee, your mother!\u201d And from that hour that taught one took her to his own <i>home</i>."}, {"pk": 2726001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "After this, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, knowing that all had been accomplished, in order that the Scripture might be accomplished, said, \u201cI thirst!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "A bowl of sour wine stood there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and held it to His mouth."}, {"pk": 2726003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "So when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 took the sour wine He said, \u201cIt has been accomplished!\u201d And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit."}, {"pk": 2726004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "Therefore, since it was the Preparation <i>Day</i>, that the bodies should not remain on the stake on the Sabbath \u2014 for that Sabbath was a high one \u2014 the Yehud\u0331im asked Pilate to have their legs broken, and that <i>they</i> be taken away."}, {"pk": 2726005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "Therefore the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was impaled with Him,"}, {"pk": 2726006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "but when they came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs."}, {"pk": 2726007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and instantly blood and water came out."}, {"pk": 2726008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "And he who has seen has witnessed, and his witness is true. And he knows that he is speaking the truth, in order that you might believe."}, {"pk": 2726009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "For this took place in order for the Scripture to be filled: <i>\u201cNot one of His bones shall be broken.\u201d</i>", "comment": "See also Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/12/46'>12:46</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/9/12'>9:12</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/34/20'>34:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2726010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "And again another Scripture says, <i>\u201cThey shall look on Him whom they pierced.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/12/10'>12:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2726011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "And after this, Yos\u0115ph of Ramathayim, being a taught one of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, but secretly, for fear of the Yehud\u0331im, asked Pilate that he might take the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and Pilate gave permission. Therefore he came and took the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "text": "And Nak\u0331dimon, who at first came to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds."}, {"pk": 2726013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "text": "Then they took the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as was the habit of the Yehud\u0331im for burial."}, {"pk": 2726014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "text": "And at the place where He was impaled there was a garden, and in the garden a fresh tomb in which no one had yet been laid."}, {"pk": 2726015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 19, "verse": 42, "text": "There, then, because of the Preparation <i>Day</i> of the Yehud\u0331im, they laid \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, because the tomb was near."}, {"pk": 2726016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And on <i>day</i> one of the week Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.", "comment": "Gk. dimness or obscurity<br>Gk. one of the sabbaths - See Explanatory Notes \"First Day of the Week\""}, {"pk": 2726017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "So she ran and came to Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, and to the other taught one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 loved, and said to them, \u201cThey have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they laid Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "Then K\u0115pha and the other taught one went out, and they were going to the tomb,"}, {"pk": 2726019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "and the two were running together, but the other taught one outran K\u0115pha and came to the tomb first."}, {"pk": 2726020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And stooping down he saw the linen wrappings lying, but he did not go in."}, {"pk": 2726021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Then Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha came, following him, and went into the tomb. And he saw the linen wrappings lying,"}, {"pk": 2726022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "and the cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but folded up in a place by itself."}, {"pk": 2726023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "So, then, the other taught one, who came to the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed."}, {"pk": 2726024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "For they did not yet know the Scripture, that He has to rise again from the dead."}, {"pk": 2726025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore the taught ones went away again, by themselves."}, {"pk": 2726026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "But Miryam was standing outside by the tomb weeping. Then as she wept, she stooped down to the tomb,"}, {"pk": 2726027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "and saw two messengers in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 had been laid."}, {"pk": 2726028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And they said to her, \u201cWoman, why do you weep?\u201d She said to them, \u201cBecause they took away my Master, and I do not know where they laid Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And having said this, she turned around and saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 standing, but she did not know that it was \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cWoman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?\u201d Thinking He was the gardener, she said to Him, \u201cMaster, if You have carried Him away, say to me where You put Him, and I shall take Him away.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cMiryam!\u201d She turned and said to Him, \u201cRabboni!\u201d (which means Teacher)."}, {"pk": 2726032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to her, \u201cDo not hold on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and say to them, \u2018I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My Elohim and your Elohim.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "Miryam from Ma\u1e21dala came announcing to the taught ones that she had seen the Master, and that He had told her this."}, {"pk": 2726034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "When therefore it was evening on that day, <i>day</i> one of the week, and when the doors were shut where the taught ones met, for fear of the Yehud\u0331im, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came and stood in the midst, and said to them, \u201cPeace to you.\u201d", "comment": "Gk. one of the sabbaths - See Explanatory Notes \"First Day of the Week\""}, {"pk": 2726035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "And having said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The taught ones therefore rejoiced when they saw the Master."}, {"pk": 2726036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them again, \u201cPeace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "And having said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, \u201cReceive the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2726038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."}, {"pk": 2726039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "But T\u2019oma, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came,"}, {"pk": 2726040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "so the other taught ones said to him, \u201cWe have seen the Master.\u201d But he said to them, \u201cUnless I see in His hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the imprint of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I shall by no means believe.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "And after eight days His taught ones were again inside, and T\u2019oma with them. \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came, the doors having been shut, and He stood in the midst, and said, \u201cPeace to you!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "Then He said to T\u2019oma, \u201cBring your finger here, and see My hands. And bring your hand and put it into My side \u2014 and do not be unbelieving, but believing.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "And T\u2019oma answered and said to Him, \u201cMy Master and my Elohim!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cT\u2019oma, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "There were indeed many other signs that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did in the presence of His taught ones, which are not written in this book,"}, {"pk": 2726046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "but these have been written so that you believe that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Messiah, the Son of Elohim, and that, believing, you might possess life in His Name."}, {"pk": 2726047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "After this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 manifested Himself again to the taught ones at the Sea of Kinnereth, and He manifested this way:"}, {"pk": 2726048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, and T\u2019oma called the Twin, and Nethan\u2019\u0115l of Qanah in Galil, the <i>sons</i> of Zab\u0331dai, and two others of His taught ones were together."}, {"pk": 2726049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha said to them, \u201cI am going to fish.\u201d They said to him, \u201cWe are also coming with you.\u201d They went out and immediately entered into the boat. And that night they caught none at all."}, {"pk": 2726050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "But when it became early morning, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 stood on the beach. However, the taught ones did not know that it was \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "Then \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cChildren, have you any food?\u201d They answered Him, \u201cNo.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cThrow the net on the right side of the boat, and you shall find.\u201d So they threw, and they were no longer able to draw it in because of the large number of fish."}, {"pk": 2726053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "That taught one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 loved then said to K\u0115pha, \u201cIt is the Master!\u201d Then Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, hearing that it was the Master, put on his outer garment \u2014 for he was stripped \u2014 and plunged into the sea."}, {"pk": 2726054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And the other taught ones came in the little boat \u2014 for they were not far from land, but about two hundred cubits \u2014 dragging the net with fish."}, {"pk": 2726055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "So when they had come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread."}, {"pk": 2726056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cBring some of the fish which you have now caught.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha went up and dragged the net to land, filled with one hundred and fifty-three big fishes. And though there were so many, the net was not broken."}, {"pk": 2726058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to them, \u201cCome, have breakfast.\u201d And not one of the taught ones had the courage to ask Him, \u201cWho are You?,\u201d knowing that it was the Master."}, {"pk": 2726059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish."}, {"pk": 2726060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "This was now the third time \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was manifested to His taught ones after He was raised from the dead."}, {"pk": 2726061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "When, therefore, they had eaten breakfast, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, \u201cShim\u201bon, <i>son</i> of Yonah, do you love Me more than these?\u201d He said to Him, \u201cYes, Master, You know that I love You.\u201d He said to him, \u201cFeed My lambs.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "He said to him again, the second time, \u201cShim\u201bon, <i>son</i> of Yonah, do you love Me?\u201d He said to Him, \u201cYes, Master, You know that I love You.\u201d He said to him, \u201cShepherd My sheep.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "He said to him the third time, \u201cShim\u201bon, <i>son</i> of Yonah, do you love Me?\u201d K\u0115pha was sad because He said to him the third time, \u201cDo you love Me?\u201d And he said to Him, \u201cMaster, You know all, You know that I love You.\u201d \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cFeed My sheep."}, {"pk": 2726064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger you girded yourself and walked where you wished, but when you are old you shall stretch out your hands, and another shall gird you and bring you where <i>you</i> do not wish.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "Now this He said, signifying by what death he would esteem Elohim. And having said this, He said to him, \u201cFollow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And K\u0115pha, turning around, saw the taught one whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, \u201cMaster, who is the one who is delivering You up?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "Seeing him, K\u0115pha said to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, \u201cBut Master, what about this one?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 said to him, \u201cIf I wish him to remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "Therefore this word went out among the brothers that this taught one would not die. However, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did not say to him that he would not die, but, \u201cIf I desire him to remain until I come, what is it to you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "This is the taught one who bears witness about these <i>matters</i>, and wrote these <i>matters</i>. And we know that his witness is true."}, {"pk": 2726071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 43, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "Now there is much else that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 did. If every one of them were written down, I think that the world itself would not contain the written books. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2726072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The first account I made, O Theophilos, of all that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 began both to do and to teach,", "comment": "Compare Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/1/1-3'>1:1-3</a>. It appears that Luqas was the author of both accounts."}, {"pk": 2726073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "until the day when He was taken up, after giving instructions through the Set-apart Spirit to the emissaries whom He had chosen,"}, {"pk": 2726074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them for forty days, speaking concerning the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And meeting with them, He commanded them not to leave Yerushalayim, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, \u201cwhich you have heard from Me \u2014", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/24/49'>24:49</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/16'>14:16</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/26'>14:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2726076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "because Yoh\u0323anan truly immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Set-apart Spirit not many days from now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "So when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, \u201cMaster, would You at this time restore the reign to Yisra\u2019\u0115l?\u201d", "comment": "See also Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/1/33'>1:33</a>"}, {"pk": 2726078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And He said to them, \u201cIt is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority."}, {"pk": 2726079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehud\u0331ah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth."}, {"pk": 2726080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And having said this, while they were looking on, He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight."}, {"pk": 2726081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And as they were gazing into the heaven as He went up, see, two men stood by them dressed in white,"}, {"pk": 2726082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "who also said, \u201cMen of Galil, why do you stand looking up into the heaven? This same \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who was taken up from you into the heaven, shall come in the same way as you saw Him go into the heaven.\u201d", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/4'>14:4</a>. Note: these men were standing on the Mount of Olives, see Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/1/12'>1:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2726083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Then they went back to Yerushalayim from the Mount of Olives, which is near Yerushalayim, a Sabbath day\u2019s journey."}, {"pk": 2726084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And when they came in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: both K\u0115pha and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and Yoh\u0323anan and Andri, Philip and T\u2019oma, Bartholomi and Mattithyahu, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the <i>son of</i> Alphai and Shim\u201bon the Zealot, and Yehud\u0331ah the <i>son of</i> Ya\u201baqob\u0331."}, {"pk": 2726085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "All these were continuing with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women and Miryam the mother of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and with His brothers."}, {"pk": 2726086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And in those days K\u0115pha, standing up in the midst of the taught ones \u2014 and there was a gathering of about a hundred and twenty \u2014 said,"}, {"pk": 2726087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cMen and brothers, this Scripture had to be filled which the Set-apart Spirit spoke before by the mouth of Dawid\u0331 concerning Yehud\u0331ah, who became a guide to those who seized \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2726088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cbecause he was numbered with us and did receive his share in this service."}, {"pk": 2726089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "(This one, therefore, purchased a field with the wages of unrighteousness, and falling forward, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out."}, {"pk": 2726090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And it became known to all those dwelling in Yerushalayim, so that in their own language that field was called, H\u0323aqal Dema, that is, Field of Blood)."}, {"pk": 2726091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cFor it has been written in the Book of Tehillim, <i>\u2018Let his dwelling lie waste, and let no one live in it,\u2019</i> and, <i>\u2018Let another take his office.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/109/8'>109:8</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/25'>69:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2726092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "It is therefore necessary that of the men who have been with us all the time that the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 went in and out among us,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "beginning from the immersion of Yoh\u0323anan to that day when He was taken up from us, that one of these should become a witness with us of His resurrection.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And they put forward two: Yos\u0115ph called Barsabba, who was also called Justus, and Mattithyahu."}, {"pk": 2726095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And praying they said, \u201cYou, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two You have chosen"}, {"pk": 2726096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "to receive the share in this service and office of the emissary from which Yehud\u0331ah by transgression fell, to go to his own place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "And they cast their lots, and the lot fell on Mattithyahu. And he was numbered with the eleven emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And when the Day of the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u201bot had come, they were all with one mind in one place.", "comment": "Weeks."}, {"pk": 2726099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And suddenly there came a sound from the heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting."}, {"pk": 2726100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on each one of them."}, {"pk": 2726101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And they were all filled with the Set-apart Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to speak."}, {"pk": 2726102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Now in Yerushalayim there were dwelling Yehud\u0331im, dedicated men from every nation under the heaven."}, {"pk": 2726103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And when this sound came to be, the crowd came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language."}, {"pk": 2726104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying to each other, \u201cLook, are not all these who speak Galileans?"}, {"pk": 2726105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd how do we hear, each one in our own language in which we were born?"}, {"pk": 2726106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Parthians and Medes and \u011aylamites, and those dwelling in Aram Naharayim, both Yehud\u0331ah and Kappadokia, Pontos and Asia,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "both Phrygia and Pamphulia, Mitsrayim and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Yehud\u0331im and converts,"}, {"pk": 2726108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Cretans and Arab\u0331s, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great deeds of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And they were all amazed, and were puzzled, saying to each other, \u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And others mocking said, \u201cThey have been filled with sweet wine.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "But K\u0115pha, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, \u201cMen of Yehud\u0331ah and all those dwelling in Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen closely to my words."}, {"pk": 2726112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cFor these men are not drunk, as you imagine, since it is only the third hour of the day."}, {"pk": 2726113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "But this is what was spoken by the prophet Yo\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2726114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>\u2018And it shall be in the last days, says Elohim, that I shall pour out of My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,</i>"}, {"pk": 2726115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>and also on My male servants and on My female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "<i>\u2018And I shall show wonders in the heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapour of smoke.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>\u2018The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "<i>\u2018And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be saved.\u2019</i>", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/10/13'>10:13</a><br>Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/28-32'>2:28-32</a>"}, {"pk": 2726119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cMen of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, hear these words: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth, a Man from Elohim, having been pointed out to you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs which Elohim did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,"}, {"pk": 2726120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and put to death through the hands of lawless men \u2014"}, {"pk": 2726121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cHim Elohim raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was impossible that He could be held in its grip."}, {"pk": 2726122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cFor Dawid\u0331 says concerning Him, <i>\u2018I saw \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 before me continually, because He is at my right hand, in order that I should not be shaken.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "<i>\u2018For this reason my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad, and now my flesh shall also rest in expectation,</i>"}, {"pk": 2726124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "<i>because You shall not leave my being in She\u2019ol, nor shall You give Your Lovingly-committed One to see corruption.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "<i>\u2018You have made known to me the ways of life, You shall fill me with joy in Your presence.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/16/8-11'>16:8-11</a>"}, {"pk": 2726126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "Men and brothers, let me speak boldly to you of the ancestor Dawid\u0331, that he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/34'>2:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2726127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cBeing a prophet, then, and knowing that Elohim had sworn with an oath to him: of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,"}, {"pk": 2726128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 31, "text": "foreseeing this he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah, that His being was neither left in She\u2019ol, nor did His flesh see corruption."}, {"pk": 2726129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cElohim has raised up this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, of which we are all witnesses."}, {"pk": 2726130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cTherefore, having been exalted to the right hand of Elohim, and having received from the Father the promise of the Set-apart Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear."}, {"pk": 2726131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFor Dawid\u0331 did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, <i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to my Master, \u201cSit at My right hand,</i>"}, {"pk": 2726132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 35, "text": "<i>until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2726133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 36, "text": "Therefore let all the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l know for certain that Elohim has made this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom you impaled, both Master and Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 37, "text": "And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to K\u0115pha and the rest of the emissaries, \u201cMen, brothers, what shall we do?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 38, "text": "And K\u0115pha said to them, \u201cRepent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah for the forgiveness of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/40'>2:40</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/19'>3:19</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/26'>3:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2726136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 39, "text": "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, as many as \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim shall call."}, {"pk": 2726137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 40, "text": "And with many other words he earnestly witnessed and urged them, saying, \u201cBe saved from this crooked generation.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/6'>51:6</a>; Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/2/15'>2:15</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/18/4'>18:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2726138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 41, "text": "Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them."}, {"pk": 2726139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 42, "text": "And they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers."}, {"pk": 2726140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 43, "text": "And fear came upon every being, and many wonders and signs were being done through the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 44, "text": "And all those who believed were together, and had all in common,"}, {"pk": 2726142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 45, "text": "and sold their possessions and property, and divided them among all, as anyone might have need."}, {"pk": 2726143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 46, "text": "And day by day, continuing with one mind in the Set-apart Place, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,"}, {"pk": 2726144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 2, "verse": 47, "text": "praising Elohim and having favour with all the people. And the Master added to the assembly those who were being saved, day by day."}, {"pk": 2726145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour."}, {"pk": 2726146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "And a certain man, lame from his birth, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the Set-apart Place which is called Yaphah, to ask alms from those entering into the Set-apart Place,", "comment": "Beautiful or Lovely."}, {"pk": 2726147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "who, seeing K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan about to go into the Set-apart Place, asked for alms."}, {"pk": 2726148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And K\u0115pha, with Yoh\u0323anan, looking steadfastly at him, said, \u201cLook at us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive whatever from them."}, {"pk": 2726150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "But K\u0115pha said, \u201cI do not have silver and gold, but what I do possess, this I give you: In the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah of Natsareth, rise up and walk.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And taking him by the right hand he lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made firm."}, {"pk": 2726152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And leaping up, he stood and walked, and went in with them into the Set-apart Place, walking and leaping and praising Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "And all the people saw him walking and praising Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And they recognised him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the Lovely Gate of the Set-apart Place. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what befell him."}, {"pk": 2726155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And as the lame man who was healed was clinging to K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Shelomoh\u2019s, greatly amazed."}, {"pk": 2726156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And seeing it, K\u0115pha responded to the people, \u201cMen of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or reverence we have made him walk?"}, {"pk": 2726157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>\u201cThe Elohim of Ab\u0331raham, and of Yitsh\u0323aq, and of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, the Elohim of our fathers,</i> esteemed His Servant \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/6'>3:6</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/13'>3:13</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/15'>3:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2726158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut you denied the Set-apart and Righteous One, and asked that a man, a murderer, be granted you."}, {"pk": 2726159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut you killed the Prince of life, whom Elohim raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/5/31'>5:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2726160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd by the belief in His Name, this one whom you see and know, His Name made strong, and the belief which comes through Him has given him this perfect healing before all of you."}, {"pk": 2726161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as your rulers did too."}, {"pk": 2726162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cBut this is how Elohim has filled what He had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Messiah was to suffer."}, {"pk": 2726163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cRepent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,"}, {"pk": 2726164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "and that He sends \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, pre-appointed for you,"}, {"pk": 2726165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "whom heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all <i>matters</i>, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old."}, {"pk": 2726166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cFor Mosheh truly said to the fathers, <i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "<i>\u2018And it shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/15-19'>18:15-19</a>"}, {"pk": 2726168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Shemu\u2019\u0115l and those following, have also announced these days."}, {"pk": 2726169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cYou are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which Elohim made with our fathers, saying to Ab\u0331raham, <i>\u2018And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/3'>12:3</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/18'>22:18</a>; Gen.<a href='/TS2009/1/26/1'>26</a>.4"}, {"pk": 2726170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTo you first, Elohim, having raised up His Servant \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, sent Him to bless you, in turning away each one of you from your wicked ways.\u201d", "comment": "See also Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/38'>2:38</a>"}, {"pk": 2726171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Set-apart Place, and the Sadducees, came upon them,"}, {"pk": 2726172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "being annoyed because they taught the people and announced the resurrection from the dead in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And they arrested them, and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening."}, {"pk": 2726174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand."}, {"pk": 2726175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And it came to be, on the next day, that their rulers and elders and scribes assembled in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2726176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "as well as H\u0323anan the high priest, and Qayapha, and Yoh\u0323anan, and Alexander, and as many as were of high priestly descent."}, {"pk": 2726177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And having placed them in the middle, they asked, \u201cBy what power or in what Name did you do this?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Then K\u0115pha, filled with the Set-apart Spirit, said to them, \u201cRulers of the people and elders of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2726179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cIf today we are called to account for a good deed towards a sick man, by whom he has been healed,"}, {"pk": 2726180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, that in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah of Natsareth, whom you impaled, whom Elohim raised from the dead, by Him this one stands before you, healthy."}, {"pk": 2726181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "This is <i>\u2018the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief corner-stone.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/22'>118:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2726182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And there is no deliverance in anyone else, for there is no other Name under the heaven given among men by which we need to be saved."}, {"pk": 2726183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And seeing the boldness of K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan, and perceiving that they were unlearned and ordinary men, they marvelled. And they recognised that they had been with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could not contradict it."}, {"pk": 2726185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they consulted with one another,"}, {"pk": 2726186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "saying, \u201cWhat shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that an outstanding miracle has been done through them is apparent to all those dwelling in Yerushalayim, and we are unable to deny it."}, {"pk": 2726187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "But in order that it spreads no further among the people, let us strongly threaten them, to speak no more to anyone in this Name."}, {"pk": 2726188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "But K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan answering them, said, \u201cWhether it is right in the sight of Elohim to listen to you more than to Elohim, you judge.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/5/29'>5:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2726190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "For it is impossible for us not to speak of what we saw and heard."}, {"pk": 2726191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And having threatened them further, they released them, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, because they were all praising Elohim for what had been done."}, {"pk": 2726192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been done."}, {"pk": 2726193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And having been released, they went to their own <i>people</i> and reported all that the chief priests and elders said to them."}, {"pk": 2726194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "And having heard that, they lifted up their voice to Elohim with one mind and said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, You are Elohim, who <i>made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them,</i>", "comment": "Psa <a href='/TS2009/19/146/6'>146:6</a><br>See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/11'>20:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2726195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "who by the mouth of Your servant Dawid\u0331 have said, <i>\u2018Why did the nations rage, and the people plot in vain?</i>"}, {"pk": 2726196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "<i>\u2018The sovereigns of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and against His Messiah.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/1'>2:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/2/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2726197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor truly, in this city there were gathered together against Your set-apart Servant \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom You anointed, both Herodes and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l"}, {"pk": 2726198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose decided before to be done."}, {"pk": 2726199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd now, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, look on their threats, and give to Your servants all boldness to speak Your word,"}, {"pk": 2726200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "by stretching out Your hand for healing, and signs, and wonders to take place through the Name of Your set-apart Servant \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "And when they had prayed, the place where they came together was shaken. And they were all filled with the Set-apart Spirit, and they spoke the word of Elohim with boldness."}, {"pk": 2726202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And the group of those who believed were of one heart and one being. And no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had all in common."}, {"pk": 2726203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 33, "text": "And with great power the emissaries gave witness to the resurrection of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and great favour was upon them all."}, {"pk": 2726204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 34, "text": "For there was not anyone needy among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of what was sold,"}, {"pk": 2726205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 35, "text": "and laid them at the feet of the emissaries, and they distributed to each as anyone had need."}, {"pk": 2726206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 36, "text": "And Yos\u0115ph, who was also called Barnab\u0331a by the emissaries (which means Son of Encouragement), a L\u0115wite, a native of Cyprus,"}, {"pk": 2726207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 4, "verse": 37, "text": "having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "But a certain man named H\u0323ananyah, with Shappirah his wife, sold a possession."}, {"pk": 2726209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And he kept back from the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the feet of the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "But K\u0115pha said, \u201cH\u0323ananyah, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Set-apart Spirit and keep back from the price of the land for yourself?"}, {"pk": 2726211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "While it remained, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your authority? Why have you conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "Then H\u0323ananyah, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all those who heard of this."}, {"pk": 2726213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "But the young men arose and wrapped him up, carried him out and buried him."}, {"pk": 2726214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And it came to be, about three hours later, that his wife came in, not knowing what had taken place."}, {"pk": 2726215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And K\u0115pha responded to her, \u201cSay to me whether you sold the land for so much?\u201d And she said, \u201cYes, for so much.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "So K\u0115pha said to her, \u201cWhy have you agreed to try the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, they buried her beside her husband."}, {"pk": 2726218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And great fear came upon all the assembly and upon all who heard of this."}, {"pk": 2726219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "And through the hands of the emissaries many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one mind in Shelomoh\u2019s Porch."}, {"pk": 2726220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "But of the rest no one had the courage to join them, however, the people made much of them."}, {"pk": 2726221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And more believers were added to the Master, large numbers of both men and women,"}, {"pk": 2726222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of K\u0115pha, passing by, might fall on some of them."}, {"pk": 2726223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "A large number also gathered from the surrounding cities to Yerushalayim, bringing sick ones and those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were all healed."}, {"pk": 2726224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "But the high priest rose up, and all those with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled with jealousy,"}, {"pk": 2726225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "and seized the emissaries and put them in the public jail."}, {"pk": 2726226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "But a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 opened the prison doors at night and brought them out, and said,"}, {"pk": 2726227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Go and stand in the Set-apart Place and speak to the people all the words of this life."}, {"pk": 2726228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "Now when they heard, they went into the Set-apart Place early in the morning, and were teaching. But the high priest and those with him came and called the council together, with all the elders of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and sent to the prison for them to be brought."}, {"pk": 2726229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "But having come, the officers did not find them in the prison, and they went back and reported it,"}, {"pk": 2726230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "saying, \u201cWe found the prison shut in all safety, and the watches standing outside before the doors. But having opened them, we found no one inside!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And as the high priest and the captain of the Set-apart Place and the chief priests heard these words, they were puzzled and wondered what this might be."}, {"pk": 2726232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "But one came and reported to them, saying, \u201cLook, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the Set-apart Place and teaching the people!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "Then the captain went with the officers and brought them, not with force, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned."}, {"pk": 2726234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "And having brought them, they set them before the council and the high priest asked them,"}, {"pk": 2726235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "saying, \u201cDid we not strictly command you not to teach in this Name? And look, you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching, and intend to bring the blood of this Man upon us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "And K\u0115pha and the other emissaries answering, said, \u201cWe have to obey Elohim rather than men.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/4/19'>4:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2726237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "<i>\u201cThe Elohim of our fathers</i> raised up \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 whom you laid hands on, <i>hanging <i>Him</i> on a timber.</i>", "comment": "Exo.<a href='/TS2009/2/3/15'>3:15</a><br>Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/21/22'>21:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/21/23'>23</a>"}, {"pk": 2726238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "Him, a Prince and a Saviour, Elohim has exalted <i>to His right hand,</i> to give repentance to Yisra\u2019\u0115l and forgiveness of sins.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/15'>3:15</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2726239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "And we are His witnesses to these matters, and so also is the Set-apart Spirit whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him.\u201d", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/24'>3:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2726240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "And those hearing were cut <i>to the heart</i>, and took counsel to kill them."}, {"pk": 2726241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 34, "text": "But a certain one in the council stood up, a Pharisee named Gamli\u2019\u0115l, a teacher of the Torah, respected by all the people, and ordered them to put the emissaries outside for a little while,"}, {"pk": 2726242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 35, "text": "and said to them, \u201cMen of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do to these men."}, {"pk": 2726243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cFor before these days Tod\u0331ah rose up, claiming to be somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, did join him. He was slain, and all who obeyed him were dispersed, and came to naught."}, {"pk": 2726244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cAfter him, Yehud\u0331ah of Galil rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were scattered."}, {"pk": 2726245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAnd now I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this work is of men, it shall be overthrown,"}, {"pk": 2726246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cbut if it is of Elohim, you are unable to overthrow it, lest you even be found to fight against Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 40, "text": "And they heeded his advice, and having called for the emissaries, beating them, they commanded that they should not speak in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and let them go."}, {"pk": 2726248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 41, "text": "Then indeed they went rejoicing from the presence of the council, because they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His Name."}, {"pk": 2726249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 5, "verse": 42, "text": "And daily in the Set-apart Place, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and bringing the Good News: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Messiah!"}, {"pk": 2726250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And in those days, when the taught ones were increasing, there arose a grumbling against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving."}, {"pk": 2726251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "So the twelve summoned the group of the taught ones and said, \u201cIt is not pleasing for us to leave the Word of Elohim and serve tables."}, {"pk": 2726252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cTherefore, brothers, seek out from among you seven men who are known to be filled with the Set-apart Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint for this duty,"}, {"pk": 2726253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cbut we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving the Word."}, {"pk": 2726254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And the word pleased the entire group. And they chose Stephanos, a man filled with belief and the Set-apart Spirit, and Philip, and Prochoros, and Nikanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nikolaos, a convert from Antioch,"}, {"pk": 2726255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "whom they set before the emissaries. And when they had prayed, they laid hands on them."}, {"pk": 2726256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And the Word of Elohim spread, and the number of the taught ones increased greatly in Yerushalayim, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the belief."}, {"pk": 2726257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And Stephanos, filled with belief and power, did great wonders and signs among the people."}, {"pk": 2726258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "But some of those of the so-called Congregation of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Kilikia and Asia), rose up, disputing with Stephanos,"}, {"pk": 2726259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "but they were unable to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke."}, {"pk": 2726260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Then they instigated men to say, \u201cWe have heard him speak blasphemous words against Mosheh and Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, so they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council."}, {"pk": 2726262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And they set up false witnesses who said, \u201cThis man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this set-apart place and the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2726263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "for we have heard him saying that this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth shall overthrow this place and change the institutes which Mosheh delivered unto us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And all who sat in the council, looking steadily at him, saw his face was like the face of a <i>heavenly</i> messenger."}, {"pk": 2726265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And the high priest said, \u201cIs this so?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And he replied, \u201cMen, brothers and fathers, listen: The Elohim of esteem appeared to our father Ab\u0331raham when he was in Aram Naharayim, before he dwelt in H\u0323aran,"}, {"pk": 2726267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>and said to him, \u2018Come out of your land and from your relatives, and come here, into a land that I shall show you.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/1'>12:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2726268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cThen he came out of the land of the Kasdim and dwelt in H\u0323aran. And from there, after the death of his father, He removed him to this land in which you now dwell."}, {"pk": 2726269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd He gave him no inheritance in it, <i>not a foot of it.</i> But He promised to <i>give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him,</i> when as yet he had no child.", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/2/5'>2:5</a><br>Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/7'>12:7</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/17/8'>17:8</a><br>See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/13/15'>13:15</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/4'>15:4</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/7'>15:7</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/18-21'>15:18-21</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/24/7'>24:7</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/48/4'>48:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2726270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd Elohim spoke in this way: that <i>his seed would be sojourning in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/13'>15:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2726271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>\u2018And the nation to whom they shall be enslaved, I shall judge,\u2019</i> said Elohim, <i>\u2018and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/13'>15:13</a><br>Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/14'>15:14</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/12'>3:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2726272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd He gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he brought forth Yitsh\u0323aq and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Yitsh\u0323aq <i>brought forth</i> Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and Ya\u201baqob\u0331 <i>brought forth</i> the twelve ancestors."}, {"pk": 2726273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the ancestors, <i>becoming jealous, sold Yos\u0115ph into Mitsrayim. But Elohim was with him,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/37/11'>37:11</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/37/28'>37:28</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/39/2'>39:2</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/39/21'>39:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2726274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and <i>gave him favour</i> and wisdom <i>before Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim. And he appointed him governor over Mitsrayim and all his house.</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/39/21'>39:21</a><br>Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/41/37-46'>41:37-46</a>"}, {"pk": 2726275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u201cThen a scarcity of food and great distress came over all the land of Mitsrayim and Kena\u2019an,</i> and our fathers found no food.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/41/54'>41:54</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/42/5'>42:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2726276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBut <i>Ya\u201baqob\u0331 heard that there was grain in Mitsrayim,</i> and he sent out our fathers the first time,", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/42/2'>42:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2726277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "and at the second time Yos\u0115ph was made known to his brothers, and Yos\u0115ph\u2019s race became known to the Pharaoh."}, {"pk": 2726278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd Yos\u0115ph sent and called his father Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people."}, {"pk": 2726279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd <i>Ya\u201baqob\u0331 went down to Mitsrayim, and died, he and our fathers,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/46/5'>46:5</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/49/33'>49:33</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/1/6'>1:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2726280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "and they were brought over to Shek\u0331em and laid in the tomb that Ab\u0331raham bought for a price of silver from the sons of H\u0323amor, <i>the father</i> of Shek\u0331em."}, {"pk": 2726281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBut as the time of the promise drew near which Elohim had sworn to Ab\u0331raham, the people increased and multiplied in Mitsrayim"}, {"pk": 2726282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "until <i>another sovereign arose who did not know Yos\u0115ph.</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/1/8'>1:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2726283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cHaving dealt treacherously with our race, this one mistreated our fathers, making them expose their babies, so that they should not live."}, {"pk": 2726284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAt that time Mosheh was born, and he was well-pleasing to Elohim. And he was reared three months in the house of his father."}, {"pk": 2726285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and reared him as her own son."}, {"pk": 2726286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd Mosheh was instructed in all the wisdom of the Mitsrites, and was mighty in words and works."}, {"pk": 2726287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2726288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd seeing one of them being wronged, he defended and revenged him who was oppressed, smiting the Mitsrian."}, {"pk": 2726289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd he thought that his brothers would have understood that Elohim would give deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand."}, {"pk": 2726290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, \u2018Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cBut he who was wronging his neighbour pushed him away, saying, <i>\u2018Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?</i>"}, {"pk": 2726292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "<i>\u2018Do you wish to kill me as you killed the Mitsrian yesterday?\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2726293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd at this saying, <i>Mosheh fled and became a sojourner in the land of Mid\u0331yan,</i> where he fathered two sons.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/2/15'>2:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2726294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAnd after forty years were completed, a <i>Messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush,</i> in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/2'>3:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2726295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cAnd Mosheh, seeing it, marvelled at the sight, and coming near to look, the voice of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 came to him,"}, {"pk": 2726296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "saying, <i>\u2018I am the Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Ab\u0331raham and the Elohim of Yitsh\u0323aq and the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331.\u2019 And Mosheh trembled and did not have the courage to look.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "<i>\u2018But \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 said to him, Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is set-apart ground.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "<i>\u201cI have certainly seen the evil treatment of my people who are in Mitsrayim, and I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, let Me send you to Mitsrayim.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/6-10'>3:6-10</a>"}, {"pk": 2726299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cThis Mosheh whom they had refused, saying, <i>\u2018Who made you a ruler and a judge?\u2019</i> \u2014 this one Elohim sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Messenger who appeared to him in the bush.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2726300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cThis one led them out, after he had done wonders and signs in the land of Mitsrayim, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years."}, {"pk": 2726301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cThis is the Mosheh who said to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, <i>\u2018\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. Him you shall hear.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/15'>18:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2726302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cThis is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the Messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living Words to give to us,"}, {"pk": 2726303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "unto whom our fathers would not become obedient, but thrust away, and in their hearts they turned back to Mitsrayim,"}, {"pk": 2726304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "saying to Aharon, <i>\u2018Make us mighty ones to go before us, for this Mosheh who led us out of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not know what has become of him.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/32/1'>32:1</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/32/23'>32:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2726305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 41, "text": "\u201cAnd they made a calf in those days, and brought an offering to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their own hands."}, {"pk": 2726306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 42, "text": "\u201cSo Elohim turned and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets,<i> \u2018Did you bring slaughtered beasts and offerings unto Me during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l?</i>", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/19'>4:19</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/3'>17:3</a>; 2Kings <a href='/TS2009/12/23/5'>23:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2726307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 43, "text": "<i>\u2018And you took up the tent of Molek\u0331, and the star of your mighty one Kiyyun, images which you made to bow before them. Therefore I shall remove you beyond Bab\u0331el.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/5/25-27'>5:25-27</a>"}, {"pk": 2726308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 44, "text": "\u201cThe Tent of Witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Mosheh to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,"}, {"pk": 2726309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 45, "text": "which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Yehoshua into the land possessed by the nations, whom Elohim drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of Dawid\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2726310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 46, "text": "who found favour before Elohim and asked to find a dwelling for the Elohim of Ya\u201baqob\u0331,"}, {"pk": 2726311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 47, "text": "but Shelomoh built Him a house."}, {"pk": 2726312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 48, "text": "\u201cHowever, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands, as the prophet says:", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/17/24'>17:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2726313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 49, "text": "<i>\u2018The heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house shall you build for Me? says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, or what is the place of My rest?</i>"}, {"pk": 2726314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 50, "text": "<i>\u2018Has My hand not made all these?\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/1'>66:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/66/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2726315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 51, "text": "<i>\u201cYou stiff-necked</i> and <i>uncircumcised in heart and ears!</i> You always resist the Set-apart Spirit, as your fathers did, you also do.", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/26/41'>26:41</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/6/10'>6:10</a><br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/32/9'>32:9</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/33/3'>33:3</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/33/5'>33:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2726316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 52, "text": "\u201cWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,"}, {"pk": 2726317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 53, "text": "who received the Torah as it was ordained by messengers, but did not watch over it.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/20'>5:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2726318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 54, "text": "And hearing this they were cut to the hearts and gnashed the teeth at him."}, {"pk": 2726319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 55, "text": "But he, being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, looked steadily into the heaven and saw the esteem of Elohim, and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 <i>standing at the right hand of Elohim,</i>"}, {"pk": 2726320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 56, "text": "and he said, \u201cLook! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Ad\u0331am <i>standing at the right hand of Elohim!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2726321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 57, "text": "And crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one mind,"}, {"pk": 2726322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 58, "text": "and threw him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 59, "text": "And they were stoning Stephanos as he was calling and saying, \u201cMaster \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, receive my spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 7, "verse": 60, "text": "And kneeling down he cried out with a loud voice, \u201cMaster, do not hold this sin against them.\u201d And having said this, he fell asleep."}, {"pk": 2726325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul was giving approval to his death. And on that day there was a great persecution against the assembly which was at Yerushalayim, and they were all scattered throughout the countries of Yehud\u0331ah and Shomeron, except the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And dedicated men buried Stephanos, and made great lamentation over him."}, {"pk": 2726327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul was ravaging the assembly, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison."}, {"pk": 2726328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "Then those who had been scattered went everywhere bringing the Good News: the Word!"}, {"pk": 2726329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And going down to the city of Shomeron Philip proclaimed Messiah to them."}, {"pk": 2726330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And the crowds with one mind heeded what Philip said, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did."}, {"pk": 2726331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "For unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, crying with a loud voice, and many who were paralysed and lame were healed."}, {"pk": 2726332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And there came to be great joy in that city."}, {"pk": 2726333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "Now there was a certain man called Shim\u201bon, who formerly was practising magic in the city and astonishing the people of Shomeron, claiming to be someone great,"}, {"pk": 2726334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "to whom they all were giving heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, \u201cThis one is the power of Elohim, which is great.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And they were giving heed to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic."}, {"pk": 2726336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And when they believed Philip as he brought the Good News about the reign of Elohim and the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, both men and women were immersed."}, {"pk": 2726337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And Shim\u201bon himself also believed. And when he was immersed he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which took place."}, {"pk": 2726338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "And when the emissaries who were at Yerushalayim heard that Shomeron had received the Word of Elohim, they sent K\u0115pha and Yoh\u0323anan to them,"}, {"pk": 2726339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "who, when they had come down, prayed for them to receive the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2726340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "for He had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been immersed in the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2726342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And Shim\u201bon, seeing that through the laying on of the hands of the emissaries the Set-apart Spirit was given, he offered them money,"}, {"pk": 2726343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "saying, \u201cGive me this authority too, so that anyone I lay hands on shall receive the Set-apart Spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "But K\u0115pha said to him, \u201cLet your silver perish with you, because you thought to buy the gift of Elohim through money!"}, {"pk": 2726345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cYou have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cRepent therefore of this evil of yours, and plead with Elohim to forgive you the intention of your heart."}, {"pk": 2726347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2726348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "But Shim\u201bon answering, said, \u201cPlead with the Master for me, so that none of what you had said shall come upon me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "Then after they had earnestly witnessed and spoken the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they returned to Yerushalayim, bringing the Good News in many villages of the Shomeronim."}, {"pk": 2726350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "But a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spoke to Philip, saying, \u201cArise and go toward the south along the way which goes down from Yerushalayim to Azzah.\u201d This is desert."}, {"pk": 2726351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And he arose and went, and saw, a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority under Kandake the sovereigness of the Kushites, who was in charge of all her treasury, and had come to Yerushalayim to worship,"}, {"pk": 2726352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "and was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Yeshayahu."}, {"pk": 2726353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "And the Spirit said to Philip, \u201cGo near and join him in that chariot.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And running up, Philip heard him reading the prophet Yeshayahu, and said, \u201cDo you know what you are reading?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "And he said, \u201cHow am I able, unless someone guides me?\u201d And he called Philip near, to come up and sit with him."}, {"pk": 2726356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "And the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, <i>\u201cHe was led as a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so He opened not His mouth.</i>"}, {"pk": 2726357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "<i>\u201cIn His humiliation He was deprived of right-ruling. And who shall declare His generation? Because His life was taken from the earth.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/7'>53:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/53/8'>8</a>"}, {"pk": 2726358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, \u201cI ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about some other?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, brought to him the Good News: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2!"}, {"pk": 2726360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "And as they were going on the way, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, \u201cLook, water! What hinders me from being immersed?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "And Philip said, \u201cIf you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.\u201d And he answering, said, \u201cI believe the Son of Elohim to be \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Messiah.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/16'>16:16</a> - Some manuscripts omit verse <a href='/TS2009/44/8/37'>8:37</a>"}, {"pk": 2726362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he immersed him."}, {"pk": 2726363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 caught Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went his way, rejoicing."}, {"pk": 2726364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 8, "verse": 40, "text": "Philip, however, was found at Ashdod\u0331. And passing through, he brought the Good News in all the cities until he came to Caesarea."}, {"pk": 2726365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul, still breathing threats and murder against the taught ones of the Master, having come to the high priest,"}, {"pk": 2726366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "asked from him letters to the congregations of Dammeseq, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, to bring them bound to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And it came to be, that as he journeyed, he came near Dammeseq, and suddenly a light flashed around him from the heaven."}, {"pk": 2726368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, \u201cSha\u2019ul, Sha\u2019ul, why do you persecute Me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And he said, \u201cWho are You, Master?\u201d And the Master said, \u201cI am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "Both trembling, and being astonished, he said, \u201cMaster, what do You wish me to do?\u201d And the Master <i>said</i> to him, \u201cArise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you have to do.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And the men journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one."}, {"pk": 2726372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul arose from the ground, but when his eyes were opened he saw no one. And leading him by the hand they brought him into Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2726373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And he was three days without sight, and did not eat nor drink."}, {"pk": 2726374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And there was at Dammeseq a certain taught one, by name H\u0323ananyah. And the Master said unto him in a vision, \u201cH\u0323ananyah!\u201d And he said, \u201cHere I am, Master.\u201d", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/22/12'>22:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2726375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And the Master <i>said</i> to him, \u201cArise and go to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Yehud\u0331ah for one called Sha\u2019ul of Tarsos, for look, he is praying,"}, {"pk": 2726376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "and has seen in a vision a man named H\u0323ananyah coming in and laying his hand on him, so as to see again.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And H\u0323ananyah answered, \u201cMaster, I have heard from many about this man, how many evils he did to Your set-apart ones in Yerushalayim,"}, {"pk": 2726378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on Your Name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "But the Master said to him, \u201cGo, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My Name before nations, sovereigns, and the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l."}, {"pk": 2726380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "For I shall show him how much he has to suffer for My Name."}, {"pk": 2726381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And H\u0323ananyah went away and went into the house. And laying his hands on him he said, \u201cBrother Sha\u2019ul, the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who appeared to you on the way as you came, has sent me, so that you might see again and be filled with the Set-apart Spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it were scales, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was immersed."}, {"pk": 2726383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "And having received food, he was strengthened. And Sha\u2019ul was with the taught ones at Dammeseq some days."}, {"pk": 2726384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And immediately he proclaimed the Messiah in the congregations, that He is the Son of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And all who heard were amazed, and said, \u201cIs this not he who destroyed those calling on this Name in Yerushalayim, and has come here for this, to take them bound to the chief priests?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul kept increasing in strength, and was confounding the Yehud\u0331im who dwelt in Dammeseq, proving that this is the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And after many days had elapsed, the Yehud\u0331im plotted to kill him."}, {"pk": 2726388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "But their plot became known to Sha\u2019ul. And they were watching the gates day and night, to kill him."}, {"pk": 2726389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "But taking him by night, the taught ones let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket."}, {"pk": 2726390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "And having arrived at Yerushalayim, Sha\u2019ul tried to join the taught ones, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a taught one."}, {"pk": 2726391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "But Barnab\u0331a took him and brought him to the emissaries, and told them how he had seen the Master on the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how he was speaking boldly at Dammeseq in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "And he was with them at Yerushalayim, coming in and going out,"}, {"pk": 2726393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "and speaking boldly in the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and disputed with the Hellenists, but they undertook to kill him."}, {"pk": 2726394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "And when the brothers learned of this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsos."}, {"pk": 2726395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "Then indeed the assemblies throughout all Yehud\u0331ah, and Galil, and Shomeron had peace and were built up, and walking in the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and in the encouragement of the Set-apart Spirit, they were being increased."}, {"pk": 2726396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "And it came to be, as K\u0115pha was passing through all <i>places</i>, that he also came down to the set-apart ones who were dwelling at Lod."}, {"pk": 2726397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, being paralytic."}, {"pk": 2726398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 34, "text": "And K\u0115pha said to him, \u201cAeneas, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Messiah heals you! Rise up and make your bed.\u201d And immediately he rose up."}, {"pk": 2726399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 35, "text": "And all those dwelling at Lod and Sharon saw him and did turn to the Master."}, {"pk": 2726400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 36, "text": "And in Yapho there was a certain taught one named Tab\u0331itha, which means Dorkas. This woman was filled with good works and kind deeds which she did."}, {"pk": 2726401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 37, "text": "And it came to be in those days that she became sick and died. And having washed her, they laid her in an upper room."}, {"pk": 2726402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 38, "text": "And Lod being near to Yapho, and the taught ones having heard that K\u0115pha was there, they sent two men to him, urging him not to delay in coming to them."}, {"pk": 2726403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 39, "text": "And having risen up, K\u0115pha went with them. And when he arrived, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him weeping, showing the inner garments and outer garments which Dorkas had made while she was with them."}, {"pk": 2726404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 40, "text": "But K\u0115pha sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, \u201cTab\u0331itha, arise.\u201d And she opened her eyes, and seeing K\u0115pha, she sat up."}, {"pk": 2726405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 41, "text": "And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And calling the set-apart ones and widows, he presented her alive."}, {"pk": 2726406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 42, "text": "And it became known throughout all Yapho, and many believed on the Master."}, {"pk": 2726407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 9, "verse": 43, "text": "And it came to be that he stayed for many days in Yapho with Shim\u201bon, a leather-tanner."}, {"pk": 2726408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Now there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a captain of what was called the Italian Regiment,"}, {"pk": 2726409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "dedicated, and fearing Elohim with all his household, doing many kind deeds to the people, and praying to Elohim always."}, {"pk": 2726410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "He clearly saw in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of Elohim coming to him, and saying to him, \u201cCornelius!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And looking intently at him, and becoming afraid, he said, \u201cWhat is it, master?\u201d And he said to him, \u201cYour prayers and your kind deeds have come up for a remembrance before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cAnd now send men to Yapho, and send for Shim\u201bon who is also called K\u0115pha."}, {"pk": 2726413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHe is staying with Shim\u201bon, a leather-tanner, whose house is by the sea.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the messenger who spoke to him went away, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a dedicated soldier from among those who waited on him continually."}, {"pk": 2726415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And having explained to them all, he sent them to Yapho."}, {"pk": 2726416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, K\u0115pha went up on the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour."}, {"pk": 2726417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And he became hungry and wished to eat. But while they were preparing, he fell into a trance,"}, {"pk": 2726418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "and he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth,"}, {"pk": 2726419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "in which were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping <i>creatures</i>, and the birds of the heaven."}, {"pk": 2726420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "And a voice came to him, \u201cRise up, K\u0115pha, slay and eat.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "But K\u0115pha said, \u201cNot at all, Master! Because I have never eaten whatever is common or unclean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And a voice <i>came</i> to him again the second time, \u201cWhat Elohim has cleansed you do not consider common.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "And this took place three times, and the vessel was taken back to the heaven."}, {"pk": 2726424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "And while K\u0115pha was doubting within himself about what the vision might mean, look, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having asked for the house of Shim\u201bon, stood at the gate,"}, {"pk": 2726425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "and calling out, they enquired whether Shim\u201bon, also known as K\u0115pha, was staying there."}, {"pk": 2726426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "And as K\u0115pha was thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, \u201cSee, three men seek you."}, {"pk": 2726427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "But rise up, go down and go with them, not doubting at all, for I have sent them."}, {"pk": 2726428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "So K\u0115pha went down to the men who had been sent to him from Cornelius, and said, \u201cLook, I am the one you seek. Why have you come?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "And they said, \u201cCornelius the captain, a righteous man and one who fears Elohim and well spoken of by the entire nation of the Yehud\u0331im, was instructed by a set-apart messenger to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "So inviting them in, he housed them. And on the next day K\u0115pha went away with them, and some brothers from Yapho went with him."}, {"pk": 2726431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And the following day they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his relatives and close friends."}, {"pk": 2726432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "And it came to be, that when K\u0115pha entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and bowed before him."}, {"pk": 2726433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "But K\u0115pha raised him up, saying, \u201cStand up, I myself am also a man.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And talking with him, he went in and found many who had come together."}, {"pk": 2726435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cYou know that a Yehud\u0331i man is not allowed to associate with, or go to one of another race. But Elohim has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.", "comment": "This was a man-made law. See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/3'>15:3</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/9'>15:9</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/7/7'>7:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/41/7/8'>8</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/14'>2:14</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/20'>2:20</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/22'>2:22</a><br>Not animal - See also Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/10/35'>10:35</a>"}, {"pk": 2726436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "That is why I came without hesitation when I was sent for. So I ask, why have you sent for me?"}, {"pk": 2726437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "And Cornelius said, \u201cFour days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and see, a man stood before me in shining garments,"}, {"pk": 2726438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "and said, \u2018Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your kind deeds were remembered before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "Now send to Yapho and call Shim\u201bon here, who is also called K\u0115pha. He is staying in the house of Shim\u201bon, a leather-tanner, by the sea. When he comes, he shall speak to you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before Elohim, to hear all that you have been commanded by Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "And opening his mouth, K\u0115pha said, \u201cTruly I see that Elohim shows no partiality,"}, {"pk": 2726442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "but in every nation, he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him."}, {"pk": 2726443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "\u201cHe sent the word to the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, bringing the Good News: peace through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah! He is Master of all."}, {"pk": 2726444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "You know what word came to be throughout all Yehud\u0331ah, beginning from Galil after the immersion which Yoh\u0323anan proclaimed: \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "how Elohim did anoint \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth with the Set-apart Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for Elohim was with Him."}, {"pk": 2726446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd we are witnesses of all He did, both in the country of the Yehud\u0331im and in Yerushalayim, whom they even killed <i>by hanging on a timber.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/21/22'>21:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/21/23'>23</a>"}, {"pk": 2726447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 40, "text": "Elohim raised up this One on the third day, and let Him be seen,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 41, "text": "not to all the people, but to witnesses, those having been chosen before by Elohim \u2014 to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead."}, {"pk": 2726449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 42, "text": "And He commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to witness that it is He who was appointed by Elohim to be Judge of the living and the dead.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/17/31'>17:31</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/29'>5:29</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/96/13'>96:13</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/98/9'>98:9</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/19/11'>19:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2726450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 43, "text": "To this One all the prophets bear witness, that through His Name, everyone believing in Him does receive forgiveness of sins."}, {"pk": 2726451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 44, "text": "While K\u0115pha was still speaking these words, the Set-apart Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word."}, {"pk": 2726452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 45, "text": "And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with K\u0115pha, because the gift of the Set-apart Spirit had been poured out on the nations also,"}, {"pk": 2726453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 46, "text": "for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and extolling Elohim. Then K\u0115pha answered,"}, {"pk": 2726454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 47, "text": "Is anyone able to forbid water, that these should not be immersed who have received the Set-apart Spirit \u2014 even as also we?"}, {"pk": 2726455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 10, "verse": 48, "text": "And he commanded them to be immersed in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah. Then they asked him to remain a few days."}, {"pk": 2726456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And the emissaries and brothers who were in Yehud\u0331ah heard that the nations also received the word of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And when K\u0115pha went up to Yerushalayim, those of the circumcision were contending with him,"}, {"pk": 2726458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "saying, \u201cYou went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "But K\u0115pha began and set it forth in order, saying:"}, {"pk": 2726460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cI was in the city of Yapho praying. And in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down from the heaven by four corners, and it came to me."}, {"pk": 2726461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHaving looked into it, I perceived and I saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping <i>creatures</i>, and the birds of heaven."}, {"pk": 2726462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd I heard a voice saying to me, \u2018Rise up, K\u0115pha, slay and eat.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "But I said, \u2018Not at all, Master! Because whatever is common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the voice answered me again from the heaven, \u2018What Elohim has cleansed you do not consider common.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd this took place three times, and all were drawn up again into the heaven."}, {"pk": 2726466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd see, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea."}, {"pk": 2726467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the Spirit said to me to go with them, not doubting at all. And these six brothers also went with me, and we went into the man\u2019s house."}, {"pk": 2726468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cAnd he told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house, who said to him, \u2018Send men to Yapho, and call for Shim\u201bon who is also called K\u0115pha,"}, {"pk": 2726469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "who shall speak to you words, by which you shall be saved, you and all your house.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd as I began to speak, the Set-apart Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning."}, {"pk": 2726471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd I remembered the word of the Master, how He said, \u2018Yoh\u0323anan indeed immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Set-apart Spirit.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cSo if Elohim gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, how was I able to withstand Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "And having heard this, they were silent, and praised Elohim, saying, \u201cThen Elohim has indeed also given to the nations repentance to life.\u201d", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/10/35'>10:35</a>"}, {"pk": 2726474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "Then, indeed, they who were scattered because of the pressure that arose over Stephanos passed through to Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except the Yehud\u0331im only."}, {"pk": 2726475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, bringing the Good News: the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2!"}, {"pk": 2726476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "And the hand of the Master was with them, and a great number having believed turned to the Master."}, {"pk": 2726477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "And word of it came to the ears of the assembly in Yerushalayim, and they sent out Barnab\u0331a to go as far as Antioch,"}, {"pk": 2726478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "who, having come, and seeing the favour of Elohim, was glad, and encouraged them all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Master."}, {"pk": 2726479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "Because he was a good man, and filled with the Set-apart Spirit and with belief. And large numbers were added to the Master."}, {"pk": 2726480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "Then Barnab\u0331a went to Tarsos to seek Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2726481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "and having found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to be that for an entire year they came together in the assembly and taught large numbers. And the taught ones were called \u2018messianists\u2019 first in Antioch."}, {"pk": 2726482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "And in those days prophets came from Yerushalayim to Antioch."}, {"pk": 2726483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "And one of them, named H\u0323a\u1e21ab\u0331, stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there was going to be a great scarcity of food over all the world \u2014 which also took place under Claudius Caesar."}, {"pk": 2726484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "So the taught ones, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers dwelling in Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2726485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "This they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And about that time Herodes the sovereign put forth his hands to do evil to some from the assembly."}, {"pk": 2726487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And he killed Ya\u201baqob\u0331 the brother of Yoh\u0323anan with the sword."}, {"pk": 2726488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And seeing that it was pleasing to the Yehud\u0331im, he proceeded further to arrest K\u0115pha as well \u2014 and they were the Days of Unleavened Bread."}, {"pk": 2726489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "So when he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to watch over him, intending to bring him before the people after P\u0115sah\u0323."}, {"pk": 2726490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "So K\u0115pha was indeed kept in prison, but prayer was earnestly made to Elohim on his behalf by the assembly."}, {"pk": 2726491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And when Herodes was about to bring him out, that night K\u0115pha was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers. And the guards before the door were keeping the prison."}, {"pk": 2726492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And see, a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 stood by, and a light shone in the building. And smiting the side of K\u0115pha he raised him up, saying, \u201cGet up quickly!\u201d And his chains fell off his hands."}, {"pk": 2726493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "And the messenger said to him, \u201cGird yourself and bind on your sandals,\u201d and he did so. And he said to him, \u201cPut on your garment and follow me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And coming out he followed him, and knew not that what was done by the messenger was true, but thought he was seeing a vision."}, {"pk": 2726495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And when they had passed the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them by itself. And they went out and went down one street, and the messenger instantly withdrew from him."}, {"pk": 2726496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And when K\u0115pha had come to himself, he said, \u201cNow I truly know that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sent His messenger, and delivered me from the hand of Herodes and <i>from</i> all the Yehud\u0331i people were anticipating.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "And having realised this, he went to the house of Miryam, the mother of Yoh\u0323anan who was also called Marqos, where many had gathered to pray."}, {"pk": 2726498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And when K\u0115pha knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhode came to answer."}, {"pk": 2726499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And when she recognised K\u0115pha\u2019s voice, she did not open the gate because of her joy, but ran in and reported that K\u0115pha stood before the gate."}, {"pk": 2726500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And they said to her, \u201cYou are mad!\u201d But she kept insisting that it was so, and they said, \u201cIt is his messenger.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And K\u0115pha continued knocking, and having opened they saw him and were amazed."}, {"pk": 2726502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he told them how the Master brought him out of the prison. And he said, \u201cReport this to Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and to the brothers.\u201d And he left and went to another place."}, {"pk": 2726503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "Now when day came, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of K\u0115pha."}, {"pk": 2726504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And when Herodes had searched for him and did not find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be led away. And he went down from Yehud\u0331ah to Caesarea, and stayed there."}, {"pk": 2726505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "Now Herodes had been highly displeased with the people of Tsor and Tsid\u0331on, but with one mind they came to him, and having made Blastos the sovereign\u2019s eunuch their friend, they were asking for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the sovereign\u2019s <i>country</i>."}, {"pk": 2726506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And on an appointed day Herodes, having put on his royal clothes, sat on his throne and gave an address to them."}, {"pk": 2726507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "And the people kept shouting, \u201cThe voice of a mighty one and not of a man!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "And instantly a messenger of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 smote him, because he did not give the esteem to Elohim. And becoming worm-eaten, he died."}, {"pk": 2726509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "And the word of Elohim went on growing and spreading."}, {"pk": 2726510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "And Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul returned from Yerushalayim, having completed the service, and having taken with them Yoh\u0323anan who was also called Marqos."}, {"pk": 2726511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And in the assembly that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: both Barnab\u0331a and Shim\u201bon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manah\u0323\u0115m who had been brought up with Herodes the district ruler, and Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And as they were doing service to the Master and fasted, the Set-apart Spirit said, \u201cSeparate unto Me Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul for the work to which I have called them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "Then having fasted and prayed, and having laid hands on them, they sent them away."}, {"pk": 2726514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "So they, having been sent out by the Set-apart Spirit, went down to Seleukeia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus."}, {"pk": 2726515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And having come into Salamis, they proclaimed the word of Elohim in the congregations of the Yehud\u0331im. And they also had Yoh\u0323anan as an attendant."}, {"pk": 2726516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And having passed through all the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Yehud\u0331i whose name was Bar-Yehoshua,"}, {"pk": 2726517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man, having called for Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul, earnestly sought to hear the word of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "But Elumas the magician \u2014 for so his name is translated \u2014 withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the belief."}, {"pk": 2726519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul, who also is Paul \u2014 filled with the Set-apart Spirit, looked intently at him,", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"Paul\""}, {"pk": 2726520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "and said, \u201cO son of the devil, filled with all deceit and all recklessness, you enemy of all righteousness, shall you not cease perverting the straight ways of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4?"}, {"pk": 2726521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And now, see, the hand of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And instantly a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand."}, {"pk": 2726522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And having seen what took place, the proconsul believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Master."}, {"pk": 2726523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And having put out from Paphos, Sha\u2019ul and those with him came to Perge in Pamphulia. And Yoh\u0323anan, having left them, returned to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "But passing through from Perge, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the congregation on the Sabbath day and sat down."}, {"pk": 2726525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And after the reading of the Torah and the Prophets, the rulers of the congregation sent to them, saying, \u201cMen, brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, speak.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, standing up and motioning with his hand said, \u201cMen, Yisra\u2019\u0115lis, and those fearing Elohim, listen:"}, {"pk": 2726527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThe Elohim of this people Yisra\u2019\u0115l did choose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourning in the land of Mitsrayim, and with a high arm He brought them out of it."}, {"pk": 2726528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cNow for a time of about forty years He sustained them in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2726529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd having destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena\u2019an, He gave their land to them as an inheritance."}, {"pk": 2726530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd after that He gave judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Shemu\u2019\u0115l the prophet."}, {"pk": 2726531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut then they asked for a sovereign, and Elohim gave them Sha\u2019ul the son of Qish, a man of the tribe of Binyamin, for forty years."}, {"pk": 2726532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And having removed him, He raised up for them Dawid\u0331 as sovereign, to whom also He gave witness and said, \u2018I have found Dawid\u0331 the son of Yishai, a man after My own heart, who shall do all My desires.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFrom this one\u2019s seed, according to the promise, Elohim raised up for Yisra\u2019\u0115l a Saviour, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2726534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "after Yoh\u0323anan had first proclaimed the immersion of repentance to all the people of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, before His coming."}, {"pk": 2726535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "And as Yoh\u0323anan was completing his mission, he said, \u2018Who do you suppose I am? I am not He. But see, there comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cMen, brothers, sons of the race of Ab\u0331raham, and those among you fearing Elohim, to you the word of this deliverance has been sent,"}, {"pk": 2726537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 27, "text": "for those dwelling in Yerushalayim, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have filled them in having judged Him."}, {"pk": 2726538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd having found not one cause for death, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death."}, {"pk": 2726539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cAnd when they had accomplished all that was written concerning Him, taking Him down from the timber, they laid Him in a tomb."}, {"pk": 2726540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 30, "text": "But Elohim raised Him from the dead,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 31, "text": "and He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galil to Yerushalayim, who are His witnesses to the people."}, {"pk": 2726542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd we bring you the Good News, the promise made to the fathers,"}, {"pk": 2726543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 33, "text": "that Elohim has filled this for us, their children, having raised up \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, as it has also been written in the second Tehillah, <i>\u2018You are My Son, today I have brought You forth.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/7'>2:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2726544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 34, "text": "And that He raised Him out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has said thus, <i>\u2018I shall give you the trustworthy kindnesses of Dawid\u0331.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/55/3'>55:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2726545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cFor this reason He also says in another Tehillah, <i>\u2018You shall not give Your Lovingly-committed One to see corruption.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/16/10'>16:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2726546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 36, "text": "For Dawid\u0331, indeed, having served his own generation by the counsel of Elohim, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 37, "text": "but He whom Elohim raised up saw no corruption."}, {"pk": 2726548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cLet it therefore be known to you, brothers, that through this One forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,"}, {"pk": 2726549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cand by Him everyone who believes is declared right from all <i>sins</i> from which you were not able to be declared right by the Torah of Mosheh."}, {"pk": 2726550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cWatch then that what was said in the prophets does not come upon you:"}, {"pk": 2726551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 41, "text": "<i>\u201cSee, you despisers, marvel and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you would in no way believe if someone were to declare it to you.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/1/5'>1:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2726552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 42, "text": "And when the Yehud\u0331im went out of the congregation, the nations begged to have these words spoken to them the next Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2726553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 43, "text": "And when <i>the meeting of</i> the congregation had broken up, many of the Yehud\u0331im and of the worshipping converts followed Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the favour of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 44, "text": "And on the next Sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the Word of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 45, "text": "But when the Yehud\u0331im saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. And contradicting and speaking evil, they opposed what Sha\u2019ul was saying."}, {"pk": 2726556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 46, "text": "But speaking boldly, Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a said, \u201cIt was necessary that the word of Elohim should be spoken to you first, but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, see, we turn to the nations."}, {"pk": 2726557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 47, "text": "For so the Master has commanded us, <i>\u2018I have set you to be a light to the nations, that you should be for deliverance to the ends of the earth.\u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/6'>49:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2726558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 48, "text": "And when the nations heard this, they were glad and praised the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And as many as had been appointed to everlasting life believed."}, {"pk": 2726559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 49, "text": "And the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 was being spread throughout the entire country."}, {"pk": 2726560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 50, "text": "But the Yehud\u0331im stirred up the worshipping and noble women and the chief men of the city, and raised up persecution against Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a, and threw them out of their borders."}, {"pk": 2726561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 51, "text": "And shaking off the dust from their feet against them, they came to Ikonion."}, {"pk": 2726562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 13, "verse": 52, "text": "And the taught ones were filled with joy and the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2726563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be in Ikonion that they went together into the congregation of the Yehud\u0331im, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks believed."}, {"pk": 2726564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "But the Yehud\u0331im who would not obey stirred up the nations and evilly influenced their beings against the brothers."}, {"pk": 2726565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "So they remained a long time, speaking boldly in the Master, who was bearing witness to the word of His favour, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands."}, {"pk": 2726566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "And the crowd of the city was divided, and some sided with the Yehud\u0331im, and some with the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "But when a move took place by both the nations and Yehud\u0331im, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,"}, {"pk": 2726568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "they became aware of it and fled to Lustra and Derbe, cities of Lukaonia, and the country round about."}, {"pk": 2726569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "And they were bringing the Good News there."}, {"pk": 2726570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And in Lustra there was sitting a certain man, disabled in his feet, a cripple from his mother\u2019s womb, who had never walked."}, {"pk": 2726571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "This one heard Sha\u2019ul speaking, who, looking intently at him and seeing that he had belief to be healed,"}, {"pk": 2726572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "said with a loud voice, \u201cStand upright on your feet!\u201d And he sprang up and began to walk."}, {"pk": 2726573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "And when the crowds saw what Sha\u2019ul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lukaonian, \u201cThe mighty ones have become like men and come down to us!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "And they called Barnab\u0331a Zeus, and Sha\u2019ul Hermes, since he was the chief speaker."}, {"pk": 2726575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And the priest of Zeus, being in front of their city, brought oxen and wreaths to the gates, and wished to offer with the crowds."}, {"pk": 2726576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And when the emissaries Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul heard this, they tore their garments and ran in among the crowd, crying out"}, {"pk": 2726577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "and saying, \u201cMen, why are you doing this? We also are men with the same nature as you, bringing to you the Good News: to turn from these worthless matters to the living Elohim, <i>who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that is in them,</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/11'>20:11</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/146/6'>146:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2726578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "who in past generations allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways,", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/17/30'>17:30</a>"}, {"pk": 2726579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "though, indeed, He did not leave Himself without witness, doing good \u2014 giving us rain from heaven and fruit-bearing seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.\u201d", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/45'>5:45</a>"}, {"pk": 2726580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "Even with these words they still had difficulty in stopping the crowds from offering to them."}, {"pk": 2726581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "But Yehud\u0331im arrived from Antioch and Ikonion, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Sha\u2019ul, dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead."}, {"pk": 2726582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "But while the taught ones gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And on the next day he went away with Barnab\u0331a to Derbe."}, {"pk": 2726583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "And having brought the Good News to that city, and having made many taught ones, they returned to Lustra, and Ikonion, and Antioch,"}, {"pk": 2726584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "strengthening the beings of the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "And having appointed elders in every assembly, having prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Master in whom they had believed."}, {"pk": 2726586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphulia."}, {"pk": 2726587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And having spoken the word in Perge, they went down to Attaleia,"}, {"pk": 2726588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been committed to the favour of Elohim for the work which they had completed."}, {"pk": 2726589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "And having arrived, and having gathered together the assembly, they related all that Elohim had done with them, and that He had opened the door of belief to the nations."}, {"pk": 2726590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And they remained there a long time with the taught ones."}, {"pk": 2726591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And certain men came down from Yehud\u0331ah and were teaching the brothers, \u201cUnless you are circumcised, according to the practice of Mosheh, you are unable to be saved.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "So when Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a had no small dissension and dispute with them, they arranged for Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a and certain others of them to go up to Yerushalayim, to the emissaries and elders, about this question."}, {"pk": 2726593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "So, being sent on their way by the assembly, they passed through Phoenicia and Shomeron, relating the conversion of the nations. And they were causing great joy to all the brothers."}, {"pk": 2726594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "And having arrived in Yerushalayim, they were received by the assembly and the emissaries and the elders. And they reported all that Elohim had done with them."}, {"pk": 2726595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And some of the believers who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees, rose up, saying, \u201cIt is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Torah of Mosheh.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And the emissaries and elders came together to look into this matter."}, {"pk": 2726597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And when there had been much dispute, K\u0115pha rose up and said to them, \u201cMen, brothers, you know that a good while ago Elohim chose among us, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe."}, {"pk": 2726598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd Elohim, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Set-apart Spirit, as also to us,"}, {"pk": 2726599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "and made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by belief."}, {"pk": 2726600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "Now then, why do you try Elohim by putting a yoke on the neck of the taught ones which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "But through the favour of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah we trust to be saved, in the same way as they."}, {"pk": 2726602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And all the crowd was silent and were listening to Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul declaring how many miracles and wonders Elohim did among the nations, through them."}, {"pk": 2726603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And after they were silent, Ya\u201baqob\u0331 answered, saying, \u201cMen, brothers, listen to me:"}, {"pk": 2726604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cShim\u201bon has declared how Elohim first visited the nations to take out of them a people for His Name."}, {"pk": 2726605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "And the words of the prophets agree with this, as it has been written.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>\u2018After this I shall return and rebuild the Booth of Dawid\u0331 which has fallen down. And I shall rebuild its ruins, and I shall set it up,</i>"}, {"pk": 2726607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>so that the remnant of mankind shall seek \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, even all the nations on whom My Name has been called, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 who is doing all this,\u2019</i>"}, {"pk": 2726608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>who has made this known from of old.</i>", "comment": "Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/9/11'>9:11</a>, <a href='/TS2009/30/9/12'>12</a>"}, {"pk": 2726609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTherefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the nations who are turning to Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2726610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/22/20'>22:20</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/17/7'>17:7</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/17'>32:17</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/21'>32:21</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/14'>10:14</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/20'>10:20</a>, <a href='/TS2009/46/10/21'>21</a><br>See Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/25/1-3'>25:1-3</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/17/7'>17:7</a><br>See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/9/4'>9:4</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/33/25'>33:25</a> (Strangled - One way of eating meat with blood); Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/21/25'>21:25</a><br>See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/17/10-14'>17:10-14</a>"}, {"pk": 2726611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "For from ancient generations Mosheh has, in every city, those proclaiming him \u2014 being read in the congregations every Sabbath."}, {"pk": 2726612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "Then it seemed good to the emissaries and elders, with all the assembly, to send chosen men from among them to Antioch with Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a: Yehud\u0331ah being called Barsabba, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,"}, {"pk": 2726613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "having written by their hand this: The emissaries and the elders and the brothers, To the brothers who are of the nations in Antioch, and Suria, and Kilikia: Greetings."}, {"pk": 2726614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your lives, to whom we gave no command \u2014"}, {"pk": 2726615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnab\u0331a and Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2726616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "men who have given up their lives for the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "We have therefore sent Yehud\u0331ah and Silas, who are also confirming this by word of mouth."}, {"pk": 2726618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "For it seemed good to the Set-apart Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessities:"}, {"pk": 2726619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "that you abstain from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring. If you keep yourselves from these, you shall do well. Be strong!", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/15/20'>15:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2726620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "They, therefore, being sent off, went to Antioch. And having gathered the crowd together, they delivered the letter."}, {"pk": 2726621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "And having read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement."}, {"pk": 2726622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "And Yehud\u0331ah and Silas, being themselves also prophets, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them."}, {"pk": 2726623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And having spent some time, they were sent back in peace from the brothers to the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2726624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "But it seemed good to Silas to remain."}, {"pk": 2726625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul and Barnab\u0331a continued in Antioch, teaching and bringing, with many others also, the Good News: the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4!"}, {"pk": 2726626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "And after some days Sha\u2019ul said to Barnab\u0331a, \u201cLet us now go back and visit our brothers in every city where we proclaimed the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and see how they are.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And Barnab\u0331a purposed to take with them Yoh\u0323anan called Marqos."}, {"pk": 2726628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul thought it not fit to take with them the one who withdrew from them in Pamphulia, and had not gone with them to the work."}, {"pk": 2726629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "A sharp feeling therefore came to be, so that they parted from one another. And so Barnab\u0331a took Marqos and sailed to Cyprus."}, {"pk": 2726630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul chose Silas and went off, being committed by the brothers to the favour of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "text": "And he went through Suria and Kilikia, strengthening the assemblies."}, {"pk": 2726632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And he came to Derbe and Lustra. And see, a certain taught one was there, named Timotiyos, the son of a certain Yehud\u0331i woman who believed \u2014 but his father was Greek \u2014"}, {"pk": 2726633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "who was well spoken of by the brothers who were at Lustra and Ikonion."}, {"pk": 2726634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "Sha\u2019ul wished to have this one go with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Yehud\u0331im who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek."}, {"pk": 2726635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the regulations to keep, which were decided by the emissaries and elders at Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "Then, indeed, the assemblies were strengthened in the belief, and increased in number every day."}, {"pk": 2726637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, they were forbidden by the Set-apart Spirit to speak the word in Asia."}, {"pk": 2726638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "When they came to Musia, they tried to go into Bithunia, but the Spirit did not allow them."}, {"pk": 2726639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And having passed by Musia, they came down to Troas."}, {"pk": 2726640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And in the night a vision appeared to Sha\u2019ul: A man of Makedonia was standing, begging him and saying, \u201cCome over to Makedonia and help us.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And when he saw the vision, immediately we sought to go to Makedonia, concluding that the Master had called us to bring the Good News to them."}, {"pk": 2726642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrake, and the next day came to Neapolis,"}, {"pk": 2726643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "and from there to Philippi, which is the principal city of that part of Makedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days."}, {"pk": 2726644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And on the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where there used to be prayer. And having sat down we were speaking to the women who met there."}, {"pk": 2726645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "And a certain woman named Ludia, a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, worshipping Elohim, was hearing, whose heart the Master did open to pay attention to what Sha\u2019ul said.", "comment": "Most probably a gentile by birth, converted to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And when she was immersed, and her household, she begged us, saying, \u201cIf you have judged me to be believing in the Master, come to my house and stay.\u201d And she urged us."}, {"pk": 2726647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And it came to be, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of Puthon, did meet us, who brought her masters much profit by foretelling."}, {"pk": 2726648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "Having followed Sha\u2019ul and us, she cried out, saying, \u201cThese men are the servants of the Most High Elohim, who proclaim to us the way of deliverance.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And she was doing this for many days. But Sha\u2019ul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, \u201cI command you in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah to come out of her.\u201d And it came out that same hour."}, {"pk": 2726650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "But when her masters saw that their anticipation of money-making was gone, they seized Sha\u2019ul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place to the rulers."}, {"pk": 2726651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And having brought them to the captains, they said, \u201cThese men, being Yehud\u0331im, greatly disturb our city,"}, {"pk": 2726652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "and they proclaim practices which are not right for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "And the crowd rose up together against them. And the captains tore off their garments and commanded them to be beaten with rods."}, {"pk": 2726654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "And having laid many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them safely,"}, {"pk": 2726655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "who, having received such a command, put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks."}, {"pk": 2726656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "And at midnight Sha\u2019ul and Silas were praying and singing songs to Elohim, and the prisoners were listening to them."}, {"pk": 2726657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "And suddenly a great earthquake took place, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and all the chains came loose."}, {"pk": 2726658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "And the jailer, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, thinking the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself."}, {"pk": 2726659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 28, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul called with a loud voice, saying, \u201cDo no harm to yourself, for we are all here.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 29, "text": "And asking for a light, he ran in, and fell down trembling before Sha\u2019ul and Silas."}, {"pk": 2726661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 30, "text": "And having led them outside he said, \u201cMasters, what do I have to do to be saved?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 31, "text": "And they said, \u201cBelieve on the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and you shall be saved, you and your household.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 32, "text": "And they spoke the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 to him and to all who were in his house."}, {"pk": 2726664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 33, "text": "And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed their wounds, and immediately he was immersed, he and all that were his."}, {"pk": 2726665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 34, "text": "And having brought them into his house, he set food before them. And he rejoiced with all his household, having believed in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 35, "text": "And when day came, the authorities sent the officers, saying, \u201cLet these men go.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 36, "text": "And the jailer reported these words to Sha\u2019ul, saying, \u201cThe captains have sent to let you go. Now then, come out and go in peace.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 37, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul said to them, \u201cThey have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, being Romans. They have thrown us into prison, and now, do they throw us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and bring us out.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 38, "text": "And the officers reported these words to the authorities, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans."}, {"pk": 2726670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 39, "text": "And having come, they pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to leave the city."}, {"pk": 2726671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 16, "verse": 40, "text": "So coming out of the prison they went to Ludia, and seeing the brothers, they encouraged them, and went forth."}, {"pk": 2726672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And having passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonike, where there was a congregation of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2726673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "And according to his practice, Sha\u2019ul went in unto them, and for three Sabbaths was reasoning with them from the Scriptures,"}, {"pk": 2726674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "explaining and pointing out that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and <i>saying</i>, \u201cThis is the Messiah, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom I proclaim to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And some of them did believe, and a large number of the worshipping Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Sha\u2019ul and Silas."}, {"pk": 2726676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "But the Yehud\u0331im who did not believe, having become envious, took some of the wicked men from the market-place, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and came upon the house of Jason, and were seeking to bring them out to the people."}, {"pk": 2726677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "But not finding them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers to the city rulers, crying out, \u201cThey who have turned the world upside down have come here too,"}, {"pk": 2726678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "whom Jason has received. And all of them are acting contrary to the dogmas of Caesar, saying there is another sovereign, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "And they troubled the crowd and the city rulers when they heard this."}, {"pk": 2726680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the rest, they let them go."}, {"pk": 2726681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "And the brothers immediately sent Sha\u2019ul and Silas away by night to Beroia, who, having come, went into the congregation of the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2726682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these <i>words</i> were so."}, {"pk": 2726683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "Then many of them truly believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, decent women as well as men."}, {"pk": 2726684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "And when the Yehud\u0331im from Thessalonike came to know that the word of Elohim was proclaimed by Sha\u2019ul at Beroia, they came there also and stirred up the crowds."}, {"pk": 2726685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "And then immediately the brothers sent Sha\u2019ul away, to go to the sea, but both Silas and Timotiyos stayed there."}, {"pk": 2726686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And those who arranged for Sha\u2019ul brought him to Athens. And receiving a command for Silas and Timotiyos to join him as soon as possible, they departed."}, {"pk": 2726687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "But while Sha\u2019ul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred up within him when he saw that the city was utterly idolatrous."}, {"pk": 2726688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the congregation with the Yehud\u0331im and with the worshippers, and in the market-place daily with those who met there."}, {"pk": 2726689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some were saying, \u201cWhat does this babbler wish to say?\u201d Others said, \u201cHe seems to be a proclaimer of strange mighty ones\u201d \u2014 because to them he brought the Good News: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and the resurrection!"}, {"pk": 2726690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 19, "text": "So they laid hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, \u201cAre we able to know what this fresh teaching is of which you speak?"}, {"pk": 2726691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 20, "text": "For you are bringing some strange <i>matters</i> to our ears. We wish, then, to know what these mean.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 21, "text": "For all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their leisure time in doing naught but to speak or to hear what is fresh."}, {"pk": 2726693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 22, "text": "And having stood in the midst of the Areopagus Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cMen of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every matter."}, {"pk": 2726694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cFor passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found a slaughter-place with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN MIGHTY ONE. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you:"}, {"pk": 2726695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 24, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who made the world and all that is in it, this One being Master of heaven and earth, does not dwell in dwellings made with hands.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/48'>7:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2726696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 25, "text": "Nor is He served with men\u2019s hands \u2014 as if needing any \u2014 Himself giving to all life, and breath, and all <i>else</i>."}, {"pk": 2726697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having ordained beforehand the times and the boundaries of their dwelling,"}, {"pk": 2726698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 27, "text": "to seek the Master, if at least they would reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us."}, {"pk": 2726699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 28, "text": "For in Him we live and move and are, as also some of your own poets have said, \u2018For we are also His offspring.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cNow then, since we are the offspring of Elohim, we should not think that the Elohim is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by the skill and thought of man."}, {"pk": 2726701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 30, "text": "Truly, then, having overlooked these times of ignorance, Elohim now commands all men everywhere to repent,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 31, "text": "because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having given proof of this to all by raising Him from the dead.\u201d", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/10/42'>10:42</a>"}, {"pk": 2726703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 32, "text": "And hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some indeed mocked, while others said, \u201cWe shall hear you again concerning this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 33, "text": "And so Sha\u2019ul went out from among them."}, {"pk": 2726705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 17, "verse": 34, "text": "But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionusios the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them."}, {"pk": 2726706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this Sha\u2019ul left Athens and went to Corinth."}, {"pk": 2726707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And he found a certain Yehud\u0331i named Aqulas, born in Pontos, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla \u2014 because Claudius had commanded all the Yehud\u0331im to leave Rome \u2014 and he came to them."}, {"pk": 2726708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and was working, for they were tentmakers by trade."}, {"pk": 2726709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And he was reasoning in the congregation every Sabbath, and won over both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks."}, {"pk": 2726710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "And when Silas and Timotiyos came down from Makedonia, Sha\u2019ul was pressed by the Spirit, and earnestly witnessed to the Yehud\u0331im that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "However, when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, \u201cYour blood is upon your head, I am clean. From now on I shall go to the nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "And having left there he came to the house of a certain man named Justus, who worshipped Elohim, whose house was next to the congregation."}, {"pk": 2726713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "And Crispus, the ruler of the congregation, did believe in the Master with all his household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were immersed."}, {"pk": 2726714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "And the Master spoke to Sha\u2019ul in the night by a vision, \u201cDo not be afraid, but speak, and do not be silent,"}, {"pk": 2726715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "because I am with you, and no one shall attack you to do you evil, because I have much people in this city.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "And he remained a year and six months, teaching the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 among them."}, {"pk": 2726717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "And when Gallion was proconsul of Achaia, the Yehud\u0331im with one mind rose up against Sha\u2019ul and brought him to the judgment seat,"}, {"pk": 2726718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "saying, \u201cThis one does seduce men to worship Elohim contrary to the Torah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "And as Sha\u2019ul was about to open his mouth, Gallion said to the Yehud\u0331im, \u201cIf it were a matter of wrongdoing or wicked recklessness, O Yehud\u0331im, there would be reason why I should bear with you."}, {"pk": 2726720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "But if it is a question of words and names and a law which is among you, see to it yourselves, for I do not wish to be a judge of these <i>matters</i>.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "And he drove them away from the judgment seat."}, {"pk": 2726722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "And all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the congregation, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallion showed no concern whatever."}, {"pk": 2726723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, having stayed several days more, having taken leave of the brothers, was sailing for Suria, and Priscilla and Aqulas were with him, having shaved his hair at Kenh\u0323rea, for he had taken a vow."}, {"pk": 2726724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "And he came to Ephesos, and left them there, but he himself went into the congregation and reasoned with the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2726725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "And when they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he declined,"}, {"pk": 2726726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "but took leave of them, saying, \u201cI have to keep this coming festival in Yerushalayim by all means, but I shall come back to you, Elohim desiring so.\u201d And he sailed from Ephesos."}, {"pk": 2726727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "And having come to Caesarea, going up and greeting the assembly, he went down to Antioch."}, {"pk": 2726728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "And having spent some time there, he went forth, passing through the country of Galatia and on through Phrygia, strengthening all the taught ones."}, {"pk": 2726729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "And a certain Yehud\u0331i named Apollos, born at Alexandria, a learned man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesos."}, {"pk": 2726730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 25, "text": "This one had been instructed in the way of the Master. And being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching the <i>matters</i> about the Master exactly, though he knew only the immersion of Yoh\u0323anan."}, {"pk": 2726731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 26, "text": "And he began to speak boldly in the congregation. And when Aqulas and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of Elohim more exactly."}, {"pk": 2726732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 27, "text": "And when he intended to pass through to Achaia, the brothers, having encouraged him, wrote to the taught ones to receive him, who, having arrived, greatly helped those who believed through favour,"}, {"pk": 2726733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 18, "verse": 28, "text": "for with power he refuted the Yehud\u0331im publicly, showing from the Scriptures that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Sha\u2019ul, having passed through the upper parts, came to Ephesos. And having found some taught ones,"}, {"pk": 2726735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "he said to them, \u201cDid you receive the Set-apart Spirit when you believed?\u201d And they said to him, \u201cNo, we have not even heard that there is a Set-apart Spirit.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And he said to them, \u201cInto what then were you immersed?\u201d And they said, \u201cInto Yoh\u0323anan\u2019s immersion.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cYoh\u0323anan indeed immersed with an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the One who is coming after him, that is, in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And when they heard this, they were immersed into the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2726739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul had laid hands on them, the Set-apart Spirit came upon them, and they were speaking in tongues and prophesying."}, {"pk": 2726740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "And all the men were about twelve."}, {"pk": 2726741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And having gone into the congregation he spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the reign of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "But when some were hardened and did not believe, speaking evil of the Way before the crowd, he withdrew from them and separated the taught ones, reasoning daily in the school of Turannos."}, {"pk": 2726743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And this took place for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks."}, {"pk": 2726744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And Elohim worked unusual miracles through the hands of Sha\u2019ul,"}, {"pk": 2726745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out of them."}, {"pk": 2726746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "But certain roving Yehud\u0331i exorcists took it upon themselves to call the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 over those who had wicked spirits, saying, \u201cWe exorcise you by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 whom Sha\u2019ul proclaims.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And there were seven sons of a certain Skeua, a Yehud\u0331i chief priest, who were doing this."}, {"pk": 2726748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And the wicked spirit answering, said, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 I know, and Sha\u2019ul I know, but who are you?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And the man in whom the wicked spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded."}, {"pk": 2726750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And this became known to all, both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks dwelling in Ephesos. And fear fell on them all, and the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 was made great."}, {"pk": 2726751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "And many who had believed came confessing and declaring their deeds."}, {"pk": 2726752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And many of those who had practised magic brought their books together, burning them before all. And they reckoned up the value of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver."}, {"pk": 2726753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "So the word of the Master was growing mightily and prevailing."}, {"pk": 2726754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "Now when these <i>matters</i> had been completed, Sha\u2019ul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Makedonia and Achaia, to go to Yerushalayim, saying, \u201cAfter I have been there, I have to see Rome too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 22, "text": "And having sent into Makedonia two of those assisting him, Timotiyos and \u011arastos, he himself remained in Asia for a time."}, {"pk": 2726756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 23, "text": "And about that time there came to be a great commotion about the Way."}, {"pk": 2726757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 24, "text": "For a certain man named Demetrios, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided no little business to the craftsmen,"}, {"pk": 2726758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 25, "text": "who, having called them together, with the workers of similar <i>trade</i>, said, \u201cMen, you know that our wealth is from this business."}, {"pk": 2726759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd you see and hear that not only at Ephesos, but throughout almost all Asia, this Sha\u2019ul has persuaded and turned away a large number, saying that they are not mighty ones which are made with hands."}, {"pk": 2726760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cAnd not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming to rejection, but also that the temple of the great female mighty one Artemis whom all Asia and the world worship, shall be regarded as worthless and her greatness diminished.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 28, "text": "And having heard this, they were filled with rage and cried out, saying, \u201cGreat is Artemis of the Ephesians!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 29, "text": "And the entire city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one mind into the theatre, having seized Gaios and Aristarchos, Makedonians, Sha\u2019ul\u2019s fellow travellers."}, {"pk": 2726763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 30, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, intending to go in among the mob, the taught ones did not allow him."}, {"pk": 2726764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 31, "text": "And some of the officials of Asia, being his friends, sent to him begging him not to risk himself into the theatre."}, {"pk": 2726765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 32, "text": "Then others indeed shouted this and others that, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together."}, {"pk": 2726766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 33, "text": "And some of the crowd instructed Alexander \u2014 the Yehud\u0331im putting him forward. And Alexander motioned with his hand, and wished to make his defence to the people."}, {"pk": 2726767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 34, "text": "But having recognised that he was a Yehud\u0331i, all with one voice cried out for about two hours, \u201cGreat is Artemis of the Ephesians!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 35, "text": "And the city clerk, having calmed the crowd, said, \u201cMen of Ephesos, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great female mighty one Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?"}, {"pk": 2726769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 36, "text": "Therefore, if these <i>matters</i> are undeniable, you need to be calm, and do not act rashly."}, {"pk": 2726770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 37, "text": "\u201cFor you have brought these men here who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your female mighty one."}, {"pk": 2726771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cIf truly then Demetrios and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another."}, {"pk": 2726772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 39, "text": "\u201cAnd if you have any further complaint, it shall be settled in the regular assembly."}, {"pk": 2726773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 40, "text": "\u201cFor we are in danger of being accused of riot concerning today, there being no reason which we could give to account for this disorderly gathering.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 19, "verse": 41, "text": "And having said this, he dismissed the assembly."}, {"pk": 2726775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "After the uproar had ceased, Sha\u2019ul called the taught ones to him, and having embraced them, went away to go to Makedonia."}, {"pk": 2726776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And having gone through those parts, and having encouraged them with many words, he came to Greece,"}, {"pk": 2726777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "where he spent three months. When he was about to sail to Suria, he decided to return through Makedonia, as a plot was made against him by the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2726778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And he was accompanied by Sopater of Beroia, and Aristarchos and Sekundos of the Thessalonians, and Gaios of Derbe, and Timotiyos, and Tuchikos and Trophimos of Asia."}, {"pk": 2726779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "And these, going ahead, waited for us at Troas."}, {"pk": 2726780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "And we sailed away from Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days."}, {"pk": 2726781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And on <i>day</i> one of the week, the taught ones having gathered together to break bread, Sha\u2019ul, intending to depart the next day, was reasoning with them and was extending the word till midnight.", "comment": "Greek Sabbaths."}, {"pk": 2726782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "And there were many lamps in the upper room where they were assembled."}, {"pk": 2726783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And a certain young man, by name Eutuchos, was sitting in a window, being overpowered by a deep sleep. As Sha\u2019ul kept on reasoning, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third story, and was picked up dead."}, {"pk": 2726784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, having gone down, fell on him, and embracing him said, \u201cDo not be upset, for his life is in him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "Then going up again, and having broken bread and eaten, he talked a long while, even till daybreak, and so went forth."}, {"pk": 2726786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And they brought the young man in alive, and were encouraged, not a little."}, {"pk": 2726787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And we, going ahead to the ship, sailed to Assos, intending to take Sha\u2019ul on board there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot."}, {"pk": 2726788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitulene."}, {"pk": 2726789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And from there we sailed, and the next day came opposite Chios. And the next day we arrived at Samos and remained at Trogullion. And the following day we came to Miletos."}, {"pk": 2726790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 16, "text": "For Sha\u2019ul had decided to sail past Ephesos, so that he might lose no time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Yerushalayim, if possible, on the Day of the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot.", "comment": "Counted from the day on which the sheaf of the first-fruits is waved during the Festival of Matzot (Unleavened Bread) - Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/23/10-21'>23:10-21</a>; (The morrow after the Sabbath.) See also Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/1'>2:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2726791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 17, "text": "And from Miletos he sent to Ephesos and called for the elders of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2726792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 18, "text": "And when they had come to him, he said to them, \u201cYou know, from the first day that I came to Asia, how I was with you all the time,"}, {"pk": 2726793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 19, "text": "serving the Master with all humility, with many tears and trials which befell me by the plotting of the Yehud\u0331im,"}, {"pk": 2726794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 20, "text": "as I kept back no <i>matter</i> that was profitable, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,"}, {"pk": 2726795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 21, "text": "witnessing to Yehud\u0331im, and also to Greeks: repentance toward Elohim and belief in our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd now see, I go bound in the spirit to Yerushalayim, not knowing what is going to meet me there,"}, {"pk": 2726797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 23, "text": "except that the Set-apart Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that chains and pressures await me."}, {"pk": 2726798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cBut I do not count my life of any value to me, so that I might accomplish my mission with joy, and the service which I received from the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, to bear witness to the Good News of the favour of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cAnd now see, I know that you all, among whom I went about proclaiming the reign of Elohim, shall see my face no more."}, {"pk": 2726800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cTherefore I witness to you this day that I am clear from the blood of all."}, {"pk": 2726801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cFor I kept not back from declaring to you all the counsel of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2726802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cTherefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Set-apart Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of Elohim which He has purchased with His own blood."}, {"pk": 2726803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cFor I know this, that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you, not sparing the flock.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/15-23'>7:15-23</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/10/16'>10:16</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/10/3'>10:3</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/10/12'>10:12</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/20/29'>20:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2726804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 30, "text": "\u201cAlso from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted <i>teachings</i>, to draw away the taught ones after themselves."}, {"pk": 2726805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 31, "text": "\u201cTherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease to warn each one with tears."}, {"pk": 2726806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 32, "text": "\u201cAnd now, brothers, I commit you to Elohim and to the word of His favour, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those having been set apart."}, {"pk": 2726807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 33, "text": "\u201cI have coveted no one\u2019s silver or gold or garments."}, {"pk": 2726808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cAnd you yourselves know that these hands supplied my needs, and for those who were with me."}, {"pk": 2726809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 35, "text": "\u201cAll this I did show you, by labouring like this, that you ought to help the weak. And remember the words of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, that He said, \u2018It is more blessed to give than to receive.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 36, "text": "And having said this, he knelt down and prayed with them all."}, {"pk": 2726811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 37, "text": "And there was much weeping among them all, and falling on Sha\u2019ul\u2019s neck, they kissed him,"}, {"pk": 2726812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 20, "verse": 38, "text": "distressed most of all because of the word which he had said, that they would see his face no more. And they went with him to the ship."}, {"pk": 2726813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And it came to be, when we had torn ourselves away from them, and had set sail, we ran a straight course and came to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara."}, {"pk": 2726814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And having found a ship passing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail."}, {"pk": 2726815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And having sighted Cyprus, and having passed it on the left, we sailed to Suria, and landed at Tsor, for the ship was to unload her cargo there."}, {"pk": 2726816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "And having found taught ones, we remained there seven days. And they told Sha\u2019ul through the Spirit not to go up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And when it came to be that our days there were ended, we left and went on, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed."}, {"pk": 2726818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And having embraced one another, we boarded the ship, and they returned to their homes."}, {"pk": 2726819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "And when we had completed our voyage from Tsor, we came to Ptolemais. And having greeted the brothers we stayed with them one day."}, {"pk": 2726820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "And on the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and went into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him."}, {"pk": 2726821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "Now this one had four maiden daughters who prophesied."}, {"pk": 2726822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And as we were staying many days, a certain prophet named H\u0323a\u1e21ab\u0331 came down from Yehud\u0331ah,"}, {"pk": 2726823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "and having come to us, he took the girdle of Sha\u2019ul, bound his own hands and feet, and said, \u201cThus says the Set-apart Spirit, \u2018Thus shall the Yehud\u0331im at Yerushalayim bind the man who owns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the nations.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "And when we heard this, both we and those from that place begged him not to go up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul answered, \u201cWhat do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Yerushalayim for the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And as he could not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, \u201cLet the desire of the Master be done.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And after those days, having made ready, we went up to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And also some of the taught ones from Caesarea went with us and brought with them one, Mnason of Cyprus, an early taught one, with whom we were to lodge."}, {"pk": 2726829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And when we had arrived in Yerushalayim, the brothers received us gladly."}, {"pk": 2726830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And on the following day Sha\u2019ul went in with us to Ya\u201baqob\u0331, and all the elders came."}, {"pk": 2726831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And having greeted them, he was relating one by one what Elohim had done among the nations through his service."}, {"pk": 2726832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "And when they heard it, they praised the Master. And they said to him, \u201cYou see, brother, how many thousands of Yehud\u0331im there are who have believed, and all are ardent for the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2726833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cBut they have been informed about you that you teach all the Yehud\u0331im who are among the nations to forsake Mosheh, saying not to circumcise the children nor to walk according to the practices."}, {"pk": 2726834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cWhat then is it? They shall certainly hear that you have come."}, {"pk": 2726835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cSo do this, what we say to you: We have four men who have taken a vow."}, {"pk": 2726836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "Take them and be cleansed with them, and pay their expenses so that they shave their heads. And all shall know that what they have been informed about you is not so, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Torah."}, {"pk": 2726837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut concerning the nations who believe, we have written and decided that they should keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring.\u201d", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/15/20'>15:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2726838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul took the men on the next day, and having been cleansed with them, went into the Set-apart Place to announce the completion of the days of separation \u2014 until the offering should be presented for each one of them."}, {"pk": 2726839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "And when the seven days were almost ended, the Yehud\u0331im from Asia, seeing him in the Set-apart Place, were stirring up all the crowd, and they laid hands on him,"}, {"pk": 2726840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 28, "text": "crying out, \u201cMen of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people, and the Torah, and this place. And besides, he also brought Greeks into the Set-apart Place and has profaned this Set-apart Place.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 29, "text": "Because they had previously seen Trophimos the Ephesian with him in the city, whom they thought that Sha\u2019ul had brought into the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2726842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 30, "text": "And the entire city was moved, and the people rushed together, seized Sha\u2019ul, and dragged him out of the Set-apart Place. And immediately the doors were shut."}, {"pk": 2726843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 31, "text": "And while they were seeking to kill him, a report came to the commander of the company <i>of soldiers</i> that all Yerushalayim was in confusion."}, {"pk": 2726844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 32, "text": "At once he took soldiers and captains, and ran down to them. And they, having seen the commander and the soldiers, stopped beating Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 33, "text": "Then the commander came near and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and was asking who he was and what he had done."}, {"pk": 2726846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 34, "text": "And in the crowd some were shouting this and others that. And not being able to ascertain the truth because of the uproar, he commanded him to be taken into the barracks."}, {"pk": 2726847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 35, "text": "And when he came to the stairs, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd."}, {"pk": 2726848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 36, "text": "For a large number of the people followed after, crying out, \u201cAway with him!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 37, "text": "And as Sha\u2019ul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the commander, \u201cAm I allowed to say somewhat to you?\u201d And he said, \u201cDo you know Greek?"}, {"pk": 2726850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 38, "text": "\u201cAre you not the Mitsrian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?"}, {"pk": 2726851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 39, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul replied, \u201cI am a Yehud\u0331i from Tarsos, in Kilikia, a citizen of no mean city. And I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 21, "verse": 40, "text": "And having given him permission, Sha\u2019ul, standing on the stairs motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great silence, he spoke in the Hebrew language, saying,", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/26/14'>26:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2726853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cMen, brothers, and fathers, hear my defence before you now.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept greater silence. And he said:", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/21/40'>21:40</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/26/14'>26:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2726855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cI am indeed a Yehud\u0331i, having been born in Tarsos of Kilikia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamli\u2019\u0115l, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Torah of our fathers, being ardent for Elohim, as you all are today,"}, {"pk": 2726856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "who persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering up into prisons both men and women,"}, {"pk": 2726857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Dammeseq to bring in chains even those who were there to Yerushalayim to be punished."}, {"pk": 2726858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And it came to be, as I was journeying and coming near Dammeseq, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me out of the heaven,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, \u2018Sha\u2019ul, Sha\u2019ul, why do you persecute Me?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd I answered, \u2018Who are You, Master?\u2019 And He said to me, \u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth, whom you persecute.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not hear His voice speaking to me."}, {"pk": 2726862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd I said, \u2018What shall I do, Master?\u2019 And the Master said to me, \u2018Rise up, go into Dammeseq, and there you shall be told all that you have been appointed to do.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd as I could not see because of the esteem of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2726864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "And a certain H\u0323ananyah, a dedicated man according to the Torah, being well spoken of by all the Yehud\u0331im dwelling there,", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/9/10'>9:10</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/9/17'>9:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2726865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "came to me, and stood by and said to me, \u2018Brother Sha\u2019ul, look up.\u2019 And at that same hour I looked up at him."}, {"pk": 2726866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd he said, <i>\u2018The Elohim of our fathers</i> has appointed you to know His desire, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear the voice from His mouth.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/15'>3:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2726867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "Because you shall be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard."}, {"pk": 2726868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "And now, why do you delay? Rise up, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be, when I returned to Yerushalayim, and while I was praying in the Set-apart Place, I came to be in a trance,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "and I saw Him saying to me, \u2018Hurry and get out of Yerushalayim, speedily, because they shall not accept your witness concerning Me.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd I said, \u2018Master, they know that in every congregation I was imprisoning and beating those who believe on You."}, {"pk": 2726872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "And when the blood of Your witness Stephanos was shed, I also was standing by giving my approval to his death, and keeping the garments of those who were killing him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd He said to me, \u2018Go, because I shall send you far from here to the nations.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 22, "text": "And they were listening to him until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying, \u201cAway with such a one from the earth, for it is not fit that he should live!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 23, "text": "As they were shouting and tearing their garments, and throwing dust into the air,"}, {"pk": 2726876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 24, "text": "the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and said that he should be examined by flogging, in order to find out why they were shouting so against him."}, {"pk": 2726877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 25, "text": "And as they were stretching him out with straps, Sha\u2019ul said to the captain who was standing by, \u201cIs it permitted for you to whip a man who is a Roman, and uncondemned?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 26, "text": "And when the captain heard, he went and reported to the commander, saying, \u201cWatch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 27, "text": "And having come, the commander said to him, \u201cSay to me, are you a Roman?\u201d And he said, \u201cYes.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 28, "text": "And the commander answered, \u201cWith a large sum I obtained this citizenship.\u201d And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cBut I was even born so.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 29, "text": "Then at once those who were about to examine him withdrew from him. And the commander was also afraid after he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him."}, {"pk": 2726882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 22, "verse": 30, "text": "And on the next day, intending to know for certain why he was accused by the Yehud\u0331im, he released him, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to come, and brought Sha\u2019ul down and set him before them."}, {"pk": 2726883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 1, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, looking intently at the council, said, \u201cMen, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before Elohim until this day.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 2, "text": "And the high priest H\u0323ananyah commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth."}, {"pk": 2726885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 3, "text": "Then Sha\u2019ul said to him, \u201cElohim is going to strike you, whitewashed wall! And do you sit judging me according to the Torah, and do you command me to be struck contrary to the Torah?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 4, "text": "And those who stood by said, \u201cDo you revile the high priest of Elohim?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 5, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cI did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it has been written, <i>\u2018You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/22/28'>22:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2726888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 6, "text": "Now Sha\u2019ul, perceiving that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council, \u201cMen, brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, I am being judged concerning the expectation and resurrection of the dead!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 7, "text": "And when he had said this, there came a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. And the crowd was divided."}, {"pk": 2726890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 8, "text": "For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor messenger nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess both."}, {"pk": 2726891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 9, "text": "And there was a great uproar. And certain of the scribes of the party of Pharisees were earnestly contending, saying, \u201cWe find no evil in this man. And if a spirit or a messenger has spoken to him, let us not fight against Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 10, "text": "And a great dissension having come, the commander, fearing lest Sha\u2019ul would be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the body of soldiers to go down and seize him from their midst, and bring him into the barracks."}, {"pk": 2726893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 11, "text": "And on the following night the Master stood by him and said, \u201cTake courage, Sha\u2019ul, for as you have witnessed for Me in Yerushalayim, so you have to bear witness at Rome too.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 12, "text": "And when it became day, some of the Yehud\u0331im made a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 13, "text": "And those making this conspiracy were more than forty,"}, {"pk": 2726896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 14, "text": "who, having come to the chief priests and elders, said, \u201cWe have bound ourselves under a great oath not to eat at all until we have killed Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 15, "text": "Now, then, you, with the council, inform the commander to have him brought down to you tomorrow, as intending to examine more exactly all about him. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near."}, {"pk": 2726898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 16, "text": "And when Sha\u2019ul\u2019s sister\u2019s son heard of their ambush, he went and entered into the barracks and reported to Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2726899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 17, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul, having called one of the captains to him, said, \u201cTake this young man to the commander, for he has somewhat to report to him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 18, "text": "He indeed then took him and led him to the commander and said, \u201cThe prisoner Sha\u2019ul called me to him and asked me to bring this young man to you, having somewhat to say to you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 19, "text": "And the commander, having taken him by the hand, went aside by themselves and asked, \u201cWhat is it that you have to report to me?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 20, "text": "And he said, \u201cThe Yehud\u0331im have agreed to ask that you bring Sha\u2019ul down to the council tomorrow, as intending to inquire more exactly about him."}, {"pk": 2726903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore, do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you."}, {"pk": 2726904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 22, "text": "Then the commander dismissed the young man, having commanded him, \u201cInform no one that you reported this to me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 23, "text": "And having called near a certain two captains, he said, \u201cGet two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, after the third hour of the night,"}, {"pk": 2726906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 24, "text": "and provide beasts, on which to place Sha\u2019ul, and bring him safely to Felix the governor,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 25, "text": "having written a letter in this form:"}, {"pk": 2726908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 26, "text": "Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings."}, {"pk": 2726909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 27, "text": "This man, having been seized by the Yehud\u0331im, and being about to be killed by them, I rescued, having come with the body of soldiers, having learned that he was a Roman."}, {"pk": 2726910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 28, "text": "And, desiring to know the reason they accused him, I brought him before their council."}, {"pk": 2726911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 29, "text": "I found out that he was accused concerning questions of their Torah, but there was no charge against him deserving death or chains."}, {"pk": 2726912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 30, "text": "And when I was informed that there was to be a plot against the man by the Yehud\u0331im, I sent him immediately to you, having also commanded his accusers to state before you the charges against him. Be strong!"}, {"pk": 2726913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 31, "text": "So the soldiers, as they were commanded, took Sha\u2019ul and brought him by night to Antipatris."}, {"pk": 2726914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 32, "text": "And on the next day they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the barracks,"}, {"pk": 2726915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 33, "text": "who, having come to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Sha\u2019ul to him."}, {"pk": 2726916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 34, "text": "And the governor, having read it, and having asked of what province he was, and being informed that he was from Kilikia,"}, {"pk": 2726917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 23, "verse": 35, "text": "said, \u201cI shall hear you when your accusers arrive also.\u201d And he commanded him to be kept in Herodes\u2019 palace."}, {"pk": 2726918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 1, "text": "And after five days the high priest H\u0323ananyah came down, with the elders, and a certain speaker \u2014 Tertullus. And they brought charges against Sha\u2019ul before the governor."}, {"pk": 2726919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 2, "text": "And when he was called upon, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, \u201cHaving obtained great peace through you, and reforms being brought to this nation by your forethought,"}, {"pk": 2726920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 3, "text": "we accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thanks."}, {"pk": 2726921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut in order not to hinder you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly in your gentleness."}, {"pk": 2726922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 5, "text": "For having found this man a plague, who stirs up dissension among all the Yehud\u0331im throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natsarenes,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 6, "text": "who also tried to profane the Set-apart Place, and whom we seized, and wished to judge him according to our law,"}, {"pk": 2726924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 7, "text": "but the commander Lysias came along and with much violence took him out of our hands,"}, {"pk": 2726925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 8, "text": "commanding his accusers to come to you. And by examining him yourself you shall be able to know all these <i>matters</i> of which we accuse him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 9, "text": "And the Yehud\u0331im also agreed, maintaining that these <i>matters</i> were so."}, {"pk": 2726927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 10, "text": "And when the governor had motioned him to speak, Sha\u2019ul answered, \u201cKnowing that for many years you have been a judge of this nation, I gladly defend myself,"}, {"pk": 2726928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 11, "text": "seeing you are able to know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Yerushalayim to worship."}, {"pk": 2726929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd they neither found me in the Set-apart Place disputing with anyone nor stirring up the crowd, either in the congregations or in the city."}, {"pk": 2726930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cNor are they able to prove the charges of which they now accuse me."}, {"pk": 2726931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the <i>Elohim of my fathers,</i> believing all that has been written in the Torah and in the Prophets,", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/3/15'>3:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2726932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 15, "text": "having an expectation in Elohim, which they themselves also wait for, that there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous."}, {"pk": 2726933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd in this I exercise myself to have a clear conscience toward Elohim and men always."}, {"pk": 2726934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd after many years I came to bring kind deeds to my nation and offerings,"}, {"pk": 2726935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 18, "text": "at which time certain Yehud\u0331im from Asia found me cleansed in the Set-apart Place, neither with a crowd nor with disturbance,"}, {"pk": 2726936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cwho ought to be present before you to bring charges if they have any <i>matter</i> against me."}, {"pk": 2726937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cOr else let these themselves say if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,"}, {"pk": 2726938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 21, "text": "other than for this one declaration which I cried out, standing among them, \u2018Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.\u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2726939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 22, "text": "And having heard this, having known more exactly about the Way, Felix put them off, saying, \u201cWhen Lysias the commander comes down, I shall decide your case.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 23, "text": "And he ordered the captain to keep Sha\u2019ul and to have ease, and not to forbid any of his friends to attend to him."}, {"pk": 2726941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 24, "text": "And after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a female Yehud\u0331i, he sent for Sha\u2019ul and heard him concerning the belief in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2726942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 25, "text": "And as he reasoned about righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, \u201cFor the present, go. And when I find time I shall send for you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 26, "text": "At the same time too he was anticipating that money would be given him by Sha\u2019ul, that he might release him. Therefore he sent for him more often and conversed with him."}, {"pk": 2726944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 24, "verse": 27, "text": "But after two years had passed Porcius Festus succeeded Felix. And wishing to do the Yehud\u0331im a favour, Felix left Sha\u2019ul bound."}, {"pk": 2726945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 1, "text": "Festus therefore, having come to the province, three days later went up from Caesarea to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2726946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 2, "text": "And the high priest and the chief men of the Yehud\u0331im informed him against Sha\u2019ul, and they begged him,"}, {"pk": 2726947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 3, "text": "asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim \u2014 making a plot along the way to kill him."}, {"pk": 2726948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 4, "text": "Then, indeed, Festus answered that Sha\u2019ul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly."}, {"pk": 2726949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore, he said, \u201clet those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, to see if there is any fault in him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 6, "text": "And having spent more than ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea. And on the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Sha\u2019ul to be brought."}, {"pk": 2726951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 7, "text": "And when he had come, the Yehud\u0331im who had come down from Yerushalayim stood about, bringing many and heavy charges against Sha\u2019ul, which they were unable to prove,"}, {"pk": 2726952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 8, "text": "while Sha\u2019ul said in his own defence, \u201cNeither against the Torah of the Yehud\u0331im, nor against the Set-apart Place, nor against Caesar did I commit any sin.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 9, "text": "But Festus, wishing to do the Yehud\u0331im a favour, answering Sha\u2019ul, said, \u201cDo you wish to go up to Yerushalayim and be judged before me there concerning these <i>matters</i>?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 10, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cI am standing at Caesar\u2019s judgment seat, where I should be judged. To the Yehud\u0331im I have done no wrong, as you know well enough."}, {"pk": 2726955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 11, "text": "For if indeed I do wrong, or have committed whatever deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is none at all in these <i>matters</i> of which these men accuse me, no one is able to give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 12, "text": "Then Festus, having talked with the council, answered, \u201cYou have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 13, "text": "And certain days having passed, Sovereign Agrippa and Bernike came to Caesarea to greet Festus."}, {"pk": 2726958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 14, "text": "And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid Sha\u2019ul\u2019s case before the sovereign, saying, \u201cThere is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner,"}, {"pk": 2726959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 15, "text": "about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Yehud\u0331im informed me, when I was in Yerushalayim, asking for a judgment against him."}, {"pk": 2726960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cTo them I answered, \u2018It is not the Roman practice to give up any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has a chance to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2726961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cThey, therefore, having come together, without any delay, I sat on the judgment seat the next day and commanded the man to be brought in."}, {"pk": 2726962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cWhen the accusers stood up, they brought no charge against him such as I expected,"}, {"pk": 2726963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 19, "text": "but had some questions against him about their own worship and about a certain \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who had died, whom Sha\u2019ul was claiming to be alive."}, {"pk": 2726964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cAnd being uncertain how to investigate these matters, I asked whether he wished to go to Yerushalayim and there be judged concerning these matters."}, {"pk": 2726965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 21, "text": "But when Sha\u2019ul appealed to be kept for the decision of Augustus, I ordered him to be kept until I send him to Caesar."}, {"pk": 2726966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 22, "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, \u201cI was wishing also to hear the man myself.\u201d And he said, \u201cTomorrow, you shall hear him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 23, "text": "Therefore, on the next day, Agrippa and Bernike having come with great show, and having entered the place of hearing with the commanders and the eminent men of the city, Sha\u2019ul was brought in at the order of Festus."}, {"pk": 2726968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 24, "text": "And Festus said, \u201cSovereign Agrippa and all the men present here with us, you see this one about whom all the community of the Yehud\u0331im pleaded with me, both at Yerushalayim and here, shouting that he ought not to be living any longer."}, {"pk": 2726969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut I, having found that he had committed none at all deserving death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him."}, {"pk": 2726970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cI have no definite <i>matter</i> to write to my master concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and most of all before you, Sovereign Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I might have somewhat to write."}, {"pk": 2726971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 25, "verse": 27, "text": "For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to signify the charges against him."}, {"pk": 2726972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 1, "text": "And Agrippa said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cYou are allowed to speak for yourself.\u201d Then Sha\u2019ul stretched out his hand and made his defence:"}, {"pk": 2726973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI think myself blessed, Sovereign Agrippa, because today I shall make my defence before you concerning all of which I am accused by the Yehud\u0331im,"}, {"pk": 2726974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 3, "text": "you being most of all an expert, knowing of all practices and questions which have to do with the Yehud\u0331im. So, please hear me patiently."}, {"pk": 2726975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 4, "text": "Truly, then, all the Yehud\u0331im know my way of life from youth, which I led from the beginning among my own nation at Yerushalayim,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 5, "text": "since they have known me from the first, if they wish to witness, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our observance."}, {"pk": 2726977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cAnd now I stand and am judged for the expectation of the promise made by Elohim to our fathers,"}, {"pk": 2726978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 7, "text": "to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving Elohim night and day, expect to attain. Concerning this expectation, O Sovereign Agrippa, I am accused by the Yehud\u0331im."}, {"pk": 2726979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 8, "text": "Why is it considered \u2018unbelievable\u2019 among you if Elohim raises the dead?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cTherefore, indeed, I thought within myself that I ought to do much against the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 of Natsareth,"}, {"pk": 2726981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 10, "text": "which also I did in Yerushalayim, and I shut up many of the set-apart ones in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them."}, {"pk": 2726982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities."}, {"pk": 2726983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cWhile thus engaged, as I was journeying to Dammeseq with authority and commission from the chief priests,"}, {"pk": 2726984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 13, "text": "at midday along the highway, O sovereign, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me."}, {"pk": 2726985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 14, "text": "And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, \u2018Sha\u2019ul, Sha\u2019ul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.\u2019", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/21/40'>21:40</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/22/2'>22:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2726986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cAnd I said, \u2018Who are You, Master?\u2019 And He said, \u2018I am \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom you persecute."}, {"pk": 2726987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 16, "text": "But rise up, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw and of those which I shall reveal to you,"}, {"pk": 2726988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 17, "text": "delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom I now send you,"}, {"pk": 2726989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 18, "text": "to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.\u2019", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/42/6'>42:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/42/7'>7</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/2'>60:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/60/3'>3</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/24'>21:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2726990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cTherefore, Sovereign Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,"}, {"pk": 2726991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 20, "text": "but declared first to those in Dammeseq and in Yerushalayim, and in all the country of Yehud\u0331ah, and to the nations, that they should repent, and turn to Elohim, and do works worthy of repentance.", "comment": "See foot<a href=C:@470 16:27>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2726992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cThat is why the Yehud\u0331im seized me in the Set-apart Place and tried to kill me."}, {"pk": 2726993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cTherefore, having obtained help from Elohim, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other than what the prophets and Mosheh said would come \u2014"}, {"pk": 2726994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 23, "text": "that the Messiah would suffer, would be the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to the people and to the nations.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 24, "text": "And while saying this in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, \u201cSha\u2019ul, you are mad! Much learning is turning you to madness!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2726996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 25, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cI am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak words of truth and sense."}, {"pk": 2726997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cFor the sovereign, before whom I also speak boldly, knows these <i>matters</i>. For I am persuaded that none of these are hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner."}, {"pk": 2726998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 27, "text": "\u201cSovereign Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do believe."}, {"pk": 2726999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 28, "text": "And Agrippa said to Sha\u2019ul, \u201cWith a little you might persuade me to become a 'messianist\u2019!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 29, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul said, \u201cMuch or little, I pray to Elohim that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become such as I also am, except for these chains.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 30, "text": "And having said this, the sovereign stood up, as well as the governor and Bernike and those sitting with them,"}, {"pk": 2727002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 31, "text": "and having withdrawn, they spoke to each other, saying, \u201cThis man is doing none at all deserving death or chains.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 26, "verse": 32, "text": "And Agrippa said to Festus, \u201cThis man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 1, "text": "And when it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Sha\u2019ul and some other prisoners to one named Julius, a captain of the Augustan regiment."}, {"pk": 2727005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 2, "text": "And having embarked in a ship from Adramyttium, about to sail along the coasts of Asia, did set sail. Aristarchos, a Makedonian of Thessalonike, was with us."}, {"pk": 2727006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 3, "text": "And on the next day we landed at Tsid\u0331on. And Julius treated Sha\u2019ul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive attention."}, {"pk": 2727007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 4, "text": "And from there we put out to sea and sailed close to Cyprus, because the winds were against us."}, {"pk": 2727008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 5, "text": "And having sailed over the sea along Kilikia and Pamphulia, we came to Mura, of Lukia."}, {"pk": 2727009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 6, "text": "And there the captain, having found an Alexandrian ship sailing to Italy, did put us on board."}, {"pk": 2727010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 7, "text": "And having sailed slowly many days, and arriving with difficulty off Knidos, the wind not allowing us to proceed, we sailed close to Crete, off Salmone."}, {"pk": 2727011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 8, "text": "And passing it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea."}, {"pk": 2727012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 9, "text": "And much time having passed, and the sailing now being dangerous, because the Fast was already over, Sha\u2019ul advised them,"}, {"pk": 2727013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 10, "text": "saying, \u201cMen, I see that this voyage is going to end with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 11, "text": "But the captain was persuaded by the pilot and the owner of the ship, rather than what Sha\u2019ul said."}, {"pk": 2727015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 12, "text": "And because the harbour was unsuitable to winter in, the greater part advised to set sail from there too, if somehow they were able to reach Phoenix, a harbour of Crete facing southwest and northwest, to pass the winter."}, {"pk": 2727016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 13, "text": "And a south wind blowing softly, thinking they had obtained their purpose, having lifted <i>anchor</i>, they sailed along Crete, close <i>inshore</i>."}, {"pk": 2727017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 14, "text": "And not long after, a stormy head wind rushed down from it, called Northeaster."}, {"pk": 2727018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the ship was caught <i>in it</i>, and unable to head against the wind, we let her go and were driven."}, {"pk": 2727019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 16, "text": "And having run under a small island called Klauda, we were hardly able to control the small boat."}, {"pk": 2727020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 17, "text": "And having hoisted it, they used helps to undergird the ship. And fearing lest they should run aground on Surtis, they lowered the tackle and so were driven."}, {"pk": 2727021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 18, "text": "And because we were exceedingly storm-tossed, the next day they began to throw overboard."}, {"pk": 2727022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 19, "text": "And on the third day we threw out the ship\u2019s tackle with our own hands."}, {"pk": 2727023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 20, "text": "When, now, neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm beat on us, all expectancy that we would be saved was taken away."}, {"pk": 2727024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 21, "text": "And when there had been a long abstinence from food, then Sha\u2019ul, standing in the midst of them, said, \u201cTruly, men, you should have listened to me not to have sailed from Crete and sustained this damage and loss."}, {"pk": 2727025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd now I urge you to take courage, for there shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship."}, {"pk": 2727026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 23, "text": "For tonight a messenger of the Elohim to whom I belong and whom I serve, stood by me,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 24, "text": "saying, \u2018Do not be afraid, Sha\u2019ul, you have to be brought before Caesar. And look, Elohim has favourably given you all those who sail with you.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2727028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cTherefore take courage, men, for I believe Elohim that it shall be according to the way it was spoken to me."}, {"pk": 2727029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cHowever, we need to run aground on some island.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 27, "text": "And when the fourteenth night came, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were drawing near some land."}, {"pk": 2727031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 28, "text": "So, taking soundings, they found it to be twenty fathoms. And a little farther on they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms."}, {"pk": 2727032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 29, "text": "And, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and were praying for day to come."}, {"pk": 2727033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 30, "text": "But when the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under pretence of going to cast out anchors from the prow,"}, {"pk": 2727034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 31, "text": "Sha\u2019ul said to the captain and the soldiers, \u201cIf these do not remain in the ship, it is impossible for you to be saved.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 32, "text": "Then the soldiers did cut the ropes of the boat and let it fall off."}, {"pk": 2727036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 33, "text": "And when day was about to come, Sha\u2019ul urged them all to take food, saying, \u201cToday is the fourteenth day you have continued without food, and eaten none at all."}, {"pk": 2727037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 34, "text": "So I urge you to take food, for this concerns your safety, since not a hair shall fall from the head of any of you."}, {"pk": 2727038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 35, "text": "And having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to Elohim in the presence of them all. And when he had broken it he began to eat."}, {"pk": 2727039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 36, "text": "And they were all encouraged, and also took food themselves."}, {"pk": 2727040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 37, "text": "And all of us were two hundred and seventy-six beings in the ship."}, {"pk": 2727041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 38, "text": "And being satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea."}, {"pk": 2727042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 39, "text": "And when day came, they did not recognise the land, but they noted a certain bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible."}, {"pk": 2727043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 40, "text": "And having cast off the anchors, they left them in the sea, meanwhile untying the rudder ropes. And they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach."}, {"pk": 2727044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 41, "text": "But coming upon a place where two seas met, they grounded the ship, and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was broken by the pounding of the surf."}, {"pk": 2727045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 42, "text": "And the soldiers intended to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape."}, {"pk": 2727046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 43, "text": "But the captain, intending to save Sha\u2019ul, kept them from their intention, and commanded those able to swim to jump first and get to land,"}, {"pk": 2727047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 27, "verse": 44, "text": "and the rest, some indeed on boards, and some on <i>items</i> of the ship. And so it came to be that all reached the land in safety."}, {"pk": 2727048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 1, "text": "And having come to safety, they then learned that the island was called Melite."}, {"pk": 2727049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 2, "text": "And the foreigners showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold."}, {"pk": 2727050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 3, "text": "But Sha\u2019ul, having gathered a bundle of sticks, and having laid them on the fire, an adder came out because of the heat, and fastened itself on his hand."}, {"pk": 2727051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the foreigners saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, \u201cThis man is certainly a murderer, whom, though saved from the sea, still right-ruling does not allow to live.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 5, "text": "Then, indeed, he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no evil."}, {"pk": 2727053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 6, "text": "And expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead, they waited for a long time and saw no harm come to him, changing their minds they said that he was a mighty one."}, {"pk": 2727054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 7, "text": "And in the neighbourhood of that place there were lands of the chief of the island, whose name was Poplius, who received us and housed us in a friendly way for three days."}, {"pk": 2727055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 8, "text": "And it came to be that the father of Poplius lay sick with inflammation and dysentery. Sha\u2019ul went in to him, and having prayed he laid his hands on him and healed him."}, {"pk": 2727056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 9, "text": "And when this took place, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed,"}, {"pk": 2727057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 10, "text": "who also respected us in many ways. And when we were setting sail, they provided us with our needs."}, {"pk": 2727058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 11, "text": "And after three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship which had wintered at the island, and whose figurehead was \u201cDioscuri.\u201d", "comment": "Which means: Twin Brothers, who were <em>Sons of Zeus</em>, named <em>Castor</em> and <em>Pollux</em>. They were tutelary deities of sailors."}, {"pk": 2727059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 12, "text": "And having landed at Syracuse, we stayed three days,"}, {"pk": 2727060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 13, "text": "from which place we went round and arrived at Rhegium. And after one day the south wind blew, and the second day we came to Puteoli,"}, {"pk": 2727061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 14, "text": "where we found brothers, and were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome."}, {"pk": 2727062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 15, "text": "And when the brothers there heard about us, they came to meet us as far as Forum of Appius and Three Taverns. When Sha\u2019ul saw them, he thanked Elohim and took courage."}, {"pk": 2727063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 16, "text": "And when we came to Rome, the captain delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Sha\u2019ul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier guarding him."}, {"pk": 2727064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 17, "text": "And it came to be after three days that Sha\u2019ul called the leaders of the Yehud\u0331im together. And when they had come together, he said to them, \u201cMen, brothers, though I have done none at all against our people or the practices of our fathers, I was delivered as a prisoner from Yerushalayim into the hands of the Romans,"}, {"pk": 2727065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 18, "text": "who, when they had examined me, intended to let me go, because there was no cause for putting me to death."}, {"pk": 2727066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cBut the Yehud\u0331im spoke against it, and I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had any accusation against my nation."}, {"pk": 2727067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThis therefore is the reason I called for you, to see you and speak with you. It is because of the expectation of Yisra\u2019\u0115l that I am bound with this chain.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 21, "text": "And they said to him, \u201cWe neither received letters from Yehud\u0331ah concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came reported or spoken whatever wicked about you."}, {"pk": 2727069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 22, "text": "And we think it right to hear from you what you think, for indeed, concerning this sect, we know that it is spoken against everywhere."}, {"pk": 2727070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 23, "text": "And having appointed him a day, many came to him where he was staying, to whom he was explaining, earnestly witnessing about the reign of Elohim, and persuading them concerning \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from both the Torah of Mosheh and the Prophets, from morning until evening."}, {"pk": 2727071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 24, "text": "And some indeed were persuaded by what was said, but some believed not."}, {"pk": 2727072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 25, "text": "And disagreeing with one another, they began to leave, after Sha\u2019ul had spoken one word, \u201cThe Set-apart Spirit rightly spoke through Yeshayahu the prophet to our fathers,"}, {"pk": 2727073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 26, "text": "saying, <i>\u2018Go to this people and say, \u201cHearing you shall hear but by no means understand, and seeing you shall see but by no means perceive,</i>"}, {"pk": 2727074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 27, "text": "<i>for the heart of this people has become thickened, and with their ears they heard heavily, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/9'>6:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/6/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 28, "text": "Therefore let it be known to you that the deliverance of Elohim has been sent to the nations, and they shall hear!"}, {"pk": 2727076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 29, "text": "And when he had said these words, the Yehud\u0331im went away and had a great dispute among themselves."}, {"pk": 2727077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 30, "text": "And Sha\u2019ul stayed two entire years in his own rented house, and was receiving all who came to him,"}, {"pk": 2727078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 44, "chapter": 28, "verse": 31, "text": "proclaiming the reign of Elohim and teaching about the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah with all boldness, unhindered."}, {"pk": 2727079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, a servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, a called emissary, separated to the Good News of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "which He promised before through His prophets in the Set-apart Scriptures,"}, {"pk": 2727081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "concerning His Son, who came of the seed of Dawid\u0331 according to the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2727082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "who was designated Son of Elohim with power, according to the Set-apart Spirit, by the resurrection from the dead: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Master of us,"}, {"pk": 2727083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "through whom we have received favour and office of the emissary for belief-obedience among all the nations on behalf of His Name,"}, {"pk": 2727084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "among whom you also are the called ones of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "To all who are in Rome, beloved of Elohim, called, set-apart ones: Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "First, I truly thank my Elohim through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah for you all, that your belief is spoken of in all the world."}, {"pk": 2727087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "For Elohim is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Good News of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,"}, {"pk": 2727088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "always asking in my prayers, if at all possible, I shall be blessed by the desire of Elohim, to come to you."}, {"pk": 2727089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "For I long to see you, so as to impart some spiritual gift to you, for you to be established,"}, {"pk": 2727090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "and that is, to be encouraged together among you, each by the other\u2019s belief \u2014 both yours and mine."}, {"pk": 2727091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And I do not wish you to be unaware, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, but was hindered until now, in order to have some fruit among you, as also among the other nations."}, {"pk": 2727092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "I am a debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to foolish."}, {"pk": 2727093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "That is why I am so eager to bring the Good News also to you who are in Rome."}, {"pk": 2727094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for it is the power of Elohim for deliverance to everyone who believes, to the Yehud\u0331i first and also to the Greek."}, {"pk": 2727095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "For in it the righteousness of Elohim is revealed from belief to belief, as it has been written, <i>\u201cBut the righteous shall live by belief.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/2/4'>2:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from heaven against all wickedness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,"}, {"pk": 2727097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "because that which is known of Elohim is manifest among them, for Elohim has manifested it to them."}, {"pk": 2727098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "For since the creation of the world His invisible <i>qualities</i> have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, both His everlasting power and Mightiness, for them to be without excuse,"}, {"pk": 2727099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "because, although they knew Elohim, they did not esteem Him as Elohim, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened."}, {"pk": 2727100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "Claiming to be wise, they became fools,"}, {"pk": 2727101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "and changed the esteem of the incorruptible Elohim into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds and of four-footed beasts and of reptiles."}, {"pk": 2727102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore Elohim gave them up to uncleanness in the lust of their hearts, to disrespect their bodies among themselves,"}, {"pk": 2727103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "who changed the truth of Elohim into the falsehood, and worshipped and served what was created rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "Because of this Elohim gave them over to degrading passions. For even their women exchanged natural relations for what is against nature,"}, {"pk": 2727105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "and likewise, the men also, having left natural relations with woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing indecency, and receiving back the reward which was due for their straying."}, {"pk": 2727106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And even as they did not think it worthwhile to possess the knowledge of Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a worthless mind, to do what is improper,"}, {"pk": 2727107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,"}, {"pk": 2727108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "slanderers, haters of Elohim, insolent, proud, boasters, devisers of evils, disobedient to parents,"}, {"pk": 2727109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "without discernment, covenant breakers, unloving, unforgiving, ruthless;"}, {"pk": 2727110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 1, "verse": 32, "text": "who, though they know the righteousness of Elohim, that those who practise such deserve death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practise them."}, {"pk": 2727111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, O man, you are without excuse, everyone who judges, for in which you judge another you condemn yourself, since you who judge practise the same <i>wrongs</i>."}, {"pk": 2727112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And we know that the judgment of Elohim is according to truth against those who practise such <i>wrongs</i>."}, {"pk": 2727113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And do you think, O man, you who judge those practising such <i>wrongs</i>, and doing the same, that you shall escape the judgment of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2727114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the kindness of Elohim leads you to repentance?", "comment": "See 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/3/9'>3:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2727115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "But according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "who <i>\u201cshall render to each one according to his works\u201d:</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/62/12'>62:12</a><br>See foot<a href=C:@470 16:27>note</a> at Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2727117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "everlasting life to those who by persistence in good work seek for esteem, and respect, and incorruptibility;"}, {"pk": 2727118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "but wrath and displeasure to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness;"}, {"pk": 2727119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "affliction and distress on every human being working what is evil, of the Yehud\u0331i first, and also of the Greek;"}, {"pk": 2727120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "but esteem, respect, and peace to everyone working what is good, to the Yehud\u0331i first and also to the Greek."}, {"pk": 2727121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "For there is no partiality with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "For as many as sinned without Torah shall also perish without Torah, and as many as sinned in the Torah shall be judged by the Torah."}, {"pk": 2727123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "For not the hearers of the Torah are righteous in the sight of Elohim, but the doers of the Torah shall be declared right.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/21-27'>7:21-27</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/2/14-24'>2:14-24</a>"}, {"pk": 2727124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "For when nations, who do not have the Torah, by nature do what is in the Torah, although not having the Torah, they are a torah to themselves,"}, {"pk": 2727125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "who show the work of the Torah written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or even excusing,"}, {"pk": 2727126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "in the day when Elohim shall judge the secrets of men through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, according to my Good News."}, {"pk": 2727127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "See, you are called a Yehud\u0331i, and rest on the Torah, and make your boast in Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "and know the desire <i>of Elohim</i>, and approve what is superior, being instructed out of the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2727129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "and are trusting that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,"}, {"pk": 2727130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Torah.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/147/19'>147:19</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/3/2'>3:2</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/4'>9:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who proclaim that a man <i>should not steal,</i> do you steal?", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/15'>20:15</a><br>See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2727132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "You who say, <i>\u201cDo not commit adultery,</i>\" do you commit adultery? You who abominate idols, do you rob temples?", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/14'>20:14</a><br>See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/19'>5:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2727133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "You who make your boast in the Torah, through the transgression of the Torah do you disrespect Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2727134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "For <i>\u201cThe Name of Elohim is blasphemed among the nations because of you,\u201d</i> as it has been written.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/5'>52:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "For circumcision indeed profits if you practise the Torah, but if you are a transgressor of the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision."}, {"pk": 2727136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "So, if an uncircumcised one watches over the righteousnesses of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision?"}, {"pk": 2727137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "And the uncircumcised by nature, who perfects the Torah, shall judge you who notwithstanding letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah!"}, {"pk": 2727138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "For he is not a Yehud\u0331i who is <i>so</i> outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh."}, {"pk": 2727139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "But a Yehud\u0331i is he who is <i>so</i> inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in Spirit, not literally, whose praise is not from men but from Elohim.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/7/19'>7:19</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/5'>19:5</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/10/12-16'>10:12-16</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/6-8'>30:6-8</a>"}, {"pk": 2727140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "What then is the advantage of the Yehud\u0331i, or what is the value of the circumcision?"}, {"pk": 2727141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Much in every way! Because firstly indeed, that they were entrusted with the Words of Elohim.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/20'>2:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2727142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief nullify the trustworthiness of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2727143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Let it not be! But let Elohim be true, and every man a liar, as it has been written, <i>\u201cThat You should be declared right in Your words, and prevail in Your judging.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/51/4'>51:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "But if our unrighteousness establishes the righteousness of Elohim, what shall we say? Is Elohim unrighteous who is inflicting wrath? I speak as a man."}, {"pk": 2727145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Let it not be! Otherwise how shall Elohim judge the world?"}, {"pk": 2727146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "For if the truth of Elohim has increased through my lie, to His esteem, why am I also still judged as a sinner?"}, {"pk": 2727147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And <i>why</i> not <i>say</i>, \u201cLet us do evil so that the good might come\u201d? \u2014 as we are wrongly accused and as some claim that we say. Their judgment is in the right."}, {"pk": 2727148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "What then? Are we better <i>than they</i>? Not at all, for we have previously accused both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks that they are all under sin."}, {"pk": 2727149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201cThere is none righteous, no, not one!</i>"}, {"pk": 2727150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u201cThere is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking Elohim.</i>"}, {"pk": 2727151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>\u201cThey all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There is none who does good, no, not one.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/14/1-3'>14:1-3</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/53/1-4'>53:1-4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "<i>\u201cTheir throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,\u201d</i> <i>\u201cThe poison of adders is under their lips,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/5/9'>5:9</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/140/3'>140:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2727153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "<i>\u201cWhose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/10/7'>10:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>\u201cTheir feet are swift to shed blood,</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/1/16'>1:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,</i>"}, {"pk": 2727156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>and the way of peace they have not known.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/7'>59:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cThere is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/36/1'>36:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2727158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore by works of Torah <i>no flesh shall be declared right before Him,</i> for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/143/2'>143:2</a><br>See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/20'>20:20</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/4/15'>4:15</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/7/7'>7:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "But now, apart from the Torah, a righteousness of Elohim has been revealed, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets,"}, {"pk": 2727161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "and the righteousness of Elohim is through belief in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference,"}, {"pk": 2727162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2727164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "whom Elohim set forth as an atonement, through belief in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before,"}, {"pk": 2727165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He is righteous and declares righteous the one who has belief in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2727166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "Where, then, is the boasting? It is shut out. By what torah? Of works? No, but by the torah of belief."}, {"pk": 2727167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "For we reckon that a man is declared right by belief without works of Torah."}, {"pk": 2727168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "Or <i>is He</i> the Elohim of the Yehud\u0331im only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,"}, {"pk": 2727169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 30, "text": "since it is one Elohim who shall declare right the circumcised by belief and the uncircumcised through belief."}, {"pk": 2727170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 3, "verse": 31, "text": "Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/7/12'>7:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2727171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "What, then, shall we say Ab\u0331raham our father, to have found, according to the flesh?"}, {"pk": 2727172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "For if Ab\u0331raham was declared right by works, he has <i>ground for</i> boasting, but not before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For what does the Scripture say? <i>\u201cAb\u0331raham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a><br>See also Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned as a favour but as a debt."}, {"pk": 2727175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And to him who is not working but believes on Him who is declaring right the wicked, his belief is reckoned for righteousness,"}, {"pk": 2727176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "even as Dawid\u0331 also says of the blessedness of the man to whom Elohim reckons righteousness without works:"}, {"pk": 2727177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>\u201cBlessed are those whose lawlessnesses are forgiven, and whose sins are covered,</i>"}, {"pk": 2727178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>blessed is the man to whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall by no means reckon sin.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/32/1'>32:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/32/2'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2727179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Is this blessing then upon the circumcised <i>only</i>, or also upon the uncircumcised? For we affirm: <i>Belief was reckoned unto Ab\u0331raham for righteousness.</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision."}, {"pk": 2727181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the belief <i>while</i> in uncircumcision, for him to be a father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be reckoned to them also,"}, {"pk": 2727182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the belief which our father Ab\u0331raham had in uncircumcision."}, {"pk": 2727183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "For the promise that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Ab\u0331raham or to his seed through the Torah, but through a righteousness of belief."}, {"pk": 2727184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "For if those who are of the Torah are heirs, belief has been made useless, and the promise has been nullified,"}, {"pk": 2727185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "for the Torah works out wrath, for where there is no Torah there is no transgression."}, {"pk": 2727186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "On account of this it is of belief, that it be according to favour, for the promise to be made certain to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Torah, but also to those who are of the belief of Ab\u0331raham, who is father of us all \u2014"}, {"pk": 2727187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "as it has been written, <i>\u201cI have made you a father of many nations\u201d</i> \u2014 in the presence of Him whom he believed, even Elohim, who gives life to the dead and calls that which does not exist as existing,", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/17/5'>17:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "who against <i>all</i> expectation did believe, in expectation, so that he should become father of many nations, according to what was said, <i>\u201cSo shall your seed be.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/5'>15:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And not having grown weak in belief, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah\u2019s womb,"}, {"pk": 2727190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "he did not hesitate about the promise of Elohim through unbelief, but was strengthened in belief, giving esteem to Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "and being completely persuaded that what He had promised He was also able to do."}, {"pk": 2727192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "Therefore also <i>\u201cit was reckoned to him for righteousness.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "And not because of him alone was it written that <i>it was reckoned to him,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "but also because of us, to whom it shall be reckoned, to us who believe in Him who raised up \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master from the dead,"}, {"pk": 2727195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "who was delivered up because of our trespasses, and was raised for us to be declared right."}, {"pk": 2727196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, having been declared right by belief, we have peace with Elohim through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2727197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "through whom also we have access by belief into this favour in which we stand, and we exult in the expectation of the esteem of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And not only this, but we also exult in pressures, knowing that pressure works endurance;"}, {"pk": 2727199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "and endurance, approvedness; and approvedness, expectation."}, {"pk": 2727200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And expectation does not disappoint, because the love of Elohim has been poured out in our hearts by the Set-apart Spirit which was given to us."}, {"pk": 2727201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "For when we were still weak, Messiah in due time died for the wicked."}, {"pk": 2727202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "For one shall hardly die for a righteous one, though possibly for a good one someone would even have the courage to die."}, {"pk": 2727203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "But Elohim proves His own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Messiah died for us."}, {"pk": 2727204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Much more then, having now been declared right by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him."}, {"pk": 2727205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "For if, being enemies, we were restored to favour with Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been restored to favour, we shall be saved by His life."}, {"pk": 2727206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And not only this, but we also exult in Elohim through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, through whom we have now received the restoration to favour."}, {"pk": 2727207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For this reason, even as through one man sin did enter into the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned \u2014"}, {"pk": 2727208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "for until the Torah, sin was in the world, but sin is not reckoned when there is no Torah."}, {"pk": 2727209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "But death reigned from Ad\u0331am until Mosheh, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Ad\u0331am, who is a type of Him who was to come."}, {"pk": 2727210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "But the favourable gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man\u2019s trespass many died, much more the favour of Elohim, and the gift in favour of the one Man, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, overflowed to many."}, {"pk": 2727211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And the favourable gift is not as by one having sinned. For indeed the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the favourable gift is of many trespasses unto righteousness."}, {"pk": 2727212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "For if by the trespass of the one, death did reign through the one, much more those who receive the overflowing favour and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the One, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "So then, as through one trespass there resulted condemnation to all men, so also through one righteous act there resulted righteous-declaring of life to all men."}, {"pk": 2727214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "For as through the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One many shall be made righteous."}, {"pk": 2727215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And the Torah came in beside, so that the trespass would increase. But where sin increased, favour increased still more,"}, {"pk": 2727216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "so that as sin did reign in death, even so favour might reign through righteousness to everlasting life through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master."}, {"pk": 2727217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, to let favour increase?"}, {"pk": 2727218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/13'>8:13</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/3/3'>3:3</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2727219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Or do you not know that as many of us as were immersed into Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 were immersed into His death?"}, {"pk": 2727220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "We were therefore buried with Him through immersion into death, that as Messiah was raised from the dead by the esteem of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life."}, {"pk": 2727221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "For if we have come to be grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also of the resurrection,"}, {"pk": 2727222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "knowing this, that our old man was impaled with Him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, to serve sin no longer."}, {"pk": 2727223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "For he who has died has been made right from sin."}, {"pk": 2727224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And if we died with Messiah, we believe that we shall also live with Him,"}, {"pk": 2727225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "knowing that Messiah, having been raised from the dead, dies no more \u2014 death no longer rules over Him."}, {"pk": 2727226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "For in that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "So you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Elohim in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master."}, {"pk": 2727228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires,"}, {"pk": 2727229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to Elohim as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "For sin shall not rule over you, for you are not under the law but under favour.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/4/7'>4:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Torah but under favour? Let it not be!"}, {"pk": 2727232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?"}, {"pk": 2727233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "But thanks to Elohim that you were servants of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were entrusted."}, {"pk": 2727234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2727235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. For even as you did present your members as servants of uncleanness, and of lawlessness resulting in lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness resulting in set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2727236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness."}, {"pk": 2727237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "What fruit, therefore, were you having then, over which you are now ashamed? For the end thereof is death."}, {"pk": 2727238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "But now, having been set free from sin, and having become servants of Elohim, you have your fruit resulting in set-apartness, and the end, everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2727239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "For the wages of sin is death, but the favourable gift of Elohim is everlasting life in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/13'>8:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2727240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "Or do you not know, brothers \u2014 for I speak to those knowing the Torah \u2014 that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?"}, {"pk": 2727241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah <i>concerning</i> her husband."}, {"pk": 2727242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man\u2019s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that <i>part of the</i> Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2727243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another\u2019s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death."}, {"pk": 2727245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "But now we have been released from the Torah, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in newness of Spirit and not in oldness of letter."}, {"pk": 2727246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, <i>\u201cYou shall not covet.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/17'>20:17</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/21'>5:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all <i>sorts of</i> covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead."}, {"pk": 2727248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died."}, {"pk": 2727249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And the command which was to result in life, this I found to result in death."}, {"pk": 2727250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed <i>me</i>."}, {"pk": 2727251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good."}, {"pk": 2727252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore, has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But the sin, that sin might be manifest, was working death in me through what is good, so that sin through the command might become an exceedingly great sinner."}, {"pk": 2727253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin."}, {"pk": 2727254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do."}, {"pk": 2727255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good."}, {"pk": 2727256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me."}, {"pk": 2727257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find."}, {"pk": 2727258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise."}, {"pk": 2727259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me."}, {"pk": 2727260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me."}, {"pk": 2727261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man,", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/16'>119:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "but I see another torah in my members, battling against the torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the torah of sin which is in my members."}, {"pk": 2727263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?"}, {"pk": 2727264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "Thanks to Elohim, through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master! So then, with the mind I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh the torah of sin."}, {"pk": 2727265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "For the torah of the Spirit of the life in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 has set me free from the torah of sin and of death."}, {"pk": 2727267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having sent His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2727268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the <i>matters</i> of the flesh, but those <i>who live</i> according to the Spirit, the <i>matters</i> of the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace."}, {"pk": 2727271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able,"}, {"pk": 2727272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, this one is not His."}, {"pk": 2727274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2727275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "And if the Spirit of Him who raised \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you."}, {"pk": 2727276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh."}, {"pk": 2727277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live."}, {"pk": 2727278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, \u201cAbba, Father.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "and if children, also heirs \u2014 truly heirs of Elohim, and co-heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, in order that we also be exalted together."}, {"pk": 2727282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the esteem that is to be revealed in us."}, {"pk": 2727283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "For the intense longing of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim.", "comment": "Lit. <em>anxiously looking with outstretched head</em>."}, {"pk": 2727284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,"}, {"pk": 2727285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "For we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now."}, {"pk": 2727287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "And not only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body."}, {"pk": 2727288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "For in this expectation we were saved, but expectation that is seen is not expectation, for when anyone sees, does he expect it?"}, {"pk": 2727289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 25, "text": "And if we expect what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance."}, {"pk": 2727290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 26, "text": "And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groanings unutterable."}, {"pk": 2727291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 27, "text": "And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 28, "text": "And we know that all <i>matters</i> work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to <i>his</i> purpose."}, {"pk": 2727293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 29, "text": "Because those whom He knew beforehand, He also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the first-born among many brothers."}, {"pk": 2727294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 30, "text": "And whom He ordained beforehand, these He also called, and whom He called, these He also declared right. And whom He declared right, these He also esteemed."}, {"pk": 2727295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 31, "text": "What then shall we say to this? If Elohim is for us, who is against us?"}, {"pk": 2727296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 32, "text": "Truly, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all \u2014 how shall He not, along with Him, freely give us all else?"}, {"pk": 2727297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 33, "text": "Who shall bring any charge against Elohim\u2019s chosen ones? It is Elohim who is declaring right."}, {"pk": 2727298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 34, "text": "Who is he who is condemning? It is Messiah who died, and furthermore is also raised up, who is also at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us."}, {"pk": 2727299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 35, "text": "Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall pressure, or distress, or persecution, or scarcity of food, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?"}, {"pk": 2727300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 36, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201cFor Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/44/22'>44:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2727301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 37, "text": "But in all this we are more than overcomers through Him who loved us."}, {"pk": 2727302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 38, "text": "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers nor principalities nor powers, neither the present nor the future,"}, {"pk": 2727303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 8, "verse": 39, "text": "nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master."}, {"pk": 2727304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "I speak the truth in Messiah, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2727305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "that I have great sadness and continual grief in my heart."}, {"pk": 2727306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2727307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "who are <i>the children</i> of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to whom is the adoption, and the esteem, and the covenants, and the giving of the Torah, and the worship, and the promises,"}, {"pk": 2727308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Messiah according to the flesh, who is over all, Elohim-blessed forever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "However, it is not as though the word of Elohim has failed. For they are not all Yisra\u2019\u0115l who are of Yisra\u2019\u0115l,", "comment": "A play on words. See Explanatory Notes \"Overcome\","}, {"pk": 2727310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "neither are they all children because they are the seed of Ab\u0331raham, but, <i>\u201cIn Yitsh\u0323aq your seed shall be called.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/21/12'>21:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2727311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of Elohim, but the children of the promise are reckoned as the seed."}, {"pk": 2727312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "For this is the word of promise, <i>\u201cAt this time I shall come and Sarah shall have a son.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/18/10'>18:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And not only so, but Rib\u0331qah having conceived by one, our father Yitsh\u0323aq."}, {"pk": 2727314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil \u2014 in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls \u2014"}, {"pk": 2727315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "it was said to her, <i>\u201cThe greater shall serve the lesser,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/25/23'>25:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2727316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "as it has been written, <i>\u201cYa\u201baqob\u0331 I have loved, but \u011asaw I have hated.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/1/2'>1:2</a>, <a href='/TS2009/39/1/3'>3</a>"}, {"pk": 2727317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim? Let it not be!"}, {"pk": 2727318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "For He says to Mosheh, <i>\u201cI shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/33/19'>33:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2727319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour."}, {"pk": 2727320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, <i>\u201cFor this same purpose I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in all the earth.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/9/16'>9:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes."}, {"pk": 2727322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "Then you shall say to me, \u201cWhy does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? <i>Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, \u201cWhy have you made me like this?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/16'>29:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/45/9'>45:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2727324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?"}, {"pk": 2727325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,"}, {"pk": 2727326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem,"}, {"pk": 2727327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "even whom He called, not only us of the Yehud\u0331im, but also of the nations?"}, {"pk": 2727328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "As He says in Hosh\u0115a too, <i>\u201cI shall call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/23'>2:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2727329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd it shall be in the place where it was said to them, \u2018You are not My people,\u2019 there they shall be called sons of the living Elohim.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>1:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, <i>\u201cThough the number of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/10/22'>10:22</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/17'>22:17</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>1:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "<i>For He is bringing a matter to an end, and is cutting it short in righteousness, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall cut short a matter on the earth.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/10/23'>10:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2727332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 29, "text": "And as Yeshayahu said before, <i>\u201cIf \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sed\u0331om, and we would have been made like Amorah.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/1/9'>1:9</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/29/2'>29:2</a><br>See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/49/18'>49:18</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/40'>50:40</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/4/11'>4:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2727333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 30, "text": "What shall we say then? That nations not following after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the righteousness of belief,"}, {"pk": 2727334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 31, "text": "but Yisra\u2019\u0115l following after the Torah of righteousness, has not arrived at the Torah of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2727335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 32, "text": "Why? Because <i>it was</i> not of belief, but as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the <i>Stone of stumbling.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/14'>8:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2727336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 9, "verse": 33, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201cSee, I lay in Tsiyon a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is believing on Him shall not be put to shame.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/14'>8:14</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/28/16'>28:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "Truly brothers, my heart\u2019s desire and prayer to Elohim for Yisra\u2019\u0115l is for deliverance."}, {"pk": 2727338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "For I bear them witness that they have an ardour for Elohim, but not according to knowledge."}, {"pk": 2727339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "For not knowing the righteousness of Elohim, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of Elohim.", "comment": "Or <em>did not obey</em>."}, {"pk": 2727340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "For Messiah is the goal of the \u2018Torah unto righteousness\u2019 to everyone who believes.", "comment": "Or end purpose; not termination."}, {"pk": 2727341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "For Mosheh writes about the righteousness which is of the Torah, <i>\u201cThe man who does these shall live by them.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/5'>18:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "But the righteousness of belief speaks in this way, <i>\u201cDo not say in your heart, \u2018Who shall ascend into the heavens?\u2019 \u201d</i> \u2014 that is, to bring Messiah down; or,", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/12'>30:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2727343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "\" \u2018Who shall descend into the abyss?\u2019 \u201d \u2014 that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead."}, {"pk": 2727344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "But what does it say? <i>\u201cThe word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart\u201d</i> \u2014 that is, the word of belief which we are proclaiming:", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/30/14'>30:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2727345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "That if you confess with your mouth the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and believe in your heart that Elohim has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved."}, {"pk": 2727346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, and so is saved."}, {"pk": 2727347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Because the Scripture says, <i>\u201cWhoever puts his trust in Him shall not be put to shame.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/28/16'>28:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "Because there is no distinction between Yehud\u0331i and Greek, for the same Master of all is rich to all those calling upon Him."}, {"pk": 2727349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "For <i>\u201ceveryone who calls on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall be saved.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/32'>2:32</a><br>See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/21'>2:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without one proclaiming?"}, {"pk": 2727351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And how shall they proclaim if they are not sent? As it has been written, <i>\u201cHow pleasant are the feet of those who bring the Good News of peace, who bring the Good News of the good!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/7'>52:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "However, not all obeyed the Good News. For Yeshayahu says, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, who has believed our report?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/1'>53:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2727353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "So then belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "But I ask, Did they not hear? Yes indeed, <i>\u201cTheir voice went out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/4'>19:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "But I ask, Did Yisra\u2019\u0115l not know? First Mosheh says, <i>\u201cI shall provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I shall enrage you by an unwise nation.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/21'>32:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "And Yeshayahu boldly says, <i>\u201cI was found by those not seeking Me, I was made manifest to those not asking for Me.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/1'>65:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2727357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "And to Yisra\u2019\u0115l He says, <i>\u201cAll day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and back-talking people.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/2'>65:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2727358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "I say then, has Elohim rejected His people? Let it not be! For I also am of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, of the seed of Ab\u0331raham, of the tribe of Binyamin."}, {"pk": 2727359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>Elohim has not rejected His people</i> whom He knew beforehand. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of \u011aliyahu, how he pleads with Elohim against Yisra\u2019\u0115l, saying,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/94/14'>94:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2727360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, they have killed Your prophets and overthrown Your slaughter-places, and I alone am left, and they seek my life\u201d?</i>", "comment": "1Ki. <a href='/TS2009/11/19/10'>19:10</a>; 1Ki. <a href='/TS2009/11/19/14'>19:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2727361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "But what does the answer <i>of Elohim</i> say to him? <i>\u201cI have left for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Ba\u201bal.\u201d</i>", "comment": "1Ki. <a href='/TS2009/11/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2727362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "So therefore also, at this present time a remnant according to the choice of favour has come to be."}, {"pk": 2727363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "And if by favour, it is no longer of works, otherwise favour is no longer favour. And if it is of works, it is no longer favour, otherwise work is no longer work."}, {"pk": 2727364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "What then? Yisra\u2019\u0115l has not obtained what it seeks, but the chosen did obtain it, and the rest were hardened."}, {"pk": 2727365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has given them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, unto this day.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/29/4'>29:4</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/10'>29:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "Dawid\u0331 also says, <i>\u201cLet their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block and a recompense to them,</i>"}, {"pk": 2727367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>let their eyes be darkened, not to see, and bow down their back always.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/22'>69:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/69/23'>23</a>"}, {"pk": 2727368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Let it not be! But by their fall deliverance has come to the nations, to <i>provoke them to jealousy.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/21'>32:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the nations, how much more their completeness!"}, {"pk": 2727370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "For I speak to you, the nations, inasmuch as I am an emissary to the nations, I esteem my service,"}, {"pk": 2727371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "if somehow I might <i>provoke to jealousy</i> <i>those who are</i> my flesh and save some of them.", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/21'>32:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "For if their casting away is the restoration to favour of the world, what is their acceptance but life from the dead?"}, {"pk": 2727373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Now if the first-fruit is set-apart, the lump is also. And if the root is set-apart, so are the branches."}, {"pk": 2727374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, have been grafted in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree,"}, {"pk": 2727375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "do not boast against the branches. And if you boast, <i>remember</i>: you do not bear the root, but the root <i>bears</i> you!"}, {"pk": 2727376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "You shall say then, \u201cThe branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "Good! By unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by belief. Do not be arrogant, but fear."}, {"pk": 2727378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "For if Elohim did not spare the natural branches, He might not spare you either."}, {"pk": 2727379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "See then the kindness and sharpness of Elohim: on those who fell sharpness, but toward you kindness, if you continue in <i>his</i> kindness, otherwise you also shall be cut off."}, {"pk": 2727380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for Elohim is able to graft them in again."}, {"pk": 2727381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these who are the natural <i>branches</i>, be grafted into their own olive tree?"}, {"pk": 2727382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "For I do not wish you to be ignorant of this secret, brothers, lest you should be wise in your own estimation, that hardening in part has come over Yisra\u2019\u0115l, until the completeness of the nations has come in.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/48/19'>48:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2727383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "And so all Yisra\u2019\u0115l shall be saved, as it has been written, <i>\u201cThe Deliverer shall come out of Tsiyon, and He shall turn away wickedness from Ya\u201baqob\u0331,</i>"}, {"pk": 2727384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "<i>and this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/20'>59:20</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/59/21'>21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "Truly, as regards the Good News <i>they are</i> enemies for your sake, but concerning the choice <i>they are</i> beloved for the sake of the fathers."}, {"pk": 2727386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "For the gifts and the calling of Elohim are not to be repented of."}, {"pk": 2727387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "For as you also at one time disobeyed Elohim, but now have obtained compassion through their disobedience,"}, {"pk": 2727388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "so also these have now disobeyed, that through the compassion shown you they also might obtain compassion."}, {"pk": 2727389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "For Elohim has shut them all up to disobedience, in order to have compassion on all."}, {"pk": 2727390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "Oh, the depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!"}, {"pk": 2727391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "\u201cFor <i>who has known the mind of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Or who has become His counsellor?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/13'>40:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2727392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "<i>\u201cOr who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Job <a href='/TS2009/18/35/7'>35:7</a>; Job <a href='/TS2009/18/41/11'>41:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2727393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "Because of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all, to whom be esteem forever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering \u2014 set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim \u2014 your reasonable worship."}, {"pk": 2727395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "For I say, through the favour which has been given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think <i>of himself</i> more highly than he should think, but to think soberly, as Elohim has given to each a measure of belief."}, {"pk": 2727397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "For as we have many members in one body, but all members do not have the same function,"}, {"pk": 2727398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "so we, the many, are one body in Messiah, and members each one of one another."}, {"pk": 2727399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "Now having different gifts, according to the favour which was given to us, <i>let us use them accordingly</i>: if prophecy, according to the proportion of belief;"}, {"pk": 2727400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "if serving, in the serving; or he who is teaching, in the teaching;"}, {"pk": 2727401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "or he who encourages, in the encouragement; or he who is sharing, in sincerity; he who is leading, in diligence; he who shows compassion, joyously."}, {"pk": 2727402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Let love be without hypocrisy. Shrink from what is wicked, cling to what is good."}, {"pk": 2727403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;"}, {"pk": 2727404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "not idle in duty, ardent in spirit, serving the Master;"}, {"pk": 2727405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;"}, {"pk": 2727406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "imparting to the needs of the set-apart ones, pursuing kindness towards strangers."}, {"pk": 2727407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "Bless those who persecute you \u2014 bless and do not curse."}, {"pk": 2727408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep."}, {"pk": 2727409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be proud in mind, but go along with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation."}, {"pk": 2727410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is right in the sight of all men."}, {"pk": 2727411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "If possible, on your part, be at peace with all men."}, {"pk": 2727412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "Beloved, do not revenge yourselves, but give place to the wrath, for it has been written, <i>\u201cVengeance is Mine, I shall repay,\u201d</i> says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/35'>32:35</a>"}, {"pk": 2727413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "<i>\u201cInstead, if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him a drink, for in so doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/25/21'>25:21</a>, <a href='/TS2009/20/25/22'>22</a>"}, {"pk": 2727414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."}, {"pk": 2727415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "Let every being be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from Elohim, and the authorities that exist are appointed by Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "So he who opposes the authority withstands the institution of Elohim, and those who withstand shall bring judgment on themselves."}, {"pk": 2727417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "For those ruling are an object of fear, not to good works, but to evil. Do you wish to be not afraid of the authority? Do the good, and you shall have praise from it,"}, {"pk": 2727418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "for it is a servant of Elohim to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain. For it is a servant of Elohim, a revenger to execute wrath on him who practises evil."}, {"pk": 2727419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore, it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of the conscience."}, {"pk": 2727420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are servants of Elohim attending continually to these duties."}, {"pk": 2727421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "Render therefore to all what is due to them: tax to whom tax <i>is due</i>, toll to whom toll, fear to whom fear, respect to whom respect."}, {"pk": 2727422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "Owe no one any <i>matter</i> except to love one another, for he who loves another has filled the Torah."}, {"pk": 2727423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "For this, <i>\u201cYou shall not commit adultery,\u201d \u201cYou shall not murder,\u201d \u201cYou shall not steal,\u201d \u201cYou shall not bear false witness,\u201d \u201cYou shall not covet,\u201d</i> and if there is any other command, it is summed up in this word, <i>\u201cYou shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/13-17'>20:13-17</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/17-21'>5:17-21</a><br>Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2727424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "Love does no evil to a neighbour. Therefore, love is completion of the Torah."}, {"pk": 2727425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And <i>do</i> this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to wake up from sleep, for now our deliverance is nearer than when we did believe."}, {"pk": 2727426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "The night is far advanced, the day has come near. So let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."}, {"pk": 2727427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in living together and indecencies, not in fighting and envy,"}, {"pk": 2727428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "but put on the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and make no provision for the lusts of the flesh."}, {"pk": 2727429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And receive him who is weak in the belief, not criticising <i>his</i> thoughts."}, {"pk": 2727430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "One indeed believes to eat all <i>food</i>, but he who is weak eats only vegetables."}, {"pk": 2727431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "He that eats, let him not despise him who does not eat, and he that does not eat, let him not judge him who eats, for Elohim received him."}, {"pk": 2727432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "Who are you that judges another\u2019s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. But he shall be made to stand, for Elohim is able to make him stand."}, {"pk": 2727433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "One indeed judges one day above another, another judges every day <i>alike</i>. Let each one be completely persuaded in his own mind."}, {"pk": 2727434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "He who minds the day, minds it to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. And he who does not mind the day, to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he does not mind it. He who eats, eats to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, for he gives Elohim thanks. And he who does not eat, to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 he does not eat, and gives Elohim thanks."}, {"pk": 2727435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself."}, {"pk": 2727436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "For both, if we live, we live unto the Master, and if we die, we die unto the Master. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Master\u2019s."}, {"pk": 2727437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "For unto this Messiah died and rose and lived again, to rule over both the dead and the living."}, {"pk": 2727438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "For it has been written, <i>\u201cAs I live, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to Elohim.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/45/23'>45:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2727440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "Each one of us, therefore, shall give account of himself to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore let us not judge one another any longer, but rather judge this, not to put an obstacle or a stumbling-block in our brother\u2019s way."}, {"pk": 2727442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "I know and am persuaded in the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 that none at all is common of itself. But to him who regards whatever to be common, to him it is common."}, {"pk": 2727443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not by your food ruin the one for whom Messiah died."}, {"pk": 2727444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "Do not then allow your good to be spoken of as evil."}, {"pk": 2727445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "For the reign of Elohim is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "For he who is serving Messiah in these <i>matters</i> is well-pleasing to Elohim and approved by men."}, {"pk": 2727447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "So, then, let us pursue the <i>matters</i> of peace and the <i>matters</i> for building up one another."}, {"pk": 2727448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "Do not destroy the work of Elohim for the sake of food. All indeed are clean, but evil to that man who eats so as to cause stumbling."}, {"pk": 2727449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "It is good not to eat meat or drink wine, nor <i>to do whatever</i> by which your brother stumbles."}, {"pk": 2727450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "Do you have belief? Have it to yourself before Elohim. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves."}, {"pk": 2727451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "But he who doubts, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of belief, and all that is not of belief is sin."}, {"pk": 2727452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves."}, {"pk": 2727453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "Let each one of us please his neighbour for his good, to build him up."}, {"pk": 2727454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "For even the Messiah did not please Himself, but, as it has been written, <i>\u201cThe reproaches of those who reproached You fell upon Me.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/69/9'>69:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2727455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have the expectation.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/11'>10:11</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/3/16'>3:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/55/3/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2727456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Elohim of endurance and encouragement give you to be of the same mind toward one another, according to Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2727457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "that with one mind and one mouth, you might praise the Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "So accept one another, as Messiah also did accept us, to the esteem of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And I say that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah has become a servant of the circumcised for the truth of Elohim, to confirm the promises made to the fathers,"}, {"pk": 2727460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "and for the nations to praise Elohim for His compassion, as it has been written, <i>\u201cBecause of this I shall confess to You among the nations, and I shall sing to Your Name.\u201d</i>", "comment": "2Sam. <a href='/TS2009/10/22/50'>22:50</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/18/49'>18:49</a>"}, {"pk": 2727461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "And again it says, <i>\u201cRejoice, O nations, with His people!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/43'>32:43</a>"}, {"pk": 2727462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "And again, <i>\u201cPraise \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, all you nations! Praise Him, all you peoples!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/117/1'>117:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2727463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And again, Yeshayahu says, <i>\u201cThere shall be a root of Yishai, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, on Him the nations shall set their expectation.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/10'>11:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2727464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And the Elohim of expectation fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you overflow with expectation by the power of the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "Now I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you too are filled with goodness, complete in all knowledge, able also to admonish one another."}, {"pk": 2727466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "But I have written more boldly to you, in part, as reminding you, because of the favour given to me by Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "to be a servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah to the nations, with the priestly duty of bringing the Good News of Elohim, so that the offering of the nations becomes acceptable, set apart by the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore I have cause for boasting in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 in the <i>matters</i> pertaining to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "For I shall not presume to speak of any <i>matter</i> except what Messiah has worked out through me, in word and deed, to make the nations obedient,"}, {"pk": 2727470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "in power of signs and wonders, in power of the Spirit of Elohim, so that from Yerushalayim and round about to Illurikon I have completed the preaching of the Good News of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "And so I was ambitious to bring the Good News where Messiah had not been named, lest I should build on another man\u2019s foundation,"}, {"pk": 2727472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "but as it has been written, <i>\u201cTo whom it was not announced concerning Him, they shall see, and those that have not heard shall understand.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/15'>52:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2727473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "This is why I was often hindered from coming to you."}, {"pk": 2727474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "But now, no longer having a place in these parts, and having a longing to come to you for many years,"}, {"pk": 2727475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "I shall come to you when I go to Spain. For I expect to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company."}, {"pk": 2727476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "But now I am going to Yerushalayim to serve the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2727477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "For it pleased those from Makedonia and Achaia to make some contribution for the poor among the set-apart ones who are in Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2727478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "For they were pleased, and they are their debtors. For if the nations have shared in their spiritual matters, their duty is also to serve them in material matters."}, {"pk": 2727479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "Having completed this, then, and having put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I shall return through you to Spain."}, {"pk": 2727480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the completeness of the blessing of the Good News of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "But I urge you, brothers, through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in prayers for me, unto Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "that I might be delivered from those in Yehud\u0331ah who do not believe, and that my service for Yerushalayim be well received by the set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2727483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "that I might come to you with joy, through the desire of Elohim, and be refreshed together with you."}, {"pk": 2727484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "And the Elohim of peace be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the assembly in Kenh\u0323rea,"}, {"pk": 2727486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "that you receive her in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, worthy of the set-apart ones, and assist her in whatever matter she has need of you. For she has been a great help to many, including me."}, {"pk": 2727487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "Greet Priscilla and Aqulas, my fellow workers in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2727488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations,"}, {"pk": 2727489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "and the assembly that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epainetos, who is the first-fruits of Achaia to Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "Greet Miryam, who worked very hard for us."}, {"pk": 2727491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "Greet Andronikos and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are eminent among the emissaries, who also were in Messiah before me."}, {"pk": 2727492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "Greet Amplias, my beloved in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2727493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Messiah, and Stachus, my beloved."}, {"pk": 2727494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "Greet Apelles, the approved in Messiah. Greet those who are of Aristobulos."}, {"pk": 2727495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "Greet Herodion, my relative. Greet those who are of Narcissus who are in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2727496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "Greet Truphaina and Truphosa, who work in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. Greet the beloved Persis, who worked very hard in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2727497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "Greet Rufus, chosen in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and his mother and mine."}, {"pk": 2727498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "Greet Asugritos, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers who are with them."}, {"pk": 2727499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "Greet Philologos and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olumpas, and all the set-apart ones who are with them."}, {"pk": 2727500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "Greet one another with a set-apart kiss. The assemblies of Messiah greet you."}, {"pk": 2727501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "Now I call upon you, brothers, watch out for those who cause divisions and stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them."}, {"pk": 2727502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "For such ones do not serve our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, but their own stomach, and by smooth words and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent."}, {"pk": 2727503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "Your obedience, indeed, is reported to all. Therefore I rejoice concerning you, but I wish you to be wise indeed as to the good, and simple toward the evil."}, {"pk": 2727504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And the Elohim of peace shall crush Satan under your feet shortly. The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "Timotiyos, my fellow worker, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives, greet you."}, {"pk": 2727506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "I, Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2727507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "Gaios, the host of all the assembly and me, greets you. \u011arastos, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother."}, {"pk": 2727508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 25, "text": "And to Him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, according to the revelation of the secret which was kept silent since times of old,"}, {"pk": 2727510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 26, "text": "but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the everlasting Elohim, for belief-obedience."}, {"pk": 2727511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 45, "chapter": 16, "verse": 27, "text": "To Elohim, wise alone, be the esteem, through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah forever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, a called emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah by the desire of Elohim, and brother Sosthenes,"}, {"pk": 2727513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "to the assembly of Elohim which is at Corinth, to those who are set-apart in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, called set-apart ones, with all those calling on the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master in every place, theirs and ours:"}, {"pk": 2727514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "I thank my Elohim always concerning you for the favour of Elohim which was given to you by Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2727516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "that in Him you were enriched in all \u2014 in every word and all knowledge \u2014"}, {"pk": 2727517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "as the witness of Messiah was confirmed in you,"}, {"pk": 2727518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "so that you are not lacking in any gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2727519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "who shall also confirm you to the end, unreprovable in the day of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Elohim is trustworthy, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master."}, {"pk": 2727521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And I appeal to you, brothers, by the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, that you all agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be knit together in the same mind and in the same opinion."}, {"pk": 2727522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "For I have been informed concerning you, my brothers, by those of <i>the house of</i> Chloe, that there are strifes among you."}, {"pk": 2727523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "What I mean is this, that each one of you says, \u201cI am of Sha\u2019ul,\u201d or \u201cI am of Apollos,\u201d or \u201cI am of K\u0115pha,\u201d or \u201cI am of Messiah.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Has the Messiah been divided? Was Sha\u2019ul impaled for you? Or were you immersed in the name of Sha\u2019ul?"}, {"pk": 2727525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "I thank Elohim that I immersed not one of you except Crispus and Gaios,"}, {"pk": 2727526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "that no one should say that I immersed into my own name."}, {"pk": 2727527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Now I did also immerse the household of Stephanas. For the rest, I do not know whether I immersed anyone else."}, {"pk": 2727528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the Good News, not with wisdom of words, that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified."}, {"pk": 2727529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "For the word of the stake is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "For it has been written, <i>\u201cI shall destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the learning of the learned ones.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/14'>29:14</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/11/25'>11:25</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/1/22'>1:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2727531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world?"}, {"pk": 2727532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "For since, in the wisdom of Elohim, the world through wisdom did not know Elohim, it pleased Elohim through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe."}, {"pk": 2727533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And since Yehud\u0331im ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,"}, {"pk": 2727534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehud\u0331im a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness,"}, {"pk": 2727535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "but to those who are called \u2014 both Yehud\u0331im and Greeks \u2014 Messiah the power of Elohim and the wisdom of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "For the foolishness of Elohim is wiser than men, and the weakness of Elohim is stronger than men."}, {"pk": 2727537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "For look at your calling, brothers, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble."}, {"pk": 2727538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "But Elohim has chosen the foolish <i>matters</i> of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the world to put to shame the strong."}, {"pk": 2727539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to naught the ones that are,"}, {"pk": 2727540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "so that no flesh should boast in His presence."}, {"pk": 2727541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "And of Him you are in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who became for us wisdom from Elohim, righteousness also, and set-apartness and redemption,"}, {"pk": 2727542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 1, "verse": 31, "text": "that, as it has been written, <i>\u201cHe who boasts, let him boast in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/9/23'>9:23</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/9/24'>24</a>"}, {"pk": 2727543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And, when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the witness of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "For I resolved not to know any <i>matter</i> among you except \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah and Him impaled."}, {"pk": 2727545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling."}, {"pk": 2727546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And my word and my preaching were not with persuasive words of man\u2019s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,"}, {"pk": 2727547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "in order that your belief should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Yet we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught."}, {"pk": 2727549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "But we speak the wisdom of Elohim, which was hidden in a secret, and which Elohim ordained before the ages for our esteem,"}, {"pk": 2727550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "which no one of the rulers of this age knew, for if they had known, they would not have impaled the Master of esteem."}, {"pk": 2727551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "But as it has been written, <i>\u201cEye has not seen, and ear has not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man what Elohim has prepared for those who love Him.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/64/1'>64</a>.4"}, {"pk": 2727552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "But Elohim has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all <i>matters</i>, even the depths of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "For who among men knows the <i>thoughts</i> of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also, the <i>thoughts</i> of Elohim no one has known, except the Spirit of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from Elohim, in order to know what Elohim has favourably given us,"}, {"pk": 2727555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "which we also speak, not in words which man\u2019s wisdom teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual <i>matters</i> with spiritual <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2727556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "But the natural man does not receive the <i>matters</i> of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned."}, {"pk": 2727557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "But he who is spiritual discerns indeed all <i>matters</i>, but he himself is discerned by no one."}, {"pk": 2727558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "For <i>\u201cWho has known the mind of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4? Who shall instruct Him?\u201d</i> But we have the mind of Messiah.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/13'>40:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2727559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones but as to fleshly, as to babes in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "I fed you with milk and not with solid food, for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able,"}, {"pk": 2727561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "for you are still fleshly. For since there is envy, and strife, and divisions among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?"}, {"pk": 2727562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "For when one says, \u201cI am of Sha\u2019ul,\u201d and another, \u201cI am of Apollos,\u201d are you not fleshly?"}, {"pk": 2727563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "What then is Apollos, and what is Sha\u2019ul, but servants through whom you believed, as the Master assigned to each?"}, {"pk": 2727564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "I planted, Apollos watered, but Elohim was giving growth."}, {"pk": 2727565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is any at all, but Elohim who gives the increase."}, {"pk": 2727566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labour."}, {"pk": 2727567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "For we are fellow workers of Elohim, you are the field of Elohim, the building of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "According to the favour of Elohim which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But each one should look how he builds on it."}, {"pk": 2727569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "For no one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,"}, {"pk": 2727571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "each one\u2019s work shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one, what sort it is."}, {"pk": 2727572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "If anyone\u2019s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward."}, {"pk": 2727573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "If anyone\u2019s work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire."}, {"pk": 2727574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Do you not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you?"}, {"pk": 2727575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "If anyone destroys the Dwelling Place of Elohim, Elohim shall destroy him. For the Dwelling Place of Elohim is set-apart, which you are."}, {"pk": 2727576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish, so that he might become wise."}, {"pk": 2727577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Elohim. For it has been written, <i>\u201cHe catches the wise in their craftiness,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Job <a href='/TS2009/18/5/13'>5:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2727578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "and again, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/94/11'>94:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2727579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "So then, let no one boast in men, for all belongs to you,"}, {"pk": 2727580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "whether Sha\u2019ul or Apollos or K\u0115pha, or the world, or life, or death, or the present or the future \u2014 all belongs to you."}, {"pk": 2727581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And you belong to Messiah, and Messiah belongs to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Let a man regard us as servants of Messiah and trustees of the secrets of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "For the rest, it is sought in trustees, that those should be found trustworthy."}, {"pk": 2727584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "But with me it is a small matter that I should be judged by you or by a man\u2019s court. But not even myself I judge."}, {"pk": 2727585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "For I am not conscious of any <i>matter</i> against myself, yet I am not declared right by this, but He who judges me is \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2727586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "So do not judge any at all before the time, until the Master comes, who shall bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the thoughts of the hearts. And then each one\u2019s praise shall come from Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And these <i>matters</i>, brothers, I have applied in a figure to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you might learn not to think beyond what is written, so that none of you be puffed up on behalf of one against the other."}, {"pk": 2727588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "For who makes you to differ? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?"}, {"pk": 2727589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "You are already satisfied! You are already enriched! You have reigned as sovereigns, apart from us! And I wish, indeed, you did reign, that we also might reign with you!"}, {"pk": 2727590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "For I think that Elohim has exhibited us, the emissaries, last, as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and to men."}, {"pk": 2727591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "We are fools for the sake of Messiah, but you are wise in Messiah! We are weak, but you are strong! You are in esteem, but we are not appreciated!"}, {"pk": 2727592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are scantily clad, and beaten, and homeless,"}, {"pk": 2727593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "and labour, working with our own hands. Being cursed, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;"}, {"pk": 2727594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "being insulted, we help. We have been made as the filth of the world \u2014 dirt wiped off by all until now."}, {"pk": 2727595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "I do not write this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children."}, {"pk": 2727596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For if you should have ten thousand instructors in Messiah, yet not many fathers, for in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 I have brought you forth through the Good News."}, {"pk": 2727597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore I appeal to you, to become imitators of me."}, {"pk": 2727598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "For this reason I have sent Timotiyos to you, who is my beloved and trustworthy son in the Master, who shall remind you of my ways in Messiah, as I teach everywhere in every assembly."}, {"pk": 2727599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you."}, {"pk": 2727600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "But I shall come to you shortly, if the Master desires, and I shall know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power."}, {"pk": 2727601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "For the reign of Elohim is not in speech, but in power."}, {"pk": 2727602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?"}, {"pk": 2727603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "It is commonly reported that there is whoring among you, and such whoring as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father\u2019s wife!"}, {"pk": 2727604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And you have been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!"}, {"pk": 2727605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged the one who did this, as though I were present."}, {"pk": 2727606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "In the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2727607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "deliver such a one to Satan for destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit be saved in the day of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2727608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the entire lump?"}, {"pk": 2727609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our P\u0115sah\u0323 was slaughtered for us."}, {"pk": 2727610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "So then let us celebrate the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."}, {"pk": 2727611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "I wrote to you in my letter not to keep company with those who whore."}, {"pk": 2727612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And I certainly did not mean with those of this world who whore, or with the greedy of gain, or swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world."}, {"pk": 2727613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone called \u2018a brother,\u2019 if he is one who whores, or greedy of gain, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler \u2014 not even to eat with such a one."}, {"pk": 2727614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are inside?"}, {"pk": 2727615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "But Elohim judges those who are outside. And <i>put away the wicked one from among you!</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/13/5'>13:5</a><br>See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/7'>17:7</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/12'>17:12</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/19/19'>19:19</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/21/21'>21:21</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/22/21'>22:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2727616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Should any of you, holding a matter against another, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the set-apart ones?"}, {"pk": 2727617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Do you not know that the set-apart ones shall judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"}, {"pk": 2727618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "Do you not know that we shall judge messengers? How much more, matters of this life?"}, {"pk": 2727619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "If then you truly have judgments of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are least esteemed by the assembly?"}, {"pk": 2727620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise one among you, not even one, who shall be able to judge between his brothers?"}, {"pk": 2727621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "But brother against brother goes to be judged and that before unbelievers!"}, {"pk": 2727622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Already, then, there is a failure with you, that you have lawsuits among you. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?"}, {"pk": 2727623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "But you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and that to your brothers!"}, {"pk": 2727624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the reign of Elohim? Do not be deceived. Neither those who whore, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,"}, {"pk": 2727625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "nor thieves, nor greedy of gain, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the reign of Elohim.", "comment": "See Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/5/19-21'>5:19-21</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/3-5'>5:3-5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were set apart, but you were declared right in the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and by the Spirit of our Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "All is permitted me, but not all do profit. All is permitted me, but I shall not be under authority of any."}, {"pk": 2727628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods \u2014 but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. And the body is not for whoring but for the Master, and the Master for the body."}, {"pk": 2727629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And Elohim, who raised up the Master, shall also raise us up through His power."}, {"pk": 2727630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of Messiah and make them members of a whore? Let it not be!"}, {"pk": 2727631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "Or do you not know that he who is joined to a whore is one body? For He says, <i>\u201cThe two shall become one flesh.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2727632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "And he who is joined to the Master is one spirit."}, {"pk": 2727633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "Flee whoring. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits whoring sins against his own body."}, {"pk": 2727634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "Or do you not know that your body is the Dwelling Place of the Set-apart Spirit who is in you, which you have from Elohim, and you are not your own?"}, {"pk": 2727635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "For you were bought with a price, therefore esteem Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are of Elohim.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/7/23'>7:23</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/1/18'>1:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/60/1/19'>19</a>"}, {"pk": 2727636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And concerning the <i>matters</i> you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman."}, {"pk": 2727637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "But because of whoring, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."}, {"pk": 2727638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "Let the husband render to his wife what is her due, and likewise also the wife to her husband."}, {"pk": 2727639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does."}, {"pk": 2727640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control."}, {"pk": 2727641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "And I say this as a concession, not as a command."}, {"pk": 2727642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from Elohim, one in this way and another in that."}, {"pk": 2727643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am,"}, {"pk": 2727644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "but if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn."}, {"pk": 2727645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "And to the married I command, not I, but the Master: A wife should not separate from a husband."}, {"pk": 2727646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried or be restored to favour with her husband, and let a husband not send away a wife."}, {"pk": 2727647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "And to the rest I say, not the Master: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she thinks well to live with him, let him not send her away."}, {"pk": 2727648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he thinks well to live with her, let her not send him away."}, {"pk": 2727649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "For the unbelieving husband has been set-apart in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been set-apart in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are set-apart."}, {"pk": 2727650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And, if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate himself. A brother or a sister has not been enslaved in such matters. But Elohim has called us to peace."}, {"pk": 2727651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you shall save your wife?"}, {"pk": 2727652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "Only, as Elohim has distributed to each one, as the Master has called each one, so let him walk. And so I order in all the assemblies."}, {"pk": 2727653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised."}, {"pk": 2727654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "The circumcision is naught, and the uncircumcision is naught, but the guarding of the commands of Elohim <i>does matter</i>!", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/26-29'>2:26-29</a>"}, {"pk": 2727655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called."}, {"pk": 2727656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "Were you called while a slave? It matters not to you, but if you are able to become free too, rather use it."}, {"pk": 2727657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "For he who is called in the Master while a slave is the Master\u2019s freed man. Likewise he who is called while free is a slave of Messiah.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/6/6'>6:6</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/16'>2:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "You were bought with a price, do not become slaves of men."}, {"pk": 2727659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "Brothers, let each one remain with Elohim in that calling in which he was called."}, {"pk": 2727660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "And concerning maidens: I have no command from the Master, but I give judgment as one whom the Master in His compassion has made trustworthy."}, {"pk": 2727661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "I think then that this is good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain as he is."}, {"pk": 2727662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife."}, {"pk": 2727663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "But even if you should marry, you have not sinned. And if a maiden should marry, she has not sinned. But such shall have pressure in the flesh, but I would spare you."}, {"pk": 2727664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 29, "text": "And this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none,"}, {"pk": 2727665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 30, "text": "and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,"}, {"pk": 2727666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 31, "text": "and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the scene of this world is passing away."}, {"pk": 2727667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 32, "text": "And I wish you to be without concern. He who is unmarried is concerned about the <i>matters</i> of the Master \u2014 how to please the Master."}, {"pk": 2727668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 33, "text": "But he who is married is concerned about the <i>matters</i> of the world \u2014 how to please his wife."}, {"pk": 2727669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 34, "text": "There is a difference between a wife and a maiden. The unmarried woman is concerned about the <i>matters</i> of the Master, that she might be set-apart both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned about the matters of the world \u2014 how to please her husband."}, {"pk": 2727670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 35, "text": "And this I say for your own good, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and to attend to the Master without distraction."}, {"pk": 2727671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 36, "text": "And if anyone thinks he is behaving improperly toward his maiden, if she is past the flower of her youth, and so it should be, let him do what he desires, he does not sin \u2014 let them marry."}, {"pk": 2727672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 37, "text": "But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, and has authority over his own desire, and has so decided in his heart to guard his own maiden, does well."}, {"pk": 2727673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 38, "text": "So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better."}, {"pk": 2727674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 39, "text": "A wife is bound by Torah as long as her husband lives, and if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Master."}, {"pk": 2727675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 7, "verse": 40, "text": "But she is better off if she remains as she is, according to my opinion. And I think I also have the Spirit of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And concerning <i>food</i> offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."}, {"pk": 2727677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "If anyone thinks that he knows somewhat, he does not yet know as he should know."}, {"pk": 2727678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "But if anyone loves Elohim, this one is known by Him."}, {"pk": 2727679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "So then, concerning the eating of <i>food</i> offered to idols, we know that an idol is no <i>matter</i> at all in the world, and that there is no other Elohim but one."}, {"pk": 2727680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "For even if there are so-called mighty ones, whether in heaven or on earth \u2014 as there are many mighty ones and many masters \u2014"}, {"pk": 2727681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "for us there is one Elohim, the Father, from whom all came and for whom we <i>live</i>, and one Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, through whom all came and through whom we <i>live</i>.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/6'>4:6</a>; 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/2/5'>2:5</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/32'>12:32</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/34'>12:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2727682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "However, not all have this knowledge. But some, being aware of the idol, until now eat it as having been offered to an idol, so their conscience, being weak, is defiled."}, {"pk": 2727683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "But food does not commend us to Elohim, for we are none the better if we eat, nor any worse for not eating."}, {"pk": 2727684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "But look to it, lest somehow this right of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak."}, {"pk": 2727685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol\u2019s place, shall not his conscience, if he is weak, be built up to eat <i>food</i> offered to idols?"}, {"pk": 2727686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "So this weak brother, for whom Messiah died, shall perish through your knowledge!"}, {"pk": 2727687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "Now sinning in this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I am never again going to eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble."}, {"pk": 2727689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "Am I not an emissary? Am I not free? Have I not seen \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master? Are you not my work in the Master?"}, {"pk": 2727690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "If to others I am not an emissary, I certainly am to you. For you are the seal of my office of the emissary in the Master."}, {"pk": 2727691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "My defence to those who examine me is this:"}, {"pk": 2727692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "Do we not have a right to eat and drink?"}, {"pk": 2727693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "Do we not have a right to take along a sister \u2014 a wife \u2014 as do also the other emissaries, and the brothers of the Master, and K\u0115pha?"}, {"pk": 2727694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "Or do only Barnab\u0331a and I have no right to refrain from working?"}, {"pk": 2727695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?"}, {"pk": 2727696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "Do I say this as a man? Or does not the Torah say the same too?"}, {"pk": 2727697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "For it has been written in the Torah of Mosheh, <i>\u201cYou shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.\u201d</i> Is it about oxen Elohim is concerned?", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/4'>25:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2727698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "Or does He say it because of us all? For this was written because of us, that he who ploughs should plough in expectation, and the thresher in expectation of sharing."}, {"pk": 2727699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "If we have sown spiritual <i>seed</i> among you, is it too much if we reap material <i>goods</i> from you?"}, {"pk": 2727700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "If others share authority over you, should not rather we? But we have not used this authority, but we put up with all, lest we hinder the Good News of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "Do you not know that those serving the Set-apart Place eat from the Set-apart Place, and those attending at the slaughter-place have their share of the offerings of the slaughter-place?"}, {"pk": 2727702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "So also the Master instituted that those announcing the Good News should live from the Good News."}, {"pk": 2727703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "But I have used none of these, nor have I written this that it should be done so to me. For it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting empty."}, {"pk": 2727704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "For if I bring the Good News, it is no boasting for me, for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not bring the Good News!"}, {"pk": 2727705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "For if I do this voluntarily I have a reward, but if not voluntarily, I am entrusted with a management."}, {"pk": 2727706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "What then is my reward? That in bringing the Good News, I should offer the Good News of Messiah without cost, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News."}, {"pk": 2727707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "For though I am free from all, I made myself a servant to all, in order to win more,"}, {"pk": 2727708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "and to the Yehud\u0331im I became as a Yehud\u0331i, that I might win Yehud\u0331im; to those who are under Torah, as under Torah, so as to win those who are under Torah;"}, {"pk": 2727709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "to those without Torah, as without Torah \u2014 not being without Torah toward Elohim, but under Torah of Messiah \u2014 so as to win those who are without Torah."}, {"pk": 2727710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "To the weak I became as weak, so as to win the weak. To all <i>men</i> I have become all, so as to save some, by all means."}, {"pk": 2727711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "And I do this because of the Good News, so as to become a fellow-partaker with it."}, {"pk": 2727712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it."}, {"pk": 2727713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "And everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown."}, {"pk": 2727714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "Therefore I run accordingly, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air."}, {"pk": 2727715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, lest having proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected."}, {"pk": 2727716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,"}, {"pk": 2727717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "and all were immersed into Mosheh in the cloud and in the sea,"}, {"pk": 2727718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "and all ate the same spiritual food,"}, {"pk": 2727719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "However, with most of them Elohim was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the wilderness."}, {"pk": 2727721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "And these became examples for us, so that we should not lust after evil, as those indeed lusted."}, {"pk": 2727722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, <i>\u201cThe people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/32/6'>32:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,"}, {"pk": 2727724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "neither let us try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,"}, {"pk": 2727725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer."}, {"pk": 2727726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,"}, {"pk": 2727727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall."}, {"pk": 2727728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it."}, {"pk": 2727729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry."}, {"pk": 2727730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "I speak as to wise men, judge for yourselves what I say."}, {"pk": 2727731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?"}, {"pk": 2727732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "Because there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one bread."}, {"pk": 2727733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "Look at Yisra\u2019\u0115l after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the slaughterings sharers in the slaughter-place?"}, {"pk": 2727734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "What then do I say? That an idol is of any <i>value</i>? Or that which is slaughtered to idols is of any <i>value</i>?"}, {"pk": 2727735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "No, but what the nations slaughter they slaughter to demons and not to Elohim, and I do not wish you to become sharers with demons.", "comment": "See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/17/7'>17:7</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/17'>32:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2727736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "You are not able to drink the cup of the Master and the cup of demons, you are not able to partake of the table of the Master and of the table of demons."}, {"pk": 2727737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "Do we provoke the Master to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?"}, {"pk": 2727738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "All is permitted me, but not all do profit. All is permitted me, but not all build up."}, {"pk": 2727739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "Let no one seek his own, but each one that of the other."}, {"pk": 2727740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "You eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions because of conscience,"}, {"pk": 2727741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "for <i>\u201cThe earth belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and all that fills it.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/24/1'>24:1</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/50/12'>50:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2727742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "And if any of the unbelievers invite you, and you wish to go, you eat whatever is set before you, asking no question on account of the conscience."}, {"pk": 2727743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "And if anyone says to you, \u201cThis was slaughtered to idols,\u201d do not eat it because of the one pointing it out to you, and on account of the conscience, for \u201cThe earth belongs to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and all that fills it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "Now I say conscience, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another\u2019s conscience?"}, {"pk": 2727745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for what I give thanks?"}, {"pk": 2727746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the esteem of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "Cause no stumbling, either to the Yehud\u0331im or to the Greeks or to the assembly of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "as I also please all <i>men</i> in all <i>matters</i>, not seeking my own advantage, but that of the many, that they might be saved."}, {"pk": 2727749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "Become imitators of me, as I also am of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "And I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in every way and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you."}, {"pk": 2727751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "And I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/1/22'>1:22</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/15'>4:15</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/23'>5:23</a><br>See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/16'>3:16</a><br>See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/3/23'>3:23</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/28'>14:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2727752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, brings shame to his Head."}, {"pk": 2727753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered brings shame to her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved."}, {"pk": 2727754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.", "comment": "See Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2727755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "For a man indeed should not cover his head, since he is the likeness and esteem of Elohim, but woman is the esteem of man."}, {"pk": 2727756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "For man is not from woman, but woman from man."}, {"pk": 2727757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "For man also was not created for the woman, but woman for the man."}, {"pk": 2727758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "Because of this the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the messengers.", "comment": "Some say \u201c<em>a symbol of authority.\u201d</em>"}, {"pk": 2727759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "However, man is not independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Master."}, {"pk": 2727760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "For as the woman was from the man, even so the man also is through the woman. But all are from Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to Elohim with her head uncovered?"}, {"pk": 2727762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man indeed has long hair, it is a disrespect to him?"}, {"pk": 2727763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And if a woman has long hair, it is an esteem to her, because the long hair has been given to her over against a veil."}, {"pk": 2727764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "If, however, anyone seems to be contentious, we do not have such a habit, nor do the assemblies of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "And in declaring this I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse."}, {"pk": 2727766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "For in the first place, I hear that when you come together as an assembly, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it."}, {"pk": 2727767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "For there have to be factions even among you, so that the approved ones might be revealed among you."}, {"pk": 2727768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "So when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Master\u2019s supper."}, {"pk": 2727769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "For, when you eat, each one takes his own supper first, and one is hungry and another is drunk."}, {"pk": 2727770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Have you not houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the assembly of Elohim and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!"}, {"pk": 2727771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "For I received from the Master that which I also delivered to you: that the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 in the night in which He was delivered up took bread,"}, {"pk": 2727772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "and having given thanks, He broke it and said, \u201cTake, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, \u201cThis cup is the renewed covenant in My blood. As often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes."}, {"pk": 2727775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "So that whoever should eat this bread or drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Master."}, {"pk": 2727776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup."}, {"pk": 2727777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "For the one who is eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Master."}, {"pk": 2727778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "Because of this many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep."}, {"pk": 2727779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "For if we were to examine ourselves, we would not be judged."}, {"pk": 2727780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Master, that we should not be condemned with the world."}, {"pk": 2727781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another."}, {"pk": 2727782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "And if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I shall set in order when I come."}, {"pk": 2727783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant."}, {"pk": 2727784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "You know that you were nations, led away to the dumb idols, even as you might be led.", "comment": "See also Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/11'>2:11</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/17'>4:17</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/4/3'>4:3</a>; 1Thes. <a href='/TS2009/52/4/5'>4:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of Elohim says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is a curse, and no one is able to say that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is Master except by the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "There are different kinds of services, but the same Master."}, {"pk": 2727788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And there are different kinds of workings, but it is the same Elohim who is working all in all."}, {"pk": 2727789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profiting,"}, {"pk": 2727790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "for to one is given a word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2727791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "and to another belief by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2727792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "and to another operations of powers, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, and to another kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues."}, {"pk": 2727793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "But one and the same Spirit works all these, distributing to each one individually as He intends."}, {"pk": 2727794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "For indeed by one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Yehud\u0331im or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit."}, {"pk": 2727796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "For indeed the body is not one member but many."}, {"pk": 2727797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "If the foot says, \u201cBecause I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,\u201d does it therefore not belong to the body?"}, {"pk": 2727798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And if the ear says, \u201cBecause I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,\u201d does it therefore not belong to the body?"}, {"pk": 2727799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If all hearing, where would be the smelling?"}, {"pk": 2727800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "But now Elohim has set the members, each one of them, in the body, even as He pleased."}, {"pk": 2727801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "And if they all had been one member, where would the body be?"}, {"pk": 2727802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "And now, there are indeed many members, but one body."}, {"pk": 2727803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And an eye is unable to say to the hand, \u201cI have no need of you,\u201d or again the head to the feet, \u201cI have no need of you.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "But much rather, those members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary."}, {"pk": 2727805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "And to those of the body which we think to be less respected, these we present greater respect. And our unseemly <i>members</i> have greater seemliness,"}, {"pk": 2727806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "whereas our seemly <i>members</i> have no need. But Elohim blended together the body, having given greater respect to that <i>member</i> which lacks it,"}, {"pk": 2727807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same concern one for another."}, {"pk": 2727808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is esteemed, all the members rejoice with it."}, {"pk": 2727809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "And you are a body of Messiah, and members individually."}, {"pk": 2727810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "And Elohim has appointed these in the assembly: firstly emissaries, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, ministrations, kinds of tongues."}, {"pk": 2727811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "Are all emissaries? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?"}, {"pk": 2727812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 30, "text": "Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?"}, {"pk": 2727813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 12, "verse": 31, "text": "But earnestly seek the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way."}, {"pk": 2727814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal."}, {"pk": 2727815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all."}, {"pk": 2727816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all."}, {"pk": 2727817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,"}, {"pk": 2727818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,"}, {"pk": 2727819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,"}, {"pk": 2727820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all."}, {"pk": 2727821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "Love never fails. And whether <i>there be</i> prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive."}, {"pk": 2727822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "For we know in part and we prophesy in part."}, {"pk": 2727823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive."}, {"pk": 2727824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters."}, {"pk": 2727825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known."}, {"pk": 2727826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And now belief, expectation, and love remain - these three. But the greatest of these is love."}, {"pk": 2727827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "Pursue love, and earnestly seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you prophesy."}, {"pk": 2727828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "For he who is speaking in a tongue does not speak to men but to Elohim, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks secrets."}, {"pk": 2727829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "But he who is prophesying speaks upbuilding and encouragement and comfort to men."}, {"pk": 2727830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "He who is speaking in a tongue builds up himself, but he who is prophesying builds up the assembly."}, {"pk": 2727831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "Now I wish you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you might prophesy, for he who is prophesying is greater than he who is speaking with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the assembly might receive upbuilding."}, {"pk": 2727832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?"}, {"pk": 2727833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "Nevertheless, lifeless <i>instruments</i> making a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not make a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?"}, {"pk": 2727834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "For indeed, if the trumpet makes an indistinct sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?"}, {"pk": 2727835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "So also you, if you do not give speech by the tongue that is clear, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall be speaking into the air."}, {"pk": 2727836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "There are, undoubtedly, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without <i>distinct</i> sound."}, {"pk": 2727837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "If then I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks be a foreigner to me."}, {"pk": 2727838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "So also you, since you are ardent for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in the upbuilding of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2727839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore, he who is speaking in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret."}, {"pk": 2727840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "For if I am praying in a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my understanding is without fruit."}, {"pk": 2727841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and I shall also pray with the understanding. I shall sing with the spirit, and I shall also sing with the understanding."}, {"pk": 2727842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills up the place of the unlearned say \u201cAm\u0115n\u201d at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?"}, {"pk": 2727843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up."}, {"pk": 2727844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "I thank my Elohim I speak with tongues more than you all,"}, {"pk": 2727845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "but in an assembly I wish to speak five words with my understanding that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue."}, {"pk": 2727846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "Brothers, do not be children in <i>your</i> thinking, but in evil be babes, and in <i>your</i> thinking be perfect."}, {"pk": 2727847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 21, "text": "In the Torah it has been written, <i>\u201cWith men of other tongues and other lips I shall speak to this people. And even so, they shall not hear Me, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/28/11'>28:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2727848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 22, "text": "So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers, and prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe."}, {"pk": 2727849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 23, "text": "If then all the assembly comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are unlearned or unbelievers, shall they not say that you are mad?"}, {"pk": 2727850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 24, "text": "But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an unlearned one comes in, he is reproved by all, he is discerned by all."}, {"pk": 2727851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 25, "text": "And so the secrets of his heart are revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he shall worship Elohim, declaring that Elohim is truly among you."}, {"pk": 2727852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 26, "text": "What then is it, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all be done for upbuilding."}, {"pk": 2727853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 27, "text": "If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret."}, {"pk": 2727854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 28, "text": "And if there is no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and let him speak to himself and to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 29, "text": "And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern."}, {"pk": 2727856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 30, "text": "And if there should be a revelation to another who sits by, let the first be silent."}, {"pk": 2727857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 31, "text": "For you are all able to prophesy one by one, so that all learn and all be encouraged."}, {"pk": 2727858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 32, "text": "And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets."}, {"pk": 2727859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 33, "text": "For Elohim is not <i>Elohim</i> of disorder but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2727860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 34, "text": "Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for they are not allowed to speak, but let them subject themselves, as the Torah also says.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/16'>3:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2727861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 35, "text": "And if they wish to learn whatever, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in an assembly."}, {"pk": 2727862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 36, "text": "Or did the word of Elohim go out from you? Or did it reach only to you?"}, {"pk": 2727863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 37, "text": "If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge what I write to you, that they are a command of the Master."}, {"pk": 2727864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 38, "text": "And if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant."}, {"pk": 2727865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 39, "text": "So, then, brothers, earnestly seek to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues."}, {"pk": 2727866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 14, "verse": 40, "text": "Let all be done decently and in order."}, {"pk": 2727867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "But brothers, I make known to you the Good News, which I brought as Good News to you, which you also did receive, and in which you stand,"}, {"pk": 2727868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "through which also you are being saved, if you hold fast that word I brought as Good News to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain."}, {"pk": 2727869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "For I delivered to you at the first that which I also received: that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"}, {"pk": 2727870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day, according to the Scriptures,"}, {"pk": 2727871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "and that He was seen by K\u0115pha, then by the twelve."}, {"pk": 2727872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "After that He was seen by over five hundred brothers at one time, of whom the greater part remain till now, but some have fallen asleep."}, {"pk": 2727873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "After that He was seen by Ya\u201baqob\u0331, then by all the emissaries."}, {"pk": 2727874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And last of all He was seen by me also, as if to one born prematurely."}, {"pk": 2727875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 9, "text": "For I am the least of the emissaries, who am not worthy to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the assembly of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 10, "text": "But by the favour of Elohim I am what I am, and His favour toward me was not in vain, but I laboured much more than they all, yet not I, but the favour of Elohim with me."}, {"pk": 2727877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 11, "text": "Whether, then, it was I or they, so we proclaimed and so you believed."}, {"pk": 2727878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 12, "text": "And if Messiah is proclaimed that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?"}, {"pk": 2727879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 13, "text": "And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Messiah has not been raised."}, {"pk": 2727880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 14, "text": "And if Messiah has not been raised, then our proclaiming is empty, and your belief also empty,"}, {"pk": 2727881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 15, "text": "and we are also found false witnesses of Elohim, because we have witnessed of Elohim that He raised up Messiah, whom He did not raise up, if then the dead are not raised."}, {"pk": 2727882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 16, "text": "For if the dead are not raised, then neither Messiah has been raised."}, {"pk": 2727883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 17, "text": "And if Messiah has not been raised, your belief is to no purpose, you are still in your sins!"}, {"pk": 2727884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 18, "text": "Then also those who have fallen asleep in Messiah have perished."}, {"pk": 2727885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 19, "text": "If in this life only we have expectation in Messiah, we are of all men the most wretched."}, {"pk": 2727886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 20, "text": "But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, and has become the first-fruit of those having fallen asleep."}, {"pk": 2727887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 21, "text": "For since death is through a man, resurrection of the dead is also through a Man."}, {"pk": 2727888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 22, "text": "For as all die in Ad\u0331am, so also all shall be made alive in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 23, "text": "And each in his own order: Messiah the first-fruits, then those who are of Messiah at His coming,"}, {"pk": 2727890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 24, "text": "then the end, when He delivers up the reign to Elohim the Father, when He has brought to naught all rule and all authority and power."}, {"pk": 2727891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 25, "text": "For He has to reign until He has put all enemies under His feet."}, {"pk": 2727892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 26, "text": "The last enemy to be brought to naught is death."}, {"pk": 2727893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 27, "text": "For <i>\u201cHe has put all under His feet.\u201d</i> But when He says \u201call are put under Him,\u201d it is clear that He who put all under Him is excepted.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/8/6'>8:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2727894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 28, "text": "And when all are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself shall also be subject to Him who put all under Him, in order that Elohim be all in all."}, {"pk": 2727895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 29, "text": "Otherwise, what shall they do who are immersed for the dead, if the dead are not raised at all? Why indeed are they immersed for the dead?"}, {"pk": 2727896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 30, "text": "And why do we stand in danger every hour?"}, {"pk": 2727897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 31, "text": "I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master, I die day by day."}, {"pk": 2727898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 32, "text": "If, as men do, I have fought with beasts at Ephesos, of what good is it to me? If the dead are not raised, <i>\u201cLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/22/13'>22:13</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/56/12'>56:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2727899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 33, "text": "Do not be led astray, \u201cEvil company corrupts good habits.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 34, "text": "Wake up to soberness, righteously, and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of Elohim. I speak this to your shame."}, {"pk": 2727901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 35, "text": "But someone might say, \u201cHow are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2727902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 36, "text": "Senseless one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies."}, {"pk": 2727903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 37, "text": "And as to what you sow: you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, it might be wheat or some other grain."}, {"pk": 2727904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 38, "text": "But Elohim gives it a body as He wishes, and to each seed a body of its own."}, {"pk": 2727905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 39, "text": "All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another of fishes, and another of birds."}, {"pk": 2727906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 40, "text": "And <i>there are</i> heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the esteem of the heavenly is truly one, and the esteem of the earthly is another,"}, {"pk": 2727907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 41, "text": "one esteem of the sun, and another esteem of the moon, and another esteem of the stars \u2014 for star differs from star in esteem."}, {"pk": 2727908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 42, "text": "So also is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;"}, {"pk": 2727909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 43, "text": "it is sown in disrespect, it is raised in esteem; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;"}, {"pk": 2727910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 44, "text": "it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."}, {"pk": 2727911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 45, "text": "And so it has been written, \u201cThe first man Ad\u0331am <i>became a living being,\u201d</i> the last Ad\u0331am a life-giving Spirit.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/7'>2:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2727912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 46, "text": "The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual."}, {"pk": 2727913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 47, "text": "The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second Man is the Master from heaven."}, {"pk": 2727914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 48, "text": "As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly."}, {"pk": 2727915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 49, "text": "And as we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly."}, {"pk": 2727916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 50, "text": "And this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood is unable to inherit the reign of Elohim, neither does corruption inherit incorruption."}, {"pk": 2727917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 51, "text": "See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"}, {"pk": 2727918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 52, "text": "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."}, {"pk": 2727919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 53, "text": "For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality."}, {"pk": 2727920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 54, "text": "And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, <i>\u201cDeath is swallowed up in overcoming.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/28/5'>28:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2727921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 55, "text": "<i>\u201cO Death, where is your sting? O She\u2019ol, where is your overcoming?\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/13/14'>13:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2727922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 56, "text": "And the sting of death is the sin, and the power of the sin is the Torah."}, {"pk": 2727923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 57, "text": "But thanks to Elohim who gives us the overcoming through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 15, "verse": 58, "text": "Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Master, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Master."}, {"pk": 2727925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And concerning the collections for the set-apart ones, you are to do as I gave orders to the assemblies of Galatia:"}, {"pk": 2727926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "Every <i>day</i> one of <i>the</i> week let each one of you set aside, storing up whatever he is prospered, so that there are no collections when I come.", "comment": "Gk. one of <em>the</em> sabbath (singular)."}, {"pk": 2727927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters, I shall send to bear your gift to Yerushalayim."}, {"pk": 2727928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And if it is fitting for me to go, they shall go with me."}, {"pk": 2727929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And I shall come to you when I pass through Makedonia, for I am passing through Makedonia."}, {"pk": 2727930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "And possibly I shall stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you send me forward, wherever I go."}, {"pk": 2727931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "For I do not wish to see you now on the way, but I expect to stay a while with you, if the Master permits."}, {"pk": 2727932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And I shall remain in Ephesos until the Festival of Shab\u0331u\u2019ot.", "comment": "Weeks."}, {"pk": 2727933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "For a great and effective door has opened to me, and many are opposing."}, {"pk": 2727934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And if Timotiyos comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Master, even as I."}, {"pk": 2727935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore let no one despise him. And send him forward in peace, so that he comes to me, for I am waiting for him with the brothers."}, {"pk": 2727936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he had no desire at all to come at this time; however, he shall come when it is convenient."}, {"pk": 2727937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "Watch, stand fast in the belief, be men, be strong."}, {"pk": 2727938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "Let all that you do be done in love."}, {"pk": 2727939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "And I urge you, brothers, you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and that they have assigned themselves for service to the set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2727940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "that you also be subject to such, and to everyone who works and labours with us."}, {"pk": 2727941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And I rejoice about the coming of Stephanas, and Fortunatos, and Achaikos, for what was lacking on your part they supplied."}, {"pk": 2727942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "For they refreshed my spirit and yours, therefore give recognition to such ones."}, {"pk": 2727943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aqulas and Priscilla greet you heartily in the Master, with the assembly that is in their house."}, {"pk": 2727944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a set-apart kiss."}, {"pk": 2727945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "The greeting with my own hand \u2014 Sha\u2019ul."}, {"pk": 2727946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 22, "text": "If anyone does not love the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, let him be a curse. Maranatha!"}, {"pk": 2727947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 23, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you."}, {"pk": 2727948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 46, "chapter": 16, "verse": 24, "text": "My love be with you all in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2727949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, by the desire of Elohim, and Timotiyos the brother, to the assembly of Elohim that is at Corinth, with all the set-apart ones who are in all Achaia:"}, {"pk": 2727950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort,"}, {"pk": 2727952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim."}, {"pk": 2727953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Because, as the sufferings of Messiah overflow in us, so our comfort also overflows through Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And if we suffer pressure, it is for your comfort and deliverance, being worked out in enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort and deliverance."}, {"pk": 2727955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And our expectation for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are sharing in the sufferings \u2014 so also in the comfort."}, {"pk": 2727956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of our pressure which came to us in Asia, that we were weighed down, exceedingly, beyond ability, so that we despaired even of life.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/4/8'>4:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/47/4/9'>9</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/4/17'>4:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2727957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Indeed, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in Elohim who raises the dead,"}, {"pk": 2727958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "who rescued us from so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we trust that He shall still rescue us,"}, {"pk": 2727959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks shall be given by many on our behalf for the favour bestowed upon us through many."}, {"pk": 2727960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "For our boasting is this: the witness of our conscience that we behaved ourselves in the world in simplicity and sincerity of Elohim, not in fleshly wisdom but in the favour of Elohim, and much more toward you."}, {"pk": 2727961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "For we are not writing any other <i>matters</i> to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you shall understand, even to the end,"}, {"pk": 2727962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "as also you have understood us in part, that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2727963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And relying on this I intended to come to you before, that you might twice receive a favour,"}, {"pk": 2727964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "and to pass your way into Makedonia, and again from Makedonia come to you, and to be sent by you on my way to Yehud\u0331ah."}, {"pk": 2727965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Since I intended this, did I do it lightly? Or what I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?"}, {"pk": 2727966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "But Elohim is trustworthy, that our word to you was not Yes and No."}, {"pk": 2727967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "For the Son of Elohim, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who was proclaimed among you by us \u2014 by me, Silas, and Timotiyos \u2014 was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes."}, {"pk": 2727968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "For as many promises as are of Elohim, in Him they are Yes, and in Him Am\u0115n, to the esteem of Elohim through us."}, {"pk": 2727969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "But He who establishes us with you in Messiah and has anointed us is Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "who also sealed us, and gave the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge."}, {"pk": 2727971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "And I call Elohim as witness against my being, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth."}, {"pk": 2727972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "Not that we rule over your belief, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for you stand by belief."}, {"pk": 2727973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And I decided this within myself, not to come to you again in sadness."}, {"pk": 2727974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "For if I make you sad, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sad by me?"}, {"pk": 2727975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And I wrote to you as I did, so that having come, I might not have sadness over those from whom I should have joy, trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all."}, {"pk": 2727976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "For out of much pressure and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be sad, but that you might know the love which I so richly have for you."}, {"pk": 2727977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "But if anyone has caused sadness, he has not made me sad, but in some degree you all \u2014 not to be too harsh."}, {"pk": 2727978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "For such a one this punishment, by the many, is sufficient,"}, {"pk": 2727979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "so that, on the contrary, you should rather forgive and comfort, lest somehow such a one be swallowed up with too much sadness."}, {"pk": 2727980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "So I appeal to you to confirm your love to him."}, {"pk": 2727981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Besides, I wrote for this purpose also, that I might know the proof of you, if you are obedient in all <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2727982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "And whom you forgive any <i>matter</i>, I do also. For indeed, if I have forgiven any <i>matter</i>, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the sight of Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2727983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "lest Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts."}, {"pk": 2727984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "And when I came to Troas for the Good News of Messiah, and a door was opened to me by the Master,"}, {"pk": 2727985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titos my brother. But taking my leave of them, I went on to Makedonia."}, {"pk": 2727986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "But thanks be to Elohim who always leads us on, to overcome in Messiah, and manifests through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place."}, {"pk": 2727987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Because we are to Elohim the fragrance of Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing."}, {"pk": 2727988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?"}, {"pk": 2727989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "For we are not, as so many, adulterating the Word of Elohim <i>for gain</i> \u2014 but as of sincerity, but as from Elohim, in the sight of Elohim, we speak in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Are we to begin to recommend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?"}, {"pk": 2727991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, known and read by all men,"}, {"pk": 2727992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "making it obvious that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, not on tablets of stone but on fleshly tablets of the heart."}, {"pk": 2727993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And such trust we have toward Elohim, through the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2727994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Not that we are competent in ourselves to reckon any <i>matter</i> as from ourselves, but our competence is from Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2727995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life."}, {"pk": 2727996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "But if the administering of death in letters, engraved on stones, was esteemed, so that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l were unable to look steadily at the face of Mosheh because of the esteem of his face, which was passing away,"}, {"pk": 2727997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "how much more esteemed shall the administering of the Spirit not be?"}, {"pk": 2727998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "For if the administering of condemnation had esteem, the administering of righteousness exceeds much more in esteem."}, {"pk": 2727999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "For indeed what was made esteemed had no esteem in this respect, in view of the esteem that excels."}, {"pk": 2728000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "For if that which is passing away was esteemed, much more that which remains in esteem."}, {"pk": 2728001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Having then such expectation, we use much boldness of speech,"}, {"pk": 2728002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "and not like Mosheh, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l should not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/34/33-35'>34:33-35</a>"}, {"pk": 2728003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But their minds were hardened, for to this day, when the old covenant is being read, that same veil remains, not lifted, because in Messiah it is taken away."}, {"pk": 2728004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "But to this day, when Mosheh is being read, a veil lies on their heart."}, {"pk": 2728005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>And when one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away.</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/34/34'>34:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2728006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Now \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is, there is freedom."}, {"pk": 2728007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And we all, as with unveiled face we see as in a mirror the esteem of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem, as from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the Spirit.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/3/17'>3:17</a>, <a href='/TS2009/47/3/18'>18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, having this service, even as we received compassion, we do not lose heart,"}, {"pk": 2728009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And indeed, if our Good News has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who are perishing,"}, {"pk": 2728011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "in whom the mighty one of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim, does not shine on them.", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/6'>4:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2728012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Master, and ourselves your servants for the sake of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "For Elohim, who said, \u201cLet light shine out of darkness,\u201d is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "being hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; being perplexed, but not in despair;", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/1/8'>1:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2728016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "being persecuted, but not forsaken; being thrown down, but not destroyed;"}, {"pk": 2728017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "always bearing about in the body the dying of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, that the life of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 might also be manifested in our body."}, {"pk": 2728018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "For we, the living, are always delivered to death for the sake of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, that the life of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 might also be manifested in our mortal flesh,"}, {"pk": 2728019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "so that death indeed is working in us, but the life in you."}, {"pk": 2728020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "But having the same spirit of belief, according to what has been written, <i>\u201cI believed, therefore I spoke,\u201d</i> we also believe, therefore we also speak,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/116/10'>116:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2728021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "knowing that He who raised up the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 shall also raise us up through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and shall present us with you."}, {"pk": 2728022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For all this is for your sake, so that favour, having spread through the many, would cause thanksgiving to overflow, unto the esteem of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day."}, {"pk": 2728024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "For this slight momentary pressure is working for us a far more exceeding and everlasting weight of esteem."}, {"pk": 2728025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "We are not looking on what is seen, but on what is not seen. For what is seen passes away, but what is not seen is everlasting.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/5/7'>5:7</a> and Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/24'>8:24</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/1'>11:1</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/13'>11:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2728026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "For we know that if the tent of our earthly house is destroyed, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2728027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "For indeed in this we groan, longing to put on our dwelling which is from heaven,"}, {"pk": 2728028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "so that, having put it on, we shall not be found naked."}, {"pk": 2728029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "For indeed, we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we wish to put it off, but to put on <i>the other</i>, so that what is to die might be swallowed up by life."}, {"pk": 2728030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "Now He who has prepared us for this same purpose is Elohim, who has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come."}, {"pk": 2728031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Master \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "for we walk by belief, not by sight", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/4/18'>4:18</a> and 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2728033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "we are of good courage, and are well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Master."}, {"pk": 2728034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "So we also make it our aim to be well-pleasing to Him, whether being at home, or being away from home."}, {"pk": 2728035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "For we all have to appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, in order for each one to receive according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/29'>5:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2728036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Knowing, therefore, the fear of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, we persuade men, but we have been made manifest to Elohim, and I also trust in your consciences to have been manifested."}, {"pk": 2728037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you an occasion to boast on our behalf, in order that you have <i>an answer</i> for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart."}, {"pk": 2728038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "For whether we are beside ourselves, it was for Elohim, or whether we are of sound mind, it is for you."}, {"pk": 2728039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "For the love of Messiah compels us, having judged this: that if One died for all, then all died;"}, {"pk": 2728040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them, and was raised.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/14/7'>14:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/14/8'>8</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/2/20'>2:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2728041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "So from now onwards we know no one according to the flesh. And if we have known Messiah according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know <i>Him thus</i>."}, {"pk": 2728042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he is a renewed creature \u2014 the old <i>matters</i> have passed away, see, all <i>matters</i> have become renewed!", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/2-22'>6:2-22</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/2/20'>2:20</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/22-24'>4:22-24</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/3/10'>3:10</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/9'>3:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/62/3/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2728043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And all <i>matters</i> are from Elohim, who has restored us to favour with Himself through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and has given us the service of restoration to favour,"}, {"pk": 2728044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "that is, that Elohim was in Messiah restoring the world to favour unto Himself, not reckoning their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of restoration to favour."}, {"pk": 2728045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Therefore we are envoys on behalf of Messiah, as though Elohim were pleading through us. We beg, on behalf of Messiah: Be restored to favour with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And working together, we also call upon you not to receive the favour of Elohim in vain \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "For He says, <i>\u201cIn an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of deliverance I have helped you.\u201d See, now is the well-accepted time, see, now is a day of deliverance</i> \u2014", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/8'>49:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2728049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "giving no cause of stumbling in whatever, so that the service is not blamed."}, {"pk": 2728050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "Rather, we commend ourselves as servants of Elohim in every way: in much endurance, in pressures, in hardships, in distresses,"}, {"pk": 2728051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "in stripes, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in toils, in watchings, in fastings,"}, {"pk": 2728052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "in cleanness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Set-apart Spirit, in love unfeigned,"}, {"pk": 2728053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "in the word of truth, in the power of Elohim, through the weapons of righteousness, on the right and on the left,"}, {"pk": 2728054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "through esteem and disrespect, through evil report and good report; <i>regarded</i> as deceivers, and yet true;"}, {"pk": 2728055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and see, we live; as disciplined, and yet not killed;"}, {"pk": 2728056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "as sad, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having none, and yet possessing all."}, {"pk": 2728057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Our mouth has spoken openly to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide open."}, {"pk": 2728058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained by your own affections."}, {"pk": 2728059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "But for the same reward \u2014 I speak as to children \u2014 open wide <i>your hearts</i> too."}, {"pk": 2728060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?"}, {"pk": 2728061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And what agreement has Messiah with Beliya\u201bal? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever?"}, {"pk": 2728062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, <i>\u201cI shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.</i>\"", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/26/12'>26:12</a><br>See also Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/29/45'>29:45</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/26/12'>26:12</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/1'>31:1</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/37/27'>37:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2728063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "<i>Therefore, \u201cCome out from among them and be separate, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/11'>52:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2728064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd I shall be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Almighty.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/43/6'>43:6</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>1:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2728065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "Having, then, these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting set-apartness in the fear of Elohim.", "comment": "See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/1'>12:1</a>; Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/5'>19:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/2/19/6'>6</a> and Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/18/4'>18:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "Make room for us, we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we exploited no one."}, {"pk": 2728067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "I do not say this to condemn, for I previously said that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together."}, {"pk": 2728068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with encouragement, I overflow with joy in all our pressure."}, {"pk": 2728069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "For, indeed, when we came into Makedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were hard pressed on every side \u2014 conflicts without, fears within."}, {"pk": 2728070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "But Elohim, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us by the coming of Titos,"}, {"pk": 2728071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "and not only by his coming, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged over you, when he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your ardour for me, so that I greatly rejoiced."}, {"pk": 2728072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "For even if I made you sad with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same letter made you sad, even if for an hour."}, {"pk": 2728073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "I now rejoice, not that you were made sad, but that you were saddened into repenting. For you were made sad according to Elohim, so that you suffered no loss from us."}, {"pk": 2728074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "For sadness according to Elohim works repentance to deliverance, not to be regretted, but the sadness of the world works death."}, {"pk": 2728075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "For see how you have been saddened according to Elohim \u2014 how much it worked out in you eagerness; indeed, clearing of yourselves; indeed, displeasure; indeed, fear; indeed, longing; indeed, ardour; indeed, righting of wrong! In every way you proved yourselves to be clear in the matter."}, {"pk": 2728076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but for the sake of revealing our diligence for you, before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "For this reason we have been encouraged in your encouragement. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titos, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you."}, {"pk": 2728078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "Because if I have boasted somewhat about you to him, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke to you in all truth, even so our boasting to Titos was found true."}, {"pk": 2728079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "And his tender feelings are greater for you as he remembers the obedience of all of you, as you received him with fear and trembling."}, {"pk": 2728080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "I rejoice that in every way I am of good courage by reason of you."}, {"pk": 2728081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Now brothers, we make known to you the favour of Elohim which has been given in the assemblies of Makedonia:"}, {"pk": 2728082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "that in much trial of pressure the overflowing of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the riches of their generosity."}, {"pk": 2728083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "Because I bear witness that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, <i>they gave</i> voluntarily,"}, {"pk": 2728084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "begging us with much urgency for the favour of taking part in this service to the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2728085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And, not as we had expected, they gave themselves first to the Master, and then to us by the desire of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "that we should urge Titos, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this kind gift in you as well."}, {"pk": 2728087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "But as you excel in every way \u2014 in belief, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love for us \u2014 that you should excel in this kind gift as well."}, {"pk": 2728088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "I speak not by command, but I am proving the genuineness of your love by the eagerness of others."}, {"pk": 2728089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "For you know the favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, that being rich, He became poor for your sake, so that you might become rich through His poverty."}, {"pk": 2728090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And in this I give an opinion: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago,"}, {"pk": 2728091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "and now also complete the work, that as <i>there was</i> a readiness in desiring it, so <i>there</i> also should be a completion out of what you have."}, {"pk": 2728092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "For if the readiness is present, it is well received according to what one has, not according to what he does not have \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "not, however, that others should be eased and you hard pressed,"}, {"pk": 2728094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 14, "text": "but by fair sharing, that now at this time your plenty for their need, so that their plenty might also be for your need \u2014 that there might be fair sharing."}, {"pk": 2728095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 15, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201cHe who <i>gathered</i> much did not have too much, and he who <i>gathered</i> little had not less.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/16/18'>16:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 16, "text": "But thanks be to Elohim who puts the same eagerness for you into the heart of Titos."}, {"pk": 2728097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 17, "text": "Because he received the appeal, indeed, but being more eager, he went to you of his own accord."}, {"pk": 2728098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 18, "text": "And we sent with him the brother whose praise is in the Good News through all the assemblies,"}, {"pk": 2728099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 19, "text": "and not only so, but who was also chosen by the assemblies to travel with us with this gift that is administered by us to the esteem of the Master Himself, and your ready mind,"}, {"pk": 2728100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 20, "text": "avoiding this: that anyone should blame us in this generous gift which is administered by us."}, {"pk": 2728101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 21, "text": "For we provide what is right, not only <i>in the sight of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, but also in the sight of men.</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/4'>3:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 22, "text": "And we sent with them our brother whom we have often proved eager in many ways, but now much more eager, because of the great reliance which we have in you."}, {"pk": 2728103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 23, "text": "As for Titos, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, <i>they are</i> messengers of the assemblies, the esteem of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 8, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore show to them the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf, and in the presence of the assemblies."}, {"pk": 2728105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "Indeed, concerning the service to the set-apart ones, it is unnecessary for me to write to you;"}, {"pk": 2728106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "for I know your eagerness, about which I boast of you to the Makedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago. And your ardour has stirred up most of them."}, {"pk": 2728107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "But I sent the brothers, lest our boasting on behalf of you should be made empty in this part, in order that, as I said, you were ready,"}, {"pk": 2728108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "lest if some Makedonians come with me and find you not ready, we \u2014 not to speak of you \u2014 should be put to shame because of our belief."}, {"pk": 2728109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "So I thought it necessary to appeal to the brothers to come to you in advance, and arrange your promised blessing beforehand \u2014 this to be ready as a blessing and not as greediness."}, {"pk": 2728110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And this: He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows on blessing shall also reap on blessing."}, {"pk": 2728111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "Let each one <i>give</i> as he purposes in his heart, not of grief or of necessity, for Elohim loves a joyous giver."}, {"pk": 2728112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And Elohim is able to make all favour overflow toward you, that you, always having all you need in every way, have plenty for every good work."}, {"pk": 2728113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "As it has been written, <i>\u201cHe scattered abroad, He gave to the poor, His righteousness remains forever.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/112/9'>112:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2728114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall supply and increase the seed you have sown and increase the fruit of your righteousness,"}, {"pk": 2728115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "being enriched in every way for all simplicity, which works out thanksgiving to Elohim through us."}, {"pk": 2728116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "Because the rendering of this service not only supplies the needs of the set-apart ones, but also is overflowing through many thanksgivings to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "Through the proof of this service, they esteem Elohim on the submission of your confession to the Good News of Messiah, and generosity in sharing with them and all men,"}, {"pk": 2728118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding favour of Elohim in you."}, {"pk": 2728119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "Thanks also to Elohim for His unspeakable gift!"}, {"pk": 2728120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And I, Sha\u2019ul, myself appeal to you, through the meekness and gentleness of Messiah \u2014 I who am indeed lowly when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!"}, {"pk": 2728121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "But I pray, that when I am present, I might not be bold with that bravery by which I think to be bold against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh."}, {"pk": 2728122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh."}, {"pk": 2728123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds,"}, {"pk": 2728124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>"}, {"pk": 2728126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "Take a look at what you are facing. If anyone seems to trust in himself that he is of Messiah, let him reckon again for himself, that as he is of Messiah, so also are we."}, {"pk": 2728127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Master gave us for building up, and not for overthrowing you, I shall not be put to shame,"}, {"pk": 2728128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "lest I seem to frighten you away by letters."}, {"pk": 2728129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "Because they say, \u201cHis letters are truly weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech amounts to naught.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2728130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "Let such a one take this into account, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such <i>we are</i> also in deed when we are present."}, {"pk": 2728131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "For we do not presume to count ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."}, {"pk": 2728132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "But we shall not boast beyond measure, but within the measure of the limits Elohim assigned unto us, to reach even to you."}, {"pk": 2728133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we also came to you with the Good News of the Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "not boasting beyond measure in the labours of others, but having an expectation, that as your belief grows, we shall be greatly enlarged by you, according to our limits,"}, {"pk": 2728135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "to bring the Good News in the parts beyond you \u2014 not to boast in another\u2019s limits in what has been accomplished."}, {"pk": 2728136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "But <i>\u201cHe who boasts, let him boast in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/9/24'>9:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2728137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Master commends."}, {"pk": 2728138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "I wish that you would bear with me in a little folly. But indeed, you are bearing with me."}, {"pk": 2728139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "For I am jealous for you with a jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband, to present you as an innocent maiden to Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived H\u0323awwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough!", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/5'>24:5</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/23'>24:23</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/24/24'>24</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/43'>5:43</a>"}, {"pk": 2728142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "For I reckon that I am not inferior to the most eminent emissaries."}, {"pk": 2728143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "But even if I am unskilled in word, yet not in knowledge; but, in every way we have been manifested among you in all <i>matters</i>.", "comment": "Or <em>speech</em>."}, {"pk": 2728144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "Or did I commit sin in humbling myself in order to exalt you, because I brought good news, the Good News of Elohim to you without being paid?"}, {"pk": 2728145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages <i>from them</i> to serve you."}, {"pk": 2728146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "And when I was present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for what was lacking to me the brothers who came from Makedonia supplied. And in every way I kept myself \u2014 and shall keep \u2014 from being a burden to you."}, {"pk": 2728147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "It is a truth of Messiah in me, that this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the districts of Achaia."}, {"pk": 2728148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "Why? Is it that I do not love you? Elohim knows!"}, {"pk": 2728149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And I shall go on doing as I do, in order to cut off the occasion from those desiring an occasion, so that in that which they boast, they might be found also as we are."}, {"pk": 2728150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light!"}, {"pk": 2728152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works!", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/15-23'>7:15-23</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/1-22'>2:1-22</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/41'>13:41</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/13/42'>42</a>"}, {"pk": 2728153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little."}, {"pk": 2728154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting."}, {"pk": 2728155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "Since many boast according to the flesh, I too shall boast."}, {"pk": 2728156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "For you, being wise, put up with fools gladly!"}, {"pk": 2728157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face."}, {"pk": 2728158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "To <i>my</i> shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold \u2014 I say it in foolishness \u2014 I am bold also."}, {"pk": 2728159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they of Yisra\u2019\u0115l? So am I. Are they the seed of Ab\u0331raham? So am I."}, {"pk": 2728160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "Are they servants of Messiah? \u2014 I speak as beside myself \u2014 I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times."}, {"pk": 2728161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "Five times I received from the Yehud\u0331im forty stripes less one.", "comment": "See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/3'>25:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2728162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep,"}, {"pk": 2728163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "in many travels, in dangers of waters, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;"}, {"pk": 2728164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness,"}, {"pk": 2728165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "besides the <i>matters</i> from outside, what comes upon me daily: the anxiety for all the assemblies."}, {"pk": 2728166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn <i>inwardly</i>?"}, {"pk": 2728167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "If I have to boast, I shall boast of matters that show up my weakness."}, {"pk": 2728168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "The Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying."}, {"pk": 2728169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "In Dammeseq the governor, under Aretas the sovereign, was guarding the city of the Dammasqiyim, wishing to seize me,"}, {"pk": 2728170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "but through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped from his hands."}, {"pk": 2728171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "To boast, indeed, is useless for me, for I shall go on to visions and revelations of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2728172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "I know a man in Messiah who fourteen years ago \u2014 whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, Elohim knows \u2014 such a one was caught up to the third heaven."}, {"pk": 2728173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And I know such a man \u2014 whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, Elohim knows \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not right for a man to speak.", "comment": "Lit. garden."}, {"pk": 2728175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "Of such a one I shall boast, but of myself I shall not boast, except in my weaknesses."}, {"pk": 2728176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "For if I shall wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think more of me than what he sees in me, or hears of me."}, {"pk": 2728177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And to keep me from exalting myself because of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to hit me, to keep me from exalting myself."}, {"pk": 2728178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me."}, {"pk": 2728179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cMy favour is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.\u201d Most gladly, then, I shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Messiah rests on me."}, {"pk": 2728180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Messiah. For when I am weak, then I am strong."}, {"pk": 2728181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "I have become a fool \u2014 you have compelled me. For I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I behind the most eminent emissaries, though I am a nobody."}, {"pk": 2728182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "Indeed, the signs of an emissary were wrought among you with all endurance, in signs and wonders and powers."}, {"pk": 2728183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "For what is there in which you were inferior to other assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!"}, {"pk": 2728184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "See, I am ready to come to you for the third time. And I shall not be a burden to you, for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children should not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children."}, {"pk": 2728185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And I shall most gladly spend and be spent for your lives. If I love you more and more, am I to be loved less?"}, {"pk": 2728186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "But be it so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, did I catch you with guile?"}, {"pk": 2728187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?"}, {"pk": 2728188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "I urged Titos, and sent our brother with him. Did Titos take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit \u2014 not in the same steps?"}, {"pk": 2728189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before Elohim in Messiah. But all this, beloved, is for your upbuilding."}, {"pk": 2728190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "For I fear lest, when I come, I do not find you such as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish \u2014 lest there be strife, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, puffings up, unrests,"}, {"pk": 2728191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "and lest, when I come again, my Elohim should humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, and whoring, and indecency which they have practised."}, {"pk": 2728192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "This is the third time I am coming to you. <i>\u201cBy the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/19/15'>19:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2728193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "I have previously said, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I shall not spare,"}, {"pk": 2728194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "since you are seeking for proof of Messiah speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you."}, {"pk": 2728195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "For though He was impaled in weakness, yet He lives by the power of Elohim. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of Elohim toward you."}, {"pk": 2728196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "Examine yourselves whether you are in the belief \u2014 prove yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah is in you, unless you are disapproved.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/10'>8:10</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/2/20'>2:20</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/3/17'>3:17</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/27'>1:27</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And I trust that you shall know that we are not disapproved."}, {"pk": 2728198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And we pray to Elohim that you do no evil at all \u2014 not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is right, even though we should appear unapproved."}, {"pk": 2728199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "For we have no power at all against the truth, but for the truth."}, {"pk": 2728200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray for: your perfection.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2728201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "For this reason I write this in my absence, so that, being present I should not use sharpness, according to the authority which the Master has given me for upbuilding and not for overthrowing."}, {"pk": 2728202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "For the rest, brothers, rejoice. Be made perfect, be encouraged, be of one mind, live in peace. And the Elohim of love and peace shall be with you.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/13/9'>13:9</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2728203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "Greet one another with a set-apart kiss."}, {"pk": 2728204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "All the set-apart ones greet you."}, {"pk": 2728205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 47, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "The favour of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and the love of Elohim, and the fellowship of the Set-apart Spirit be with all of you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary \u2014 not from men, nor by a man, but by \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah and Elohim the Father who raised Him from the dead \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:"}, {"pk": 2728208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim the Father and our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "who gave Himself for our sins, to deliver us out of this present wicked age, according to the desire of our Elohim and Father,"}, {"pk": 2728210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "to whom be the praise forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "I marvel that you are so readily turning away from Him who called you in the favour of Messiah, to a different \u2018Good News,\u2019", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/11/4'>11:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "which is not another, only there are some who are troubling you and wishing to pervert the Good News of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "However, even if we, or a messenger out of heaven, bring a \u2018Good News\u2019 to you beside what we announced to you, let him be accursed."}, {"pk": 2728214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone brings a \u2018Good News\u2019 to you beside what you have received, let him be accursed."}, {"pk": 2728215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "For do I now persuade men, or Elohim? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be a servant of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "And I make known to you, brothers, that the Good News announced by me is not according to man."}, {"pk": 2728217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "For you have heard of my former behaviour in Yehud\u0331aism, how intensely I persecuted the assembly of Elohim, and ravaged it."}, {"pk": 2728219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And I progressed in Yehud\u0331aism beyond many of my age in my race, being more exceedingly ardent for the traditions of my fathers."}, {"pk": 2728220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "But when it pleased Elohim, who separated me from my mother\u2019s womb and called me by His favour,"}, {"pk": 2728221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "to reveal His Son in me, that I might bring Him, the Good News, to the nations, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,"}, {"pk": 2728222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "neither did I go up to Yerushalayim, to those who were emissaries before me. But I went to Arab\u0331ia, and returned again to Dammeseq."}, {"pk": 2728223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "Then after three years I went up to Yerushalayim to learn from K\u0115pha, and remained with him for fifteen days."}, {"pk": 2728224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And I saw no other of the emissaries except Ya\u201baqob\u0331, the brother of the Master."}, {"pk": 2728225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "And what I write to you, see, before Elohim, I do not lie."}, {"pk": 2728226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "Then I went into the districts of Suria and of Kilikia."}, {"pk": 2728227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And I was <i>still</i> not known by sight to the assemblies of Yehud\u0331ah which were in Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "but they were hearing only that, \u201cThe one who once persecuted us now brings as Good News the belief which he once ravaged.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2728229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "So they were esteeming Elohim in me."}, {"pk": 2728230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Then after fourteen years I again went up to Yerushalayim, with Barnab\u0331a, taking Titos along too."}, {"pk": 2728231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And I went up by revelation, and laid before them that Good News which I proclaim among the nations, but separately to those who were esteemed, lest somehow I run, or had run, in vain."}, {"pk": 2728232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "But not even Titos who was with me, though a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised."}, {"pk": 2728233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "But as for the false brothers, sneakingly brought in, who sneaked in to spy out our freedom which we have in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 in order to enslave us,"}, {"pk": 2728234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "to these we did not yield in subjection, not even for an hour, so that the truth of the Good News remains with you."}, {"pk": 2728235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "But from those who were esteemed to be whatever \u2014 what they were, it makes no difference to me, Elohim shows no partiality \u2014 for those who were esteemed contributed naught to me."}, {"pk": 2728236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "But on the contrary, when they saw that the Good News to the uncircumcised had been entrusted to me, even as K\u0115pha to the circumcised \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "for He who worked in K\u0115pha to make him an emissary to the circumcised also worked in me for the nations."}, {"pk": 2728238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "So when Ya\u201baqob\u0331, K\u0115pha, and Yoh\u0323anan, who seemed to be supports, came to know the favour that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnab\u0331a the right hand of fellowship, in order that we <i>go</i> to the nations and they to the circumcised,"}, {"pk": 2728239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "only that we might remember the poor, which I myself was eager to do."}, {"pk": 2728240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And when K\u0115pha had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was at fault."}, {"pk": 2728241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "For before some came from Ya\u201baqob\u0331, he was eating with the nations, but when they came, he began to withdraw and separate himself, in fear of those of the circumcision."}, {"pk": 2728242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And the rest of the Yehud\u0331im joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnab\u0331a was led away by their hypocrisy."}, {"pk": 2728243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "But when I saw that they are not walking straight according to the truth of the Good News, I said to K\u0115pha before them all, \u201cIf you, being a Yehud\u0331i, live as the nations and not as the Yehud\u0331im, why do you compel nations to live as Yehud\u0331im?"}, {"pk": 2728244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cWe, Yehud\u0331im by nature, and not of the nations, sinners,"}, {"pk": 2728245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "knowing that a man is not declared right by works of Torah, but through belief in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, even we have believed in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, in order to be declared right by belief in Messiah and not by works of Torah, because by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right."}, {"pk": 2728246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cAnd if, while seeking to be declared right by Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Messiah then a servant of sin? Let it not be!"}, {"pk": 2728247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cFor if I rebuild what I <i>once</i> overthrew, I establish myself a transgressor."}, {"pk": 2728248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cFor through Torah I died to Torah, in order to live to Elohim.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/7/1'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2728249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cI have been impaled with Messiah, and I no longer live, but Messiah lives in me. And that which I now live in the flesh I live by belief in the Son of Elohim, who loved me and gave Himself for me.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/10'>8:10</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/6/16'>6:16</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/13/5'>13:5</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/3/17'>3:17</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/27'>1:27</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cI do not set aside the favour of Elohim, for if righteousness is through Torah, then Messiah died for naught.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2728251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "O senseless Galatians! Who has put you under a spell, not to obey the truth \u2014 before whose eyes \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah was clearly portrayed among you as impaled?"}, {"pk": 2728252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "This only I wish to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of Torah, or by the hearing of belief?"}, {"pk": 2728253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Are you so senseless? Having begun in the Spirit, do you now end in the flesh?"}, {"pk": 2728254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Have you suffered so much in vain \u2014 if indeed in vain?"}, {"pk": 2728255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Is He, then, who is supplying the Spirit to you and working miracles among you, doing it by works of Torah, or by hearing of belief?"}, {"pk": 2728256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Even so Ab\u0331raham <i>\u201cdid believe Elohim, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2728257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Know, then, that those who are of belief are sons of Ab\u0331raham."}, {"pk": 2728258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by belief, announced the Good News to Ab\u0331raham beforehand, saying, <i>\u201cAll the nations shall be blessed in you,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/3'>12:3</a><br>See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/18/18'>18:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "so that those who are of belief are blessed with Ab\u0331raham, the believer."}, {"pk": 2728260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "For as many as are of works of Torah are under the curse, for it has been written, <i>\u201cCursed is everyone who does not continue in all that has been written in the Book of the Torah, to do them.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/27/26'>27:26</a>"}, {"pk": 2728261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And that no one is declared right by Torah before Elohim is clear, for <i>\u201cThe righteous shall live by belief.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/2/4'>2:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And the Torah is not of belief, but <i>\u201cThe man who does them shall live by them.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/18/5'>18:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2728263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us \u2014 for it has been written, <i>\u201cCursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.\u201d</i> \u2014", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/21/23'>21:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2728264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "in order that the blessing of Ab\u0331raham might come upon the nations in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief."}, {"pk": 2728265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "Brothers, as a man I say it: a covenant, even though it is man\u2019s, yet if it is confirmed, no one sets it aside, or adds to it."}, {"pk": 2728266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "But the promises were spoken to Ab\u0331raham, and to his Seed. He does not say, \u201cAnd to seeds,\u201d as of many, but as of one, <i>\u201cAnd to your Seed,\u201d</i> who is Messiah.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/12/7'>12:7</a><br>See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/17/7'>17:7</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/18'>22:18</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/24/7'>24:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2728267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Now this I say, Torah, that came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously confirmed by Elohim in Messiah, so as to do away with the promise."}, {"pk": 2728268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "For if the inheritance is by Torah, it is no longer by promise, but Elohim gave it to Ab\u0331raham through a promise."}, {"pk": 2728269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Why, then, the Torah? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained through messengers in the hand of a mediator."}, {"pk": 2728270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "The Mediator, however, is not of one, but Elohim is one."}, {"pk": 2728271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "Is the Torah then against the promises of Elohim? Let it not be! For if a torah had been given that was able to make alive, truly righteousness would have been by Torah."}, {"pk": 2728272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "But the Scripture has shut up all <i>mankind</i> under sin, that the promise by belief in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah might be given to those who believe."}, {"pk": 2728273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "But before belief came, we were being guarded under Torah, having been shut up for the belief being about to be revealed."}, {"pk": 2728274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "Therefore the Torah became our trainer unto Messiah, in order to be declared right by belief."}, {"pk": 2728275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "And after belief has come, we are no longer under a trainer."}, {"pk": 2728276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 26, "text": "For you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 27, "text": "For as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 28, "text": "There is not Yehud\u0331i nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 3, "verse": 29, "text": "And if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Ab\u0331raham, and heirs according to promise."}, {"pk": 2728280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,"}, {"pk": 2728281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the father."}, {"pk": 2728282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved."}, {"pk": 2728283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "But when the completion of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under Torah,"}, {"pk": 2728284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "to redeem those who were under Torah, in order to receive the adoption as sons."}, {"pk": 2728285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, \u201cAbba, Father!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2728286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of Elohim through Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones."}, {"pk": 2728288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters, to which you wish to be enslaved again?", "comment": "See Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/4/3'>4:3</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/8'>2:8</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/20'>2:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2728289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "You closely observe days and months and seasons and years."}, {"pk": 2728290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain."}, {"pk": 2728291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Brothers, I beg you to become as I am, because I am as you are. You did not wrong me at all."}, {"pk": 2728292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before."}, {"pk": 2728293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me."}, {"pk": 2728295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "So then, have I become your enemy, speaking truth to you?"}, {"pk": 2728296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them."}, {"pk": 2728297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you."}, {"pk": 2728298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,"}, {"pk": 2728299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you."}, {"pk": 2728300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?"}, {"pk": 2728301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "For it has been written that Ab\u0331raham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman."}, {"pk": 2728302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise."}, {"pk": 2728303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Ha\u1e21ar,"}, {"pk": 2728304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "for this Ha\u1e21ar is Mount Sinai in Arab\u0331ia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children."}, {"pk": 2728305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all."}, {"pk": 2728306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "For it has been written, <i>\u201cRejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/54/1'>54:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "And we, brothers, as Yitsh\u0323aq was, are children of promise."}, {"pk": 2728308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "But, as he who was <i>born</i> according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now."}, {"pk": 2728309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "But what does the Scripture say? <i>\u201cCast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/21/10'>21:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2728310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman."}, {"pk": 2728311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery."}, {"pk": 2728312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "See, I, Sha\u2019ul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Messiah shall be of no use to you."}, {"pk": 2728313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And I witness again to every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the entire Torah."}, {"pk": 2728314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "You who are declared right by Torah have severed yourselves from Messiah, you have fallen from favour."}, {"pk": 2728315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "For we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of righteousness."}, {"pk": 2728316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "For in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love."}, {"pk": 2728317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "You were running well, who held you back from obeying the truth?"}, {"pk": 2728318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "That persuasion does not come from Him who calls you."}, {"pk": 2728319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "A little leaven leavens all the lump."}, {"pk": 2728320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "I trust in you, in the Master, that you shall have no other mind. And he who is troubling you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is."}, {"pk": 2728321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the stake has been set aside."}, {"pk": 2728322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "O that those who disturb you would even cut themselves off!"}, {"pk": 2728323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another."}, {"pk": 2728324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, <i>\u201cYou shall love your neighbour as yourself.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!"}, {"pk": 2728326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "And I say: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not accomplish the lust of the flesh."}, {"pk": 2728327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do."}, {"pk": 2728328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under Torah."}, {"pk": 2728329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "And the works of the flesh are well-known, which are <i>these</i>: adultery, whoring, uncleanness, indecency,", "comment": "Some manuscripts omit <em>adultery</em>."}, {"pk": 2728330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,"}, {"pk": 2728331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "envy, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and the like \u2014 of which I forewarn you, even as I also said before, that those who practise such as these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/6/10'>6:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2728332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness,"}, {"pk": 2728333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah."}, {"pk": 2728334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires."}, {"pk": 2728335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."}, {"pk": 2728337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too."}, {"pk": 2728338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "Bear one another\u2019s burdens, and so complete the Torah of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "For if anyone thinks himself to be somebody, when he is not, he deceives himself."}, {"pk": 2728340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "But let each one examine his own work, and then he shall have boasting in himself alone, and not in another."}, {"pk": 2728341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "For each one shall bear his own burden."}, {"pk": 2728342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And let him who is instructed in the Word share in all that is good, with him who is instructing."}, {"pk": 2728343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "Do not be led astray: Elohim is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap."}, {"pk": 2728344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "Because he who sows to his own flesh shall reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to the Spirit shall reap everlasting life from the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not grow weary."}, {"pk": 2728346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief."}, {"pk": 2728347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "See with what big letters I have written to you with my own hand!"}, {"pk": 2728348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "As many as wish to make a good show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they should not be persecuted for the stake of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "For those who are circumcised do not even watch over the Torah, but they wish to have you circumcised so that they might boast in your flesh."}, {"pk": 2728350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And for me, let it not be that I should boast except in the stake of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, through whom the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world."}, {"pk": 2728351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "For in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but a renewed creature.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/7/19'>7:19</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/26-29'>2:26-29</a> and 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/5/17'>5:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2728352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and compassion be upon them, and upon the Yisra\u2019\u0115l of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the scars of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 48, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah by the desire of Elohim, to the set-apart ones who are in Ephesos, and true to Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2:"}, {"pk": 2728356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be set-apart and blameless before Him, in love,", "comment": "See 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/13'>2:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2728359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "having previously ordained us to adoption as sons through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His desire,"}, {"pk": 2728360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "to the praise of the esteem of His favour with which He favoured us in the Beloved,"}, {"pk": 2728361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His favour,"}, {"pk": 2728362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "which He has lavished on us in all wisdom and insight,"}, {"pk": 2728363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "having made known to us the secret of His desire, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him,"}, {"pk": 2728364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "to administer at the completion of time, to gather together in one all in Messiah, both which are in the heavens and which are on earth, in Him,"}, {"pk": 2728365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being previously ordained according to the purpose of Him working all <i>matters</i> according to the counsel of His desire,"}, {"pk": 2728366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "for us to be the praise of His esteem \u2014 those having first trusted in Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your deliverance, in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Set-apart Spirit of promise,"}, {"pk": 2728368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "who is the pledge of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His esteem."}, {"pk": 2728369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "For this reason I too, having heard of your belief in the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and your love for all the set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2728370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,"}, {"pk": 2728371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "that the Elohim of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Father of esteem, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,"}, {"pk": 2728372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, so that you know what is the expectation of His calling, and what are the riches of the esteem of His inheritance in the set-apart ones,", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/24/45'>24:45</a>"}, {"pk": 2728373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who are believing, according to the working of His mighty strength,"}, {"pk": 2728374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "which He wrought in the Messiah when He raised Him from the dead and seated <i>Him</i> at His right hand in the heavenlies,"}, {"pk": 2728375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "far above all rule and authority and power and mastery, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come."}, {"pk": 2728376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "<i>And He put all under His feet,</i> and gave Him to be head over all, to the assembly,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/8/6'>8:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2728377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "which is His body, the completeness of Him who fills all in all."}, {"pk": 2728378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "And you were dead in trespasses and sins,", "comment": "See also Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/5'>2:5</a> as well as Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/8/22'>8:22</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/6'>8:6</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/13'>2:13</a>; 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/5/6'>5:6</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/14'>3:14</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/3/1'>3:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/6'>5:6</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2728380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "among whom also we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest."}, {"pk": 2728381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "But Elohim, who is rich in compassion, because of His great love with which He loved us,"}, {"pk": 2728382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Messiah \u2014 by favour you have been saved \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2728384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "in order to show in the coming ages the exceeding riches of His favour in kindness toward us in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "For by favour you have been saved, through belief, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "it is not by works, so that no one should boast."}, {"pk": 2728387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "For we are His workmanship, created in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 unto good works, which Elohim prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."}, {"pk": 2728388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore remember that you, once nations in the flesh, who are called \u2018the uncircumcision\u2019 by what is called \u2018the circumcision\u2019 made in the flesh by hands,", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/12/2'>12:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2728389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world."}, {"pk": 2728390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "But now in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "For He is our peace, who has made both one, and having broken down the partition of the barrier,"}, {"pk": 2728392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "having abolished in His flesh the enmity \u2014 the torah of the commands in dogma \u2014 so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,", "comment": "See Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/14'>2:14</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/20'>2:20</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/11/1-3'>11:1-3</a>"}, {"pk": 2728393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "and to completely restore to favour both of them unto Elohim in one body through the stake, having destroyed the enmity by it."}, {"pk": 2728394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And having come, He <i>brought as Good News peace to you who were far off, and peace to those near.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/57/19'>57:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2728395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Because through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/11/17-24'>11:17-24</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "having been built upon the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah Himself being chief corner-stone,"}, {"pk": 2728398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "in whom all the building, being joined together, grows into a set-apart Dwelling Place in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,"}, {"pk": 2728399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of Elohim in the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Because of this I, Sha\u2019ul, <i>am</i> the prisoner of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah on behalf of you nations \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "if indeed you have heard of the administration of the favour of Elohim that was given to me for you,"}, {"pk": 2728402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "that by revelation was made known to me the secret, as I wrote before briefly."}, {"pk": 2728403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "In reading this, then, you are able to understand my insight into the secret of Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His set-apart emissaries and prophets:"}, {"pk": 2728405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "The nations to be co-heirs, united in the same body, and partakers together in the promise in Messiah through the Good News,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/11/17-24'>11:17-24</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/14/1'>14:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "of which I became a servant according to the gift of the favour of Elohim given to me, according to the working of His power."}, {"pk": 2728407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "To me, the very least of all the set-apart ones, this favour was given, to bring the Good News of the unsearchable riches of Messiah among the nations,"}, {"pk": 2728408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "and to make all see how this secret is administered, which for ages past has been hidden in Elohim who created all through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/3'>1:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2728409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "so that now, through the assembly, the many-sided wisdom of Elohim might be known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies,"}, {"pk": 2728410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "according to the everlasting purpose which He made in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master,"}, {"pk": 2728411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "in whom we have boldness and access, with reliance, through belief in Him."}, {"pk": 2728412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "I pray therefore, that you do not lose heart at my pressures on your behalf, which is your esteem."}, {"pk": 2728413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "from whom all fatherhood in the heavens and earth is named,", "comment": "Or <em>lineage</em>, or <em>paternal descent</em>."}, {"pk": 2728415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "in order that He might give you, according to the riches of His esteem by power, to be strengthened in the inner man, through His Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2728416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "that the Messiah might dwell in your hearts through belief \u2014 having become rooted and grounded in love,", "comment": "See Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/2/20'>2:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2728417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "in order that you might be strengthened to firmly grasp, with all the set-apart ones, what is the width and length and depth and height,"}, {"pk": 2728418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "to know the love of Messiah which surpasses knowledge, in order that you might be filled to all the completeness of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "And to Him who is able to do exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,"}, {"pk": 2728420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "to Him be esteem in the assembly by Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 unto all generations, for ever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,"}, {"pk": 2728422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,"}, {"pk": 2728423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling,"}, {"pk": 2728425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "one Master, one belief, one immersion,"}, {"pk": 2728426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "one Elohim and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.", "comment": "See Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/32'>12:32</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/34'>12:34</a>; 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/8/6'>8:6</a>; 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/2/5'>2:5</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/29-34'>12:29-34</a>"}, {"pk": 2728427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "But to each one of us favour was given according to the measure of the gift of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "That is why it says, <i>\u201cWhen He went up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/68/18'>68:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "But what does \u201cHe went up\u201d mean, except that He also first went down into the lower parts of the earth?"}, {"pk": 2728430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "He who went down is also the One who went up far above all the heavens, to fill all."}, {"pk": 2728431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "And He Himself gave some as emissaries, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers"}, {"pk": 2728432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "for the perfecting of the set-apart ones, to the work of service to a building up of the body of the Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/6'>5:6</a>, also 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/10/5'>10:5</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/11/3-14'>11:3-14</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/1/6-9'>1:6-9</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/3/1-8'>3:1-8</a>; 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/4/2-4'>4:2-4</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/2-22'>2:2-22</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/1/10-19'>1:10-19</a>"}, {"pk": 2728435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love."}, {"pk": 2728437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the nations walk, in the futility of their mind,", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/12/2'>12:2</a> and Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/2'>10:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2728438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,"}, {"pk": 2728439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness."}, {"pk": 2728440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "But you have not so learned Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2:"}, {"pk": 2728442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "that you put off \u2014 with regard to your former behaviour \u2014 the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,"}, {"pk": 2728443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,"}, {"pk": 2728444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 24, "text": "and that you put on the renewed man which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/1'>8:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 25, "text": "Therefore, having put off the false, <i>speak truth, each one with his neighbour,</i> for we are members of one another.", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/8/16'>8:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2728446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 26, "text": "<i>\u201cBe wroth, but do not sin.\u201d</i> Do not let the sun go down on your rage,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/4/4'>4:4</a><br>See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/24/15'>24:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2728447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 27, "text": "nor give place to the devil."}, {"pk": 2728448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 28, "text": "Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands what is good, so that he has <i>somewhat</i> to share with those in need."}, {"pk": 2728449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 29, "text": "Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers."}, {"pk": 2728450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 30, "text": "And do not grieve the Set-apart Spirit of Elohim, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."}, {"pk": 2728451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 31, "text": "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and displeasure, and uproar, and slander be put away from you, along with all evil."}, {"pk": 2728452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 4, "verse": 32, "text": "And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Become, then, imitators of Elohim as beloved children."}, {"pk": 2728454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And walk in love, as Messiah also has loved us, and gave Himself for us, a gift and an offering to Elohim for a sweet-smelling fragrance."}, {"pk": 2728455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "But whoring and all uncleanness, or greed of gain, let it not even be named among you, as is proper among set-apart ones \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving."}, {"pk": 2728457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "For this you know, that no one who whores, nor unclean one, nor one greedy of gain, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the reign of Messiah and Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these the wrath of Elohim comes upon the sons of disobedience.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/14'>4:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2728459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore do not become partakers with them."}, {"pk": 2728460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "For you were once darkness, but now <i>you are</i> light in the Master. Walk as children of light \u2014", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/2'>2:2</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/18'>4:18</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/3/7'>3:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2728461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth \u2014", "comment": "See Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/1/11'>1:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2728462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "proving what is well-pleasing to the Master."}, {"pk": 2728463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And have no fellowship with the fruitless works of darkness, but rather convict them."}, {"pk": 2728464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For it is a shame even to speak of what is done by them in secret."}, {"pk": 2728465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "But all <i>matters</i> being convicted are manifested by the light, for whatever is manifested is light.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/16/8'>16:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2728466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "That is why He says, <i>\u201cWake up, you who sleep,</i> and arise from the dead, and Messiah shall shine on you.\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/19'>26:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2728467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "See then that you walk exactly, not as unwise, but as wise,"}, {"pk": 2728468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "redeeming the time, because the days are wicked."}, {"pk": 2728469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "So then do not be foolish, but understand what the desire of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is."}, {"pk": 2728470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And do not be drunk with wine, in which is loose behaviour, but be filled with the Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2728471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "speaking to each other in psalms and songs of praise and spiritual songs, singing and striking the strings in your heart to the Master,"}, {"pk": 2728472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "giving thanks always for all to Elohim the Father, in the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "subjecting yourselves to each other in the fear of Elohim.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/20'>20:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2728474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master."}, {"pk": 2728475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "Because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Saviour of the body."}, {"pk": 2728476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every respect."}, {"pk": 2728477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,"}, {"pk": 2728478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/19/8'>19:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/66/19/9'>9</a>"}, {"pk": 2728479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "in order to present it to Himself a splendid assembly, not having spot or wrinkle or any of this sort, but that it might be set-apart and blameless."}, {"pk": 2728480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "In this way husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."}, {"pk": 2728481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 29, "text": "For no one ever hated his own flesh, but feeds and cherishes it, as also the Master does the assembly."}, {"pk": 2728482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 30, "text": "Because we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."}, {"pk": 2728483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 31, "text": "<i>\u201cFor this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2728484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 32, "text": "This secret is great, but I speak concerning Messiah and the assembly."}, {"pk": 2728485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 5, "verse": 33, "text": "However, you too, everyone, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fears her husband."}, {"pk": 2728486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Children, obey your parents in the Master, for this is right."}, {"pk": 2728487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>\u201cRespect your father and mother,\u201d</i> which is the first command with promise,"}, {"pk": 2728488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "<i>in order that it might be well with you, and you might live long on the earth.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/12'>20:12</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/5/16'>5:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2728489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And you, fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Master."}, {"pk": 2728490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Messiah;"}, {"pk": 2728491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of Messiah, doing the desire of Elohim from the inner self,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/16-23'>6:16-23</a>"}, {"pk": 2728492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "rendering service with pleasure, as to the Master, and not to men,"}, {"pk": 2728493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "knowing that whatever good anyone does, he shall receive the same from the Master, whether he is slave or free."}, {"pk": 2728494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And, masters, do the same to them, refrain from threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in the heavens, and there is no partiality with Him."}, {"pk": 2728495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "For the rest, my brothers, be strong in the Master and in the mightiness of His strength."}, {"pk": 2728496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil."}, {"pk": 2728497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual <i>matters</i> of wickedness in the heavenlies."}, {"pk": 2728498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "Because of this, take up the complete armour of Elohim, so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day, and having done all, to stand."}, {"pk": 2728499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "Stand, then, <i>having girded your waist with truth,</i> and having <i>put on the breastplate of righteousness,</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/5'>11:5</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/17'>59:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2728500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "and having fitted your <i>feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/52/7'>52:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2728501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one."}, {"pk": 2728502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "Take also the <i>helmet of deliverance,</i> and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/17'>59:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2728503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;"}, {"pk": 2728504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak."}, {"pk": 2728506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "Now, in order that you also might know about me, how I am doing, Tuchikos, a beloved brother and trustworthy servant in the Master, shall make all <i>matters</i> known to you,"}, {"pk": 2728507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 22, "text": "whom I did send to you for this same purpose, so that you know about us, and might encourage your hearts."}, {"pk": 2728508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 23, "text": "Peace to the brothers, and love, with belief, from Elohim the Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 49, "chapter": 6, "verse": 24, "text": "Favour be with all those who love our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, undecayingly! Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul and Timotiyos, servants of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to all the set-apart ones in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who are in Philippi, with the overseers and attendants:"}, {"pk": 2728511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "I thank my Elohim in all my remembrance of you."}, {"pk": 2728513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy,"}, {"pk": 2728514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "for your fellowship in the Good News from the first day until now,"}, {"pk": 2728515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "being persuaded of this, that He who has begun a good work in you shall perfect it until the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2728516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "It is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, all of you being sharers of the favour with me, both in my chains and in the defence and confirmation of the Good News."}, {"pk": 2728517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "For Elohim is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,"}, {"pk": 2728519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "for you to examine the <i>matters</i> that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "being filled with the fruit of righteousness, through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to the esteem and praise of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/3/8-10'>3:8-10</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/22'>6:22</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/14/17'>14:17</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/9/10'>9:10</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/9'>5:9</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/5/22'>5:22</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/10'>1:10</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/12/11'>12:11</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/3/18'>3:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2728521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And I wish you to know, brothers, that what has befallen me has turned out for the advancement of the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "so that it has become known to all the palace guard, and to all the rest, that my chains are in Messiah;"}, {"pk": 2728523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "and most of the brothers, trusting in the Master because of my chains, are much more bold to fearlessly speak the word."}, {"pk": 2728524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Some indeed proclaim Messiah even from envy and strife, but some also out of pleasure \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "the former announce Messiah from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to add distress to my chains,"}, {"pk": 2728526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defence of the Good News."}, {"pk": 2728527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Messiah is announced. And in this I rejoice, in fact, I shall rejoice."}, {"pk": 2728528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "For I know that this shall turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,", "comment": "See Job <a href='/TS2009/18/13/16'>13:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2728529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "according to my intense longing and anticipation that I shall not be ashamed at all, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Messiah shall be made great in my body, whether by life or by death."}, {"pk": 2728530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "For to me, to live is Messiah, and to die is gain."}, {"pk": 2728531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And if to live in the flesh is to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I do not know."}, {"pk": 2728532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "For I am pressed down by the two, having a desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is much better,"}, {"pk": 2728533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "but to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake."}, {"pk": 2728534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "And being persuaded of this, I know that I shall stay and continue with you all, for your progress and joy of belief,"}, {"pk": 2728535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "so that your boasting might overflow in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah on account of me, through my coming to you again."}, {"pk": 2728536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "Only, behave yourselves worthily of the Good News of Messiah, in order that whether I come and see you or am absent, I hear about you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one being, striving together for the belief of the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "without being frightened in any way by those who oppose, which to them truly is a proof of destruction, but to you of deliverance, and that from Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "Because to you it has been given as a favour, on behalf of Messiah, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,"}, {"pk": 2728539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 1, "verse": 30, "text": "having the same struggle which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me."}, {"pk": 2728540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "If, then, there is any encouragement in Messiah, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any affection and compassion,"}, {"pk": 2728541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, one in being and of purpose,"}, {"pk": 2728542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."}, {"pk": 2728543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Each one should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others."}, {"pk": 2728544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For, let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2728545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "who, being in the form of Elohim, did not regard equality with Elohim a matter to be grasped,"}, {"pk": 2728546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, and came to be in the likeness of men."}, {"pk": 2728547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, death even of a stake."}, {"pk": 2728548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,"}, {"pk": 2728549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "that at the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 <i>every knee should bow,</i> of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,"}, {"pk": 2728550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "and <i>every tongue should confess</i> that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/45/23'>45:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2728551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "So that, my beloved, as you always obeyed \u2014 not only in my presence, but now much rather in my absence \u2014 work out your own deliverance with <i>fear and trembling,</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/11'>2:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2728552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for <i>his</i> good pleasure."}, {"pk": 2728553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Do all <i>matters</i> without grumblings and disputings,"}, {"pk": 2728554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "in order that you be blameless and faultless, children of Elohim without blemish in the midst of a <i>crooked and perverse generation,</i> among whom you shine as lights in the world,", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/5'>32:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2728555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "holding on to the Word of life, for a boast to me in the day of Messiah, that I have not run in vain or laboured in vain."}, {"pk": 2728556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "In fact, even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the offering and service of your belief, I am glad and rejoice with you all."}, {"pk": 2728557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "So you too should be glad and rejoice with me."}, {"pk": 2728558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "But I trust in the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 to send Timotiyos to you shortly, so that I too am encouraged by news from you."}, {"pk": 2728559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "For I have no one else of the same mind, who takes a genuine interest in your welfare."}, {"pk": 2728560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "For all seek their own <i>interests</i>, not those of Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "But you know he has proven himself, that as a son with his father he served with me for the Good News."}, {"pk": 2728562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "So I expect to send him as soon as I see how it goes with me,"}, {"pk": 2728563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "and I trust in the Master that I myself shall also come shortly."}, {"pk": 2728564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditos, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and your emissary and servant to my need,"}, {"pk": 2728565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "since he was longing for you all, and being troubled because you had heard that he was sick."}, {"pk": 2728566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "For indeed he was sick, near to death, but Elohim had compassion on him, and not only on him but on me as well, lest I should have sadness upon sadness."}, {"pk": 2728567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "Therefore I sent him more eagerly, so that on seeing him again you might rejoice, and I be less sad."}, {"pk": 2728568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "Receive him therefore in the Master with all joy, and hold such as he in esteem,"}, {"pk": 2728569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 2, "verse": 30, "text": "because for the work of Messiah he was near death, risking his life, to fill up what was lacking in your service toward me."}, {"pk": 2728570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "For the rest, my brothers, rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4. To write the same <i>matters</i> to you is truly no trouble to me, and for you it is safe."}, {"pk": 2728571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Look out for dogs, look out for the evil workers, look out for the mutilation!"}, {"pk": 2728572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For we are the circumcision, who are serving Elohim in the Spirit, and boasting in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and do not trust in the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2728573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "though I too might have trust in the flesh. If anyone else thinks to trust in the flesh, I more \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "circumcised the eighth day, of the race of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, of the tribe of Binyamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, according to Torah a Pharisee,"}, {"pk": 2728575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "according to ardour, persecuting the assembly; according to righteousness that is in the law, having become blameless."}, {"pk": 2728576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "But what might have been a gain to me, I have counted as loss, because of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "What is more, I even count all to be loss because of the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 my Master, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them as refuse, in order to gain Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through belief in Messiah, the righteousness which is from Elohim on the basis of belief,"}, {"pk": 2728579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,"}, {"pk": 2728580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "if somehow I might attain to the resurrection from the dead."}, {"pk": 2728581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Not that I have already received, or already been perfected, but I press on, to lay hold of that for which Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 has also laid hold of me."}, {"pk": 2728582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold of it yet, but only this: forgetting what is behind and reaching out for what lies ahead,"}, {"pk": 2728583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of Elohim in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "As many, then, as are perfect, should have this mind. And if you think differently in any respect, Elohim shall also reveal this to you."}, {"pk": 2728585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "But to what we have <i>already</i> attained \u2014 walk by the same rule, be of the same mind."}, {"pk": 2728586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "Become joint imitators of me, brothers, and look at those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern."}, {"pk": 2728587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "For many \u2014 of whom I have often told you, and now say to you even weeping \u2014 walk as enemies of the stake of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Their end is destruction, their mighty one is their stomach, and their esteem is in their shame \u2014 they mind the earthly."}, {"pk": 2728589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "For our citizenship is in the heavens, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "who shall change our lowly body, to be conformed to His esteemed body, according to the working by which He is able even to bring all under His control."}, {"pk": 2728591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "So then, my brothers, beloved and longed-for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Master, beloved."}, {"pk": 2728592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Suntuche to be of the same mind in the Master."}, {"pk": 2728593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And I also ask you, true companion, help these women who laboured with me in the Good News, with Qlemes also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life."}, {"pk": 2728594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Rejoice in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 always, again I say, rejoice!"}, {"pk": 2728595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Master is near."}, {"pk": 2728596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Do not worry at all, but in every <i>matter</i>, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "For the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is righteous, whatever is clean, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, if there is any uprightness and if there is any praise \u2014 think on these."}, {"pk": 2728599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And what you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, practise these, and the Elohim of peace shall be with you."}, {"pk": 2728600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "And I rejoiced in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 greatly that now at last your concern for me has revived again \u2014 though you were concerned, but had no chance."}, {"pk": 2728601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Not that I speak concerning need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am."}, {"pk": 2728602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "I know what it is to be humbled, and I know what it is to have in excess. In any and every <i>situation</i> I have learned both to be filled, and to be hungry, both to have in excess, and to be in need."}, {"pk": 2728603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "I have strength to do all, through Messiah who empowers me.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/5'>15:5</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/3/5'>3:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/47/3/6'>6</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/12/9'>12:9</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/3/20'>3:20</a>; Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/2/13'>2:13</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/13/20'>13:20</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/13/21'>21</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Yet you did well in sharing in my pressure."}, {"pk": 2728605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "And you know too, Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I went out from Makedonia, no assembly shared with me concerning giving and receiving, except you only,"}, {"pk": 2728606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "because, even in Thessalonike you sent to my need, once and twice."}, {"pk": 2728607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that is multiplying to your account."}, {"pk": 2728608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "Indeed I have all and more than enough. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditos what you sent, a <i>sweet-smelling fragrance,</i> an acceptable offering, well-pleasing to Elohim.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/29/18'>29:18</a><br>See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/2/14'>2:14</a>, <a href='/TS2009/47/2/15'>15</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/2'>5:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2728609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "And my Elohim shall fill all your need according to His riches in esteem by Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "And to our Elohim and Father be esteem forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Greet every set-apart one in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. The brothers with me greet you."}, {"pk": 2728612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "All the set-apart ones greet you, but most of all those of Caesar\u2019s household."}, {"pk": 2728613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 50, "chapter": 4, "verse": 23, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah by the desire of Elohim, and Timotiyos our brother,"}, {"pk": 2728615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "to the set-apart ones in Colosse, and true brothers in Messiah: Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "We give thanks to the Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, praying always for you,"}, {"pk": 2728617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "having heard of your belief in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and of your love for all the set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2728618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "because of the expectation that is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "which has come to you, as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, as also among you, since the day you heard and knew the favour of Elohim in truth,"}, {"pk": 2728620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "as you also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a true servant of Messiah on your behalf,"}, {"pk": 2728621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "who also declared to us your love in the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "That is also why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you, and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His desire in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,"}, {"pk": 2728623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "to walk worthily of the Master, pleasing all, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "being empowered with all power, according to the might of His esteem, for all endurance and patience with joy,"}, {"pk": 2728625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit to share in the inheritance of the set-apart ones in the light,"}, {"pk": 2728626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the reign of the Son of His love,", "comment": "See Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/11/35'>11:35</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/12'>8:12</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/46-50'>12:46-50</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/26/18'>26:18</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/8'>5:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2728627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,"}, {"pk": 2728628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim, the first-born of all creation.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/1/6'>1:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/3/14'>3:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2728629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Because in Him were created all that are in the heavens and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or rulerships or principalities or authorities \u2014 all have been created through Him and for Him.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/3'>1:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2728630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And He is before all, and in Him all hold together."}, {"pk": 2728631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that He might become the One who is first in all."}, {"pk": 2728632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "Because in Him all the completeness was well pleased to dwell,"}, {"pk": 2728633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "and through Him to completely restore to favour all unto Himself, whether on earth or in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of His stake."}, {"pk": 2728634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "And you, who once were estranged and enemies in the mind by wicked works, but now He has completely restored to favour"}, {"pk": 2728635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "in the body of His flesh through death, to present you set-apart, and blameless, and unreprovable before Him,"}, {"pk": 2728636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "if indeed you continue in the belief, founded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the expectation of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed to every creature under the heaven, of which I, Sha\u2019ul, became a servant,"}, {"pk": 2728637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Messiah\u2019s afflictions, for the sake of His Body, which is the assembly,"}, {"pk": 2728638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "of which I became a servant according to the administration of Elohim which was given to me for you, to fill the word of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "the secret which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2728640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "to whom Elohim desired to make known what are the riches of the esteem of this secret among the nations: which is Messiah in you, the expectancy of esteem,"}, {"pk": 2728641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 28, "text": "whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, in order to present every man perfect in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2728642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 1, "verse": 29, "text": "for which I also labour, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power."}, {"pk": 2728643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "For I wish you to know what a great struggle I have for you and those in Laodikeia, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2728644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "in order that their hearts might be encouraged, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the entire confirmation of understanding, to a true knowledge of the secret of Elohim, and of the Father, and of the Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/2'>11:2</a>; Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/9'>2:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2728646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "And this I say, so that no one deceives you with enticing words."}, {"pk": 2728647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your belief in Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Therefore, as you accepted Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Master, walk in Him,"}, {"pk": 2728649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "having been rooted and built up in Him, and established in the belief, as you were taught, overflowing in it with thanksgiving."}, {"pk": 2728650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "See to it that no one makes a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary matters of the world, and not according to Messiah.", "comment": "See Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/20'>1:20</a> and Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/4/3'>4:3</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/4/9'>4:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2728651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Because in Him dwells all the completeness of Elohim-ness bodily,"}, {"pk": 2728652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "and you have been made complete in Him, who is the Head of all principality and authority."}, {"pk": 2728653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "having been buried with Him in immersion, in which you also were raised with Him through the belief in the working of Elohim, who raised Him from the dead."}, {"pk": 2728655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/1'>2:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "having blotted out that which was written by hand against us \u2014 by the dogmas \u2014 which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake.", "comment": "Dogmas - also see Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/20'>2:20</a> and Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/15'>2:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2728657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it."}, {"pk": 2728658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "which are a shadow of what is to come \u2014 but the Body of the Messiah.", "comment": "The Body of Messiah is to give ruling on all matters, not the outsiders! See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/18/15-20'>18:15-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2728660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,"}, {"pk": 2728661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body \u2014 nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments \u2014 grows with the growth of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary matters of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to dogmas:", "comment": "See Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/8'>2:8</a> and Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/4/3'>4:3</a>; Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/4/9'>4:9</a><br>Dogmas - also see Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/2/14'>2:14</a> and Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/15'>2:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2728663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cDo not touch, do not taste, do not handle\u201d \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "which are all to perish with use \u2014 according to the <i>commands and teachings of men?</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/29/13'>29:13</a><br>See also Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/15/8'>15:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/40/15/9'>9</a> Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/7/6'>7:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/41/7/7'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2728665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed worship, humiliation and harsh treatment of the body \u2014 of no value at all, <i>only</i> for satisfaction of the flesh."}, {"pk": 2728666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "If, then, you were raised with Messiah, seek the <i>matters</i> which are above, where Messiah is, <i>seated at the right hand of Elohim.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2728667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Mind the <i>matters</i> above, not those on the earth."}, {"pk": 2728668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For you have died, and your life has been hidden with Messiah in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "When the Messiah, who is our life, is manifested, then you also shall be manifested with Him in esteem."}, {"pk": 2728670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry."}, {"pk": 2728671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Because of these the wrath of Elohim is coming upon the sons of disobedience,", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/2'>2:2</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/5/6'>5:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2728672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "in which you also once walked when you lived in them."}, {"pk": 2728673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "But now, also put off all these: displeasure, wrath, evil, blasphemy, filthy talk from your mouth."}, {"pk": 2728674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not lie to each other, since you have put off the old man with his practices,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/6'>6:6</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/22'>4:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2728675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "and have put on the new one who is renewed in knowledge according to the likeness of Him who created him,"}, {"pk": 2728676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "where there is not Greek and Yehud\u0331i, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, Scythian, slave, free, but Messiah is all, and in all."}, {"pk": 2728677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Therefore, as chosen ones of Elohim, set-apart and beloved, put on compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, patience,"}, {"pk": 2728678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "bearing with one another, and forgiving each other if anyone has a complaint against another, indeed, as Messiah forgave you so also should you."}, {"pk": 2728679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But above all these <i>put on</i> love, which is a bond of the perfection."}, {"pk": 2728680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "And let the peace of Elohim rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one Body, and be filled with thanks."}, {"pk": 2728681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "Let the Word of Messiah dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing with pleasure in your hearts to the Master in psalms and songs of praise and spiritual songs.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/48'>12:48</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/18/19'>18:19</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/19/13'>19:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2728682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And whatever you do in word or deed, <i>do</i> all in the Name of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, giving thanks to Elohim the Father through Him."}, {"pk": 2728683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is proper in the Master."}, {"pk": 2728684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them."}, {"pk": 2728685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "Children, obey your parents in all, for this is well-pleasing to the Master."}, {"pk": 2728686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged."}, {"pk": 2728687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh in all respects, not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Master and not to men,"}, {"pk": 2728689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "knowing that from the Master you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Master, Messiah, you serve."}, {"pk": 2728690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 3, "verse": 25, "text": "But he who does wrong shall be repaid for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality."}, {"pk": 2728691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Masters, give your servants what is righteous and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2728692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Continue in prayer, watching therein, with thanksgiving,"}, {"pk": 2728693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "praying at the same time also for us, that Elohim would open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of Messiah, for which I am also in chains,"}, {"pk": 2728694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "so that I make it clear, as I should speak."}, {"pk": 2728695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time."}, {"pk": 2728696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Let your word always be with favour, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you ought to answer each one."}, {"pk": 2728697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Tuchikos, who is a beloved brother, a true servant, and a fellow servant in the Master, shall give you all the news about me."}, {"pk": 2728698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "I am sending him to you for this purpose, to know your circumstances and to encourage your hearts,"}, {"pk": 2728699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "with Onesimos, a true and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall let you know all the news here."}, {"pk": 2728700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Aristarchos my fellow prisoner greets you, with Marqos the relative of Barnab\u0331a about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him,"}, {"pk": 2728701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "also Y\u0115shua who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for the reign of Elohim who are of the circumcision, who were to me a comfort."}, {"pk": 2728702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Messiah, greets you, always wrestling for you in prayers, so that you stand perfect and complete in all the desire of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2728703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "For I bear him witness that he has a deep concern for you, and for those who are in Laodikeia and those in Hierapolis."}, {"pk": 2728704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Luqas the beloved physician and Demas greet you."}, {"pk": 2728705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Greet the brothers in Laodikeia, and Numpha and the assembly that is in his house."}, {"pk": 2728706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And when this letter is read among you, see that it is read also in the assembly of the Laodikeians, and that you likewise read the letter from Laodikeia."}, {"pk": 2728707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "And say to Archippos, \u201cSee to the service which you have received in the Master, so that you complete it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2728708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 51, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "This greeting is in my own hand \u2014 Sha\u2019ul. Remember my chains. Favour be with you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, and Silas, and Timotiyos, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in Elohim the Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah: Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "We give thanks to Elohim always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,"}, {"pk": 2728711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "remembering without ceasing your work of the belief, and the labour of love, and the endurance of the expectation in our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah in the presence of our Elohim and Father,"}, {"pk": 2728712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "knowing, brothers beloved by Elohim, that you were chosen."}, {"pk": 2728713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Because our Good News did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Set-apart Spirit and in entire confirmation, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake."}, {"pk": 2728714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And you became imitators of us and of the Master, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2728715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "so that you became an example to all who believe in Makedonia and Achaia."}, {"pk": 2728716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "For from you the word of the Master has sounded forth, not only in Makedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your belief toward Elohim has gone out, so that it is unnecessary for us to say whatever."}, {"pk": 2728717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "For they themselves report what kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to Elohim from idols, to serve the living and true Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who is delivering us from the wrath to come."}, {"pk": 2728719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain."}, {"pk": 2728720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "But having suffered before and having been mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our Elohim to speak to you the Good News of Elohim in much struggle."}, {"pk": 2728721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "For the appeal we make does not come from delusion, nor from uncleanness, nor from deceit."}, {"pk": 2728722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "But as we have been approved by Elohim to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but Elohim who proves our hearts."}, {"pk": 2728723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For we never came with a word of flattery, as you know, nor with a cloak for greed \u2014 Elohim is witness \u2014"}, {"pk": 2728724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "nor were we looking for praise from men, not from you nor from others, though we could have been a burden to you, as emissaries of Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "But we were gentle in your midst, like a nursing mother warmly loving her own children."}, {"pk": 2728726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "So, having a tender affection for you, we were well pleased to share with you not only the Good News of Elohim, but also our own lives, because you have become beloved to us."}, {"pk": 2728727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, for labouring night and day, in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Good News of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "You are witnesses, Elohim also, how set-apart and righteously and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe,"}, {"pk": 2728729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "even as you know how each one of you, as a father to his children, encouraging and comforting and bearing witness to you,"}, {"pk": 2728730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "that you would walk worthily of Elohim who is calling you into His own reign and esteem."}, {"pk": 2728731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And because of this we thank Elohim without ceasing, that when you received the Word of Elohim which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is truly, the Word of Elohim, which also works in you who believe.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/13/21'>13:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2728732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of Elohim which are in Yehud\u0331ah in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, because you also suffered the same <i>treatment</i> from your own countrymen as they also from the Yehud\u0331im,"}, {"pk": 2728733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "who killed both the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and their own prophets, and have persecuted us, and who displease Elohim and are hostile to all men,"}, {"pk": 2728734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, so as to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the utmost."}, {"pk": 2728735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "But we, brothers, having been taken away from you for a short while \u2014 in presence, not in heart \u2014 were much more eagerly trying to see your face, with much longing."}, {"pk": 2728736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "We would therefore have come to you, I indeed, Sha\u2019ul, more than once, but Satan hindered us."}, {"pk": 2728737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "For what is our expectation, or joy, or crown of boasting? Is it not even you, before our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah at His coming?"}, {"pk": 2728738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "For you are our esteem and joy."}, {"pk": 2728739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "So, when we could no longer stand it, we thought it good to be left in Athens alone,"}, {"pk": 2728740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "and sent Timotiyos, our brother and servant of Elohim, and our fellow worker in the Good News of Messiah, to establish you and encourage you concerning your belief,"}, {"pk": 2728741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "that no one should be unsettled by these pressures, for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this."}, {"pk": 2728742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "For indeed, we did inform you beforehand, when we were with you, that we would suffer pressure, and so it came to be, as you know."}, {"pk": 2728743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "Because of this, when I could no longer stand it, I sent to find out about your belief, lest the trying one might have tried you, and our labour should be in vain."}, {"pk": 2728744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "But now that Timotiyos has come to us from you, and having brought us good news of your belief and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, longing to see us, as we also <i>to see</i> you,"}, {"pk": 2728745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "therefore, brothers, in all our pressure and distress we were encouraged concerning you by your belief."}, {"pk": 2728746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Because we now live, if you stand fast in the Master."}, {"pk": 2728747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "For what thanks are we able to return to Elohim for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake in the presence of our Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "night and day praying exceedingly, to see your face and make complete what is lacking in your belief?"}, {"pk": 2728749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "And our Elohim and Father Himself, and our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, direct our way to you!"}, {"pk": 2728750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And the Master make you increase and overflow in love to each other and to all, as we also do to you,"}, {"pk": 2728751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "to establish your hearts blameless in set-apartness before our Elohim and Father at the coming of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah with all His set-apart ones!"}, {"pk": 2728752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "For the rest then, brothers, we beg you and call upon you in the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, that as you received from us how you should walk and to please Elohim, you should excel still more,"}, {"pk": 2728753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "for you know what commands we gave you through the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For this is the desire of Elohim: your set-apartness! \u2014 that you should abstain from whoring,"}, {"pk": 2728755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "that each one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in set-apartness and respect,"}, {"pk": 2728756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "not in passion of lust, like the nations who do not know Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "not to overstep and take advantage of his brother in this matter, because the Master is the revenger of all such, as we indeed said to you before and earnestly warned."}, {"pk": 2728758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "For Elohim did not call us to uncleanness, but in set-apartness."}, {"pk": 2728759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but Elohim, who also gives us His Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And it is not necessary to write to you about brotherly love, for you yourselves are taught by Elohim to love one another,"}, {"pk": 2728761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "for, in fact, you do so toward all the brothers who are in all Makedonia. But we call upon you, brothers, that you do so more and more,"}, {"pk": 2728762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "and to make it your ambition to live peaceably, and to attend to your own, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,"}, {"pk": 2728763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "so that you behave decently toward those who are outside, and not be in any need."}, {"pk": 2728764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sad as others who have no expectation."}, {"pk": 2728765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "For if we believe that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 died and rose again, so also Elohim shall bring with Him those who sleep in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.", "comment": "A euphemism for death."}, {"pk": 2728766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For this we say to you by the word of the Master, that we, the living who are left over at the coming of the Master shall in no way go before those who are asleep."}, {"pk": 2728767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Because the Master Himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a chief messenger, and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first."}, {"pk": 2728768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Then we, the living who are left over, shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air \u2014 and so we shall always be with the Master."}, {"pk": 2728769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "So, then, encourage one another with these words."}, {"pk": 2728770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to."}, {"pk": 2728771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "For you yourselves know very well that the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes as a thief in the night."}, {"pk": 2728772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For when they say, \u201cPeace and safety!\u201d then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape."}, {"pk": 2728773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief."}, {"pk": 2728774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness."}, {"pk": 2728775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "So, then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober."}, {"pk": 2728776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night."}, {"pk": 2728777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the <i>breastplate</i> of belief and love, and as <i>a helmet the expectation of deliverance.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/59/17'>59:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2728778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "who died for us, so that we, whether awake or asleep, should live together with Him."}, {"pk": 2728780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, as indeed you do."}, {"pk": 2728781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "But brothers, we beg you to know those who labour among you, and are over you in the Master and admonish you,"}, {"pk": 2728782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "and to hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves."}, {"pk": 2728783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And we appeal to you, brothers, warn those who are disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all."}, {"pk": 2728784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all."}, {"pk": 2728785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Rejoice always,"}, {"pk": 2728786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "pray without ceasing,"}, {"pk": 2728787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "in all <i>circumstances</i> give thanks, for this is the desire of Elohim in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 for you."}, {"pk": 2728788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "Do not quench the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2728789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Do not despise prophecies,"}, {"pk": 2728790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "prove them all. Hold fast what is good."}, {"pk": 2728791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "Keep back from every form of wickedness."}, {"pk": 2728792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "And the Elohim of peace Himself set you completely apart, and your entire spirit, and being, and body - be preserved blameless at the coming of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah!"}, {"pk": 2728793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "He who calls you is trustworthy, who also shall do it."}, {"pk": 2728794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "Brothers, pray for us."}, {"pk": 2728795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 26, "text": "Greet all the brothers with a set-apart kiss."}, {"pk": 2728796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 27, "text": "I charge you by the Master that this letter be read to all the set-apart brothers."}, {"pk": 2728797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 52, "chapter": 5, "verse": 28, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, and Silas, and Timotiyos, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah:"}, {"pk": 2728799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "We ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, as it is proper, because your belief grows exceedingly, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing,"}, {"pk": 2728801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "so that we ourselves boast of you among the assemblies of Elohim for your endurance and belief in all your persecutions and afflictions which you are bearing,"}, {"pk": 2728802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "clear evidence of the righteous judgment of Elohim, in order for you to be counted worthy of the reign of Elohim, for which you also suffer,"}, {"pk": 2728803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "since Elohim shall rightly repay with affliction those who afflict you,"}, {"pk": 2728804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "and to give you who are afflicted rest with us when the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is revealed from heaven with His mighty messengers,"}, {"pk": 2728805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know Elohim, and on those who do not obey the Good News of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2728806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Master and from the esteem of His strength,"}, {"pk": 2728807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "when He comes to be esteemed in His set-apart ones and to be admired among all those who believe in that Day, because our witness to you was believed."}, {"pk": 2728808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "To this end we always pray for you that our Elohim would count you worthy of this calling, and complete all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of belief with power,"}, {"pk": 2728809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "so that the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah is esteemed in you, and you in Him, according to the favour of our Elohim and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "As to the coming of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, brothers,"}, {"pk": 2728811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "not to become easily unsettled in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as if the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has come."}, {"pk": 2728812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Let no one deceive you in any way, because the falling away is to come first, and the man of lawlessness is to be revealed, the son of destruction,", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/11/36-39'>11:36-39</a>"}, {"pk": 2728813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is worshipped, so that he sits as Elohim in the Dwelling Place of Elohim, showing himself that he is Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Do you not remember that I told you this while I was still with you?"}, {"pk": 2728815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "And now you know what restrains, for him to be revealed in his time."}, {"pk": 2728816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "For the secret of lawlessness is already at work \u2014 only until he who now restrains comes out of the midst."}, {"pk": 2728817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "And then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master <i>shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth</i> and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/4'>11:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "The coming of the <i>lawless one</i> is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,"}, {"pk": 2728819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved."}, {"pk": 2728820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "And for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe the falsehood,", "comment": "See also John <a href='/TS2009/43/9/39'>9:39</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/12/40'>12:40</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/7/42'>7:42</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/1/24-28'>1:24-28</a>"}, {"pk": 2728821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "in order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but have delighted in the unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2728822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "But we ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, beloved by the Master, because Elohim from the beginning chose you to be saved \u2014 in set-apartness of Spirit, and belief in the truth", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/1/4'>1:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2728823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "unto which He called you by our Good News, for the obtaining of the esteem of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "So, then, brothers, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or by our letter."}, {"pk": 2728825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "And our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah Himself, and our Elohim and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good expectation, through favour,"}, {"pk": 2728826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work."}, {"pk": 2728827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "For the rest, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 spreads rapidly and be praised, as also with you,"}, {"pk": 2728828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "and that we might be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men, for not all have belief."}, {"pk": 2728829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "But the Master is trustworthy, who shall establish you and guard you from the wicked one."}, {"pk": 2728830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "And we trust in the Master as to you, both that you do and shall do what we command you."}, {"pk": 2728831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And the Master direct your hearts into the love of Elohim and into the endurance for Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "But we command you, brothers, in the Name of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which you received from us."}, {"pk": 2728833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, for we were not disorderly among you,"}, {"pk": 2728834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "nor did we eat anyone\u2019s bread without paying for it, but worked with labour and toil night and day, in order not to burden any of you,"}, {"pk": 2728835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example, for you to imitate us."}, {"pk": 2728836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone does not wish to work, neither let him eat."}, {"pk": 2728837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "For we hear of some among you walking disorderly, not working at all, but are busybodies."}, {"pk": 2728838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "But we command and urge such, through our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to settle down, work and eat their own bread."}, {"pk": 2728839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good."}, {"pk": 2728840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that one, and do not keep company with him, so that he is put to shame."}, {"pk": 2728841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "However, do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother."}, {"pk": 2728842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And the Master of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Master be with you all."}, {"pk": 2728843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "The greeting of Sha\u2019ul with my own hand, which is a sign in every letter, thus I write."}, {"pk": 2728844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 53, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, according to a command of Elohim our Saviour, and of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, our expectation,"}, {"pk": 2728846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "to Timotiyos, a genuine child in the belief: Favour, compassion, peace from Elohim our Father and \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Master."}, {"pk": 2728847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "As I appealed to you when I went into Makedonia, to remain in Ephesos, in order to command some not to teach differently,"}, {"pk": 2728848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "nor to pay attention to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than an administration of Elohim which is in belief."}, {"pk": 2728849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Now the goal of this command is love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and a sincere belief,"}, {"pk": 2728850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "which some, having missed <i>the goal</i>, turned aside to senseless talk,"}, {"pk": 2728851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "wishing to be teachers of Torah, understanding neither what they say nor concerning what they strongly affirm."}, {"pk": 2728852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "And we know that the Torah is good if one uses it legitimately,"}, {"pk": 2728853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "knowing this: that Torah is not laid down for a righteous being, but for the lawless and unruly, for the wicked and for sinners, for the wrong-doers and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,"}, {"pk": 2728854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "for those who whore, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else that is contrary to sound teaching,"}, {"pk": 2728855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "according to the esteemed Good News of the blessed Elohim which was entrusted to me."}, {"pk": 2728856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And I thank Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master who empowered me, because He counted me trustworthy, putting me into service,"}, {"pk": 2728857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "me, although I was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter. But compassion was shown me because being ignorant I did it in unbelief."}, {"pk": 2728858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And the favour of our Master was exceedingly increased, with belief and love which are in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Trustworthy is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost."}, {"pk": 2728860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "But because of this I received compassion, so that in me first, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah might display all patience, as an example to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2728861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Now to the Sovereign of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, to Elohim who alone is wise, be respect and esteem forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "This charge I entrust to you, son Timotiyos, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you might wage the good campaign,"}, {"pk": 2728863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "having belief and a good conscience, which some have thrust aside and suffered shipwreck concerning their belief."}, {"pk": 2728864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Among these are Humenaios and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, in order to be taught not to blaspheme."}, {"pk": 2728865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made for all men,"}, {"pk": 2728866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "for sovereigns and all those who are in authority, in order that we lead a calm and peaceable life in all reverence and seriousness."}, {"pk": 2728867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "For this is good and acceptable before Elohim our Saviour,"}, {"pk": 2728868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."}, {"pk": 2728869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For there is one Elohim, and one Mediator between Elohim and men, the Man Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/8/6'>8:6</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/6'>4:6</a>; Mark <a href='/TS2009/41/12/29-34'>12:29-34</a>"}, {"pk": 2728870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be witnessed in its own seasons,"}, {"pk": 2728871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an emissary \u2014 I am speaking the truth in Messiah and not lying \u2014 a teacher of the nations in belief and truth."}, {"pk": 2728872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "So I resolve that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hands that are set-apart, without wrath and disputing."}, {"pk": 2728873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Likewise, that the women dress themselves becomingly, with decency and sensibleness, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly garments,"}, {"pk": 2728874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "but with good works, which is becoming for women undertaking worship of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2728875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Let a woman learn in silence, in all subjection."}, {"pk": 2728876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "But I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, rather, to be in silence."}, {"pk": 2728877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Because Ad\u0331am was formed first, then H\u0323awwah."}, {"pk": 2728878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "And Ad\u0331am was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, fell into transgression."}, {"pk": 2728879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "But she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in belief, and love, and set-apartness, with sensibleness."}, {"pk": 2728880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Trustworthy is the word: If a man longs for the position of an overseer, he desires a good work."}, {"pk": 2728881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "An overseer, then, should be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, orderly, kind to strangers, able to teach,"}, {"pk": 2728882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of silver,", "comment": "Implying money."}, {"pk": 2728883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all reverence,"}, {"pk": 2728884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he look after the assembly of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2728885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Not a new convert, lest he become puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment of the devil."}, {"pk": 2728886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And he should even have a good witness from those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil."}, {"pk": 2728887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Likewise attendants are to be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for filthy gain,"}, {"pk": 2728888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "holding to the secret of the belief with a clean conscience."}, {"pk": 2728889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "And let these also be proved first, then let them serve, if they are unreprovable."}, {"pk": 2728890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Wives in the same way: reverent, not false accusers, sober, trustworthy in every way."}, {"pk": 2728891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Let attendants be the husbands of only one wife, ruling children and their own houses well."}, {"pk": 2728892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "For those who have served well as attendants gain good standing for themselves, and much boldness in the belief that is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "I am writing you this, expecting to come to you shortly,"}, {"pk": 2728894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "but if I delay, that you might know how you should behave in the House of Elohim, which is the assembly of the living Elohim \u2014 a <i>strong</i> support and foundation of the truth."}, {"pk": 2728895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "And, beyond all question, the secret of reverence is great \u2014 who was revealed in the flesh, declared right in Spirit, was seen by messengers, was proclaimed among nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in esteem."}, {"pk": 2728896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "But the Spirit distinctly says that in latter times some shall fall away from the belief, paying attention to misleading spirits, and teachings of demons,"}, {"pk": 2728897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been branded on their own conscience,"}, {"pk": 2728898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "forbidding to marry, <i>saying</i> to abstain from foods which Elohim created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth."}, {"pk": 2728899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Because every creature of Elohim is good, and none is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,"}, {"pk": 2728900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.", "comment": "See Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/11/1'>11</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/14/1'>14</a><br>See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/31'>10:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2728901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "If you present these <i>matters</i> to the brothers, you shall be a good servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, being nourished in the words of belief and of the good teaching which you have followed closely."}, {"pk": 2728902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "But refuse profane and old wives\u2019 fables, and exercise yourself rather to reverence."}, {"pk": 2728903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but reverence is profitable for all, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come."}, {"pk": 2728904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Trustworthy is the word, and worthy of all acceptance."}, {"pk": 2728905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "It is for this that we labour and struggle, because we trust in the living Elohim, who is the Saviour of all men, particularly of those who believe."}, {"pk": 2728906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Command and teach these <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2728907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in belief, in cleanliness."}, {"pk": 2728908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Until I come, give attention to reading <i>of Scripture</i>, to encouragement, to teaching."}, {"pk": 2728909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elderhood."}, {"pk": 2728910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Practise these <i>matters</i>, be in them, so that your progress might be plain to all."}, {"pk": 2728911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Pay attention to yourself and to the teaching. Continue in them, for in doing this you shall save both yourself and those who hear you."}, {"pk": 2728912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as a father, younger ones as brothers,"}, {"pk": 2728913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "elderly women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, in all cleanliness."}, {"pk": 2728914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "Respect widows who are truly widows."}, {"pk": 2728915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to treat their own house reverently, and to repay their parents. For this is good and acceptable before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2728916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in Elohim and continues in petitions and prayers night and day."}, {"pk": 2728917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives."}, {"pk": 2728918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And command these <i>matters</i>, in order for them to be blameless."}, {"pk": 2728919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the belief and is worse than an unbeliever."}, {"pk": 2728920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not enrol a widow unless she is over sixty years of age, having been the wife of one man,"}, {"pk": 2728921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "well reported for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the feet of the set-apart ones, if she has assisted the afflicted, if she has closely followed every good work."}, {"pk": 2728922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "But refuse the younger widows, for when they become headstrong against the Messiah, they desire to marry,"}, {"pk": 2728923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "having guilt because they set aside their first belief."}, {"pk": 2728924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Moreover, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, speaking what is improper."}, {"pk": 2728925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling."}, {"pk": 2728926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "For already some have turned aside after Satan."}, {"pk": 2728927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "If any believing man or woman has widows, let such assist them, and do not let the assembly be burdened, in order to assist those who are truly widows."}, {"pk": 2728928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double respect, especially those who labour in the word and teaching."}, {"pk": 2728929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "For the Scripture says, <i>\u201cYou shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,\u201d</i> and, <i>\u201cThe labourer is worthy of his wages.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/25/4'>25:4</a><br>Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/13'>19:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2728930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "Do not receive an accusation against an elder except <i>from two or three witnesses.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/6'>17:6</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/19/15'>19:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2728931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "Reprove those who are sinning, in the presence of all, so that the rest also might fear."}, {"pk": 2728932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "I earnestly witness before Elohim and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and the chosen messengers, that you watch over these <i>matters</i> without prejudice, doing none at all with partiality."}, {"pk": 2728933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 22, "text": "Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in sins of others. Keep yourself clean."}, {"pk": 2728934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 23, "text": "No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach\u2019s sake and your frequent ailments."}, {"pk": 2728935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 24, "text": "The sins of some men are obvious, leading on to judgment, but those of some men follow later."}, {"pk": 2728936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 5, "verse": 25, "text": "In the same way, the good works are obvious, while it is impossible to conceal those that are otherwise."}, {"pk": 2728937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Let those who are servants under a yoke regard their own masters worthy of all respect, lest the Name of Elohim and His teaching be blasphemed."}, {"pk": 2728938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And those who have believing masters, let them not disregard them because they are brothers, but rather serve them because they are believing and beloved ones, those receiving of the good service in return. Teach and urge these <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2728939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "If anyone teaches differently and does not agree to the sound words, those of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and to the teaching which is according to reverence,"}, {"pk": 2728940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "he is puffed up, understanding none at all, but is sick about questionings and verbal battles from which come envy, strife, slander, wicked suspicions,"}, {"pk": 2728941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "worthless disputes of men of corrupt minds and deprived of the truth, who think that reverence is a means of gain \u2014 withdraw from such."}, {"pk": 2728942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "But reverence with contentment is great gain."}, {"pk": 2728943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "For we brought naught into the world, and it is impossible to take any out."}, {"pk": 2728944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "When we have food and covering, we shall be satisfied with these."}, {"pk": 2728945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "But those wishing to be rich fall into trial and a snare, and into many foolish and injurious lusts which plunge men in ruin and destruction."}, {"pk": 2728946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "For the love of silver is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some, by longing for it, have strayed from the belief, and pierced themselves through with many pains.", "comment": "Implying money."}, {"pk": 2728947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "But you, O man of Elohim, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, reverence, belief, love, endurance, meekness."}, {"pk": 2728948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "Fight the good fight of the belief, lay hold on everlasting life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses."}, {"pk": 2728949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "In the sight of Elohim who gives life to all, and of Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you:"}, {"pk": 2728950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "that you guard the command spotlessly, blamelessly, until the appearing of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,", "comment": "Command (singular) often means commands, e.g. Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/20'>17:20</a> and Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/8'>19:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2728951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "which in His own seasons He shall reveal \u2014 the blessed and only Ruler, the Sovereign of sovereigns and Master of masters,"}, {"pk": 2728952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or is able to see, to whom be respect and everlasting might. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "Charge those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living Elohim, who gives us richly all for enjoyment,"}, {"pk": 2728954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, ready to share,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2728955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, so that they lay hold on everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2728956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "O Timotiyos! Watch over that which has been entrusted to you, turning aside from the profane and empty babblings and contradictions of the falsely called \u2018knowledge,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2728957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 54, "chapter": 6, "verse": 21, "text": "which some, having professed it, have missed <i>the goal</i> concerning the belief. Favour be with you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2728958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah by the desire of Elohim, according to the promise of life which is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2728959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "to Timotiyos, my beloved son: Favour, compassion, peace from Elohim the Father, and Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master."}, {"pk": 2728960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "I thank Elohim, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my forefathers did, as I unceasingly remember you in my prayers night and day,"}, {"pk": 2728961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "longing to see you, as I remember your tears, so that I might be filled with joy."}, {"pk": 2728962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "For I recollect the sincere belief which is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunike, and I am persuaded is in you too."}, {"pk": 2728963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "For this reason I remind you to stir up the gift of Elohim which is in you through the laying on of my hands."}, {"pk": 2728964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "For Elohim has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control."}, {"pk": 2728965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "So do not be ashamed of the witness of our Master, nor of me His prisoner, but suffer hardship with me for the Good News according to the power of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2728966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and favour which was given to us in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 before times of old,"}, {"pk": 2728967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "but now revealed by the appearing of our Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who indeed abolished death and brought life and incorruptibility to light through the Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "for which I was appointed a proclaimer, and an emissary, and a teacher of the nations."}, {"pk": 2728969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "For this reason I also suffer these matters, but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to watch over that which I have entrusted to Him until that Day."}, {"pk": 2728970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in belief and love which are in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Watch over the good deposit that was entrusted to you, by the Set-apart Spirit dwelling in us."}, {"pk": 2728972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "You know this, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phugellos and Hermogenes."}, {"pk": 2728973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "The Master grant compassion unto the household of Onesiphoros, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,"}, {"pk": 2728974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me."}, {"pk": 2728975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "The Master grant to him to find compassion from the Master in that Day. And you know very well how many ways he attended to me at Ephesos."}, {"pk": 2728976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "You then, my son, be strong in the favour that is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2728977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And what you have heard from me among many witnesses, entrust these to trustworthy men who shall be competent to teach others as well."}, {"pk": 2728978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "Suffer hardship with <i>us</i> as a good soldier of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2728979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "No one serving as a soldier gets involved in the affairs of this life, in order to please <i>only</i> him who enlisted him as a soldier."}, {"pk": 2728980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "And if anyone competes in a game, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules."}, {"pk": 2728981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "The hard-working farmer ought to be first to receive his share of the crops."}, {"pk": 2728982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Think over what I say, for the Master shall give you understanding into all this."}, {"pk": 2728983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "Remember that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, of the seed of Dawid\u0331, was raised from the dead according to my Good News,"}, {"pk": 2728984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "for which I suffer hardship, as a criminal, unto chains, but the Word of Elohim is not chained."}, {"pk": 2728985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "So I endure through it all for the sake of the chosen, so that they too obtain deliverance which is in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 with everlasting esteem."}, {"pk": 2728986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Trustworthy is the word: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him."}, {"pk": 2728987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny <i>Him</i>, He also shall deny us."}, {"pk": 2728988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "If we are not trustworthy, He remains trustworthy, it is impossible for Him to deny Himself."}, {"pk": 2728989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Remind them of this, earnestly witnessing before the Master, not to wage verbal battles \u2014 which is useless \u2014 to the overthrowing of the hearers."}, {"pk": 2728990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Do your utmost to present yourself approved to Elohim, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the Word of Truth."}, {"pk": 2728991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "But keep away from profane, empty babblings, for they go on to more wickedness,"}, {"pk": 2728992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "and their word shall eat its way like gangrene. Humenaios and Philetos are of this sort,"}, {"pk": 2728993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "who have missed <i>the goal</i> concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and overthrow the belief of some."}, {"pk": 2728994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "However, the solid foundation of Elohim stands firm, having this seal, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows those who are His,\u201d</i> and, let everyone who names the Name of Messiah turn away from unrighteousness.", "comment": "Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/16/5'>16:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2728995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "But in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some unto value and some unto no value."}, {"pk": 2728996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "If, then, anyone cleanses himself from these <i>matters</i>, he shall be a vessel unto value, having been set apart, of good use to the Master, having been prepared for every good work."}, {"pk": 2728997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "And flee from the lusts of youth, but pursue righteousness, belief, love, peace with those calling on the Master out of a clean heart."}, {"pk": 2728998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "But refuse foolish and stupid questions, knowing that they breed quarrels."}, {"pk": 2728999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "And a servant of the Master should not quarrel but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient when wronged,"}, {"pk": 2729000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "in meekness instructing those who are in opposition, lest somehow Elohim gives them repentance unto a thorough knowledge of the truth,"}, {"pk": 2729001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "and they come to their senses, out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his desire."}, {"pk": 2729002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "But know this, that in the last days hard times shall come."}, {"pk": 2729003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of silver, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, thankless, wrong-doers,", "comment": "Implying money."}, {"pk": 2729004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, haters of good,"}, {"pk": 2729005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "having a form of reverence but denying its power. And turn away from these!", "comment": "See 2Tim. <a href='/TS2009/55/3/13'>3:13</a> and also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/24/5'>24:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/24/6'>6</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/12'>24:12</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/1/30'>1:30</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/1/31'>31</a>; 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/3-11'>2:3-11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "For among them are those who creep into households and captivate silly women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,"}, {"pk": 2729008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."}, {"pk": 2729009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "And as Yoh\u0323ane and Mamr\u0115 opposed Mosheh, so do these also oppose the truth \u2014 men of corrupt minds, found worthless concerning the belief;"}, {"pk": 2729010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "but they shall not go on further, for their folly shall be obvious to all, as also that of those men became."}, {"pk": 2729011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "But you did closely follow my teaching, the way of life, the purpose, the belief, the patience, the love, the endurance,"}, {"pk": 2729012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "the persecutions, the sufferings, which came to me at Antioch, at Ikonion, <i>and</i> at Lustra \u2014 what persecutions I bore. Yet out of them all the Master delivered me."}, {"pk": 2729013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "And indeed, all those wishing to live reverently in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, shall be persecuted.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/10'>5:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "But evil men and impostors shall go on to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/24/12'>24:12</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/11'>22:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But you, stay in what you have learned and trusted, having known from whom you have learned,"}, {"pk": 2729016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "and that from a babe you have known the Set-apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for deliverance through belief in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2729017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "All Scripture is breathed out by Elohim and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness,"}, {"pk": 2729018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work."}, {"pk": 2729019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "In the sight of Elohim and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who shall judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His reign, I earnestly charge you:"}, {"pk": 2729020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "Proclaim the Word! Be urgent in season, out of season. Convict, warn, appeal, with all patience and teaching.", "comment": "Or: <em>confute</em>, or <em>prove them wrong</em>."}, {"pk": 2729021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear,", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/30/10'>30:10</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/5/31'>5:31</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/16/18'>16:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths."}, {"pk": 2729023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "But you be sober in all <i>matters</i>, suffer hardships, do the work of an evangelist, accomplish your service completely."}, {"pk": 2729024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "For I am already being poured out, and the time of my departure has arrived."}, {"pk": 2729025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have guarded the belief."}, {"pk": 2729026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "For the rest, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Master, the righteous Judge, shall give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all those loving His appearing."}, {"pk": 2729027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Do your best to come to me soon,"}, {"pk": 2729028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and went to Thessalonike, Crescens to Galatia, Titos to Dalmatia."}, {"pk": 2729029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Luqas alone is with me. Take Marqos and bring him with you, for he is of good use to me for service."}, {"pk": 2729030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "And Tuchikos I have sent to Ephesos."}, {"pk": 2729031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Bring the cloak that I left with Karpos at Troas when you come, and the books, especially the parchments."}, {"pk": 2729032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Alexander the coppersmith did many evils to me. The Master shall <i>repay him according to his works.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/28/4'>28:4</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/62/12'>62:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "You, too, beware of him, for he strongly opposed our words."}, {"pk": 2729034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "At my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me. Let it not be held against them."}, {"pk": 2729035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "But the Master stood with me and did strengthen me, so that through me the preaching might be completely accomplished, and that all the nations should hear. And I was <i>rescued out of the lion\u2019s mouth.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/21'>22:21</a>"}, {"pk": 2729036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "And the Master shall rescue me from every wicked work and save me for His heavenly reign. To Him be esteem forever and ever. Am\u0115n!"}, {"pk": 2729037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "Greet Prisca and Aqulas, and the house of Onesiphoros."}, {"pk": 2729038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "\u011arastos stayed in Corinth, but I left Trophimos sick in Miletos."}, {"pk": 2729039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "Do your best to come before winter. Eubulos greets you, and Pudes, and Linos, and Klaudia, and all the brothers."}, {"pk": 2729040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 55, "chapter": 4, "verse": 22, "text": "The Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with your spirit. Favour be with you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, a servant of Elohim and an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, according to the belief of Elohim\u2019s chosen ones and knowledge of the truth according to reverence,"}, {"pk": 2729042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old,"}, {"pk": 2729043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "but in its own times has manifested His word through preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the command of Elohim our Saviour,"}, {"pk": 2729044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "to Titos, a genuine child according to our common belief: Favour, compassion, peace from Elohim the Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Saviour."}, {"pk": 2729045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "The reason I left you in Crete was that you should straighten out what was left undone, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:"}, {"pk": 2729046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "if anyone is unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of loose behaviour, or unruly."}, {"pk": 2729047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,"}, {"pk": 2729048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "but kind to strangers, a lover of what is good, sensible, righteous, set-apart, self-controlled,"}, {"pk": 2729049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "clinging to the trustworthy word, according to the teaching, in order to be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to convict those who oppose it.", "comment": "Rather: <em>confute</em>, or <em>prove wrong</em>."}, {"pk": 2729050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "For there are many unruly men, senseless talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,"}, {"pk": 2729051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not <i>teach</i>, for the sake of filthy gain."}, {"pk": 2729052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "One of them, a prophet of their own, said, \u201cCretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, in order for them to be sound in the belief,"}, {"pk": 2729054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "not paying attention to Yehud\u0331i fables, and commands of men who turn from the truth."}, {"pk": 2729055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Indeed, all <i>matters</i> are clean to the clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving no <i>matter</i> is clean, but both their mind and conscience are defiled."}, {"pk": 2729056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "They profess to know Elohim, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unfit for any good work.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/21-23'>7:21-23</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/1-22'>2:1-22</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/4'>2:4</a>; Jude <a href='/TS2009/65/1/4'>1:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "But you, speak what is fitting for sound teaching:"}, {"pk": 2729058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "the older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, sound in belief, in love, in endurance,"}, {"pk": 2729059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "the older women likewise are to be set-apart in behaviour, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of what is good,"}, {"pk": 2729060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "in order for them to train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,"}, {"pk": 2729061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "to be sensible, blameless, workers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of Elohim is not evil spoken of."}, {"pk": 2729062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Likewise urge the young men to be sensible."}, {"pk": 2729063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Show yourself <i>to them</i> an example of good works in all <i>matters</i>. In teaching <i>show</i> uncorruptness, seriousness,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "soundness of speech beyond reproach, in order that the opponent is put to shame, having no evil <i>word</i> to say about you."}, {"pk": 2729065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "Servants should be subject to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in every way, not back-talking,"}, {"pk": 2729066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "not stealing, but showing all good trustworthiness, so that they adorn the teaching of Elohim our Saviour in every way."}, {"pk": 2729067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "For the saving Gift of Elohim has appeared to all men,"}, {"pk": 2729068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "instructing us to renounce wickedness and worldly lusts, and to live sensibly, righteously, and reverently in the present age,"}, {"pk": 2729069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "looking for the blessed expectation and esteemed appearance of the great Elohim and our Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2729070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people, <i>his</i> own possession, ardent for good works.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/4'>3:4</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/1/21'>1:21</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/19'>3:19</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/26'>3:26</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/26/18'>26:18</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/1-22'>6:1-22</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/26/18'>26:18</a>; Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/2/1-10'>2:1-10</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/8'>3:8</a>; Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/3/5'>3:5</a><br>See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Speak these <i>matters</i>, urge, and convict with all authority. Let no one despise you.", "comment": "Or <em>confute</em>."}, {"pk": 2729072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work,"}, {"pk": 2729073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "not to slander anyone, not to be quarrelsome, to be gentle, showing all meekness to all men."}, {"pk": 2729074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another."}, {"pk": 2729075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "But when the kindness and the love of Elohim our Saviour toward man appeared,"}, {"pk": 2729076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "He saved us, not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His compassion, through the washing of rebirth, and renewal by the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2729077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "which He poured out on us richly through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah our Saviour,"}, {"pk": 2729078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "that having been declared right by His favour we should become heirs according to the expectation of everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2729079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "Trustworthy is the word, and in this regard I wish you to strongly affirm, that those who have believed in Elohim should keep their minds on maintaining good works. This is good and profitable to men."}, {"pk": 2729080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "But keep away from foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife and quarrels about the Torah, for they are unprofitable and useless."}, {"pk": 2729081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "Reject a divisive man after the first and second warning,"}, {"pk": 2729082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "knowing that such a one has been perverted, and sins, being self-condemned."}, {"pk": 2729083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "When I shall send Artemas to you, or Tuchikos, do your best to come to me at Nikopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there."}, {"pk": 2729084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Do your best to send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they lack none at all."}, {"pk": 2729085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "And our <i>brothers</i> should also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, so that they shall not be without fruit."}, {"pk": 2729086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 56, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "All those with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the belief. Favour be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Sha\u2019ul, a prisoner of Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, and Timotiyos the brother, to Pileymon our beloved one and fellow worker,"}, {"pk": 2729088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "and Apphia our sister, and Archippos our fellow soldier, and the assembly at your house:"}, {"pk": 2729089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2729090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "I always thank my Elohim when I mention you in my prayers,"}, {"pk": 2729091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "hearing of your love and the belief which you have toward the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and toward all the set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2729092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "so that the sharing of your belief might become working in the knowledge of all the good which is in you toward Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2."}, {"pk": 2729093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "For we have much joy and encouragement in your love, because the tender affections of the set-apart ones have been refreshed by you, brother."}, {"pk": 2729094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore, although I have much boldness in Messiah to command you what is fitting,"}, {"pk": 2729095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "because of love, I rather appeal \u2014 being such a one as Sha\u2019ul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah \u2014"}, {"pk": 2729096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "I appeal to you for my child Onesimos, whom I brought forth while in my chains,"}, {"pk": 2729097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "who formerly was of no use to you, but now is of good use to you and to me,"}, {"pk": 2729098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "whom I sent back to you, and receive him, that is, my own tender affections,"}, {"pk": 2729099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News."}, {"pk": 2729100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "But without your opinion I wished to do none at all, so that your good deed should not be by way of necessity, but voluntary."}, {"pk": 2729101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "For he parted <i>from you</i> for a while, possibly because of this, so that you might have him back forever,"}, {"pk": 2729102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me, and how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Master."}, {"pk": 2729103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "So, if you regard me as your partner, receive him as you would me."}, {"pk": 2729104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "But if he has wronged you or owes you whatever, put that on my account."}, {"pk": 2729105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "I, Sha\u2019ul, wrote with my own hand. I shall repay \u2014 not to mention to you that you indeed owe yourself to me also."}, {"pk": 2729106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "Yes, brother, let me derive pleasure from you in the Master, refresh my tender affections in the Master."}, {"pk": 2729107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "Trusting in your obedience, I wrote to you, knowing that you shall do even more than I say."}, {"pk": 2729108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And at the same time also prepare a place for me to stay, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given to you."}, {"pk": 2729109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "Epaphras, fellow prisoner of me in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, greets you,"}, {"pk": 2729110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "<i>and</i> Marqos, Aristarchos, Demas, Luqas, my fellow workers."}, {"pk": 2729111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 57, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with your spirit. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Elohim, having of old spoken in many portions and many ways to the fathers by the prophets,"}, {"pk": 2729113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "has in these last days spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages,", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/36'>1:36</a>"}, {"pk": 2729114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "who being the brightness of the esteem and the exact representation of His substance, and sustaining all by the word of His power, having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, <i>sat down at the right hand</i> of the Greatness on high,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2729115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "having become so much better than the messengers, as He has inherited a more excellent Name than them."}, {"pk": 2729116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "For to which of the messengers did He ever say, <i>\u201cYou are My Son, today I have brought You forth\u201d?</i> And again, <i>\u201cI shall be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son\u201d?</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/7'>2:7</a><br>2Sam. <a href='/TS2009/10/7/14'>7:14</a><br>See 2Chr. <a href='/TS2009/14/17/13'>17:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And when He again brings the first-born into the world, He says, <i>\u201cLet all the messengers of Elohim do reverence to Him.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/97/7'>97:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2729118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "And of the messengers indeed He says, <i>\"... who is making His messengers spirits and His servants a flame of fire.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/104/4'>104:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "But to the Son <i>He says</i>, <i>\u201cYour throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever, a sceptre of straightness is the sceptre of Your reign.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>\u201cYou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Because of this, Elohim, Your Elohim, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/45/6'>45:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/45/7'>7</a>"}, {"pk": 2729121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "And, <i>\u201cYou, Master, did found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u201cThey shall perish, but You remain. And they shall all grow old like a garment,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>and like a mantle You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/102/25-27'>102:25-27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "And to which of the messengers did He ever say, <i>\u201cSit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet\u201d?</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2729125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "Are they not all serving spirits sent out to attend those who are about to inherit deliverance?"}, {"pk": 2729126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Because of this we have to pay more attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away."}, {"pk": 2729127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "For if the word spoken through messengers proved to be firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a right reward,"}, {"pk": 2729128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "how shall we escape if we neglect so great a deliverance, which first began to be spoken by the Master, and was confirmed to us by those that heard,"}, {"pk": 2729129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Elohim also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Set-apart Spirit, distributed according to His own desire?"}, {"pk": 2729130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "For it is not to messengers that He has subjected the world to come, concerning which we speak."}, {"pk": 2729131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "But somewhere one has witnessed, saying, <i>\u201cWhat is man that You remember him, or the son of man that You look after him?</i>"}, {"pk": 2729132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>\u201cYou have made him a little lower than Elohim.</i> <i>You have crowned him with esteem and respect, and set him over the works of Your hands.</i>", "comment": "According to the Greek text - messengers; however, this verse is quoted from Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/8/5'>8:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2729133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>\u201cYou have put all in subjection under his feet.\u201d</i> For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left none that is not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all subjected to him.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/8/4-6'>8:4-6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone."}, {"pk": 2729135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Prince of their deliverance perfect through sufferings."}, {"pk": 2729136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,"}, {"pk": 2729137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "saying, <i>\u201cI shall announce Your Name to My brothers,</i> <i>in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You.\u201d</i>", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/45/17'>45:17</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/6'>17:6</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/26'>17:26</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/22'>22:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2729138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "And again, <i>\u201cI shall put My trust in Him.\u201d</i> And again, <i>\u201cSee, I and the children whom Elohim gave Me.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/17'>8:17</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/18'>8:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil,"}, {"pk": 2729140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death."}, {"pk": 2729141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers, but He does take hold of the seed of Ab\u0331raham.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/41/8'>41:8</a>, <a href='/TS2009/23/41/9'>9</a>"}, {"pk": 2729142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people."}, {"pk": 2729143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried."}, {"pk": 2729144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2729145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "who was trustworthy to Him who appointed Him, as also Mosheh in all His house.", "comment": "See Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/12/7'>12:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2729146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "For this One has been deemed worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, as much as He who built the house enjoys more respect than the house."}, {"pk": 2729147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "For every house is built by someone, but He who built all is Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And Mosheh indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of what would be spoken <i>later</i>,"}, {"pk": 2729149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end."}, {"pk": 2729150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, <i>\u201cToday, if you hear His voice,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>\u201cTherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, \u2018They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.\u2019</i>"}, {"pk": 2729154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u201cAs I swore in My wrath, \u2018If they shall enter into My rest...\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/95/7-11'>95:7-11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "but encourage one another daily, while it is called \u201cToday,\u201d lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of sin."}, {"pk": 2729157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,"}, {"pk": 2729158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "while it is said, <i>\u201cToday, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/95/7'>95:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/95/8'>8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "For who, having heard, rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh?"}, {"pk": 2729160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?"}, {"pk": 2729161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey?"}, {"pk": 2729162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "So we see that they were unable to enter in because of unbelief."}, {"pk": 2729163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it."}, {"pk": 2729164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "For indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who heard it."}, {"pk": 2729165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For we who have believed do enter into that rest, as He has said, <i>\u201cAs I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest...\u201d</i> And yet His works have come into being from the foundation of the world.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/95/11'>95:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "For somewhere He has said thus about the seventh day, <i>\u201cAnd Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/2'>2:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "and in this again, <i>\u201cIf they shall enter into My rest...\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/95/11'>95:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly received the Good News did not enter in because of disobedience,"}, {"pk": 2729169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "He again defines a certain day, <i>\u201cToday,\u201d</i> saying through Dawid\u0331 so much later, as it has been said, <i>\u201cToday, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/95/7'>95:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/19/95/8'>8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "For if Yehoshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that."}, {"pk": 2729171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.", "comment": "The Greek word is sabattismos, which means Sabbath-keeping."}, {"pk": 2729172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "For the one, having entered into His rest, has himself also rested from his works, as Elohim <i>rested</i> from His own."}, {"pk": 2729173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience."}, {"pk": 2729174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "For the Word of Elohim is living, and working, and sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through even to the dividing of being and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."}, {"pk": 2729175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all are naked and laid bare before the eyes of Him with whom is our account."}, {"pk": 2729176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our confession."}, {"pk": 2729177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin."}, {"pk": 2729178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help."}, {"pk": 2729179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "For every priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in matters relating to Elohim, to offer both gifts and offerings for sins,"}, {"pk": 2729180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "being able to have a measure of feeling for those not knowing and being led astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness."}, {"pk": 2729181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And on account of this he has to offer for sins \u2014 as for the people, so also for himself."}, {"pk": 2729182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And no one obtains this esteem for himself, but he who is called by Elohim, even as Aharon also was."}, {"pk": 2729183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "So also the Messiah did not extol Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, <i>\u201cYou are My Son, today I have brought You forth.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/7'>2:7</a><br>See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/1/5'>1:5</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/7'>2:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2729184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "As He also says in another place, <i>\u201cYou are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/4'>110:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear,"}, {"pk": 2729186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered."}, {"pk": 2729187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/15'>14:15</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/23'>14:23</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/10'>15:10</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/3/22'>3:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/44/3/23'>23</a>"}, {"pk": 2729188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "having been designated by Elohim a High Priest \u201caccording to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing."}, {"pk": 2729190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "For indeed, although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first elements of the Words of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food."}, {"pk": 2729191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "For everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe."}, {"pk": 2729192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil."}, {"pk": 2729193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Messiah, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of belief toward Elohim,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a>"}, {"pk": 2729194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of everlasting judgment."}, {"pk": 2729195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And this we shall do, if Elohim indeed permits."}, {"pk": 2729196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2729197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,"}, {"pk": 2729198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "and fall away, to renew them again to repentance \u2014 having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him to open shame.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/26-31'>10:26-31</a>"}, {"pk": 2729199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "For ground that is drinking the rain often falling on it, and is bearing plants fit for those by whom it is tilled, receives blessing from Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "but if it <i>brings forth thorns and thistles,</i> it is rejected and near to being cursed, and ends up by being burned.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/18'>3:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "But although we speak in this way, beloved, we are persuaded, concerning you, of better matters which possess deliverance."}, {"pk": 2729202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "For Elohim is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which you have shown toward His Name, in that you have attended to the set-apart ones, and <i>still</i> attend."}, {"pk": 2729203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness, to the entire confirmation of expectation until the end,"}, {"pk": 2729204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "in order that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through belief and patience inherit the promises."}, {"pk": 2729205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "For Elohim, having promised Ab\u0331raham, since He could swear by no one greater, swore by Himself,", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/16'>22:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "saying, <i>\u201cTruly, blessing I shall bless you, and increasing I shall increase you.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/18'>22:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And so, after being patient, he obtained the promise."}, {"pk": 2729208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "For men do indeed swear by the one greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute."}, {"pk": 2729209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "In this way Elohim, resolving to show even more clearly to the heirs of promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, confirmed it by an oath,"}, {"pk": 2729210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 18, "text": "so that by two unchangeable matters in which it is impossible for Elohim to lie, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the expectation set before us,"}, {"pk": 2729211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 19, "text": "which we have as an anchor of the life, both safe and firm, and entering into that within the veil,"}, {"pk": 2729212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 6, "verse": 20, "text": "where \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 has entered as a forerunner for us, having become <i>High Priest forever according to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/4'>110:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "For this Malkitsed\u0331eq, sovereign of Shal\u0115m, priest of the Most High Elohim, who met Ab\u0331raham returning from the slaughter of the sovereigns and blessed him,", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/14/17-20'>14:17-20</a>"}, {"pk": 2729214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "to whom also Ab\u0331raham gave a tenth part of all, <i>his name</i> being translated, indeed, first, \u2018sovereign of righteousness,\u2019 and then also sovereign of Shal\u0115m, that is, \u2018sovereign of peace,\u2019"}, {"pk": 2729215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of Elohim, remains a priest for all time."}, {"pk": 2729216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "Now see how great this one was, to whom even the ancestor Ab\u0331raham gave a tenth of the choicest booty."}, {"pk": 2729217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "And truly, those who are of the sons of L\u0115wi, who receive the priesthood, have a command to receive tithes from the people according to the Torah, that is, from their brothers, though they have come from the loins of Ab\u0331raham,"}, {"pk": 2729218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "however, the one whose genealogy is not derived from them received tithes from Ab\u0331raham, and blessed the one who held the promises."}, {"pk": 2729219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "And it is beyond all dispute that the lesser is blessed by the better."}, {"pk": 2729220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "And here it is men who die that receive tithes, but there it is someone of whom it is witnessed that he lives."}, {"pk": 2729221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "And one might say that through Ab\u0331raham even L\u0115wi, who received tithes, gave tithes,"}, {"pk": 2729222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "for he was still in the loins of his father when Malkitsed\u0331eq met him."}, {"pk": 2729223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "Truly, then, if perfection were through the L\u0115witical priesthood \u2014 for under it the people were given the Torah \u2014 why was there still need for another priest to arise according to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq, and not be called according to the order of Aharon?"}, {"pk": 2729224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.", "comment": "From Malkitsed\u0331eq to Aharon."}, {"pk": 2729225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "For He of whom this is said belongs to another tribe, from which no one had attended at the slaughter-place.", "comment": "See \"Altar\u201d in the Explanatory Notes."}, {"pk": 2729226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "For it is perfectly clear that our Master arose from Yehud\u0331ah, a tribe about which Mosheh never spoke of concerning priesthood,"}, {"pk": 2729227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "and this is clearer still, if another priest arises in the likeness of Malkitsed\u0331eq,"}, {"pk": 2729228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "who has become, not according to the torah of fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,"}, {"pk": 2729229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "for He does witness, <i>\u201cYou are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/4'>110:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 18, "text": "For there is indeed a setting aside of the former command because of its weakness and unprofitableness,", "comment": "Or former <em>L\u0115witical</em> command."}, {"pk": 2729231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 19, "text": "for the Torah perfected naught, but the bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to Elohim.", "comment": "<em>L\u0115witical</em> Torah."}, {"pk": 2729232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 20, "text": "And it was not without an oath!"}, {"pk": 2729233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 21, "text": "For they indeed became priests without an oath, but He <i>became Priest</i> with an oath by Him who said to Him, \u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 has sworn and shall not regret, <i>\u2018You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitsed\u0331eq.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/4'>110:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 22, "text": "By as much as this \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 has become a guarantor of a better covenant."}, {"pk": 2729235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 23, "text": "And indeed, those that became priests were many, because they were prevented by death from continuing,"}, {"pk": 2729236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 24, "text": "but He, because He remains forever, has an unchangeable priesthood."}, {"pk": 2729237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 25, "text": "Therefore He is also able to save completely those who draw near to Elohim through Him, ever living to make intercession for them."}, {"pk": 2729238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 26, "text": "For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest \u2014 kind, innocent, undefiled, having been separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2729239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 27, "text": "who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up slaughter <i>offerings</i> day by day, first for His own sins and then for those of the people, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself."}, {"pk": 2729240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 7, "verse": 28, "text": "For the Torah appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah, <i>appoints</i> the Son having been perfected forever."}, {"pk": 2729241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "Now the summary of what we are saying is: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Greatness in the heavens,"}, {"pk": 2729242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "and who serves in the set-apart place and of the true Tent, which \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 set up, and not man."}, {"pk": 2729243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughters. So it was also necessary for this One to have somewhat to offer."}, {"pk": 2729244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,"}, {"pk": 2729245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, <i>\u201cSee that you make all according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/25/40'>25:40</a>"}, {"pk": 2729246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "But now He has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was constituted on better promises.", "comment": "Messiah is called the Mediator of the New (Renewed) Covenant in Hebrews, in three places: Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/8/6'>8:6</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/9/15'>9:15</a> and in Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/12/24'>12:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2729247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "For if that first <i>covenant</i> had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second."}, {"pk": 2729248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "<i>For finding fault with them, He says, \u201cSee, the days are coming,\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u201cwhen I shall conclude with the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l and with the house of Yehud\u0331ah a renewed covenant,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729250, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>\u201cBecause this is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra\u2019\u0115l after those days, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, giving My laws in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729251, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>\u201cAnd they shall by no means teach each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, \u2018Know \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4,\u2019 because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729252, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>\u201cBecause I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall no longer remember.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/31-34'>31:31-34</a><br>See also Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/10/16'>10:16</a>, <a href='/TS2009/58/10/17'>17</a>"}, {"pk": 2729253, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "By saying, \u2018renewed,\u2019 He has made the first old. Now what becomes old and growing aged is near disappearing."}, {"pk": 2729254, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "Now the first <i>covenant</i> indeed had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart place."}, {"pk": 2729255, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the Set-apart Place."}, {"pk": 2729256, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And after the second veil, the part of the Tent which is called Most Set-apart,"}, {"pk": 2729257, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "to which belonged the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of the covenant,"}, {"pk": 2729258, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "and above it the kerub\u0331im of esteem were overshadowing the place of atonement \u2014 about which we do not now speak in detail."}, {"pk": 2729259, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services."}, {"pk": 2729260, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,", "comment": "See Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/15/15-28'>15:15-28</a>"}, {"pk": 2729261, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing,"}, {"pk": 2729262, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience,"}, {"pk": 2729263, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting <i>matters</i> straight."}, {"pk": 2729264, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good <i>matters</i>, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,"}, {"pk": 2729265, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "entered into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having obtained everlasting redemption."}, {"pk": 2729266, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh,"}, {"pk": 2729267, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2729268, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And because of this He is the Mediator of a renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance."}, {"pk": 2729269, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "For where a covenant is, it is necessary for the death of the covenanted one to be established."}, {"pk": 2729270, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "For a covenant over those dead is firm, since it is never valid while the covenanted one is living."}, {"pk": 2729271, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "Therefore not even the first <i>covenant</i> was instituted without blood."}, {"pk": 2729272, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "For when, according to Torah, every command had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,"}, {"pk": 2729273, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "saying, <i>\u201cThis is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/24/8'>24:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729274, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service."}, {"pk": 2729275, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 22, "text": "And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."}, {"pk": 2729276, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 23, "text": "It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter <i>offerings</i> than these."}, {"pk": 2729277, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 24, "text": "For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand \u2014 figures of the true \u2014 but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,"}, {"pk": 2729278, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 25, "text": "not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own."}, {"pk": 2729279, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 26, "text": "For if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself."}, {"pk": 2729280, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 27, "text": "And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,"}, {"pk": 2729281, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 9, "verse": 28, "text": "so also the Messiah, having been offered once to <i>bear the sins of many,</i> shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/12'>53:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729282, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "For the Torah, having a shadow of the good <i>matters</i> to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter <i>offerings</i> which they offer continually year by year."}, {"pk": 2729283, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins."}, {"pk": 2729284, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "But in those <i>offerings</i> is a reminder of sins year by year."}, {"pk": 2729285, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins."}, {"pk": 2729286, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore, coming into the world, He says, <i>\u201cSlaughtering and meal offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729287, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>\u201cIn ascending offerings and <i>offerings</i> for sin You did not delight.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729288, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>\u201cThen I said, \u2018See, I come \u2014 in the roll of the book it has been written concerning Me \u2014 to do Your desire, O Elohim.\u2019 \u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/40/6-8'>40:6-8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729289, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "Saying above, <i>\u201cSlaughter and meal offering, and ascending offerings, and <i>offerings</i> for sin You did not desire, nor delighted in,\u201d</i> which are offered according to the Torah,", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/40/6'>40:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729290, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "then He said, <i>\u201cSee, I come to do Your desire, O Elohim.\u201d</i> He takes away the first to establish the second.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/40/8'>40:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729291, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah once for all."}, {"pk": 2729292, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering the same slaughter <i>offerings</i> which are never able to take away sins."}, {"pk": 2729293, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 12, "text": "But He, having offered one slaughter <i>offering</i> for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729294, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 13, "text": "waiting from that time onward <i>until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2729295, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 14, "text": "For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart."}, {"pk": 2729296, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 15, "text": "And the Set-apart Spirit also witnesses to us, for after having said before,"}, {"pk": 2729297, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>\u201cThis is the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, giving My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/33'>31:33</a><br>See also Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/8/8-12'>8:8-12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729298, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 17, "text": "and, <i>\u201cTheir sins and their lawlessnesses I shall remember no more.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/34'>31:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2729299, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 18, "text": "Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter <i>offering</i> for sin."}, {"pk": 2729300, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 19, "text": "So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2,"}, {"pk": 2729301, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 20, "text": "by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,"}, {"pk": 2729302, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 21, "text": "and <i>having</i> a High Priest over the House of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729303, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 22, "text": "let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/36/25'>36:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2729304, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 23, "text": "Let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who promised is trustworthy."}, {"pk": 2729305, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 24, "text": "And let us be concerned for one another in order to stir up love and good works,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729306, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 25, "text": "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging, and so much more as you see the day coming near."}, {"pk": 2729307, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 26, "text": "For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter <i>offering</i> for sins,", "comment": "See also Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/6/6'>6:6</a> This type of sinning is in contrast with sinning ignorantly \u2013 Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/9/7'>9:7</a>; Num. <a href='/TS2009/4/15/15-28'>15:15-28</a>"}, {"pk": 2729308, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 27, "text": "but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and <i>a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/11'>26:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729309, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 28, "text": "Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses."}, {"pk": 2729310, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 29, "text": "How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?"}, {"pk": 2729311, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 30, "text": "For we know Him who has said, <i>\u201cVengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.\u201d</i> And again, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall judge His people.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/35'>32:35</a>, <a href='/TS2009/5/32/36'>36</a>"}, {"pk": 2729312, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 31, "text": "It is fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729313, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 32, "text": "But remember the former days, when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings."}, {"pk": 2729314, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 33, "text": "On the one hand you were exposed to reproaches and pressures, and on the other hand you became sharers with those who were so treated,"}, {"pk": 2729315, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 34, "text": "for you sympathised with me in my chains, and you accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have a better and a lasting possession for yourselves in the heavens."}, {"pk": 2729316, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 35, "text": "Do not, then, lose your boldness, which has great reward."}, {"pk": 2729317, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 36, "text": "For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you receive the promise:"}, {"pk": 2729318, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 37, "text": "<i>\u201cFor yet a little while \u2014 He who is coming shall come and shall not delay.\u201d</i>"}, {"pk": 2729319, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 38, "text": "<i>\u201cBut the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hab. <a href='/TS2009/35/2/3'>2:3</a>, <a href='/TS2009/35/2/4'>4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729320, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 10, "verse": 39, "text": "But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of belief to the preservation of life."}, {"pk": 2729321, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And belief is the substance of what is expected, the proof of what is not seen."}, {"pk": 2729322, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "For by this the elders obtained witness."}, {"pk": 2729323, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "By belief, we understand that the ages were prepared by the word of Elohim, so that what is seen was not made of what is visible."}, {"pk": 2729324, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "By belief, Heb\u0331el offered to Elohim a greater slaughter <i>offering</i> than Qayin, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Elohim witnessing of his gifts. And through it, having died, he still speaks."}, {"pk": 2729325, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "By belief, H\u0323anok\u0331 was translated so as not to see death, <i>\u201cand was not found because Elohim had translated him.\u201d</i> For before his translation he obtained witness, that he pleased Elohim.", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/5/24'>5:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2729326, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "But without belief it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him."}, {"pk": 2729327, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "By belief, Noah\u0323, having been warned of what was yet unseen, having feared, prepared an ark to save his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to belief."}, {"pk": 2729328, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "By belief, Ab\u0331raham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going."}, {"pk": 2729329, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsh\u0323aq and Ya\u201baqob\u0331, the heirs with him of the same promise,"}, {"pk": 2729330, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729331, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "By belief also, Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who had promised."}, {"pk": 2729332, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born <i>as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/5'>15:5</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/22/17'>22:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2729333, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/39'>11:39</a>"}, {"pk": 2729334, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "For those who speak this way make it clear that they seek a fatherland."}, {"pk": 2729335, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that <i>place</i> from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return."}, {"pk": 2729336, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "But now they long for a better <i>place</i>, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them."}, {"pk": 2729337, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "By belief, Ab\u0331raham, when he was tried, offered up Yitsh\u0323aq, and he who had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son,"}, {"pk": 2729338, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "of whom it was said, <i>\u201cIn Yitsh\u0323aq your seed shall be called,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/21/12'>21:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729339, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "reckoning that Elohim was able to raise, even from the dead, from which he received him back, as a type."}, {"pk": 2729340, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 20, "text": "By belief, Yitsh\u0323aq blessed Ya\u201baqob\u0331 and \u011asaw concerning that which was to come."}, {"pk": 2729341, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 21, "text": "By belief, Ya\u201baqob\u0331, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Yos\u0115ph, and did reverence on the top of his staff."}, {"pk": 2729342, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 22, "text": "By belief, Yos\u0115ph, when he was dying, made mention of the outgoing of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, and gave orders concerning his bones."}, {"pk": 2729343, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 23, "text": "By belief, Mosheh, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a comely child, and were not afraid of the sovereign\u2019s command.", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/2/2'>2:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729344, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 24, "text": "By belief, Mosheh, having become great, refused to be called the son of the daughter of Pharaoh,"}, {"pk": 2729345, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 25, "text": "choosing rather to be afflicted with the people of Elohim than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,"}, {"pk": 2729346, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 26, "text": "deeming the reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures in Mitsrayim, for he was looking to the reward."}, {"pk": 2729347, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 27, "text": "By belief, he left Mitsrayim, not fearing the wrath of the sovereign, for he was steadfast, as seeing Him who is invisible."}, {"pk": 2729348, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 28, "text": "By belief, he performed the P\u0115sah\u0323 and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the first-born should touch them."}, {"pk": 2729349, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 29, "text": "By belief, they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, and when the Mitsrites tried it, they were drowned."}, {"pk": 2729350, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 30, "text": "By belief, the walls of Yerih\u0323o fell, having been surrounded for seven days."}, {"pk": 2729351, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 31, "text": "By belief, Rah\u0323ab\u0331 the whore did not perish with those who did not believe, having received the spies with peace."}, {"pk": 2729352, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 32, "text": "And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to relate of Gid\u201bon and Baraq and Shimshon and Yiphtah\u0323, also of Dawid\u0331 and Shemu\u2019\u0115l and the prophets,"}, {"pk": 2729353, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 33, "text": "who through belief, overcame reigns, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,"}, {"pk": 2729354, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 34, "text": "quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight."}, {"pk": 2729355, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 35, "text": "Women received <i>back</i> their dead by resurrection. And others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain a better resurrection."}, {"pk": 2729356, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 36, "text": "And others had trial of mockings and floggings and more, of chains and imprisonment."}, {"pk": 2729357, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 37, "text": "They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn in two, they were slain with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in need, afflicted, mistreated,"}, {"pk": 2729358, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 38, "text": "of whom the world was not worthy \u2014 wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes of the earth."}, {"pk": 2729359, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 39, "text": "And having obtained witness through the belief, all these did not receive the promise,", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/13'>11:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729360, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 11, "verse": 40, "text": "Elohim having provided what is better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us."}, {"pk": 2729361, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,"}, {"pk": 2729362, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "looking to the Prince and Perfecter of our belief, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729363, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "For consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and faint in your lives."}, {"pk": 2729364, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."}, {"pk": 2729365, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And you have forgotten the appeal which speaks to you as to sons, <i>\u201cMy son, do not despise the discipline of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, nor faint when you are reproved by Him,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729366, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "<i>for whom \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He receives.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/11'>3:11</a>, <a href='/TS2009/20/3/12'>12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729367, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "If you endure discipline, Elohim is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?"}, {"pk": 2729368, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "But if you are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons."}, {"pk": 2729369, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?"}, {"pk": 2729370, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness."}, {"pk": 2729371, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "And indeed, no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.", "comment": "See also Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/8/2'>8:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729372, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "So, <i>strengthen the hands which hang down and the weak knees,</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/35/3'>35:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2729373, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed."}, {"pk": 2729374, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "Pursue peace with all, and <i>pursue</i> apartness without which no one shall see the Master."}, {"pk": 2729375, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,"}, {"pk": 2729376, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like \u011asaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/25/32'>25:32</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/25/33'>33</a>"}, {"pk": 2729377, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears."}, {"pk": 2729378, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 18, "text": "For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,"}, {"pk": 2729379, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 19, "text": "and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that no further Word should be spoken to them,", "comment": "See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/19'>20:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2729380, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 20, "text": "for they could not bear what was commanded, <i>\u201cIf even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot through with an arrow.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/12'>19:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729381, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 21, "text": "And so fearsome was the sight that Mosheh said, <i>\u201cI exceedingly fear and tremble.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/9/19'>9:19</a>"}, {"pk": 2729382, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 22, "text": "But you have drawn near to Mount Tsiyon and to the city of the living Elohim, to the heavenly Yerushalayim, to myriads of messengers,"}, {"pk": 2729383, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 23, "text": "to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,"}, {"pk": 2729384, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 24, "text": "and to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than <i>the blood</i> of Heb\u0331el.", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/8/6'>8:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729385, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 25, "text": "Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape who refused the warning on earth, much less we who turn away from Him from heaven,"}, {"pk": 2729386, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 26, "text": "whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, <i>\u201cYet once more I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/6'>2:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729387, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 27, "text": "And this, \u201cYet once more,\u201d makes clear the removal of what is shaken \u2014 as having been made \u2014 so that the unshaken <i>matters</i> might remain."}, {"pk": 2729388, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 28, "text": "Therefore, receiving an unshakeable reign, let us hold the favour, through which we serve Elohim pleasingly with reverence and awe,"}, {"pk": 2729389, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 12, "verse": 29, "text": "for indeed, our <i>Elohim is a consuming fire.</i>", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/4/24'>4:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2729390, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "Let the brotherly love continue."}, {"pk": 2729391, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "Do not forget to receive strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained messengers."}, {"pk": 2729392, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "Remember the prisoners as if chained with them, and those being mistreated, since you yourselves also are in the body."}, {"pk": 2729393, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers."}, {"pk": 2729394, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "<i>Let your</i> way of life be without the love of silver, and be satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, <i>\u201cI shall never leave you nor forsake you,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Implying money.<br>Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/31/6'>31:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729395, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "so that we boldly say, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is my helper, I shall not fear what man shall do to me.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/6'>118:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729396, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "Remember those leading you, who spoke the Word of Elohim to you. Consider the outcome of their behaviour and imitate their belief."}, {"pk": 2729397, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever."}, {"pk": 2729398, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not be borne about by various and strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be established by favour, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.", "comment": "See Eph. <a href='/TS2009/49/4/14'>4:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729399, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "We have a slaughter-place from which those serving the Tent have no authority to eat."}, {"pk": 2729400, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp."}, {"pk": 2729401, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And so \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 also suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood."}, {"pk": 2729402, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach."}, {"pk": 2729403, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming."}, {"pk": 2729404, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "Through Him then, let us continually offer up a slaughter <i>offering</i> of praise to Elohim, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name.", "comment": "Or \u201cbulls of our lips\u201d \u2013 See Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/14/2'>14:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729405, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And do not forget to do good and to share, for with such slaughter <i>offerings</i> Elohim is well pleased."}, {"pk": 2729406, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "Obey those leading you, and be subject <i>to them</i>, for they watch for your lives, as having to give account. Let them do so with joy and not groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you."}, {"pk": 2729407, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in every way."}, {"pk": 2729408, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 19, "text": "But I particularly encourage you to do this, that I might be restored to you the sooner."}, {"pk": 2729409, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 20, "text": "And the Elohim of peace who brought up our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,"}, {"pk": 2729410, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 21, "text": "make you perfect in every good work to do His desire, working in you what is pleasing in His sight, through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to whom be esteem forever and ever. Am\u0115n.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a><br>See Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/2/20'>2:20</a>; Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/2/13'>2:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729411, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 22, "text": "And I call upon you, brothers, bear with the word of encouragement for I have written to you in few words."}, {"pk": 2729412, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 23, "text": "Know that brother Timotiyos has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly."}, {"pk": 2729413, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 24, "text": "Greet all those leading you, and all the set-apart ones. Those from Italy greet you."}, {"pk": 2729414, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 58, "chapter": 13, "verse": 25, "text": "Favour be with you all. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729415, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Ya\u201baqob\u0331, a servant of Elohim and of the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings."}, {"pk": 2729416, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,"}, {"pk": 2729417, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "knowing that the proving of your belief works endurance."}, {"pk": 2729418, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And let endurance have a perfect work, so that you be perfect and complete, lacking in naught."}, {"pk": 2729419, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of Elohim, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him."}, {"pk": 2729420, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "But he should ask in belief, not doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind."}, {"pk": 2729421, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "For that man should not think that he shall receive whatever from the Master \u2014"}, {"pk": 2729422, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."}, {"pk": 2729423, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "And let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,"}, {"pk": 2729424, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he shall pass away."}, {"pk": 2729425, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "For the sun rose with burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell, and its pretty appearance perished. So also the rich man shall fade away in his ways."}, {"pk": 2729426, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Blessed is the man who does endure trial, for when he has been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Master has promised to those who love Him."}, {"pk": 2729427, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Let no one say when he is enticed, \u201cI am enticed by Elohim,\u201d for Elohim is not enticed by evil <i>matters</i>, and He entices no one."}, {"pk": 2729428, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "But each one is enticed when he is drawn away by his own desires and trapped."}, {"pk": 2729429, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death."}, {"pk": 2729430, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "Do not go astray, my beloved brothers."}, {"pk": 2729431, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning.", "comment": "See Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729432, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "Having purposed it, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures."}, {"pk": 2729433, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,"}, {"pk": 2729434, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729435, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your lives.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/4-23'>13:4-23</a>"}, {"pk": 2729436, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/24-27'>7:24-27</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/6/46-49'>6:46-49</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/8/21'>8:21</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/2/13'>2:13</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/4/11'>4:11</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729437, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror,"}, {"pk": 2729438, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like."}, {"pk": 2729439, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing <i>of the Torah</i>.", "comment": "See James <a href='/TS2009/59/2/12'>2:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729440, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 26, "text": "If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one\u2019s religion is worthless."}, {"pk": 2729441, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 1, "verse": 27, "text": "Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, <i>and</i> to keep oneself unstained from the world."}, {"pk": 2729442, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "My brothers, do not hold the belief of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Master of esteem, with partiality."}, {"pk": 2729443, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "For if there should come into your meeting place a man with gold rings, in a splendid robe, and there should also come in a poor one dressed in rags,"}, {"pk": 2729444, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "and you pay attention to the one wearing the splendid robe and say to him, \u201cYou sit here in a good place,\u201d and say to the poor one, \u201cYou stand there,\u201d or, \u201cSit here by my feet,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729445, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "have you not discriminated among yourselves, and become judges with wicked thoughts?"}, {"pk": 2729446, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "Listen, my beloved brothers: Has Elohim not chosen the poor of this world, rich in belief and heirs of the reign which He promised to those who love Him?"}, {"pk": 2729447, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "But you have shown disrespect towards the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?"}, {"pk": 2729448, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Do they not blaspheme that good Name by which you are called?"}, {"pk": 2729449, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "If you truly accomplish the sovereign law according to the Scripture, <i>\u201cYou shall love your neighbour as yourself,\u201d</i> you do well,", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/18'>19:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729450, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being found guilty by the Torah as transgressors."}, {"pk": 2729451, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "For whoever shall guard all the Torah, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all."}, {"pk": 2729452, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "For He who said, <i>\u201cDo not commit adultery,\u201d</i> also said, <i>\u201cDo not murder.\u201d</i> Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of Torah.", "comment": "Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/14'>20:14</a><br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/13'>20:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729453, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "So speak and so do as those who are to be judged by a Torah of freedom.", "comment": "See James <a href='/TS2009/59/1/25'>1:25</a> and John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/32-36'>8:32-36</a>"}, {"pk": 2729454, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "For the judgment is without compassion to the one who has shown no compassion. And compassion boasts over judgment."}, {"pk": 2729455, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "My brothers, what use is it for anyone to say he has belief but does not have works? This belief is unable to save him."}, {"pk": 2729456, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "And if a brother or sister is naked and in need of daily food,"}, {"pk": 2729457, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "but one of you says to them, \u201cGo in peace, be warmed and be filled,\u201d but you do not give them the bodily needs, what use is it?"}, {"pk": 2729458, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead."}, {"pk": 2729459, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "But someone might say, \u201cYou have belief, and I have works.\u201d Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works."}, {"pk": 2729460, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "You believe that <i>Elohim is one.</i> You do well. The demons also believe \u2014 and shudder!", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/6/4'>6:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729461, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the works is dead?"}, {"pk": 2729462, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "Was not Ab\u0331raham our father declared right by works when he offered Yitsh\u0323aq his son on the slaughter-place?"}, {"pk": 2729463, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "Do you see that the belief was working with his works, and by the works the belief was perfected?"}, {"pk": 2729464, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "And the Scripture was filled which says, <i>\u201cAb\u0331raham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.\u201d</i> And He called him, <i>\u201che who loves Elohim.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/15/6'>15:6</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/41/8'>41:8</a>; 2Ch. <a href='/TS2009/14/20/7'>20:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2729465, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "You see, then, that a man is declared right by works, and not by belief alone."}, {"pk": 2729466, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "In the same way, was not Rah\u0323ab\u0331 the whore also declared right by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?"}, {"pk": 2729467, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also the belief is dead without the works."}, {"pk": 2729468, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment."}, {"pk": 2729469, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "For we all stumble in many <i>matters</i>. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body."}, {"pk": 2729470, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Look, we put bits in the mouths of horses, for them to obey us, and we turn their body."}, {"pk": 2729471, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Look at the ships too: although they are so big and are driven by strong winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot intends."}, {"pk": 2729472, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "So too the tongue is a little member, yet boasts greatly. See how a little fire kindles a great forest!"}, {"pk": 2729473, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by G\u0115Hinnom."}, {"pk": 2729474, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind."}, {"pk": 2729475, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is unruly, evil, filled with deadly poison."}, {"pk": 2729476, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "With it we bless our Elohim and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made <i>in the likeness of Elohim.</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/1/26'>1:26</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/1/27'>27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729477, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be so."}, {"pk": 2729478, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Does the fountain send forth the sweet and the bitter from the same opening?"}, {"pk": 2729479, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "My brothers, is a fig tree able to bear olives, or a grapevine figs? So neither is a fountain able to make salt and sweet water."}, {"pk": 2729480, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom."}, {"pk": 2729481, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But if you have bitter jealousy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast against and lie against the truth."}, {"pk": 2729482, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "This is not the wisdom coming down from above, but it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic."}, {"pk": 2729483, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "For where jealousy and self-seeking are, there is confusion and every foul deed."}, {"pk": 2729484, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "But the wisdom from above is first clean, then peaceable, gentle, ready to obey, filled with compassion and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy."}, {"pk": 2729485, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.", "comment": "See Philip. <a href='/TS2009/50/1/11'>1:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729486, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Where do fightings and strivings come from among you? Do they not come from your pleasures that battle in your members?"}, {"pk": 2729487, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and are unable to obtain. You strive and fight, and you do not possess, because you do not ask."}, {"pk": 2729488, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "You ask and do not receive, because you ask evilly, in order to spend it on your pleasures."}, {"pk": 2729489, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/22'>13:22</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/4/5-6'>4:5-6</a>; Luke <a href='/TS2009/42/14/33'>14:33</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/12/2'>12:2</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/15-17'>2:15-17</a>"}, {"pk": 2729490, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which dwells in us intensely crave unto envy?"}, {"pk": 2729491, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "But He gives greater favour. Because of this He says, <i>\u201cElohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/34'>3:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2729492, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "So then subject yourselves to Elohim. Resist the devil and he shall flee from you.", "comment": "Or adversary."}, {"pk": 2729493, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "Draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded!"}, {"pk": 2729494, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection."}, {"pk": 2729495, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Master, and He shall lift you up."}, {"pk": 2729496, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Brothers, do not speak against one another. He that speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against Torah and judges Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of Torah but a judge."}, {"pk": 2729497, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is <i>able</i> to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?"}, {"pk": 2729498, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "Come now, you who say, \u201cToday or tomorrow, let us go to such and such a city, spend a year there, and trade, and make a profit,\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729499, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears \u2014"}, {"pk": 2729500, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "instead of your saying, \u201cIf the Master desires, we shall live and do this or that.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729501, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "But now you boast in your proud speeches. All such boasting is wicked."}, {"pk": 2729502, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "To him, then, who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin."}, {"pk": 2729503, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Come now, rich ones, weep, crying aloud over the hardships coming upon you!"}, {"pk": 2729504, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten."}, {"pk": 2729505, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "Your gold and silver have become rusty, and their rust shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days."}, {"pk": 2729506, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "See, the wages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which you kept back, cry out. And the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 of hosts.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/22/13'>22:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729507, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury, you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter."}, {"pk": 2729508, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous \u2014 he does not resist you."}, {"pk": 2729509, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "So, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Master. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain."}, {"pk": 2729510, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "You too, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Master has drawn near."}, {"pk": 2729511, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Do not grumble against each other, brothers, lest you be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the door!"}, {"pk": 2729512, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "My brothers, as an example of suffering and patience, take the prophets, who spoke in the Name of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4."}, {"pk": 2729513, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "See, we call those blessed who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Iyob\u0331 and saw the purpose of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, that He is very sympathetic and compassionate."}, {"pk": 2729514, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by the heaven or by the earth or with any other oath. But let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No, lest you fall into judgment."}, {"pk": 2729515, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "Is any of you suffering evil? Let him pray. Is anyone in good spirits? Let him sing psalms."}, {"pk": 2729516, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the Name of the Master."}, {"pk": 2729517, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven."}, {"pk": 2729518, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much."}, {"pk": 2729519, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "\u011aliyahu was a man with feelings like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain. And it did not rain on the land for three years and six months."}, {"pk": 2729520, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the land brought forth its fruit."}, {"pk": 2729521, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "Brothers, if anyone among you goes astray from the truth, and someone turns him back,"}, {"pk": 2729522, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 59, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "let him know that he who turns a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a life from death and <i>cover a great number of sins.</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/10/12'>10:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729523, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "K\u0115pha, an emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,"}, {"pk": 2729524, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>chosen</i> according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, set apart by the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah: Favour and peace be increased to you.", "comment": "Obedience is also stressed in 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/1/14'>1:14</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/1/22'>1:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2729525, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the resurrection of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah from the dead,"}, {"pk": 2729526, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the heavens for you,"}, {"pk": 2729527, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time,"}, {"pk": 2729528, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "in which you exult, even though for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by manifold trials,"}, {"pk": 2729529, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "in order that the proving of your belief \u2014 much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire \u2014 might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2729530, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "whom having not seen, you love; in whom you exult with unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet not seeing, but believing,"}, {"pk": 2729531, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "obtaining the goal of your belief: a deliverance of lives."}, {"pk": 2729532, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "Concerning this deliverance the prophets have sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the favour for you,"}, {"pk": 2729533, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "searching to know what, or what sort of time, the Spirit which was in them was pointing out concerning Messiah, when it was bearing witness beforehand the sufferings of Messiah, and the esteems that would follow,"}, {"pk": 2729534, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "to whom it was revealed that they were serving, not themselves, but you, in these <i>matters</i> which now have been announced to you through those who brought the Good News to you by the Set-apart Spirit sent from heaven \u2014 into which messengers long to look into."}, {"pk": 2729535, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2729536, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance,"}, {"pk": 2729537, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behaviour,"}, {"pk": 2729538, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "because it has been written, <i>\u201cBe set-apart, for I am set-apart.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/11/44'>11:44</a>; Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/19/2'>19:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729539, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one\u2019s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,"}, {"pk": 2729540, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "knowing that you were redeemed from your futile behaviour inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or gold,"}, {"pk": 2729541, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,"}, {"pk": 2729542, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for your sakes,"}, {"pk": 2729543, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "who through Him believe in Elohim who raised Him from the dead and gave Him esteem, so that your belief and expectation are in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729544, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "Now that you have cleansed your lives in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently with a clean heart,"}, {"pk": 2729545, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "having been born again \u2014 not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible \u2014 through the living Word of Elohim, which remains forever,"}, {"pk": 2729546, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "because <i>\u201cAll flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729547, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "<i>but the Word of Elohim remains forever.\u201d</i> And this is the Word, announced as Good News to you.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/40/6-8'>40:6-8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729548, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "Having put aside, then, all evil, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil words,"}, {"pk": 2729549, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "as newborn babes, desire the unadulterated milk of the Word, in order that you grow by it,"}, {"pk": 2729550, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "if indeed you have tasted that the Master is good."}, {"pk": 2729551, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "Drawing near to Him, a living Stone \u2014 rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim and precious \u2014"}, {"pk": 2729552, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter <i>offerings</i> acceptable to Elohim through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2729553, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "Because it is contained in the Scripture, <i>\u201cSee, I lay in Tsiyon a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/28/16'>28:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729554, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "This preciousness, then, is for you who believe; but to those who are disobedient, <i>\u201cThe stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone,\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/118/22'>118:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2729555, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "and <i>\u201cA stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,\u201d</i> who stumble because they are disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/14'>8:14</a><br>See John <a href='/TS2009/43/3/36'>3:36</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/3/18'>3:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729556, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "But you are a <i>chosen race,</i> a <i>royal priesthood,</i> a <i>set-apart nation,</i> a <i>people for a possession,</i> that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light,", "comment": "Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/10/15'>10:15</a><br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/43/20'>43:20</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/61/6'>61:6</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/21'>66:21</a><br>Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/6'>19:6</a><br>See Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/7/6'>7:6</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/43/2'>43:2</a><br>See Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/19/5'>19:5</a>; Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729557, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "who once were <i>not a people,</i> but now the <i>people of Elohim;</i> who had <i>not obtained compassion,</i> but now <i>obtained compassion.</i>", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>10</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/23'>2:23</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/1'>65:1</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/16'>63:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/64/8'>64:8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/25'>9:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/9/26'>26</a><br>Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>10</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/23'>2:23</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/1'>65:1</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/16'>63:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/64/8'>64:8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/25'>9:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/9/26'>26</a><br>Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>10</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/23'>2:23</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/1'>65:1</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/16'>63:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/64/8'>64:8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/25'>9:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/9/26'>26</a><br>Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/28/1/10'>10</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/2/23'>2:23</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/1'>65:1</a>; Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/1/9'>1:9</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/63/16'>63:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/64/8'>64:8</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/9/25'>9:25</a>, <a href='/TS2009/45/9/26'>26</a>"}, {"pk": 2729558, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the being,"}, {"pk": 2729559, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "having your behaviour among the nations good so that when they speak against you as evil-doers, let them, by observing your good works, esteem Elohim in a day of visitation.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/16'>5:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729560, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "Be subject to every institution of man because of the Master, whether to the sovereign as supreme,"}, {"pk": 2729561, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of doers of evil, and a praise for those who do good."}, {"pk": 2729562, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Because such is the desire of Elohim, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,"}, {"pk": 2729563, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "as free, yet not using your freedom as a cloak for evil, but as servants of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729564, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "Respect all, love the brotherhood, fear Elohim, respect the sovereign."}, {"pk": 2729565, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked ones."}, {"pk": 2729566, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "For this is favour, if because of conscience toward Elohim anyone bears up under grief, suffering unrighteously."}, {"pk": 2729567, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "For what credit is there in enduring a beating when you sin? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure, this <i>finds</i> favour with Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729568, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,", "comment": "<em>NA</em> reads \u201cyou\".<br><em>NA</em> reads \u201cyou\".<br>See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/11/1'>11:1</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/6'>2:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729569, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cwho committed no sin, nor was <i>deceit found in His mouth,\u201d</i>", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/8/55'>8:55</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/10'>15:10</a>; 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/5/21'>5:21</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/5'>3:5</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/9'>53:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2729570, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "who, being reviled, did not revile in return; suffering, did not threaten, but committed <i>Himself</i> to Him who judges righteously;"}, {"pk": 2729571, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "who Himself <i>bore our sins</i> in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness \u2014 <i>by whose stripes you were healed.</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/4'>53:4</a><br>See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/2'>6:2</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/4/1'>4:1</a>, <a href='/TS2009/60/4/2'>2</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/5'>53:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2729572, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "For you were <i>like sheep going astray,</i> but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your beings.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/53/6'>53:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729573, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any are disobedient to the Word, they, without a word, might be won by the behaviour of their wives,"}, {"pk": 2729574, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "having seen your blameless behaviour in fear."}, {"pk": 2729575, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "Your adornment should not be outward \u2014 arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on dresses \u2014"}, {"pk": 2729576, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and peaceable spirit, which is of great value before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729577, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "For in this way, in former times, the set-apart women who trusted in Elohim also adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands,"}, {"pk": 2729578, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "as Sarah obeyed Ab\u0331raham, calling him master, of whom you became children, doing good, and not frightened by any fear."}, {"pk": 2729579, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "In the same way, husbands, live understandingly together, giving respect to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the favour of life, so that your prayers are not hindered."}, {"pk": 2729580, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "To sum up, let all of you be like-minded, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble-minded,"}, {"pk": 2729581, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, in order to inherit a blessing."}, {"pk": 2729582, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>For \u201cHe who wishes to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729583, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "<i>let him turn away from evil and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it.</i>"}, {"pk": 2729584, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "<i>\u201cBecause the eyes of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is against those who do evil.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/34/12-16'>34:12-16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729585, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "And who is the one doing evil to you, if you become imitators of the good?"}, {"pk": 2729586, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "But even if you suffer for righteousness\u2019 sake, you are blessed. <i>\u201cAnd do not fear their threats, neither be troubled.\u201d</i>", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/10'>5:10</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/12'>8:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729587, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "But set apart \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the expectation that is in you, with meekness and fear,"}, {"pk": 2729588, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "having a good conscience, so that when they speak against you as doers of evil, those who falsely accuse your good behaviour in Messiah, shall be ashamed."}, {"pk": 2729589, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "For it is better, if it is the desire of Elohim, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil."}, {"pk": 2729590, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729591, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in prison,"}, {"pk": 2729592, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noah\u0323, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water,"}, {"pk": 2729593, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "which figure now also saves us: immersion \u2014 not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward Elohim \u2014 through the resurrection of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2729594, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "who, having gone into heaven, <i>is at the right hand of Elohim,</i> messengers and authorities and powers having been subjected to Him.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/110/1'>110:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2729595, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, since Messiah suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,", "comment": "See Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/6/2-22'>6:2-22</a>; 1Pe. <a href='/TS2009/60/2/25'>2:25</a>"}, {"pk": 2729596, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but according to the desire of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729597, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "For we <i>have spent</i> enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,"}, {"pk": 2729598, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "in which they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of loose behaviour, blaspheming,"}, {"pk": 2729599, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead."}, {"pk": 2729600, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "For this reason the Good News was also brought to those who are dead, so that, whereas they are judged according to men in the flesh, they might live according to Elohim in the spirit."}, {"pk": 2729601, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "But the end of all has drawn near. Therefore be sober-minded, and be attentive in the prayers."}, {"pk": 2729602, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And above all have fervent love for one another, because <i>love covers a great number of sins.</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/10/12'>10:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729603, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "Welcome one another without grumbling."}, {"pk": 2729604, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "As each one has received a gift, serve one another, as good trustees of the manifold favour of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729605, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "If anyone speaks, <i>let it be</i> as the Words of Elohim. If anyone serves, <i>let it be</i> as with the strength which Elohim provides, so that Elohim might be praised in it all through \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to whom belong the esteem and the rule forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729606, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "Beloved ones, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that is coming upon you, to try you, as though some unusual matter has befallen you,"}, {"pk": 2729607, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "but as you share Messiah\u2019s sufferings, rejoice, in order that you might rejoice exultingly at the revelation of His esteem."}, {"pk": 2729608, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "If you are reproached for the Name of Messiah, <i>you are</i> blessed, because the Spirit of esteem and of Elohim rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is praised."}, {"pk": 2729609, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "For do not let any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doer of evil, or as a meddler."}, {"pk": 2729610, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "But if <i>one suffers</i> being \u2018messianist\u2019, let him not be ashamed, but let him esteem Elohim in this matter."}, {"pk": 2729611, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "Because it is time for judgment to begin from the House of Elohim. And if firstly from us, what is the end of those who do not obey the Good News of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2729612, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "<i>And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear?</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/11/31'>11:31</a>"}, {"pk": 2729613, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "So then, those who suffer according to the desire of Elohim should commit their lives to a trustworthy Creator, in doing good."}, {"pk": 2729614, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Therefore, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Messiah, and also a sharer of the esteem that is to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:"}, {"pk": 2729615, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "Shepherd the flock of Elohim which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but voluntarily, not out of greed for filthy gain, but eagerly,"}, {"pk": 2729616, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "neither as being masters over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock."}, {"pk": 2729617, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you shall receive the never-fading crown of esteem."}, {"pk": 2729618, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "In the same way, you younger ones, be subject to elders. And gird yourselves with humility toward one another, for <i>\u201cElohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/3/34'>3:34</a>"}, {"pk": 2729619, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "Humble yourselves, then, under the mighty hand of Elohim, so that He exalts you in due time,"}, {"pk": 2729620, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "casting all your worry upon Him, for He is concerned about you."}, {"pk": 2729621, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."}, {"pk": 2729622, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "Resist him, firm in the belief, knowing that the same hardships are experienced by your brotherhood in the world."}, {"pk": 2729623, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "And the Elohim of all favour, who called you to His everlasting esteem by Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, after you have suffered a while, Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you."}, {"pk": 2729624, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "To Him be the esteem and the might forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729625, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "Through Silas the trustworthy brother, as I reckon, I have written to you briefly, encouraging and witnessing that this is the true favour of Elohim. In this stand fast."}, {"pk": 2729626, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "She who is in Bab\u0331el, chosen together with you, greets you, also my son, Marqos."}, {"pk": 2729627, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 60, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Messiah \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729628, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Shim\u201bon K\u0115pha, a servant and emissary of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, to those who have obtained a belief as precious as ours by the righteousness of our Elohim and Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah:"}, {"pk": 2729629, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Favour and peace be increased to you in the knowledge of Elohim and of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 our Master,"}, {"pk": 2729630, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "as His Mighty-like power has given to us all we need for life and reverence, through the knowledge of Him who called us to esteem and uprightness."}, {"pk": 2729631, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Through these there have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these you might be partakers of the Mighty-like nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world, caused by lust."}, {"pk": 2729632, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And for this reason do your utmost to add to your belief uprightness, to uprightness knowledge,"}, {"pk": 2729633, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "to knowledge self-control, to self-control endurance, to endurance reverence,"}, {"pk": 2729634, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "to reverence brotherly affection, and to brotherly affection love."}, {"pk": 2729635, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "For if these are in you and increase, they cause you to be neither inactive nor without fruit in the knowledge of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2729636, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "For he in whom these are not present is blind, being shortsighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his old sins."}, {"pk": 2729637, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "For this reason, brothers, all the more do your utmost to make firm your calling and choosing, for if you are doing these <i>matters</i> you shall never stumble at all,", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/20/16'>20:16</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/22/14'>22:14</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/17/14'>17:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729638, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "for in this way an entrance into the everlasting reign of our Master and Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah shall be richly supplied to you."}, {"pk": 2729639, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And so I intend to remind you of these <i>matters</i> again and again, though you know them and have been established in the present truth."}, {"pk": 2729640, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "But I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by a reminder,"}, {"pk": 2729641, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, even as our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah made clear to me."}, {"pk": 2729642, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "And I shall do my utmost also, to see to it that you always have a reminder of these <i>matters</i> after my departure."}, {"pk": 2729643, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, but were eye-witnesses of His superbness."}, {"pk": 2729644, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "For when He received respect and esteem from Elohim the Father, such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Esteem, \u201cThis is My Son, the Beloved in whom I did delight.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729645, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the set-apart mountain."}, {"pk": 2729646, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "And we have the prophetic word made more certain, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,"}, {"pk": 2729647, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture came to be of one\u2019s own interpretation,"}, {"pk": 2729648, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "for prophecy never came by the desire of man, but men of Elohim spoke, being moved by the Set-apart Spirit."}, {"pk": 2729649, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "But there also came to be false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.", "comment": "See 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/7'>2:7</a>, <a href='/TS2009/61/2/8'>8</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/21'>2:21</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/7/15-23'>7:15-23</a>"}, {"pk": 2729650, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And many shall follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,"}, {"pk": 2729651, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber."}, {"pk": 2729652, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment,", "comment": "Possibly from Hebrew: Tah\u0323ti - See Explanatory notes - \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2729653, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noah\u0323, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked,"}, {"pk": 2729654, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "and having reduced to ashes the cities of Sed\u0331om and Amorah condemned them to destruction \u2014 having made them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly,"}, {"pk": 2729655, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the indecent behaviour of the lawless", "comment": "The Greek word here, and in 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/3/17'>3:17</a>, is <em>athesmos</em> (not the usual one, <em>anomos</em>) but it also means \u201clawless.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729656, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "(for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),"}, {"pk": 2729657, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "<i>then</i> \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 knows how to rescue the reverent ones from trial and to keep the unrighteous unto the day of judgment, to be punished,"}, {"pk": 2729658, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "and most of all those walking after the flesh in filthy lust and despising authority \u2014 bold, headstrong, speaking evil of esteemed ones,"}, {"pk": 2729659, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "whereas messengers who are greater in strength and power do not bring a slanderous accusation against them before the Master."}, {"pk": 2729660, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "But these, like natural unreasoning beasts, having been born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheme that which they do not know, shall be destroyed in their destruction,"}, {"pk": 2729661, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence in the day of pleasure, spots and blemishes, revelling in their own deceptions while they feast with you,"}, {"pk": 2729662, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,"}, {"pk": 2729663, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "having left the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Bil\u201bam the son of Be\u201bor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,", "comment": "See 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/11-15'>2:11-15</a>; compare with Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/7/1-11'>7-11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729664, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet."}, {"pk": 2729665, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a storm, to whom the blackest darkness is kept forever."}, {"pk": 2729666, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice \u2014 through the lusts of the flesh, through indecencies \u2014 the ones who have indeed escaped from those living in delusion,"}, {"pk": 2729667, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "promising them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption \u2014 for one is a slave to whatever overcomes him."}, {"pk": 2729668, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Master and Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the first."}, {"pk": 2729669, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the set-apart command delivered unto them.", "comment": "The singular \u201ccommand\u201d often means \u201ccommands\u201d \u2013 see 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/6/14'>6:14</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/17/20'>17:20</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/8'>19:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729670, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "For them the proverb has proved true, <i>\u201cA dog returns to his own vomit,\u201d</i> and, \u201cA washed sow <i>returns</i> to her rolling in the mud.\u201d", "comment": "Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/26/11'>26:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729671, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind, to remember"}, {"pk": 2729672, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "the words previously spoken by the set-apart prophets, and of the command of the Master and Saviour, <i>spoken</i> by your emissaries,"}, {"pk": 2729673, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,"}, {"pk": 2729674, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "and saying, \u201cWhere is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729675, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,", "comment": "See Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/11/3'>11:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2729676, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water."}, {"pk": 2729677, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men."}, {"pk": 2729678, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "But, beloved ones, let not this one <i>matter</i> be hidden from you: that with \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 one day is as a thousand years, and <i>a thousand years as one day.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/90/4'>90:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729679, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.", "comment": "See 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/2/4'>2:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729680, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "But the day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up."}, {"pk": 2729681, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behaviour and reverence,"}, {"pk": 2729682, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat!"}, {"pk": 2729683, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "But according to His promise we wait for a <i>renewed heavens and a renewed earth</i> in which righteousness dwells.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/17'>65:17</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/22'>66:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2729684, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,"}, {"pk": 2729685, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha\u2019ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,"}, {"pk": 2729686, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "as also in all <i>his</i> letters, speaking in them concerning these <i>matters</i>, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.", "comment": "See 2Cor. <a href='/TS2009/47/11/6'>11:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729687, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless,"}, {"pk": 2729688, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 61, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "but grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Saviour \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729689, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life:"}, {"pk": 2729690, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "And the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and announce to you that everlasting life which was with the Father and was manifested to us."}, {"pk": 2729691, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "We announce to you what we have seen and heard, so that you too might have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2729692, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "And we write this to you in order that your joy might be complete."}, {"pk": 2729693, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that Elohim is light and in Him is no darkness at all."}, {"pk": 2729694, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and are not doing the truth."}, {"pk": 2729695, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah His Son cleanses us from all sin."}, {"pk": 2729696, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us."}, {"pk": 2729697, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."}, {"pk": 2729698, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us."}, {"pk": 2729699, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the Father, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, a righteous One."}, {"pk": 2729700, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world."}, {"pk": 2729701, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/6'>3:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729702, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "The one who says, \u201cI know Him,\u201d and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."}, {"pk": 2729703, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/17/1'>17:1</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/1'>119:1</a>; Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/5/48'>5:48</a><br>See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/24'>3:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2729704, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked."}, {"pk": 2729705, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the Word which you heard from the beginning.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/24'>2:24</a>"}, {"pk": 2729706, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "Again I write you a fresh command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light now shines."}, {"pk": 2729707, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "The one who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now."}, {"pk": 2729708, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "The one who loves his brother stays in the light, and there is no stumbling-block in him."}, {"pk": 2729709, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes."}, {"pk": 2729710, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name."}, {"pk": 2729711, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father."}, {"pk": 2729712, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of Elohim stays in you, and you have overcome the wicked one."}, {"pk": 2729713, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.", "comment": "See James <a href='/TS2009/59/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729714, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "Because all that is in the world \u2014 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life \u2014 is not of the Father but is of the world."}, {"pk": 2729715, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but the one doing the desire of Elohim remains forever."}, {"pk": 2729716, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "Little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come. This is how we know that it is the last hour."}, {"pk": 2729717, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have stayed with us \u2014 but in order that it might be made manifest that none of them were of us."}, {"pk": 2729718, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "And you have an anointing from the Set-apart One, and you know all."}, {"pk": 2729719, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "I did not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no falsehood is of the truth."}, {"pk": 2729720, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "Who is the liar, except the one denying that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Messiah? This is the anti-messiah, the one denying the Father and the Son."}, {"pk": 2729721, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "No one denying the Son has the Father. The one confessing the Son has the Father as well."}, {"pk": 2729722, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "As for you, let that stay in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning stays in you, you also shall stay in the Son and in the Father."}, {"pk": 2729723, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "And this is the promise that He has promised us: everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2729724, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "I have written this to you concerning those who lead you astray."}, {"pk": 2729725, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "But the anointing which you have received from Him stays in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as the same anointing does teach you concerning all, and is true, and is no falsehood, and even as it has taught you, you stay in Him."}, {"pk": 2729726, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "And now, little children, stay in Him, so that when He appears, we might have boldness and not be ashamed before Him at His coming."}, {"pk": 2729727, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone doing righteousness has been born of Him.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/7-10'>3:7-10</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/4'>5:4</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/18'>5:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2729728, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him."}, {"pk": 2729729, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "Beloved ones, now we are children of Elohim. And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."}, {"pk": 2729730, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "And everyone having this expectation in Him cleanses himself, as He is clean."}, {"pk": 2729731, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness."}, {"pk": 2729732, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin."}, {"pk": 2729733, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/4'>2:4</a> and 3John <a href='/TS2009/64/1/11'>1:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729734, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "Little children, let no one lead you astray. The one doing righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/29'>2:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2729735, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.", "comment": "See Titus <a href='/TS2009/56/2/14'>2:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729736, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729737, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother.", "comment": "See 3John <a href='/TS2009/64/1/11'>1:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729738, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,"}, {"pk": 2729739, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous."}, {"pk": 2729740, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/15/18'>15:18</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/15/19'>19</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/17/14'>17:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729741, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. The one not loving his brother stays in death."}, {"pk": 2729742, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "Everyone hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life staying in him."}, {"pk": 2729743, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "By this we have known love, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down <i>our</i> lives for the brothers."}, {"pk": 2729744, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "But whoever has this world\u2019s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?"}, {"pk": 2729745, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth."}, {"pk": 2729746, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall set our hearts at rest before Him,"}, {"pk": 2729747, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "that if our heart condemns us, Elohim is greater than our heart, and knows all."}, {"pk": 2729748, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "Beloved ones, if our heart does not condemn us, we have boldness toward Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729749, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we guard His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.", "comment": "See Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/28/9'>28:9</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/9/31'>9:31</a>; James <a href='/TS2009/59/5/16'>5:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729750, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 23, "text": "And this is His command, that we should believe in the Name of His Son \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah and love one another, as He gave us command."}, {"pk": 2729751, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 3, "verse": 24, "text": "And the one guarding His commands stays in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He stays in us, by the Spirit which He gave us.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/23'>14:23</a>, <a href='/TS2009/43/14/24'>24</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/5/32'>5:32</a>; Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/7-11'>8:7-11</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/5'>2:5</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/13'>4:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2729752, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "Beloved ones, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of Elohim, because many false prophets have gone out into the world."}, {"pk": 2729753, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "By this you know the Spirit of Elohim: Every spirit that confesses that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah has come in the flesh is of Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729754, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "and every spirit that does not confess that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah has come in the flesh is not of Elohim. And this is the <i>spirit</i> of the anti-messiah which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world."}, {"pk": 2729755, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "You are of Elohim, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."}, {"pk": 2729756, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "They are of the world, therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them."}, {"pk": 2729757, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "We are of Elohim \u2014 the one knowing Elohim hears us. He who is not of Elohim does not hear us. By this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the delusion."}, {"pk": 2729758, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "Beloved ones, let us love one another, because love is of Elohim, and everyone who loves has been born of Elohim, and knows Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729759, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "The one who does not love does not know Elohim, for Elohim is love."}, {"pk": 2729760, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "By this the love of Elohim was manifested in us, that Elohim has sent His only brought-forth Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him."}, {"pk": 2729761, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "In this is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering for our sins."}, {"pk": 2729762, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "Beloved ones, if Elohim so loved us, we also ought to love one another."}, {"pk": 2729763, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 12, "text": "No one has seen Elohim at any time. If we love one another, Elohim does stay in us, and His love has been perfected in us."}, {"pk": 2729764, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 13, "text": "By this we know that we stay in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit."}, {"pk": 2729765, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 14, "text": "And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son, Saviour of the world."}, {"pk": 2729766, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 15, "text": "Whoever confesses that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Son of Elohim, Elohim stays in him, and he in Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729767, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 16, "text": "And we have known and believed the love that Elohim has for us. Elohim is love, and he who stays in love stays in Elohim, and Elohim in him."}, {"pk": 2729768, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 17, "text": "By this love has been perfected with us, in order that we might have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is so are we in this world."}, {"pk": 2729769, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 18, "text": "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who fears has not been made perfect in love."}, {"pk": 2729770, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 19, "text": "We love Him because He first loved us."}, {"pk": 2729771, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 20, "text": "If someone says, \u201cI love Elohim,\u201d and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love Elohim whom he has not seen?"}, {"pk": 2729772, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 4, "verse": 21, "text": "And we have this command from Him, that the one loving Elohim should love his brother too."}, {"pk": 2729773, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "Everyone who believes that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Messiah has been born of Elohim, and everyone who loves the One bringing forth also loves the one having been born of Him."}, {"pk": 2729774, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and guard His commands."}, {"pk": 2729775, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands, and His commands are not heavy,", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/2'>5:2</a>; 2John <a href='/TS2009/63/1/6'>1:6</a> and John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/15'>14:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2729776, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "because everyone having been born of Elohim overcomes the world. And this is the overcoming that has overcome the world: our belief."}, {"pk": 2729777, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "Who is the one who overcomes the world but he who believes that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the Son of Elohim?"}, {"pk": 2729778, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "This is the One that came by water and blood: \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the Truth."}, {"pk": 2729779, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "Because there are three who bear witness:", "comment": "As per early Gk. text. Later MSS contain additions. See Explanatory Notes \"Comma Johanneum\"."}, {"pk": 2729780, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. And the three are in agreement."}, {"pk": 2729781, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of Elohim is greater, because this is the witness of Elohim which He has witnessed concerning His Son."}, {"pk": 2729782, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "The one who believes in the Son of Elohim has the witness in himself, the one who does not believe Elohim has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the witness that Elohim has given concerning His Son."}, {"pk": 2729783, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And this is the witness: that Elohim has given us everlasting life, and this life is in His Son."}, {"pk": 2729784, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "He who possesses the Son possesses life, he who does not possess the Son of Elohim does not possess life."}, {"pk": 2729785, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "I have written this to you who believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim, so that you know that you possess everlasting life, and so that you believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729786, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to His desire, He hears us."}, {"pk": 2729787, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 15, "text": "And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."}, {"pk": 2729788, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 16, "text": "If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin, not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those not sinning unto death. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he should pray about that."}, {"pk": 2729789, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 17, "text": "All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death."}, {"pk": 2729790, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 18, "text": "We know that everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, but the one having been born of Elohim guards himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/6-9'>3:6-9</a><br>See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/4/4'>4:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729791, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 19, "text": "We know that we are of Elohim, and all the world lies in the wicked one."}, {"pk": 2729792, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 20, "text": "And we know that the Son of Elohim has come and has given us an understanding, so that we might know the true One. And we are in the true One, in His Son \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah. This is the true Elohim and everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2729793, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 62, "chapter": 5, "verse": 21, "text": "Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Am\u0115n.", "comment": "See 1Cor. <a href='/TS2009/46/10/14'>10:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729794, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The elder, to a chosen Kuria and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,"}, {"pk": 2729795, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "because of the truth which stays in us and shall be with us forever:"}, {"pk": 2729796, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Favour, compassion, peace be with you from Elohim the Father, and from the Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love."}, {"pk": 2729797, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "I rejoiced greatly because I found some of your children walking in truth, as we received a command from the Father."}, {"pk": 2729798, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "And now I ask you, Kuria, not as though I wrote a fresh command to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another."}, {"pk": 2729799, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And this is the love, that we walk according to His commands. This is the command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/3'>5:3</a> and John <a href='/TS2009/43/14/15'>14:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2729800, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Because many who are leading astray went out into the world who do not confess \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah as coming in the flesh. This one is he who is leading astray and the anti-messiah."}, {"pk": 2729801, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "See to yourselves, that we do not lose what we worked for, but that we might receive a complete reward."}, {"pk": 2729802, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "Everyone who is transgressing and not staying in the teaching of Messiah does not possess Elohim. The one who stays in the teaching of Messiah possesses both the Father and the Son.", "comment": "See 1Tim. <a href='/TS2009/54/6/3'>6:3</a><br>See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/1/3'>1:3</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/2/22'>2:22</a>; 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/5/20'>5:20</a>"}, {"pk": 2729803, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house nor greet him,"}, {"pk": 2729804, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "for he who greets him shares in his wicked works."}, {"pk": 2729805, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Having much to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink, but I expect to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy might be complete."}, {"pk": 2729806, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 63, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "The children of your chosen sister greet you. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729807, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "The elder, to the beloved Gaios, whom I love in truth:"}, {"pk": 2729808, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Beloved ones, I pray for you to do well in every way, and be in health, as your life is doing well."}, {"pk": 2729809, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and witnessed of the truth in you, as you walk in the truth."}, {"pk": 2729810, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "I have no greater joy than to hear of my children walking in truth."}, {"pk": 2729811, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "Beloved ones, you are acting trustworthily in whatever you do for the brothers and for strangers,"}, {"pk": 2729812, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "who have borne witness of your love before the assembly. If you send them forward worthily of Elohim, you shall do well,"}, {"pk": 2729813, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "because they went out for the sake of the Name, receiving naught from the nations."}, {"pk": 2729814, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "Therefore we ought to receive such, so that we become fellow workers for the truth."}, {"pk": 2729815, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the first among them, does not receive us."}, {"pk": 2729816, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "So if I come, I shall call to mind his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words. And not satisfied with that, he himself does not receive the brothers, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the assembly."}, {"pk": 2729817, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Beloved ones, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The one who is doing good is of Elohim, but he who is doing evil has not seen Elohim.", "comment": "See 1John <a href='/TS2009/62/3/6-10'>3:6-10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729818, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "Demetrios has a good witness from all, and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our witness is true."}, {"pk": 2729819, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "I had much to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink,"}, {"pk": 2729820, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 64, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "but I expect to see you shortly, and we shall speak face to face. Peace to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name."}, {"pk": 2729821, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Yehud\u0331ah, a servant of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, and brother of Ya\u201baqob\u0331, to those who are called, set-apart by Elohim the Father, and preserved in \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah:"}, {"pk": 2729822, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "Compassion, and peace, and love be increased to you."}, {"pk": 2729823, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2729824, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones perverting the favour of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 and our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/13/1'>13</a>; 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/1'>2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729825, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "But I intend to remind you, though you once knew this, that \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, having saved a people out of the land of Mitsrayim, afterward destroyed those who did not believe."}, {"pk": 2729826, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "And the messengers who did not keep their own principality, but left their own dwelling, He has kept in everlasting shackles under darkness for the judgment of the great day."}, {"pk": 2729827, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "Even as Sed\u0331om and Amorah and the cities around them in a similar way to these, having given themselves over to whoring and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing judicial punishment of everlasting fire."}, {"pk": 2729828, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "In the same way, indeed, these dreamers defile the flesh, and reject authority, and speak evil of esteemed ones."}, {"pk": 2729829, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "But Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l the chief messenger, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Mosheh, presumed not to bring against him a blasphemous accusation, but said, <i>\u201c\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 rebuke you!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/3/2'>3:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729830, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "But these blaspheme that which they do not know. And that which they know naturally, like unreasoning beasts, in these they corrupt themselves."}, {"pk": 2729831, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bil\u201bam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qorah\u0323.", "comment": "Compare Jude <a href='/TS2009/65/1/7-11'>1:7-11</a> with 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/2/6-15'>2:6-15</a>"}, {"pk": 2729832, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "These are rocky reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds borne about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,"}, {"pk": 2729833, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever."}, {"pk": 2729834, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And H\u0323anok\u0331, the seventh from Ad\u0331am, also prophesied of these, saying, \u201cSee, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 comes with His myriads of set-apart ones,"}, {"pk": 2729835, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh <i>words</i> which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729836, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces <i>of others</i> for the sake of gain."}, {"pk": 2729837, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah,"}, {"pk": 2729838, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts."}, {"pk": 2729839, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "These are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit."}, {"pk": 2729840, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,"}, {"pk": 2729841, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 21, "text": "keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah unto everlasting life."}, {"pk": 2729842, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 22, "text": "And show compassion toward some who are doubting,"}, {"pk": 2729843, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 23, "text": "but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.", "comment": "See also Rom. <a href='/TS2009/45/8/5-10'>8:5-10</a> and Gal. <a href='/TS2009/48/5/19-21'>5:19-21</a>"}, {"pk": 2729844, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 24, "text": "And to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy,"}, {"pk": 2729845, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 65, "chapter": 1, "verse": 25, "text": "to the only wise Elohim, our Saviour, be esteem and greatness and might and authority, both now and forever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729846, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 1, "text": "Revelation of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, which Elohim gave Him to show His servants what has to take place with speed. And He signified it by sending His messenger to His servant Yoh\u0323anan,"}, {"pk": 2729847, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 2, "text": "who bore witness to the Word of Elohim, and the witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah \u2014 to all he saw."}, {"pk": 2729848, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 3, "text": "Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and guard what is written in it, for the time is near."}, {"pk": 2729849, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 4, "text": "Yoh\u0323anan, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Favour to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits that are before His throne,"}, {"pk": 2729850, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 5, "text": "and from \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, the trustworthy witness, the first-born from the dead, and the ruler of the sovereigns of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,"}, {"pk": 2729851, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 6, "text": "and has made us sovereigns and priests to His Elohim and Father, to Him be esteem and rule forever and ever. Am\u0115n."}, {"pk": 2729852, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 7, "text": "<i>See, He is coming with the clouds,</i> <i>and every eye shall see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of Him.</i> Yes, Am\u0115n.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a><br>Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/12/10'>12:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729853, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI am the \u2018Aleph\u2019 and the \u2018Taw\u2019, Beginning and End,\u201d says \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u201cwho is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729854, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 9, "text": "I, Yoh\u0323anan, both your brother and co-sharer in pressure, and in the reign and endurance of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah, came to be on the island that is called Patmos for the Word of Elohim and for the witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2729855, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 10, "text": "I came to be in the Spirit on the Day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,", "comment": "See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/6'>13:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/13/9'>13:9</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/13/5'>13:5</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/1/15'>1:15</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/1'>2:1</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/11'>2:11</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/31'>2:31</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/14'>3:14</a>; Amos <a href='/TS2009/30/5/16-20'>5:16-20</a>; Obad. <a href='/TS2009/31/1/15'>1:15</a>; Zep. <a href='/TS2009/36/1/7'>1:7</a>; Zep. <a href='/TS2009/36/1/14'>1:14</a>; Mal. <a href='/TS2009/39/4/5'>4:5</a>; Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/2/20'>2:20</a>; 1Thes. <a href='/TS2009/52/5/2'>5:2</a>; 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/2'>2:2</a>; 2Pe. <a href='/TS2009/61/3/10'>3:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729856, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 11, "text": "saying, \u201cI am the \u2018Aleph\u2019 and the \u2018Taw\u2019, the First and the Last,\u201d and, \u201cWrite in a book what you see and send it to the seven assemblies of Asia \u2014 to Ephesos, and to Smurna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodikeia.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729857, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 12, "text": "And I turned to see the voice which spoke with me. And having turned, I saw <i>seven golden lampstands,</i>", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/4/2'>4:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729858, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 13, "text": "and in the midst of the seven lampstands <i>One like the Son of Ad\u0331am,</i> <i>dressed in a robe</i> down to the feet and <i>girded about the chest with a golden band.</i>", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/10/5'>10:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2729859, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 14, "text": "And His head and hair were white as white wool, as snow, and <i>His eyes as a flame of fire,</i>"}, {"pk": 2729860, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 15, "text": "<i>and His feet like burnished brass,</i> as if refined in a furnace, and <i>His voice as the sound of many waters.</i>", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/10/6'>10:6</a><br>Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/1/24'>1:24</a>; Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/43/2'>43:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729861, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 16, "text": "And in His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His face was as the sun shining in its strength.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/2/16'>2:16</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/2'>49:2</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/4/12'>4:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729862, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 17, "text": "And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead, and He placed His right hand on me, saying, \u201cDo not be afraid, <i>I am the First and the Last,</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/44/6'>44:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/48/12'>48:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729863, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 18, "text": "and the living One. And I became dead, and see, I am living forever and ever. Am\u0115n. And I possess the keys of She\u2019ol and of Death.", "comment": "See Explanatory Notes \"She\u2019ol\"."}, {"pk": 2729864, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cWrite therefore what you have seen, both what is now and what shall take place after these:"}, {"pk": 2729865, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 1, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cThe secret of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lampstands which you saw are seven assemblies."}, {"pk": 2729866, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cTo the messenger of the assembly of Ephesos write, \u2018He who is holding the seven stars in His right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says this:"}, {"pk": 2729867, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cI know your works, and your labour, and your endurance, and that you are not able to bear evil ones, and have tried those who say they are emissaries and are not, and have found them false;"}, {"pk": 2729868, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 3, "text": "and you have been bearing up and have endurance, and have laboured for My Name\u2019s sake and have not become weary."}, {"pk": 2729869, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cBut I hold this against you, that you have left your first love."}, {"pk": 2729870, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cSo remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works, or else I shall come to you speedily and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent."}, {"pk": 2729871, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cYet this you have, that you hate the works of the Nikolaites, which I also hate."}, {"pk": 2729872, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give to eat from the <i>tree of life,</i> which is <i>in the midst of the paradise of Elohim.\u201d \u2019</i>", "comment": "This word (and its noun) is used 17 times in the Book of Revelation. The name Yisra\u2019\u0115l means to <em>overcome with \u011al.</em>.<br>Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/9'>2:9</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/22'>3:22</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/24'>3:24</a><br>Lit. garden.<br>Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/2/9'>2:9</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/22'>3:22</a>; Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/3/24'>3:24</a><br>See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/2'>22:2</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2729873, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Smurna write, \u2018This says the <i>First and the Last,</i> who became dead, and came to life:", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/44/6'>44:6</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/48/12'>48:12</a>"}, {"pk": 2729874, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cI know your works, and pressure, and poverty \u2014 yet you are rich \u2014 and the blasphemy of those who say they are Yehud\u0331im and are not, but are a congregation of Satan."}, {"pk": 2729875, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cDo not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. See, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, in order to try you, and you shall have pressure ten days. Be trustworthy until death, and I shall give you the crown of life."}, {"pk": 2729876, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes shall by no means be harmed by the second death.\u201d \u2019", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/20/6'>20:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729877, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write, \u2018He who has the sharp two-edged sword, says this:"}, {"pk": 2729878, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI know your works, and where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast to My Name, and did not deny the belief in Me, even in the days in which Antipas was My trustworthy witness, who was killed near you, where Satan dwells."}, {"pk": 2729879, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBut I hold a few <i>matters</i> against you, because you have there those who adhere to the teaching of Bil\u201bam, who taught Balaq to put a stumbling-block before the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l, to eat <i>food</i> offered to idols, and to commit whoring."}, {"pk": 2729880, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSo you also have those who adhere to the teaching of the Nikolaites, which <i>teaching</i> I hate."}, {"pk": 2729881, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cRepent, or else I shall come to you speedily and fight against them with the sword of My mouth."}, {"pk": 2729882, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I shall give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I shall give him a white stone, and on the stone a renewed Name written which no one knows except him who receives it.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2729883, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Thyatira write, \u2018This says the Son of Elohim, who has <i>eyes like a flame of fire,</i> and <i>His feet like burnished brass:</i>", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/10/5'>10:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/10/6'>6</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/10/5'>10:5</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/10/6'>6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729884, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cI know your works, and love, and service, and belief, and your endurance. And as for your works, the last are more than the first."}, {"pk": 2729885, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cBut I hold against you that you allow that woman Izeb\u0331el, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and lead My servants astray to commit whoring and to eat <i>food</i> offered to idols."}, {"pk": 2729886, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cAnd I gave her time to repent of her whoring, and she did not repent."}, {"pk": 2729887, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cSee, I am throwing her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their works."}, {"pk": 2729888, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall slay her children with death. And all the assemblies shall know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I shall give to each one of you according to your works."}, {"pk": 2729889, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not possess this teaching, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they call them, I am not putting on you another burden."}, {"pk": 2729890, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 25, "text": "\u201cBut hold fast what you have until I come."}, {"pk": 2729891, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 26, "text": "\u201cAnd he who overcomes, and guards My works until the end, <i>to him I shall give authority over the nations,</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/8'>2:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729892, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 27, "text": "and he shall shepherd them <i>with a rod of iron, as the potter\u2019s vessels shall be broken to pieces,</i> as I also have received from My Father.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/9'>2:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2729893, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 28, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give him the morning star."}, {"pk": 2729894, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 2, "verse": 29, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2729895, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 1, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write, \u2018He who has the seven Spirits of Elohim and the seven stars, says this, \u201cI know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead."}, {"pk": 2729896, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cWake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729897, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cRemember, then, how you have received, and heard. And watch and repent. If, then, you do not wake up, I shall come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at all what hour I come upon you."}, {"pk": 2729898, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cNevertheless, you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they shall walk with Me in white, because they are worthy."}, {"pk": 2729899, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cHe who overcomes shall be dressed in white robes, and I shall by no means blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I shall confess his name before My Father and before His messengers."}, {"pk": 2729900, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2729901, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write, \u2018He who is set-apart, He who is true, He who has <i>the key of Dawid\u0331, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens,</i> says this:", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/22/22'>22:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2729902, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cI know your works \u2014 see, I have set before you an open door, and no one is able to shut it \u2014 that you have little power, yet have guarded My Word, and have not denied My Name."}, {"pk": 2729903, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cSee, I am giving up those of the congregation of Satan, who say they are Yehud\u0331im and are not, but lie. See, I am making them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you."}, {"pk": 2729904, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cBecause you have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard you from the hour of trial which shall come upon all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth."}, {"pk": 2729905, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cSee, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your crown."}, {"pk": 2729906, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cHe who overcomes, I shall make him a supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of My Elohim, the renewed Yerushalayim, which comes down out of the heaven from My Elohim, and My renewed Name."}, {"pk": 2729907, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\u201d \u2019"}, {"pk": 2729908, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd to the messenger of the assembly in Laodikeia write, \u2018The Am\u0115n, the Trustworthy and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of Elohim, says this:", "comment": "See Col. <a href='/TS2009/51/1/15'>1:15</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/1/6'>1:6</a>"}, {"pk": 2729909, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cI know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot."}, {"pk": 2729910, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cSo, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth."}, {"pk": 2729911, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cBecause you say, <i>\u2018Rich I am, and I am made rich,</i> and need none at all,\u2019 and do not know that you are wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/12/8'>12:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729912, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cI advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, so that you become rich; and white garments, so that you become dressed, so that the shame of your nakedness might not be shown; and anoint your eyes with ointment, so that you see.", "comment": "See Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/10'>19:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/72'>119:72</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/119/127'>119:127</a>; Pro. <a href='/TS2009/20/30/5'>30:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2729913, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAs many as I love, I reprove and discipline. So be ardent and repent."}, {"pk": 2729914, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cSee, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I shall come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."}, {"pk": 2729915, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 21, "text": "\u201cTo him who overcomes I shall give to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne."}, {"pk": 2729916, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 3, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.\u201d \u2019 \u201d"}, {"pk": 2729917, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 1, "text": "After this I looked and saw a door having been opened in the heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, \u201cCome up here and I shall show you what has to take place after this.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729918, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 2, "text": "And immediately I came to be in the Spirit and saw a throne set in the heaven, and One sat on the throne."}, {"pk": 2729919, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 3, "text": "And He who sat there was like a jasper and a ruby stone in appearance. And there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance."}, {"pk": 2729920, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 4, "text": "And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white robes. And they had crowns of gold on their heads."}, {"pk": 2729921, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 5, "text": "And out of the throne came lightnings, and thunders, and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2729922, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 6, "text": "And before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and in back."}, {"pk": 2729923, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 7, "text": "And the first living creature was like a <i>lion,</i> and the second living creature like a <i>calf,</i> and the third living creature had a face like a <i>man,</i> and the fourth living creature was like a flying <i>eagle.</i>", "comment": "Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/1/10'>1:10</a><br>Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/1/10'>1:10</a><br>Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/1/10'>1:10</a><br>Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/1/10'>1:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729924, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 8, "text": "And the four living creatures, <i>each having six wings,</i> were covered with eyes around and within. And they do not cease, day or night, saying, <i>\u201cSet-apart, set-apart, set-apart, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai,</i> who was, and who is, and who is coming!\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/2'>6:2</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/6/3'>6:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2729925, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 9, "text": "And when the living creatures give esteem and respect and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,"}, {"pk": 2729926, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 10, "text": "the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and bow before Him who lives forever and ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,"}, {"pk": 2729927, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 4, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cYou are worthy, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, to receive <i>esteem and respect and power,</i> for You have created all, and because of Your desire they are, and were created.\u201d", "comment": "1Ch. <a href='/TS2009/13/29/11'>29:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2729928, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne <i>a scroll written inside and on the back,</i> having been sealed with seven seals.", "comment": "Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/2/10'>2:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729929, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 2, "text": "And I saw a strong messenger proclaiming with a loud voice, \u201cWho is worthy to open the scroll and to loosen its seals?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729930, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 3, "text": "And no one in the heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it."}, {"pk": 2729931, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 4, "text": "And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it."}, {"pk": 2729932, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 5, "text": "And one of the elders said to me, \u201cDo not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah, the Root of Dawid\u0331, overcame to open the scroll and to loosen its seven seals.\u201d", "comment": "See Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/49/9'>49:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/1/49/10'>10</a>; Heb. <a href='/TS2009/58/7/14'>7:14</a><br>See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/1'>11:1</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/10'>11:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729933, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 6, "text": "And I looked and saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing, as having been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of Elohim sent out into all the earth."}, {"pk": 2729934, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 7, "text": "And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him sitting on the throne."}, {"pk": 2729935, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 8, "text": "And when He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2729936, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 9, "text": "And they sang a renewed song, saying, \u201cYou are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain, and have redeemed us to Elohim by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,", "comment": "This fact is given in 6 other texts in the Book of Revelation."}, {"pk": 2729937, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 10, "text": "and made us sovereigns and priests to our Elohim, and we shall reign upon the earth.\u201d", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/18-27'>7:18-27</a>"}, {"pk": 2729938, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 11, "text": "And I looked, and I heard the voice of many messengers around the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders. And the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands,"}, {"pk": 2729939, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 12, "text": "saying with a loud voice, \u201cWorthy is the Lamb having been slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and respect and esteem and blessing!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729940, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 13, "text": "And every creature which is in the heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, \u201cTo Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing and the respect and the esteem and the might, forever and ever!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729941, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 5, "verse": 14, "text": "And the four living creatures said, \u201cAm\u0115n!\u201d And the twenty-four elders fell down and bowed before Him who lives forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2729942, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, like a sound of thunder, \u201cCome and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729943, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 2, "text": "And I looked and saw a white horse, and he who sat on it holding a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went out overcoming and to overcome.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/6/3'>6:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2729944, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 3, "text": "And when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, \u201cCome and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729945, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 4, "text": "And another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was given to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another. And a great sword was given to him.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/1/8'>1:8</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/6/2'>6:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2729946, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 5, "text": "And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, \u201cCome and see.\u201d And I looked and saw a black horse, and he who sat on it holding a pair of scales in his hand.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/6/2'>6:2</a><br>See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/4/16'>4:16</a>"}, {"pk": 2729947, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 6, "text": "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, \u201cA measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius. And do not harm the oil and the wine.\u201d", "comment": "Roman monetary unit - a day\u2019s wage.<br>Roman monetary unit - a day\u2019s wage."}, {"pk": 2729948, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 7, "text": "And when He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, \u201cCome and see.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729949, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 8, "text": "And I looked and saw a green horse. And he who sat on it had the name Death, and She\u2019ol followed with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the earth.", "comment": "See Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/6/3'>6:3</a>. Traditionally rendered as pale; Gk. chloros.<br>See Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/13/14'>13:14</a><br>See Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/13/14'>13:14</a><br>See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/5/12'>5:12</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/5/17'>5:17</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/14/13-19'>14:13-19</a>"}, {"pk": 2729950, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 9, "text": "And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the slaughter-place the beings of those having been slain for the Word of Elohim and for the witness which they held,"}, {"pk": 2729951, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 10, "text": "and they cried with a loud voice, saying, \u201cHow long, O Master, set-apart and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729952, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 11, "text": "And there was given to each one a white robe, and they were told that they should rest a little while longer, until both <i>the number of</i> their fellow servants and their brothers, who would be killed as they were, was completed."}, {"pk": 2729953, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 12, "text": "And I looked when He opened the sixth seal and saw a great earthquake came to be. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood."}, {"pk": 2729954, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 13, "text": "And the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its unripe figs, being shaken by a strong wind."}, {"pk": 2729955, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 14, "text": "And heaven departed like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place."}, {"pk": 2729956, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 15, "text": "And the sovereigns of the earth, and the great ones, and the rich ones, and the commanders, and the mighty, and every slave and every free one, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,"}, {"pk": 2729957, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 16, "text": "and <i>said to the mountains and rocks, \u201cFall on us and hide us</i> from the face of Him sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,", "comment": "Hosea <a href='/TS2009/28/10/8'>10:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729958, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 6, "verse": 17, "text": "because the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729959, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this I saw four messengers standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree."}, {"pk": 2729960, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 2, "text": "And I saw another messenger coming up from the rising of the sun, holding the seal of the living Elohim. And he cried with a loud voice to the four messengers to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,"}, {"pk": 2729961, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 3, "text": "saying, \u201cDo not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees until we have sealed the servants of our Elohim upon their foreheads.\u201d", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/9/4'>9:4</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/14/1'>14:1</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/4'>22:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2729962, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 4, "text": "And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of all the tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:"}, {"pk": 2729963, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 5, "text": "of the tribe of Yehud\u0331ah twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Re\u2019ub\u0331\u0115n twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Gad\u0331 twelve thousand were sealed,"}, {"pk": 2729964, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 6, "text": "of the tribe of Ash\u0115r twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Menashsheh twelve thousand were sealed,"}, {"pk": 2729965, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 7, "text": "of the tribe of Shim\u201bon twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of L\u0115wi twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Yissask\u0331ar twelve thousand were sealed,"}, {"pk": 2729966, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 8, "text": "of the tribe of Zeb\u0331ulun twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Yos\u0115ph twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Binyamin twelve thousand were sealed."}, {"pk": 2729967, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 9, "text": "After this I looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands,"}, {"pk": 2729968, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 10, "text": "and crying out with a loud voice, saying, \u201cDeliverance belongs to our Elohim who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729969, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 11, "text": "And all the messengers stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2729970, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 12, "text": "saying, \u201cAm\u0115n! The blessing, and the esteem, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the respect, and the power, and the might, to our Elohim forever and ever. Am\u0115n.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729971, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 13, "text": "And one of the elders responded, saying to me, \u201cWho are these dressed in white robes, and where did they come from?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729972, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 14, "text": "And I said to him, \u201cMaster, you know.\u201d And he said to me, \u201cThese are those coming out of the great distress, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2729973, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBecause of this they are before the throne of Elohim, and serve Him day and night in His Dwelling Place. And He who sits on the throne shall spread <i>his</i> Tent over them."}, {"pk": 2729974, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 16, "text": "<i>\u201cThey shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike them, nor any heat,</i>", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/49/10'>49:10</a>"}, {"pk": 2729975, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 7, "verse": 17, "text": "because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne <i>shall shepherd them</i> and lead them to <i>fountains of waters of life.</i> And Elohim <i>shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/34/23'>34:23</a><br>Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/2/13'>2:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/17/13'>17:13</a><br>Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/25/8'>25:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2729976, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 1, "text": "And when He opened the seventh seal, there came to be silence in the heaven for about half an hour."}, {"pk": 2729977, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 2, "text": "And I saw the seven messengers who stand before Elohim, and to them were given seven trumpets."}, {"pk": 2729978, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 3, "text": "And another messenger came and stood at the slaughter-place, holding a golden censer, and much incense was given to him, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the set-apart ones upon the golden slaughter-place which was before the throne."}, {"pk": 2729979, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 4, "text": "And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the set-apart ones, went up before Elohim from the hand of the messenger."}, {"pk": 2729980, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger took the censer, and filled it with fire from the slaughter-place, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake."}, {"pk": 2729981, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 6, "text": "And the seven messengers who held the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound."}, {"pk": 2729982, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 7, "text": "And the first messenger sounded, and there came to be hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up."}, {"pk": 2729983, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 8, "text": "And the second messenger sounded, and <i>what looked</i> like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood,"}, {"pk": 2729984, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 9, "text": "and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed."}, {"pk": 2729985, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 10, "text": "And the third messenger sounded, and a great star fell from the heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water,"}, {"pk": 2729986, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 11, "text": "and the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter."}, {"pk": 2729987, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 12, "text": "And the fourth messenger sounded, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.", "comment": "Compare with Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/10/21'>10:21</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/50/3'>50:3</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/4/23-29'>4:23-29</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/13/8'>13:8</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/10'>2:10</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/2/31'>2:31</a>; Joel <a href='/TS2009/29/3/15'>3:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2729988, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 8, "verse": 13, "text": "And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, crying with a loud voice, \u201cWoe, woe, woe to those dwelling upon the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2729989, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 1, "text": "And the fifth messenger sounded, and I saw a star from the heaven which had fallen to the earth. And the key to the pit of the deep was given to him."}, {"pk": 2729990, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 2, "text": "And he opened the pit of the deep, and smoke went up out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, also the air, because of the smoke of the pit."}, {"pk": 2729991, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 3, "text": "And out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth, and authority was given to them as the scorpions of the earth possess authority."}, {"pk": 2729992, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 4, "text": "And it was said to them that they shall not harm the grass of the earth, or any green <i>matter</i>, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of Elohim upon their foreheads."}, {"pk": 2729993, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 5, "text": "And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but to torture them for five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man."}, {"pk": 2729994, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 6, "text": "And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them."}, {"pk": 2729995, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 7, "text": "And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men."}, {"pk": 2729996, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 8, "text": "And they had hair like women\u2019s hair, and their teeth were like lions\u2019 teeth."}, {"pk": 2729997, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 9, "text": "And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle."}, {"pk": 2729998, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 10, "text": "And they have tails like scorpions, and stings. And in their tails is their authority to harm men five months."}, {"pk": 2729999, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 11, "text": "And they have over them a sovereign, the messenger of the pit of the deep, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apolluon."}, {"pk": 2730000, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 12, "text": "The first woe is past. See, two woes are still coming after this."}, {"pk": 2730001, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sixth messenger sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden slaughter-place which is before Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2730002, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 14, "text": "saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, \u201cRelease the four messengers, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730003, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 15, "text": "And the four messengers, those having been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind."}, {"pk": 2730004, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 16, "text": "And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, and I heard the number of them."}, {"pk": 2730005, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 17, "text": "And this is how I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, and hyacinth blue, and sulphur yellow. And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, and smoke, and sulphur."}, {"pk": 2730006, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 18, "text": "A third of mankind was killed by these three <i>plagues</i>, by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur which came out of their mouths."}, {"pk": 2730007, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 19, "text": "For the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads. And with them they do harm."}, {"pk": 2730008, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 20, "text": "And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the <i>works of their hands,</i> that they should not worship the demons, and <i>idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk.</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/115/4-7'>115:4-7</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/135/15-17'>135:15-17</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/5/23'>5:23</a>"}, {"pk": 2730009, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 9, "verse": 21, "text": "And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their drug sorceries, nor of their whoring, nor of their thefts."}, {"pk": 2730010, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw another strong messenger coming down from the heaven, robed in a cloud, and a rainbow on his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like columns of fire,"}, {"pk": 2730011, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 2, "text": "and having in his hand a little book opened. And he placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,"}, {"pk": 2730012, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 3, "text": "and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. And when he cried out, seven thunders spoke their sounds."}, {"pk": 2730013, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 4, "text": "And when the seven thunders spoke their sounds, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from the heaven saying to me, \u201cSeal up what the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730014, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 5, "text": "And the messenger whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land <i>lifted up his right hand to the heaven,</i>", "comment": "Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/14/22'>14:22</a>; Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/40'>32:40</a>"}, {"pk": 2730015, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 6, "text": "and swore by <i>Him who lives forever and ever,</i><i> who created the heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it,</i> that there shall be no further delay,", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/7'>12:7</a><br>Neh. <a href='/TS2009/16/9/6'>9:6</a><br>See also Exo. <a href='/TS2009/2/20/11'>20:11</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/146/6'>146:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/4/11'>4:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2730016, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 7, "text": "but in the days of the sounding of the seventh messenger, when he is about to sound, the secret of Elohim shall also be ended, as He declared to His servants the prophets."}, {"pk": 2730017, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 8, "text": "And the voice which I heard out of the heaven spoke to me again and said, \u201cGo, take the little book which is opened in the hand of the messenger standing on the sea and on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730018, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 9, "text": "And I went to the messenger and said to him, \u201cGive me the little book.\u201d And he said to me, \u201cTake and eat it, and it shall make your stomach bitter, but it shall be as sweet as honey in your mouth.\u201d", "comment": "See Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/2/1-3'>2-3</a>. This is a Hebraism which means <em>to receive knowledge</em>."}, {"pk": 2730019, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 10, "text": "And I took the little book out of the messenger\u2019s hand and ate it, and <i>it was as sweet as honey in my mouth,</i> but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.", "comment": "Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/3/3'>3:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2730020, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 10, "verse": 11, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cYou have to prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and sovereigns.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730021, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 1, "text": "And a reed like a measuring rod was given to me, and the messenger stood, saying, \u201cRise and measure the Dwelling Place of Elohim, and the slaughter-place, and those worshipping in it."}, {"pk": 2730022, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 2, "text": "\u201cBut cast out the court which is outside the Dwelling Place, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they shall trample the set-apart city under foot for forty-two months."}, {"pk": 2730023, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 3, "text": "\u201cAnd I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730024, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 4, "text": "These are the <i>two olive trees</i> and the two lampstands that are standing before the Elohim of the earth.", "comment": "Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/4/3'>4:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2730025, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 5, "text": "And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm them, he has to be killed in that way."}, {"pk": 2730026, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 6, "text": "These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish."}, {"pk": 2730027, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 7, "text": "And when they have ended their witness, the beast coming up out of the pit of the deep shall fight against them, and overcome them, and kill them,"}, {"pk": 2730028, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 8, "text": "and their dead bodies <i>lie</i> in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sed\u0331om and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,"}, {"pk": 2730029, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 9, "text": "and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their dead bodies for three and a half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be placed into tombs,"}, {"pk": 2730030, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 10, "text": "and those dwelling on the earth rejoice over them and exult. And they shall send gifts to each other, because these two prophets tortured those dwelling on the earth."}, {"pk": 2730031, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 11, "text": "And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from Elohim entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them."}, {"pk": 2730032, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 12, "text": "And they heard a loud voice from the heaven saying to them, \u201cCome up here.\u201d And they went up into the heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them."}, {"pk": 2730033, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 13, "text": "And in that hour there came to be a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. And in the earthquake seven thousand men were killed, and the rest became afraid and gave esteem to the Elohim of the heaven."}, {"pk": 2730034, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 14, "text": "The second woe is past, and see, the third woe is coming speedily."}, {"pk": 2730035, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 15, "text": "And the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, \u201cThe reign of this world has become <i>the reign</i> of our Master, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!\u201d", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/12/10'>12:10</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/8'>2:8</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/22/28'>22:28</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/2/44'>2:44</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>, <a href='/TS2009/27/7/14'>14</a>; Obad. <a href='/TS2009/31/1/15-21'>1:15-21</a>; Hag. <a href='/TS2009/37/2/22'>2:22</a>; Zech. <a href='/TS2009/38/14/9'>14:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730036, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 16, "text": "And the twenty-four elders sitting before Elohim on their thrones fell on their faces and worshipped Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2730037, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 17, "text": "saying, \u201cWe give You thanks, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai, the One who is and who was and who is coming, because You have taken Your great power and reigned."}, {"pk": 2730038, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the <i>nations were enraged,</i> and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets and to the set-apart ones, and to those who fear Your Name, small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.\u201d", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/1'>2:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2730039, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 11, "verse": 19, "text": "And the Dwelling Place of Elohim was opened in the heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Dwelling Place. And there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail."}, {"pk": 2730040, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 1, "text": "And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."}, {"pk": 2730041, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 2, "text": "And being pregnant, she cried out in labour and in pain to give birth.", "comment": "See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/17'>26:17</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/7'>66:7</a>; Micah <a href='/TS2009/33/4/9'>4:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/33/4/10'>10</a>"}, {"pk": 2730042, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 3, "text": "And another sign was seen in the heaven: and see, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads."}, {"pk": 2730043, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 4, "text": "And his tail draws a third of the stars of the heaven and throws them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born."}, {"pk": 2730044, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 5, "text": "And she bore a male child who was to shepherd all nations with a <i>rod of iron.</i> And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/26/17'>26:17</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/7'>66:7</a>; Mic. <a href='/TS2009/33/4/9'>4:9</a>, <a href='/TS2009/33/4/10'>10</a><br>Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/9'>2:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730045, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 6, "text": "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days."}, {"pk": 2730046, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 7, "text": "And there came to be fighting in the heaven: Mik\u0331a\u2019\u0115l and his messengers fought against the dragon. And the dragon and his messengers fought,"}, {"pk": 2730047, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 8, "text": "but they were not strong enough, nor was a place found for them in the heaven any longer."}, {"pk": 2730048, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 9, "text": "And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who leads all the world astray. He was thrown to the earth, and his messengers were thrown out with him."}, {"pk": 2730049, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 10, "text": "And I heard a loud voice saying in the heaven, \u201cNow have come the deliverance and the power and the reign of our Elohim and the authority of His Messiah, for the accuser of our brothers, who accused them before our Elohim day and night, has been thrown down.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/11/15'>11:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2730050, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd they overcame him because of the Blood of the Lamb, and because of the Word of their witness, and they did not love their lives to the death."}, {"pk": 2730051, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cBecause of this rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730052, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 13, "text": "And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child."}, {"pk": 2730053, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 14, "text": "And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished <i>for a time and times and half a time,</i> from the presence of the serpent.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/25'>7:25</a>; Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/7'>12:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2730054, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 15, "text": "And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river."}, {"pk": 2730055, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 16, "text": "And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth."}, {"pk": 2730056, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 12, "verse": 17, "text": "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah."}, {"pk": 2730057, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 1, "text": "And I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads names of blasphemy."}, {"pk": 2730058, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 2, "text": "And the beast I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority."}, {"pk": 2730059, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 3, "text": "And I saw one of his heads, as having been slain to death, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marvelled after the beast."}, {"pk": 2730060, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 4, "text": "And they worshipped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshipped the beast, saying, \u201cWho is like the beast? Who is able to fight with him?\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730061, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 5, "text": "And he was given a mouth speaking great <i>matters</i> and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two months."}, {"pk": 2730062, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 6, "text": "And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against Elohim, to blaspheme His Name, and His Tent, and those dwelling in the heaven."}, {"pk": 2730063, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 7, "text": "And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation."}, {"pk": 2730064, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 8, "text": "And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him."}, {"pk": 2730065, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 9, "text": "If anyone has an ear, let him hear."}, {"pk": 2730066, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 10, "text": "<i>He who brings into captivity shall go into captivity, he who kills with the sword has to be killed with the sword.</i> Here is the endurance and the belief of the set-apart ones.", "comment": "Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/15/2'>15:2</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/43/11'>43:11</a><br>See also Gen. <a href='/TS2009/1/9/6'>9:6</a>. Compare Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/13/1'>13</a> with Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/1'>7</a>."}, {"pk": 2730067, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 11, "text": "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon."}, {"pk": 2730068, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 12, "text": "And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed."}, {"pk": 2730069, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 13, "text": "And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from the heaven on the earth before men."}, {"pk": 2730070, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 14, "text": "And he leads astray those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived."}, {"pk": 2730071, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 15, "text": "And there was given to him to give spirit to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause to be killed as many as would not worship the image of the beast."}, {"pk": 2730072, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 16, "text": "And he causes all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,"}, {"pk": 2730073, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 17, "text": "and that no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."}, {"pk": 2730074, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 13, "verse": 18, "text": "Here is the wisdom! He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number <i>is</i> six hundred <i>and</i> sixty six.", "comment": "Some ancient manuscripts have <em>616</em> instead of <em>666</em>."}, {"pk": 2730075, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 1, "text": "And I looked and saw a Lamb standing on Mount Tsiyon, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father\u2019s Name written upon their foreheads.", "comment": "Some texts read: having <em>His Name and His Father\u2019s Name</em>."}, {"pk": 2730076, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 2, "text": "And I heard a voice out of the heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder, and I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps."}, {"pk": 2730077, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 3, "text": "And they sang a renewed song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one was able to learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth."}, {"pk": 2730078, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 4, "text": "They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He leads <i>them</i> on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2730079, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 5, "text": "And in their mouth was found no falsehood, for they are blameless before the throne of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2730080, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 6, "text": "And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, holding the everlasting Good News to announce to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,"}, {"pk": 2730081, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 7, "text": "saying with a loud voice, \u201cFear Elohim and give esteem to Him, because the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and sea, and fountains of water.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730082, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 8, "text": "And another messenger followed, saying, <i>\u201cBab\u0331el is fallen, is fallen,</i> that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her whoring.\u201d", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/21/9'>21:9</a><br>See also Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/8'>51:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2730083, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 9, "text": "And a third messenger followed them, saying with a loud voice, \u201cIf anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark upon his forehead or upon his hand,"}, {"pk": 2730084, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 10, "text": "he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Elohim, which is poured out undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he shall be tortured with fire and sulphur before the set-apart messengers and before the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2730085, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever. And they have no rest day or night, those worshipping the beast and his image, also if anyone receives the mark of his name.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730086, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 12, "text": "Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of Elohim and the belief of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2.", "comment": "See also Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/12/17'>12:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2730087, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 13, "text": "And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, \u201cWrite, \u2018Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on.\u2019 \u201d \u201cYes,\u201d says the Spirit, \u201cin order that they rest from their labours, and their works follow with them.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730088, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 14, "text": "And I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was <i>One like the Son of Ad\u0331am,</i> having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/7/13'>7:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2730089, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 15, "text": "And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud voice to the One sitting on the cloud, \u201cSend Your sickle and reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730090, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 16, "text": "And the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped."}, {"pk": 2730091, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 17, "text": "And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place which is in the heaven, and he too held a sharp sickle."}, {"pk": 2730092, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 18, "text": "And another messenger came out from the slaughter-place, having authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, \u201cSend your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730093, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 19, "text": "And the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2730094, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 14, "verse": 20, "text": "And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about one thousand six hundred stadia", "comment": "Approx. 296 kilometres or 184 miles."}, {"pk": 2730095, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and marvellous: seven messengers having the seven last plagues, for the wrath of Elohim was ended in them.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/9'>21:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730096, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 2, "text": "And I saw like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those overcoming the beast and his image and his mark and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of Elohim."}, {"pk": 2730097, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 3, "text": "And they sing the song of Mosheh the servant of Elohim, and the song of the Lamb, saying, \u201cGreat and marvellous are Your works, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai! Righteous and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the set-apart ones!"}, {"pk": 2730098, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cWho shall not fear You, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, and esteem Your Name? Because You alone are kind. Because all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your righteousnesses have been made manifest.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/10/6'>10:6</a>, <a href='/TS2009/24/10/7'>7</a>; Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/86/9'>86:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730099, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 5, "text": "And after this I looked and saw the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Witness in the heaven was opened."}, {"pk": 2730100, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 6, "text": "And out of the Dwelling Place came the seven messengers having the seven plagues, dressed in clean bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands."}, {"pk": 2730101, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 7, "text": "And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven messengers seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of Elohim who lives forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2730102, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 15, "verse": 8, "text": "And the Dwelling Place was filled with smoke from the esteem of Elohim and from His power, and no one was able to enter the Dwelling Place until the seven plagues of the seven messengers were ended."}, {"pk": 2730103, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 1, "text": "And I heard a loud voice from the Dwelling Place saying to the seven messengers, \u201cGo and pour out the bowls of the wrath of Elohim on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730104, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 2, "text": "And the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and an evil and wicked sore came upon the men, those having the mark of the beast and those worshipping his image."}, {"pk": 2730105, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 3, "text": "And the second messenger poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood, as of a dead one, and every living creature in the sea died."}, {"pk": 2730106, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 4, "text": "And the third messenger poured out his bowl on the rivers and fountains of water, and they became blood."}, {"pk": 2730107, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 5, "text": "And I heard the messenger of the waters saying, \u201cYou are righteous, O \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, the One who is and who was and who shall be, because You have judged these."}, {"pk": 2730108, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cBecause they have shed the blood of set-apart ones and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. For they deserve it.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730109, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 7, "text": "And I heard another out of the slaughter-place saying, \u201cYes, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai, true and righteous are Your judgments.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730110, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 8, "text": "And the fourth messenger poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to burn men with fire."}, {"pk": 2730111, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 9, "text": "And men were burned with great heat, and they blasphemed the Name of Elohim who possesses authority over these plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him esteem."}, {"pk": 2730112, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 10, "text": "And the fifth messenger poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his reign became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from pain."}, {"pk": 2730113, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 11, "text": "And they blasphemed the Elohim of the heaven for their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their works."}, {"pk": 2730114, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 12, "text": "And the sixth messenger poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order to prepare the way of the sovereigns from the east."}, {"pk": 2730115, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 13, "text": "And I saw <i>coming</i> out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as frogs,"}, {"pk": 2730116, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 14, "text": "for they are spirits of demons, doing signs, which go out to the sovereigns of the entire world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 the Almighty."}, {"pk": 2730117, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cSee, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who is staying awake and guarding his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730118, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 16, "text": "And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Har Me\u1e21iddo."}, {"pk": 2730119, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 17, "text": "And the seventh messenger poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the Dwelling Place of the heaven, from the throne, saying, \u201cIt is done!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730120, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 18, "text": "And there came to be noises and thunders and lightnings. And there came to be a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not came to be since men were on the earth."}, {"pk": 2730121, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 19, "text": "And the great city became divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Bab\u0331el was remembered before Elohim, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath."}, {"pk": 2730122, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 20, "text": "And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found."}, {"pk": 2730123, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 16, "verse": 21, "text": "And great hail from the heaven fell upon men, every hailstone about the weight of a talent. And men blasphemed Elohim for the plague of the hail, because that plague was exceedingly great."}, {"pk": 2730124, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 1, "text": "And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying to me, \u201cCome, I shall show you the judgment of the great whore sitting on many waters,", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/17/15'>17:15</a>"}, {"pk": 2730125, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 2, "text": "with whom the sovereigns of the earth committed whoring, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her whoring.\u201d", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/7'>51:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2730126, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 3, "text": "And he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast covered with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."}, {"pk": 2730127, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 4, "text": "And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup filled with abominations and the filthiness of her whoring,", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/7'>51:7</a>"}, {"pk": 2730128, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 5, "text": "and upon her forehead a name written, a secret: BAB\u0331EL THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE WHORES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."}, {"pk": 2730129, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 6, "text": "And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the set-apart ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. And having seen her, I marvelled \u2014 greatly marvelled!"}, {"pk": 2730130, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 7, "text": "And the messenger said to me, \u201cWhy did you marvel? Let me explain to you the secret of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and the ten horns."}, {"pk": 2730131, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cThe beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the pit of the deep and goes to destruction. And those dwelling on the earth, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, shall marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.", "comment": "See Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/1'>12:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2730132, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cHere is the mind having wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits."}, {"pk": 2730133, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 10, "text": "\u201cAnd there are seven sovereigns: five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he has to remain a little while."}, {"pk": 2730134, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes to destruction."}, {"pk": 2730135, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd the ten horns which you saw are ten sovereigns who have not yet received a reign, but receive authority as sovereigns with the beast for one hour."}, {"pk": 2730136, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cThey have one mind, and they shall give their power and authority to the beast."}, {"pk": 2730137, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cThey shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is <i>Master of masters</i> and Sovereign of sovereigns. And those with Him are called, and chosen, and trustworthy.\u201d", "comment": "Deu.<a href='/TS2009/5/10/17'>10:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2730138, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThe waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and crowds, and nations, and tongues."}, {"pk": 2730139, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cAnd the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the whore, and lay her waste and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire."}, {"pk": 2730140, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 17, "text": "\u201cFor Elohim did give it into their hearts to do His mind, to be of one mind, and to give their reign to the beast, until the words of Elohim shall be accomplished."}, {"pk": 2730141, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 17, "verse": 18, "text": "\u201cAnd the woman whom you saw is that great city having sovereignty over the sovereigns of the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730142, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this I saw another messenger coming down from the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his esteem."}, {"pk": 2730143, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 2, "text": "And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, <i>\u201cBab\u0331el</i> the great <i>is fallen, is fallen,</i> and has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hated bird,", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/21/9'>21:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730144, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 3, "text": "because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her whoring, and the sovereigns of the earth have committed whoring with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her riotous living.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730145, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 4, "text": "And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, \u201cCome out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.", "comment": "See Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/6'>51:6</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/9'>51:9</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/51/45'>51:45</a>. See also Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/8'>50:8</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/13'>50:13</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/50/28'>50:28</a>"}, {"pk": 2730146, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 5, "text": "\u201cBecause her sins have piled up to reach the heaven, and Elohim has remembered her unrighteousnesses."}, {"pk": 2730147, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 6, "text": "\u201cRender to her as she indeed did render, and repay her double according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix for her double."}, {"pk": 2730148, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cAs much as she esteemed herself and lived riotously, so much torture and grief give to her, because in her heart she says, \u2018I sit as sovereigness, and I am not a widow, and I do not see mourning at all.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2730149, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBecause of this her plagues shall come in one day: death and mourning and scarcity of food. And she shall be burned up with fire, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim who judges her is mighty."}, {"pk": 2730150, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 9, "text": "\u201cAnd the sovereigns of the earth who committed whoring and lived riotously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,"}, {"pk": 2730151, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 10, "text": "standing at a distance for fear of her torture, saying, \u2018Woe! Woe, the great city Bab\u0331el, the mighty city, because your judgment has come in one hour!\u2019"}, {"pk": 2730152, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cAnd the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any more \u2014"}, {"pk": 2730153, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 12, "text": "merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stone and pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all citron wood, and every object of ivory, and every object of most precious wood and bronze and iron and marble,"}, {"pk": 2730154, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 13, "text": "and cinnamon and incense, and fragrant oil and frankincense, and wine and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages, and bodies and lives of men."}, {"pk": 2730155, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cAnd the fruit that your being longed for has gone from you. And all your riches and splendour are lost to you, and you shall find them no more, not at all."}, {"pk": 2730156, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cThe merchants of these, those who became rich by her, shall stand at a distance for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning,"}, {"pk": 2730157, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 16, "text": "and saying, \u2018Woe! Woe, the great city that was dressed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!"}, {"pk": 2730158, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 17, "text": "For in one hour such great riches was laid waste.\u2019 And every shipmaster, and every passenger, and sailors, and as many as work the sea <i>for their living</i>, stood at a distance,"}, {"pk": 2730159, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 18, "text": "and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, \u2018What is like this great city?\u2019"}, {"pk": 2730160, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 19, "text": "\u201cAnd they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, \u2018Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.\u2019"}, {"pk": 2730161, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 20, "text": "\u201cRejoice over her, O heaven, and you set-apart emissaries and prophets, for Elohim has completely avenged you on her!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730162, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 21, "text": "And one mighty messenger picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, \u201cWith such a rush the great city Bab\u0331el shall be thrown down, and shall not be found any more at all."}, {"pk": 2730163, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 22, "text": "\u201cAnd the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flautists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you any more at all. And no craftsman of any trade shall be found in you any more at all. And the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you any more at all."}, {"pk": 2730164, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 23, "text": "\u201cAnd the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the nations were led astray."}, {"pk": 2730165, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 18, "verse": 24, "text": "\u201cAnd in her was found the blood of prophets and set-apart ones, and of all who were slain on the earth.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730166, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 1, "text": "And after this I heard a loud voice of a great crowd in the heaven, saying, \u201cHalleluyah! Deliverance and esteem and respect and power to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 our Elohim!"}, {"pk": 2730167, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 2, "text": "<i>\u201cBecause true and righteous are His judgments,</i> because He has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her whoring. And <i>He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/19/9'>19:9</a><br>Deu. <a href='/TS2009/5/32/43'>32:43</a>"}, {"pk": 2730168, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 3, "text": "And a second time they said, \u201cHalleluyah! And her smoke rises up forever and ever!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730169, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 4, "text": "And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped Elohim who sat on the throne, saying, \u201cAm\u0115n! Halleluyah!\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730170, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 5, "text": "And a voice came from the throne, saying, \u201cPraise our Elohim, all you His servants and <i>those who fear Him, both small and great!\u201d</i>", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/115/13'>115:13</a>"}, {"pk": 2730171, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 6, "text": "And I heard as the voice of a great crowd, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, \u201cHalleluyah, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai reigns!"}, {"pk": 2730172, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cLet us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife prepared herself.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730173, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 8, "text": "And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the set-apart ones."}, {"pk": 2730174, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cWrite, \u2018Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!\u2019 \u201d And he said to me, \u201cThese are the true words of Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730175, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 10, "text": "And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, \u201cSee, do not <i>do it</i>! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who possess the witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2. Worship Elohim! For the witness of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 is the spirit of prophecy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730176, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 11, "text": "And I saw the heaven opened, and there was a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Trustworthy and True, and in righteousness He judges and fights.", "comment": "See Acts <a href='/TS2009/44/10/42'>10:42</a>"}, {"pk": 2730177, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 12, "text": "And His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns, having a Name that had been written, which no one had perceived except Himself \u2014", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/2/17'>2:17</a>"}, {"pk": 2730178, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 13, "text": "and having been dressed in a robe dipped in blood \u2014 and His Name is called: The Word of \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4.", "comment": "See John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/1'>1:1</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/1/14'>1:14</a>"}, {"pk": 2730179, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 14, "text": "And the armies in the heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses."}, {"pk": 2730180, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 15, "text": "And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations. <i>And He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron.</i> And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of \u011al Shaddai.", "comment": "Psa. <a href='/TS2009/19/2/9'>2:9</a>"}, {"pk": 2730181, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 16, "text": "And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written: SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS AND MASTER OF MASTERS.", "comment": "\u201cThigh\u201d, but possibly flag. See Explanatory Notes \"Thigh\""}, {"pk": 2730182, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 17, "text": "And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, \u201cCome and gather together for the supper of the great Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2730183, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 18, "text": "to eat the flesh of sovereigns, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of strong ones, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730184, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 19, "text": "And I saw the beast, and the sovereigns of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to fight Him who sat on the horse and His army."}, {"pk": 2730185, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 20, "text": "And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur."}, {"pk": 2730186, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 19, "verse": 21, "text": "And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh."}, {"pk": 2730187, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw a messenger coming down from the heaven, having the key to the pit of the deep and a great chain in his hand."}, {"pk": 2730188, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 2, "text": "And he seized the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,"}, {"pk": 2730189, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 3, "text": "and he threw him into the pit of the deep, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should lead the nations no more astray until the thousand years were ended. And after that he has to be released for a little while."}, {"pk": 2730190, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 4, "text": "And I saw thrones \u2014 and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them \u2014 and the lives of those who had been beheaded because of the witness they bore to \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 and because of the Word of Elohim, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive his mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years"}, {"pk": 2730191, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 5, "text": "(and the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended) \u2014 this is the first resurrection."}, {"pk": 2730192, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 6, "text": "Blessed and set-apart is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death possesses no authority over these, but they shall be priests of Elohim and of Messiah, and shall reign with Him a thousand years."}, {"pk": 2730193, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 7, "text": "And when the thousand years have ended, Satan shall be released from his prison,"}, {"pk": 2730194, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 8, "text": "and he shall go out to lead the nations astray which are in the four corners of the earth, <i>Go\u1e21 and Ma\u1e21o\u1e21,</i> to gather them together for battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.", "comment": "Eze. <a href='/TS2009/26/38/2'>38:2</a>"}, {"pk": 2730195, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 9, "text": "And they came up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the set-apart ones and the beloved city. And fire came down from Elohim out of the heaven and consumed them."}, {"pk": 2730196, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 10, "text": "And the devil, who led them astray, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet <i>are</i>. And they shall be tortured day and night forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2730197, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 11, "text": "And I saw a great white throne and Him who was sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them."}, {"pk": 2730198, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 12, "text": "And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is <i>the Book</i> of Life. And the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to their works."}, {"pk": 2730199, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 13, "text": "And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and She\u2019ol gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works."}, {"pk": 2730200, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 14, "text": "And Death and She\u2019ol were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/2/11'>2:11</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/20/6'>20:6</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/8'>21:8</a>"}, {"pk": 2730201, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 20, "verse": 15, "text": "And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."}, {"pk": 2730202, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 1, "text": "And I saw a <i>renewed heaven and a renewed earth,</i> for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.", "comment": "Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/65/17'>65:17</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/66/22'>66:22</a>"}, {"pk": 2730203, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 2, "text": "And I, Yoh\u0323anan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."}, {"pk": 2730204, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 3, "text": "And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, \u201cSee, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and <i>He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.</i>", "comment": "Lev. <a href='/TS2009/3/26/11'>26:11</a>, <a href='/TS2009/3/26/12'>12</a><br>See also Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/7/14'>7:14</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/8'>8:8</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/8/10'>8:10</a>; Jer. <a href='/TS2009/24/31/33'>31:33</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/37/27'>37:27</a>; 2Ch. <a href='/TS2009/14/6/18'>6:18</a>"}, {"pk": 2730205, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 4, "text": "\u201cAnd Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former <i>matters</i> have passed away.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730206, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 5, "text": "And He who was sitting on the throne said, \u201cSee, I make all <i>matters</i> new.\u201d And He said to me, \u201cWrite, for these words are true and trustworthy.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730207, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 6, "text": "And He said to me, \u201cIt is done! I am the \u2018Aleph\u2019 and the \u2018Taw\u2019, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I shall give of the fountain of the water of life without payment."}, {"pk": 2730208, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cThe one who overcomes shall inherit all this, and I shall be his Elohim and he shall be My son."}, {"pk": 2730209, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 8, "text": "\u201cBut as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730210, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 9, "text": "And one of the seven messengers who held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and spoke with me, saying, \u201cCome, I shall show you the bride, the Lamb\u2019s wife.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730211, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 10, "text": "And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the set-apart Yerushalayim, descending out of the heaven from Elohim,"}, {"pk": 2730212, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 11, "text": "having the esteem of Elohim, and her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal,"}, {"pk": 2730213, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 12, "text": "and having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written on them, which are <i>those</i> of the twelve tribes of the children of Yisra\u2019\u0115l:", "comment": "See Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/47/22'>47:22</a>, <a href='/TS2009/26/47/23'>23</a>; Ezek. <a href='/TS2009/26/48/31-34'>48:31-34</a>"}, {"pk": 2730214, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 13, "text": "three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west."}, {"pk": 2730215, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 14, "text": "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2730216, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 15, "text": "And he who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod, to measure the city, and its gates, and its wall."}, {"pk": 2730217, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 16, "text": "And the city lies four-cornered, and its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the rod: twelve thousand stadia \u2014 the length, and the breadth, and height of it are equal.", "comment": "Approx. 2216 kilometres or 1377 miles."}, {"pk": 2730218, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 17, "text": "And he measured its wall: hundred and forty-four forearms, according to the measure of a man, that is, of a messenger.", "comment": "Approx. 66 metres or 216 feet."}, {"pk": 2730219, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 18, "text": "And the structure of its wall was jasper. And the city was clean gold, like clear glass."}, {"pk": 2730220, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 19, "text": "And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,"}, {"pk": 2730221, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 20, "text": "the fifth sardonyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst."}, {"pk": 2730222, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 21, "text": "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls \u2014 each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was clean gold, like transparent glass."}, {"pk": 2730223, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 22, "text": "And I saw no Dwelling Place in it, for \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 \u011al Shaddai is its Dwelling Place, and the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2730224, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 23, "text": "And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it, for the esteem of Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp."}, {"pk": 2730225, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 24, "text": "And the nations, of those who are saved, shall walk in its light, and the sovereigns of the earth bring their esteem into it.", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/60/3'>60:3</a>"}, {"pk": 2730226, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 25, "text": "And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there."}, {"pk": 2730227, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 26, "text": "And they shall bring the esteem and the appreciation of the nations into it."}, {"pk": 2730228, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 21, "verse": 27, "text": "And there shall by no means enter into it whatever is unclean, neither anyone doing abomination and falsehood, but only those <i>who are written in the</i> Lamb\u2019s <i>Book</i> of Life.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/15'>22:15</a> and 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/11'>2:11</a><br>Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/1'>12:1</a>"}, {"pk": 2730229, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 1, "text": "And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of Elohim and of the Lamb."}, {"pk": 2730230, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 2, "text": "In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."}, {"pk": 2730231, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 3, "text": "And no longer shall there be any curse, and the throne of Elohim and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him."}, {"pk": 2730232, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 4, "text": "And they shall see His face, and His Name <i>shall be</i> upon their foreheads."}, {"pk": 2730233, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 5, "text": "And night shall be no more, and they shall have no need of a lamp or the light of the sun, because \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim shall give them light. And they shall reign forever and ever."}, {"pk": 2730234, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 6, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cThese words are trustworthy and true. And \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4 Elohim of the set-apart prophets has sent His messenger to show His servants what has to take place with speed."}, {"pk": 2730235, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 7, "text": "\u201cSee, I am coming speedily! Blessed is he who guards the words of the prophecy of this book.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730236, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 8, "text": "And I, Yoh\u0323anan, saw and heard these <i>matters</i>. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the messenger who showed me these <i>matters</i>."}, {"pk": 2730237, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cSee, do not! For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who are guarding the words of this book. Worship Elohim.\u201d"}, {"pk": 2730238, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 10, "text": "And he said to me, \u201cDo not <i>seal the words of the prophecy of this book,</i> because the time is near.", "comment": "Dan. <a href='/TS2009/27/12/4'>12:4</a>"}, {"pk": 2730239, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 11, "text": "\u201cHe who does wrong, let him do more wrong; he who is filthy, let him be more filthy; he who is righteous, let him be more righteous; he who is set-apart, let him be more set-apart."}, {"pk": 2730240, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 12, "text": "\u201cAnd see, I am coming speedily, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/16/27'>16:27</a>; John <a href='/TS2009/43/5/29'>5:29</a>"}, {"pk": 2730241, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 13, "text": "\u201cI am the \u2018Aleph\u2019 and the \u2018Taw\u2019, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."}, {"pk": 2730242, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 14, "text": "\u201cBlessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.", "comment": "See Mat. <a href='/TS2009/40/19/17'>19:17</a><br>Long before the books were compiled to form \u201cThe New Testament,\u201d Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/22/14'>22:14</a> was quoted, as it is here given, by Tertullian (CE 208), and by Cyprian (CE 251) \u2013 see the well-known <em>Antenicene Fathers</em>."}, {"pk": 2730243, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 15, "text": "\u201cBut outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.", "comment": "See Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/21/27'>21:27</a> and also 2Thes. <a href='/TS2009/53/2/11'>2:11</a>"}, {"pk": 2730244, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 16, "text": "\u201cI, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2, have sent My messenger to witness to you these <i>matters</i> in the assemblies. I am the Root and the Offspring of Dawid\u0331, the Bright and Morning Star.\u201d", "comment": "See Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/1'>11:1</a>; Isa. <a href='/TS2009/23/11/10'>11:10</a>; Rev. <a href='/TS2009/66/5/5'>5:5</a>"}, {"pk": 2730245, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 17, "text": "And the Spirit and the bride say, \u201cCome!\u201d And he who hears, let him say, \u201cCome!\u201d And he who thirsts, come! And he who desires it, take the water of life without paying!"}, {"pk": 2730246, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 18, "text": "For I witness to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, Elohim shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book,"}, {"pk": 2730247, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 19, "text": "and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, Elohim shall take away his part from the Book of Life, and out of the set-apart city, which are written in this Book.", "comment": "Some manuscripts read \u2018tree of life\u2019."}, {"pk": 2730248, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 20, "text": "He that bears witness of these <i>matters</i> says, \u201cYes, I am coming speedily.\u201d Am\u0115n. Yes, come, Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2!"}, {"pk": 2730249, "translation": "TS2009", "book": 66, "chapter": 22, "verse": 21, "text": "The favour of our Master \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2 Messiah be with the set-apart ones. Am\u0115n."}]